{"id":2638101,"date":"2026-07-31T07:29:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignjust-asking-questions-is-a-dangerous-tool-in-the-hands-of-grifters\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:39:00","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignjust-asking-questions-is-a-dangerous-tool-in-the-hands-of-grifters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignjust-asking-questions-is-a-dangerous-tool-in-the-hands-of-grifters\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Just Asking Questions&#8217; Is A Dangerous Tool For Grifters"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignjust-asking-questions-is-a-dangerous-tool-in-the-hands-of-grifters%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2638101&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Laura Loomer has recently changed her stance on teh U.S. support for the Ukraine war, claiming her trip to Ukraine-paid for by private donors and including a meeting with President Zelensky-led her to believe she was misled by Moscow&#8217;s misinformation. She now describes Zelensky as a wartime leader and affirms Ukraine as an essential ally, influenced by Twitter interactions that promoted pro-Ukraine content. Loomer questions what other truths might be hidden, reflecting a broader skepticism fueled by distrust in official narratives.<\/p>\n<p>The article criticizes this mindset, arguing that constant questioning and suspicion-especially the refrain \u201cWhat else are we being lied to about?\u201d-undermines rational discourse and fosters conspiracy theories. While skepticism about issues like COVID-19 originated from legitimate evidence (such as the virus potentially originating from a wuhan lab), the article condemns how some conspiracy theories distort facts-like unfounded claims about the JFK assassination or supposed deep-state plots-by requiring implausible leaps of logic.<\/p>\n<p>This pervasive distrust has negative consequences: it diminishes clear thinking, benefits dishonest propagandists who exploit chaos for profit, and distracts from real issues. for example, conspiracy theories divide political factions, weakening efforts to address genuine threats like radical gender ideology. The widespread belief that everything is a manipulated lie fosters complacency, erodes trust in institutions, and threatens broader civic unity. Ultimately, the article emphasizes the importance of maintaining a clear, truthful viewpoint to preserve Western civilization\u2019s integrity, opposing the destructive impact of relentless conspiracy-minded skepticism.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Laura Loomer recently had a change of heart. Whereas she previously cast herself as a skeptic of America\u2019s support for the ongoing war in Ukraine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/the-secret-trip-that-turned-laura-loomer-from-ukraine-skeptic-to-supporter-a8bd2dcc?st=xGaUjg&#038;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> noted, she\u2019s now undergone a miraculous conversion experience. <\/p>\n<p>And all it took was a trip out to Ukraine that was paid for by \u201cprivate donors\u201d and an exclusive meeting with the country\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelensky. \u201cAfter a trip to war-torn Ukraine this week, and a sit-down with Zelensky, Loomer now says she was duped by misinformation coming out of Moscow,\u201d WSJ reported.<\/p>\n<p>She described Zelensky as a \u201cwartime leader\u201d and claimed that Ukraine is \u201can essential ally\u201d (though a certain other country Loomer <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LauraLoomer\/status\/2077790414233292803\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">also supports<\/a> might get a little jealous about that designation). <\/p>\n<p>And what was the cause of this sudden transition? Apparently it had more to do with the fact that pro-Russia accounts on X were boosting posts from other content creators with whom Loomer has engaged in a tiresome beef over Israel. In other words, she has become Ukraine\u2019s new champion because of Twitter drama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started to really examine a lot of the content that was coming out of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/topics\/place\/russia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Russia<\/a> Today. \u2026 And I realized, holy sh\u2014, there\u2019s like a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >full-blown foreign-interference operation happening<\/a>, and Russia\u2019s propaganda channels are leading the way,\u201d she said, according to WSJ.<\/p>\n<p>But she also uttered the magic question: \u201cWhat else are we being lied to about?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the question that absolves every asinine take on 9\/11, the moon landing, the JFK assassination, and everything in between. It\u2019s the question that has launched a thousand podcasts. It\u2019s the last gasp of political has-beens desperately trying to claw their way back into the limelight by being edgy. <\/p>\n<p>That question, the clarion call of the modern online grift master, has created an absolute plague in the American political arena. In fact, \u201cWhat else are we being lied to about?\u201d has to be the most damaging sentence of the decade so far for public discourse.<\/p>\n<p>Questioning everything all the time has seemingly become a national pastime for a large portion of the population. Nothing can be trusted, especially if someone in authority is saying it. The \u201cofficial narrative\u201d is always one of deception and manipulation, designed to hide the secret, nefarious, and always overly complicated plans of the global elite, or so the question-askers claim.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, the powers that be have not given the ordinary citizenry much of a reason to trust in government \u201cexperts\u201d or other traditional sources of authority. Covid-19 represents the prime example. This week\u2019s release of Anthony Fauci\u2019s diary, the ultimate exercise in narcissistic self-indulgence, confirmed in his own words two things we\u2019ve all known to be true for the last six years: 1. he\u2019s a scummy little worm and 2. he knowingly and repeatedly lied to the American people about practically every facet of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Now, there\u2019s an important distinction between the skepticism the American people showed toward the Covid tyrants and \u201cjust asking questions\u201d about the American government supposedly <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JoeRoganRecaps\/status\/2080437679754547385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">discovering giants<\/a> in Afghanistan or whether Hitler was the misunderstood secret good guy of World War II trying to protect the world from the Rothschilds.<\/p>\n<p>With Covid, people looked at the available facts about Covid\u2019s origins and how it spread and came to the most logical conclusion (which turned out to be correct), despite the protestations of the \u201cofficial narrative.\u201d The virus most likely originated in a lab, masking and social distancing were largely ineffective, and that an alliance of Big Tech and the government would use this crisis to impose tyrannical censorship. Though we certainly got damning revelations later down the line, enough of these facts were available early on in the outbreak for normal, rational people to come to the correct conclusion and then disbelieve the government bureaucrats when they demanded that the civilian population stop believing their lying eyes. Overall, there was ample evidence in plain sight to justify questioning the official narrative on Covid.<\/p>\n<p>The same cannot be said for favorite subjects of the \u201cjust asking questions\u201d crowd. With the bad faith conspiracies, their proponents twist facts and shred context in order to make those facts fit their preconceived  theory. <\/p>\n<p>Take the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The leading theory is that Tyler Robinson, who was involved with a trans-identifying man and had gradually succumbed to radical leftist ideology, decided to kill one of the leading voices against the transgender madness with an old hunting rifle. All the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/dna-evidence-from-charlie-kirk-assassination-disputed-by-defendants-lawyers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">available evidence<\/a> appears to <a href=\"https:\/\/kutv.com\/news\/local\/prosecutors-say-evidence-overwhelming-to-send-tyler-robinson-case-to-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">back up<\/a> this theory. Robinson was seen on surveillance video on campus the day of the assassination, there\u2019s DNA evidence linking him to the murder weapon, and he allegedly wrote a note to his romantic interest confessing to the crime.<\/p>\n<p>The alternative theories that have taken over corners of the internet are too numerous and convoluted to detail here, but they all share one thing in common: They require an unnatural bending of reality and a ludicrous suspension of simple common sense in order to be believable. Take a look at any of the conspiracy theories about Charlie Kirk\u2019s death and just think for a moment how many leaps of logic you have to make to arrive at any of them.<\/p>\n<p>Put more simply, it\u2019s insane to say that Erika Kirk is a fed-sponsored evil mastermind who conspired with Israel, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RealCandaceO\/status\/1977168281456066960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Egypt<\/a>, and whoever else to kill her husband.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not insane to say that a novel coronavirus matching the description of viruses being worked on in a nearby virology lab in Wuhan, which had received funds to study said coronaviruses, probably originated from that lab.<\/p>\n<p>This reflexive urge to immediately question every major world event and see conspiracy in everything comes not from a genuine desire to seek the truth, but from a deep, and totally understandable, bitterness toward our ruling classes and the string of betrayals that they\u2019ve inflicted on the American people. Some people\u2019s hatred for this country\u2019s elites \u2014 again, understandable \u2014 causes them to seek out an ulterior motive in everything. But in so doing, they often leave reality and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-defends-cdc-consulting-teachers-union-over-school-reopening-guidelines\/\" title=\"White House Defends CDC Consulting Teachers Union Over School Reopening Guidelines\">good common sense<\/a> behind, delving ever deeper into a tangled web of secret plots. <\/p>\n<p>The \u201cWhat else are we being lied to about?\u201d line has produced three disastrous consequences for the American public and civic discourse in this country.<\/p>\n<p>First, it has eroded people\u2019s ability to think clearly about important issues by blurring the lines between objective truth and wishful thinking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust asking questions\u201d grifting is the conservative commentary equivalent of AI slop. It preys on the short attention spans that have developed as a terrible side effect of our digital age \u2014 providing cheap, momentary thrills but absolutely nothing of substance. Paranoiacs who see conspiracy in anything and everything can\u2019t control themselves and their thoughts, and therefore they can\u2019t operate within a republic that relies on self-government.<\/p>\n<p>It has also provided an ecosystem for dishonest conspiracy peddlers to thrive. It conveniently allows professional grifters to change their skin like a chameleon, affecting an effortless metamorphosis to align with whichever set of principles comes with the highest dollar value this week. These people have no principles and have no qualms about lying, day after day, to their audiences for no other reason than to sow discord and get rich doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most importantly, it diverts attention away from real, actionable issues and goals. Again, take the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Instead of uniting the right against the deadly threat of the insane gender ideology that apparently inspired Kirk\u2019s alleged killer, the conspiracy-mongers have splintered the right into a hundred warring factions and squandered any momentum that was gained in the aftermath of Kirk\u2019s death. Conservatives can\u2019t afford to miss chances to turn momentum into victories. Every opportunity we waste with dumb infighting allows the left to regroup and prepare for their next assault on American civilization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat else are we being lied to about?\u201d and its variant \u201cI\u2019m just asking questions\u201d have become the bywords of charlatans. It\u2019s easy to blackpill and believe that everything is controlled by nefarious puppetmasters. It absolves the questioner of any agency and responsibility. \u201cWhat am I supposed to do? What difference does it make? Everything is rigged, anyway.\u201d But within that kind of complacency \u2014 and it is complacency no matter how many times you post angrily about it on X \u2014 lies the ultimate destruction of Western civilization.<\/p>\n<p>Those now warring against America are evil enough without attributing godlike omnipotence to them. But we can only defeat them if we have clear minds and a unity of purpose.<\/p>\n<p>The last few decades of manipulation and deception have utterly destroyed the credibility of so-called \u201cexperts\u201d and once-revered institutions, but they haven\u2019t destroyed truth. And if we lose sight of that in favor of the modern equivalent of superstitious fearmongering, then we\u2019ve lost the whole thing.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Hayden Daniel is a staff editor at The Federalist. He previously worked as an editor at The Daily Wire and as deputy editor\/opinion editor at The Daily Caller. He received his B.A. in European History from Washington and Lee University with minors in Philosophy and Classics. Follow him on Twitter at @HaydenWDaniel<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Loomer shifts stance after Ukraine trip funded by donors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1548,"featured_media":2638102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-225.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[47279,7010,22426,4241,7745],"class_list":["post-2638101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-critical-thinking","tag-danger","tag-grifters","tag-manipulation","tag-questioning"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-225.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2638101"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2638111,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2638101\/revisions\/2638111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2638102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2638101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2638101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2638101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}