Crackpots

Mediaite reports: Diamond and Silk’s latest remarks telling people to become “immune” by going “out in the environment” undermine the advice of President Donald Trump, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the CDC. Diamond & Silk are not employed by Fox News, but their content is licensed in the same manner that many television or streaming programs are underwritten by networks. Twitter …

The Christian Post reports: Declaring his authority over the weather and his ability to command it, prosperity preacher and televangelist Kenneth Copeland called forth a “supernatural heatwave” to kill the new coronavirus in New York City and “the rest of the world where it’s needed.” Speaking on the first day of his Virtual Victory Campaign on Facebook Live, the leader …

Salon reports: Roseanne Barr recently posited a wacky theory that the coronavirus pandemic is an effort to eliminate baby boomers like herself. “You know what it is, Norm? I think they’re just trying to get rid of all my generation,” Barr told Macdonald during the Sunday interview on his informal YouTube talk show “Quarantined with Norm Macdonald,” in which he …

“Jonathan Karl yesterday brought in a China-sympathetic reporter to that press briefing. That China reporter in there from Phoenix TV — that’s a Chinese-dominated company — Jonathan Karl of ABC, he runs the White House Correspondents’ Association, so he brought the reporter in there. And I don’t know if anybody noticed it, but little Doctor — Dr. Fauci, at the …

USA Today reports: An attack on cellphone towers in the UK over the weekend comes as conspiracy theory connecting 5G to the spread of coronavirus continue to gain momentum on social media. Four of Vodaphone’s towers were attacked in this past weekend. Three other telecommunications companies joined Vodafone in condemning the attack. “Please help us make this stop,’’ the companies …

“We are in a small window of time where we need to be decreeing, praying, believing, and speaking it out of our mouths – critical at this time – speaking out of our mouths and agreeing with what Donald Trump is saying and not some of his advisers. “I’m talking to you spiritually. I am not a scientist, I am …

“Once cooler heads prevail in the White House and in the CDC and they push the grandstander [Dr. Anthony] Fauci into a laboratory where he belongs. “I don’t think he’s seen a laboratory as long as I haven’t seen a laboratory. He’s a PR man, he’s a showman. He’s the P.T. Barnum of the COVID virus. Everywhere you turn there …

The Washington Post reports: Rudolph W. Giuliani, who was in the center of the impeachment storm earlier this year as an unpaid private attorney for President Trump, has cast himself in a new role: as personal science adviser to a president eager to find ways to short circuit the coronavirus epidemic. In one-on-one phone calls with Trump, Giuliani said, he …

Axios reports: Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday that President Trump’s comments about the federal government’s stockpile of medical equipment suggest he “does not understand the word ‘federal.'” White House adviser Jared Kushner argued at a press briefing last week that the “notion of the federal stockpile was it’s supposed to be our stockpile; …

Mediaite reports: Christian evangelist Franklin Graham used an appearance on Fox News to suggest that the coronavirus is divine punishment for humanity turning its back against God. Speaking with Jeanine Pirro on Saturday night, Graham was asked to make sense of Covid-19’s worldwide devastation, and the Fox host wondered “How could God allow this thing to happen?” “Well, I don’t …

Reuters reports: “We’re defying the rules because the commandment of God is to spread the Gospel,” Louisiana pastor Tony Spell said in an interview with Reuters. Spell, 42, who plans to hold three services at his 1,000-member Life Tabernacle megachurch in a Baton Rouge suburb on Palm Sunday, has defied state orders against assembling in large groups and has already …

“This ministry will receive, this year — are you listening to me now? God just kept laying this on me, just kept laying this on me. Of course, I didn’t have any idea all of this [virus] mess was gonna happen, but God did — and the Lord had already dropped in my spirit and in my heart several years …

The Guardian reports: Telecoms engineers are facing verbal and physical threats during the lockdown, as baseless conspiracy theories linking coronavirus to the roll-out of 5G technology spread by celebrities such as Amanda Holden prompt members of the public to abuse those maintaining vital mobile phone and broadband networks. Facebook has removed one anti-5G group in which users were being encouraged …

Via press release from Christian Newswire: Former Arkansas Governor and Republican presidential nominee Mike Huckabee has joined the Board of Directors at OneShare Health, an ACA-exempt Christian Health Care Sharing Ministry (HCSM) based in Irving, Texas. Huckabee, who maintains strong ties to the Christian church, said he was initially drawn to OneShare Health’s faithdriven vision. After joining OneShare Health’s Board …

“We were promised that no sickness would even come nigh our dwelling. And Daniel, something I’ve been studying just in the last couple of days, based on all of this, was Exodus 23:25, and that verse says that you shall serve the Lord, your God, and he shall take all sickness away away from the midst of thee. “And I …

“Do you think there’s something that they’re not telling us and — you know, for whatever reason, they don’t think that we can handle whatever information they have? “And when you look at this 240,000, you know, possible fatalities here, I mean, that’s a big deal. That’s a big number. But at the same time, as we shared yesterday on …

“Do not pray, do not hope, do not think, ‘Oh, praise God they are going to have a vaccine. That vaccine is from the pit of Hell. Do not pray for those vaccines, and do not take the vaccine. “These vaccines are going to be coming, they are not going to be good. They’re not good for you physically, and …

The Baton Rouge Advocate reports: Roy Moore, the former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice and two-time U.S. Senate candidate, will serve as an adviser for a Central pastor, and his church, during expected litigation over the religious leader’s defiance of state orders limiting public gatherings to control the spread of the novel coronavirus. Moore and the Rev. Tony Spell said …

Mike Huckabee writes for the insane Charisma News: I take this pandemic seriously and you should as well. But statistically, your risk of getting the virus is still remote and the risk of dying from it is minimal. But there is a virus that we hear almost nothing about these days, and it is absolutely going to touch you. In …

The Associated Press reports: Investigators arrested a California train engineer Tuesday after he allegedly derailed a train in a bid to crash into the USNS Mercy, the hospital ship treating non-COVID-19 patients at the Port of Los Angeles to lessen the burden on area hospitals, prosecutors said. Eduardo Moreno, 44, was expected to appear in court Wednesday for arraignment on …