Cardi B, Billie Eilish and more dubbed “tools of Satan” by US political candidate Kristina Karamo

nme.com:

Cardi B, Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande and Beyoncé are among several artists that have been deemed “tools of Satan” by Kristina Karamo, the Republican candidate running for Michigan Secretary of State.Karamo was chosen by Michigan Republicans on April 23 as their candidate for Secretary of State in the upcoming November election.

Per NPR, Karamo – a former community college professor and host of the defunct It’s Solid Food podcast – rose to prominence after claiming she witnessed election fraud in the state’s capital Detroit during the last presidential election.Karamo has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump, and continues to deny the results of the 2020 US election.The politician has, particularly over the last two years, been vocal about some controversial opinions: She doesn’t think evolution should be taught in schools, she believes left-wing activists were behind the January 6 riots in Washington D.C., she has made repeated anti-LGBT remarks and she appeared at a rally affiliated with QAnon last year.Karamo’s opinions have even involved some of music’s most prominent female figures, linking the artists to Satan and satanic doings.

In an episode of her former podcast that aired on August 6 2020, as unearthed by Rolling Stone, Karamo said Grande and Eilish had been placing children “under a satanic delusion”.Karamo claimed that “most perpetrators of this rise in paganism and witchcraft are celebrities”, before referencing Grande’s 2018 single ‘God Is A Woman’ by way of an example. “At the MTV [Video Music] Awards, her performance involved recreating the Last Supper of Christ as a lesbian orgy,” Karamo said.