Chris Hayes unveiled a new conspiracy theory last night that accused Republicans, business owners and economists of purposely tanking the economy under President Obama:
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— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 3, 2019
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) May 3, 2019
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.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 3, 2019
“Seek help” and quickly, Chris:
You’re nuts. Seek help, or at least get a better brand of tinfoil for your hat.
— Will Collier (@willcollier) May 3, 2019
Wtf are you even talking about. https://t.co/BEyGMTc590
— Erielle Davidson (@politicalelle) May 4, 2019
A MSM anchor stating that all the business in the country collectively tanked just to stick it to a democratic pres is some next level idiocy. https://t.co/8cptUyvbzM
— Paul Thacker (@paulthacker11) May 3, 2019
If he’s not careful, Facebook will ban him like other conspiracy theorists, right?
I see Alex Jones has a leftist counterpart. https://t.co/ene2GLxG96
— Crotchety Old Nathan Wurtzel (@NathanWurtzel) May 3, 2019
Everything is now a GOP conspiracy to the Democrats, including Obama’s poor economic record. https://t.co/MIZPEfSZmz
— Abe Greenwald (@AbeGreenwald) May 4, 2019
What’s really amazing is that with thousands of businesses, politicians and policymakers are colluding on this is that we’ve never heard of this before last night:
All the businesses in America secretly conspired to simultaneously struggle just to hurt Obama. Seems like a viable theory. https://t.co/2vGyAWhJKK
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) May 4, 2019
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. https://t.co/3af1wryB9R
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 3, 2019
It’s a really bad take:
This is the sort of dark place we should all resist going to. https://t.co/J7m2sDXryD
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) May 3, 2019
Or, an even a less sane* interpretation. https://t.co/XxVGWKcHxE
— Meech (@michi83) May 3, 2019
Hayes delivered a not-rare-enough "you might not want to ever take me seriously again" hot take.
— Blame Big Government (@BlameBigGovt) May 4, 2019
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 30, 2019
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 18, 2019
