Crackpots

Los Angeles’s ABC News affiliate reports: Thousands gather outside Los Angeles City Hall Monday to protest the mandate for all city workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by Dec. 18. The vaccine requirements for city workers are meant to increase vaccination rates and stave off another deadly COVID-19 surge as the virus continues to circulate and the more-transmissible delta variant …

Axios reports: Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) told “Axios on HBO” he’ll make masculinity a signature political issue, because he claims “the left” is telling men: “You’re part of the problem. Your masculinity is inherently problematic.” “As conservatives, we’ve got to call men back to responsibility,” Hawley said. “We’ve got to say that spending your time not working, spending your time …

The Huffington Post reports: The pillow magnate who brought the idea of “martial law” to Donald Trump’s White House in the days after the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol and who later promised Trump’s “reinstatement” in August is now planning an election-fraud marathon over the busiest shopping days of the year. Lindell claims he will have “tons” of …

“They’ve taken my image and used my image to skewer Trump, to skewer Trump supporters, and definitely to skewer myself. I’m a big-time victim. “Like, I’ve gone through hell. They’ve gone through my phone. I was treated like a terrorist at the airport with eight TSAs searching me on the tarmac. “I cannot tell you how I’ve been treated, and …

The Insider reports: One of the leading proponents of COVID-19 misinformation and conspiracy theories described traveling, and seemingly boarding flights, while experiencing symptoms after “serious COVID exposure.” Dr. Sherri Tenpenny described symptoms matching those of COVID-19, and described struggling to breathe while walking through an airport. Her description of her illness came in a number of Instagram Live broadcasts in …

Canada’s Global News reports: Mak Parhar, the New Westminster man who gained online notoriety for his belief the earth is flat and outspoken denial that COVID-19 exists, has died. New Westminster police confirmed they were called to help paramedics at a home in the Sapperton neighbourhood Thursday morning, but arrived to find Parhar deceased. In a recent livestreamed video, Parhar …

Yahoo News reports: A Houston doctor received “corrective action” from the Texas Medical Board in October after prescribing hydroxychloroquine to a patient suffering from COVID-19 without warning them of the possible health complications. Immanuel told the Houston Chronicle that she had given the drug to “hundreds” of her patients. Immanuel must “adopt policies that require all consent documents to be …

“I’m a cloning expert with 35 years experience. And I was a consultant to the CDC. I’ve owned a pharmacy. I wanna tell you that this vaccine, this COVID vaccine is a deadly poison. That’s it. I’m just gonna tell you that. “Everybody that takes it is damaging their immune system and they’re talking about this being given to children …

“We have human beings that are the rulers of the blackness of this world. These are human beings that are in line with the devil. We have wickedness in high places. “These are the clones that are not human. Some of them are governors of [indecipherable] and some of them are presidents of different countries. “Some of the leaders like …

Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò writes to US bishops: The presence of graphene in the doses that have been administered, reported by numerous laboratories that have analyzed its content, suggests that the forced use of so-called vaccines – together with the systematic boycott of existing treatments of proven effectiveness – serves the purpose of contact-tracing all vaccinated human beings throughout the …

Media Matters has the transcript: CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): This is a guy who’s voting to approve the vaccine to be used on your children. “We’re never going to be able to learn about how safe the vaccine is until we start giving it. That’s the way it goes.” So this is the equivalent of Pelosi saying we have to pass …

Religion News Service reports: A conservative Catholic bishop in Texas praised a speech by actor Jim Caviezel this week, lauding remarks that included criticism of Pope Francis and were delivered at a conference connected to QAnon. Bishop Joseph Strickland, who heads the Diocese of Tyler and is known for his controversial brand of conservatism, tweeted out a link to a …

“What I love about this — they said, hey, if you just get Trump out, orange man bad, and you get Biden, you can start having holidays again without arguing at the table and at each other’s throats. “But Mike Lindell comes in, and he’s going to go the Wednesday, the eve of Thanksgiving, on a marathon, so you can …

“Very, very little people hate giants. Midgets hate giants — sorry for using the term ‘midget,’ not referring to people physically. Moral midgets hate moral giants. People who hate the Founders are moral midgets. Those were giants. “They founded a country and I’m not sure that we can keep it, as Benjamin Franklin said. It’s a republic if you can …

“The devil have power to give breath to the clones, to the images. We’re dealing with the number of the beast and the name of the beast. I don’t think the mark is right now. “The Moderna vaccine has luciferous (?), which is the name of the beast. Everything about this vaccine has 666, which is the number of the …

Mediaite reports: On Monday night, conservative pundit Erick Erickson tweeted out a flyer purporting to be part of The Real Cost, an anti-tobacco campaign developed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The top of flyer reads, “Pleasure yourself with Nicotine? Try masturbation instead!” The flyer further says, “Masturbation is a safe and healthy alternative to vaping as a solution …

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports: U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel was escorted out of a Butler County school board meeting Monday evening after school officials said he staged an event to “disrupt a public meeting.” Mandel, a Republican from the Cleveland area, is running in a crowded primary to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Rob Portman. He paints himself as a fighter …

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed Friday that his company’s move to Texas was, in part, inspired by a California lawmaker’s incendiary tweet to him. The tweet in question? “F—k Elon Musk,” from progressive California Assemblywoman Lorena S. Gonzalez. Musk’s confirmation came in response to a fawning Tesla blog post, claiming that “Musk selflessly tried to …

The Associated Press reports: At a time when the surgeon general says misinformation has become an urgent threat to public health, an investigation by The Associated Press found a vocal and influential group of chiropractors has been capitalizing on the pandemic by sowing fear and mistrust of vaccines. They have touted their supplements as alternatives to vaccines, written doctor’s notes …

Los Angeles’s NBC News affiliate reports: A man is suing a Palos Verdes Estates psychic for fraud, alleging the businesswoman falsely promised him she could help his marriage if he paid $5,100 to have her remove a curse put in place by the plaintiff’s ex-girlfriend. Mauro Restrepo’s Torrance Superior Court lawsuit names as defendants psychic Sophia Adams, and her business, …