By David Futrelle
Today should have been a day to reflect on the horror that was 9/11, and the horror that it unleashed upon the world. It should have been a day to remember the heroism of firefighters and the bravery of those who risked their health and their lives to search for survivors.
For our illegitimate president, it was a day to celebrate … himself.
May God Forever Bless the United States of America. #NeverForget911 pic.twitter.com/erycJgj23r
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 11, 2017
What a fucking disgrace.
But typical for Trump. Here he was on the day the towers fell:
16 years ago, today, Trump talked about how his building was now the tallest one since the World Trade Center fell. pic.twitter.com/Dcr8OLF695
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) September 11, 2017
Here he was in 2013:
“@realDonaldTrump: I would like to extend my best wishes to all, even the haters and losers, on this special date, September 11th.”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 12, 2013
Here he is on the campaign trail, lying about helping the rescuers at Ground Zero.
Trump claims in this video he helped look for survivors & clear rubble on 9/11—He didn't—He was lying. #neverforget pic.twitter.com/gvc3MsbaJZ
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) September 11, 2017
This mixture of narcissism and dishonesty taints everything he’s done and will do as president, and it’s just one of the reasons that Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs (not to be confused with the terrible Chuck Johnson of GotNews) posted this today:
https://twitter.com/Green_Footballs/status/907340112891129856
Johnson has been taking a lot of shit, mostly from terrible people, for this tweet but he’s absolutely right.
In other news:
After a devastating earthquake and hurricane (and after Trump failed to send condolences), Mexico today rescinded its offer of aid to the US
— Kate Linthicum (@katelinthicum) September 11, 2017
Miss Texas was asked if Trump handled Charlottesville badly. She, uh … didn't play. 🇺🇸 #MissAmerica pic.twitter.com/5JMT4tBpeL
— shauna (@goldengateblond) September 11, 2017
https://twitter.com/GaryLegum/status/906975589915136001
https://twitter.com/classiclib3ral/status/906993185192325121
One time I was playing capture the flag in Halo and kept getting shot right as I got to my base and I denied the Holocaust. https://t.co/XGxy8TvWis
— Paul F. Tompkins (@PFTompkins) September 10, 2017
"It's standard for gamers". It's great that their defense of pewdiepie using the n-word is that all gamers are racist. pic.twitter.com/CocXNQVkLp
— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) September 11, 2017
If you need your faith in the world restored a little after all this, here are some cute animals.
https://twitter.com/ItsMeowIRL/status/907179302961205248
https://twitter.com/awwcuteness/status/907263517946007552
In other words, 9/11 is just like every other day to #45.
I hope Miss Texas runs for office one day.
Trump — like many politicians before him and currently — is using these 9/11 commemorations to try to keep us in fear. After all, if we’re not afraid, we won’t need Big Orange Daddy.
Let’s honor those who responded, not the grifters and the liars.
Omg, those cats. I needed those cats.
Didn’t 45 lie about the size of his building on or around 9/11, too? I seem to remember that coming up during the election.
I’m very glad that I don’t follow YouTube video game personalities. So many of them seem to come out as utter shitbags. There’s a Tumblr blog dedicated to reporting shitty behavior from these guys called Let’s Play Social Justice.
Thanks for setting gaming back in the eyes of non-gamers ONCE AGAIN Felix. Well done. You’ve shown them all that we’re fucking immature racists who will rush to defend one another for being assholes because “heated moment!” or “It was just a joke!”.
You fucking shitbird.
I’ve never fucking uttered that word in my life, and it would have never occurred to me to do so even if I was angry. There’s a billion strings of swear words I could have used in place of that that wouldn’t have made me look like a racist shithead.
But of course people are jumping to defend him. Because apparently, that’s our fucking standard now. We circle the wagons when someone says something utterly fucking indefensible because that’s just what we’re supposed to do.
It’s getting back to the point where I’m ashamed to tell people I like video games, because he’s the fucking standard they’re going to compare me to. They’re going to look at me and think to themselves about what Felix and other high-profile pieces of shit “gamers” have done, and I have to work extra hard to be the exception to the rule, because being a good person isn’t the fucking standard.
Games archival suffered because of GamerGate and their shitshow, and now we have to fight to have games taken seriously as an artform yet again because of this string of asshole “gamer” YouTubers who decide that they can be as racist as they want because hey, there’s no real fucking consequences for it because YouTube won’t do shit because Felix is their fucking poster boy.
Fuck Felix and fuck YouTube at this point.
But, Felix won’t care. He won’t even see this. He’ll just go home and cry about how mean we all are for not accepting his half-assed non apology for his repeated bullshittery and how mean people are to him for not wanting to be associated with his gross ass anymore.
And I shudder to think about what will happen to his so-called “friends” who defended him after the “Kill all Jews” incident. The only person who was slightly critical of him was Jacksepticeye, and he got torn into by Felix’s rabid fanbase, since Felix helped him build his platform.
I also unfollowed quite a few of my former favorite LPers after they refused to say anything too.
@PI:
Yeah, I’ve pretty much cut out JonTron entirely now ’cause wow, I don’t care how funny you might be, there are other things and other people that are far more worth my time.
It really makes me sad that casual racism and sexism are still completely acceptable to such a huge portion of the gaming community. Even when I was younger, stupider, and a lot more prone to impotent rage, throwing around slurs was a line I would never cross.
How many ads must advertisers pull before Google does its job? It’d be interesting to see exactly how many ads must be pulled before Google considers Felix a liability.
@Paradoxical Intention – Leader of the Deathclaw Damsels
And his audience are mainly impressionable young people. He’s normalizing bigotry to millions of impressionable kids, and Google is okay with that.
Those cats need an(?) ouija board (dunno why the an sounds wrong)
Is Trump an? or a? yes or no?
We had some kind of patriots march here locally that sent my skin crawling.
and I knew a guy. On 9/11 he was living in Trump tower (quite by circumstance and accident). He told me from where he stood, it was quite like nothing had happened at all. Like he knew all this terror was occurring, yet it could have been happening in another place entirely as far as he could see, based on his view from the building. And he said it was weird and eerie.
I was never really a fan of Felix before, but after this… Between this and Gamergate, I’m starting to feel ashamed to call myself a game fan.
Also, I hope that puppy has a good life.
there are better felixes
In other news, incels sure do love imagining themselves as “Stacy”, don’t they?
If you want some good game analysis, H. Bomberguy is the way to go. I remember Cryaotic not being that problematic, if you’re looking for another let’s player. I’d add myself to that list, but I’m not too confident in my current videos and don’t want to advertise myself until I’m more confident in my content.
Did Miss Texas win? Or did she get scored poorly for not giving a bland generic answer?
@weirwood Cue 140 character tirade from Il Douche about the bias in beauty pageants and fake news
WWTH, Miss North Dakota, Cara Mund, won.
H Bomberguy is also good at taking down all those self claimed ‘rational Skeptics’ you tubers as well
David, as much as I appreciate your “fluffy brain bleach” segments , I think that Wild Geerters & Paul F Tompkins did a lot to restore my faith in the world.
Paradoxical Intention – Leader of the Deathclaw Damsels
You have won all the internets for the day with that inspiring rant!
WTF. People, in all movements, if you stop enabling fucking shitbirds by making excuses for them and, instead, call them out, some of them might see the light, apologize and clean up their acts.
(Sure, some people aren’t redeemable, but some just need to have it pointed out how badly they are acting.)
eli, it’s because ouija is hard to pronounce without adding a “w” sound at the beginning, which would normally call for “a”. I think it’s like how it’s an “L”, but a “P”.
Linguistics is one of my hobbies. (and that sounds wrong because usually words ending in S are plural :-P)
My cat was named Felix. He was a thousand times better than this asshole.
Miss North Dakota, now Miss America, ALSO went after Trump, on his refusal to accept the reality of climate change.
@David Futrelle
Okay, both of these ladies are on my happy list.
My take on the whole PDP racist slur thing:
1) I’m a gamer. I have, on occasion, had reason to swear at my screen in the process of playing a game.
2) I’m an Australian. Which means when it comes to swearing, I’m nationally predisposed to turn the air blue.
3) So far, the most likely thing I’m likely to say to my screen when things aren’t going my way is “may all your chooks turn into emus and kick down your dunny door“, because as far as I’m concerned, it’s more fun to issue elaborate curses to the various algorithms driving the games.
4) When I really get going, I’ll tend to use it all. Scatology, blasphemy, sexual references, double-barrelled insults, and references to the marital status, dubious hobbies and non-human species of the parents of the character in question. Won’t tend to use racial or disabilty-based slurs of any kind, though.
“You useless, cross-grained, double-damned, bastard son of a drunken syphilitic weasel and a paedophile sewer rat” is a good example. The fun is in seeing how long I can keep the string going before the snarl runs out. But usually it’s just the good old chooks, emus, dunny door. That one never gets old.
Thus, my opinion, as a gamer and a foul-mouthed Aussie, is anyone who sticks with something as stupid and tame as a single racial slur really isn’t trying.
I was clearing out some out-of-date library books to a charity shop yesterday, and found a dictionary from the 1930s. I was flicking through and found the following definition, which I thought was apt:
TRUMP: to impose upon, to deceive; TRUMPERY n. something serving to deceive by false show; worthless but showy, matter; rubbish; trifles; empty talk; a., worthless in character; paltry.
I think the tweets above show that definition is accurate.
Beauty pageants may be some fucked-up patriarchal bullshit, but I’m pleased that they’re escalating such awesome people to the limelight.