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RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/August 2024

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August 2024[edit]

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48Trump photographed grinning and giving a cheesy thumbs-up while standing over soldiers' graves at Arlington National Cemetery.
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52Trump 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."
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39Another 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.
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33Environmentalists call for inquiry into RFK Jr. whale head chainsaw incident.
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17The sprawling conspiracy behind Tim Walz's dog photos.
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51The 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
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-42Only two days after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the presidential race, Cornel West has started promoting vaccine skepticism.
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38Courtesy of The Economist: "Why you should never retire"
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45Trump claims it's "illegal" to criticize his judicial appointees and that doing so "should be punishable by very serious crimes and beyond that."
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-18Counterpunch decides it will sink with Venezuela's dictatorship and publishes a bunch of puff pieces denying the vote fraud in the country's election.
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41Nazi Nick has declared a "groyper war" on Trump campaign.
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43Audio has recently surfaced from a 2020 podcast wherein JD Vance agreed that raising grandchildren is the "whole purpose of the postmenopausal female in theory".
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42Trump, 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.
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34A pro-foxhunting group in the UK thinks that British hunters should be classified as an ethnic minority and given protection under the Equality Act.
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-36Moonbat site Venezuelanalysis explains how Maduro is an expert in defense and counterattack.
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67"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!"
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57Yehuda 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.)
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45A 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.
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-14The DSA shows its democratic credentials by officially congratulating Venezuela's dictator Nicolás Maduro for a "victory" in a sham election.