RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/November 2023

November 2023[edit]

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MSNBC cancels their only worthwhile show, The Mehdi Hasan Show, seemingly because they don't want Mehdi criticising Biden for his stance on the Israel–Palestine conflict as the 2024 election looms closer.

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Elon Musk starts losing it at the DealBook Summit, tells advertisers not to advertise on Twitter because it's "blackmail". (nitter.net mirror)

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The ADL praises Henry Kissinger as "a towering intellect, diplomat and practitioner who - not without controversy - helped shape American foreign policy with a lasting impact worldwide. A refugee from Nazi Germany, and the first Jewish Secretary of State, he was unapologetic about his heritage and his embrace of the importance of American global power and democratic values." (nitter.net mirror)

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Fox News is telling its viewers that speeding is a constitutional right. (nitter.net mirror)

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Co-CEO of The Daily Wire, Jeremy Boreing: "If five million people came out today and said the N-word—not recommending it—but no one would ever get fired for saying the N-word again. ... That little absurdity in our culture would be brought to an end".

24

Fox News attacks Kamala Harris for having a gas stove in her kitchen, claims Democrats "hate pies".

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Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon speculate that the Irish government is trying to replace its citizenry of white people with "people from the Third World".

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Elon Musk visits Israel and does a PR tour with Netanyahu.

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Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson: Demolish mosques (in Swedish, English Google translation). Åkesson proposes fighting Islamism and radicalization by fighting mosques in Sweden, which is sure to do wonders to stop the spread of anti-establishment conspiracy theories among some Muslim groups.

6

We're all trying to find the guy who did this: Putin says we must think about how to stop "the tragedy" of war in Ukraine.

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Kari Lake tweets: "George Soros’ Media Matters is the evil power behind the Fake News. Soros has his tentacles all over every entity destroying America. Media Matters=The Enemy of the People. I pray @elonmusk is able to destroy Media Matters before George Soros is able to destroy America.". (archive.today mirror, nitter.net mirror)

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After a speeding car crashed and exploded at the US-Canada border crossing in Niagara Falls, multiple conservative politicians and media outlets quickly blame terrorism. Fox News went as far to insinuate that radical Islamic terrorism was responsible and report that the crashed vehicle was filled with explosives. Others politicians making similar insinuations include Ted Cruz, Kari Lake, and Pierre Poilievre. Later, the FBI clarified that no connection to terrorism was found and no explosives were found at the crash scene. Instead, the car was being driven by a Grand Island NY couple who had just left a casino. The cause of the accident is unknown at this time, but the case has been turned over to local police as a traffic investigation.

10

Suella Braverman met with the far-right Fair Cop group, concerning senior police officials.

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Elon Musk is now, one supposes, a QAnon guy: makes two posts that seem to endorse it, along with one endorsing the Pizzagate conspiracy theory. Update: another Pizzagate post. He later deleted this one.

22

Alex Jones calls for mass executions of people responsible for the COVID-19 vaccine, including the hangings of Bill Gates and Anthony Fauci.

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Tucker's latest interview was with the leader of Spain's far-right Vox party, Santiago Abascal. They both fearmongered over George Soros was pushing for "mass immigration from the third world" and Tucker lamented that "Spaniards will be a small minority in their own country" soon.

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The CEO of the ADL praises Elon Musk for banning the phrases "decolonization" and "from the river to the sea" on Twitter.

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Even the BBC is calling out the IDF for their propaganda.

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Biden says he's "absolutely confident" that there's a Hamas headquarters underneath the al-Shifa hospital, but that he can't and won't share evidence.

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Ep. 39 of Tucker on X featured Candace Owens. Tucker invited her on for the purpose of responding to Ben Shapiro criticising her criticism of Israel, and compared her to Galileo because Ben suggested she quit The Daily Wire. Tucker and Candace criticise people for suspending donation to Harvard, but not suspending it when Harvard was promoting "white genocide". Tucker also states that Ben Shapiro was "to the left on the three biggest issues of our time.

10

Jimmy Dore fully embraces a flat-out explicit Nazi conspiracy theory that Israel was responsible for 9/11.

23

Embattled New York Rep. George Santos whines about a damning Ethics Committee report, calling it "a disgusting politicized smear", but then announces that he won't run for re-election in 2024. The report says, among other things, that Santos "sought to fraudulently exploit every aspect of his House candidacy for his own personal financial profit" and that he merits "public condemnation, is beneath the dignity of the office, and has brought severe discredit upon the House."

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Rep. Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn) engaged in a physical altercation in the US Capitol. McCarthy shoved Burchett, who stumbled forward and yelled after McCarthy, "Why'd you elbow me in the back, Kevin?! Hey Kevin, you got any guts?!" Burchett then called McCarthy a "jerk" and chased him down the hallway. When Burchett caught up to him, he said, "What kind of chicken move is that? You're pathetic, man. You are so pathetic." McCarthy denied shoving Burchett and said it was simply a "tight hallway".

19

Andrew Tate: Food and eating are bad, and unmanly for some reason. Onward to breatharianism!

7

Elon Musk: presenting Jewish people as prejudiced against white people and "hordes of minorities" as prejudiced against Jews is "actual truth".

17

Trump shares a probably-true conspiracy theory that Ron DeSantis wears high heels inside his boots.

18

Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) tries to initiate a physical fight with a witness (the president of the Teamsters union) at a Senate hearing.

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𝕏 Twitter employees, fearing Elon would hurt himself, considered calling police for a wellness check on him after he locked himself in his office.

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Steven Crowder leaked three pages of the Nashville shooter's journal (not manifesto, as he claims). Because there was nothing in there about being trans, he leapt on the idea it was a racially-motivated shooting, instead of it being motivated by the shooter's trans identity, like he originally claimed.

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Hamas may make it rain "fentanyl-filled rockets" in Israel, says Breitbart. Let's wait and see.

24

Tucker Carlson interviews neo-Nazi Douglass Mackey, also known as Ricky Vaughn, who he claims is being sent to federal prison for posting memes about Hillary Clinton, when in reality he was convicted for a voter suppression scheme.

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Ted Cruz outs himself as a neo-Nazi.

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