We have a new clubhouse leader in the “2024 Dumbest X (formerly Twitter) Post by a West Virginia Politician” category

Update: A recent post by Riley Moore replaces an earlier one by Mike Stuart on Biden and Ginsburg

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Previously, the 2024 leader in the "Dumbest X Post by a WV Politician" was WV state senator and attorney general candidate, Mike Stuart, who retweeted a post from a satiric site which claimed that President Biden had called for Justice Ginsburg’s retirement after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Colorado could not remove Donald Trump from the ballot:

(As most observers pointed out, Justice Ginsburg died in 2020 thus making it doubtful that Ginsburg voted in this decision.)

A new leader

Earlier this week, State Treasurer and Republican candidate for the WV2 congressional seat, Riley Moore, tweeted the following from his “friend,” Jack Prosobiec:

(It should be noted that earlier this year, Prosobiec called for the overthrow of the U.S. government at CPAC.) Prosobiec, with 2.5 million followers is apparently not especially careful with his sources of information. (Nor is Moore who seems to implicitly trust Prosobiec as a font of wisdom.) It would appear that both Moore and Prosobiec are unaware that the source, The Roman Fly, is a satirical site. As Yahoo reported on Friday:

ZYN products went viral a second time on social media when a story recirculated reporting that the Vatican had declared “Zyn is not a sin.” The story, which was originally published on May 14 by the satirical Catholic publication The Roman Fly, asserts that the Vatican’s Dicastery on Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Non-Tobacco Nicotine Products “released new guidance on the morality of Zyn nicotine pouches,” suggesting that “low-dose Zyn pouches are not sinful.”

The story reached newfound virality after right-wing commentator Jack Posobiec shared it on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday. Posobiec’s post garnered more than 1.9 million views on the platform, where it quickly became apparent that many users believed the story was real.

Yes, it would appear that one of those believers was WV’s Riley Moore.

And here's more from Moore on Zyn:

Yes, that's quite a diet although I might not use the word "hallmark."

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June 23, 2024

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