Crackpots

USA Today reports: On Christmas Day, Elon Musk turned heads with a decadent photo by his tree. Dressed head-to-toe in a Santa costume, he captioned his photo “Ozempic Santa,” flaunting a slimmer figure. His pro-Ozempic post may clash with other potential members of the Trump administration, particularly Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy has taken a strong anti-Ozempic stance in his …

Marianne Williamson writes on her Substack: This year’s election of a DNC Chair feels different than in past years. Before now, the party had faced defeats to be sure. But our playbook still basically worked. The waters were turbulent at times, but our ship was steady. This year, the party faces a more critical problem than we have ever faced …

Raw Story reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) argued that 2024 would end with the last Christmas “under Democrat communist control.” In a Christmas Eve message on her official government X account, Greene wished her followers a happy holiday. “Merry Christmas Eve everyone!!” she exclaimed. “It’s the last Christmas under Democrat Communist control. Freedom is coming!” Greene added. Read the …

NBC News reports: Del Bigtree, a leading voice in the anti-vaccine movement, brought in a record windfall last year for the nonprofit group he founded, according to the latest tax filings. The Informed Consent Action Network, known as ICAN, reported $23 million in revenue for 2023, a 74% increase from the previous year. The group spent nearly $17 million on …

“With the exception of [Fox News reporter] Peter Doocy, I would ban everyone from the White House press room who has been there for the past four years because they are obviously of no use to the country. “They didn’t tell us the number one thing, which is that Biden is not competent. Why in the world would Trump let …

Former Rep. Loony Louie Gohmert writes: From where have the drones come? What is their purpose? Is it possible the U.S. Government would lie to the American people? The answer to the first two questions is that we in the public cannot be sure, nor can Congress. The answer to the third is an unqualified “Yes!” Whether they come from …

The Daily Beast reports: Comedian Roseanne Barr stepped off the deep end by connecting the [drone] sightings to a conspiracy championed by Infowars founder Alex Jones called “Project Blue Beam.” The decades-old conspiracy posits that the government will stage a fake alien invasion as a way to create mass panic and institute authoritarian controls over society. Jones and others have …

The Hill reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be seeking to ease any skepticism over his confirmation this week as he begins meetings with Senate Republicans over his nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). While Kennedy was considered one of the most controversial choices initially, there has been little public criticism from Senate Republicans. GOP …

The Washington Post reports: The world’s most respected infectious-disease agency needed a new leader. Anti-vaccine activists knew just the man: Dave Weldon, a Florida physician and former seven-term Republican congressman who had for years expressed concerns about the safety of vaccines. A Washington Post review of Weldon’s public comments, media appearances and congressional letters along with accounts of those who …

NBC News reports: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., a polio survivor, responded critically to a report in The New York Times that a key lawyer and longtime advisor to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to revoke the approval of the polio vaccine. McConnell, who still deals with the effects of his battle with …

“I’m going to call it total bullshit that no one knows what these are. They can track down a guy that just killed a CEO, but they can’t identify what these nightly drones are and where they’re coming from. I think the Pentagon absolutely knows, but they’re full of crap. “Secondly, if they’re telling the truth, then this country is …

Florida Politics reports: Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo continues to speak out against fluoride in the water supply, saying it’s “clearly something that was far riskier than how it was presented” by advocates of the practice. “It really is insane to keep on doing it,” Ladapo said. “You just can’t justify it.” During a recent interview on the CR Podcast with …

Axios reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. believes the CIA had a role in assassinating his uncle, President John F. Kennedy — part of RFK Jr.’s motivation for pushing his daughter-in-law, Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, for deputy CIA director, Axios has learned. President-elect Trump feels indebted to RFK Jr., his pick for secretary of Health and Human Services, for his help in …

The Daily Beast reports: A cavalcade of supporting characters in the MAGA universe, and President-elect Donald Trump, showed up at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday to attend a soirée for the conspiratorial, QAnon-adjacent conservative non-profit America’s Future. Mel Gibson, the traditionalist Catholic actor/director, told the crowd, “I got nine kids, if one of them got stolen or trafficked, I’d have to kill …

NOTUS reports: Do cell phones and 5G cause cancer? It’s a question that has plagued Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and if Kennedy is confirmed as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, it’s one he will have power to explore. “The next-generation telecommunications network should be discontinued until it has been ‘sufficiently demonstrated that there are no …

Raw Story reports: New reporting flagged what it called an “unusual” application to work for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in which applicants are asked a slew of bizarre questions, including a pattern completion test and even whether they have an interest in having “sexual experiences with another person.” Brian Hughes, a spokesman for the Trump transition team, confirmed to Puck …

“Chaos has broken out in France. Another French government has now fallen after the National Assembly approved a no confidence vote. And this is not a giant shock. The French National Assembly has been split among a wide variety of parties for a while now. “Emmanuel Macron’s party — he’s the president of France — the prime minister, his role …

The New York Times reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is in line to lead the Department of Health and Human Services in the next Trump administration, is well-known for promoting conspiracy theories and vaccine skepticism in the United States. But Mr. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer, has also spent years working abroad to undermine policies that have been pillars of …

The Hill reports: Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the FDA during President-elect Trump’s first term, expressed concerns with his pick of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Humans Services due to his anti-vaccine advocacy. “I think if RFK follows through on his intentions, and I believe he will, and I believe he can, it …

From a Washington Post op-ed: It is certainly possible that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be Health and Human Services secretary, will move to restrict vaccine access. A likely first target is the coronavirus vaccine. Kennedy could instruct the CDC to remove the shot from its recommended list of vaccines, which would mean insurers no longer …