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March 2023

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13 Tucker Carlson fearmongers about transgender gun-owners, suggests the government might give them tanks and F-35s like with "Ukraine's trans army". (Another link). In response "The Truth About Guns", a pro-gun blog, takes aim at Carlson.
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19 Kanye West says he likes Jews again after he liked a film with a Jewish guy. A joke, well-natured idiocy, or a desperate backtrack to save face? You decide.
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14 JK Rowling compares the trans rights movement to Death Eaters, the magical nazis who are the main villains of her magnum opus
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13 Ben Shapiro defends Ron DeSantis eating pudding with three of his fingers during a meeting: "You've never eaten food with your fingers?" He went on to say in DeSantis's defense that this was lower on the "scale of weirdness" than being pro-transgender.
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20 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tells Jimmy Dore: Fauci developed bioweapons for the military since 2002. Three bioweapons escaped in lab leaks in 2014, so Fauci moved his bioweapons development to Wuhan, China. People tried to warn Obama that Fauci would cause a pandemic. And they took money from Cheney. Right...
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19 LGB Alliance split? Political lesbian female-separatist Julie Bindel and Kathleen "I refuse to split with anti-abortionists" Stock want a "divorce" from gay men, because "being lumped in with men is neither appropriate nor useful", and have formed "the Lesbian Project" to this end. This was all published in UnHerd, naturally.
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19 Not content with JAQing off about Shakespeare authorship, the Atlantic features the claim that all of Shakespeare's plays are about race and that Shakespeare defined whiteness! In the process, it manages to confuse references to armor color with skin color.
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15 Despite YouTube having a published Terms of ServiceWikipedia, The Daily Wire still haven't gotten penalised at all, despite their constant ToS violations.
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17 Rishi Sunak being a a member of the Conservative Party.
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20Failed gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake says Steve Bannon is a "patriotic stud muffin." Our response: 🤮🤮🤮
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14 Michael Knowles at CPAC: "there can be no middle way in dealing with transgenderism. ... Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely."
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22For people who whine about censorship, the far right are eager to censor books they don't like.. Dominionist Rick Scarborough has pledged to remove every "immoral" book from Texas' public school libraries. Truly Dick here is doing the Lord's work. Amen!
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17Constitutional Sheriffs chief runs online radio station featuring white supremacists.
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19 During a committee hearing on a bill to bring back the electric chair and firing squads, Rep. Paul Sherrell (R-TN) says they should also bring back lynching.

February 2023

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21Michael Knowles doubles down: "there can't be a genocide" of trans people because "It's not a legitimate category of being. They're laboring under a delusion. And so we need to correct that delusion."
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26Andrew Tate says he fought a ghost in his prison cell.
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17Daily Wire host Michael Knowles: "You have to ban transgenderism entirely. You can't just ban it for the kids. It's got to be entirely."
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25A bunch of transphobic assholes are calling for the "execution" of teachers and doctors for providing gender-affirming care.
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25Scott Adams goes full-racist, urging white people to "Just get the fuck away" from Black people.
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19Jordan Peterson is passionately angry at a sign asking people to use fewer paper towels.
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28 Marjorie Taylor Greene openly advocates for seccession
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35 What you already knew: Fox News hosts don't actually believe anything they say behind the scenes.
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10 Charlie Kirk: "If you are boarding a United Airlines flight and you see a black pilot, they are conditioning you to think 'I don't know if he's there because he's a wonderful pilot' – that will be a rational thought."
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17 Candace Owens says she would beat her trans grandchild with a cane.
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10 Ben Shapiro says there are “some actual upsides” to climate change.
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12 Charlie Kirk calls for the lynching of trans people: "I blame the decline of American men. This never should've been— Someone should've just took care of it the way we used to take care of things in the 1950s or 60s."
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24 Joe Rogan: "the idea that Jewish people are not into money is ridiculous. That’s like saying Italians aren’t into pizza".
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31 Personal texts of Alex Jones were leaked to the SPLC — which they are covering in a series of continuing articles. Contents include insights to his relations with other pundits as well as the apparent wreck that is his personal life. Despite public anti-LGBT commentary by Jones, the SPLC's report suggests he is perhaps bisexual himself.
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22The most hateful anti-trans rhetoric yet from Candace Owens: "I have such great contempt for trans individuals and everything that they are doing right now in our society. I've yet to meet a trans person that I thought was a good individual... They are hateful, narcissistic human beings... These people are demonic, ok? The trans agenda is demonic. Any actor, actress, individual that supports this is supporting something that is demonic. These are demons in our society, without question."

January 2023

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38Elon Musk's Twitter has reinstated the account of neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes, reaching yet another height of shittiness...aaaaand it's gone!
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36Gina Carano's new action movie with The Daily Wire bombs at the box office and is criticized by conservatives as "more woke nonsense" (for having a strong female protagonist). Looks like ditching Star Wars for Shapiro didn't work out.
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19Ben Shapiro: "Every MLK Day we are treated to a bevy of thinkpieces on how the only way to achieve MLK's dream is to embrace group redistributionism and racial discrimination. MLK may have made such arguments in 1968, but that simply isn't the dream or the pathway we celebrate him for."
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17Why don't we have a cure for cancer? According to Matt Walsh, it's because of transgender health care.
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30According to Glenn Greenwald Brazil is under a 'censorship regime'. The reason? Social media accounts that supported the coup attempt in January 8 are being suspended by the Brazilian Supreme Court.
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13New York's governor Kathy Hochul gave bizarre remarks on Martin Luther King Jr. Day comparing MLK to her embattled conservative judicial nominee, saying, "Dr. King called upon us to be just and to be fair, and to not judge people. And that has not been afforded to an individual named judge Hector LaSalle," and calling MLK a, "man of God who taught us about nonviolence and social justice and change, and not judging people by... one or two cases out of 5,000 cases decided."
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36Candace Owens wants to defund all museums and get rid of their artifacts. (This from the same people who say "the Left wants to destroy Western history!")
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26Matt Walsh: "It is good that football is violent... There's a reason why many of the media articles being written and freaking out about football are being written by women... Football is not for women. There might be some women who get into it. But it's not really for women. It's not for you. You don't understand it. You're not meant to understand it. This is actually a man's thing."
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20Newsmax anchor Eric Bolling: "According to a study, shorter men tend to have more psychopathic traits. These really, really anti-milk, pro-soy, anti-beef eating liberals want you to mate with potential psychopaths." Also gets bonus points for showing this amazing graphic.
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17Candace Owens: "has never been a question in my mind about whether or not I have the capacity to kill a human. If Fauci came at my kid with a vaccine -- I'm not going to finish that sentence."
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22Steve Milloy tries to refute a New York Times editorial by saying clean energy is bad because "wind power made the trans-Atlantic slave trade possible." Update: Milloy thinks his response "launched Lefty trolls into orbit", whatever that means.
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23Totally scientific article from the New York Post: I stopped taking the pill — now I’m gay