Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Let there be snark.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Republicans don’t trust women.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

He really is that stupid.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

We still have time to mess this up!

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TL;DR — when it comes to literal Nazis, always root for injuries.

First, there was this tragicomical story in the Daily Beast…

Prominent neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer might have to reveal its funding, thanks to a new court filing in a lawsuit against the website’s founder, Andrew Anglin.

Anglin is currently on the run from two lawsuits. One of those lawsuits, by radio host and Daily Beast contributor Dean Obeidallah, accuses Anglin of defamation after The Daily Stormer accused Obeidallah of orchestrating a bombing at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in England. In a new filing in the case, Obeidallah asked a judge to let him enter a discovery process for Moonbase Holdings, LLC, a shell company The Daily Stormer used to make its financial transactions look more legitimate.

If granted, the discovery process could reveal who funded Anglin’s hate site.

Anglin, who claims to be in Cambodia, has not responded to Obeidallah’s initial complaint, the Southern Poverty Law Center first reported. As a result, a clerk of court ruled declared Anglin to be in default, allowing Obeidallah to seek damages in Anglin’s absence. In his new filing, Obeidallah asks to investigate Moonbase Holdings before pursuing specific damages…

“At one point it appeared that Defendant Moonbase received approximately $3,405.70 per month in credit card donations through Hatreon,” the new filing in Obeidallah’s lawsuit reads. Hatreon is a crowdfunding platform beloved by hate groups, who are often banned from platforms like GoFundMe and Patreon.

Since February 9, 2017, the site has been down, its homepage displaying a notice that “pledging is currently disabled while we upgrade our systems.”

With Hatreon on hold, Anglin has claimed to be nearly broke…

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Aaaand… here come the Nazi Rosencrantz & Guildenstern!

… The alleged dox appears to have grown out of a running spat between white supremacist Christopher Cantwell and infamous neo-Nazi troll Andrew “weev” Auernheimer. Weev has accused Cantwell of being a federal informant and Cantwell has responded by accusing weev of colluding with @Ricky_Vaughn99 to deliberately split the far-right movement between “vanguardists,” i.e. those who advocate for militant street action, and “mainstreamers,” embodied by Vaughn…

The dox comes at a pivotal moment for the alt-right, which has been embroiled in several publicity and legal scandals over the past few months. In February, Elliot Kline of Identity Evropa was revealed to have lied about his military service record. March saw the collapse of the Traditionalist Worker Party following Matthew Heimbach’s arrest for battery, domestic battery in the presence of a child, strangulation and intimidation during an affair with his benefactor and father-in-law’s wife…

The pseudonymous Ricky Vaughn Twitter account — named after a character from the 1989 film Major League — was highly influential in spreading the ideas of the racist alt-right in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. Peaking at 62,000 followers and posting some 221,000 tweets, an MIT election study during the primaries ranked the Twitter account as more influential than the accounts of NBC News, Stephen Colbert, and the Democratic Party among many others.

Vaughn was one of the first alt-right users to fully seize the potential in strategic, mainstream social media use. His rapid ascension as an influencer earned him instant celebrity on the far right.

When Vaughn was banned from Twitter in October of 2016, he became even more of a cause célèbre among the far-right. Vaughn then took his act to Andrew Torba’s Gab — a Twitter alternative tailor-made for the racists rejected by the mainstream platform — where he quickly became a prominent presence with double the “Gab score” of neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin and other alt-right personalities….

One user on the white nationalist blog Occidental Dissent predicted in December of 2017 that “2018 will be the year that ‘Fake Right’ Alt Lite brands like Weird Mike Cernovich, Jack Proboscis, Laura Loomer, and Ricky Vaughn die out and are forgotten.”…

Given Paul Nehlen’s previous work, this is yet another situation where “rooting for injuries” is the only ethical stance…


(Twitter complainant Christopher Cantwell is the original crying Nazi.)

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  2. 2.

    debbie

    Wait. There’s a difference between a white nationalist and an alt-righter? I thought this was like a “eating their own.”

  3. 3.

    Gin & Tonic

    Wondering if I should follow Steve in the wherever’s lead and become G&T in th ORD. But hopefully I’ll be out of here soon.

  5. 5.

    Baud

    While we are rooting for injuries, remember that all of these guys will come out to vote for the GOP.

  6. 6.

    Uncle Omar

    Why didn’t Ricky use his real name? Was he afraid his parents would find out what he was doing and cut him off, forcing him to go out and find a real job, a job where he might have to rub elbows with Jews and, heaven forbid, Negroes? Someone start a GoFundMe so that he can fly to Cambodia and be with Stormer Boy.

  7. 7.

    MisterForkbeard

    @Baud: The REAL question is about how Hillary actually caused all this racism and anti-semitism.

  9. 9.

    Mnemosyne

    @MisterForkbeard:

    And Obama. He was the real racist who forced all of these fine upstanding young white men to become Nazis. They had no other choice, the poor dears. //

  10. 10.

    efgoldman

    a clerk of court ruled declared Anglin to be in default, allowing Obeidallah to seek damages in Anglin’s absence. In his new filing, Obeidallah asks to investigate Moonbase Holdings before pursuing specific damages…

    The SPLC bankrupted the kkklan by winning a major award in a lawsuit.

  13. 13.

    Adam L Silverman

    Anglin is actually in Columbus, OH. He is attempting to elude the process servers and his attorney is committing a fraud against the court.

    https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/court-filing-neo-nazi-andrew-anglin_us_5a3d7b56e4b06d1621b44e2b

    If you live in the area and see this man:
    https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5a3401a01600004700c5032b.jpeg?cache=eapq3rrmvw&ops=scalefit_720_noupscale

    https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5a3d8e452100002c005f59c3.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale

    Or a beat up, late model black Toyota Camry wagon, contact Teresa Ploesser at Encore Process Server.

  15. 15.

    Yarrow

    @Uncle Omar: Apparently he’s had a real job before. The reporter called both his mom and dad and both of them had no comment and one said it was “difficult time for our family.” I’ll bet. Maybe they already knew, but if not, finding out their son was an influential white supremacist Twitter troll must be kind of a shock.

  17. 17.

    moops

    It is amazing the original KKK held together as long as it did, given the dominant personality traits that these groupings cater to.

  19. 19.

    ruemara

    I want them to fist fight on a board over a giant meat grinder and both fall into the meat grinder after beating each other to a pulp.

  20. 20.

    moops

    I’d wager that data mining operations like Facebook and Twitter and Google have had the capability to de-anonymize people like Vaughn for a long time now. There is just no profit in spilling that kind of information and scaring the *bleep* out of all the rest of us, since they can de-anonymize pretty much everyone.

  25. 25.

    TS

    trump really got the sh!t to come crawling out of the woodwork – if only the US had a free media that investigated such things.

  26. 26.

    laura

    So, will he be fielding multiple media offers from the Sunday shows or a guest columnist slot first?
    Also, who’s his daddy fund-wise?
    Finally, I need moar popcorn.

  29. 29.

    feebog

    The real problem with tiny violins is that they are so easy to misplace. Looking under the sofa cushions now.

  31. 31.

    Adam L Silverman

    @debbie: Correct. His attorney has been claiming he’s fled to Lagos, Nigeria. Which is, of course, where I’d flee to if I was a white supremacist.

  32. 32.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Uncle Omar: @Yarrow: According to the reporting he lost his job in 2016. Then he moved into an apartment in Manhattan. So here’s the question: who is paying him or paying his bills?

  36. 36.

    MattF

    As noted, it’s the funding that’s of interest here. I could make hypotheses but… the actual truth is the only thing that might not be a per se libel. And, IANAL, so even the mere facts could be libelous.

  39. 39.

    kindness

    It’d be funnier if this era didn’t teach me there are many more racists in this country than I had figured. I guess we were pretty good at shaming them quiet and I didn’t see them before. Yea…rooting for civil war among ’em and hope no one else gets hurt.

  42. 42.

    cleosmom

    @Baud:

    While we are rooting for injuries, remember that all of these guys will come out to vote for the GOP.

    Celebrating National State The Obvious Day here.

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