RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/June 2022

June 2022
Alex Jones and Roger Stone claim that Donald Trump will announce his 2024 presidential campaign on July 4th. If so, brace yourselves. Full-time troll (and former actor) Laurence Fox has been temporarily suspended from Twitter for putting a swastika made out of LGBT+ symbols in his profile picture and incoherently criticising LGBT rights. Johnson, Trudeau, and other G7 leaders mock Putin's shirtless photos. Congressional candidate Laura Loomer: "I can’t think of a better way to end the degeneracy of PRIDE month than by overturning Roe vs Wade." Rep. Paul Gosar celebrates Roe overturn: "There is still so much more work to be done to return this country to God... We’re just getting started. Welcome to the New Right. Welcome to America First." Daily Mail columnist Peter Hitchens believes that human rights are a load of nonsense, and we'll be much better off rid of them. - using the rights granted by the Magna Carta as an example of "real" rights..... smh. Eric Greitens, GOP Senate candidate from Missouri, breaks into a house with a shotgun and calls for 'RINO hunting' in campaign ad. The ad was later removed by Facebook and flagged by Twitter for promoting violence. Convicted criminal Anna Sorokin, who scammed hundreds of thousands of dollars from people by posing as a German heiress, has decided to move away from her "scammer persona" and is now peddling NFTs Possibly the world's best selling writer (write shite, sell by the shipload.) of all time proves to be completely out of touch with reality laments "How Hard It Is For White Men To Get Writing Jobs In Hollywood, Calling It “Another Form Of Racism”" UPDATE: James does a reverse ferret and claims “I Absolutely Do Not Believe That Racism Is Practiced Against White Writers” Smarmy pseudo intellectual TV host blames Hollywood movies for gun violence, forgets that those same movies are watched world-wide in countries that don't have the same problem with guns. In Science Gone Wrong, an artificial intelligence researcher creates a posting bot using /pol/ as a training source. Saying the quiet part out loud: Blake Masters, the totally-not-racist Trump-backed Senate candidate of Arizona, blames gun violence on Black people. (Notice: Yahoo! News has brought back their comments section. You've been warned...) Representative Billy Long of Missouri, who is also a Senate candidate, has identified a new cause of the latest string of mass shootings: abortions. What else? “Genius Australian Device Helps Anyone With Lung Conditions Breathe Freely – Without Drugs…” Yet more junk news created to sell overpriced shit. “This Pillowcase Is Quickly Becoming The Must-Have Gift Of 2022!!!” Except it isn’t. Who in their right mind wants a pillowcase as a gift? This is junk news created to get people to buy overpriced pillowcases. Lauren Witzke, a white nationalist who was the GOP's Senate candidate for Delaware in 2020, claims that the Uvalde mass shooting was "a federal operation" to prevent Hispanic voters from voting Republican in the midterms.