Tag Archives: crackpots

Ars Technica reports: Dmitry Rogozin was fired as director general of Russia’s main space corporation, Roscosmos, nearly a year ago. He has spent much of the time since near the front lines of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, sharing various hateful, threatening, and nationalistic sentiments on his Telegram account. Occasionally, however, the pugnacious politician still opines about space on his “Rogozin …

The New York Post reports: Democratic White House contender Robert Kennedy Jr. blames the CIA for the Nov. 22, 1963, assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy — proclaiming it “beyond a reasonable doubt.” Kennedy made the bombshell accusation about a murder that’s spun many conspiracy theories during an interview Sunday with John Catsimatidis on WABC 770 AM’s “Cats …

“I think one of the reasons why Joe Biden is tough to beat is because he’s tough to hate. I mean, you almost feel sorry for him. He’s a candidate of sympathy. Kamala Harris is different. It is very easy to build a movement against someone who is just so arrogant and smug and cackle-y, and self-righteous, and has failed …

“I encourage every other newsperson at Fox who cares about this country to walk away from their contract, to walk away from their show. I’m talking about all of them. We can get you set up with an outlet that will allow you to speak the truth. But right now, we got a year and a half to save our …

The Guardian reports: A California judge has tentatively ordered Elon Musk to be interviewed under oath about whether he made certain statements regarding the capabilities of Tesla’s Autopilot features after the company questioned the authenticity of the remarks, claiming Musk is a “target for deep fakes”. The ruling came in a lawsuit against Tesla, filed by the family of Walter …

“Fox fires Tucker Carlson five days after he crosses the red line by acknowledging that the TV networks pushed a deadly and ineffective vaccine to please their Pharma advertisers. Carlson’s breathtakingly courageous April 19 monologue broke TV’s two biggest rules: Tucker told the truth about how greedy Pharma advertisers controlled TV news content and he lambasted obsequious newscasters for promoting …

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports: At the height of one of the most significant mass vaccination campaigns in human history, a Cleveland-area physician publicly warned state lawmakers that COVID-19 shots “interface” with cell towers and make people who receive them magnetic. Almost two years later, Ohio regulators are considering suspending her license. Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, at the behest of state …

“Should wearing dresses and skirts be illegal for men in public? If so, should wearing pants for women in public be illegal in public? Well, pants not so much because there is a female version of pants that is nearly indistinguishable in many cases from male pants. But men wearing traditional female clothing in public – I think that there …

Politico reports: Conservative talk radio host Larry Elder launched a 2024 presidential campaign Thursday, joining a growing list of candidates seeking the GOP nomination. “America is in decline, but this decline is not inevitable,” Elder wrote on Twitter Thursday night. “We can enter a new American Golden Age, but we must choose a leader who can bring us there. That’s …

The Daily Dot reports: A right-wing influencer appears to be having trouble finding a brewery willing to craft his anti-woke beer. The brew was launched in response to Bud Light offering a commemorative can to a transgender influencer. Seth Weathers decided to solve their woke beer woes by selling a brew that doesn’t stand for LGBTQ equality in the slightest: …

The Washington Post reports: MyPillow founder and prominent election denier Mike Lindell made a bold offer ahead of a “cyber symposium” he held in August 2021 in South Dakota: He claimed he had data showing Chinese interference and said he would pay $5 million to anyone who could prove the material was not from the previous year’s U.S. election. He …

Loudwire reports: The country music star Brantley Gilbert showed his disdain for the beer Bud Light during a concert in Alabama on Saturday (April 15). The country singer did so during a cover of a Queen song, apparently unaware of the irony. Gilbert — the star himself doesn’t drink — made the onstage statement against Bud Light, violently throwing a …

ABC News reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist and attorney from the famed political Kennedy family, announced on Wednesday that he is running for president in 2024 as a Democrat. Son of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, the 69-year-old launched his candidacy at Boston Park Plaza in Boston. “I’ve …

Dennis Prager, whose PragerU YouTube channel has over three million subscribers, wants you to know that slavery wasn’t so bad in the United States: It’s a very distressing thing what is being done here. The hatred of America and of capitalism is what animates the entire slave narrative in your kid’s college. Yes, Corey glossed over that the US ended …

“The artificial intelligence changes everything. You can’t have anything related to a machine have anything to do whatsoever with a vote. It’s got to be a paper freaking ballot. I’ve been saying that for almost two years now or over two years, and with the artificial intelligence, you won’t even be able to catch them. “They’ll know what you’re gonna …

Let’s start with this reminder from 2021: A woman testifying at an Ohio Statehouse hearing made a failed attempt to get a key and a bobby pin to stick to her neck Tuesday, frustrating her attempt to prove a conspiracy theory that COVID-19 vaccines make people magnetic. The woman, who was identified as a nurse by the local news site …

Axios reports: A conservative group is offering a new service that texts “Woke Alerts” straight to the phones of grocery shoppers who want to know which brands are accused of taking political positions that are offensive to the right. The plan marks an escalation by deep-pocketed conservatives to hit corporations where it hurts — their bottom line. The strategy by …

Politico reports: A federal appeals court panel on Wednesday rejected a bid by former Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro to retain hundreds of government records despite a judge’s order to return them promptly to the National Archives. “There is no public interest in Navarro’s retention of the records, and Congress has recognized that the public has an interest in …

The New York Post reports: With his just-declared bid for the US presidency, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sees himself at the forefront of “a new revolution to resurrect American democracy” — but the anti-vaccination crusader will likely have his work cut out for him in convincing Democrats and even members of his own family to vote for him in 2024. …

“Elon Musk, who’s a traitor – not even an American – there’s another guy like Murdoch and like Soros, these guys, they get citizenship because they want to grift off the American people. Elon Musk is in China this weekend. They’re getting all their buddies, all their buddies over there because it’s a time to choose either on one side …