Gold finally gets a little pump after years of stagnation and underperforming when it should have been performing against the ongoing fiat clusterfucks all over, and goldbugs start giving "told you so" lessons.
What clusterfucks are you talking about? Stocks are booming for many years already, while some people are saying that recession is coming soon almost every day. So, no wonder that gold struggles now, and goldbugs are indeed a joke, because how emotional they are about investing. Good investors evaluate potential investments objectively, without letting their personal beliefs interfere with this process, and it's a problem that can plague any investor, not just goldbugs.
The entire market is obviously rigged. When you can pump stocks by printing money you don't get a clear view of what's going on. The metals market are also rigged. Spoofing in future markets is an ongoing thing. When JP morgan's ass was saved when they did the wrong trade on silver back on 2012 which resulted on Blythe Masters being executed.
They meet in chatrooms / telegram and manipulate prices, this is no crazy conspiracy theory. Obviously this is happening in all markets to some extent including Bitcoin but with the difference being that with Bitcoin it's the only thing you can know and audit to be strictly limited in amount so any Maddof scheme attemps to disturb real price discovery are short-lived.