Nothing to see here, move along...

I get why conspiracy theories are attractive to many, but I would say it's dangerous to say the "opposite" is true and its all unknowable random chaos.

It's not.

But instead of thinking in sweeping conspiracy theores, its best to look at the various actors and understand their motives for their behaviour. There usually is some, and its usually not a grand conspiracy, but often far more short-sighted things. There is a logic to the "madness".

A big part in creating reasonably effective and "good" rules for a social system is to predict some of these reasonings and logic behind them, and ensure you create incentives for desired behavior (e.g. actions in the interest of the common good) and disincentives for undesired behavior (e.g. actions that are selfish and harm the common good). Of course, that is easier said than done, and we regularly see how things backfire. The Discworld example is "We have too many rats in the city? Let's put up a reward for every rat tail delivered to the bureau of health!" "What, we now have even more rats in the city? Tax the rat farms!"

Nail bunny, you really need to stay away from the right wing blog sites. They're rotting your brain. Although as satire, it's pretty funny.

Sadly..... Trump said this for real:

COLORADO ― Either President Trump failed remedial geography, or we’ve reached a full-on “Emperor’s New Clothes” scenario.

This, after Trump received a standing ovation in Pittsburgh on Wednesday after boasting about a nonexistent border wall he’s building ― in Colorado.

“We’re building a wall in Colorado ― we’re building a beautiful wall,” Trump told the cheering crowd at a shale energy conference. “A big one that really works, that you can’t get over, you can’t get under.”

If Trump is building a wall on Colorado’s southern border with New Mexico, that’s news to the governors of both states, who were unaware of any such structure.

“Well this is awkward ... Colorado doesn’t border Mexico,” tweeted that state’s governor, Democrat Jared Polis, soon after Trump’s claim. “Good thing Colorado now offers free full day kindergarten so our kids can learn basic geography.”

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s press secretary Nora Sackett was less amused.

“Wouldn’t surprise me if he really did forget about a state that he lost by such a significant margin, especially when that seems to be the only thing of importance to him and given that he can expect more of the same in 2020,” Sackett told HuffPost in an email. “No one wants his wall, whether it’s on the Mexican border, the Colorado border, or the Canadian border.”

In a follow-up statement, a different member of Lujan Grisham’s press office emphasized: “Yes, we are a state.”

Sackett added that, in policy, the Trump administration really does seem to have turned a blind eye to New Mexicans devastated by the opioid crisis and others whose livelihoods depend on border trade.

So, will Trump admit he flunked this particular geography lesson?

If his history with maps ― and the eagerness with which he alters them ― is any indication, probably not. To that end, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has provided a preview of what we should expect from the Oval Office in the near future.