Crackpots

“We are arresting the leader of the opposition and a former president because of destabilizing lies. Really? How — what does it — what does it mean, even? What is destabilizing? What does lying mean? “You know for a fact, you arrogant America haters, you know for a fact that the last election was honest? I don’t know for a …

Politico reports: Vivek Ramaswamy cast doubt on the veracity of the government’s explanation of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying he didn’t believe the findings of the 9/11 Commission. In an interview on the conservative Blaze TV, host Alex Stein asked the Republican presidential candidate if he believes 9/11 was an “inside job” or “exactly like the government tells …

Via press release from Pastor Steven Andrew: The “Christian Nation Government Now Revival” is expanding through 2025 to heal our land with good leaders that follow God and to save America. “This Bible-based revival is producing huge results, including the GOP taking the House and the recent Supreme Court and Federal Court religious freedom victories,” Steven Andrew said. Andrew leads …

The Daily Beast reports: “The Jan. 6 thing is bad, but also, the intelligence agencies were involved in provoking people into the Capitol Building. That’s a fact,” Joe Rogan proclaimed before invoking Ray Epps’ supposed involvement in pushing rioters to attack the Capitol. While calling it a “fact” that the federal government utilized “agent provocateurs” on Jan. 6 while citing …

Posted to Franklin Graham’s Facebook page: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr is shaking things up—and I like it! He’s right about this issue. He said, “When people censor speech, when we look back in history, they’re never the good guys. Government abuses every power that it’s given, and if government suddenly has the capacity to censor its critics, it has a …

NewsNation reports: Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the Biden administration has denied his request for Secret Service protection. In a statement posted on Twitter, Kennedy said the denial came after a lengthy delay. “Typical turnaround time for pro forma protection requests from presidential candidates is 14-days,” Kennedy wrote. “After 88-days of no response and after several follow-ups …

The Daily Beast reports: A lone parent filed a complaint to a Florida school district that a book in the Arthur series—yes, the same Arthur from the beloved PBS animated show—contained references to Spin the Bottle, and now it’s possibly on the district’s chopping block. A member of the Clay County School District community filed the challenge on July 12 …

“It is hot. Yes, it is. And you know what causes that? There is this thing — if you go outside right now, depending on where you are, what time zone — but you go outside and you look up, and you will see the sky is on fire in one particular spot. Why is space, which is closer to …

The Daily Beast reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. debated Fox News host Sean Hannity during a town hall event Tuesday about the United States’ role in the Russia-Ukraine war, with the 2024 presidential candidate claiming that the U.S. had been “pushing” Ukraine into the war. Kennedy Jr. claimed that the expansion of NATO after the fall of the Soviet Union …

A reminder about the movie via NPR: Jim Caviezel has been a prominent promoter of the false, violent QAnon conspiracy theory — specifically, the baseless claim that an international cabal of elites is abusing and killing children to extract a substance called adrenochrome. In press appearances promoting Sound of Freedom, Caviezel continues to spout QAnon falsehoods. On a recent episode …

Mediaite reports: Immediately after the news of college basketball player Bronny James suffering cardiac arrest, conspiracy theorists were quick to blame the Covid-19 vaccine. TMZ reported Tuesday that Bronny — the oldest son of NBA superstar LeBron James — was hospitalized Monday morning after going into cardiac arrest at a basketball workout. He’s since been moved out of the ICU …

Reuters reports: Elon Musk plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether the Securities and Exchange Commission overstepped its authority in enforcing a consent decree that he has called a “muzzle” on his free speech. Musk would be appealing a decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit of Appeals in Manhattan to uphold the decree, which arose from his …

The Independent reports: The outspoken conservative commentator Ben Shapiro has called Greta Gerwig’s widely praised Barbie movie “horrific” and one of the worst films he’s ever seen. The 39-year-old, who has previously criticised the likes of Glass Onion and The Last of Us, did not hold back on the critically praised film, which he “shitshow” and accused it of using …

The Washington Post reports: Quinnipiac University released a poll Wednesday showing Republicans continue to like Kennedy — by more than a 2-to-1 margin, in fact. But among Democrats, Kennedy’s image was more than 2-to-1 negative. While 21 percent had a favorable opinion, 47 percent had an unfavorable one. That’s 26 points “underwater,” up from 15 points underwater a month ago. …

The Independent reports: Presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr baselessly claimed in a congressional hearing on Thursday that he has never been anti-vaccine. Mr Kennedy testified before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government where House Republicans had invited him to testify about being censored by the Biden administration and tech companies. Mr Kennedy, currently a …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), the chair of the House Republican Conference, told reporters on Wednesday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s unabashed anti-Semitism is a “problem for the Democrat Party.” Stefanik made the remarks in response to a reporter asking her if the House GOP should uphold its invitation to Kennedy to appear before the House Weaponization Committee on …

“The difference here is Mussolini was a pretty bad guy. He’s not — he wasn’t the worst guy in the world. He wasn’t Hitler, certainly. He wasn’t Stalin, he wasn’t Lenin. But he — Mussolini was, let’s say, at least a mixed bag leaning on the side of bad. Not — he was a bad political leader. “Franco was, broadly …

NBC News reports: Kerry Kennedy, a sister of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., lambasted her brother in a brief statement Monday after a report that quoted him as saying Covid-19 was “targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people” and that Jewish people are most immune. “I strongly condemn my brother’s deplorable and untruthful remarks last week about Covid …

Posted today to Robert Kennedy Jr.’s Twitter account: The @nypost story is mistaken. I have never, ever suggested that the COVID-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews. I accurately pointed out — during an off-the-record conversation — that the U.S. and other governments are developing ethnically targeted bioweapons and that a 2021 study of the COVID-19 virus shows that COVID-19 …

Last year flat earther Kandiss Taylor ran for Georgia governor on the platform of “Jesus, Guns, Babies,” earning 3% of the vote in the GOP primary, which Mike Lindell instantly declared was stolen from her. Since then, Taylor was elected a state GOP district chairperson. In a Zoom call shared yesterday by Patriot Takes, a man calling himself Johnny Utah …