Crackpots

Mediaite reports: Elon Musk jumped to the defense of Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) on Sunday, claiming Vice President Kamala Harris wants the human race to meet extinction while siding with the embattled Republican vice presidential nominee. As he continued to navigate the backlash, Vance shared a clip of Harris speaking that was posted by Donald Trump Jr. In the video, …

The New York Times reports: Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has waded into one of the thorniest issues facing U.S. politics: deepfake videos. On Friday night, Mr. Musk, the billionaire owner of the social media platform X, reposted an edited campaign video for Vice President Kamala Harris. The video mimics Ms. Harris’s voice, but instead of using her words …

Mother Jones reports: In a virtual event last week that was billed as a “Latino Town Hall,” presidential candidate and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. unveiled his plan to overhaul addiction treatment programs. Speaking during a live recording of the Latino Capitalist podcast, Kennedy described opioid, antidepressant, and ADHD “addicts” receiving treatment on tech-free “wellness farms,” where they would …

The Guardian reports: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has denied reports that emerged last week that he was planning to donate $45 million a month to a Super PAC focused on getting Trump elected. On Tuesday, Musk appeared on Jordan Peterson’s show, where he said the claim was “simply not true”. “I am not donating $45m a month to Trump,” he …

“It doesn’t really matter who the Democrats choose because the president is Obama, and he’s in his third term now, and he’ll be running for his fourth term. “And I love that he has the brains behind the Democrat Party say that if Trump is elected, Trump will be a dictator who will refuse to relinquish power, when in fact …

“A few weeks ago, President Biden was ridiculing Vladimir Putin, who won 88% of the vote in Russia, and he said that that was a fixed election because President Putin made sure that no adversaries could challenge him, and also that he had fixed the press so the press wouldn’t cover his adversaries. The Democratic Party succeeded in doing the …

“If you took video, save it, make a backup copy. We can glean things in terms of audio, in terms of where the shots came from. Was it one rifle? Was it more than one? “I’ve seen some pretty interesting video on the Internet by experts that certainly calls into question what the FBI is telling us about a single …

The Daily Beast reports: Meghan McCain doesn’t believe the president really has COVID, and is looking forward to the “great book about the amount of lies that were told to the American public about President Biden’s health.” Earlier this week, just hours after saying the only way he’d withdraw from the campaign for his reelection was if he had a …

The Guardian reports: “Don’t fuck us,” Lara Logan, the former CBS News anchor turned to me and said. “If you use the word conspiracy theorist in your story, I’m going to haunt you when I die.” It was the third day of the Republican national convention and Logan was standing in the atrium of a hotel that was once the …

Media Matters reports: A QAnon influencer said in a livestream that she received credentials for the 2024 Republican National Convention, which she was attending. In a July 17 stream on X (formerly Twitter), Terpsichore Maras-Lindeman, a QAnon-supporting podcaster known online as “Tore,” walked around the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, including pointing out where she was seated for it. …

“Why does the government do these sorts of things? So I learned in that book about the Charles Manson murders. I very much believe that the reason for that was they wanted to end the hippie generation because they were very anti-war and our government wanted to go to war. “And so by conducting this hippie commune, conducted these terrible …

Shitbag Todd Starnes writes on his website: A group of Christians had a hankering for a Subway sandwich the other day. So, they dropped by the franchise in Waunakee, Wisconsin. But the men were denied service because of the Christian message on their t-shirts. One shirt read, “Abortion is Murder” and another shirt read “Homo Sex is Sin.” One of …

CNBC reports: Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will receive Secret Service protection at the direction of President Joe Biden as a result of the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Monday. “In light of this weekend’s events, the president has directed me to work with the Secret Service to provide …

The Washington Examiner reports: Is Tucker Carlson OK? The former Fox News host-turned-independent media star has spread a bizarre conspiracy theory about the sexuality of a Democratic politician. This time, the target of Carlson’s musings is Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, an openly gay man. Carlson referred to Buttigieg as “supposedly gay.” He went on to recount how one of his …

Bloomberg News reports: Billionaire Elon Musk has donated to a super political action committee working to elect Donald Trump to the White House, a major gambit by the world’s richest person to make his imprint on the US political landscape. Musk has contributed to a low-profile group called America PAC, according to people familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity …

The Washington Post reports: Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has privately apologized to a woman who accused him of sexual assault, saying he does not remember the alleged incident and that any harm he caused was “inadvertent.” In a story published last week in Vanity Fair, the woman, Eliza Cooney, described inappropriate behavior and sexual advances from Kennedy …

“They have succeeded in that these single-family units are much more likely to depend upon the government. And every year, of course, I am lobbied by people who want the government therefore to take up an even greater role in their children’s life, be it daycare, be it preschool, be it after-school programs, whatever. “They clearly want the children raised …

The Meidas Touch reports: Republican Representative Thomas Massie, whose wife Rhonda recently and tragically passed away, took to social media today for the first time since her death to address right-wing conspiracy theories surrounding her passing. Massie, who has pushed a number of different conspiracy theories about covid and the vaccine, said he was initially extremely upset by “internet conspiracies …

The New York Times reports: For more than two decades, Elon Musk has focused SpaceX, his rocket company, on his lifelong goal of reaching Mars. Over the last year, he has also ramped up work on what will happen if he gets there. Mr. Musk told SpaceX employees in April that he now expects one million people to be living …

“I will tell you this: If he asks me to do anything, I’m hoping it’s when we get this, when he gets in, that he puts me in charge of our, the elections, where we can get out election platform completely fixed. “I think the election bureau should be, which I have already set up, should be part of Homeland …