It has long been a conservative meme/joke that if you have dirt on the Clintons, you’ll die an untimely death (i.e., the joke sign above deer roadkill reading “Snitched on Hillary,” the Babylon Bee satire article "CDC: Those with Dirt on Clintons have 843% Higher Risk of Suicide", etc.) - but how statistically true is this? Is it just bitter right-wing fearmongering or is there actually truth to it?
Edit: Forgot to add, of course, the ongoing theories about Jeff Epstein being murdered because he knew a lot of things about the Clintons - theories which are almost certainly nonsense, but have been fueled by these longstanding rumors about deaths involving Clinton associates or acquaintances.
Well, I did a linear regression of longevity and social proximity to the Clinton family using LinkedIn profiles, and hereis what I found.
Answered in 1! Well done, RP.
Damn. I clicked it, and I’m at work.
Off the top of my head:
Vince Foster killed himself after following the Clintons to DC.
Seth Rich was shot in the back, perhaps in an attempted robbery.
People have also tried to tie the Clintons to the plane crash that killed Ron Brown.
Are all of these a stretch? I guess. But there are actual deaths of actual Clinton or DNC associates that could be incorporated into a conspiracy theory.
They were President of the US and a Senator/Sec of State. The number of associates you could tie to them is going to be ginormous. If you couldn’t find some deaths with unanswered questions connected to the Clintons it would be a much more interesting conspiracy theory.
I thought that one was O.J.
People die every day. The Clintons, being high-profile political heavyweights, interact with far more people than most ordinary folks. The fact that three people they have worked with in the last forty years have died is hardly unusual. In fact, I, a humble school teacher, can think of far more than three people to whom I can be associated, that have died in the last forty years. Students, teachers, administrators, student parents, student siblings, my own father, my own son, my own grandmothers. The list is staggering. I must be stopped!!
OK, found a list:
That’s not the suspicious part.
Did you know that way more than half of the people involved in government when JFK was shot are dead?
Wake up, sheeple!
Regards,
Shodan
Not to mention - more than 75% of people die within six months of their birthday!
Regards,
Shodan
Ha, Rick Rolled. 590,107,136 views so I can’t feel too bad. I hope someone is making money on that account.
Hell, there are suspicious deaths associated with me, and I expect every other person on the planet. If you look herd enough you’ll find a second cousin or an old classmate that died in a weird way or with odd circumstances.
100% of people die within 6 months of their birthday, don’t they?
Which is more than 75%.
It all adds up!
A list of people who didn’t die during Clinton’s presidency:
Rex Armistead
David Brock
William Clinger
James Dale Davidson
Joseph Farah
Newt Gingrich
Lucianne Goldberg
David Hale
Henry Hyde
Cliff Jackson
Paula Jones
Monica Lewinsky
L. Jean Lewis
Rush Limbaugh
William Safire
Richard Mellon Scaife
Ted Olson
Robert Ray
Christopher Ruddy
Ken Starr
Linda Tripp
Emmett Tyrrell
In fact, most of these people are still alive today.
These are people the Clintons would have been killing if they were killing people.
Well, I’m not seeing an Election angle here.
GD or Pit…GD or Pit…
Pit. Knock yourselves out.
Low effort troll here Velocity. You do better sticking to incel or race-baiting threads.
Conspiracy theories are taking over the world. I thought SDMB might be safe, but, nope. :smack:
Ok, name three deaths linked to Poppy Bush, not counting in his foreign wars. I’ll wait.
Then find me one connected to Obama that wasn’t a drone strike nor the killing of Qaddafi.
Seriously, are you trying to make the conspiracy theory case through reverse psychology?