Monday, June 01, 2020

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:

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.


8 comments:

rootsminer said...

Everything is going great, right?

zman said...

Keep America Great, one might even say.

rootsminer said...

I don't see how things could get any greater than they already are. I got three emails yesterday from a certain candidate who says I can help with my donation.

TR said...

I gave $20 to the Lincoln Project once.

Ann Coulter's anti-Trump tweets have been very amusing. Any self-proclaimed writer should be able to do better than the phrase "disloyal actual retard" to describe Trump, but it works for me.

Mark said...

Military Personnel will likely be deployed on the streets of numerous American cities. Pretty fucking dystopian. And somehow not completely shocking.

TR said...

And they tear-gassed peaceful protestors and hit them with rubber bullets so Trump could hold up a Bible and show he doesn’t need to stay in a bunker.

Mark said...

My wife and I were watching it. Minutes after saying he was “an ally to all peaceful protesters” he had a crowd dispersed by tears gas and rubber bullets for a fucking photo op. It’s a genuinely shameful day for me his country.!

Anonymous said...

Jesus, gheorghies.

Seems like right now if you aren't playing PE at a loud volume, you could play The Clash.

Know Your Rights is unbelievably apropos
White Man in Hammersmith Palais ("if Adolf Hitler flew in today, they'd send a limousine anyway")
English Civil War
Guns of Brixton
Police On My Back
I Fought the Law
Clampdown
Armagideon Time
Washington Bullets
This Is England
London Calling

...or maybe some RATM.