Crackpots

Daily Kos reports: Before you read this tweet, recall that this woman is a highly influential pundit and a rising young star in the conservative movement. She’s one of their best and brightest. And yet she appears to be two sniffs of airplane glue and a grilled cheese Jesus away from being Michele Bachmann. You don’t need me to tell …

“The stated goal is to depopulate the planet and the ones that are left, either make them chronically sick or turn them into transhumanist cyborgs that can be manipulated externally by 5G, by magnets, by all sorts of things. “I got dragged through the mud by the mainstream media when I said that in May of last year in front …

Media Matters has the transcript: CANDACE OWENS (GUEST): Oh, I’m just so glad. I’m so glad they’re doing this. Let me just tell you, Jesse. It goes back to, like when they did this to the M&M’s and now they’re making her more masculine and I’m glad that they’re now saying — realizing that this needs to be addressed. You …

“The black and white thing is so strange because the shades are such a spectrum of shades of people. Unless you are talking to someone who is, like, 100% African from the darkest place, where they are not wearing any clothes all day and they have developed all of that melanin to protect themselves from the sun, even the term …

Mediaite reports: Candace Owens claimed the White House and President Joe Biden are hoping for mass deaths on Tuesday following a decision by the FDA to restrict the use of monoclonal antibody treatments amid the Omicron surge, citing their apparent lack of efficacy against the dominant variant. As a result of the FDA decision, the Florida Department of Health announced …

NBC News reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized Tuesday after critics, including members of his own family, blasted him for implying Anne Frank had more freedom in hiding from the Nazis than people have today under U.S. vaccine policies. “I apologize for my reference to Anne Frank, especially to families that suffered the Holocaust horrors,” he tweeted. “My intention was …

Law & Crime reports: The Pennsylvania pizzeria owner who was caught on video ordering police to “bring Nancy Pelosi out” to the crowd of Donald Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 has lost her bid to reverse a judge’s ruling that she be detained pending trial. Pauline Bauer, 54, had asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for …

The Daily Beast reports: Anti-Muslim bigot and perpetual Republican Florida congressional candidate Laura Loomer ambushed the National Republican Congressional Committee and Republican leader Kevin McCarthy at a Saturday morning retreat in Miami. “During a staff NRCC briefing for donors, Laura Loomer stood up and asked why the party committee isn’t trying to defeat Liz Cheney and the others who voted …

In Depth NH reports: New Hampshire could be its own sovereign nation under a Constitutional Amendment proposed by state Rep. Mike Sylvia, R-Belmont, and now making its way through the halls of Concord, and if successful, to the ballot box. Sylvia offered the measure Thursday for the state to peacefully secede from the United States. To get it past the …

“What you’re seeing is an insidious transfer of power. The same people that demand removal, say of the Pledge of Allegiance, embraces this kind of progressive propaganda as a replacement. “So, in that framing, you see that they don’t want children paying respect to the country, they want the children to pay respect to an ideology that sees that the …

The Independent reports: Last weekend, when Donald Trump appeared at his first rally of 2022 in Arizona, some QAnon adherents suggested it wasn’t really him but perhaps a double – and perhaps even JFK Jr himself disguised as the former president. With continued speculation that the deceased Kennedy is still alive, a viral video that emerged last year has even …

Politico reports: Ray Epps, the former Arizona Oath Keeper at the center of pro-Trump conspiracy theories related to Jan. 6., intends to sit for a transcribed interview Friday with the select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol, his attorney said in a phone interview. Epps, who has become the centerpiece of an unsupported GOP claim that the FBI incited …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: The traveling cavalcade of various election, COVID-19, and QAnon conspiracy theorists who have been gathering in churches around the country every month for the last year as part of The ReAwaken America Tour stopped in Phoenix, Arizona, last weekend. Among the speakers at the latest stop was Latinos For Trump President Bianca Garcia, …

The Daily Beast reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has hired former Newsmax White House correspondent Emerald Robinson, who was sidelined by the ultra-conservative cable network after pushing bonkers COVID-19 conspiracy theories. On Monday evening, the pillow executive told The Daily Beast that his web-based “Frank Speech” live-streaming platform had hired Robinson. Late last year, the ex-Newsmax personality baselessly tweeted that …

The Christian Post reports: Popular Pastor Michael Todd of Transformation Church in Bixby, Oklahoma, drew the wrath of the internet and became a trending topic on Twitter as a clip from his message on vision Sunday showed him wiping globs of spit on a congregant’s face even as the coronavirus pandemic rages. Before the demonstration, Todd detailed that as he …

Mediaite reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell rebuked Fox News on Saturday for not promoting 2020 election conspiracy theories. “They won’t talk about anything,” Lindell said. “When was the last time you’ve seen anybody on Fox talk about the 2020 election? You’re not going to see it.” Speaking at the Save America rally in Florence, AZ, Lindell argued that the biggest …

Law & Crime reports: The Arizona man who stormed the Capitol dressed in what he said was the garb of a figure from the Book of Mormon has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. “I’m representing Captain Moroni, Captain Moroni of the Book of Mormon,” Nathan Wayne Entrekin, 48, told another person, according to the statement of facts. “A William Wallace …

More performative “outrage” for the cultists: “If I said I was surprised here I’d be lying,” said Bongino of being suspended. “We knew it was just a matter of time before the tyrannical, free-speech hating, bullshit, big tech shithole you work for, would try to silence us. I anxiously waited for this moment however, as I’ve said on my show …

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a law passed last year that eliminated Connecticut’s long-standing religious exemption from childhood immunization requirements for schools, colleges and day care facilities, saying the state has an interest in protecting the health of Connecticut’s students. In a 33-page decision, U.S. District Court Judge Janet Bond Arterton said the …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Earlier this week, QAnon conspiracy theorist Ann Vandersteel posted an image of a document on her Gab account proudly announcing that she was “officially an American State National” and no longer had any legal obligations to the federal government. On Wednesday, Vandersteel appeared on “The Conservative Daily Podcast,” where she touted the supposed …