Crackpots

Reuters reports: The vote was called for and Massie made his move. “I came here to make sure our republic doesn’t die by unanimous consent,” Massie said. When Massie made his request to hold a roll call vote, Rep. Anthony Brown, the presiding officer in the speaker’s chair pointed out that not enough members rose to back his request. House …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: End Times pastor Irvin Baxter appeared on “The Jim Bakker Show” yesterday, where he warned that the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak is a warning from God about the sin of fornication. “There are 7.5 million unmarried couples living together in the United States,” Baxter said. “That means 15 million people are living together unmarried, …

Axios reports: Belarus is the only European country that is still playing soccer. Why? Because President Alexander Lukashenko, a man often referred to as “Europe’s last dictator,” said so. Belarus was part of the Soviet Union until it was dissolved in 1991. Lukashenko has been president since 1994 and has continued many Soviet-era policies. The coronavirus “is just another psychosis, …

The Huffington Post reports: Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist and repeated loser of court battles, was ordered today to pay more than $20,000 in attorney fees after losing another appeal in a defamation case related to the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. He now owes nearly $150,000 in legal fees before he even faces a jury. The …

The Daily Beast reports: White House trade adviser Peter Navarro found himself on the receiving end of a verbal buzzsaw Thursday afternoon when CNN anchor Brianna Keilar relentlessly grilled him on the administration’s lack of preparedness for the coronavirus pandemic, explicitly telling him he was “wasting everyone’s time.” “Right now, it looks like the capacity for the U.S. is going …

“God wants to deliver the USA from coronavirus by Easter as President Trump hopes, but this is dependent on people following Jesus Christ. “We know the Bible says people lose their souls by following false gods and from LGBT sin, and that disobeying God can cause sickness and plagues (Exodus 15:26, John 5:14). “Man and government cannot fix the coronavirus …

The Alabama Reporter reports: Former chief justice and former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore is urging Americans “not to give in to fear.” “As you know, the Chinese virus has shaken our Country, created havoc in the stock market, and has left people asking the questions… what’s next?” Moore said on social media addressing his supporters. “As businesses remain closed …

The Week reports: “I want to have a frank conversation with you,” commentator Glenn Beck, 56, said on his show Tuesday, the latest conservative to paint the coronavirus lockdowns in terms of life versus liberty. “I would rather have my children stay home and all of us who are over 50 go in and keep this economy going and working, …

“If Andrew Cuomo or the Andrew Cuomo attitude prevailed, we wouldn’t have fought the Nazis. We wouldn’t have fought the Japanese fascists. That attitude that the only value is saving a life, that attitude leads to appeasement. It must. It leads to cowardice, it has to. No one can die? Then it’s not a war.” – Right wing commentator and …

Hemant Mehta reports at The Friendly Atheist: What are politicians doing to help people in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak? Republican State Rep. Stephanie Borowicz of Pennsylvania is doing her part by filing a bill, House Resolution 835, calling on everyone to pray and not eat. Because that’s how you defeat a virus in crazytown. This is theocratic wish …

The Washington Post reports: Senate Democrats blocked a massive coronavirus stimulus bill from moving forward late Sunday as partisan disputes raged over the legislation that’s aimed at arresting the economy’s precipitous decline. Lawmakers had hoped to pass the enormous $1.8 trillion bill by Monday but Sunday night they were scrambling to revive talks, with the stock market poised for another …

Heavy.com reports: While America hunkers down under “Safer at Home” orders to fight the pandemic spread of coronavirus, the Christian owned Hobby Lobby stores, as of March 21, remained open. After a letter to employees from David Green went viral on Twitter, in which he says wife Barbara is a “prayer warrior” amid “this war with this latest virus,” users …

“There is food that is prohibited in the Old Testament from eating, and God had a reason for it, because they carried bacteria, they carried viruses, they carried things that your body cannot absorb. Well, in China, they’re eating bats and snakes. These are all part of the unclean animal. Many times, they eat it in sushi.” – Televangelist Mary …

“I think it’s worthy of investigation, not that they [China] intentionally released it. I can see them working on some type of chemical and biological warfare and have it escape, have it get out. Again, I don’t think they would want it going around the world, also, starting in China. “Again, who knows? I don’t think so. I think more …

From the far-right World Net Daily: $20 trillion. Or $20,000,000,000,000. Plus “other relief the court may deem just and proper.” That’s what a class-action lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas is demanding from China for allowing the coronavirus to spread from the city of Wuhan around the world, forcing unprecedented restrictions on public life …

Gallup reports: As the COVID-19 pandemic hits the U.S. and President Donald Trump’s impeachment acquittal becomes a distant memory for Americans, his 44% job approval rating is down five percentage points, and back to where it was before the Senate acquitted him on the House’s impeachment charges. The latest reading is from Gallup’s March 2-13 poll, which was conducted as …

Heavy.com reports: Oprah Winfrey became the No. 1 trend on Twitter on Tuesday night, with numerous reports claiming her house in Boca Raton, Florida, was being raided, and that she had been arrested on sex trafficking charges. The problem with these claims going viral online is that none of it is actually true. The conspiracy theory surrounding Oprah started with …

“San Francisco has just ordered everyone to shelter in place, just to say, ‘Stay in your apartment. Don’t leave your apartment unless you need to go out to a grocery store or to a pharmacy or to a doctor’s.’ Why are they doing that? Why is San Francisco the first to do that? Because they’ve got all the gay guys …

“This disease called COVID-19 will be over much sooner than you think. Christian people all over this country praying have overwhelmed it. ‘Give me all the glory, saith the spirit of grace. And many, many people will come to know me through it. I am still Lord over this nation and I am on the throne and faith in me …

Jennifer LeClaire writes for Charisma News: From Lent until Resurrection Day every year—then again in May, the month of Mary—we see believers around the world suffering from the wicked effects of spiritual witchcraft. That’s because many sincere people around the world—and probably in your city—are exalting Mary in this season. Many are lighting candles, worshipping Mary or hailing Mary—and what …