Weird Twitter has a strong leftist bent, and a lot of its participants feelcentrist Democrats have become obsessed with a possibleTrump-Russia connection as a way of shifting the blame for Hillary Clinton‘s election defeat. Mensch, although she’s conservative, has found a fanbase among these anti-Trump centrists becauseshe broke the story that the FBI had been investigating Trump’s Russia ties since at least October 2016.
On Sunday, Chang posted up a cluster of obviously fake tweets from prominent conspiracy believers including Mensch, Eric “Time for Some Game Theory” Garland, and John “20committee” Schindler. The joke here is pretty clear: They’ll find Russian connections in everything, even the teen who’s trying to get free Wendy’s chicken nuggets by getting 18 million retweets.
the resistance has taken a weird turn pic.twitter.com/x5q7t7VAs0
— leon trotsky (@leyawn) April 10, 2017
The post got thousands of likes and retweets, and on Monday morning, Mensch responded, taking it way more seriously than one should take anything posted by a cute, fat bird:
Verified account photoshops tweets from me, @20committee and @ericgarland – gets 8k likes.
Russian partisans increasingly desperate. https://t.co/lokfo37PTa
— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) April 10, 2017
Far from refuting the criticism implied in Leyawn’s satirical tweetthat Mensch sees Russian bogeymen everywhereshe proved his point beautifully by calling him a Russian partisan.
Chang, who becamepopular on Twitter by making music, games, pixel art, and wisecracks, is definitely an agent ofthe Kremlin.You know it’s true because he changed his display name to “Leon Trotsky.” (Note to Louise Mensch: I have employedsarcasm in this paragraph.)
Weird Twitter is having a field day with the Chang-Menschfeudbecause there’s basically no funnier way it could have played out.
i made up a post about louise mensch saying the wendy's chicken nugget teen is a russian agent and now louise is saying i am a russian agent
— leon trotsky (@leyawn) April 10, 2017
the Russian agent has been described as a "small fat bird" by my sources https://t.co/a5HB8YSane
— K. Thor Jensen (@kthorjensen) April 10, 2017
ahahahahahaha https://t.co/xNxUzSE8Vq
— brian feldman (@bafeldman) April 10, 2017
aHhhHHHHHh https://t.co/sxhp1Ualy7
— libby watson (@libbycwatson) April 10, 2017
Oh my god she pinned the Leon tweet https://t.co/hdiika4uDB
— Barry Petchesky (@barry) April 10, 2017
what if louise memsch is just on a higher irony level than anyone else https://t.co/fU6hCyRflr
— dean hamhose (@pissgoth420) April 10, 2017
We have reached a previously-unseen next level of humorlessness, this owns https://t.co/rjlyH1PlfU
— Ipso Fatso (@WokeCrumbum) April 10, 2017
It seems the Russians have invented an insidious new form of media known as the "joke". Be careful out there on the web kids. https://t.co/1BKr7dyQte
— Tim N. (@Newtaloo) April 10, 2017
Trump – Actually Russia
Jill Stein – Actually Russia
Bernie – Actually Russia
BLM – Actually Russia
Weird Twitter bird- Most Russian of all https://t.co/NHlaZIQhmt— Jordan (@ImitationJordan) April 10, 2017
Everyone seems to agree that “this owns” and “ahahahah” and “I can’t believe the website Twitter is still free.” Big congrats to Louise Mensch for unearthingyet another Russian conspiracy and outing the dangerous KGB video games bird. You’re truly protecting all of us from Vladimir Putin’s evil machinations.
Read more: https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/louise-mensch-leyawn-weird-twitter-fight/