RationalWiki:What is going on in the clogosphere?/October 2019

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October 2019

42

Dave Rubin appeared on Tucker Carlson's show to blame the California wildfires on the state's "woke culture", diversity, and lack of "libertarian or conservative-minded people".

17

Leading Brexiteer MEP and columnist for the Daily Telegraph Daniel Hannan, who moans about how liberal the press and media are in Britain, says he was shocked about how liberal Canada’s is. Two points, the Telegraph in the past was owned by Canadian-Briton Conrad Black, and Hannan is a friend of Andrew Scheer.

48

Christian fascist Rick Wiles claims that if Trump is impeached, veterans, cowboys and "people who know how to fight" will hunt Democrats down.

25

Wall Street Journal editorial: Any president who is impeached and acquitted should be permitted to serve a third term. (yes, the thing is paywalled so just take its headline at face value)

16

Maniacal war criminal Narendra Modi has a coffee and lemonade party with fellow maniacal war criminals Henry Kissinger, Tony Blair, Condoleezza Rice, Robert Gates and John Howard.

26

Paywalled WaPo column (reminder: newspaper is owned by the richest man in the world): Punitive taxes are just bad politics and economics by soaking and punishing the rich people and so it's just plain unfair and "moral calculus".

24

Prominent TERF Posie Parker teams up with French-Canadian white nationalist Jean-François Gariépy in a new 80-minute video which Mumsnet people are loving.

16

Letters from an Asshole Polemicist: Ben Shapiro announces that Neil deGrasse Tyson will be appearing with him on the Daily Wire.

36

Loony Brexiteer Conservative MP Steve Baker quotes Satan to show how positive he and his rich white friends feel about the future.

25

Well, It's been like a week, so we have another Jacob Wohl thing. Will Sommer tweeted about it and here's some weird write up they handed out. How's it hurting Warren? She used it as a nice jump pad to talk about education. Way to go Jacob. Nailed it.

26

Jay Sekulow, one of the lawyers on Donald Trump's legal team, goes into full meltdown mode defending his client against an impeachment inquiry, regurgitating Deep State conspiracy theories in an opinion piece full of his trademark far-right pseudo-legal opinions and sensational language. "It is time for justice to roll like thunder. It is time to hold the Deep State accountable."

34

Extreme anti-abortionists are claiming that ectopic pregnancies (which are one of the biggest killers of pregnant women and are normally treated by removing the non-viable fetus) aren't a serious problem and can resolve themselves without intervention, or that the wrongly-implanted fetus can be saved by a magical surgical procedure (which all doctors who aren't fundamentalist Christians say doesn't exist).

41

Transphobic game developer puts game on sale with a dogwhistle discount meant to mock trans suicides.

24

Dawkins continues being a shit by promoting a bigoted Evangelical conference.