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Steve Timmer
by Steve Timmer
Aug 21, 2025, 3:00 PM

Charlie Kirk wins another Fatuous Bastard ™ award

Not only fatuous, but odious, ignorant, and ahistorical as well. There were Hutu voices on the radio and in the streets calling the Tutsi minority “cockroaches” and “snakes” leading up to the Rwandan genocide.

And never mind that President Cankles can barely get out his golf cart.

Charlie Kirk tweets calling immigrants "cockroaches"

Charlie Kirk tweets calling immigrants “cockroaches”

The Fatuous Bastard™ aims to recognize and celebrate all the incels and other assorted misfits who were stuffed in lockers in high school and never got over it, the overweening, overcompensating pseudo-intellectual fools who mistake a thesaurus for thought, the basement dwellers whose fingers are as orange as their hero, the . . . well, you get the idea.

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