Tag Archives: loony tunes

Metro Weekly reports: Followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory are reportedly embracing the idea that the COVID-19 vaccine can make people gay. It’s a claim previously shared by conservative religious figures, including an ultra-Orthodox rabbi in Israel and an Islamic cleric in Iran, who told their followers not to accept a coronavirus vaccine because those who have it “become homosexuals.” …

The New York Times reports: The past year has been riddled with prophecies that did not pan out. As the coronavirus swept the United States in the spring, several prophets issued public assurances that it would decline by Passover; Cindy Jacobs, one of the most influential American prophets, led a global day of prayer to “contain” the virus in March. …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Dave Hayes, a self-declared prophet, Christian author, and leading online QAnon activist who is better known as the “Praying Medic,” has been rather quiet ever since Trump left office, likely because none of the bold predictions Hayes made about Trump arresting and executing his political enemies ever came true. Despite the fact that …

Karem Zidan reports at Right Wing Watch: The March 4 conspiracy theory is rooted in the belief that an obscure act known as the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871, which QAnon adherents believe transformed the U.S. into a corporation instead of a federal government. Some QAnon adherents believe that the United States will revert back to its original …

Law & Crime reports: Because attorney Lin Wood said publicly on Thursday that the State Bar of Georgia demanded he undergo a mental health evaluation in order to keep his law license, the Bar told Law&Crime on Friday that it could confirm an active inquiry into Wood. The Bar said that although the investigative process is normally confidential, Wood’s statement …

“There’s all these dimensions that the Lord is coming to affect and change right now, and President Trump still has a very active, viable role in that. Believe me, God is doing things with him, and I won’t go into it more than that. “But he’s not a passive player; he is recognized from Heaven as the primary government leader …

“For I say this is my land and these are my people. And I have raised him up for such a time as this. My people have prayed, they have fasted, they have called on my name and I will not turn a deaf ear unto them. “But to the left, to the wicked, to those to chose to cheat …

The New York Daily News reports: A Mexican cardinal’s Facebook video was flagged after he said COVID vaccines were being used to implant satanic microchips in people. Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iñiguez, 87, claimed vaccines come with a microchip that has “the mark of the beast.” Sandoval was archbishop of Guadalajara for 17 years before retiring in 2011. He continued to …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Johnny Enlow, a right-wing pastor and QAnon conspiracy theorist, appeared on the Elijah Streams YouTube channel Thursday, where he declared that the outcome of the college football national championship game was a prophetic sign that President Donald Trump will remain in office. Despite the fact that Trump’s term is set to end in …

NBC News reports: As social networks and app stores crack down on disinformation purveyors and calls for violence, QAnon-based lies and conspiracy theories have found a new way to go viral: forwarded text messages. The messages have already made their way to some prominent conservatives, who have amplified them on social media. One viral false conspiracy theory shared across the …

Today’s message from Mike Lindell, via Charisma News: Please give everybody confidence that Donald J. Trump will be our president for four years. A lot of evidence will come out this week, and everyone needs to be praying for protection for those of us standing up to this as it is the only time we have to fight this evil …

Peter Montgomery reports at Right Wing Watch: Lin Wood, an attorney who has partnered with leaders of the “Stop the Steal” movement and has called on Trump to declare martial law and use the military to oversee a new election, charged on Twitter in the early hours of Monday morning, “I believe Chief Justice John Roberts & a multitude of …

Religion News Service reports: Organizers of the Jericho March, slated for Tuesday (Jan. 5) and Wednesday (Jan. 6), have called on “patriots, people of faith and all those who want to take back America” to travel to Washington on those days for a pair of marches to overturn the recent presidential election. Marchers plan to blow ritual Jewish horns called …

CBS News reports: A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld a district judge’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Florida conservative political activist and media figure Laura Loomer, who alleged a Muslim civil-rights organization helped engineer her removal from Twitter. A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals backed a November 2019 decision by U.S. District Judge …

Roger Sollenberger writes at Salon: Last week, Lin Wood, a right-wing Georgia attorney who has recently inserted himself into Donald Trump’s failed crusade to rewrite the results of the election, attacked White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. “Someone needs to do a deep dive on @MarkMeadows,” Wood wrote on Twitter. “I have heard there are some serious skeletons.” In …

“When I woke up yesterday, he was laughing. I mean, I heard him laughing loudly. And he said, ‘I’m laughing because of what they have said the electoral vote came to.’  “Of course, it went for the other side. And God said, ‘None of that matters. It’s not changing my plan.’ “This is what God said: ‘I don’t care who …

The Christian Post reports: Pastor John MacArthur said on Sunday that world governments “have done something that’s never been done in human history” by making the pandemic issue and the response “global.” “Now we are a global world. And that is a setup that we’ve been waiting for through redemptive history since the Lord promised that there would come, in …

Via email from hate group leader Tony Perkins: In this Advent season, approaching the celebration of Christ’s miraculous birth, we continue to see governments taking discriminatory and unconstitutional actions against churches. The actions vary by jurisdiction, but many are severely restricting the ability of Christians to meet in their churches for worship. Meanwhile, other activities in liquor stores, casinos, tattoo …

Via press release: On the morning of December 12th, Jericho Marchers will simultaneously march around the U.S. Capitol, Supreme Court, and Department of Justice seven times praying for the walls of corruption and election fraud to fall down, just as Joshua and the Israelites walked around the walls of corrupt Jericho. Following the marches, patriots and people of faith will …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: During a Friday night rally at Salem Baptist Church in Dalton, Georgia, Bachmann declared that she would never be a “chump” who accepts that Joe Biden won the election, screaming that Satan is destroying our election and that “my vote was stolen!” “From the political point of view, from the legal point of …