Crackpots

Newsweek reports: Mike Lindell has launched a Black Friday “super sale” on MyPillow products, amid his continued financial problems. On the MyPillow website, a Black Friday deal described in one graphic as a “super sale” shows a number of discounts on products. One product discounted on the site is bath robes, reduced from $159.98 to $69.98. Another product that has …

Mediaite reports: Mike Lindell — who is currently being sued by Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems over his claims that voting machines were used to rig the 2020 election in President Joe Biden’s favor — appeared on Bannon’s show on Monday wearing a hat wrapped in tin foil, before symbolically removing the hat in celebration of a court ruling in …

“Say whatever you want about, say, cigarettes, two things cannot be denied. One, tobacco helped build this country. OK? We would not have a country without tobacco. Without a tobacco plant, this country doesn’t exist. So it has been crucial, central to this country from its foundation. The same cannot be said for marijuana. Tobacco is as American as apple …

“It’s clear, we’re heading for something and it seems sooner than ever now. The prophecies do say that Israel will be attacked from all sides, which seems like that’s happening now. And then it says that the Great Bear of the North and the great army from the East will also attack. “And I think there’s some real evidence for …

Here’s the Media Matters post that has Musk enraged: IBM announced yesterday that it is suspending its advertising on X (formerly Twitter) after Media Matters reported that the platform placed its ads next to content promoting Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. IBM isn’t alone in having issues when advertising on the platform: Following our report yesterday, we additionally found …

“Joe Biden wants to ban menthol cigarettes, which are favored by black smokers. Meanwhile, he wants to legalize weed for white college kids and mail out free crack pipes. The administration’s ban is paternalistic, it’s hypocritical, and it creates a huge black market for Mexican cartels and Hezbollah. And all because Mike Bloomberg told him to.” – Sen. Tom Cotton, …

The Insider reports: Grimes hired people to search high and low for her kids’ father, Elon Musk, to serve him with custody papers, according to court records obtained by Insider. The singer, whose legal name is Claire Boucher, is suing Musk for physical custody of their three children. A lawyer for Grimes filed a supplemental proof-of-service document last Friday, showing …

Far-right Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano writes: The removal of His Excellency Archbishop Joseph Strickland, especially after the failure to ambush him with the Apostolic Visitation, appears as a cowardly form of authoritarianism, which in no way fits with Bergoglio’s rants about “welcoming” and “inclusiveness.” Seeing the sacrilegious and perverted Marco Rupnik incardinated in the Diocese of Capodistria, or Bishop Michael …

Phoenix’s NBC affiliate reports: Jacob Chansley, who may be better known as the “QAnon Shaman,” has filed a statement of interest to run for Arizona’s 8th Congressional District in Congress. Chansley stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 and pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding. He was originally sentenced in Nov. 2021 to 41 months in prison …

Reuters reports: One windy night at Elon Musk’s SpaceX facility in McGregor, Texas, Lonnie LeBlanc and his co-workers realized they had a problem. They needed to transport foam insulation to the rocket company’s main hangar but had no straps to secure the cargo. LeBlanc, a relatively new employee, offered a solution to hold down the load: He sat on it. …

“I mean, look, the shots are kind of like STDs at this point, right? Like if you sleep with someone that has a shot or vaccine, I mean, you could get some shedding from it. I know that it affects fertility. “There was a time when I was with somebody who did have the injections and I was actually affected. …

USA Today reports: Jill Stein, who previously ran for president in the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections, launched a new bid for the White House on Thursday. Stein will again seek the Green Party’s nomination in the 2024 presidential election. She said in a video she shared on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that “the political system is …

Mediaite reports: TV superstar-turned-MAGA comic Roseanne Barr took her rally speech to 11 with an ear-splitting call-and-response in which she dubbed former President Donald Trump “the MAGA-DOR” who would slay the “DEEP STATE BULL!” Barr — whose career imploded after a racist tweet that was followed by other unhinged tweets — was one of several opening acts. At one point, …

The New York Times reports: Vivek Ramaswamy drew shock and criticism online on Wednesday when he appeared to accuse the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish, of being a Nazi — but Mr. Ramaswamy’s campaign insisted that wasn’t what he meant. The remark came in response to a question about Mr. Zelensky’s recent plea for more American aid …

Via press release from Christian Newswire: Hundreds of people participate daily in the online Christian Nation Government Now Revival led by Steven Andrew, pastor of USA Christian Church. Some days thousands of people join. The daily program “Save America Revival!” started over 400 days ago in September 2022. Andrew believes, “This revival brought God’s favor to raise up Christian Mike …

“Remember these elections, off-year elections, odd number elections are very low turnout elections. They are base elections and the Democrats have traditionally, number one, outspent us, not just on odd number year elections, but generally speaking. “Number two, their base is more ginned up to go out and vote generally than Republicans. We’ve seen this now for the last several …

Reuters reports: Republican presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy will make his non-interventionist foreign policy a central plank of his pitch to voters in the coming weeks, he told Reuters, as he seeks to position himself as the least likely candidate in the nominating contest to wade into a foreign war. In an interview, Ramaswamy said he would formally introduce a pledge …

“Why should Moderna and Pfizer be entitled to any profits at all? If I were a politician I would introduce a bill clawing back every dollar of profit that Moderna and Pfizer received for their COVID shots which were sold in a fraudulent fashion. Why should our taxpayer dollars go to enriching two for-profit companies that perpetrated a fraud on …

Ars Technica reports: Elon Musk’s attempt to avoid testifying in a Twitter stock-purchase investigation continued yesterday with Musk asking a court to block a subpoena issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Musk’s filing in US District Court for the Northern District of California claimed the SEC is “harassing” him, exceeding its authority to investigate, and making “overly burdensome” demands …

NBC News reports: At an anti-vaccine conference in Georgia on Friday, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed his commitment to the cause and spoke to his base about how he, as president, would serve the movement he built. “I feel like I’ve come home today,” he said to a standing ovation. He then laid out his vision for a …