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April 20, 2021 5:30 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Take It by Force
Greg Locke declares that “there is no reason the church of the living God and the kingdom of Jesus Christ should not rule this nation”: “Those that truly follow Jesus Christ take it by force!” E.W. Jackson says that President Joe Biden “is a moral sewer.” Robin Bullock proclaims that “Joe Biden is not the […]
April 20, 2021 10:56 am
Alveda King Claims Not Requiring Voter ID Is ‘Identity Theft’
Religious-right activist Alveda King appeared on “The Jim Bakker Show” Monday where she claimed that not requiring voters to show ID before casting their ballots is both “identity theft” and an effort to erase the identities of Black Americans. “It’s just so hypocritical to say to a person, ‘It is Jim Crow to require that […]
April 19, 2021 5:53 pm
That Time I Interviewed Oath Keepers’ Stewart Rhodes (and He Threatened to Sue Me)
Before investigators and journalists even began to reconstruct the events of Jan. 6, 2021, the presence of Oath Keepers loomed large. A belligerent organization comprising active and retired law enforcement officers and members of the military, Oath Keepers members pledge to not enforce any order that they themselves deem to be unconstitutional. At one of the […]
April 19, 2021 5:32 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: The Adrenochroming of Children
Jordan Hoffman @ Vanity Fair: Jim Caviezel Decries “The Adrenochroming of Children,” As If That’s a Thing. Darragh [email protected] Newsweek: Lin Wood’s QAnon Gesture Sends Audience Wild During Oklahoma Conference. Mary Papenfuss @ HuffPost: Marjorie Taylor Greene Backs Off Extremist America First Caucus After Backlash. Asawin Suebsaeng and Adam Rawnsley @ The Daily Beast: MyPillow […]
April 19, 2021 5:30 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Chaos and Confusion
Greg Locke insists that he’s not a false prophet for repeatedly guaranteeing that Donald Trump would win the 2020 presidential election because, he insists, Trump did win but had the election stolen from him. Of course, Locke offered no explanation for his repeated guarantees that President Joe Biden would never, ever inhabit the White House. […]
April 19, 2021 11:28 am
Todd Coconato Says Christians Don’t Believe Biden Is President Because God’s ‘Mantle of Anointing’ Remains on Trump
Livestreaming from his car last Wednesday, right-wing pastor Todd Coconato claimed that Christians are questioning whether Joe Biden is really president because they know that God’s “mantle of anointing” is still on former President Donald Trump. “People say, ‘Well, you still think President Trump might become president again?’” Coconato said on his YouTube channel. “I […]
April 16, 2021 5:32 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: Anglo-Saxon Traditions
Alex Isenstadt @ Politico: ‘A nicer version of Trump’: GOP donors flock to DeSantis. Joe Jervis: Cultist “Big Lie” Spreader To Challenge Georgia Gov. Danika Fears @ The Daily Beast: ‘America First Caucus’ Tied to Marjorie Greene Spews Creepy Nativist Rhetoric About ‘Anglo-Saxon Traditions.’ Spencer S. Hsu and Devlin Barrett @ The Washington Post: Founding […]
April 16, 2021 5:30 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: The Cult of Science
In the wake of the police shooting of Daunte Wright, Patrick Howley says we need to have “a very real conversation about whether or not females are able to do the job of being a police officer,” while Stew Peters says we need more cops who are alpha males with a warrior psyche. Right-wing pastor […]
April 16, 2021 4:01 pm
Liberty University Ditches Falkirk Center Name, Announces New Class of Culture War Fellows
Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center—until recently known as the Falkirk Center—announced its new class of fellows Thursday, making it clear that the organization may have a new name but it has not abandoned its purpose of promoting the religious right’s “biblical worldview” in culture and public policy. The new fellows are former Secretary of State […]
April 16, 2021 11:23 am
Rick Wiles Says the US Is Under the Control of ‘Satanic Zionists’
On Wednesday’s edition of his “TruNews” program, radical right-wing conspiracy theorist and End Times broadcaster Rick Wiles declared that the United States is under the control of “Satanic Zionists.” Wiles, who is deeply anti-Semitic and dedicates many of his TruNews programs to railing against Israel and Jews, has been a vocal supporter of Russian President […]