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Sean Hannity #wingnut #psycho mediamatters.org

SEAN HANNITY (HOST): The fact that the Democrats are so invested in this, and this is the hill they want to die on. I'm like, "Alright, well, go die on that hill. Good luck with that." The American people see this, and I think they're disgusted by it. I mean, they've turned this guy -- first of all, they just lie about the case on so many different issues.

And, you know, like we found out yesterday, oh, the guy was driving the car of a guy that was responsible for human smuggling, and he had a bunch of people in the back seat of the car. And, you know, it is so obvious to me that this guy deserves what he got, but they don't care.

And this is why I say they're putting the safety -- oh, they're putting the so-called rights that are nonexistent for people that don't respect our laws, border and sovereignty, they are putting that over the safety of Americans.

Steve Bannon #wingnut mediamatters.org

You see right there, he's in the breach and they're coming, and they're coming after Pete Hegseth. So, not today, maybe the days you get Bill Blaster, you get some of the tools that Grace and the rest of the team have made available to you.
We're not gonna go to the ramparts today. We're gonna think this through to have Pete's back, but Pete Hegseth's in the middle of the fight and you've seen the leaks are going on in the deep state.
He's only beginning — the beginning process of the reorganization. Look, you know, I'm as big a hawk as you got. The Defense Department's budget's got to be cut. You have to show a signal that this thing's not gonna be — and with the hemispheric defense, the new strategic concept that President Trump has from Panama to Greenland, the Pacific and the three island chain, and is also talking about, I don't know, an Iron Dome or some sort of aspect of an anti-ballistic missile.
You hermetically seal the United States all the way from the Arctic, the new great game of the 21st century, the great power struggle in the Arctic. It sounds like your focus is less on the Eurasian landmass and — as it should be. And back here, not isolationist, but putting America first and America's citizens first and America's national security first.

Jesse Watters #wingnut mediamatters.org

JESSE WATTERS (HOST): Garcia's a Bulls fan? But he's from El Salvador. And he lives in Maryland, not Chicago. The Bulls lost 60 games in 2019, so why the hat? Can Garcia name anyone on the team, anyone on any Bulls team besides Jordan? Everyone from El Salvador knows what it means when you wear a Bulls hat, it means you're MS-13.

Jesse Watters #wingnut mediamatters.org

JESSE WATTERS (HOST): The Supreme Court ruled last night that a gang banger, who Democrats described only as a Maryland dad, has to come back after Trump deported him to El Salvador's mega prison. Democrats spiked the football.
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This is the dumbest story I've ever heard. Trump deported an illegal alien gang banger from El Salvador back to El Salvador, and the Supreme Court's saying he has to fly all the way back so he can deport him all over again in a different way? It's like when you bank in a three and your buddy says "You didn't call bank." I don't care, it went in.

So the left's celebrating a gang banger coming back into the country while they call him a Maryland dad. The government said he's MS-13 and he's involved in human trafficking, and a local immigration judge let him stay only because he said a rival gang would kill him if he went home to El Salvador. So American lives are in danger because we don't want to put a gang banger's life in danger back home? And how many Maryland dads have bounties on their head from Latin gangs? But Eric Holder says we've got to stand up for illegal alien gang bangers' rights.

Sean Hannity #wingnut #conspiracy mediamatters.org

SEAN HANNITY (HOST): I need to manage people's expectations. There's so many big balls in the air, because it's so transformational and consequential.

I just urge conservatives to stand back, give people a little bit of breathing room, and give them time to get their bearings and to get dialed in and get the right people in place. Because a lot of these departments have to clean out a lot of the deep state that is within them that are sabotaging them.

Sean Hannity #wingnut mediamatters.org

SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Anyway, it'll be the first time in decades, and this really is beginning to infuriate me. And I want to explain why I'm getting infuriated by this. We are supposed to be "the land of the free and the home of the brave." We are supposed to be a people that are brave and think out of the box. And this is driving me nuts.
America has been taken advantage of by many of our closest allies, which I will go into great detail and specificity, and we seem like a bunch of gutless, spineless cowards because finally, you got a president that actually thinks out of the box.
He is not myopic, and he is demanding a very simple principle be applied from allied countries, other countries as well, and that is free and fair trade.
We have been abused. We have been taken advantage of. We've become a sucker nation in many, many respects when it comes to the issue of tariffs, and no president has had the courage until Donald Trump, and it's paying off big time. That's another part of the equation that people refuse to even acknowledge.

Jesse Watters #wingnut mediamatters.org

JESSE WATTERS (HOST): Behind the scenes, the president's been pounding the fact that the world's been ripping us off for 40 years, and he's on a mission to right those wrongs before the end of his term. The vision: turn the country into a place with thriving main streets and hometowns where American workers make American products sold to the American public. Doesn't that give you a nice, warm, fuzzy feeling inside? And he wants to make it easier for people to start families, afford homes, and go to college. These tariffs are for the children.

Jesse Watters #wingnut #psycho mediamatters.org

JESSE WATTERS (HOST): Dumb power is fighting unwinnable wars, defunding the police, opening the border. Feeble is falling down and falling asleep. And being friendly to the world is what got us in this mess. We're not in high school. We don't need friends.
Every country puts their interests first. And when our interests align, we can do business. And when they don't, that's life. If we have to burn down a few bridges with Denmark to take Greenland, we're big boys. We dropped A-bombs on Japan and now they're our top ally in the Pacific. We may have to burn a bridge to build a big, beautiful new one to the next generation. America is not handcuffed by history.

Michael Knowles #homophobia #transphobia #wingnut mediamatters.org

MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): What is supposed to be surprising? That a kid was kicked out of school? Kids get kicked out of school. Kids are suspended and expelled from schools. So that shouldn't be surprising.

What is surprising is that it was for transphobia or homophobia or whatever. But that shouldn't be surprising either because according to the morality constructed and enforced by the left, the new official morality — which is rather immoral, it's untethered from the actual objective moral order, but it's still a kind of a morality that is enforced — then some of the worst sins in the world are homophobia and transphobia.
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So in a traditional society, in a normal society, those are the kinds of things you'd be punished for — stealing, lying, committing violence. But in our ridiculous modern liberal society, those actual sins are replaced by fake sins like homophobia and transphobia. So, yeah, this should be totally expected. Kind of like the two-tier system of justice in the UK. If you insist upon diversity and equity and inclusion and artificially boosting certain groups and artificially — well, even if you just engage the former, you're going to necessarily have to suppress, artificially, other groups. Same thing here. No surprise at all.

Julie Green #wingnut #fundie mediamatters.org

JULIE GREEN (HOST): Well, yesterday, I got the news that the DOW plummeted like 1600 and some points, and apparently people are overwhelmingly freaking out. First of all, this was a strategy to the enemy — from the enemy, God said would happen to make our president look bad, to make the tariffs look bad when actually the tariffs are very bad for that dark financial system that the enemies have in place.
God told us when we start seeing a shaking in the economy that we are not to fear because this is not going to affect us. This is going to affect our enemy.
The enemy is trying to keep a hold of the economy. They're the ones who are bringing it down. They're the ones who bring it up. They manipulate it all the time. So, I don't want you to fear when you start hearing these things. Whether it keeps going down today or whether it starts rebounding today. I have no idea.
All I know is that God is judging that system. So if we start seeing more and more of a decline, God is saying, remember the land of Goshen, also remember the promises of God in John 17 that we are in this world but we are not of this world.
Remember all the things that are going on in the economy, all the things that are going on in Wall Street, how God is depleting the enemy's resources. They were doing that yesterday on purpose in order to make those tariffs again.
I'm gonna say this again. In order to make those tariffs look bad when actually they are the best for our country. But the globalist and the elitists are terrified because they know these tariffs are gonna work, and they know that people believe it, then their entire dark financial system will utterly collapse before their very eyes, and that's what they're trying to stop. So don't give into the fear.

Jesse Watters #elitist #psycho #wingnut mediamatters.org

You know [Trump]'s going to go to the Olympics in four years and he's going to want to light the torch, Jessica. He's going to want to hold the torch in LA, you're just going to have to face it. It's going to happen. All the homeless are going to be cleared out of LA, they're going to be gone to a mega prison somewhere, Camada will be competing - with us, under the Stars and Stripes, and I think the palisades will probably be condas (?) under the Trump banner.

Lawrence Jones, Brian Kilmeade and Rachel Campos-Duffy #wingnut #racist #psycho mediamatters.org

From the March 24, 2025, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends

LAWRENCE JONES (CO-HOST): The president is saying under the act that you don't have to show, you don't have to do this due process. So you have a constitutional right that is actually, they are afforded to illegals in this country. We should revisit that. But then you have a competing act that is saying, hey, if someone is a part of a foreign terrorist organization that you don't have to give them due process and they can be deported
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BRIAN KILMEADE (CO-HOST): I think that's a great point with your law enforcement background especially. But I also think it's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people
JONES: No
RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (CO-HOST): That's right
KILMEADE: There's 22 million people here at minimum, illegal already, just in the last three administrations. And there are some people that got through with Trump's administration. If we are going to give ever these guys a day in court and a lawyer, we can't do it, they don't deserve it. Our system doesn't need to be double burdened

Andrew Tate #racist #conspiracy mediamatters.org

From the March 5, 2025, edition of Full Send Podcast streamed on YouTube

ANDREW TATE (INFLUENCER): We have more in common with Russia than we do with England currently. The average Russian man will understand the average American man just fine. You won't understand the average Brit who thinks it's wrong to tweet about the native people getting raped and murdered because there's unchecked migration. The average Brit will sit there and go, "That's racist" --
KYLE FORGEARD (HOST): Well, I guess you can't do too much free speech against Putin as well in Russia probably, right?
TATE: Of course you can. No, you can't.
FORGEARD: You can?
TATE: No, you can't.
FORGEARD: Can't. Yeah.
TATE: No, you can't. But this is actually interesting, so let's analyze this. Free speech. This is a interesting conversation because America believes it has free speech. It doesn't. But every single country in the world has things you cannot talk about. Every single country in the world has off topics -- off-limit topics. In Russia, it's Putin, in the Middle East, it's Islam, in Turkey, it's Erdogan. If you talk against them, you're going to get in a lot trouble. Do you know what the American one is?
FORGEARD: What, speaking out against the Dems?
TATE: Speaking out against the Jews. If you speak out —
FORGEARD: Oh, the Jews.
TATE: — against the Jews in America, you're going to get in a lot of trouble

Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec, Mark Levin and Rev. Lance Wallnau #sexist #wingnut #fundie mediamatters.org

After conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the Supreme Court’s March 5 majority decision to uphold a lower court order requiring President Donald Trump’s administration to pay USAID contractors for work already completed, right-wing influencers lashed out — calling Barrett a “DEI judge” who was “chosen solely because she checked identity politics boxes” and claiming “the power has gone to her head”[…]
•Right-wing influencer Mike Cernovich wrote that Barrett “is evil, chosen solely because she checked identity politics boxes. Another DEI hire.” In a separate post, he wrote, “Amy Coney Barrett is a psychopathic Covidian. She was our DEI hire and now we pay the price”[…]
•MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec declared that Barrett is a “DEI judge”[…]
•Fox host Mark Levin lamented that “Barrett deceived people into thinking she was a reliable constitutionalist,” adding, “The power has gone to her head.” Levin also wrote that “Roberts and Barrett are political justices[…]
•Pro-Trump “prophet” and streaming host Lance Wallnau asserted that Barrett is “NOT one of us” because she was “glaring at Trump” during his address, and suggested Trump’s next Supreme Court nominee should be “a strong male evangelical.” Wallnau posted: “She’s NOT one of us. Notice her glaring at Trump. No more female University professors! They’re overwhelmingly liberal. I’m serious. I may be jet lagged but I think she’s a democrat. We always go with Catholics but never Evangelicals. Next one - a strong male evangelical”

Sean Hannity #wingnut #psycho mediamatters.org

SEAN HANNITY (HOST): But there's two targets that the U.S. and Israel have to look at. Take out the source of their funding, which would be their refineries. That would be target number one if I was in charge. Target number two, take out their nuclear sites.

Now the Israelis have already proven they can get past their air defenses. This has to be done before they build them back up again, number one. And number two, these facilities, according to all the intelligence that is in the public domain, are deeply buried underground. That likely means they'll need bunker buster bombs, and they'll need some American support. But I don't think we have much time.

Jesse Watters #transphobia #psycho mediamatters.org

From the February 5, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Five

JESSICA TARLOV (CO-HOST): Jesse, what do you think?

JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): How many trans teens killed themselves today, Jessica?

TARLOV: I didn't get my update yet. I don't know

WATTERS: Well, no, because you guys said that if you wouldn't let trans teens do whatever they wanted, they were going to become suicidal, so I'm just wondering, you know, between this and the no surgeries we should see a rash in teenage suicides this year, right?

TARLOV: You seem a little gleeful about --

WATTERS: Obviously, I'm being sarcastic because that was a B.S. excuse

Jesse Watters #wingnut mediamatters.org

From the January 7, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Five

JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): This is like Tyrus, Tyrus' neighborhood. And Tyrus is kind of like the neighborhood watch. The one-man neighborhood watch. And he happens to also have the biggest house in the neighborhood, and he also happens to be a trillionaire. And one day Tyrus takes a stroll in the neighborhood. Looking around, and he sees a house that is next door that he likes. And he knocks on the door. Knock, knock. "How much?" "Oh, this house is not for sale." "Of course it is. How much?" "Oh, this house is not for sale." "Well, I can take it by force, or you guys can sleep on it and maybe tomorrow you can tell me what the price is"

That's where we are with Trump. He's America's real estate tycoon. So he's testing the waters, he's flexing his muscle[…]And I think the grand strategy is create a North American trade, energy, and security network that gets the best terms for us. Now, I looked into Greenland

GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): No, you didn't

WATTERS: I did. So the pros of Greenland, a lot of minerals -- great, you could project a lot of force to counter Russia through there. But it's also a very poor country, and we basically do whatever we want there anyway. It would really piss off Denmark and all of Scandinavia and it would ruin our access to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. I did study, Greg

And then in terms of Panama, yes, I definitely think they need to reduce the transit rates, because we are getting ripped off every time we sail through there, but I don't want to occupy that stupid country, it's run by cartels. It'd be a mess

Canada. At first I wanted it, and I tried to divide it into two states. And then I realized we'd be adding Montana basically for the Republicans, and electorally, like, a Texas for the Democrats, and I don't like that. But the fact that they don't want us to take them over makes me want to invade. I want to quench my imperialist thirst

Greg Kelly #wingnut #psycho mediamatters.org

From the January 13, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports

GREG KELLY (HOST): Well, I like JD Vance. I like half of that. But actually, some of the people who committed violent acts, actually, well, many of them have gotten a raw deal as well. This has never been adequately investigated because we never had an adequate investigation into the whole damn thing. But, I don't know, what do you do when the police unlawfully provoke violence? And that's what a lot of people believe happened. They did not issue a warning before throwing chemical munitions into a mostly, if not universally peacefully assembled crowd.
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KELLY: Why is this guy throwing these basic hand grenades into a crowd? And people aren't, like, they aren't lunging toward officers or anything like that? You see, this is stirring up a fight, stirring up a fight where there was no fight. So the people who started fighting, I mean, do they not deserve a pardon, too? I think that has to be looked into. I wouldn't rule anything out. The whole thing was a kind of a setup, many of us believe

Jesse Watters #wingnut #psycho mediamatters.org

From the March 13, 2025, edition of Fox News' Jesse Watters Primetime

JESSE WATTERS (HOST): America is expanding. You can call this market growing pains. We're also expanding geographically
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Trump's White House is even asking the Pentagon to develop military options for the Panama Canal. The Panamanian military can either work with us or work for us, if you know what I mean. And Greenland's basically inevitable

Clay Clark, Eric Trump and other fundies #conspiracy #crackpot #fundie #god-complex #homophobia #magick mediamatters.org

Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to address a group of extreme right-wing media “prophets” and pastors who have claimed that “demonic forces” are behind the popularity of the Harris campaign, declared that Trump is “anointed to be king,” and said that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz “go to churches that are synagogues of Satan” because they are Baptist and Lutheran.

The 11th Hour Faith Leaders Meeting, scheduled for October 21 in North Carolina, is apparently being organized by Clay Clark, co-founder of the ReAwaken Tour, which holds events across the country that have featured QAnon influencers, pro-Trump “prophets,” Christian nationalists, and figures who have praised Hitler. Clark has promoted numerous conspiracy theories, including that Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, may have been replaced by a clone created by the Chinese government and that the U.S. government created or worsened Hurricane Helene through “weather manipulation.”

Clark revealed in a recent interview that Eric Trump had asked him to organize the event because “we need to get together the nonwackadoodles.” “That was the phrase Eric used, ‘nonwackadoodles,’” said Clark, “the serious faith leaders, the people that are actually committed to saving this country. And he said, ‘Clay, we need to get them together, my father needs to be able to address this community.’” He added that the event is “an invitation-only thing” and “we're vetting everybody very carefully.”

Charlie Kirk #ableist mediamatters.org

From the January 8, 2025, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble

CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): I'm gonna say this just off the cuff before I introduce our guest. Can we please just go away with half the screen during these emergency briefings to the sign language interpreters? I have nothing against, obviously, people that cannot hear, but there's closed captioning. I mean, this is just over the top. We can't do this. We gotta get back to how it used to be. It's just, oh, it's just too much. It's a distraction is what it is. The reason is they do these emergency briefings for fires or terrorist attacks, and you're looking at this and you're not listening. I don't like it. So we got — we just gotta — closed captioning's perfectly fine. I think we have to — we gotta get back to basics here

Jesse Watters #racist #pratt mediamatters.org

From the January 8, 2024, edition of Fox News' Jesse Watters Primetime

It gets worse. Gavin's been tearing down dams. Why? Because the Indians wanted some of the river back so they could catch salmon. Gavin didn't just knock down one dam for the Indians, he knocked down all four
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And these dams were a go-to source for firefighters to pull water from to fight fires up north. Gavin's literally tearing down western civilization for fish and Indians. Nothing against the Indians, I love the Indians. But really?

Alex Jones #wingnut #conspiracy mediamatters.org

Citation From the November 7, 2024, edition of Infowars' The Alex Jones Show

We have, just like the communists do but we do it as patriots, truth and reconciliation commissions. It's all over television for years, and we destroy the Democratic Party, we destroy the U.N., we destroy the NGOs, and we regain America's soul at the same time. Now that's my plan, and I can tell you that's a common sense plan. And I can tell you that that is the plan that is being prepared right now. And you heard Flynn say, yeah, Alex. Let's, let's not tell 'em too much. We don't wanna be caught flat footed. They know

And I'm gonna say this again. If we don't hit them hard with this, A, it's the right thing to do, God's watching. We weren't given this victory, God's hand wasn't on Trump for nothing[…]
Now, you already see the Border Patrol, and the DHS, and the NGO people that were contractors going public all over the place for years, saying we're not part of this. Those people are heroes. And so it's not the Border Patrol, it's not mostly even the employees -- they hate it -- then they hand them off to people literally on airfields, and in fields, and in parking lots at Walmarts at 3:00 AM, and there's not paperwork

And so that's where the investigation starts. And so, those whistleblowers are all in Congress, more whistleblowers, hearings. You bring it out, and then Trump will have control of the Justice Department. And then these criminals that have been hijacking the government that committed these crimes just like the Nazis, they have to learn they're not above the law. Nuremberg two

Because if Trump goes after little stuff like Hunter Biden and all the things the media tries to get us to focus on, that's a diversion. Sure. Put him in prison too, but we'll get to him later. Trump says we're gonna find the missing children, and that's what the task force is going out or doing when they're going out with the gangs and the human traffickers

Kandiss Taylor #conspiracy #pratt #racist #wingnut mediamatters.org

Kandiss Taylor hosts a program on the network led by “best friend” Stew Peters, a Holocaust denier who has attempted to portray Adolf Hitler as a “hero.” She has also promoted antisemitism, complaining that Jewish people are “controlling everything” and alleging that “we have some Marxist trash using our R who pander to the Jews.”

Taylor isn’t just a random commentator: She’s the District 1 chairwoman for the Georgia Republican Party. Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Greg Bluestein last year described Taylor’s elected position as a “key” post, noting that the state party “plays a role in mobilizing voters, marshaling activists and, most significantly, determining delegates for the presidential nomination.”

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In October, Trump ally Mike Davis wrote on social media: “The Democrat Party has been overtaken by Marxist trash who hates Jews.” Taylor responded: “We have some Marxist trash using our R who pander to the Jews. Not much difference.” (Update 8/26: After the publication of this article, Taylor deleted her post.)

She is a repeat guest on The Stew Peters Show. During a February 14 appearance on the show, they discussed someone being charged for allegedly vandalizing a pro-LGBTQ mural. (Peters is virulently anti-LGBTQ.) While discussing pro-LGBTQ efforts, Peters asked Taylor: “No more funding our own demise — bioweapons and forever wars from the Jewish lobby that basically runs our entire government. And they run this as well, don't they?” She replied: “Yeah they run this. 100%. They're controlling everything.”

Rev. Jackson Lahmeyer #fundie #racist #conspiracy mediamatters.org

Pastors for Trump leader Jackson Lahmeyer, a key Trump ally who has been visited by members of Trump’s inner circle, recently warned followers that a Jewish politician will be the Antichrist[…]
Lahmeyer is a right-wing commentator and the pastor of Sheridan Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is the founder and leader of Pastors For Trump, which, as its name indicates, seeks “to continue to build the relationship between Christian leaders and President Trump during his bid for the Presidency”

Lahmeyer has a history of making toxic remarks, including calling Vice President Kamala Harris a “lying whore”; claiming Democrats are “demonic”; and lobbing bigoted attacks at LGBTQ people, Jewish people, and Muslims

He continued that pattern during a sermon that was posted online on October 8, which carries the headline “Revelation 13 | Verse-By-Verse | Antichrist + False Prophet | Pastor Jackson Lahmeyer.” During the sermon, Lahmeyer portrayed Jewish and Muslim people as a future threat to Christians:

JACKSON LAHMEYER: This is the opinion of Jackson Lahmeyer. The Antichrist will be a political leader. This is just Jackson's opinion. The Antichrist will be a political leader of Jewish descent. That is how the Jews will worship him

The false prophet, I believe, will be an Islamic imam. I believe that the false prophet will be an Islamic religious leader who will lead the people to worship the beast. That's just Jackson's opinion. And he will implement some form of one world religion, an Islamic caliphate. And if you do not take the mark, you will have your head chopped off

There's only one group of people today that still chop off the heads of people, and that's radical Islamic extremists. And I believe they will implement that form of religion when the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is gone. So it's my opinion that the future Antichrist will have some form of a Jewish descent, that the false prophet will be an Islamic religious leader

Ben Ferguson #conspiracy #quack mediamatters.org

From the November 15, 2024, edition of Fox News' Outnumbered

BEN FERGUSON (GUEST): I've never seen so many conservatives, by the way, now looking at following the money of Big Pharma, and realizing, like, hey, maybe we're actually being taken advantage of. Maybe they want to throw every single vaccine at you to make more money. And we know how much money they made off of vaccines. We also know that doctors were not honest with the American people because they were getting bonuses for how many vaccines they were putting out there. And the American people and mothers will not forget that

Chaya Raichik #transphobia #pratt mediamatters.org

On the afternoon of January 4, Libs of TikTok creator Chaya Raichik shared a meme on X suggesting that multiple recent school shooters have been transgender. Raichik added the claim — spreading rapidly among anti-trans accounts — that the alleged perpetrator of a shooting in an Iowa school that day identified as “genderfluid,” adding, “What’s going on?”

But one of the photos in the meme Raichik shared — supposedly of the shooter in the 2022 Uvalde, Texas, school shooting — was of an innocent woman

Far-right 4chan trolls had originally shared photos of an unrelated trans woman, identified by NBC News only as “Sam,” to claim that she had perpetrated the massacre. The actual shooter, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, was killed on the scene by police

Brent Johnson #wingnut #psycho #conspiracy mediamatters.org

Numerous Trump-aligned media figures have accused the Federal Emergency Management Agency and its officials of committing treason over its handling of Hurricane Helene[…]
SGT Report is a far-right show that promotes conspiracy theories, including QAnon. Trump administration officials Kash Patel, Peter Navarro, and Mike Flynn have appeared on the show

The show ran an episode that included the description: “Chaos, death and destruction brought to you by the criminal and treasonous Biden-Harris administration. The official tally of the dead from hurricane Helene currently stands at 227 but thousands of Americans are missing and presumed dead and FEMA under Biden-Harris is doing LESS THAN NOTHING, in fact, FEMA is standing in the way of search and recovery. Brent Johnson believes these corrupt politicians should be tried and hanged from the neck until dead for their treason. LISTEN!”

During the program, the host began by claiming: “It is treason. In fact, friends, it's worse than treason. I want you to think about this. If you planned a war against the people over which you rule using their own money and resources, isn't this just exactly how you would do it?”

Brent Johnson, a fringe commentator and author, said: “My solution, though, is considered to be a bit too radical. I would haul them all out. I would have the militia come in, pick them up, OK? Whisk them away someplace, try them, convict them and execute them, hang them by the necks till they're dead and let their dead bodies rot while people see what is done to treasonous government thugs. But, hey, that's just me, you know? And people would say, ‘I'm being outrageous. I'm being, I'm being too radical. I'm being, you know, I want war.’ I don't want war. I'm actually one of the most peace loving people around. But these people are vicious and evil.” He later added: “I believe it's way past time for an armed revolution”

Charlie Kirk #wingnut #fundie mediamatters.org

So they didn’t turn the water on, things burned, this is the guy who told landowners they couldn't use water to fight the fires while the fires were still small. Is it because he believed that water was sacred and we must worship the water? Or is it because of equity, was it because there were certain peoples’ homes burning that he wanted them to burn?

They believe, in pagan Hawaiian culture, we must worship water, not life. Wokeism is just a return of an old god. The Bible was written as a refutation, it was obsessed with challenging this idea – specifically of Egypt. This is no different. You believe — they believed the Nile was holy. And they believe water is so holy that you can't use it to fight a fire? That’s what he’s implying here, well that same guy did not allow the release of the water. This is the one thing that is coming clear in Maui. And the media couldn’t care less, because I think they’re afraid of what they’ll find. That this is not climate change, not global warming, not carbon emissions. This is left-wing ideologues that allowed the island to burn. That there is blood on the hands of the water worshippers. Christianity broke us free of pagan slavery. So did the Hebrew Bible, by the way. Challenged this idea of worshiping the earth, that God is not in nature, that God created nature. Could it be that Maui did not have to burn if they didn’t believe such wacky, goofy, pagan stuff?

Michelle Bachmann and Charlie Kirk #racist mediamatters.org

MICHELLE BACHMANN (GUEST): Maybe our President Biden should learn what the truth is of what's going on in Gaza versus what's going on in Israel. So, could you imagine he handed a check for 100 billion dollars of our money just a couple of weeks after they slit the throats of Israelis, he is not willing to sign 14 billion to help the Israelis, the money is flowing in for Gaza, all the money is coming in from Iran

And that's what the people of Gaza are. They're basically hide mercenaries. That is their industry. Terrorism is their industry. That's why you have more miles of tunnels, Charlie, than you have the New York subway. Because they have one industry in Gaza and that's terrorism

So, it's time that Gaza ends. The two million people who live there, they are clever assassins, they need to be removed from that land. That land needs to be turned into a national park, and since they're the voluntary mercenaries for Iran, they need to be dropped on the doorstep of Iran, let Iran deal with those people

CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): Michelle Bachmann, everybody, she does a great job, doesn't she? And, I got to be honest, you know, I look at Israel, and Israel says we never want another person into our country that doesn't share our values. They said they don't want refugees, they don't want any of these people

BACHMANN: What a concept

KIRK: I want American immigration policy to be like that

BACHMANN: Yes. Yes

KIRK: I want American immigration policy to be like that

BACHMANN: Yes, yes, I agree

KIRK: I want American immigration policy to be the Israeli immigration policy. Big walls, lots of deportations, and no people that hate us

Tucker Carlson #wingnut #psycho mediamatters.org

EMAD ELDIN ADEEB: Comparing the culture, the competence between Vladamir Putin and Biden, how do you see the two men now running the world?

TUCKER CARLSON: If this were boxing the fight would be called by the medic. So[…]I don’t plan to ever leave my country, my family’s been there hundreds of years and I love it and I am a patriotic American and I grieve when I see that the president is non compos mentis[…]
The most radicalizing thing I would just say for me in the eight days I spent in Moscow was not simply the leader of the country who of course is impressive, it’s the largest landmass in the world and it’s wildly diverse[…]hard to run a country like that for 24 years[…]
What was radicalizing[…]for me was the city of Moscow[…]Nicer than any city in my country[…]
ADEEB: You should challenge in the roles of an interview, and you’re a master in your business[…]You should challenge some ideas[…]You didn’t talk about freedom of speech in Russia, you did not talk about Navalny, about assassinations, about restrictions on opposition in the coming elections

CARLSON: I didn’t talk about the things that every other American media outlet talks about

ADEEB: Why, yes?[…]
CARLSON: Because those are covered and because I have spent my life talking to people who run countries in various countries and have concluded the following. That every leader kills people, including my leader. Every leader kills people, some kill more than others. Leadership requires killing people, sorry, that’s why I wouldn’t want to be a leader. That press restriction is universal in the United States, I know because I’ve lived it. Ask my former – I’ve had a lot of jobs. And I’ve done this for 34 years and I know how it works and there’s more censorship in Russia than there is in the United States but there is a great deal in the United States. And so at a certain point, it’s like people can decide whether they think, what countries they think are better, what systems they think are better

Nick Fuentes #wingnut #psycho mediamatters.org

Former President Donald Trump dined with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago. As noted at the time, Trump made numerous remarks around the visit but declined to make any statements condemning Fuentes[…]
On the evening that Trump won the Iowa GOP caucus, Fuentes spoke out about his loyalty to Trump[…]
Citation From the January 15, 2024, Rumble stream of Nick Fuentes

I am not a Republican. I am a Trump cultist, and I want everyone to know that. I am not a Republican. Do not lump me in with them. I am not a Republican. I do not support McCarthy. I do not support McConnell. I do not support Haley or DeSantis. I do not watch Fox News. I don't support any of that

I am a Donald Trump cultist. I am a soldier for Donald Trump. I am part of — I serve at the personal pleasure of Donald Trump, my supreme leader. I am part of the paramilitary wing of the Trump movement. I am part of the Revolutionary Guard

I do not answer to the Pentagon. I do not answer to the civilian government. I answer — I am the Praetorian Guard of Donald Trump. If Donald Trump ordered me to do an extrajudicial killing, I would perform it

I do not swear an oath to the Constitution. I swear an oath to Art of the Deal[…]
I work for Donald Trump personally. Now, I'm not — I don't — I'm not contracted. This is just like, you know, but — I do. But I would work for him like that. I am part of the paramilitary wing[…]
If Donald Trump called me up and said, look, we need to capture my political enemies and torture them, you're OK with that, right? This is totally off the books. This is a black op. If he called me up and told me to do it, I would. I would be like, sir, yes — I wouldn't even say, yes, Mr. President. I would say it will be done. I would say it will be done, Supreme Leader

Michael Knowles #racist #conspiracy mediamatters.org

Citation From the August 12, 2024, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show

There was a gal who won. She won the bronze medal, this Romanian gal. And her name is, Voinea, Sabrina Voinea. And so her score was up there, you know, and she won the bronze and she did a good job in gymnastics. And then they just changed her score. She's already so excited that she won. They changed her score, and they gave it to – and this is important for the context, she's an extremely white girl – and they gave it to a Black girl, Chiles – something Chiles. And so – Jordan Chiles. So Jordan Chiles, Black, ends up keeping her same score. Sabrina Voinea loses a tenth of a point or something like that, for allegedly stepping out[…]
I'm not saying it didn't come close, but it was fine. They took that point away for no reason whatsoever. But the reason that the races matter here is this was the podium that was hailed by all the Olympics, you know, PR flacks as the all-Black podium. It was so historic. So, of course, they had to take it away from the white girl and they had to give it to the Black girl[…]
Now affirmative action is not just in schools, it's not just in places of employment, affirmative action is now in sports, affirmative action is now in the Olympics. That's amazing. You get however many extra points on your SAT if you check the right racial box. And now I guess you get an extra tenth of a point, quarter of a point, half a point, who knows, in Olympics gymnastics

Matt Walsh #wingnut mediamatters.org

How would Thomas Jefferson and the Founding Fathers respond to our government right now? And, obviously, the answer is they would violently overthrow it. Like, if our Founding Fathers were on the scene right now, January 6th would be a wakj in the park. It would be a picnic compared to what they would do. And they wouldn't even think about it. Like, if Thomas Jefferson came back from the dead and looked at our government now, he would turn to us, the citizens, and say, what are you people doing? You haven't invaded Washington yet and killed all these people? What are you waiting for? What's the problem here? What's the holdup, folks?

Just taxes alone. Alright? Not even taking everything else into account -- the giant behemoth central government which is, by the way, far larger and more powerful and more invasive than the government that the Founders rebelled against. They had significantly more freedom than we do now. It's not even close, actually… These guys rebelled over a tax on tea… think about that. A tax on tea. Well, we have -- we have taxes on tea. You know, if you go buy a Snapple or something, it's gonna be taxed. But we have a tax on literally everything. You wake up in the morning and you turn on your light, and you're already getting taxed, okay? You can't even get out of your bedroom before the taxes set in. You go into your kitchen and you pour your taxed coffee into your taxed mug, or if you prefer tea, that'll be taxed too. And you get in your car, which is taxed, and it's running on gasoline, which is taxed. And you get onto the highway that you pay a toll to even get on the highway in the first place, and you go to work. And you're getting taxed just to work. Your income is taxed before you even get your hands on it.

Thomas Jefferson would not even consider putting up with this. There'd be nothing to talk about. He'd be calling for an armed rebellion and insisting that the IRS building be -- be torched to the ground. That's what he would say. Like, that's the lineage of our country. These are the men who founded our country. That's the attitude they had. They weren't shy about violence, obviously. And they were much more, perhaps, we would say liberal in its application -- liberal, understood it in a different way -- than we are today. Just the fact of the matter.

Stew Peters #wingnut #transphobia #psycho #racist mediamatters.org

Rumble host and X influencer Stew Peters called for the murder of Catholic Charities workers[…]

STEW PETERS: These people cross into Mexico and coach illegals on how to get admitted here. They pay for their bus tickets to the cities that you and I live in[…]
A lot of people say that we need troops on the border who will shoot the people trying to sneak across. I agree. They're invading our country. The military's sole function is to protect its country from a physical invasion and to protect you and I and the people that I love and the people that you love from any harm that might come as a result of her invasion[…]We need troops on the border that will shoot people that are trying to invade our country

That'd be a good first step. But you know what a better second step would be? Shooting everyone involved with these fake charities

Peters later implored his audience to buy a gun and learn how to shoot[…]“If they come for your guns, you better be ready to die in a pile of spent shell casings”

Shortly after talking about buying guns and learning how to use them, Peters also turned his attention to public schools, stating: “I don’t think that we should just bail and go homeschool. No, we freaking fund these public schools. We go there and we fight them and we root them out and we restore our schools to teach what they're supposed to. Hundreds of thousands of kids are attending Christian schools — not fake ones like the ones that we have Pride flags in. Can you believe that?”

He then talked about killing doctors who provide gender-affirming care, stating:

STEW PETERS: We're really lucky because the Bible itself already tells us what the punishment should be. From the gospel of Matthew, quote: “But who so shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me. It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” That sounds like a great idea. Isn't it?

Ali Alexander #wingnut #conspiracy mediamatters.org

I haven't read the full indictment, the 45-page indictment against the 45th president, which was entirely on purpose. I mean, you begin to see that Jack Smith was selected because of his pettiness. That Merrick Garland picked this garbage, ugly, junkyard dog to prosecute and persecute Trump in the worst of ways. And this guy is just petty. He's — it's — one of the great things — and I'm just like kind of processing this out loud with you all — one of the great things about yesterday — and when I say great, they're all horrible.

...

But one of the great things about yesterday was finally — you know, I've been waiting — I've been waiting for six years, six or five years, for people to start sounding like me. And finally on Fox News, I heard multiple guests say, “This is the worst prosecution in American history. This is the worst — this is the worst legal case in American history. This is the worst.” And it is. It is. People don't like it when I say this is worse than the Civil War. This is worse. I mean, if you want to really put this in perspective, America has not had a traitor so traitorous to our country since Benedict Arnold. And I mean Jack Smith.

And on Twitter, they're all like, “Ali better be careful.” All these left-wing Twitter accounts, “Ali better be careful or Jack Smith's going to indict him.” Indict me. I don't care. I do not care, you know? And so I just — but like, you know, I don't know what offends me more. I don't know if I'm more sad that law and order is dead, or that it's obvious law and order's dead, or that the people are too stupid to know that law and order is dead. I really think it's the last one.

Candace Owens #wingnut #sexist #transphobia mediamatters.org

We're -- I mean, we are in a matriarchy. And this is why they accuse me of being an internalized misogynist because I'm able to think through and acknowledge the flaws of what happens in society when women get power.

And if you wanna know what happens, look around you. Women fall for emotional arguments the entire time. They show us a commercial, you know, show -- it's so sad, and before they get to the rational aspects of it, they're already invested emotionally. And I think that virtually every societal ill that we are facing today is because of women.

And I think the greatest recent example of that is the Bud Light controversy, because, I mean, trans people were just playing dress up as women, invaded every women's space, and women said, oh, but I feel bad. Because it's how he identifies at the inside, without thinking through the fact that you're quite literally disappearing yourselves. Right? You're quite literally saying, I will cease existing before I let this grown man who's wearing a wig have a bad feeling. That's insane.

Michael Knowles #wingnut mediamatters.org

From the July 19, 2023, edition of The Daily Wire's The Michael Knowles Show

MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): The difference here is Mussolini was a pretty bad guy. He's not -- he wasn't the worst guy in the world. He wasn't Hitler, certainly. He wasn't Stalin, he wasn't Lenin. But he -- Mussolini was, let's say, at least a mixed bag leaning on the side of bad. Not -- he was a bad political leader. Franco was, broadly speaking, pretty good. Given the circumstances that he was in; you've got the communists threatening to take over the entire country and they're killing priests and raping nuns, Franco was pretty good. Because Franco wasn't a fascist. Franco wasn't a Nazi. Franco was a conservative, Catholic, kind of guy who held things together and liberalized over time too, as the circumstances permitted it. I don't know. I mean, even to -- you're saying it's crazy to compare the current party to Franco, but even to compare Franco to the other bad men of the twentieth century, I think, is a great exaggeration

Michael Knowles #wingnut #sexist mediamatters.org

Women in combat is a national scandal. It is a disgrace. It is a deep, deep shame and stain on our country. And I don't even hear the conservative politicians talking about this. Women in combat is a very recent phenomenon, as the lady just said in that commercial. And yet, we just totally gave up that fight. Why? Because we don't wanna be seen as disrespecting women who serve in the military. I have the utmost respect for women who serve in the military. I'm deeply grateful for their inclination to serve and sacrifice. But the military is not about individual desires. It's not even about individual ability. It's about cohesion and unity and national policy and who we wanna be as a nation. I have no doubt that's -- that there are a significant number of women who would valiantly go out and risk their lives and bodily integrity to go fight for America. I don't want them to do that. I think it's bad for America to send women into harm's way.

I think part of the reason that we have an army is so that we don't have to do that. I think it's disordered. I think that women are more nurturing. They're the weaker sex. They're the gentler sex. And a major reason to have a military is to protect them because boys need their mommies, and husbands need their wives, and societies need a nurturing feminine element. And when we're talking -- especially when we're talking about fighting a lethal force, we need to not be sentimental and not be absurdly ideological. We need to send out the toughest, strongest, brawniest fellas. The -- the reason to keep women out of combat is as much for the men as for the women. It's as much for the civilians as for the fighting force. And you need to say it. Even -- even moderate Democrats said this 10 years ago, and now the conservative right-wing won't say it.

Charlie Kirk #racist #wingnut #conspiracy mediamatters.org

Citation From the November 7, 2023, edition of Salem Media Group's The Charlie Kirk Show

CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): Jews have been some of the largest funders of cultural Marxist ideas and supporters of those ideas over the last 30 or 40 years. Stop supporting causes that hate you. Now, you might say, well, how is one thing applied to the other? If you train a generation, if you do everything through an oppressor, oppressed lens, they will apply that lens to the Israel-Hamas conflict. The same way that they apply it to the police issue, the gender issue, good guy, bad guy, somebody on top, somebody on bottom

Until you cleanse that ideology from the hierarchy in the academic elite of the west, there will not be a safe future. I'm not going to say Israel won't exist, but Israel will be in jeopardy as long as the western children, children of the west, are being taught, with primarily Jewish dollars, subsidizing it, to view everything through oppressor oppressed dynamic. Until you shed that ideology, you will not be able to build the case for Israel, because they view Israel as an oppressor