INSANE conspiracy theory: Are the ‘Mandela effect’ and the ‘butterfly effect' connected?



The widely accepted definition of the Mandela effect explains it away as “a phenomenon where a large group of people remember an event or detail differently from its factual occurrence” — but Alex Stein of “Prime Time with Alex Stein” isn’t buying it.

The effect was named after a “false memory” that was shared regarding Nelson Mandela’s supposed death in the 1980s, though he actually passed away in 2013.

“They’re trying to lie. Mandela effects are real,” Stein says, adding, “and I’m about to prove it.”


The first example Stein pulls is of the Monopoly man from the board game “Monopoly,” whom he recalls wearing a monocle over his eye when he was younger.

“Apparently, the monocle never existed. Now people are going to say, ‘Oh are you getting him confused with Mr. Peanut, who does have a monocle?’” Stein predicts, before moving onto Jif peanut butter.

The peanut butter brand is “Jif,” however, many people remember spreading the peanut butter as “Jiffy.”

“This is very weird that it’s just Jif, that doesn’t even make sense. That’s a horrible name, they need to go back,” Stein says. “Who would even approve that?”

While it’s all incredibly confusing, Stein does have a theory as to what’s really going on.

“One of the theories is that it’s called the butterfly effect,” Stein begins. “There’s time travelers that are traveling and if you did time travel, like if you went and killed a butterfly, that could affect the whole future of humanity.”

“Somehow we still have the memory because we lived it,” he continues. “But the time traveler messed it up.”

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Cloud seeding isn’t a conspiracy theory — but they want you to think it is



After Hurricanes Helene and Milton ravaged the Southeast, talk of government weather modification programs has increased — but those discussing it are being met with “conspiracy theorist” critiques.

“Are we tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorists for saying that the government could create some sort of geoengineered weather to make it look bad in order to usher in a climate change agenda?” Alex Stein of “Prime Time with Alex Stein” asks comedian Jimmy Dore.

“What I think is funny,” Dore responds, “is how they try to make you think like you’re some kind of crazy conspiracy theorist when they’ve all talked about it on their news shows already,” referring to a segment on CBS News discussing weather modification with a scientist who was explaining the technology.

The segment in question went so far as to explain that our technology can even produce bolts of lightning, but that's not all Dore has seen.


“I’ve seen testimonies back as far as the late '50s that they were already working on this and had plans for that,” he continues. “I don’t know the veracity of this, but I saw a colonel talk about how they did this in Vietnam and how they washed out some of the roads.”

“This isn’t anything new; they’ve been working on this for a long, long, time. And to the point where they have a guy, a scientist, talking about it on corporate news,” he adds.

Dore likens it to the COVID-19 vaccines, where “they had to make you think that it was a real vaccine” and you were “crazy” if you didn’t believe it.

“And then they have to tell you that no, of course you catch this, the disease that you’ve been vaccinated for.”

“Testing positive means it’s working,” Stein adds, joking.

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Mind-control drugs and elite rituals? Conspiracy theorists were RIGHT AGAIN!



Conspiracy theorists have been among the most ridiculed class for years, drawing the ire of liberals and conservatives alike.

But that might be about to change, because they’re usually right.

When the CIA was testing psychedelic substances on unwitting individuals as part of a multi-decade research program into finding a mind-control drug to use on communist spies, conspiracy theorists sounded the alarm bells.

The program is known as MK Ultra.

“MK Ultra turned out to be 100% true,” Pat says.

“Your government’s been experimenting on Americans forever,” Keith agrees.

Not only have they been experimenting on Americans — they’ve been watching them.

In 2013, former CIA employee Edward Snowden revealed that several Western governments, including the U.S., U.K., Australia, and Canada are engaged in a global surveillance program on both foreign and domestic citizens in cooperation with major telecommunications companies.

“Big brother is watching you after all,” Pat says, before moving on to the next conspiracy theory — that the Reagan government played a role in the importation of massive amounts of coke, which fueled the crack epidemic of 1980s and '90s.

In 1996, the theory gained credibility when investigative reporter Gary Webb confirmed that the CIA wittingly allowed large amounts of coke to be imported into the United States.

Even Kanye West made reference to the conspiracy in his song "Crack Music," writing, “How we stop the Black Panthers, Ronald Reagan cooked up an answer.”

Even the tinfoil-hat-wearing favorite, Bohemian Grove, has been proven true.

“The idea that the world’s rich and powerful all get together in secluded garden parties and engage in strange cult-like rituals is almost as cliche as conspiracy theories get. That being said, it's actually a faithful description of what goes on at the aptly named Bohemian Grove,” Pat says.

“I think there’s also allegations of eating babies and that kind of thing,” he continues. “I don’t know if that part is definitely true, but the carousing includes a ritual entitled ‘The Cremation of Care,’ where dark-cloaked and hooded Grove attendees burn an effigy in front of a 20-foot concrete owl.”


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Florida man who set himself on fire outside Trump trial dies, manifesto had anti-government conspiracy theories, he sued Clinton Foundation



The man who set himself on fire near the courthouse in New York City where former President Donald Trump is on trial has died, authorities said. According to his manifesto, the Florida man was allegedly an anti-government conspiracy theorist.

Around 1:30 p.m. on Friday, 37-year-old Max Azzarello was reportedly espousing conspiracy theories and tossing colorful pamphlets around Manhattan's Collect Pond Park, according to NYPD Chief of Department James Maddrey.

NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said, "The pamphlets seem to be propaganda-based almost like a conspiracy theory type of pamphlets. Some information in regards to Ponzi schemes, and the fact that some of our local educational institutes are a front for the mob. So a little bit of a conspiracy theory going on here."

Azzarello – from St. Augustine, Florida – was across the street from the courthouse where Trump's criminal trial was being held. He had not breached any security checkpoints to access the park.

Azzarello was allegedly holding a sign with a link to a Substack site that featured his manifesto.

He then doused himself in fire accelerant and lit himself ablaze with a lighter in front of horrified witnesses.

Police officers and bystanders rushed to help the man who had just set himself on fire. The self-immolation lasted several minutes until officers could extinguish the flames.

The horrific incident lasted several minutes before the flames were extinguished by police officers and court staff.

Azzarello was rushed to a local hospital in critical condition. However, he later died from his injuries around 10:30 p.m. on Friday, police said.

Azzarello had reportedly driven from Florida and arrived in New York a few days ago.

A letter was found at the burn site that reads: "I have set myself on fire outside the Trump Trial."

The Substack website reads: "My name is Max Azzarello, and I am an investigative researcher who has set himself on fire outside of the Trump trial in Manhattan."

"This extreme act of protest is to draw attention to an urgent and important discovery: We are victims of a totalitarian con, and our own government (along with many of their allies) is about to hit us with an apocalyptic fascist world coup," he wrote.

Azzarello claimed in his manifesto that the U.S. government is wrapped up in "Ponzi schemes" as a method to control the American people.

"These claims sound like fantastical conspiracy theory, but they are not," Azzarello's Substack post reads. "They are proof of conspiracy. If you investigate this mountain of research, you will prove them too. If you learn a great deal about Ponzi schemes, you will discover that our life is a lie."

Azzarello was reportedly arrested three times in Florida last year.

One of his arrests stemmed from an August incident where he purportedly threw a wine glass at a framed autograph featuring Bill Clinton at a hotel, according to police records.

"The wine glass broke, spreading wine on the frame, the wall, and the autograph,” the report claimed. "…The wine stained the autograph and the surrounding wall when it ran down behind the frame."

Two days later, Azzarello was arrested again for allegedly stripping down to his boxers and yelling at customers at the same hotel in Florida. An officer said he ventured into a fountain and cursed at hotel patrons "in an intimidating manner."

He was hit with misdemeanor charges of criminal mischief and disturbing the peace, the New York Post reported.

The police report said that he was unemployed and suicidal.

In April 2023, Azzarello filed a lawsuit in New York against the Clinton Foundation. The lawsuit also named billionaire Mark Cuban and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Newsweek reported, "Azzarello, who was representing himself, alleged in the suit that the defendants 'knowingly conspired, participated in, and benefited financially from a decades-long fraudulent scheme.'"

Azzarello claimed that "money was solicited internationally laundered in support of the scheme via the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation [as it was formerly known], which was created for this purpose by President Bill Clinton and Doug Band in 2001."

In February, an active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. The man said he was engaging in an "extreme" act of protest against Israel invading Gaza after the Hamas terrorist attack of Oct. 7, 2023.

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