By David Futrelle
In the wake of last night’s missile strikes on Syria, Trump is declaring “mission accomplished!” (Haven’t we heard this before?) Meanwhile, his fans on the far right, from literal Nazi Assad lovers to not-quite-Nazi America Firsters are crying foul. Alex Jones is literally crying.
Ah yes, that famous phrase indicating military success pic.twitter.com/HNleChIefM
— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) April 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/Rschooley/status/985142423868329984
Alex Jones seems to disagree.
Alex Jones and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day pic.twitter.com/Ld0bxcjlhJ
— shauna (@goldengateblond) April 14, 2018
Apparently it’s all the fault of the Deep State.
Trump is a strong and powerful leader but the deep state is in complete control of his actions pic.twitter.com/pLjgX2n2sx
— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) April 14, 2018
Meanwhile, every right-wing shithead that has spent the past several years demonizing brown-skinned refugees as terrorists is suddenly a humanitarian.
The Alt-Right is shedding crocodile tears about Syrian civilians dying in Trump's bombing campaign, despite having spent years calling all Syrian refugees murderous rapists.
Meanwhile: https://t.co/mrphvzf34B— TakedownMRAs (@TakedownMRAs) April 14, 2018
The weirdest thing about Trump’s base coming unglued about him violating his America First principles by bombing Syria is that they really believed he had principles.
— shauna (@goldengateblond) April 14, 2018
Among those feeling betrayed, Ann Coulter, who spent the day retweeting angry alt-rightists denouncing their former God Emporer Trump. There is a slight irony here.
The author of a book literally titled "In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!" continues to be SHOCKED that Trump is an unprincipled liar. https://t.co/5zcWJzcv2U
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) April 14, 2018
Coulter also retweeted this legitimately cute video, which I thought was a nice change from her usual horribleness.
https://twitter.com/Crazyinnasia/status/984802897476104193
Not all right-wing racists are mad at Trump, though.
An alt-right Trump-loving 20-year-old hedge fund manager calling for the US to bomb Gaza just for fun after illegally attacking Syria is peak America
This is what US fascism looks like. Ultra-entitled racist capitalist children with no regard whatsoever for human life pic.twitter.com/7lGuKetQnR
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) April 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/JacobAWohl/status/984971358206488576
There are several problems with that last tweet, not least the fact that this is not actually a picture of Damascus.
https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/985189757553700864
Back here in the US, Starbucks is calling the cops on black men for … going to Starbucks? And the cops are arresting them.
https://twitter.com/missydepino/status/984539713016094721
Starbucks needs to buy them free coffee for life.
From somewhere else, so they don't have to go to Starbucks.
— Jenny Trout (@Jenny_Trout) April 14, 2018
These days I think we can all relate to this:
Same. pic.twitter.com/zxfds5xafE
— Danger Fourpence (@DangerFourpence) April 12, 2018
Omg yes, the pecans thing!!!!
I’m alright, getting better of my depression and stuff. Found a therapy that works, at last.
If you have twitter, do click my name to be led to mine! I’d love having you all there.
I interacted with David and Auntie Alias a few times but naturally they didn’t recognize me. :p
You have a cool twitter timeline, Chiomara. I shall follow you!
(Also, I need to get a twitter account which isn’t in my real everyday name. I have enormous cishetmale privilege but even so, I’ve been stalked before and it wasn’t fun.)
Air strikes on Syria will just kill innocent civilians and strengthen ISIS
The incompetence of our leaders never ceases to amaze me
Chiomara’s back! Yay!
Hi, Chiomara!
OT, but this Finnish story has an (in my opinion) amusing twist.
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10154837
What do you say, if you’re a medium counseling a newly divorced woman who’s coping with her heartbreak? One thing you might say is:
The woman, Tea Latvala, whose medium years ago told her this line, later became a small entrepreneur sex toy designer – that’s what the story is about. She also eventually found a new love, while still struggling with prejudice and lewd attitudes about her business.
I bet that kid who mowed the White House lawn never got paid.
To this day, Trump still thinks that was Barron.
@ chiomara
Hey you’re back! So happy to see you and that you’re ok. Wondered what you were up to. I keep reading the Guardian ‘South America’ section waiting for ‘Mystery woman leads revolution and overthrows government’. Haven’t seen that yet, but I guess that means you’re still working behind the scenes. I like that; it’s subtle.
CHIOMARA!!!!
*pouncehugs*
Mmm, the black coffee of Mordor. Which I shall not order here.
That reminds me, I once wrote a LOTR altverse fanfic, set in Appalachia, where Saruman was the CEO of a large corporate coffee chain who wanted to bulldoze Gondor Hollow. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.). I should see if the link is still active.
Re: blackmailing Trump, that only works if he has a sense of shame, and if his followers have functioning moral compasses, and if his detractors don’t already know he’s a grotesque, lecherous yam with a penchant for trafficked underage models. At this point, there are no new revelations that would move the needle. Evangelicals don’t care about all the adultery and groping, and they don’t care that Trump has never read the Bible and rarely sets foot in a church. Trump is the embodiment of white patriarchy that their religion demands. He hates all the same people they hate. The only thing that would make them turn on him is if he suddenly started advocating for immigrants, women, and gun control.
Hi Chiomara !! Glad to see you back! Hope all is well with you.
Welcome back chiomara. Missed you.
Chio! <3 We missed you!
Chio!! Welcome back!
> Trump is a powerful leader
> The deep state controls everything
Pick one!
@Bina
Peter couldn’t tolerate the cultural Marxist (i.e not horrifically racist and right-wing) atmosphere in Sweden and moved to Norway.
Then Norway called him up for military service and he moved to England.
How very nationalistic and alpha.
@chiomara
Basically everyone in the unofficial discord is going a wild at you being back. Please to be clicking my link to join (If you have Discord anyway. If you dont you should get it the people there seem to miss you.
– Someone who vaguely remembers your Avatar but was mostly a lurker
CHIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
also go away fguy, this is now officially the Chio thread
Chio! Hey! *waves*
Chio, you dont know me bc I lurk a lot, but
WELCOME BACK!! you are so kind and smart; I have always valued your input.
Content Advisory: this post contains bitter sarcasm…
re: Starbucks trespassing video… it’s obvious from the film that the perpetrators were Being Black In Public (an arrestable offense in itself), what the film doesn’t show is the Events leading to Starbucks’ employees calling the police:. specifically, were the perpetrators ACTING Black In Public?? After all, Philadelphia is a Jim Crow state, amirite?
off-topic, there’s a lawsuit against a right-wing votor suppression organization, Slate has a write-up
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/how-an-anti-kkk-law-could-bring-down-a-notorious-voter-suppression-group.html
Interesting, and very legally sound, even in these trumpian times!
It’s good to see you again, Chiomara! It’s been lovely to see people reappearing lately – like Nicola Luna, and Sinkable John and even Scildfreja was MIA earlier, for what felt like ages which was Just Not On. (there have been several other lovely people coming back, but I have a bordering-on-significantly-messing-with-ordinary-life problem with remembering names; no slight is intended).
Hoping for still more returnees! I always get such a lot, both info and pleasure, out of reading the smart people around here.
There was a time where a particular person commenting constantly was driving people away.
Said person is (probably) gone now.
Squeaks gleefully
OMG YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How are you, how are you, how are you?! You shaped my understanding of the world so much, I’m so grateful to this site.
I AM working under the covers, indeed, Lula is coming out of jail, and with a twist, wait for it.
I’m joining the disco rn!!!!
“IT WENT VERY WELL”
1. Ah, all-caps. Always reassuring.
2. “I FEEL VERY FULFILLED.” (Christy Masters, Michelle and Romy’s High School Reunion.) {click for clip}
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/81b7c668-4b0f-47a4-829b-42aaf4e410ee