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April 1, 2024 5:32 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: The Church Of Trump
Michael C. Bender @ The New York Times: The Church of Trump: How He’s Infusing Christianity Into His Movement Ending many of his rallies with a churchlike ritual and casting his prosecutions as persecution, the former president is demanding — and receiving — new levels of devotion from Republicans. Sarah Posner @ Talking Points Memo: […]
April 1, 2024 5:30 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Geniuses Don’t Need Sleep
Sean Feucht will be holding a worship event on the National Mall just before the elections in November. Rep. Lauren Boebert recently organized an event for 100 local Colorado pastors so they could meet with and hear from unhinged right-wing commentator Eric Metaxas. Elijah Schaffer defends his racism by arguing that Jesus is God and […]
April 1, 2024 3:48 pm
Michael Flynn Is Excited To Link Up With ‘Domestic Terrorist’ Matt Shea
Michael Flynn is releasing a documentary this month chronicling his career, which culminated with him serving briefly as national security adviser to former President Donald Trump. Flynn resigned early in the Trump administration for having misled the administration about discussions he had with Russian leaders prior to Trump assuming office. Flynn eventually pleaded guilty to […]
March 28, 2024 5:02 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: A Busload Of Something
Miles Klee @ Rolling Stone: GOP Lawmaker Thinks He Exposed Busload of ‘Illegals’ … It Was the Gonzaga Basketball Team Matt Maddock, an election denier who has predicted another U.S. civil war, shared pictures of NCAA athletes to push a conspiracy theory about immigration. Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern @ Slate: The Anti-Abortion Endgame […]
March 28, 2024 5:00 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Shut The Hell Up
Jackson Lahmeyer says that former President Donald Trump hawking Bibles is “one of the greatest spiritual moments in U.S. history,” adding that this Bible is particularly useful because “all of our founding documents are derived from Scripture.” No, they aren’t. Hank Kunneman asserts that Trump is like Samson and Christians who refuse to support him […]
March 28, 2024 3:54 pm
AFA Wants Trump to Pick Evangelicals with Right-Wing ‘Biblical Worldview’ for Supreme Court
Religious-right legal activist Phillip Jauregui appeared on the American Family Radio’s “At the Core” program with host Walker Wildmon yesterday to complain about the lack of conservative evangelical Supreme Court justices and to tout the Center’s “green list” of potential Republican nominees who meet the Center’s “biblical worldview” standard. Wildmon, the grandson of AFA Founder […]
March 28, 2024 11:30 am
California Judge Rules that Trump Laywer John Eastman Should Lose Law License
Judge Yvette Roland ruled Wednesday that former Trump attorney John Eastman be stripped of his law license, saying that he had “exhibited gross negligence by making false statements about the 2020 election” and breached “his ethical duty as an attorney to prioritize honesty and integrity.” More from the New York Times: The disciplinary case against Mr. […]
March 27, 2024 5:05 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: The New Litmus Test
Josh Dawsey @ The Washington Post: Was the 2020 election stolen? Job interviews at RNC take an unusual turn. Prospective hires say agreeing with Trump’s false election claim appears to be a new litmus test for being hired by the party. Tommy Christopher @ Mediaite: Comer Spins Bizarre Theory About Why News Outlets Keep Saying […]
March 27, 2024 5:02 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Carter, The Castro
Josh Bernstein insists that there is “no way” that the collapse of the bridge in Baltimore was an accident: “This was an implosion of some kind.” Jim Garlow asserts that the collapse was either the result of “DEI incompetence” or terrorism. Dutch Sheets claims that he had a prophetic dream about the collapse a week […]
March 27, 2024 1:23 pm
Michele Bachmann Spreads False Christian Nationalist History
The Christian nationalist program “FlashPoint” has, since its inception, served as a platform for spreading wild conspiracy theories and Christian nationalist disinformation.That pattern continued when “FlashPoint” hosted an event in Oklahoma last week at which former Rep. Michele Bachmann delivered a speech overflowing with falsehoods about the supposedly Christian nature of the Constitution and Declaration […]