Tag Archives: crackpots

Media Matters has the transcript: It is all the dictators you have ever seen in film or on screen, basically rolled into one and then wrapped into an image. What is his team doing? What is his team doing? Well, I think the answer is they’re a very online team, the people who work for him, they spend all day …

Politico reports: A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Trump 2016 presidential campaign adviser Carter Page over surveillance he faced due to suspicions he was part of an effort by Russia to influence the U.S. political process. U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich issued a ruling Thursday tossing out the $75 million suit Page filed in 2020 against …

The Insider reports: Bianca Garcia, president of the Latinos for Trump organization, has a theory about why former President Donald Trump keeps finding himself in trouble — he may have offended God. Gracia, a failed Republican state senate candidate in Texas, suggested that Trump had run into so many problems because he isn’t focused on religion. Gracia said she thought …

The Associate Press reports: A Colorado mother accused of plotting to kidnap her son from foster care after her teen daughter said she started associating with supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory was found guilty of conspiracy to commit second-degree kidnapping on Friday. Cynthia Abcug, 53, denied she was involved in planning a raid on the foster home where her …

Loomer is taking her defeat in standard fashion: I am calling on Daniel Webster to RESIGN. Everyone knows he is truly unfit to serve. He didn’t campaign. He refused to debate me, and it’s because his health is worse than Joe Biden’s. He even admitted publicly that his health is so poor it’s causing him to miss votes. The media …

Mediaite reports: MyPillow CEO and avid 2020 election denier, Mike Lindell, went on a wild rant on Wednesday declaring that every vote in the state of Utah is a “crime.” On his Lindell TV, the conspiracy theorist declared, “You know, I believe you have the CCP, the globalists, the Uni-Party. I believe it’s all one just happy family.” “You get …

Universal Hub reports: A Medfield man who sued Charlie Baker in 2020 over state face-mask requirements due to Covid-19 and lost is taking another legal crack at Baker, this time over state Covid-19 vaccination recommendations he charges got him unenrolled from the Massachusetts School of Law in Andover because he refused to get a shot for medical and religious reasons.But …

The right wing Washington Examiner reports: Tea Party Patriots Action, the long-influential conservative group, has filed a federal complaint against the Obama-appointed magistrate who approved the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s winter home, the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. In a long complaint filed in the Judicial Council of the 11th Circuit, Tea Party Patriots CEO Jenny Beth Martin’s …

Media Matters has the transcript: ALLIE BETH STUCKEY: In some cases, women should share legal responsibility depending on her age, mental capacity, her culpability, whether she was forced or not, the circumstances surrounding the abortion, how old was the baby. All of these things have always gone into judicial decisions about who bears responsibility for the taking of a person’s …

The Kansas City Star reports: Kansas reaffirmed its landslide vote to uphold abortion rights after election officials on Sunday finished a recount that never had any chance of changing the outcome but was sought by an election denier and anti-abortion activist advancing baseless allegations of fraud. The exercise instead delivered a second victory for opponents of an amendment that would …

The New York Times reports: “I’m here every day, Bolsonaro. I want to see you be brave enough to come talk to me,” shouted the protester, Wilker Leão, as he recorded himself on his phone. Repeatedly, he hurled an insult at the president that roughly translates to “the pork-barrelers’ little lap dog,” though a bit more vulgar. Suddenly the president …

Courthouse News reports: Suing Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares for defamation on Wednesday, a woman fired just weeks after she was hired as a deputy attorney general says the office falsely labeled her departure as a resignation. Monique Miles claims that Miyares fired her for her opinions on the 2020 election and the riot on the U.S. Capitol that followed …

Vice News reports: In a script that’s becoming unpleasantly familiar, conspiracy theorists have seized upon actor Anne Heche’s tragic death, claiming she didn’t die from a car crash but rather was murdered. One theory that’s being peddled is that Heche was killed for her role in the film Toxic Skies, about a conspiracy to purge the population with a fake …

From the far-right Christian site Charisma News: Just as the 1960s cartoon The Jetsons depicted a future full of video phones, robotics and Google-style office space, some modern-day prophets have prophesied about a future full of exposing corruption, fighting for individual freedom and shining a light on truth. One of those prophets is Cindy Jacobs, and her prophecy from 12 …

Media Matters has the transcript: This is the end. Any scrap of trust Americans had for our anti-Constitution government was swept completely away this week when 30 of Biden’s brownshirt FBI agents descended on the Florida home of Biden’s biggest threat, Donald Trump — rifling through Trump’s Mar-a-Lago office, rummaging through Melania’s closet, cracking open Trump’s safe. To give us …

Mediaite reports: Tulsi Gabbard filled in as guest host for Tucker Carlson on Fox News and across two segments warned about the “weaponization” of law enforcement in the United States, as well as the “hallmarks of dictatorship” she said are apparent under President Joe Biden‘s administration. “The FBI’s raid on Mar-A-Lago was a major escalation of the weaponization of the …

Mediaite reports: Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard will host Tucker Carlson Tonight on Friday, which is a peculiar spot for a former lawmaker who not long ago presumably opposed much of what Fox News’ reliably conservative audience stands for. Tucker Carlson boasts the highest-rated show in cable news. In his absence this week, the network has relied on its bench to …

“The director of the FBI had strong words Wednesday for supporters of former President Donald Trump, who have been using ‘violent rhetoric’ in the wake of his agency’s search for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. “He says that threats against federal agents and the Justice Department are deplorable and dangerous. “How many of those threats are planted by the FBI themselves? We …

Reuters reports: Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk sold $6.9 billion worth of shares in the electric vehicle maker, saying the funds could be used to finance a potential Twitter deal if he loses a legal battle with the social media platform. “In the (hopefully unlikely) event that Twitter forces this deal to close *and* some equity partners don’t …

“This is a direct threat to freedom. And if it is allowed to stand, it is the end of the constitutional order, crossing the Rubicon. “Calista and I actually went once to the Rubicon, which is a very tiny creek, but it was the symbolic border of Rome. “And to cross the Rubicon with an armed force was to destroy …