âItâs like the hedge fund bros getting mad at people on Reddit,â he added. âTheyâre not upset that people are making up some artificially inflated value to game the market, theyâre just offended that people who arenât in their country club are allowed to play now. âWhen it comes to crazy conspiracy theories, you canât put the genie back in the bottle,â Colbert said, noting such past GOP-fanned conspiracy flames as Obamaâs birth certificate or being a âsecret Muslimâ, all the way back in 2007. âIf crazy conspiracy theories are in fact a cancer on the Republican party, people like Mitch McConnell and Karl Rove have spent the last 20 years selling cigarettes to their base.â