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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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June 2025
   | 15 | The Hungarian freesheet Metropol has asked readers to send in unsolicited pictures of ladies flashing their bare legs in public; effectively publicly upskirting women. |
May 2025
| 27 | Donald Trump shares batshit conspiracy theory that Joe Biden was murdered in 2020 and replaced by a robot clone. |
| 17 | Senator Joni Ernst has released the new Republican healthcare plan in response to voters angry about the Medicaid cuts in the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act": "We're all going to die." |
| 12 | Trump doesn't know the difference between insane asylums and political asylum. |
| 20 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. released a controversial "Make American Healthy Again" commission report. An investigation by NOTUS found multiple issues with the report's citations, including seven cited sources that don't actually exist. |
| 26 | US Representative Tim Burchett: "I don't drink out of a straw ... because that's what the women in my house do." |
| 26 | The Chicago Sun-Times gets caught using AI to help create their Summer guide. This results in the guide recommending books to read that don't exist, and quoting experts and publications that also do not exist. |
| 16 | US Congressman Randy Fine wants Gaza to be nuked. |
| 24 | According to the DOJ, the law firm Susman Godfrey is a "national security threat" for having donated to the LGBTQ+ rights organization GLAAD. |
| 28 | The latest move of the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin to encourage the veneration of his beloved predecessor: a giant Stalin monument in Moscow metro. |
| 16 | The Running Man, anyone? Newsweek has reported that the Department of Homeland Security is pitching a reality show where 12 migrants compete against each other, for the top prize of getting American citizenship. |
| 13 | James Comey investigated for a picture of some rocks he found on a beach, arranged into numbers as Republicans believe it is a veiled assassination threat against the president, as beach rock numbers often are. |
| 22 | For Mother's Day, RFK Jr took his kids for a swim through a shit-infested creek. |
April 2025
| 25 | In a sign of Texas state legislator Stan Gerdes' gullibility regarding well-debunked Internet hoaxes, Gerdes sponsors the FURRIES Act, which bans "using a litter box for the passing of stool, urine, or other human byproducts" from schools, despite having no evidence that such ever existed there. Furthering the furry moral panic, Gerdes' bill also bans "barking, meowing, hissing, or other animal noises" from schools, as well as "licking oneself or others for the purpose of grooming or maintenance." (The latter led one Texas lawmaker to ask: if one licks Cheeto dust off one's fingers, is it possible someone can assume that you're pretending to be a cat?) |
| 21 | RFK Jr appears to reject Germ theory. |
| 19 | RFK Jr: "We found that there's a direct inverse correlation between fluoride exposure and low IQ in children. So the more you get, the stupider you are." |
| 21 | The White House Press Secretary suggests Trump has the right to arrest Supreme Court justices. |
| 16 | Trump staff put posters of the mugshots of arrested immigrants on White House lawn in cheap propaganda stunt. |
| 25 | "Nobody will lend me any money anymore." A tearful Mike Lindell tells the court he's broke, MyPillow is in ruins, and he can't even pay US$57K owed to Smartmatic after losing a defamation case to the voting software company. |
| 11 | Sam Harris and Douglas Murray discuss the "battle for the Western Civilization" in a podcast. They also cheer for Israel's war crimes in the end, deriding criticism as "anti-western". |
| 10 | RFK Jr. "shocked" that people are pissed at his dumbass comments about autistic people being a drain on society. |
| 24 | Ben Edwards, a quack doctor in Texas, is seen in a CHD video (Children's Health Defense - the anti-vax pro-death group founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) treating patients while actively infected with measles himself. |
| 36 | The covid.gov website used to give Americans information about free vaccines, tests and treatment for long COVID. The Trump regime has replaced it with a redirect to a White House page that pushes the "lab leak" theory and heavily criticizes Anthony Fauci. |
| 29 | Right-wing pastor and white Christian nationalist Andrew Isker claims airport body scanners can "turn you gay." |
| 31 | Trump claims the Nazis treated Jewish prisoners with "love." |
| 34 | J. D. Vance suggests that a father of 3 with no criminal record that was deported in error to a Salvadoran gulag was a bad person because of traffic violations. |
| 31 | Kanye "IM A NAZI" West wears a Klan outfit to an interview with Akademics. |
| 27 | State media? Cheap TV screensavers are playing anti-immigration screeds from the Trump administration on loop. |
March 2025
| 19 | According to Trump, offshore wind energy drives whales "loco." |
| 32 | Thanks to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "advice" on "treating" measles with Vitamin A megadoses, doctors in West Texas have reported a handful of cases where unvaccinated children were given so much vitamin A, they had signs of liver damage. |
| 29 | Fox News ghouls want to get rid of the constitutional right to due process for illegal immigrants because it's "too cumbersome." |
| 19 | Chuck Schumer: "I am hopeful that our Republican colleagues will resume working with us. And I talk to them. One of the places is in the gym. When you're on that bike in your shorts, panting away next to a Republican, a lot of the inhibitions come off." |
| 22 | According to Trump, Biden's pardons are "null and void" because of autopens. |
| 39 | Elon 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." |
| 24 | Trump's authoritarian border czar regarding Mahmoud Khalil: "There are limits to free speech." |
| 27 | Trump, who is obsessed with trans people, complains that "everything is transgender." |
| 16 | Trump reposted a Nazi-era Pink Triangle on his Truth Social account. |
| 32 | Trump blames "globalists" for the recent stock market sell-off. |
| 23 | The John Birch Society: "Gamers are the unseen backbone of modern America. It's not even close." |
| 24 | "Canada has been taken over by Mexican cartels," claims Trump's trade advisor. |
| 18 | One of Pete Hegseth's "anti-DEI" initiative 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. |
| 32 | Ben Shapiro wants Trump to pardon George Floyd's murderer. |
| 28 | "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. |
| 24 | Newsmax 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." |
| 26 | On March 3, the Los Angeles Times introduced an 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". |
| 31 | Robert 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, {{wpl|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
| 28 | "Epstein Files" link shared by House Republicans redirects to a Rickroll video. |
| 22 | Oklahoma Republican cites the Bible to justify beating disabled students. |
| 25 | Trump 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. |
| 20 | Christopher 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." |
| 8 | Want to look younger? LED face masks are in vogue for anti-aging. |
| 21 | "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. |
| 23 | Trump 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." |
| 27 | Aleksander Dugin has a message for Germany: Vote AfD or we will occupy Germany once more and divide it between Russia and USA. |
| 23 | The White House posted an "Illegal Alien Deportation Flight ASMR" video featuring the sound of jingling handcuffs and chains. |
| 17 | A sycophantic New York Congresswoman wants to make Trump's birthday a federal holiday. |
| 36 | Elon Musk, self-styled "free speech absolutist" and one of the whiniest motherfuckers on the planet, is calling for the team behind CBS' 60 Minutes to be "imprisoned." |
| 27 | Racist 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." |
| 22 | Trump: "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." |
| 33 | Raging transphobic Congresswoman Nancy Mace shouts anti-trans slur three times in a row at a Congressional hearing. |
| 27 | A Musk goon has resigned from the "Department of Government Efficiency" over racist social media posts. UPDATE: And he's back. |
| 25 | An "anti-DEI" (read: racist) webshite has published a list doxing federal workers for being "DEI hires." |
| 15 | According to a January 6th defendant, Trump's pardon covers conspiracy to murder FBI agents. |
| 9 | Trump renames the Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America" via executive order. Google and Chevron
have quickly caught on. |
January 2025
| 32 | Disgraced 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." |
| 20 | Trump 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. |
| 23 | Ted Cruz wants to restrict access to the internet for kids... so that Conservative viewpoints do not get censored? Seriously. |
| 27 | Matt Walsh: "If we're being honest, female cops are absurd. It's an absurdity. I'm sorry. It's just ridiculous. It's cartoonish." |
| 26 | Recently 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. |
| 36 | The signal Musk sent out when he gave a Nazi salute at Trump's inauguration is being received loud and clear by Neo-Nazis. |
| 35 | Setting new records, Oklahoma may be the first state to ban renewable energy. |
| 30 | By his own admission, Itamar Ben-Gvir has tanked numerous hostage deals, and wants to tank this latest one as well. |
| 40 | Pope 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..." |
| 22 | Facebook has ruled speech deeming women to be "household objects" as permissible. |
| 19 | California man seeks reimbursement from the raw milk fad industry after he gets sick and two of his cats die. |
| 24 | Megyn Kelly thinks the Los Angeles Fire Department is struggling to deal with the ongoing deadly wildfires because of diversity initiatives. |
| 18 | Right-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. |
| 16 | The leader of the Neo-Nazi terrorist cell The Base used ChatGPT to conduct research on power grid attacks. |
| 36 | Fox 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. |
| 37 | Musk "asks" if the "people of America should liberate Britain." |
| 39 | Musk spams Twitter with calls for Charles III to dissolve parliament. |
| 23 | Musk 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. |