Milo Yiannopoulos C*ckblocked In Oklahoma :(
Poor sad Milo Yiannopoulos. Having fallen from what passes for the heights of alt-right glory, he's now reduced to begging people to please show up and be offended by him, like in that old Onion story about Marilyn Manson going door to door hoping to shock people. And even that grift isn't working so great for Yiannopoulos, it turns out, since he's been left in the lurch by the sponsors of a talk at a community college in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Were it anyone else, we'd suggest he might feel some empathy for the average subcontractor who did work for Donald Trump, but we suspect he'd look at us blankly and say, "No, this was ME getting stiffed. How could this happen to ME?"
Yiannopoulos announced his latest sad news in a post on Instagram, a truly insufficient medium since it doesn't let you see the tears and impotent rage:
Such a sad fellow, and SO ILL USED! Poor lad can't even blame "The Left."
I regret to announce that my sponsor for the Oklahoma events has failed to produce the funds needed for the events, and left me in debt to designers, lawyers and admin staff. I couldn't get a response out of him for days after three missed payment deadlines and today he confirmed he's dropping out entirely! Ho hum.
Thank goodness, Milo knows who's really suffering here. It is him, HO HUM. Also, his throngs of adoring fans!
Sorry to the hundreds of fans who have been writing excitedly over the past few weeks. Doesn't look like these speeches will happen now.
Oh, and the "designers, lawyers and admin staff"? Yeah, sucks to be them! Maybe he'll pay them. Or not. In any case, now Milo can look forward to his next adventure in grifting. Maybe a dinner theater production of To Kill a Mockingbird, with Milo playing all the parts, including Brett Kavanaugh.
[Tulsa World / Image: LeWeb13 Conference at Wikimedia Commons]
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​Alabama Not So Sure About Doug Jones, Might Give The Accused Kid-Toucher Another Look
It seems like lifetimes ago, because it probably was, because time has no meaning in the hellscape in which we live 24 hours a day, but a while back Alabama elected a Democrat named Doug Jones to be its senator. They had a big GOP primary for the special election to fill Jeff Sessions's old seat, and despite how there was a relatively normal GOP person in the run-off, Luther Strange, who was already serving as the appointed senator, they instead chose certifiably batshit professional victim Taliban Jesus ranger Roy Moore as their nominee. When they found out Moore might have a wee kid touching problem, or at least used to might, back when he was a fully grown man 10 years out of college who perved all over high school girls, ALLEGEDLY -- he was a real charmer, unless you were trapped in his car after your shift at the diner, ALLEGEDLY -- they just doubled down and decided all those accusers were fake news, probably paid by the Washington Post.
And so it was that, by the hair of its chinny-chin-chin, Alabama had a special election where voters turned the fuck out for the Democrat Doug Jones.
A new Mason-Dixon poll takes the pulse of how Alabama is feeling about that decision and what it might do in 2020, when Jones is up for re-election to a full term. You want to just start drinking, or do you want to read the rest of this post? Because while Jones has a 45 percent approval rating (44 percent disapprove, 11 percent have no idea what goddamn day it is), a solid 50 percent say they want to put a Republican back in Jones's seat. This being Alabama, that's not a gigantic surprise.
And whom would Alabama Republicans like to stick in there?
