Posted on 11/24/2023 6:06:50 AM PST by MtnClimber
A nip is in the air, frost or snow is on the ground, trees stand decorated in living rooms, and eggnog is in the refrigerator.
Yes, it is that time of year again. Time to reveal the Fourth Annual Hoax-of-the-Year Awards! So grab a cup of your favorite cheer, take a seat by the fire…and read on.
Last year’s winner was The Great Reset Is a Hoax Hoax, the first winner in which a supposed hoax was itself a hoax, and indeed all too real.
Without further ado, here are the contenders for this year:
As usual, there are a number of continuing hoaxes that deserve mention, such as The Any Number of Illegal Immigrants Make the Country Better and Richer Hoax. However, this hoax, stupefying as it is, may be on its last legs. Even some Democrats seem to be sobering up in this regard.
Several other hoaxes have taken further hits in 2023, including The Most of Those Working in the FBI And DOJ Are Good People Hoax, and The Teachers Are All Selfless, Underpaid Angels Who Love Our Kids Hoax.
Conversely, one hoax that continues to gain traction, at least among academics, is The Competence, Punctuality and Discipline Are All Aspects of White Supremacy Hoax. In fact, many colleges are dispensing with entrance standards altogether. It should be noted that The Marijuana Is Good for You Hoax is also still in good stead, though for how much longer no one knows. And, incredibly, against all odds, The Men Can Get Pregnant Too Hoax appears to be holding its ground…if not gaining more adherents. A closely related ruse, The One Sex Can Become the Other Just by Saying So Hoax, is similarly alive and well. This is a foundational hoax, breathtaking in scope and import, truly preposterous.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Biden Received 81,000,000 Votes Hoax.
Good stuff -
In this time of great deceit, with a veritable treasure trove of lies/hoaxes from which to choose, selecting a winner was extremely challenging. There are many worthy contestants. The Competence, Punctuality and Discipline Are All Aspects of White Supremacy Hoax, The One Sex Can Become the Other Just by Saying So Hoax, and The World Is Rapidly Warming Because Of Gasoline-Powered Lawnmowers and Bovine Belches Hoax all had great merit. All would dramatically change the world for the worse if allowed to continue and would together render it almost unrecognizable.
Hoax of The Year contenders:
<><>Most of Those Working in the FBI And DOJ Are Really Good People,
<><>Teachers Are All Selfless, Underpaid Darlings Who Love Our Kids.
<><>Competence, Punctuality and Discipline Are All Aspects of White Supremacy.
<><>Marijuana and Halucinogens Are Good for You (long shot due to Hunter Biden).
<><>Men Can Ovulate, Menstruate and Get Pregnant Too.
<><>One Sex Can Be the Other Just by Saying So Hoax.
<><>A man In a Dress is Just as Sane as You and I Hoax
<><>The World Is Catastrophically Warming Because Of Gas-Powered Lawnmowers.
<><>The Joe Biden Got Elected w/ 81 Million Votes in 2020 Hoax.
<><>The Diversity is Our Strength Hoax.
UPDATE-—The Millions of Illegal Immigrants Make the Country Better and Richer Hoax, however stupefying, may be on its last legs. Even some Democrats in Chicago and NY seem to be sobering up in this regard.
RECAP-—Last year’s winner was The Great Reset Is a Hoax Hoax, the first
winner in which a supposed hoax was itself a hoax, and indeed all too real.
NEW ENTRY-—The Israel Hamas Problem Can Be Solved By Asking Germany What To Do Hoax.
“”””Video of the crash caught on security camera and previously posted to X by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency showed the car traveling from the U.S. side at high speed.””””
While I fully agree the immigration hoax ranks near the top, I would add this 2023 hoax to his list.
Trump will destroy Democracy in the USA hoax.
oops wrong cut and paste.
The paste should have been “”””A part of me wanted to pick a fresher hoax, one uniquely associated with 2023. While this isn’t entirely true of the hoax I chose, it does seem like 2023 finally brought it to the forefront. So here it is, the Hoax-of-the-Year for 2023: The Any Number of Illegal Immigrants Make the Country Better and Richer Hoax.””””
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoax
A hoax is a widely publicized falsehood so fashioned as to invite reflexive, unthinking acceptance by the greatest number of people of the most varied social identities and of the highest possible social pretensions to gull its victims into putting up the highest possible social currency in support of the hoax.[1]
The “diversity is our strength” hoax is still going strong.
Etymology
The English philologist Robert Nares (1753–1829) says that the word hoax was coined in the late 18th century as a contraction of the verb hocus, which means “to cheat”, “to impose upon”[4] or (according to Merriam-Webster) “to befuddle often with drugged liquor.”[5] Hocus is a shortening of the magic incantation hocus pocus,[5] whose origin is disputed.[6][better source needed]
https://www.etymonline.com/word/hocus-pocus
magical formula used in conjuring, 1630s, earlier Hocas Pocas, common name of a magician or juggler (1620s); a sham-Latin invocation used by jugglers, perhaps based on a perversion of the sacramental blessing from the Mass, Hoc est corpus meum “This is my body.” The first to make this speculation on its origin apparently was English prelate John Tillotson (1630-1694).
I will speak of one man ... that went about in King James his time ... who called himself, the Kings Majesties most excellent Hocus Pocus, and so was called, because that at the playing of every Trick, he used to say, Hocus pocus, tontus tabantus, vade celeriter jubeo, a dark composure of words, to blinde the eyes of the beholders, to make his Trick pass the more currantly without discovery. [Thomas Ady, “A Candle in the Dark,” 1655]
Compare hiccus doccius or hiccus doctius, “formula used by jugglers in performing their feats” (1670s), also a common name for a juggler, which OED says is “conjectured to be a corruption of” Latin hicce es doctus “here is the learned man,” “if not merely a nonsense formula simulating Latin.” Also compare holus-bolus (adv.) “all at a gulp, all at once,” which Century Dictionary calls “A varied redupl. of whole, in sham-Latin form.” As a noun meaning “juggler’s tricks,” hocus-pocus is recorded from 1640s.
also from 1630s
Buy Biden Better
“””Buy Biden Better”””
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Good one.
‘Build Back Better’ implies that something must be destroyed so it can be built back better.
You forgot the *Covid vax is safe and effective* hoax.
Anyone who gussies up his balance sheets, even if thoroughly benignly, deserves forced bankruptcy and prison, courtesy of our justice system.
What do you call a faulty audio wire?
A hoax cable.
(Well ... I am still on my first cup at here this morning ...)
Yup, the BIGGEST hoax of ‘23 perpetrated on the United States and the World IS Joseph Robinette ByeDone.
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