They Can Only Talk About One Thing
While the economy imploded, the online right couldn't stop obsessing over penises & vaginas.
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When Trump raised tariffs against China to 145%, he destined many small businesses to annihilation. The Daily podcast captured the mass chaos by zooming in and talking to one person, Beth Benike, a small-business owner who will likely lose her home very soon.
She pointed out that no, she wasn’t surprised by what had happened: Trump had been loudly talking about introducing tariffs forever.
Which is why closer to home, it’s sort of satisfying to see New Zealand billionaire and avid Donald Trump fanatic Nick Mowbray braying to any New Zealand news outlet who’d listen:
“It’s hard to say we’re not worried. Everything seems to change each day. We’re in a state of stopping everything at the moment because it’s impossible to plan. We’re all hoping it doesn’t continue for very long, but the US administration is definitely very chaotic,” Mowbray told the New Zealand Herald.
Webworm has written about the contender for “Worst New Zealander Ever” before — back when he tweeted in support of far-right figurehead Tommy Robinson, and began to take legal action against former Zuru employees who’d dared to criticize him and his company on Glassdoor.
As Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa just pointed out on BlueSky, “326 tweets by Nick Mowbray since 1 January 2024 [are] interesting to study, especially in light of the self-pity theatre du jour, a list of what, and who he targeted with the execrable language used. As the Bard wrote, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.’”
Dr Hattotuwa then went on to post a short analysis of Mowbray’s tweet history — offering a tour inside his brain:
Moron. Idiot. Cooked. DEI. Woke.
It’s all so fucking familiar, and as Hayden Donnell is about to argue, “As the dissidents are dragged away, MAGA influencers keep posting about how they’ve been bludgeoned to death by woke.”
David.