Mike Rothschild

NEWS: My next book, ZERO CONTAINMENT, will be out in Fall 2027! It's a detective story about how everything went so wrong before, during, and after the Eaton Fire; and how we recover and rebuild in its wake. I have lived this nightmare for over a year, and now I get to share what I've learned.

Don't be surprised if whoever killed Charlie Kirk has no coherent political ideology, didn't do it for any particular reason, and doesn’t fall anywhere neat on the left/right paradigm.

There's no reason to take any reporting about Tyler Robinson at face value right now. Countless officials, law enforcement agencies, politicians, influencers, and reporters have been wrong, hoaxed, or caught making things up. Social media is making us all crazy and stupid.

Finally, a use for calipers that doesn't involve racists measuring skull shapes.

Conspiracy theories about Lindsey Graham's death prove that we've gotten way too comfortable with being governed by the elderly and half-dead. www.patreon.com/MikeRothschi...

July has been a brick wall for subscriptions, and just five new paid subs would totally change that. For only $5 per month or $48 per year you get dozens of stories about conspiracy theories, scams, trolls, and our lurch into madness. Plus new ones nearly every week! www.patreon.com/MikeRothschi...

Trump's acolytes will spend forever thinking Trump won 2020. But the rest of the country cares a lot more about gas and grocery prices than nonsense about Chinese bamboo fibers and Venezuelan servers and Italian satellites. This is a total loser electorally, and makes Trump sound demented.

Lindsey Graham told staffers he wasn't feeling well Saturday night, but delayed getting treatment so he could go on Meet the Press the next morning. The guy might have died because he didn't want to give up a TV hit. No conspiracy theory necessary. www.patreon.com/MikeRothschi...

I wrote a little about Lindsey Graham's death and the need for conspiracy theories to "explain" why a 71-year-old man with advanced heart disease can't have just died. We are being ruled by people with one foot in the grave. www.patreon.com/MikeRothschi...

While this is demented blather, one of the most widely used pieces of "evidence" that Trump staged Butler is that he "never talks about it." He actually talks about it a decent amount, even if he doesn't use the shooter's name.

Two years ago today, a loser climbed onto a warehouse roof and nearly killed Donald Trump. Since then, a conspiracy theory that Trump staged or faked the assassination attempt has gripped large parts of the left. I wrote about how Butler became the new JFK. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/how-but...

Americans are both used to being ruled by elderly people and totally pilled on conspiracy theories. So when one of the elderly people who rules us dies of a totally normal cause, all we can do to reconcile it is create a conspiracy theory about it.

I somehow missed the 18 month anniversary of the Eaton Fire. It feels like a long time ago and also like it's happening every day. Here's a fragment of a burned page from Psalms I found on the sidewalk that day, and saved for no particular reason.