Alex Jones’ Heartbreak: Today in Tweets

@Iseult:

This quote from Umberto Eco’s essay “Ur-Fascism” is evergreen:

The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy [in Mussolini’s Italy] I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy.

Only in right wing extremist fantasy land is the president of the United States somehow not a part of the United States government.

What would the “deep state” even be blackmailing Trump with? What else could he have possibly done that hasn’t already been reported?

@Iseult The Idle
Maybe trump is *gasp* part of the deep state, too?

@weirwoodtreehugger: chief manatee
And what blackmail worthy action could trump have done that his fans wouldn’t dismiss as “fake news”?

@MrsObedMarsh
Apparently not even middle earth is save from “Sharia Law”

Now, how can ANYONE look at that Starbucks’s meme, see “Shakira law in America”, and think, “seems legit”?

That donut looks delicious, though.

@Nequam: it definitely does, since it looks like Karey Jackson fell for the meme.

Surplus,

Cool! *starts noshing*

I’m feeling an enormous nostalgia right now, for those wonderful pre-internet times. There’s so much crap out there, and this post itself is probably part of the crap. Anyone too young to remember, I wish you could have experienced those glorious days.

I imagine that’s how people felt about TV, or the telephone, or printed books, for that matter. I’m rambling, but as an example, I don’t think my grandmother ever got used to having a phone in her house. She attended to its ringing according to her personal whims. I remember my mother trying to call her…my sister and I would do shifts holding the receiver, listening to the ringing, waiting for her to finally pick up.

I wonder what she’d have thought about the internet.

Oh yippee, “Peter Sweden” is now “Peter Norway” (probably since all the guys in Sweden named Peter complained about this doofus hijacking their nationality to spread fascist flibbertigibbertarian bullshit). Unfortunately, the stoopid is still the same.

I believe ‘Peter Norway’ is a nonawful person whose account name is a mockery of Peter Sweden.

Mm that donut, the power of Shakira flows through me.

I really do not comprehend the surprise. I thought that’s what they wanted?!

BTW HI GUYS DOES ANYONE STILL KNOW ME?

EJ(TOO):

You have my sword, Harry, and may the odds be ever in your favour.

And my teeth. I have been, and always shall be, your friend.