Drone mania! Are conspiracy theories the Republican Party's 'currency’?

Donald Trump is reportedly fueling unfounded drone conspiracy theories. Are conspiracy theories the Republican Party's “currency”? Joy Reid and her panel discuss.

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[opineno]

George Carlin put it bluntly: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” Spot on.

[HikerBiker]

The more people believe in conspiracy theories the easier they will be to believe in the lie they are told. Hence, the easier they will be to control.

[dawngerken]

Congress needs to do their jobs son Biden can do his. It is up to the. Republicans, but speaker won’t put anything on the floor to be voted on until Trump is in office. Putting Trump before the citizens of the United States.

[giovannirsazak]

Distract the citizens. Scare them …..what’s next???

[edwardmeradith]

Yes- it’s an exhausting addiction to crisis- and conspiracy theories are conveniently never resolved 😮😳

[MartinLundström-lv]

In Amerika today...
Truth...is just an opinion.
( Sweden )

[guncoservicesllc]

Most of them are manned aircraft being viewed by a public that has been conditioned to be fearful of their own shadow compounded by said public not knowing what they are looking at. The public’s ignorance doesn’t make it a real thing.

[juanitaross]

It's a deflection. Ask Elon Musk. His brother owns a large drone company.

[silentnight]

Drone scare? I've ignored this nonsense. This is a total diversion. It's a latter day version of the 1938 Orson Welles War of the Worlds incident.

[kenjones]

There's a fortunes to be made by making falsehoods and conspiracies, especially in the U.S.

[micheleconner]

You can't talk logic to conspiracy thinking people. It justs worse as time goes on. And people literally has a means to debink all this crap in the palms of their hands!!

[johnherold]

Tell a Democrat a lie! They get MAD! Tell a republican the truth! They get MAD!

[marketads]

Conspiracy theorists are the largest lobby in the world.

[melvinpedrick]

Why hasn't Trump showed his tax to the public?

[patrachlis]

Thank you for looking into all these bizarre events that need answers that are truthful not BS or lies from these horrible Retrumplicans! 🤮😤

[BKT]

Trump also changed the weather pattern with a Sharpie.

[peterradford]

The drones are sucking the last few drops of energy from old orange face. He seems so listless and is now but a silly old drone himself.

[SallyS]

It's George Jetson, his daughter, Judy, Jane, his wife, his boy, Elroy, and his dog 🐕, Astro. 🎶 BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP. 🎶 🎵

[loraliehursman]

I'm okay with the fact that we're not alone in Our World, if they were going to hurt us, they would've already.

[ElitaSue]

They all have big Trump and flag stickers on the bumpers