QAnon was bad enough already and conspiracy theorists have always walked a thin line with lunacy on one side and anarchy on the other; we’re never sure what, exactly, they’re after. But an article in the Army Times caught my attention because I had not heard the rumors of thousands of Chinese infantry massed at the Maine-Canada border. Nor had I heard that an F-16 had crashed. And having heard neither of those, I of course was ignorant of the part where we bombed Chinese infantry in Canadian territory with anti-personnel cluster ordnance. Or that the F-16 was shot down instead of being downed by an accidental means.

I’d rather not be sharing this article, as I wish it weren’t necessary. But as silly as it is, this story has gained traction because of people who have no business being followed by thousands of people on Twitter who lap up his crap like a dog eating his own sick.

I’m not saying anything else. By now people who have brains should know a fake story on Twitter when they see it. They can fact check it anywhere but they rarely do because the answers they found in the past were contrary to their already embedded belief that the first story was true.

I’m just going to close with the observation that this spreading of bullshit has to stop. It is doing horrible damage to our country.