Crackpots

Mediaite reports: “This is the quote, ‘Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake who has attacked drag queens as dangerous to children attended the shows of drag queen Richard Stephens for 20 years and once hired him to perform at her home,’ Do you care to address that?” asked Fox host Brett Baier. “I do care. I actually do care to …

“I have a theory about this, and I could just imagine Media Matters writing it up and that’s fine. I believe it’s not a perfect correlation and not a perfect connection, but I think it’s a 90% rule. “The more you drive, the more conservative you are, just look at the truckers. I think that driving requires a form of …

“Vice president Mike Pence, he thinks he can be president of the United States. According to the reporting, he is taking a good hard look at running. He is opened to running in 2024 against Trump. “Now, I think that’s a terrible idea. Number one, he’s not nimble enough, he’s not decisive enough, he’s too wooden, he’s not imaginative. “He’s …

Raw Story reports: On Monday’s Conservative Daily podcast, Lindell said that he would present new evidence of fraud in August to finally convince Americans the 2020 election was stolen. “What’s going to happen is everyone is going to go wow!” he said. “This really happened.” “A lot of states have four-year statute of limitations,” he added. “So yes, all that …

The Arkansas Times reports: An audio recording from a recent Moms for Liberty meeting in Cabot captures a group member musing about gunning down a school librarian over tension about what books are appropriate for young readers. The person who captured that audio at a June 9 meeting at Crossroads Cafe in Cabot asked to remain anonymous. The person said …

Oklahoma City’s ABC News affiliate reports: Police took a person into custody after climbing the side of the Devon Tower on Tuesday. The person reached the top of the Devon Tower around 9:40 a.m. and got to a platform on the roof of Oklahoma’s tallest building. Police then took the person into custody. The person who climbed the 50-story tower …

The Christian Post reports: Declaring their testimonies of how Jesus has transformed their lives, formerly LGBT-identified young men and women gathered in Washington, D.C., Saturday for the Freedom March. Gathered next to the Washington Monument for what has become an annual event in the nation’s capital, the hosts of the march continue to see the Holy Spirit doing remarkable work …

Jacksonville’s ABC News affiliate reports: Over 1,000 boats paraded up the St. Johns River on Saturday in a “DeSantis Flotilla.” The event organized by the Republican Party of Duval County was dubbed the “World’s First DeSantis Flotilla.” Organizers said at least 1,300 boats had registered for the event in support of Gov. Ron DeSantis. The organizers said the idea was …

Vice News reports: It’s been 220 days since more than 1,000 people traveled from across the U.S. to Dallas at the behest of Michael Protzman, a QAnon influencer known as Negative 48, who promised his followers that John F. Kennedy would reappear at Dealey Plaza. JFK didn’t reappear, of course, but the QAnon cult is now returning to Texas. More …

“Of course I would be honored to speak to them and tell them they’re wrong. Honored. It would be one of the highlights of my life to talk to these grieving people and tell them. “Their reactions, though completely understandable, will do nothing to prevent other kids and other parents from the same suffering. “It  would be my honor to …

The Hill reports: Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says that the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was the final straw for her in standing by former President Trump, confirming that she was open to using the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. DeVos, who writes in a new book about turning in her resignation letter to …

Media Matters has the transcript: DENNIS PRAGER (HOST): Reflecting on the story of the five members of the major league baseball team, the Tampa Bay Rays, who — the only ones in baseball, apparently, of what I assume are 750 players — who refused to wear the LGBTQI+ patches and hats during this LGBTQIA+ month, Pride Month. CALLER: I am …

Mediaite reports: Greg Kelly said he “called Dallas police” after he saw a video of children attending a show featuring drag queens. He tweeted a recording of a message he said he left. The Newsmax host’s call was prompted by a drag show at a Dallas bar that promoted a “family-friendly” atmosphere on Saturday as part of a “drag the …

“When he [Biden] suggests that more children are dying by gun than on-duty police officers, maybe one of the reasons for that is because — you know, I spot a couple of differentiators. “One of them is that on-duty police officers carry guns, kids cannot carry guns nor should they, obviously. “But, the point is that people who are protected …

Ben Shapiro writes for his Daily Wire: June marks LGBTQI+ Pride Month — a month honoring those who are “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex.” This ever-expanding rubric revolves around a particular value system entirely embraced by the modern Left: the notion that a person’s core identity ought to lie not in the relationship between individual desires and societal …

Salon reports: “Growing Pains” star Kirk Cameron is making it clear that he’s not a fan of America’s public schools, echoing many far-right talking points when it comes to the dangers of teaching about equality, spinning it as dangerous indoctrination. “The problem is that public school systems have become so bad. It’s sad to say they’re doing more for grooming, …

The New York Times reports: Sarah Palin lost her bid for a new trial in her libel case against The New York Times on Tuesday, with a judge ruling that she had failed to introduce “even a speck” of evidence necessary to prove the newspaper had defamed her in a 2017 editorial. The written decision by Judge Jed S. Rakoff …

“If you open the dictionary to ‘virtue signaling’ you would see that image right there. That is just ridiculous on so many levels. And, I mean, I don’t know what Ukraine has to do with sexuality. “If the LGBTQ+ crew is trying to indicate that supporting Ukraine is gay, I might be in agreement with them there. Just kidding! Just …

Know Your Meme reports: As the US mourns the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde and grows increasingly angry at the local police officers who reportedly failed to help the kids inside despite their calls to 911, commentators have frustrated political opponents by floating solutions to help avoid school shootings in the future, such as homeschooling kids and remodeling …

Newsweek reports: Mark Sherwood, an alternative medicine practitioner and former police officer, said on Thursday that he hopes to push a total abortion ban through the Oklahoma state legislature if he is elected. Sherwood, who was adopted, told Real America’s Voice host David Brody on a Thursday segment for The Water Cooler that his birth mother had likely been raped …