Touched A Nerve?

I guess this touched a nerve.

Siri: show an example of narcissistic rage pic.twitter.com/rJ0D32kA2t

— WNYmedia Network (@wnymedia) March 4, 2022

For how many years now have these narcissistic loons been prattling on about what a big, bad “alpha” Putin is? How often have these cult followers made snide remarks about “betas” and being “cucked” and “snowflakes” that “melt” and similar language that is supposed to somehow portray them as a sort of manly-man “alpha”?

The word for all of it is “projection”.

Let’s look at their Christian nationalist alpha, Vladimir Putin. (Indeed, one preening ex-candidate for NY-24’s Republican nomination, whose claims of intelligence mimic those of Wile E. Coyote, continues to maintain his strident support of Putin’s aggression against Ukraine.)

Putin is no “alpha”. He’s a coward who plays alpha on TV. He’s squirreled away in a bunker in the Urals, and so petrified of Covid, or maybe assassination, that he meets with even his own generals at a 20-meter long table. He has kept other countries subjugated or at bay through threats of Russian military might. While the Russian military has proven itself to be reckless, lawless, and ruthless in Ukraine, it has in many respects also revealed its incompetence. If I was a Russian vassal state, say Belarus or to a lesser degree Serbia, I would be strongly re-thinking my reliance on the promises of the Russian military.

You see, the problem with spending 30 years setting up an authoritarian kleptocracy versus, I dunno, a functional pluralist democratic republic founded on the rule of law, is that the focus is set on billion-dollar dachas and multi-million dollar yachts for oligarchs, apparatchiki, and siloviki as opposed to investment in the boring stuff like functional tires for military vehicles. When an entire system is founded on buying into the dictator’s own delusions, that is not a good foundation upon which to fight a war against a smaller, weaker, but better-trained professional defending force.

I watched Ukrainian President Zelensky challenge Putin. Come meet me. Face-to-face. What are you afraid of? Talk to me. I’m a man – not 30 meters away at a ridiculous table, but within arm’s reach. He invited the press to his bunker and brought a chair to sit and answer whatever questions came his way. It is Zelensky who shows courage and strength while Putin – nominal “alpha – cowers and hides behind his insane ruthlessness and mentally deranged propaganda.

But Mychajliw and the rest of the Groyper alt-right are projecting like an IMAX. They spew pre-masticated talk radio swill about the snowflake libs. Underneath all the fake bravado and bit-too-loud bluster, they’re like every other loudmouth bully – insecure little frauds.

Stefan has successfully glommed on to the Covid denial clique that orbits Robby Dinero. Now go back and look at all of Stefan’s carefully-crafted propaganda videos he posted to Twitter over the last couple of years while he was supposed to be doing the people’s business. For a guy who makes a lot of noise about re-opening everything, about unmasking everyone, and about getting back to normal, he sure as hell spent a lot of time filming little movies in his garage. He sure as hell spent a whole lot of time at home, rather than at the office. Fake bravado. Hell, just last week he went on a podcast with the “Financial Guys” (buyer beware) and appeared via zoom instead of in person because Covid is such a big nothing.

I guess people should pay attention to what they do, and not what they say.