Crackpots

Let’s start with this reminder from 2021: A woman testifying at an Ohio Statehouse hearing made a failed attempt to get a key and a bobby pin to stick to her neck Tuesday, frustrating her attempt to prove a conspiracy theory that COVID-19 vaccines make people magnetic. The woman, who was identified as a nurse by the local news site …

QAnon “influencer” Utsava has new warning on 5G: The deep state has teamed up a taken over the wireless providers such as Verizon and they are hijacking the wireless technology 5G. It has been used as tool for surveillance, mind control, and tracking. People are getting harassed by all sorts of technology. For instance, they make people hear voices. So …

Axios reports: A conservative group is offering a new service that texts “Woke Alerts” straight to the phones of grocery shoppers who want to know which brands are accused of taking political positions that are offensive to the right. The plan marks an escalation by deep-pocketed conservatives to hit corporations where it hurts — their bottom line. The strategy by …

The New York Post reports: With his just-declared bid for the US presidency, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sees himself at the forefront of “a new revolution to resurrect American democracy” — but the anti-vaccination crusader will likely have his work cut out for him in convincing Democrats and even members of his own family to vote for him in 2024. …

“Elon Musk, who’s a traitor – not even an American – there’s another guy like Murdoch and like Soros, these guys, they get citizenship because they want to grift off the American people. Elon Musk is in China this weekend. They’re getting all their buddies, all their buddies over there because it’s a time to choose either on one side …

We last heard from ex-gay grifter Jeffrey McCall in June 2022 when he led another ex-gay “Freedom March” in Washington DC several months after a Facebook post in which he confessed to hooking up with multiple men. From that day’s Christian Post report: Declaring their testimonies of how Jesus has transformed their lives, formerly LGBT-identified young men and women gathered …

Vanity Fair reports: Owens’s husband reached out to the interior designer David Netto after the couple saw his work in one of their friends’ homes in Nashville. Farmer filled out the contact form on Netto’s website. “My husband wrote the most polite email because he’s always polite, he’s very English,” Owens told me. “We didn’t know if we could afford …

The Associated Press reports: Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and scion of one of the country’s most famous political families, is running for president. Kennedy filed a statement of candidacy Wednesday with the FEC. The 69-year-old’s campaign to challenge incumbent President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination is a long shot. Self-help author Marianne Williamson is also …

“I don’t think I could get this case dismissed so easily. I don’t think that if you had the best lawyers in the history of the world, Abraham Lincoln and John Marshall, a New York City judge, would dismiss this case because that New York City judge’s life would be over. “Everybody would point to him the way they pointed …

“I actually even think we’re even more divided, in some ways, than we even were leading into the American Civil War. At least it was a Christian country back then, now we have different metaphysics and we have all sorts of different types of views. “But we have some things working in our favor which is the great hope is …

“New York is now the likes of Will Smith, I am Legend. It’s a zombie apocalypse. People are running around. They’re afraid to go on the subways, afraid to walk to school or go to work, get on the busses because it’s rampant with crime. “It’s filthy and disgusting. There’s no quality of life. And this guy just lights a …

“The gun control narrative is ridiculous in the sense that this person legally obtained the guns. I’m unaware what law would — would be passed that would’ve prevented this person from obtaining the guns. I’m perfectly fine with banning people who suffer from gender dysphoria from purchasing weapons. That seems to me a pretty significant symptom of an underlying mental …

“Looking at the data, looking at recent history, it would seem that transgender is, potentially, more of a threat if applied recklessly than, say, white supremacy. Okay? We have actual documented episodes where we don’t have them from white supremacists over the past recent history. Look, let me ask you this – what’s the motivation here?  Why the emphasis all …

Media Matters reports: A QAnon influencer who was reinstated on Twitter by Elon Musk caused a baseless conspiracy theory linking Huggies diapers and pedophilia to gain traction online, forcing the diaper company to publicly rebut it. It is yet another case of Musk’s decision-making with Twitter harming the platform’s user base. The QAnon influencer known online as “Vincent Kennedy” was …

“We are fighting a spiritual battle and they are coming at us in all facets. When it is drag queens being shown to our children at three years of age and people think it’s cute or they are just trying to make them grow up and not hate drag queens, it’s a deeper battle than that. “It’s an access – …

TMZ reports: Kanye West says he’s done a 180 on his views about Jewish people and is no longer an antisemite — thanks to actor Jonah Hill. The rapper took to Instagram Friday night to announce that he was watching the 2012 film, “21 Jump Street,” starring Hill and Channing Tatum, when he had his epiphany about the Jewish race. …

The Arizona Republic reports: Arizona’s top court has declined to hear Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s challenge to her election loss, but kept the case alive by sending one of Lake’s claims back to a county judge to review. The former television news anchor made seven legal claims in her case. Those included claims that tens of thousands of ballots …

The Kansas City Star reports: Following claims from a Missouri pastor that prayer regrew a woman’s amputated toes, a new website is asking for proof. Without showing photo or video evidence, James River Church pastor John Lindell told his congregation a “creative miracle” took place involving a woman named Krissy Thompson. Video from the conference has been removed from the …

Media Matters has the transcript: Daniel Miller (President, Texas Nationalist Movement): Well, look, I’ve been advocating for the independence of Texas since 1996. It made sense then. It makes even more sense now. And it’s simply this. Texans are sick and tired of living under 180, 180,000 pages of federal laws, rules, and regulations administered by two and a half …

Mediaite reports: Christina Bobb, the former OAN host who is one of the more visible faces of former President Donald Trump’s oddball legal team, went on an online show connected to the QAnon conspiracy theory and was asked if she thought President Joe Biden was a clone. Replied Bobb: “You know, I’ve heard that, and I’ve just gotta say, if …