Irma hits Florida, Ann Coulter does her nails: Today in Tweets

Perhaps Coulter and Adams are soulmates.

@Hippodameia

They can have each other.

Parts of our hotel have fallen down onto where there are cars.

But now weather is little bit improved.

Pigeon I am sorry for you. I hope you can rebuild. We waiting now for more strong wind and rain will be come soon.

We’re battening down in Tallahassee; looks like it will be significantly weakened by the time it gets to us. Probably weaker than Hermine last year, although the storm winds will last *much* longer….

Anyone who thinks it’s a good idea to shoot a gun into a hurricane (or just randomly into the air or off in a random direction for that matter) should not have a gun. Period. 

A 13 year old kid was just recently killed in a nearby town, while playing basketball, from a bullet that somebody had shot into the air many blocks away from where he was at.

It devestated the community.

@Faerie Bard

Yeah, I find the general mentality of “I’m mad about this thing so my first instinct is to shoot my guns at it” incredibly unsettling.

@ChimericMind

So people were so desperate to believe the worst about Marie Antoinette that they wouldn’t question anything terrible they heard about her, no matter how ridiculous it was? Sounds like she was the Hillary Clinton of her day.

The “let them eat cake” story was originally about an anonymous princess, and it originated with Jean-Jacques Rousseau long before Marie Antoinette became queen.

Marie Antoinette was horribly slandered, not only because she was a woman but because she was Austrian. Just about everybody at the French court was frivolous and wasteful in those days, even though the government was sinking into debt. But critics of the court used her as the prime symbol of that frivolity and blamed her for things she wasn’t guilty of, the Affair of the Diamond Necklace being the prime example. There were also far worse and even less well-founded rumors about her that, fortunately, aren’t as well remembered as the cake story.

On the other hand, she and her husband really were out of touch, if not quite as much as the cake story makes her seem. The Marquis de Lafayette, who was a revolutionary leader in those early days, may have actually saved her hide during the Women’s March on Versailles by making a public gesture of reconciliation with Marie Antoinette. She was kind of pushed into making the gesture but, the way I heard the story, she always resented him for it and doesn’t seem to have realized that he was saving her hide.

Plus, Louis resisted the conversion of France into a constitutional monarchy in the early stages of the revolution, and my impression is that Marie Antoinette did, too. They failed to realize, until it was too late, that the only way to survive was to cooperate with the revolution. Then they tried to escape to start a counterrevolution, botched it, and, well, that was the end of them. They didn’t deserve death, and her execution was especially unnecessary, but it’s hard to say they didn’t bring it on themselves.

Marie Antoinette’s own brother called her and her husband “a couple of complete blunderers,” which I think pretty much sums them up.

Let’s all keep in mind that Ann Coulter is a moral Christian and loves Jesus.
Just a reminder… because I constantly forget myself

@D Marie Antoinette’s slandering didn’t start in France. She was the youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresia and that lady abused everyone around her. MA’s education was cut shorter than her siblings and she was always considered a pretty frivolous ditz by her whole family.
The French court also disliked her for her mother, because it was obvious who held the reigns in Vienna and they didn’t like the idea of that newcomer taking over.

@FaerieBard: If you really can’t bear the idea of someone else reading it, pull it apart and recycle the pages; they will have an opportunity to possibly come back as something useful.

Otherwise, donate it to a Friends of the Library sale/thrift store/suchlike: the money will go to a good cause and Adams gets no profit from secondary sales.

Greetings from Jacksonville, Florida. The worst is over but it’s a mess. Two feet of water downtown from the river. Huge power outages. I’m a nervous wreck from spending most of the night listening to the wind howl. My friends seem to be okay but there’s tragic photos of beautiful old trees lying on the ground all over my Facebook.

On the bright side, at least it’s not hot.

Glad to hear from all of you lovely Floridians, I hope that it wasn’t as bad for you as it could have been! Keep safe and I hope it goes well. I hope you get power back soon Pigeon, and glad to hear from you Valentine and Gaebolga and … i’m sure there were others. Are there others? Do stay safe regardless!

I think part of it is that right wingers don’t understand nuance. Their thinking is very black and white. I don’t think you can be witty without any subtlety or complexity in your thinking.

Another big part of it is that right wing humor always punches down. Unless you’re an asshole, a joke about poor people being lazy or bitches needing to make you a sandwich or whatever just isn’t going to be funny.