Iran, Massie, Karmelo Anthony and the Politics of Despair | Ep. 33

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Congress just handed a conspiracy theory a credential it will never lose. On Monday, on the 59th anniversary of the USS Liberty attack, Thomas Massie — a lame-duck congressman with nothing left to lose — stood on the floor of the United States House of Representatives and entered an antisemitic conspiracy theory into the Congressional Record. The claim: that Israel deliberately murdered American sailors in 1967, and that the U.S. government covered it up. That claim has lived for decades in the fever swamps of fringe blogs and crackpot influencers. Now it lives in the Congressional Record forever. That same week: President Trump resumed strikes on Iran after an American Apache helicopter…