It’s finally here! The Fundie of the Year 2023 awards blog
We’ve narrowed every category down, and it’s time for the final vote!
Religious fundie of the year
Rev. Paul Mackenzie - https://fstdt.com/B7Z$F$6N4QWC5 - Bodies of the members of a now-dead starvation cult are found.
John Piper - https://fstdt.com/ZPL$8DJR5VMLD - Apologist for Biblical genocide, rather than explaining it away, explicitly supports genocide.
Kathy Schroeder - https://fstdt.com/$5YH6WY3.X368 - Thirty years after Waco siege, a participant still supports self-styled "second coming of Christ" David Koresh.
Timothy, Tina, and Damian - https://fstdt.com/27ZMLNLDXR5RB - Fundie adoptive parents have their kids beat each other when they fail to memorize their Bible verses.
Mohammad Ismail Zarei - https://fstdt.com/YST7GVW8KJ3.F - An Iranian government official rewards the American who stabbed Salman Rushdie, the British author of The Satanic Verses.
Wingnut of the year
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene - https://fstdt.com/8_4QS9NN9P8_K / https://fstdt.com/FSX8VGY_$Z66H - The congresscritter that gets heckled by the right for not being right enough and fact-checked by the SPLC at the same time.
Donald Trump (1) - https://fstdt.com/X7FCX6HGQNJGB / https://fstdt.com/H4XNRGRPX9NB3 - Confused about the number of World Wars and his opponent in 2016 and proclaiming his intention to be a dictator on his first day in office, all to the backdrop of a sustained incoherent meltdown about his trials
various commenters from gab - https://fstdt.com/JRYD2.FPNLWV6 - Not being allowed to lynch people is, supposedly, oppression
Bolsonaro supporters - https://fstdt.com/.RWJ4XQDWSFRD - Mob attacks the capital of Brazil, making unfounded accusations of election fraud and spreading literal shit over the place
Tyler Russell - https://fstdt.com/K75ZV4WW7$4SH - Got the “At Least He’s Honest” award for wanting a Trump Reich
Moonbat of the year
Kim Jong Un - https://fstdt.com/W.Z$9HY3HM.$K - Best Korea embracing child labour and death-by-overworking to fight against bourgeois decadence!
Karim Ibn Rashid (1) - https://fstdt.com/6L4GRSYNLVP9H - sexual symbolism seen in political icons, with Marxism-Leninism as the “ONLY heterosexual ideology.”
Haz Al-Din 🇷🇺 - https://fstdt.com/.HVCR6$_CQZF4 - rejecting gene theory in the name of “deteritorialization”
motherLover - https://fstdt.com/VVV6BM_P4_K89 - they’re calling for gassing teh joos, and they’re doing other anti-semetic stuff, and they might become violent, but they’re totally not anti-semites guise
Front for the Defense of the People’s Struggles of Ecuador - https://fstdt.com/5J9RRBCKC763D - hero-worshiping eulogy for a wannabe Stalin
Conspiracy theorist of the year
Georgia GOP Chair Kandiss Taylor - https://fstdt.com/CDL.ZZKK8.0K - she's a flag eather and wants Big Globe to stop their roundness propaganda
Tuckler Carlson - https://fstdt.com/Z6JGY2JLLGQX4 - he thinks nicotine is a mind-expanding drug that They don't want you to use
Mike Stone - https://fstdt.com/_.Y886V_LLL.2 - he claims Hamas, Al Queda, and ISIS are all secretly run by Israel
various commenters (1) - https://fstdt.com/JP.8MW98VB6_G - they think everything is a false flag, except the one where Germany attacked their own radio station and blamed it on Poland; that's a false false flag
Vladimir Putin - https://fstdt.com/HW7_BWSFDP265 - Goes full Reichsbürger
Ableist of the year
Feynman and Coulter's Love Child - https://fstdt.com/W88853CDXXHP6 - Blatant uncaring attitude. I hope he gets run over by a car and confined to a wheelchair.
Robert F Kennedy jr - https://fstdt.com/2S56VHMR4LBW8 - An “apology” for using the word “holocaust” to describe the autism “epidemic”.
Storm Robinson - https://fstdt.com/LSB5WW36ZWQR4 - An asthma truther. “You don’t need an inhaler, Becky, you need to go for a walk”
Racist of the year
Joseph Czuba - https://fstdt.com/HYFQF$DG4BQ89 - Czuba stabbed his neighbors because the radio told him Palestinians were bad
Unnamed Daghestani rioters - https://fstdt.com/CSMB2KFZVMHZ3 - a bunch of Russian Muslims that stormed an airport looking for Jews to attack
Mahmoud Abbas - https://fstdt.com/MWPK9G8.CZ8YG - "usury, money, and so on and so on" mean the Holocaust either didn't happen or was justified
various commenters (3) - https://fstdt.com/YX$8NLT9JZHMF - "Universal suffrage is enslavement of white men. Anyone supporting it supports our enslavement"
Florida State Board of Education - https://fstdt.com/QJN.HQF7$7FKG - the new Florida state board of education says that some Black people benefited from being enslaved
Sexist of the year
Heartless - https://fstdt.com/D$V3D8YVLLDW8 - Mocking the appearance of a rape-and-murder victim.
lesbian-king-kai - https://fstdt.com/KGSG8LWQTN898 - Wants to murder all the homeless males.
AsiaCel - https://fstdt.com/C$BSFXQLYPG7H - "To add to the [Nazbol] mix, we should also throw in Marxism-rodgerism (sexual communism) of one man-one woman as the best as we can do."
Andrew Anglin (1) - https://fstdt.com/$BXWF5C_89BW3 - "Women – at least when they are conscious and capable of mobility and speech – create far too many problems for society to sustain their presence long-term."
Sameera Khan and unnamed Taliban women - https://fstdt.com/PRVRS$VVVM_F7 - [Taliban members] say westerners need Andrew Tate because we are oppressed by feminists
Mammonist grifter of the year
Donald J. Trump - https://fstdt.com/P_Z7T6CVJM3K8 - "Due to the great Excitement and Success of my previous TRUMP DIGITAL TRADING CARDS, we’re doing it again - The MugShot Edition, available RIGHT NOW"
Marc Saint-Onge and John Altshuler - https://fstdt.com/9HPX5W.26YS2K - "The founder of a health and wellness company that sold “magic dirt” which was found to contain toxic levels of arsenic and lead after a campaign from anti-multi-level marketing activists, is back...Saint-Onge appeared in a launch video for Lovvare, a new beauty and wellness MLM"
Freedom Law School - https://fstdt.com/D7DG8733QGKTK - “Take these 7 steps to FREE Yourself of IRS deception, fear, robbery, and slavery, and LIVE FREE with our 100% Protection!”
Lothlorian Magick - https://fstdt.com/S6H4.3NKFGSPG - “**MIDAS TOUCH** Golden God Secret Society Haunted Dragon Djinn Skull & Bones Illuminati Warlock Templar Artifact! One of a Kind ~ Wealth + Luck x10! ** Occult WARLOCK Ring! $$$ Lost Treasure of Khastazia!”
Heteronormative crusader of the year
Yoweri Museveni, et al - https://fstdt.com/H2HYM_JPS4PJK - Yoweri Museveni, Robina Rwakoojo, John Musila and others "Ugandan MPs pass bill imposing death penalty for homosexuality
Léona Niassène mob - https://fstdt.com/RBWYSK7Z4.BBD - “We caught a homosexual and we burned him”
Alex Bailey - https://fstdt.com/GXSRXGH$T5CRK - Beat up an 80-year-old woman because he thought she was trans.
Travis Ikeguchi - https://fstdt.com/Z_XYYNNTGDFXB - “A 27-year-old man who fatally shot a store owner in California had torn down her Pride flag and shouted homophobic slurs, officials said on Monday”
Feynman and Coulter's Love Child - https://fstdt.com/_DC5N$FYR_PZ7 - Treats “Medical Assistance in Dying” as a final solution to the gay question
Forced-birth advocate of the year
Abby Johnson - <https://fstdt.com/$3_CDZPGR$S6G>, <https://fstdt.com/V7N_BJLJLV.K5> - Starts by advocating for abortion to be banned and surprised that the neoreactionaries aren’t grateful
Kaya Masters - https://fstdt.com/J7W_BM42G$XQF - Morally trading abortions for ten-year-olds forced to give birth
Feynman and Coulter's Love Child - https://fstdt.com/NZ.R.CR52TG65 - The whole DARVO playbook applied to life-threatening pregnancies gone wrong.
State Representative Rob Harris (R) and 21 other South Carolina State Representatives - https://fstdt.com/R.PH_XY723GKC - Lawmakers proposing the death penalty for attempted abortions.
Vogon Poet Loonerate of the year
Sneir - https://fstdt.com/BHXR.7_.PZLGJ - Incel gangsta rap
Bennett Lee Ross - <https://fstdt.com/?title=Bennett+Lee+Ross&after_date=2022-12-31&before_date=2023-12-31> - Hasn’t really changed since last year, has he…
Gisele Gurney, Brynn Miche and Jimbo Zoomer - https://fstdt.com/X4X2DGGGQK6ZC - Incel punk
Quack of the year
Tammy Nichols and Judy Boyle - https://fstdt.com/YN3LQZXWX3DHK - "If two Idaho state lawmakers get their way, it would become a criminal misdemeanor to administer a Covid-19 mRNA vaccine in Idaho"
Jason Klop - https://fstdt.com/QWYSGYYH4_XKJ - "A Fraser Valley naturopath who charged families thousands of dollars to give their autistic children pills and enemas made from human feces has agreed to give up his licence"
Storm Robinson - https://fstdt.com/LSB5WW36ZWQR4 - An asthma truther. “You don’t need an inhaler, Becky, you need to go for a walk”
RFK Jr. - https://fstdt.com/SZMPH8WCXN6SH - “COVID-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and Black people. The people that are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese”
Joe Salant - https://fstdt.com/KJS4R9Y5VH7$K - "An evangelical pastor who briefly shot to fame in 2015 for recording a rap song in support of Sen. Ted Cruz is now selling industrial-strength bleach tablets to parents and has admitted that many of his customers are using the product to treat autism in their children"
Magnetic crank of the year
Andrew Stiles, Washington Free Beacon - https://fstdt.com/TV66C3_X4SJRB - The fundie word redefinition project, version 23.05.
Andrew Tate - https://fstdt.com/SLJ32QG833$S6 - Andrew Tate has small dick energy.
One-liner of the year
Storm Robinson - https://fstdt.com/LSB5WW36ZWQR4 - “Asthma is the ADHD of Inflammatory diseases. You don’t need an inhaler, Becky, you need to go for a walk.”
TommyHunt - https://fstdt.com/NVW_JRYNG4.CG - “You can surgically attach a hundred penises to a woman but she'll never be a man.”
“CLASSY” FRED BLASSIE - https://fstdt.com/G8TW.X95$W$_G - “btw i can tell when your toddler is performatively coughing when you walk past me on the sidewalk as i’m smoking a cig and it’s pathetic”
Ben Shapiro - https://fstdt.com/L4R7BY45JFJ64 - “We tried a documentary about men joining women's sports leagues, but found out they'd have to take hormone treatments first. So we made a fictional film about it instead.”
Donald Trump - https://fstdt.com/GH33W5NZ9HNW6 - “[Xi Jinping] runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. Smart, brilliant, everything perfect.”
Lauren Boebert - https://fstdt.com/FYT_8LZ4JWF27 - “We should save the taxpayer some money and throw Fauci and Hunter in the same cell.”
Catturd - https://fstdt.com/_MFX$VBDDV29G - “If Medicine Worked you wouldn’t need to refill your prescription!”
Andrew Tate - https://fstdt.com/HV.KSWSXYQQ$9 - “Long Covid? Oh you mean... Gay?”
Matt Walsh - https://fstdt.com/MV5GP_H52RMT7 - “The facts say that the entire medical basis for anti-depressants is a thoroughly debunked myth and millions of people were drugged based on that myth”
Jesse Lee Peterson - https://fstdt.com/JJTVT8V5GLC6B - “A life without thinking is an AMAZIN' life.”
Chicken little award
INTHELORDSNAME - <https://fstdt.com/P7P5>, <https://fstdt.com/2XQ5> - INTHELORDSNAME from GLP insisted, several times, that Pope Francis and Barack Obama would be systematically beheading Christians no later than March 2023, and tossed into the lake of fire in September.
Gracie - https://fstdt.com/DNF5 - Man-on-car marriage should’ve happend by 2021. The world should’ve ended by 2023.