Tag Archives: crackpots

“Here’s the official story so far: a random 20 year old acting completely alone walked within 150 yards of a presidential campaign rally with a rifle, climbed onto a rooftop in full view of Secret Service snipers, set up his shot and fired without anyone intervening and with no help from anyone. “This 20 year old is also so politically …

The Washington Examiner reports: Is Tucker Carlson OK? The former Fox News host-turned-independent media star has spread a bizarre conspiracy theory about the sexuality of a Democratic politician. This time, the target of Carlson’s musings is Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, an openly gay man. Carlson referred to Buttigieg as “supposedly gay.” He went on to recount how one of his …

Bloomberg News reports: Billionaire Elon Musk has donated to a super political action committee working to elect Donald Trump to the White House, a major gambit by the world’s richest person to make his imprint on the US political landscape. Musk has contributed to a low-profile group called America PAC, according to people familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity …

NBC News reports: After months of testing, some conservative activists are finding that the vigilante computer programs they’d hoped would give them the ability to root out redundancies and fraud in the country’s voter rolls aren’t very reliable. Last year, those activists excitedly embraced EagleAI and similar programs that promised to help them look through voter rolls across the country …

The Washington Post reports: Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has privately apologized to a woman who accused him of sexual assault, saying he does not remember the alleged incident and that any harm he caused was “inadvertent.” In a story published last week in Vanity Fair, the woman, Eliza Cooney, described inappropriate behavior and sexual advances from Kennedy …

“They have succeeded in that these single-family units are much more likely to depend upon the government. And every year, of course, I am lobbied by people who want the government therefore to take up an even greater role in their children’s life, be it daycare, be it preschool, be it after-school programs, whatever. “They clearly want the children raised …

The New York Post reports: Billionaire Elon Musk threatened legal action Thursday against an alliance that includes some of the world’s biggest companies over an “advertising boycott racket” that has contributed to a revenue crunch at his social media platform X. Musk, who bought the company formerly known as Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, made the claim in response …

The New York Times reports: For more than two decades, Elon Musk has focused SpaceX, his rocket company, on his lifelong goal of reaching Mars. Over the last year, he has also ramped up work on what will happen if he gets there. Mr. Musk told SpaceX employees in April that he now expects one million people to be living …

“I will tell you this: If he asks me to do anything, I’m hoping it’s when we get this, when he gets in, that he puts me in charge of our, the elections, where we can get out election platform completely fixed. “I think the election bureau should be, which I have already set up, should be part of Homeland …

Reuters reports: Elon Musk wants to dismiss a lawsuit by former Twitter shareholders who said he waited too long in early 2022 to reveal his large ownership stake in the social media company, saying “all indications” show his delay was a mistake. In a late Wednesday night filing in Manhattan federal court, Musk called it implausible to believe he wanted …

“My take on 9/11: It’s hard to tell what is a conspiracy theory and what isn’t. But conspiracy theories flourish when the government routinely lies to the public. As President I won’t take sides on 9/11 or any of the other debates. But I can promise is that I will open the files and usher in a new era of …

“She’s been exposed as a power-hungry aspirant herself to political power. She is on the cover of Vogue magazine right now. Why? Because she wants to promote herself. She tweeted out a photo of herself sitting in the president’s chair not long ago when he was preparing for the G7 meeting… hanging over the back of his chair. She’s not …

“It’s a goat and it’s in Patagonia, and it’s a river trip that I used to do, on a big white water river called the Futaleufú every year. A big, you know, kayaking trip where that’s what we ate. That’s what everybody eats down there, is goats. “I am a very adventurous eater, Chris. I think you know about that …

“Listen, I’ve said this from the beginning. I’m not a church boy. I am not running like that. I had a very, very rambunctious youth. I said in my announcement speech that I have so many skeletons in my closet that if they if they could all vote, I could run for king of the world. So, you know, Vanity …

Mediaite reports: The nation breathed a collective sigh of relief on Tuesday when author and perennial candidate Marianne Williamson called for an open convention at this year’s Democratic National Convention and announced that she would be throwing her hat in the ring after mounting unsuccessful campaigns in 2020 and earlier this cycle. In a statement — accompanied by a video …

Media Matters has the transcript: Can you guys imagine being married to me? My poor husband, he rolls over, he’s like, what are you reading? And I feel like a regular wife says something, I don’t know, maybe a love series. Nora Roberts sweeping her away. Me, on the other hand — he rolled over, he asked me and I …

NewsNation reports: Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein told “Dan Abrams Live” on Friday that the two major political party’s “zombie candidates” are being “rammed down our throats” this election season, causing voters to rethink their decision come November. Stein believes the performance of the two main party candidates, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, in the …

NBC News reports: A man known for publicly harassing police officers who testified in Jan. 6 cases has been arrested in connection with his own involvement with the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Tommy Tatum, who has also provided trial testimony on behalf of a Jan. 6 defendant, was arrested in Mississippi on Wednesday, according to court records. He …

The Christian Post reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he’ll be using the “miracle of technology” to insert himself in the discussion as he repeats his claim that the campaigns for the presumptive Democratic and Republican presidential nominees colluded with CNN to keep him off the debate stage. “I don’t mean to sound like I’m cranky because I’m not, but …

The Associated Press reports: The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to a 2021 Connecticut law that eliminated the state’s longstanding religious exemption from childhood immunization requirements for schools, colleges and day care facilities. The justices did not comment in leaving in place a federal appeals court ruling that upheld the contentious law. A lower court judge had earlier …