The conspiracy theory genre has a lot of "greatest hits." The Earth is flat, 9/11 was an inside job, Democrats are secretly lizard people, etc. However, new ones are created every day, and at this point it's getting hard to sift through them all. So if you want to keep up with that dude at the bar telling you that Hillary is an android invented by the Japanese in order to spy on our nation's beef exports, here are five recent conspiracy theories that, as you may have guessed, are completely bonkers.

5 John McCain Was Actually Executed

In the years before his recent death, Senator John McCain became known as the guy who would take a massive dump on everything Trump said before going ahead and voting along with the dude anyway. He passed away earlier this year due to brain cancer, but to some on the far, far, far right, that didn't really seem like a plausible way for an, umm, 81-year-old man to die. No, according to certain conspiracy enthusiasts, McCain was secretly executed. FOR TREASON.

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Either that or he killed himself because he couldn't bear the shame of being hauled off to Guantanamo Bay -- whichever the morally repugnant think is more morally justified. Regardless, the point is the same: McCain was a criminal and a traitor, and because we live in an era in which political discourse can best be described by the old slogan "Either you're with us or IT'S SCORCHED EARTH, MOTHERFUCKER," McCain's words against Trump made him ripe to be dealt with lethally.