We're Fortunate They're Stupid

I watched a lot of American cities burn last night, and there's not much humor to be found in it. Seems clear that the crowds in Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, and so many other places are a mix of righteously angry citizens of all races, joyriding assholes out to loot for fun, and organized agitators.

The latter would be even more dangerous if many of them weren't utter morons.

Case in point, and a cause for just a bit of levity: a number of right-wing sites and Twitter feeds ran rampant last night with the claim that The National guitarist Aaron Dessner was an Antifa organizer.

It started with this video and reply:

That's Aaron Dessner the guitarist for The National!
What's he doing at the Race Riots? pic.twitter.com/W9VcylZwzb

— FortWorthPlayboy (@FWPlayboy) May 31, 2020

And spread quickly across the Twitterverse.

Dessner, from his farm in rural Ohio and not in a crowd paying kids to riot, denied his involvement. The fact this was necessary was almost as stupid as the entire sordid affair.

The White House was unavailable for comment, as our cowardly leader turned off the lights. Literally.