Confederacy and Chill: Friday Morning Tweet Catch-up

That Leaping Guinea Pig is the best.

Is the statue in the first tweet supposed to be the Titan Cronus (I think) going after his kids? The ones that ultimately overthrew him and became the Greek Pantheon? Because otherwise I’m at a loss to figure out what ‘story’ the original artist was trying to convey there.

I mean, ‘Random Guy Throwing Kids Around’ isn’t exactly a theme that’ll get public funding to install anyplace in a public park, you know? Not unless the artist can fall back on a myth or folk tale to give it an acceptable context.

In my limited art experience, anyway.

ETA: And is that the late Mr. Rogers with a clown mask in that other tweet too?

Sorry, off-topic but sort of related….

So Trump parrotted the fabricated, undocumented yet ever-reappearing myth about Pershing killing Moros, pigs blood, etc. etc. in the Philippines in the early 1910s.

Now the historians and others at my institution are socked with all kinds of questions from the public asking “is it true? is it true?”

[sigh]

[many won’t read the sources we cite or will hear what they want to hear anyway]

Austin

the insane goofy hell-rictus of Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most fitting monument to the ugly idiocy of southern history.

That thing is completely sideways weird. I saw it for the very first time tonight on Colbert. I didn’t think it was so terribly funny when it came up on the screen. I presumed it was some kind of send-up, mock-up, that the crew had knocked up as a kind of pantomime version of the real thing.

Eventually, it dawned on me that it was a real picture of a real sculpture. If Colbert hadn’t been using it as a model of bad soldiering and bad horsemanship, I might still be vacillating between Yes I s’pose it must be real? and No, it can’t be. Can it?

I dread to think what it must look like in the full horror of reality – presuming that it’s life size or larger. It’s a wonder the world hasn’t collapsed around the ghastly monstrosity.

BANNON’S possibly getting fired. Not yet officially out of the White House.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/us/politics/steve-bannon-trump-white-house.html

@dreemr
Ha ha cat plant away!

But in all seriousness I want to see that official resignation. I demand nothing less than to see him utterly humiliated as he gets removed from the White House.

EDIT: Kelly and Bannon agreed it’s Bannon’s last day. Bannon out. Bannon mad. Bannon go on nazi propoganda war against Trump.

Ha. Ha. Ha. Eat crow you fascist scum bag.

*Looks at Bannon news. Sighs and starts the Oompa Lompa rehearsals for when they wheel him out of the white house*

Why do people think Trump will help their careers? I have seen better job security at a Spirit Halloween store.

Sure. Keep the statues. But…

NOT ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.

re: leaping guinea pig

My fourth-grade class had guinea pigs. I took care of them over Christmas break. They never jumped that much, though.

Oh let’s not forget T_D and 4chan. I wonder how they’re really feeling.

@Pavlovs House

I have found through these weeks and months of terribleness – the same people who are screaming loudly about the importance of these statues in the history of our country are the same people who say “WHY DOES HISTORY MATTER?” or “It’s all already happened, so why are you spending time on it.” or have slept through any history class they had to sit in.

I also doubt they will read your or your colleagues articles and remember them, sadly.

At least that is my experience. Because anyone who has taken the time to do true research, understands what this crap is about.

Bannon’s out! I’ll bet dollars to donuts that his angle will be “Trump’s a Secret Democrat Globalist, Just Look at His Son In Law.” He’ll try to pin all the blame on the Democrats, ’cause they’re the real racists, don’tchakno.

I wanna blather about Canadian news a bit as well though, ’cause it’s sort of related! Ohmigod you guyse Rebel Media is disintegrating. Almost all of their staff is running away, their money is drying up, they’ve lost most of their advertisers, and they’ve got nowhere to turn to!

(For those not in the know, Rebel Media is Canada’s own Alt-Right media, shamefully from my own province. For the past few years they’ve been swimming in right wing money, building up the Alt-Right, spreading islamophobia and fascist tension, and being general right wing jerks.)

They sent a “reporter” to Cville and that reporter caught the car assault on video – in the middle of her ranting about how terrible the “alt left” is! Now they’re in national news as a source of the fascism, and everyone’s scrambling to get off the ship while it sinks. It’s hilarious watching them squirm. Their fetid leader, Ezra Levant, is in the fun position of repudiating the “Alt Right” and claiming that they never supported that sort of hate, while they’ve been a major media outlet for exactly that for the past three years. Our own Federal and Provincial Conservatives are scrambling away from them, even with the fact that some of our local Conservative MLAs have been reporters for Rebel, and our federal CPC leader’s got a Rebel Media Director as a campaign manager.

To make it even better, a disgruntled former employee of Rebel was fired and recently released audio tapes of a recording, in which Levant bribes him with “hush money” to not talk about how Rebel operates. And then proceeds to tell everyone how they operate, and how their whole mission is to squeeze as much donation money as they can out of gullible angry white people, then get their email addresses from petitions so they can sell them on to advertisers.

Even more betterer, they not long ago announced a “Rebel Cruise” – a cruise ship with Norwegian Cruises or something. Rebel Media personalities would give talks and stuff as they toured wherever they were gonna go. Charging thousands of dollars more than a normal cruise, too. And now that the cruise is almost ready? The cruise company has cancelled their reservations and told them that they’re not welcome. Who wants to bet whether those people will get refunds?

It’s so heckin’ delightful, guys. I am giggling with glee. I mean, it’s still a horrible mess we’re all in, but they are disintegrating like a flan in the cupboard. They’re now asking for donations to build a whole new right-wing YouTube/Twitter for themselves where they won’t get persecuted by those darn evil commie pinko leftists, i.e. civil society.

A toast to Rebel Media! May you rot in your ineptitude and evil.

You’ll have your day, too, American friends. You’ll see Breitbart crumble, you’ll see their grand schemes collapse with the most wonderfully pathetic whumph sound. You’ll see them wriggle in shame and skulk back into the shadows.

And don’t think that this isn’t your day too! Shamefully for Canada, Rebel Media’s had a lot of responsibility in broadcasting the hateful messages that have created the Alt Right. They’re as influential as Stormfront. Moreso, if you ask me – Stormfront has always been related to the Nazis, but Rebel’s never put it on their banner. And I guarantee that the name “Rebel” was chosen specifically to appeal to a certain segment of southerners.

The fascists have lost a major recruiting tool, one of their biggest. Rebel’s collapse is a victory, my ducks! Enjoy it! They’ll be back in another form I’m sure, but their loss will take a huge amount of wind out the alt-right’s sails.

It’s a good day!