Cuckoo Cuckoo Award!

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This week’s Cuckoo Cuckoo award goes to a legislator from down-under who made the most asinine comment.

This week winner claimed penguins are grooming children to be gay!

Politician accuses aquarium of ‘making fake gay penguins to brainwash children’

Metro

By Gergana Krasteva

July 3, 2023

There is a long, seedy list of conspiracy theories about LGBT+ communities that politicians cherry pick from when sensing opportunities.

Perhaps this one – about an aquarium in Sydney that ‘manipulated’ its same-sex penguin couple into being gay – takes the cake.

As most of the world celebrated Pride Month, Conservative Lyle Shelton accused the Sea Life Aquarium in Sydney of creating ‘fake gay penguins’ to indoctrinate children.

Sphen and Magic began developing a bond in 2018 and became inseparable as breeding season was about to start.

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But the proposal has not impressed the Family First Party leader who accused the aquarium of tricking the penguins into thinking they are gay.

Pink News

A statement on the party’s website read: ‘Essentially what should be a story about the damage caused by human interference in the animal kingdom is instead being served up to our youngest, most impressionable children as education on thriving gay relationships and diverse parenting arrangements.’

Mr Shelton later tweeted: ‘Family First will not back down on protecting children from harmful indoctrination in our schools.’

Runner Up

This was a close second...

North Carolina lieutenant governor tells Moms for Liberty "it's time" to start reading Hitler quotes

"It is time for us to get back and start reading some of those quotes," Mark Robinson said at the group's summit

Salon

By Tatyana Tandanpolie

July 5, 2023

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson told a Philadelphia audience on Sunday that dictators like Hitler and Mao are being taken out of context and that their texts are worth reconsidering, The New Republic reports. Robinson was one of several speakers — including 2024 presidential candidates Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley — at the second annual summit for Moms for Liberty, a parents-rights group that the Southern Poverty Law Center recently deemed a political extremist organization.

"And here's the thing: Whether you're talking about Adolf Hitler; whether you're talking about Chairman Mao; whether you're talking about Stalin; whether you're talking about Pol Pot; whether you're talking about Castro in Cuba; or whether you're talking about a dozen other despots all around the globe; it is time for us to get back and start reading some of those quotes," Robinson, who has previously called communism a greater threat to the world than Nazism, said of the figures, most of whom were communists.

Past winners are: (A drum roll please!)

• Minn. Lawmaker with History of Making False, Anti-LGBTQ+ Claims Is Now Blaming Global Warming on Pride Month, Minnesota state Sen. Eric Lucero
• GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn Floats Conspiracy Theory On Titanic Sub And Hunter Biden, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)

Let me know who your nominees are for next week!