Crackpots

Hemant Mehta reports at The Friendly Atheist: When Florida held its primaries on Tuesday, one of the night’s biggest losers was State Rep. Kim Daniels, a Democrat who has been a functional Republican in the legislature. She has ranted against witches, pushed for “In God We Trust” signs to be placed in public schools, thanked God for slavery, claimed to …

The Casper Star-Tribune reports: Laramie County law enforcement was called to polling places and the county clerk there fielded more than a half-dozen reports Tuesday of staffers for Kanye West and another independent candidate acting aggressively and apparently violating state law at nearly every polling location in the capital county. The Laramie County clerk said that there were repeated reports …

Jennifer LeClaire writes for Charisma News: The Holy Spirit is grieved with the level of prophetic witchcraft in the body of Christ. Although the true prophetic movement is bringing encouragement, warning, healing and edification to the church, prophetic witchcraft sets out to deceive for the sake of platform or a paycheck. While discussing the current state of the movement I …

The Christian Post reports: Trinity Broadcasting Network said it will no longer air shows from controversial televangelist Kenneth Copeland starting in October as part of a series of upcoming programming changes at the international Christian television network. Kenneth Copeland Ministries and TBN have had a business relationship for some 40 years, with the network airing Copeland’s “Believer’s Voice of Victory.” …

TMZ reports: This anti-masker has found his hill to die on and it’s inside a Marshalls. Check out this video from the discount department store in Campbell, CA. The guy is shopping without a face covering, and he throws a fit when employees ask him to leave and launches into a homophobic rant. The man in the video, who some …

Media Matters reports: Republican congressional candidate and right-wing pundit Marjorie Taylor Greene is a bigot both on and offline. In February 2019, she visited Capitol Hill — her likely future place of employment — and filmed herself unsuccessfully trying to interrogate Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI). During the video, she falsely claimed that they’re illegitimate members of …

The Verge reports: Children’s Health Defense, a group founded by anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is suing Facebook and its fact-checking partners for rejecting ads and labeling debunked claims about vaccines and 5G networks. The complaint against Facebook, its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and the fact-checking organizations PolitiFact, Science Feedback, and Poynter Institute is legally shaky. But it marks an …

The New York Post reports: Jesus Toks. Controversial rapper and presidential candidate Kanye West has devised a way to make TikTok less of a cesspool for sin — by creating a child-friendly, Christian version of the video app. “A vision just came to me… Jesus Tok,” Tweeted the 43-year-old rapper Monday.  Yeezy pledged in a subsequent Tweet that he would …

The Associated Press reports: Rapper Kanye West has qualified to appear on Utah’s ballot this November as an unaffiliated presidential candidate, an elections official said Monday. State Elections Director Justin Lee said his office has verified that West’s campaign gathered the necessary 1,000 signatures from registered voters required to appear on the ballot. His campaign filed paperwork on July 15 …

“My biggest concern all along was this dream that I had. I was in an elevator with her, and I was in an elevator going up, and I knew there was a Jezebel spirit. This was before she ran for the primaries for president, so I knew all along that she was going to be the one that the devil …

The Christian Post reports: The 51st annual Gospel Music Association Dove Awards announced its 2020 nominees which include mainstream artist Kanye West and crossover artists Lauren Daigle. Leading the nominees with five nominations each are for King & Country and Zach Williams. Lauren Daigle, Kirk Franklin, Hillsong Worship, and Jonathan McReynolds follow with four nominations each. Kanye West is nominated …

“They need to start breaking the bond that we have with each other. And they can do that by making us wear a mask. By telling us to stay at least six feet away from another human being. Because we don’t want to get too close, because they could be bad for us. “See, this is all about de-socialization. Love …

From the editorial board of the National Review: Party leaders can’t stop Greene from being elected in a district that routinely backs Republicans over Democrats by a 3-1 margin, but congressional Republicans would be wise to follow the lead of Illinois Republican Adam Kinzinger in repudiating Greene. House Republicans should go further and deny Greene committee assignments when she arrives …

Blog Toronto reports: The story of how two blood-covered, chainsaw-wielding men came to terrorize the public at Toronto’s Cherry Beach on Sunday morning just keeps on getting weirder as witnesses come forward with additional details. Members of the anti-lockdown group MAD (Mothers Against Distancing) say that the two men wielding chainsaws destroyed roughly $4,000 worth of DJ equipment that had …

Media Matters reports: Republican-backed congressional candidate and right-wing commentator Marjorie Taylor Greene is both a QAnon supporter and a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. In previously unreported remarks, Greene discussed the September 11 attacks and said that there was “the so-called plane that crashed into the Pentagon. It’s odd there’s never any evidence shown for a plane in the Pentagon.” She also …

“I have no idea what the stats they’re looking at, but I sincerely think that they are actually looking to make sure they can mandate a peak and a spike in COVID cases in the fall so they can shut everything down again. That is my honest belief. “That if they open up gyms they know that everybody’s going to …

Via email from right wing columnist Erick Erickson: First, God does not make mistakes. Second, God made things perfect in the garden and our sin is what polluted things. Both same-sex sexual orientation and transgenderism are products of sin, not God’s plan for creation. We are essentially at a sexual tower of Babel. God created us male and female and …

The Hill reports: A campaign spokesperson for President Trump took aim at a GOP congressman on Wednesday after the lawmaker dismissed the QAnon conspiracy theory in a Twitter post. Matt Wolking [photo], deputy communications director for Trump’s reelection campaign, called on Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) to publicly reject the credibility of the dossier authored by former British intelligence agent Christopher …

The Austin Statesman reports: Maskless and with a bullhorn in hand, Austin-based conspiracy theorist Alex Jones stood outside a Barton Creek greenbelt entrance and yelled at trail goers and park employees over the city’s reservation system, which he called an “illegal power grab of the people’s greenbelt.” In a widely circulated video Jones posted, the host of the website InfoWars …

The Christian Post reports: The “Joel Osteen Inspiration Cube,” an electronic device that plays daily affirmation, inspirations, and brief sermon clips from the senior pastor of the 40,000-member Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, has hit the market. According to the “Joel Osteen Inspiration Cube” website, the cube is $39.99 and includes 365 daily inspirations, 52 sermons, and 31 affirmations that …