Today's Today

Maewyn Succat changed his name so Americans would have an easier time pronouncing it when they're shitfaced on St Patrick's Day.

Today's Tweet

I'd much rather stick with Happy St Paddy's Day, but real is real.

Now that humanity is finished I'd just like to tell you all how much I appreciated and valued our relationship.
I really enjoyed working with you, and I made many amazing memories that I'll treasure forever.
You guys were great.
Best of luck in the (very brief) future.

--G.

— God (@TheTweetOfGod) March 17, 2019

New Zealand

WaPo:

The alleged shooter seems to have wanted the world to see what he’d done: He apparently posted links on Facebook that connected to live video of the massacre from a camera mounted on his body. The video showed unspeakable slaughter as a gunman moved through the house of worship, saying nothing, shooting as many people as he could.

The manifesto indicates that he moved to New Zealand to stage his alleged attack, which he had been planning for two years. His aim, he said, was to defend “our lands” from “invaders,” to “reduce immigration rates” and to deepen division and start a civil war in the United States.

Tarrant, who described himself as “a regular white man, from a regular family,” said he did not hate foreigners or Muslims who lived in their “homelands.”

“I spent many years travelling through many, many nations,” he wrote. “I was treated wonderfully. . . . The varied cultures of the world greeted me with warmth and compassion.” But he said immigrants were “invaders . . . who colonize other peoples lands.”

And there it is, in that highlighted last line. We're talkin' Self-Loathing, which I think is always at the core of the kind of toxic Uber-Nationalistic chauvinism that inevitably leads to self-destruction.

He needs to rid his homeland of "the invaders", even if he has to scourge the place, burning the whole thing down to get it done.

The problem though, is that his adamant condemnation of "the invaders" - the colonizers - has to include himself. 

There are no white guys native to Australia or New Zealand.

And while he does mention it (“What is an Australian but a drunk European?”), if he fully acknowledges that he's part of the problem, then his whole project falls apart, and he's left with nothing but the feeling that he's failed to live up to his own expectations.

So he fights - making the noble stand - but what he's really trying to do is get himself killed so he no longer has to feel the pain of his disillusionment.

Or maybe he's just another asshole with a gun, caught in a twisted variation of Hero Syndrome.

This Will Not Be Fun

In case you've been wondering about how the 2020 Primary Season might be shaping up.

The young woman slagging Chelsea Clinton...

 ...is wearing a Bernie t-shirt.

I appreciate the fact that Bernie shook things up by showing the Democrats that they need to drop their usual bullshit about "Please vote for us cuz we're slightly less asshole-ish than those other guys" - I just can't help thinking the bloom is off that rose.

So thanks, Bernie, but it's time to pass the torch.

All that said, now we should stop to consider a few things.

1. Maybe wearing that shirt makes it all a little too obvious
2. I really hope she's not indicative of what we can expect from the Berniacs
3. I can also hope this kind of bullshit is discovered to be part of the continuing efforts of Cult45 to sabotage opposition by sowing divisiveness and then exploiting those divisions
4. Unfortunately, we can't stop and carefully examine every incident - which reinforces my suspicion that we're already seeing a marked uptick in rat-fucking

A quick refresher:

Deep Thought

Deliberately trying to lose at Rock Paper Scissors is just as hard as trying to win.

Sam On Tucker

Samantha Bee:

Republicans don't get to drive the Democrats' bus.

Mess with someone's friends and they'll fuck you up.

Today's Pix

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Today's Tweet

Well that's not creepy at all.

Hannity is such a vile piece of shit that he doesn't even realize when actual insects the size of my thumb are crawling all over his neck.pic.twitter.com/4VA1nOdzgq

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) March 15, 2019

Today's Beau

Beau Of The Fifth Column - Justin King

Without deviance from "the norm", there can be no progress. And there would be no life on this planet if nothing had changed.

If a culture doesn't change, it can't grow.

If it can't grow, it dies.

Today's Eternal Sadness

In another perfect example of just how fucking stoopid the wingnuts are, Christchurch NZ becomes the latest candidate for enshrinement in the Hall Of Infamy.

BBC:

A gunman, who identified himself in footage of an attack as a 28-year-old Australian called Brenton Tarrant, live-streamed his rampage to Facebook from a head-mounted camera. The footage showed him firing indiscriminately at men, women and children from close range inside the Al-Noor mosque.

If your whole bullshit anti-Muslim / anti-Immigrant project is to vilify and demonize certain kinds of people, then why are you guys constantly doing things that move the world to sympathize with them?

And of course, it's not unreasonable to think we can anticipate the Ammosexuals' argument that New Zealand has strict gun laws, and yet, they've just experienced a mass shooting by a bad guy with a gun.

Do we really need to point out that the Aussies and the Kiwis have experienced maybe 2 of these incidents in the last 20+ years, while USAmerica Inc sees this shit on a regular and frequent basis?

Seriously - you're just a buncha fuckin' idiots who don't understand one fuckin' thing about any-fuckin'-thing.