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

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October 2023[edit]

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47Charlie Kirk is mad at Halloween.
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4An antisemitic pogrom in Russia is Ukraine's fault for some reason. Trust me bro.
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-26The ADL has scrubbed their website of anything relating to Libs of TikTok because she threatened to sue them. This seems to have paved the way for other fascists they've written about to announce they're suing them as well.
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16Sean Hannity cites his training in "mixed martial arts" as a defense against mass shooters.
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0Johnson announces that he is joining GB News as a presenter.
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-1Erdoğan has levied support for, not just Palestine, but Hamas itself.
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13Donald Trump denies that he shared secret information with billionaire Anthony Pratt, despite Pratt claiming otherwise.
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18In a widely-unreported speech, Trump says that he would "implement strong ideological screening of all immigrants", and ban people who "don't like our religion" from even legally entering the country, if re-elected.
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23Elon Musk's latest genius idea? Offering one billion dollars to Wikipedia if it changes its name to "Dickipedia"
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12Conservative BlazeTV hosts effusively praise one of their viewers for cutting off his daughter over her sexual orientation, say "love is love" leads to "destruction".
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17The most recent Tucker on X episode featured Carlson interviewing a man named Vince Everett Ellison, who claimed George Floyd has "slave mentality", a supposed phenomenon he blamed on Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement. This all went uncriticised by Carlson, of course.
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31Greta Thunberg being smeared as antisemitic because there was a small octopus plushie in her photo supporting Palestine. The New York Post, GB News, Fox News, Breitbart, Newsmax, and The Daily Wire all decided this was worth jumping on.
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21Jon Stewart has quit his show on Apple TV Plus, apparently because Apple would only let him "align" with their views on AI and China.
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25Fox News host Jesse Watters: "I don't like how people try to differentiate between the Palestinians and Hamas... You poll them, they all love killing Jews... And it's not working out, having these Palestinians and Hamas right next door to the Israelis."
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14Tesla has just released in its “lifestyle store” a $150 gift pack of two bottles of beer called “CyberBeers” and two matching steins inspired by the Cybertruck. Also, there is a separate $50 bottle opener for the beers.
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8MSNBC has quietly taken three of its Muslim presenters out of the anchor's chair since Hamas' attack on Israel.
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22Fox News wants US troops involved in Israel. By the way, Israel doesn't.
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18Two strong competitors for the "Last Guy You Want to Hear From Right Now" Award: George W. Bush and Henry Kissinger weigh in on the Israel-Hamas war.
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16Sean Hannity to Vivek Ramaswamy: "I think people who never held public office, like you, maybe they’re not qualified to be president!"
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13Tucker Carlson endorses extrajudicial violence against Mexican immigrants while interviewing Todd Bensman, a Senior National Security Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies.
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8Elon Musk tweets "Demographics is destiny" for the second time.
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16Israel's Foreign Affairs Min. has uploaded this video to its YouTube channel. It is, apparently, running as an ad on children's videos.
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1Cenk Uygur explains why running for President in 2024 is a "realistic" plan despite his ineligibility: he'll get to 25% support, then Joe Biden will drop out. Then, Gretchen Whitmer will join the primary.
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14Despite crying two weeks ago that he's broke, and having paused his television spam, election conspiracist Mike Lindell says that MyPillow will be back better than ever, soon. Then, he begs for money to support more lawsuits. Straining credulity to an extreme, the wingnut Washington Times says "Stop the crucifixion of Mike Lindell"
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23After a large fire that destroyed or damaged hundreds of cars that happened at a multi-storey car park at London-Luton airport, conspiracy theorists claim it was caused by an electric car, thus fuelling the ban on petrol and diesel cars as being anti-motorist. Except… It was started by a diesel Land Rover.
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23Right-wing pundits are already fearmongering that Hamas "terror cells" are present in the US. Charlie Kirk claims that, "it's possible Hamas has hundreds or thousands of militants on the interior of the United States ready to bomb hospitals, blow up schools, or just rain terror. We do not have a border, therefore we do not have control of our country."
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19Fox News blames Biden for Hamas' attack on Israel using a narrative that one of their own anchors had previously debunked.
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19Ben Shapiro claims that Israel should annex the Gaza Strip because Palestinians are "incapable of self-governance".
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19The latest Tucker on X guest was a completely random guy called Chris Moritz, who, apparently, has been researching and following companies performing gender-affirming surgeries for years, and who argues that these big pharma companies are trying to make everyone trans. A few days later, we finally found out who the guy is.
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25Fox News pundit Greg Gutfeld calls for civil war because "elections don't work".
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21Mike Lindell's lawyers have dropped him after he stopped paying them. That lawsuit? Still ongoing though.
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14Jean-François Gariépy tweets about how his wife went missing and the police are looking for her in a very creepy way that makes it sound like he killed her.
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14Max Blumenthal finds his former employee, Ben Norton, on a random bus in Nicaragua to yell at him about allegedly stealing a Twitter and Patreon account two years ago. Norton later responds about how he left Blumenthal's The Grayzone due to an "opportunist right-wing turn".
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30A new conspiracy theory says that the national emergency alert test in the US scheduled for October 4 will use 5G to turn COVID-vaccinated people into zombies, beginning a zombie apocalypse. Guess we'll find out soon... UPDATE:Literally fuckall happened with no zombies in sight.