Crackpots

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 …

Mediaite reports: After President Donald Trump praised a QAnon acolyte on winning a House primary election in Georgia, a Republican congressman emphatically condemned the wacky conspiracy theory group on Wednesday. Kinzinger was almost certainly referring to Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Republican candidate for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, who Trump congratulated earlier in the day as “a real WINNER” and “future …

The Hill reports: Equity Prime Mortgage (EPM) filed a defamation lawsuit against the campaign of GOP congressional candidate Marjorie Taylor Greene and Melissa Rolfe, the stepmother of Garrett Rolfe, the former Atlanta police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks. EPM fired Melissa Rolfe, who was their human resources director, on June 18 after she “violated company policy and created an …

Media Matters has the transcript: SILK: It’s a sad day in America when you have to pick somebody as vice president based off of affirmative action. VINCE COGLIANESE (HOST): Diamond & Silk you know a lot about having a productive partnership and actually doing something good with it. If — if, Silk, if Diamond accused you of being a racist …

Law & Crime reports: Conservative attorney Larry Klayman filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing “rabidly anti-Trump” CNN of defaming him in order to defame his client Dr. Judy Mikovits by association—and to “protect” Dr. Anthony Fauci. Klayman alleges that, in the initial article, Oliver Darcy defamed him by writing, “Larry Klayman, a right-wing lawyer, (who) has a history of pushing …

First a reminder from two weeks ago: Instagram flagged Madonna’s post on Tuesday after she shared the viral video of Dr. Stella Immanuel, a physician who champions hydroxychloroquine as a cure for coronavirus and believes masks don’t help to reduce transmission, on her social media page. Madonna captioned the video, “The Truth will set us all Free! But some people …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: End Times conspiracy theorist Rick Wiles was broadcasting his “TruNews” program last night at the same time was President Donald Trump was pulled away from a press conference by a Secret Service agent after an officer shot a man who claimed to have a weapon near with White House. Wiles, a virulent anti-Semite, …