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tacocat  ·  2089 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let's check in with that self-destructive dumpster fire, the Alt Right, shall we?

    Kessler later blamed the tweets on Ambien.

Why do people think this is an excuse? "I'm sorry I ran over the toddler. I was drunk." See? Intoxication isn't an excuse





ArtemusBlank  ·  2089 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If it didn't work for Roseanne, then why the hell would Kessler would think it would work for him?

At least try to be clever with a new excuse.

goobster  ·  2089 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ya know what the real sticker is here?

Kessler used it last year, long before Roseanne.

Roseanne, who almost exclusively follows alt-right and conspiracists on Twitter, and retweets the craziest of the crazy with abandon.

So she was just adapting the Ambien defense from a fellow alt-righter who tried it before.

ArtemusBlank  ·  2088 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I’ll be honest, I did not know that. You learn something new everyday. But then again, I don’t really follow the alt-right too well and I’m not planning to. The last thing I need is to follow people who probably see me as an inferior due to being a minority.

kleinbl00  ·  2089 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I enjoyed life so much better when the conspiracy theories were far-fetched rather than the Occam's Razor Best Fit.

ArtemusBlank  ·  2088 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yea , UFO and Bigfoot conspiracies were a lot better and a lot more fun than Alex Jones’s conspiracy theories about globalists and pizzagate.