Confederacy and Chill: Friday Morning Tweet Catch-up

Buh-bye Bannon! If he really is as vindictive as they say he is, I can’t wait for the eventual internet war between Trump and Bannon!

I know it feels like forever, but it’s been a little over 8 months and these supposed Superior White Race Ubermenschen have collapsed like a milky flan in a cupboard. Gee, it’s like they were really just loud idiots with terrible ideas all this time! Whodathunk?

@Oogly

So pleased you are enjoying the stockings and lipstick.

My primary association with stockings is my mother’s suspender belt and American Tan stockings. So, while I get the sense of the sensuality, my brain won’t let me go there. Enjoy them for me!

Lipstick I didn’t really embrace until I was 40 (I had a nude lipstick I would wear to important meetings as a secret self-esteem lift). Now I’m playing with the bold colours, and loving it so much that:

a) My friends can now tell if I’m having a bad day, because I’ll have a bold lip (on the “fake it til you make it” principle); and

b) My mum (who rarely wears any make up at all) asked for some help with my little brother’s wedding, and said “oh no, you won’t have a lipstick I can wear” (we found her perfect shade in my stash, but she thought it was all going to be reds). And she looked lovely; exactly like herself, but more so.

I had a point. I think it was this: You go! Yay for you!

Oh my gosh you guys this is too good.

https://socialblade.com/youtube/channel/UCGy6uV7yqGWDeUWTZzT3ZEg/realtime

Rebel Media’s subscriber count – in realtime.

Haha, look at it go! You need a parachute there lil buddy?

JS:

If Bannon starts attacking Trump, then some (bad) Republicans have an excuse to “protect him from the alt-right” instead of impeaching.

What if he doesn’t attack Trump? He may remain loyal* to Trump, while using his new freedom to go after others: Kushner and Kelly being obvious examples. If it’s true that he jumped rather than was pushed, it may mean that he feels things have reached a point where he will have more power to further Project Reboot the US outside the administration.

*Not that I think Bannon is really loyal to anyone. I’m sure he views Trump as a useful idiot he can exploit.

@Dan Hoan

re: Pershing myth…Thanks; it was really more just doing our due diligence. The email answer that my colleague and I composed was based on — and cited specifically — Pershing’s own memoir (the one edited by John Greenwood and published in a scholarly edition by Univ. Kentucky Press in 2013). He in turn cites, and we referenced, specific letters in the Pershing letters in the Library of Congress manuscript collections. The website Politifact.com summarized the debunking long ago but with high-profile Trump-related stuff I like to cite the original primary sources even if there’s plenty of published work available that’s already synthesized it; you provide a pre-emptive retort to any accusations of “liberal cucks re-writing history etc.” i.e., go to the Library of Congress and see for yourself if you don’t believe us.

@OoglyBoggles:
I don’t know, Icahn has long been on my list of ‘this is why we can’t have nice things’. He is the encapsulation of some of the biggest problems with modern capitalism. A hedge fund manager whose primary money-making these days is to buy up shares until he’s a major shareholder, acquire enough proxies that he can start making demands to the board for short term gain, before walking off with his money and leaving what’s left of the company to founder on the rocks. (Such as when he forced himself and some of his friends onto the board of Yahoo by threatening a stockholder revolt with his proxies to get the board fired because they hadn’t taken up Microsoft on a buyout offer.)

Convicted felon Martin Shkreli only wishes he could grift as well as Carl Icahn.

@Citizen Rat

I know it feels like forever, but it’s been a little over 8 months and these supposed Superior White Race Ubermenschen have collapsed like a milky flan in a cupboard.

I’m strangely curious as to whether or not you have any personal experience when it comes to such foodstuffs.

@Hypatia’s Daughter

Trump, you got hung by your own petard.

A petard is a precursor to the grenade–an explosive device. It would be nigh-on impossible to hang oneself with it unless there was a loop on the pin and you were the size of Captain Olimar. Hoist by his own petard, hung by his own rope.

Off topic, but Alex Jones harasses people in Seattle, gets “boiling” coffee splashed on him and then acts like he’s the victim with his tail between his legs.

This is the only video link I can find so far on youtube that isn’t presenting it as Poor Him.

@ Horrorfan510 Oh my goodness. I hope you stay safe too.

Hypatia’s Daughter

… anti-Fascist statement from Johnny Cash’s children that actually made me cry with happiness

Enriches the oh-so-satisfying aaaaah feeling when combining that news with that of the descendants of Lee and Jackson and Davis. They have all, separately, stated that they either don’t care if, or actively advocate for, those statues being removed to museums or, maybe, just plain removed.

Horrorfan: I’m so sorry. That must be so scary for you.

Scildfreja Unnyðnes

Hah! When I first checked it, the graph below the count clock was all untidy steps. Now? One beautiful smooth(ish) downward slope across the whole page.

The most amazing and disappointing thing is the occasional additional subscriber. But they can’t make up for the wholesale rush to the exits.

@Oogly

I’m glad things are looking (sort of) up so far, and I hope you find a way to talk to your parents about it. Aaand if not I hope you’re able to quickly find somewhere you’re surrounded by good people who love you no matter what.