We've been largely ignoring North Carolina Republicans due to the rich deposits of lunacy north and south of the state. I see now that was a mistake; Republican Senate candidate Greg Brannon gives North Carolina a good, solid entry in the GOP race toward peak batshit insanity. Previously known for
comparing food stamps to slavery and
plagiarizing his campaign website content from serial plagiarist Rand Paul, which is just sad, Brannon also turns out to have been "president" of a little organization called
Founder's Truth. What was
Founder's Truth? Among other things, it was an avid peddler of
conspiracy theories:
The organization featured a blog on their website that posted whole items from other sites, many from conspiracy sites like NaturalNews.com and InfoWars.com.
All right,
plagiarizing InfoWars is now the saddest thing I ever heard.
Among the blog posts that Greg Brannon's organization deemed worthy of sharing with their followers:
THE BATMAN PSYOP EXPANDS [calling the Aurora theater shooting an "op" by "psyop pros"]
Central Bankers Inflate Fiat While Plans for One World Currency Are Made
US Government and Private Sector Invest in Agenda 21 Light Rail Systems
Other terrors include fluoridated water, microchips embedded in your brain, and how one author knows that a secret plot against him exists because the FBI denies it exists, which just goes to show it exists, or something to that effect.
Brannon has the support of Sen. Rand Paul, i.e. the guy whose website he lifted, and has strong tea party support which gives him a very good shot at making it through the Republican primary. He's also obsessively anti-abortion, a nullification advocate, and claims he moved to North Carolina specifically because he admired segregationist senator Jesse Helms so much.
I'd say the Republican rebranding effort has gone off to dig its own shallow grave right about now.