Rosie O'Donnell Has Unwisely Given the MAGA Mob an Early Christmas Gift By Saying She Moved to Ireland Because of Trump
I need to stop clicking on clearly AI-generated posts on Facebook from sketchy accounts in Asia out of morbid curiosity and masochism. Though I continually inform Facebook that I’m not interested in cynical right-wing clickbait, the algorithm insists that I’m obsessed with these posts and want to experience nothing but computer-generated propaganda.
I wish I had the willpower never to use Twitter or Facebook, but I am a weak, weak man with a perpetual need for subjects for blogs.
These posts provide a fascinating insight into the stupidity and gullibility of the MAGA mob, particularly boomers who don’t quite understand the internet, social media, or the contemporary world in all of its complexities, yet feel the need to be extremely online all the same.
These fact-free content mills tend to run the same kinds of pieces repeatedly, with different famous names plugged into the same sturdy templates.
Boom! Roasted! How do you like that roasting, Rosie?
For example, a number of these pages embraced the idea that when Beyonce released Cowboy Carter, the entirety of the country music establishment united to accuse her of being an uppity phony.
These pages are also enamored of fiction involving people like Candace Owens and Roseanne turning down hundreds of millions of dollars to work with companies like Disney because they refuse to accept their dirty “Woke” money.
Since Trump’s reelection the world increasingly resembles the self-serving fantasy realm found on these perversely, disconcertingly popular and ubiquitous pages.
I’d expect headlines like, “Trump fires Kennedy Center board and appoints himself Chairman” and “Trump appoints Jon Voight, Sylvester Stallone, and Mel Gibson to be his ambassador to Hollywood” on these pages. Regrettably, that happened in real life.
“Rosie O’Donnell flees the United States for Ireland because of Trump” similarly feels like the kind of pandering, crowd-pleasing nonsense you’d find on these pages.
The MAGA mob loves the idea of rich, famous leftist celebrities promising to leave the country if Trump is elected or re-elected. It plays to several of their most beloved fantasies.
In the MAGA mind, vowing to leave the country if Republicans win illustrates that celebrities they already hate are histrionic drama queens who care more about publicity than a country that made them rich and famous.
These stories also allow Trump lovers to feel a sense of victory over silly liberals fleeing the country because their candidate didn’t win. It creates more delicious liberal tears for them to imbibe and more winning.
So it pains me to report that Rosie O’Donnell moving to Ireland because of her hatred of Trump is something that happened.
Trump famously despises O’Donnell. The feeling is mutual.
The president might hate O’Donnell more than he hates any other entertainer, and there is a universe of seething hatred inside the man’s shriveled soul.
Their famously contentious relationship spilled over into a weird public spat between Melania “The Silent One” Trump and Rosie.
In a very stupid faux pas, in 2016, O’Donnell retweeted a video speculating about whether the then 10-year-old Barron Trump was autistic, adding, “Barron Trump Autistic? If so — what an amazing opportunity to bring attention to the AUTISM epidemic.”
Rosie O’Donnell has an autistic child. Even though her comments were in appalling taste and deeply regrettable, I don’t think she meant anything negative by them.
As the autistic parent of two autistic boys, I feel a sense of connection and solidarity with other parents of autistic children. It’s a powerful bond. We share the same struggle.
In that spirit, O’Donnell wasn’t trying to insult Barron; she was trying to find common ground with someone very different. It was an incredibly tone-deaf and offensive way of doing so, but I think O’Donnell’s heart was in the right place.
Melania was apparently deeply affected by it. She claims that it led to her child getting bullied, though I have a hard time imagining mean classmates being all, “Hey, my mother said the lady from A League of Their Own said you might be on the spectrum on social media. Ha ha! You’re consequently a huge loser (checks notes) eight foot tall son of the billionaire President of the United States, who is worshiped as a God by his most devoted supporters.”
Melania cites O’Donnell’s well-intentioned but fucking stupid comments about Barron as the impetus for her “Be best” campaign.
O’Donnell apologized via Twitter but the damage was done. Melania apparently sees a stand-up comedian asking if her child was on the spectrum as a trauma that helped define her as a mother and first lady.
Melania inspired no one with her “Be best” campaign, which was useless and hypocritical even by the low, low standards of First Lady pet projects.
Now Rosie has fled a country full of people who hate her for a multitude of reasons, some very legitimate but most rooted in homophobia, misogyny, and reverence for Donald Trump.
She’s given Trump fans a very early Christmas gift. One of their most cherished fantasies has come true: one of the people Trump hates most is fleeing THEIR country and their God is the stated cause of her departure.
It brings me no pleasure to report that O’Donnell wrote a poem about the experience on her Substack. Here is is:
there is a poetry button somewhere
that will turn off double space
it eludes me
at the moment
possibly the longest post ever
as i try to make it
make sense
as i watch temptation island
guess what?
they were all tempted
they all failed
better than the news however
clay wants to walk to school
its very close
and so many kids do
and can i do it ?
they can
im sure
its me
doom scrolling my brain
the president of the united states
met with leader michael martin
doing ireland proud
as he withstood the insults
cheater
the cheater screamed
accusing others
of his crimes
this orange human
is this the best we have
america
russian asset - traitor - spy
the time is now
it may be too late
the world is rooting for
the united states of america
to resist this coup
to fight for r country
to prevent ww3
to lead with dignity
with decency
with decorum
with democracy
and dreams
we hold these truths
to be self evident
MAGA dullards have already started doing victory laps. During a press conference with Michael Martin, the head of Ireland, Brian Glenn, a correspondent from Real America Voice best known as Marjorie Taylor Greene’s boyfriend, asked the baffled world leader, “Ireland is known for a very happy, fun-loving people. Why in the world would you let Rosie O’Donnell move to Ireland?! I think she is going to lower your happiness levels!”
Michael Martin seemed baffled, but Trump smiled and enthused, “Thank you. I like that question!”
Glenn later said he was joking, so while it might have seemed juvenile, unprofessional, and mean to stop a press conference dead so that you can lazily lob an insult at one of the boss’ frequent targets for mockery, he was joshing! No harm, no foul! Don’t be such a snowflake!
I sleep sounder knowing that a modern-day Cronkite like MJT’s main squeeze over at Real America Voice gets a presidential seat at the table rather than the amateurs over at The New York Times.
A hundred fucking years from now, conservatives will still be jizzing themselves with pride at having scared that awful lady out of the country and across the sea.
O’Donnell could have just moved. She didn’t have to give smug Trump supporters the satisfaction of knowing that Trump was the explicit reason that she chose to move out of the country where she has lived her whole life.
I understand where O’Donnell is coming from. If I could move my family out of this country and to a better one where Donald Trump isn’t president, I might follow in O’Donnell’s footsteps, but it certainly would not be because of Trump. Or at least that’s what I’d like the MAGA contingent to think.
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