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Did Stephen Miller Just Glitch on Live TV — Or Did the Robots Finally Take Over?
What a supposed “technical glitch” says about denial, authoritarianism, and maybe — just maybe — robots.
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Every amateur historian is entitled to one conspiracy theory per lifetime. Just one. Any more and you’re that crazy YouTube lady in her car talking about fluoride and the lizard pope.
Conspiracy theories are for unserious people. I am a very serious person. I alphabetize my footnotes. I use semicolons correctly. I have wept over census data.
But even serious people slip. Look at David Irving — once a respected World War II historian, then he wandered into Holocaust denial and never came back. Or Hugh Trevor-Roper, who verified the Hitler Diaries — fake, of course — and spent the rest of his career as a cautionary tale.
So yes, one conspiracy theory per historian. Then retire the gloves.
Mine begins with Stephen Miller.
The Glitch Heard Around the World
Yesterday on CNN, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller was doing his usual fascist calisthenics, spewing the…
