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SMOKE AND MIRRORS
The Conspirasphere is an excited place just now. So many things are happening, it’s hard to know where to start. We’ll take the topic of stolen elections as read; in the gaudy electoral carnivals that punctuate US political theatre, all elections are stolen, after all. Two stories stand out from the roiling crowd of theories jostling for space: the Pelosi incident, and the collapse of FTX; one a duel of competing narratives, the other a story that unravels like a Russian doll – though, strangely, no one has mentioned the Russians yet in either