MSNBC Chris Hayes conspiracy theory: Trump economy surging because businesses undermined Obama
Posted by Fuzzy Slippers Saturday, May 4, 2019 at 6:00pm
How quickly MSNBC moved from blaming the Russians for everything to blaming millions of business owners.
There was no media figure more humiliated and shamed by the actual facts about the supposed Trump-Russia conspiracy than MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. She was all-inon the Russian conspiracy, collusion, Manchurian candidate fantasy. All. In. Night after night she regaled her audience with her tinfoil hat conspiracy theories, and they lapped it up.
Her ratings soared, she became a “big name,” and then it all went south when the Mueller report was released. Her breathless, studious assaults on logic and common sense flamed into ash. There was no collusion, no conspiracy, no Russian puppet in the White House.
Her tinfoil crown askew, her ratings plummeting, Maddow clings desperately to her fantasy . . . while her protege Chris Hayes eyes her tinfoil topper with covetous relish.
Hayes has detailed his latest conspiracy theory on Twitter, and it goes like this: the only reason the Trump economy is strong is that millions of business owners conspired to go bankrupt to make the economy tank under Obama. They were all in on it! Millions of American business owners destroyed their financial lives, their families’ well-being, to discredit Obama.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Breitbart reports:
Hayes has an actual “theory” about an actual “conspiracy” involving millions (literally) of business owners secretly plotting to damage Barack Obama and benefit Trump.
In trying to explain why the economy has roared back to life under Trump, Hayes told his nearly two million Twitter followers this [emphasis added]:
Lots of regular people – critics, bloggers, gadflies, etc were able to see this but the commanding heights of the econ/policy/political worlds either could not or would not.
Or, an even less charitable interpretation: they didn’t get it wrong at all. They didn’t want full employment, they didn’t want wage growth and empowered workers and they certainly didn’t want that happening under a Democratic president.
I mean, years of the titans of industry whining about the skills mismatch, how they can’t find good workers, and chin-stroking conferences about labor force participation, and columns about how it was workers’ own fault, on and on and on, all just garbage.
Come close. Hear some truth.
This is how it happened, y’all…
When Obama was president, when Barry the Democrat was president, when a BLACK!man was president, millions and millions and millions of businesses got together, using Skype or something, and colluded to keep the economy down.
Chris Hayes
?@chrislhayes
· May 3, 2019
Replying to @chrislhayes
Lots of regular people - critics, bloggers, gadflies, etc were able to see this but the commanding heights of the econ/policy/political worlds either could not or would not.
Chris Hayes
?@chrislhayes
Or, an even less charitable interpretation: they didn't get it wrong at all. They didn't want full employment, they didn't want wage growth and empowered workers and they certainly didn't want that happening under a Democratic president.
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Oh and, according to Hayes, economists and (presumably) the media were also in on this enormous, impossible conspiracy.
Chris Hayes
?@chrislhayes
Everyone who called for austerity got it wrong and caused harm
Everyone who scaremongered about the deficit got it wrong and caused harm
Everyone who wrote about the "skills gap" got it wrong and caused harm
Everyone who kept warning about inflation got it wrong and caused harm
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Needless to say, this tinfoil hattery was met with facts, ridicule, and contempt.
Scott Jennings
?@ScottJenningsKY
All the businesses in America secretly conspired to simultaneously struggle just to hurt Obama. Seems like a viable theory.
Chris Hayes
?@chrislhayes
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Or, an even less charitable interpretation: they didn't get it wrong at all. They didn't want full employment, they didn't want wage growth and empowered workers and they certainly didn't want that happening under a Democratic president.
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Chris Hayes
?@chrislhayes
· May 3, 2019
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Or, an even less charitable interpretation: they didn't get it wrong at all. They didn't want full employment, they didn't want wage growth and empowered workers and they certainly didn't want that happening under a Democratic president.
Terry O'@IrishTea1
You are actually lying AGAIN to cover up for your malfeasance during Obama years. You constantly agreed w Obama that our economy would never again be strong. Now you blame those who defied your gloomy forecast. Your are why Americans hate Lefty Media.
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Chris Hayes
?@chrislhayes
· May 3, 2019
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Or, an even less charitable interpretation: they didn't get it wrong at all. They didn't want full employment, they didn't want wage growth and empowered workers and they certainly didn't want that happening under a Democratic president.
Garrett@Youth4_America
Who would have known that manufacturing job magic wand that Obama couldn’t find was a result of a vast 1%er conspiracy. See the media lapdogs are still taking this 2016 election loss well 
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Crotchety Old Nathan Wurtzel@NathanWurtzel
I see Alex Jones has a leftist counterpart.
Chris Hayes
?@chrislhayes
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Or, an even less charitable interpretation: they didn't get it wrong at all. They didn't want full employment, they didn't want wage growth and empowered workers and they certainly didn't want that happening under a Democratic president.
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Sean Davis
?@seanmdav
Fresh off of peddling the Trump-Russia hoax for two years, an MSNBC anchor is now suggesting the economy sucked under Obama not because of his job-killing policies, but because all businesses in the country conspired to tank the economy to spite Obama. t.co
Chris Hayes
?@chrislhayes
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Or, an even less charitable interpretation: they didn't get it wrong at all. They didn't want full employment, they didn't want wage growth and empowered workers and they certainly didn't want that happening under a Democratic president.
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Chris Hayes
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· May 3, 2019
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Or, an even less charitable interpretation: they didn't get it wrong at all. They didn't want full employment, they didn't want wage growth and empowered workers and they certainly didn't want that happening under a Democratic president.
Dr. Crub@DrCrub
That is definitely top 5 dumbest things I’ve ever heard.
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