Crackpots

Reuters reports: Alex Jones filed for bankruptcy on Friday, less than two months after a jury ordered him and the parent of his Infowars website to pay nearly $1 billion in compensatory damages to relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting. Jones filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors with the U.S. bankruptcy court in Houston, a …

Raw Story reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said one of his first actions if he becomes chair of the Republican National Committee will be to fire all the lawyers who did not try to overturn the 2020 presidential election. During an interview on Thursday, radio host John Fredericks asked the Trump-supporting pillow monger what “vision” he would bring to the …

Daniel Horowitz: “You now have 21% of Gen Z according to Gallup, identifying as one of the alphabet soup stuff that can’t procreate or won’t procreate. That ain’t natural and that ain’t good.” Glenn Beck: “This is why China reversed their one-child policy. You cannot sustain anything at this level without procreation. We also see just, there was a study …

“Somebody said, ‘Kari, you’re fearless.’ And I said, ‘You know, I guess I’m fearless right now in this difficult time because what I fear most of all is what happens if we don’t step forward and act with courage.’ Right now, what we’re left with, we will have a shell of our country. “We look at what’s happening in Brazil …

Media Matters has the transcript: Republican cowardice is one reason the left keeps winning the social battles, despite the fact that the population is not all in on everything the social left wishes. Now, the polls show that there is widespread support for same-sex marriage. What there is not widespread support for is the idea that you as a religious …

The Daily Beast reports: The artist now known as Ye stormed out of a sit-down with the reactionary social-media performer Tim Pool, after the host lightly pushed back on Ye’s meandering, paranoid, and yet largely uninterrupted antisemitic rant that opened the show. During a brief pause in his near-monologue, Pool told Ye, “I think they’ve been extremely unfair to you.” …

“Women need men, and men need women. We need each other. And if you understand nature, you understand there is not a war between the sexes. We need to make love, not war. And you need to stop chopping your hair off and calling us ‘toxic.’ We are on a mission — yes, we peacock, but we peacock for your …

Newsweek reports: There was confrontation in Arizona on Friday after a man turned up at a rally of Kari Lake supporters with a Confederate flag and refused to leave. Around 30 Lake backers gathered in Phoenix, outside the Arizona State Capitol, demanding a rerun of the state’s gubernatorial election. Her supporters organized a protest outside the state capitol at 9 …

Newsweek reports: In an appearance on his “Frank TV” livestream this week, the MyPillow CEO asked fans whether they would support him pursuing a bid against the sitting RNC chairwoman, whom he has previously criticized for her lack of effort to overturn the results of a 2020 election Lindell baselessly claims was rigged against Trump. They overwhelmingly did and he …

CTV News reports: In her address to Albertans on Tuesday, Premier Danielle Smith admitted she is “far from perfect” and said she can “make mistakes” – though she hasn’t yet said which mistakes or positions she was referring to. “Having spent decades in media and hosting talk shows I discussed hundreds of different topics and sometimes took controversial positions, many …

The Insider reports: Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, says he asked former President Donald Trump to be his running mate during the 2024 presidential race. “First time at Mar-a-Lago Rain and traffic,” Ye tweeted late Tuesday night. “Can’t believe I kept President Trump waiting And I had on jeans Yikes What you guys think his response was …

Peter Montgomery reports at Right Wing Watch: Businessman Mike Lindell — aka the MyPillow Guy — poured tens of millions of dollars into spectacularly failed efforts to prove that the 2020 election was stolen from​ former President Donald Trump by fraudulent election machines, while portraying his efforts as a spiritual crusade. The election conspiracy theorist is still at it. A …

“The central ideas of America are timeless — limited government, expanded set of freedoms, protecting the capacity of people to practice their faith. The very things I spoke about tonight — making sure we don’t teach our kids crap in schools, which we are at the center of doing. “I get asked ‘Who’s the most dangerous person in the world? …

The CBC reports: A First Nations leader in Alberta is questioning Premier Danielle Smith’s claim of Indigenous heritage. Smith has said she has some Cherokee roots and years ago declared herself as a person of mixed race. A story this week by the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network looked into Smith’s family tree and found no evidence of the premier being …

The New York Post reports: Kanye West said he’s planning a 2024 presidential run and has tapped far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos in a video posted to Twitter Sunday. The video, in which West says Yiannopoulos is working on his campaign, comes as the rapper’s Twitter account was restored after he was banned from the app in the wake of vile, …

Axios reports: The Daily Wire, a conservative media and entertainment company, says it now has more than 1 million paid subscribers to its streaming service DailyWire+. The company has been positioning DailyWire+ as a conservative alternative to mainstream entertainment companies, particularly Disney. In March, Daily Wire execs said the company was planning a significant push into kids entertainment in response …

“The thing that’s really amazing to me is that it is now, apparently, the law of the land and societal rule that the only rationale that you could possibly have for saying that a marriage is between a man and a woman is because you’re a Christian, or a Jew, or a Muslim. “That’s really the only reason at all. …

Vice News reports: Anti-vaxxers are trying to create a new global infrastructure for the supply of unvaccinated blood, driven by conspiracy theories and pseudoscientific beliefs about the dangers of mRNA COVID vaccines. SafeBlood Donation was founded by a Swiss naturopath, George Della Pietra. He and his supporters believe, wrongly, that mRNA coronavirus vaccines “contaminate” the blood and destroy the immune …

“If you vote in favor of the idea that society has an obligation to recognize male-male or female-female dyads, in the same way that society has an obligation to recognize male, female, you should not be in the Republican party.  “You shouldn’t, okay? The reason I say this is not because I wish to shrink the size of the Republican …

“The corporate gay pride stuff is just sheep’s blood on the door signaling that they are the chosen people so the angel of cancellation passes them over. “But as far as symbolism goes, I think it is appropriate that they should change the colors of the American flag with the colors of the LGBT flag. “I mean, it’s horrendous, it’s …