Crackpots

Adele Stan reports at Right Wing Watch: Looking for a last-minute Valentine’s Day gift? Religious Right “thinker” Lance Wallnau, a booster of President Donald Trump, has got a deal for you! What greater way to say, “I love you,” than with the gift of the secret to “render powerless the global mind control attempt to manipulate your thoughts and emotions”? …

From the Christian boycott group 2nd Vote: Valentine’s Day is this week and for many that means choosing candy to give to your significant other. You have many options out there when it comes to candy, but 2nd Vote wants to make sure you are informed on where your consumer dollars will be going after you purchase the candy. If …

The Dallas Observer reports: Robert Jeffress made perhaps his strongest statements yet in defense of President Donald Trump. Wednesday morning, Jeffress made one of his frequent appearances on conservative radio personality Todd Starnes’ show to talk about the biggest threat facing America today — the vanishingly small number of white evangelicals who refuse to support the president. Christians who don’t …

Raw Story reports: Darla Shine, the wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Bill Shine, went off on an unhinged Twitter rant against vaccinating children on Wednesday. Shine was apparently set off on her Twitter rant by watching a CNN report on a major measles outbreak that has hit the state of Washington, where vaccination rates for …

Today we get an important warning from a writer for Charisma Magazine, home to helpful anti-witchcraft tutorials and published by Steven Strang, who Time once listed as one of America’s most influential evangelicals. I began running the day’s events through my head. I had to drop Haydon off at school at 9, and then I needed to head straight to …

Newsweek reports: Conservative political commentator and author Ann Coulter on Tuesday afternoon slammed President Donald Trump over the possibility of him accepting less than he demanded in border wall funds. A bipartisan agreement reached by congressional leaders on Monday night was, Coulter said, Trump’s “Yellow New Deal.” Coulter did not elaborate in her tweet on what she meant by “Yellow …

Huntington’s CBS affiliate reports: The West Virginia Republican Party has issued a statement denouncing Delegate Eric Porterfield’s comments about the LGBTQ Community. In the statement, WV GOP Chairwoman Melody Potter said, “As West Virginians, we are taught to respect one another, love our neighbors, and when we disagree to seek understanding of our fellow Mountaineers. “In recent days, Delegate Eric …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: So-called “firefighter prophet” Mark Taylor appeared on Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog program over the weekend, where he declared that God had told him that President Trump is not going to be the only Trump elected to the White House. “I’ll go ahead and release this on your show,” Taylor said with a grin. “This …

Fox News reports: Just days after President Trump said his administration was prepared to “build a Human Wall if necessary” to protect the nation from illegal immigration, a group of his supporters in New Mexico joined hands along the U.S.-Mexico border in support of the construction of a border wall. Waving American flags and holding handmade signs, advocates for tougher …

Mediaite reports: Trump White House counselor Kellyanne Conway launched a series of strange attacks at Democratic presidential candidates, including a shot at Beto O’Rourke for holding a rally in El Paso to get “free airtime.” Conway called O’Rourke a “loser,” and noted that the El Paso rally will get O’Rourke “a lot of free airtime for the would-be 2020 race, …

The Associated Press reports: Anti-vaccine activists packed an Olympia, Washington public hearing Friday to oppose a bill that would make it harder for families to opt out of vaccination requirements for measles, mumps and rubella amid the state’s worst measles outbreak in more than two decades. An estimated 700 people, most of them opposed to stricter requirements, lined up before …

The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports: A second round of bigoted comments from a Republican delegate has drawn frustration from legislators and no sign of resolve. Delegate Eric Porterfield, R-Mercer, made the comments after calling a reporter to discuss a report in Friday’s Gazette-Mail. That report detailed a flurry of criticism House Democrats aimed at Porterfield on Thursday in response to an …

Arizona Central reports: Citing concerns about the proliferation of erotic images online and their “toxic” effect on behavior, Arizona lawmakers are pushing to declare pornography a public health crisis. State Rep. Michelle Udall, R-Mesa, introduced a measure that declares the crisis and states porn “perpetuates a sexually toxic environment that damages all areas of our society.” “Like the tobacco industry, …

NY 1 reports: Rubén Díaz Sr. says he faced rejection from his colleagues the moment he got to the City Council last year because “over there, everybody is controlled by the homosexual community.” “When I get to the City Council, I find that the City Council is controlled — most council members out of 51 council members — over there, …

“I actually don’t have any problems at all with the word nationalism. I think that it gets — the definition gets poisoned by elitists that actually want globalism. Globalism is what I don’t want. So, when you think about whenever we say nationalism, the first thing people think about, at least in America, is Hitler. He was a national socialist, …

Mediaite reports: Manuel Oliver, the father of a child who was slain during the Parkland massacre, repeatedly confronted Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) during a hearing, and Gaetz tried to have Oliver ejected. During a House hearing on HR8, which expanded background checks to include all firearms purchases, Gaetz used the occasion to promote Trump’s border wall by suggesting that immigrants …

The afternoon PayPal banned nutjob far-right activist Laura Loomer, who last appeared on JMG when she handcuffed herself to the front door of Twitter’s Manhattan office in protest of their banning. As you can see below, she’s not taking this latest development very well. PayPal just banned me for no reason whatsoever. This comes one day after Radical Left wingers …

“Kamala Harris says, ‘Elect me, and everything’s free. Look, everybody can have their own healthcare, the government’s going to finance the whole thing, it’s not going to cost but $30 trillion, I’m offering you the greatest deal you ever had, elect me and everything will be free.’ What I’m saying is that, Kamala, I already have healthcare, it’s given to …

Mediaite reports: Gavin McInnes, the founder of “Western Chauvinist” group Proud Boys, is joining far-right Canadian website and network The Rebel Media, the outlet told Mediaite Tuesday. The hire follows a trend for The Rebel, which operates as a sort of salon de refusés for ostracized right-wing gadflies: Katie Hopkins joined after leaving the Daily Mail, white nationalist and neo-Nazi …

The Daily Beast reports: Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes sued the Southern Poverty Law Center on Monday, claiming that the civil-rights organization has cost him business opportunities by designating the pro-Trump men’s group he created as a hate group. In the lawsuit, McInnes blames the SPLC’s “hate group” designation for the Proud Boys for everything from his being kicked off …