Crackpots

Business Insider reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell on Wednesday disclosed new details about a social-media site that he planned to launch in the next three weeks. In an interview with Insider, Lindell said he would call the site Vocl, and he described it as a cross between Twitter and YouTube. “It’s not like anything you’ve ever seen,” he said Wednesday. …

“It should be a choice. It’s freedom. Having these two classes of citizens. Basically the ones who have taken the vaccine and then the supposed bad people that haven’t taken the vaccine. I would be among that classification of citizens. “Myself, probably you, and many others, we feel healthy enough to trust our own immune systems to survive COVID. I …

Media Matters has the transcript: Meanwhile, in China, where the coronavirus originated, a top adviser to the Chinese government declared that the country was experiencing a very different kind of threat, a more profound threat. The problem he said, was a national masculinity crisis. Chinese boys, quote, have been spoiled by housewives and female teachers, and they were becoming as …

CNBC reports: Piers Morgan is leaving ITV’s “Good Morning Britain” morning show after facing backlash for comments he made about Meghan Markle on Monday. The news comes shortly after U.K. broadcasting regulator Ofcom said it was investigating Morgan after more than 41,000 people complained. “Following discussions with ITV, Piers Morgan has decided now is the time to leave Good Morning …

“We’re also going to work in heaven! Now that may sound more like hell to some people — you know, working in heaven?! But remember: God created us to be workers. “Work was a gift from God before the fall of Adam and Eve. God meant for us to find fulfillment in our work. He’s a worker; he created us …

Mediaite reports: MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has a message for those who took part in the (imaginary) theft of the 2020 election: contact him, and you might be able to get a reduced prison sentence. During an appearance on Charlie Kirk’s podcast Friday, Lindell also shared he will have his own social media platform up and running that would be …

Newsweek reports: Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado on Saturday night accused Democrats of being “obsessed with conspiracy theories” as she railed against Capitol security measures enforced in the aftermath of the insurrection on January 6. Speaking on Fox News’ Justice With Judge Jeanine, Boebert told host Jeanine Pirro that Capitol security measures should be relaxed because she believes that …

“Again, it’s not about COVID. If it was, they would want our border closed down. Because they need you silenced, ostracized, demoralized, as they import new voters to offset and eventually replace all you — you old people, you traditionalists, all of you guys who know your history still. “They want you replaced and they want cheap labor. And so …

The Colorado Times Recorder reports: Writing for Glenn Beck’s far-right website The Blaze, Boebert attacked Congressional Democrats’ proposed update to federal voting laws, called the For The People Act (H.R. 1), which among other reforms would implement many of Colorado’s “gold standard” election laws across the country. Despite having handily won an election conducted under these laws, Boebert accuses Democrats …

The Daily Beast reports: Former Birthday Party presidential contender Kanye West has not yet terminated his campaign, but he has disabled donations and removed merch from his website after receiving a notice from the Federal Election Commission and numerous complaints about extended shipping delays from some of his zoomer donors hopeful that their federal contribution would return a black-market payday. …

“Everybody’s gonna know about this, in spite of the media. We’re bringing it up, we got the case, it’s almost ready, and when we bring it in five, six weeks before the Supreme Court; now let me tell you, by the time it gets there, everyone’s gonna see, everyone’s gonna know it, including all nine of them justices. “This time …

The Associated Press reports: Police have made an arrest following a 15-month-long investigation into vandalism at a group of rock configurations in New Hampshire called “America’s Stonehenge.” Mark Russo, 51, of Swedesboro, New Jersey, has been charged with one count of felony criminal mischief, accused of defacing the stone in Salem in September 2019. A lawyer entered a not guilty …

Mediaite reports: Every time right-wing pundit Dinesh D’Souza says something dumb or horrific, people ask why he is still listed as a contributor on the National Review masthead. Well ask no more, because Dinesh D’Souza has been officially scrubbed from the conservative mag’s website. Thanks to the Wayback Machine’s archive, we can get some sense of when D’Souza was removed: …

Michael Brown writes for Charisma News: To the leadership of Bethany Christian Services, I make this heartfelt appeal as a fellow disciple of Jesus who also cares about the wellbeing of needy children. Please reconsider your decision to provide services for gay and lesbian couples wanting to adopt. Please ask yourselves again: Is this decision truly honoring to the Lord …

The Independent reports: Marjorie Taylor Greene opposed a resolution addressing voter suppression by claiming that Congressional members were suffering actual voter suppression because they had to walk through metal detectors and wait in lines to enter the chamber. “Mr Speaker I rise in opposition to HR 1. While we’re talking about voter suppression and long lines, I’d like to point …

“Lockdown libido occurs when everybody is shut down for too long. You know what they do? They gain weight. They get obese. You know what obesity does? Drives down testosterone and sperm counts. “You drink more alcohol. You know what alcohol does? It makes estrogen out of testosterone, your sperm counts drop. Smoking cigarettes, which everyone is doing more and …

“Right now I declare (TAP TAP TAP) and I call forth our president to take his rightful place. Trump, to come forth RIGHT now, step into your destiny that God gave you, called you, appointed you, and anointed you for this time. To declare over America. To help America. “This is HIS choice and we call you forth right now …

“We love president Trump, and I’ll tell you, I will confidently say that president Trump from his desk at Mar-a-Lago will accomplish more for America in the next four years than Joe Biden and Kamala Harris could ever dream of. “That is because we are not giving up. The Republican Party is being reborn thanks to president Trump. It is …

Vice News reports:  His speaker bio on the CPAC website notes that Hiroaki “Jay” Aeba is the chairman of the Japanese Conservative Union (JCU), a right-wing political organization, and that he helped found CPAC Japan, which has been running for the last four years in Tokyo. What isn’t mentioned is the central role Aeba plays in a Japanese cult called …

Mediaite reports: Fox & Friends is angry with MSNBC host Chris Hayes and believes everyone should be furious over his comparing gun-loving Republicans to Osama bin Laden. At issue? Hayes noticed a curious trend that many Republican politicians and officials tend to post videos or participate in teleconference calls with a number of guns prominently featured behind them. He then …