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Wigoclog.svg This is RationalWiki's snarkilicious take on some of the more "WTF?" or egregious blog posts, editorials, videos and social media posts out there. The most popular are found in Best of the clogosphere and the older entries are found in the archives.

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March 2025

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11According to Trump, Biden's pardons are "null and void" because of autopens.
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31Elon Musk courts controversy again on Twitter by sharing a murderous dictator apologist post by an alt-right meme account: "Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn't murder millions of people. Their public sector workers did."
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18Trump's authoritarian border czar regarding Mahmoud Khalil: "There are limits to free speech."
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21Trump, who is obsessed with trans people, complains that "everything is transgender."
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13Trump reposted a Nazi-era Pink Triangle on his Truth Social account.
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28Trump blames "globalists" for the recent stock market sell-off.
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20The John Birch Society: "Gamers are the unseen backbone of modern America. It's not even close."
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21"Canada has been taken over by Mexican cartels," claims Trump's trade advisor.
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14One of Pete Hegseth's "anti-DEI" initiatives for the military is to purge online posts and images that have the audacity to show those in service who are not white, straight, or male. Among the casualties of this purge is the WWII aircraft that dropped the first atom bomb... the Enola Gay.
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21Ben Shapiro wants Trump to pardon George Floyd's murderer.
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26"Evil, chosen solely because she checked identity politics boxes. Another DEI hire": right-wing pundits and social media figures launch sexist attacks at Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett for ruling against Trump's foreign aid freeze.
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21Newsmax host Greg Kelly says he's "tempted to call the cops" on Senator Elissa Slotkin because "the LGBTQ agenda that she is pursuing is radical and weird and I think should be criminalized."
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23On March 3, the Los Angeles Times introduced a AI-driven "Insights" feature that adds summaries and "AI-enabled perspectives" on their news articles. One day later, on an article about how Anaheim citizens fought back against the KKK in the 1920s, the AI tool attempted to downplay the racism and hatred behind the KKK... even tut-tutting the mere mention of the 1920s Klan as a distraction "from Anaheim's modern identity".
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28Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unexpectedly endorses the MMR vaccine in order to fight the current measels outbreak in Texas. (Truer to form, however, Kennedy simultaneously endorsed Vitamin A "treatment" in the same op-ed.) This did not amuse anti-vaccination movement members such as Mike Adams, Stew Peters, and Candace Owens, with some of them responding to the op-ed by saying that Kennedy now is colluding with DA JEWS!!!

February 2025

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25"Epstein Files" link shared by House Republicans redirects to a Rickroll video.
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20Oklahoma Republican cites the Bible to justify beating disabled students.
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24Trump shares bizarre AI-generated video promoting his proposed "Trump Gaza" resort, featuring Trump sunbathing with Netanyahu, Musk throwing money at children, and Trump still managing to be unfaithful to his wife even in AI form.
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18Christopher Rufo: "There is a battalion of male-to-female transgenders within the American intelligence apparatus. They hate Italians and LibsofTikTok. They fantasize about pseudo-vaginas and butthole lazers. They are in charge of the most sophisticated spying machine in human history."
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7Want to look younger? LED face masks are in vogue for anti-aging.
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19"God has a plan" for federal employees fired by Musk, GOP Representative Mark Alford told a hostile crowd at a Kansas City town hall. "You are not a victim, you are a victor. And you will be able to get another job..." Predictably, this only made the crowd angrier.
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21Trump about Canada: "They get 95% of their product from the United States, so I think they have to become the 51st state. You heard the people booing the national anthem, but I think ultimately they'll be praising the national anthem ... I call him Governor Trudeau ... we're looking at Greenland."
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25Aleksander Dugin has a message for Germany: Vote AfD or we will occupy Germany once more and divide it between Russia and USA.
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21The White House posted an "Illegal Alien Deportation Flight ASMR" video featuring the sound of jingling handcuffs and chains.
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15A sycophantic New York Congresswoman wants to make Trump's birthday a federal holiday.
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34Elon Musk, self-styled "free speech absolutist" and one of the whiniest motherfuckers on the planet, is calling for Sixty Minutes to be "imprisoned."
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25Racist asshole and contributor to far right internet network BlazeTV John Doyle: "AOC is Puerto Rican. Ilhan Omar is Somalian. Go away. Like, you're not part of the club."
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21Trump: "Like on tractors that can handle anything from hurricanes to lightning to anything. They use magnets. It's a new theory -- magnets. They're gonna lift the planes up. And it doesn't work."
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32Raging transphobic Congresswoman Nancy Mace shouts anti-trans slur three times in a row at a Congressional hearing.
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26A Musk goon has resigned from the "Department of Government Efficiency" over racist social media posts. UPDATE: And he's back.
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24An "anti-DEI" (read: racist) webshite has published a list doxing federal workers for being "DEI hires."
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14According to a January 6th defendant, Trump's pardon covers conspiracy to murder FBI agents.
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-3Trump renames the Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America" via executive order. Google and Chevron have quickly caught on.

January 2025

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31Disgraced Senator Gold Bar Bob Menendez goes full MAGA after his sentencing on corruption charges and says "Trump was right" while denouncing his conviction as a "political witch hunt." But that's not the funny part. The funny part is this amazing quote: "I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity to the system."
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19Trump has declared that White House press credentials are open to independent journalists, podcasters, and social media influencers. Nazis and fundamentalists are only too eager to take him up on his offer.
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22Ted Cruz wants to restrict access to the internet for kids... so that Conservative viewpoints do not get censored? Seriously.
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26Matt Walsh: "If we're being honest, female cops are absurd. It's an absurdity. I'm sorry. It's just ridiculous. It's cartoonish."
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26Recently released J6 ringleaders Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio are calling for retribution against the cops, prosecutors, and politicians who held them accountable for their involvement in January 6th.
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35The signal Musk sent out when he gave a Nazi salute at Trump's inauguration is being received loud and clear by Neo-Nazis.
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34Setting new records, Oklahoma may be the first state to ban renewable energy.
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30By his own admission, Itamar Ben-Gvir has tanked numerous hostage deals, and wants to tank this latest one as well.
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39Pope Francis says nuns should smile more instead of having "nasty vinegar faces" and also recommends that they stop gossiping and speaking to the Devil. "To ask this of a woman is heroic but, come on..."
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21Facebook has ruled speech deeming women to be "household objects" as permissible.
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18California man seeks reimbursement from the raw milk fad industry after he gets sick and two of his cats die.
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24Megyn Kelly thinks the Los Angeles Fire Department is struggling to deal with the ongoing deadly wildfires because of diversity initiatives.
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18Right wing uk media bare face lie about the proposed amendment to the Childrens Wellbeing and Schools Bill neglecting to say it would have killed the bill dead by preventing a second reading. The Tories and their allied press dancing to Musk's tune and directly aiding and abetting abuse of children
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16The leader of the Neo-Nazi terrorist cell The Base used ChatGPT to conduct research on power grid attacks.
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33Fox News host Jesse Watters says that he wants to invade Canada just to own the libs. "I wanna quench my imperialist thirst". In the same video he says that Panama is a "stupid country run by cartels" and that Denmark has no option but selling Greenland to the US because they are much richer and can take it by force anyway.
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37Musk "asks" if the "people of America should liberate Britain."
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39Musk spams Twitter with calls for Charles III to dissolve parliament.
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21Musk calls for Tommy Robinson to be released from prison. This comes less than a week since Musk posted about AfD being the only party that can "save" Germany.