Nutbag news update

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Hours before the San Bernardino attack, the GOP front-runner sat down with professional crank Alex Jones.

Trump’s bid for the White House reached his obvious apex on Wednesday afternoon, when he Skyped into the Alex Jones Show, 60 Minutes for the tinfoil hat electorate.

“I’ve got so many questions,” Jones told Trump. “But you are vindicated, this has gotta be the 50th time the last six months, on the radical Muslims celebrating, not just in New Jersey, but in New York, Palestine, all over! What do you have to say? They’re still attacking you!”

“Well I took a lot of heat and I was very strong on it and I held my line and all then of a sudden hundreds of people were calling up my office,” Trump said.

At a recent event in Florida, Trump explained to Jones, “the people were saying, many of the people from New Jersey, four or five people said, ‘Mr. Trump, I saw it myself! I was there!’”

Jones moved on to promoting the idea that the mass shooting at on Wednesday afternoon was “highly suspicious” and seemingly “geared to elicit widespread public outrage.”

Jones, like many conspiracy theorists whom Trump counts among his supporters, is no stranger to squinting skeptically at gun violence.

There is a subculture of mass shooting truthers who believe that attacks like Sandy Hook and the more recent murder of a TV reporter and producer in Roanoke, Va., are hoaxes executed by government actors in order to elicit fear and ultimately result in the confiscation of guns and the rise of a dictatorial government or new world order.

Sandy Hook is a complete myth because the “FBI says no one killed at Sandy Hook.”

Trump’s campaign did not respond when asked if he agreed with the assessment of his newfound kindred spirit.



http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/02/donald-trump-finds-his-prophet.html

 

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Alan Harper, a Republican legislator in Alabama’s state house (representing Pickens and Tuscaloosa counties), shared an important announcement with his 2,551 Facebook friends on Monday: beware any local business not owned by white, religious people like himself, because they are funding terrorism in the Middle East.



http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/30/alabama-republican-non-christian-business-owners-fund-terrorism.html

 

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Already, GOP presidential candidates are blaming a lack of guns for America’s latest deadly mass shooting.

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee tweeted his prayers today much sooner than he had for Friday’s shooting at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado but he just couldn’t leave it at that.

Huckabee then made further comments to reporters while on the campaign trail in Iowa, arguing that without knowing the motives for this latest mass shooting he knew that nearly every such incident involves “a mentally unstable person” and “a gun free zone”.

Huckabee’s fellow GOP presidential long shot aspirant, Rick Santorum, similarly argued that if the nurses at Planned Parenthood in Colorado Springs had been armed they could have prevented Robert Dear from murdering three people last Friday.

“Where do you think these people commit crimes?” Santorum said. “They go to places, these people who are ill, they go to places where they know no one’s going to have a gun.”





http://www.salon.com/2015/12/02/mike_huckabee_rushes_to_blame_gun_free_zones_for_san_bernardino_mass_shooting/