Crackpots

“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 …

The New York Post reports: Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dished out wild COVID-19 conspiracy theories this week during a press event at an Upper East Side restaurant, claiming the bug was a genetically engineered bioweapon that may have been “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people. “COVID-19. There is an argument that it is ethnically …

Click Orlando reports: An Orlando actor arrested and charged in connection with the attack on the U.S. Capitol has been acquitted of all charges after representing himself in court Wednesday. James Beeks, also known as James Justis, was arrested on Nov. 24, 2021, at a theater in Minneapolis, where he was starring as Judas in the national touring company of …

Axios reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s team is bucking Democratic Party tradition by selling campaign merchandise not made in America or by union labor, Axios has found. The move is out of step with Kennedy’s stated commitment to labor unions and — along with his anti-vaccination views — could complicate his long-shot primary challenge of President Biden. “Kennedy 2024” T-shirts …

The Daily Beast reports: After Bud Light’s brief partnership with a transgender influencer sparked right-wing outrage, Kid Rock established himself as one of the brand’s strongest critics. But CNN’s recent visit to his signature bar in Nashville— Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk & Rock ‘n’ Roll Steakhouse—told a different story. “Despite the online bravado, and talk of a boycott, …

Mediaite reports: Roseanne Barr screamed at fellow Fox Nation star Piers Morgan during an interview in which she claimed Ukraine is filled with Nazis and its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, isn’t a “good” Jew. On the Monday edition of Piers Morgan Uncensored, the Fox Nation host gave Barr the opportunity to clear the air about recent comments she made about the …

Media Matters has the transcript: The culture that treats sex very casually and that suggests that we have a right to sex absent the consequence of pregnancy, is going to be a culture that’s more likely to engage in abortion. The culture that embraces radical individualism and selfishness and libertinism in one area of sexual matters is going to embrace …

“Anyone who suggests that my voluntary retirement from the GA B.A.R. was out of fear of disbarment, does not know me or has not followed me very long on Telegram. My retirement request to the GA B.A.R. was planned and timed in the manner and timing of my choice after much prayer and time spent reading the Holy Bible. Through …

Mediaite reports: Lin Wood, an outspoken advocate of the conspiracy theory that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former president Donald Trump in the courtroom and the court of public opinion has agreed to retire from the law rather than be disbarred in the state of Georgia. In a letter addressed to the general counsel and executive director of …

The New York Times reports: A political action committee supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign has raised a total of $10.25 million, one of its leaders said on Monday, a signal that his long-shot challenge to President Biden has gained traction among donors, including many Republicans. The precise level of fund-raising by the super PAC, American Values 2024, will …

The Daily Beast reports: Elon Musk, of his various unconventional and controversial policy preferences, seems to have added a new one to his list: limiting voting to parents. The father of 10 responded to a Twitter user on Saturday who commented on Musk’s affirmation that “the childless have little stakes in the future” by saying, “Democracy is probably unworkable long …

The Hill reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. refused to criticize former President Trump on Wednesday night and said he was flattered by recent comments from Trump praising him as a “common-sense guy.” He then went a step further, expressing pride that he has received positive affirmations recently from Trump, who is embroiled in legal troubles as the leading Republican presidential …

From the far-right Christian site Charisma News: Because he is doing so much kingdom damage to the enemy, Satan is throwing quite a bit of chaos into Sean Feucht’s life right now. The latest incident for the renowned evangelist came this past week when Feucht’s priceless 1967 Ghallager guitar and black case was stolen from his car on Tuesday in …

“Nobody wants to hear the real truth. They’re horrified of it, rather go with bullshit. It’s easier. And the ‘truth’ is that Biden got 81 million votes by winning 36 counties? And that is just incredible. It really is. You can’t say that like, you know, the election was rigged. That’s all a ‘lie.’ “The election was not rigged, 36 …

The Daily Beast reports: In an interview with The Atlantic’s John Hendrickson, [former Rep. Dennis] Kucinich said calling RFK Jr. anti-vax is “a left-handed smear” and “a clipped assessment that has been used for political purposes by the adherents of the pharmaceutical industry who want to engage in a sort of absurd reductionism.” Instead, he suggested, Kennedy Jr. stands for …

Via press release from Robert Kennedy Jr: Mr. Kennedy will meet with leading critics of prevailing health policy including Dr. Joe Mercola, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, Dr. Pierre Kory, Dr. Patrick Gentempo, Maureen McDonnell, Del Bigtree, Mikki Willis, Sayer Ji and others. Anticipate a lively give-and-take involving topics rarely addressed in mainstream policy conversations. Mr. Kennedy is known for his controversial …

“He knows what he’s talking about even if he’s somebody who at the end of the day you’re not entirely convinced of all of his views. About which politician could you say that? That you’re convinced of all of his views? That the politician is bereft of any conspiracies and the like? He’s not actually running for president on the …