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

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September 2024[edit]

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30Donald Trump endorses The Purge to solve shoplifting: "We have to let the police do their job. You know, if you had one day, like one real rough, nasty day... One rough hour, and I mean real rough, the word will get out and it will end immediately. End immediately."
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54CNN anchors Dana Bash and Jake Tapper straight up lied about statements Representative Rashida Tlaib made about Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.
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35Actual quote from Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA): "Lol. These Haitians are wild. Eating pets, vudu, nastiest country in the western hemisphere, cults, slapstick gangsters… but damned if they don’t feel all sophisticated now, filing charges against our President and VP. All these thugs better get their mind right and their ass out of our country before January 20th."
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30No, really. What the hell is Trump talking about? "Now we have this stupid stuff where you can vote 45 days early. Wonder what the hell happens during that 45. Let’s move — see these votes? We’ve got about a million votes in there. Let’s move them. We’re fixing the air conditioner in the room, right? No, it’s terrible. What happened the last time was disgraceful, including right here. But we’re not going to let it happen again."
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21Kevin Roberts, current head of the Heritage Foundation and mastermind behind Project 2025, apparently admitted to killing his neighbor's pitbull with a shovel in 2004.
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40Reactionary tabloid publishes cartoon showing Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib with exploding pager.
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39"Lebanon cannot be defined as a state, which is why we must have a buffer zone inside southern Lebanon." Because that worked out so well last time.
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16Trump called MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle "a 'dumb as a rock' bimbo" on Truth Social.
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28What the hell is Trump talking about? "I’m an environmentalist with common sense. I like buildings to have windows. You know, they’d like to close up all windows. The building should be built 90 stories tall but that doesn’t matter but can’t have any windows."
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31At an event intended to denounce antisemitism, Trump instead denounced Jews for "voting for the enemy" and then said "the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss" if he fails to win the election.
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18Matt Gaetz was at orgy with high school junior.
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26Alex Jones warns of an "alien invasion" by "satanic interdimensional forces".
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-21Russian Health Minister Yevgeny Shestopalov says Russians should have sex during their breaks at work in order to boost the country's declining birth rates. "Being very busy at work is not a valid reason, but a lame excuse," he said. "You can engage in procreation during breaks, because life flies by too quickly.".
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38"I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!" - inspiring words from Donald Trump, former President of the United States.
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41Clip: Trump says we could fix California's drought and wildfire problems by turning on a giant faucet.
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52Elon Musk calls the Australian government "fascists", over proposed law to fine social media platforms up to 5% of global revenue if they fail to combat misinformation.
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19Newsguard reportedly traces the source of the claim going around the clogosphere that Haitians eat pets, a claim that (among other things) has led to two days of closures due to bomb threats in Springfield Ohio. After the original post, this claim was amplified by figures like the neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe and the Twitter account @EndWokeness (which according to one analysis might be a sock for Jack Posobiec). This claim was then repeated by Laura Loomer just before Donald Trump made the baseless claim in his debate with Kamala Harris. Newsguard found that even the original poster of this baseless rumor admitted no first-hand knowledge of the event, essentially admitting that their claim was bullshit.
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31Arizona GOP is putting up billboards with the message, "EAT LESS KITTENS: Vote Republican". No points for grammar.
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30Marianne Williamson thinks we should take Trump's lies about immigrants eating pets seriously because "Haitian voodoo is in fact real".
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30The role of witchcraft in the presidential debate.
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38Marjorie Taylor Greene, of all people, called out Laura Loomer for making a racist Twitter/X post about Kamala Harris' Indian heritage.
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-25 Zei Squirrel claims that Kamala Harris is a child rapist via...something that she is not directly involved in.
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25All about the Republicans' idiotic and racist conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants are eating people's pets. It was spread by JD Vance, Ted Cruz, and the House Judiciary GOP, and then Trump repeated it during the presidential debates.
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61Elon Musk offers to impregnate Taylor Swift.
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37Trump says he never raped E. Jean Carroll because "she would not have been the chosen one."
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-25Venezuela'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.
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35Tim Walz isn't masculine because he drank a milkshake with a straw.
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35Tucker 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.
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31Charlie Kirk: "Kamala Harris screams as somebody who has unaddressed, lingering father issues... She always needs to have a man around."
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33Candace 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."