RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/January 2021

January 2021
Newsweek accuses Biden's critics of being liars for correctly claiming that Joe Biden promised during the Georgia elections, that if Democrats controlled the Senate, they give 2,000 checks immediately. (title has been changed in the meanwhile) Bernie Sanders wearing mittens: the epitome of white privilege? The Wisconsin pharmacist who sabotaged 500 vaccine doses thought that COVID is a hoax, that the Earth is flat, and that the sky is actually a "shield put up by the Government to prevent individuals from seeing God." Trump and the MyPillow guy are martyrs now because they got kicked off Twitter. Sad. Bonus points for using the Muppet Gulag picture. heaps great praise upon Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar Filing in Federal Court legitimately asks for the Court to establish the Stewardship of Gondor in the absence of Aragorn Emmanuel Macron thinks that there should be no "remorse or apologies" for colonial abuses committed in Algeria. This is coming from the same guy who has the audacity to lecture the world on human rights. A planned MAGA protest in Alaska got off to bad start, as extremists call for a rally at the Dimond Center Mall in midtown Anchorage instead of at the Dimond Courthouse in downtown Juneau, opposite the Alaska Capitol, over 570 miles away. Conspiracy theorist's image of a "5G Covid implant chip" turns out to be a guitar pedal schematic. Flat earthers decide to sail to the edge of the planet. It goes about as well as can be expected.