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This is RationalWiki's snarkilicious take on some of the more "WTF?" or egregious blog posts, editorials, videos and social media posts out there. The most popular are found in Best of the clogosphere and the older entries are found in the archives. |
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September 2024
   | 9 | Zei Squirrel claims that Kamala Harris is a child rapist via...something that she is not directly involved in. |
| 13 | Elon Musk offers to impregnate Taylor Swift. |
| 27 | Trump says he never raped E. Jean Carroll because "she would not have been the chosen one." |
| 14 | Venezuela's Chavista dictator Nicolás Maduro moves the start of Christmas to October 1st (which is early even by his standards) in a desperate bid to distract his country from the fallout of July's sham elections. |
| 23 | Tim Walz isn't masculine because he drank a milkshake with a straw. |
| 29 | Tucker Carlson's new guest is Darryl Cooper, a self-proclaimed "historian" who claims "the chief villain" of World War II was Winston Churchill. He appears to blame Churchill for the Holocaust. Cooper elsewhere suggested Hitler tried "to reach an acceptable solution to the Jewish problem." Elon Musk, who has recently been boosting a neo-Nazi's content and crackpot 4chan theories, promoted the episode. Update: Musk deleted his own post. Cooper and Carlson's comments were condemned by the White House, Republicans, and Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to victims of the Holocaust. |
| 19 | Charlie Kirk: "Kamala Harris screams as somebody who has unaddressed, lingering father issues... She always needs to have a man around." |
| 23 | Candace Owens goes on an unhinged rant about a "synagogue of Satan" and "people who are pretending to be Jews, but are in fact people that worship Satan" who are "a very small, incredibly powerful group of elites." She then says this explains "the circumstance that all of these world leaders that we have, even President Zelensky, all seem to be homosexual." |
August 2024
| 33 | Trump photographed grinning and giving a cheesy thumbs-up while standing over soldiers' graves at Arlington National Cemetery. |
| 33 | Trump bizarrely claimed that people don't eat bacon because of wind power during an event in Wisconsin: "You take a look at bacon and some of these products, and some people don't eat bacon anymore. And we are going to get the energy prices down. When we get energy down – you know this was caused by their horrible energy. Wind – they want wind all over the place... You know they say you gotta vote with your stomach, I don't know if you've heard it but it's a little bit true. Food has gone up at levels that nobody's ever seen before." |
| 32 | Another day, another "what the hell is he talking about" moment from Donald Trump: now he's saying that he would win California in the presidential election if Jesus Christ was the vote counter. |
| 30 | Environmentalists call for inquiry into RFK Jr. whale head chainsaw incident. |
| 15 | The sprawling conspiracy behind Tim Walz's dog photos. |
| 37 | The Jerusalem Post writes a puff piece about George Gilder's book that claims that anti-Israel sentiment is a result of "jealousy" of Jewish people's superior IQs |
| -11 | Only two days after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the presidential race, Cornel West has started promoting vaccine skepticism. |
| 30 | Courtesy of The Economist: "Why you should never retire" |
| 38 | Trump claims it's "illegal" to criticize his judicial appointees and that doing so "should be punishable by very serious crimes and beyond that." |
| 19 | Counterpunch decides it will sink with Venezuela's dictatorship and publishes a bunch of puff pieces denying the vote fraud in the country's election. |
| 35 | Nazi Nick has declared a "groyper war" on Trump campaign. |
| 35 | Audio has recently surfaced from a 2020 podcast wherein JD Vance agreed that raising grandchildren is the "whole purpose of the postmenopausal female in theory". |
| 36 | Trump, speaking from his ass again, falsely claims that Venezuela is sending criminals to the United States, and has even gone so far as to suggest he'd consider moving there in the event he loses the election in November because it would be "far safer" there. |
| 31 | A pro-foxhunting group in the UK thinks that British hunters should be classified as an ethnic minority and given protection under the Equality Act. |
| 1 | Moonbat site Venezuelanalysis explains how Maduro is an expert in defense and counterattack. |
| 46 | "Has anyone noticed that Kamala CHEATED at the airport? There was nobody at the plane, and she “A.I.’d” it, and showed a massive “crowd” of so-called followers, BUT THEY DIDN’T EXIST! She was turned in by a maintenance worker at the airport when he noticed the fake crowd picture, but there was nobody there, later confirmed by the reflection of the mirror like finish on the Vice Presidential Plane. She’s a CHEATER. She had NOBODY waiting, and the “crowd” looked like 10,000 people!" |
| 51 | Yehuda Schlesinger, a journalist for Sheldon Adelson-owned Benjamin Netanyahu mouthpiece Israel Hayom, in reference to a case where five IDF forces sodomized a Palestinian detainee, declares in a television news broadcast that "the only problem is that it is not standard state policy to abuse these detainees. Because in general, they deserve it, and this is great revenge." (Schlesinger later retracted the comments, although given his history of making dehumanizing remarks about Palestinians, including at one point stating "there are no innocents in Gaza," the sincerity of this retraction is dubious.) |
| 44 | A new conspiracy rumour is being thrown around that Andrew Tate is a trans man (i.e. transvestigation), [which is certainly not true!] since a recent photo of him in swim briefs was shown suggesting he has a small dick. |
| 24 | The DSA shows its democratic credentials by officially congratulating Venezuela's dictator Nicolás Maduro for a "victory" in a sham election. |
July 2024
| 77 | Fox News host Jesse Watters: "I heard the scientists say the other day that when a man votes for a woman, he actually transitions into a woman." (Seriously, the link has a video; this is not a misquote). |
| 43 | Baroness Anne Jenkins has formally asked the Cabinet Office to clarify their policy on civil servants wearing fetish clothing in the workplace, and asked the Government Equalities Office whether they consider BDSM to be a protected characteristic within the meaning of the Equality Act. It should be noted that Jenkins is gender critical and is linked to TERF organisation Sex Matters. |
| 45 | On X, Elon Musk shares an AI deepfake video of Kamala Harris where she calls herself "the ultimate diversity hire" among other things. |
| 52 | Daily Wire host Andrew Klavan went on a bizarre sexist rant, beginning with "the central purpose of every society is to figure out the distribution of women" and concluding with "women cannot take care of themselves"." |
| 49 | Harkening back to Aktion T4, Trump thinks that disabled people should die. |
| -26 | A "Jewish Problem" conference was held in Kentucky. Lucas Gage was in attendance, while the speakers included E. Michael Jones and Cynthia McKinney. |
| 51 | Elon Musk's trans daughter gives first-ever interview in response to Musk's anti-trans comments to Jordan Peterson. She says he made up fake anecdotes and previously verbally abused her for not conforming to a male sex role as a child. |
| 43 | Elon Musk has backed off his pledge to donate $45 million to a Trump super PAC every month; claims he doesn't subscribe to "cult of personality". |
| 34 | House GOP leaders beg wayward members to stop making comments about Vice President Harris' racial background. This comes shortly after Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) said Harris was a "DEI vice president". |
| 22 | Amber Rose, model, "influencer", and founder of the "Slut Walk" protest movement, spoke at the RNC and declared her support for Trump and decried “leftist propaganda”. MAGA had mixed reactions following her speech. |
| 29 | One of Muskrat's favorite Xitter accounts, @EndWokeness, is revealed to likely be Jack Posobiec. (In one of Posobiec's 2016 tweetstorms, he slipped the neo-Nazi dog whistle "1488" into several posts, where it made no sense to appear other than as a dog whistle.) |
| 16 | Jack Chick's site is out with its first new tract since his death, although given the artstyle it's unlikely to be his work. |
| 18 | Want to pay $299 for some sneakers with pictures of Trump's bloodied face on them? |
| 13 | "Today we are all MAGA." Because the far-right extremist movement is so against political violence. |
| 23 | David Icke is totally not antisemitic and is simply just concerned with "lizard people", OKAY? Anyway, he responds to a Brooklyn-based Jewish charity singing at an event with JD Vance by suggesting they control both Trump and Biden. The Elders of Lizion aren't so musically talentless after all. |
| 32 | Lawyers for Donald Trump's disgraced former faith advisor Robert Morris accused the 12-year-old girl he victimized of initiating "inappropriate" sexual conduct. Morris was also megachurch pastor, because of course he was. |
| 25 | The GOP candidate for North Carolina state superintendent wants to put surveillance cameras in school bathrooms. |
| 25 | Representative Glenn Grothman (R-WI) says on the House floor that "the angry feminist movement" has emasculated men and calls on Trump to help the US "work our way back" to 1960. |
| 19 | Alabama GOP chairman says that "democracy leads to socialism. Looks like someone got their lessons on Marxism from Assassin's Creed. |
| 20 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reassures us that as president, he "won't take sides" on 9/11. |
| -2 | While being interviewed by Piers Morgan, British musician Roger Waters claims that that there is no evidence of sexual violence by Hamas against women during October 7th. This happened around two years after Waters claimed the Uyghur genocide is "nonsense" and that those who don't think Taiwan is part of China should "read more". |
| -20 | Tristan Tate has been revealed to be a key funder of George Galloway. |
| 49 | Keir Starmer says that trans women shouldn't be allowed to use women's spaces, even if they have a GRC. |
| 26 | RFK Jr. denies eating a dog, claims a resurfaced photo is in fact him eating a goat. Declines to address sexual assault allegations on the other hand. Priorities! |
| 19 | Election conspiracy theorist and professional windbag Mike Lindell announced on Steve Bannon's podcast that he has hired decrepit old Rudy Giuliani to do a talk show on his Frank Speech website following Giuliani's disbarment in New York. Bannon wasn't around for the show, however, having been imprisoned the day before for defying a congressional subpoena. Meanwhile, courts overseeing Giuliani’s bankruptcy have subpoenaed Lindell and his companies because of this. |
| 20 | Anti-trans writer for The Telegraph, Nina Power, bankrupted after a libel case. In her leaked chatlogs she says she's "definitely a Nazi now" and believes anti-racism is a conspiracy to cover up the existence of fairies and aliens. "Gender critical feminist" and one-time British media darling Kathleen Stock tweets her support for Nina Power after this revelation. |
| 35 | Candace Owens: "I'm not a flat-Earther. I'm not a round-Earther. Actually, what I am is I am somebody who has left the cult of science. I have left the megachurch of science because what I have now realized is that science, what it is actually, if you think about it, is a pagan faith." |
June 2024
| 22 | Republican officials in Minnesota are distancing themselves from their Hennepin County Board candidate, Marisa Simonetti, after she was charged with assault for allegedly throwing a live tarantula and other objects at a tenant staying in one of her properties. |
| 23 | Reactionary American legislators are pushing for a ban on no-fault divorce. |
| 21 | Tamil-British rapper and batshit insane conspiracy theorist "MIA" has launched a range of “protective” clothing including a literal tin foil hat for $100. |
| 14 | Tim Pool brought on Richard Spencer and Andrew Wilson—also known as Big Papa Fascist (self-described)—to debate birth rates. |
| 42 | Muskrat for some reason decided to announce he unbanned an account that posted a photo of child rape. This is somehow not the first time this has happened. |
| -22 | The tankie paper the Morning Star has gone full horseshoe by supporting Farage's view on NATO enlargement, especially Ukraine. |
| 45 | JK Rowling has said people should spoil their ballot by voting the Communist Party of Britain. She did this in response to a tweet by For Women Scotland which mentions the TERF-supporting position of party. Update: The appreciation may only go one way... |
| 47 | The Washington Post has noticed that Biden has an age problem. Their fix? Replace the 59-year-old Kamala Harris with the 76-year-old Hillary Clinton. Need it be reminded that Hillary lost an election to Trump? |
| 48 | Former Israeli MK Moshe Feiglin: "As Hitler said, "I can't live if one Jew is left", we can't live here if one Islamo-Nazi remains in Gaza" |
| 54 | Donald Trump on Truth Social: "Biden’s hatred of Bitcoin only helps China, Russia, and the Radical Communist Left. We want all the remaining Bitcoin to be MADE IN THE USA!!! It will help us be ENERGY DOMINANT!!!" |
| 4 | Hillary Clinton has endorsed the AIPAC-funded George Latimer over Jamaal Bowman for Congress. |
| 34 | Fox News and Elon Musk promote statements against trans medicine from ACPeds. ACPeds takes "research" directions from Alliance Defending Freedom, and its executive director is also on a top committee for the conversion therapy organization NARTH. Despite this the group's statement is gaining traction in some right-wing media including The Federalist, the Toronto Sun, Townhall, National Review, Catholic News Agency, and GB News. Michael Shermer also shared the video. |
| 28 | Glenn Beck interviews bankrupt sad sack Alex Jones, stating that Jones was "the guinea pig for the Left’s lawfare machine that it’s now turning against former president Donald Trump...and then, against the American people". |
| 37 | Candace Owens says that dinosaurs never existed. |
| 38 | Bill Maher predicts a Trump conviction could result in a "race war". |
| 31 | Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene goes nuts in a House Subcommittee meeting, berating Dr. Fauci and hollering that he should be prosecuted for his "repulsive evil science". |