RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/December 2020

December 2020
Showing their journalistic standards and appetite for easy clicks, the The New York Post ripped a couple of predictions from our good friend Nostradamus for this apparently slow news day. Prager U thinks that Robert E. Lee should continue to be honored in the US Capitol because of his role in crushing "radical abolitionist" John Brown's slave uprising and because he thought that slavery was bad for white people. Mendacious asshole Scott Walker tries to promote eating out, on Dec 26th, using a cropped photo from a meal he had there in 2019. The Wall Street Journal explains that Ebenezer Scrooge was the good guy. During the winter solstice, "Coach Dave" Daubenmire led a fringe group of Christians to a sacred Native American site, harassed several who tried to stop them, and prayed to get rid of the "dark energy" being released to the world. But, uh, he's "not calling the Indians dark" and "not calling the Indians the occult" or anything. No sir. QAnoners are now claiming Amy Coney Barrett is Joe Biden's dead daughter, after his late wife supposedly faked her death, to escape his evil cult.

The Wall Street Journal focuses on the truly big issue of the day: [https://thehill.com/homenews/media/529961-wall-street-journal-draws-backlash-over-op-ed-urging-jill-biden-to-drop-doctor trying to badger Dr. Jill Biden into dropping the title from her name because as a Ed.D, she doesn't "deserve" it. Also gets bonus misogyny points for calling her "kiddo".] (WSJ is paywalled as always, so the actual article is analysis from the Hill.) "BURN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO THE FUCKING GROUND": Milo Yiannopoulos is having a breakdown on Parler because Daddy Trump didn't get the result he wanted in the Supreme Court. Incredible racism from failed GOP Senate candidate Lauren Witzke. Only a direct quote can do it justice: "Voodoo Africans are migrating into America, infiltrating the Christian Faith, and establishing churches on the pulpit of abortion and social justice. It’s so clever, it could only be demonic.". "Bang bang with Fang Fang": Ben Garrison gets his racism against Chinese people mixed into his natural horniness. Soon-to-be unemployed serial liar is absolutely, positively not pitching her resume & fundie bona fides via this fawning Fox News profile: Kayleigh McEnany on how God's plan led her to the podium Israel's former space chief claims that aliens exist in a galatic federation and that Trump knows about it. Why he never tweeted it out while in the toilet, nobody knows Failed Republican Senate candidate Lauren Witzke thinks that Trump really won 410 Electoral College votes, calls on Biden to concede. Her number seems to be based on this hilariously stupid map that shows Trump winning California by a landslide, falsely claimed to have been seized from a German server. Disgraced former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn disgraces himself further by promoting calls for Trump to declare nationwide martial law, suspend the Constitution, and have the military oversee a redo of the election. Trump team's star fraud witness Melissa Carone goes apeshit in front of the Michigan legislature, claims ballots were being counted ten times and that Wayne County has no registered voters, has to be shushed by a mortified Rudy Giuliani. Trump attorney goes on Newsmax, says former head of US election security Chris Krebs should "be drawn and quartered. Taken out at dawn and shot."