Thanks to @JoyceCarolOates for initiating the hashtag #TheirFuhrer. Much better than MeinFührer, which I've used, because T***p isn't mine.
— Jeffrey Guterman (@JeffreyGuterman) March 14, 2017
Sigh. Joyce Carol Oates is inadvertently teaching a lesson in how not to push back against Donald Trump: Playing the Godwin card.
"I could shoot 24 million people on Fifth Avenue & I would't lose a vote"–#TheirFuhrer
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) March 14, 2017
#TheirFuhrer must always attack others in pretense of being a "victim"–has no positive agendas, just self-aggrandizement, profit.
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) March 14, 2017
#ThineT***p "Nobody knew that quantum physics was so complicated! Unfair!" pic.twitter.com/iafKrY5J9l
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) March 14, 2017
For what it’s worth, comedian Norm Macdonald is sick of it:
Good Lord, Ms. Oates, what a reckless thing to retweet. As a writer, you should be aware of such words. Shame. https://t.co/ewuZaonJq7
— Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) March 14, 2017
Ms Oates, you are a writer. Please cease comparing the worst mass murderer in history to your president. You're words call for blood. https://t.co/k83UQpTucb
— Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) March 14, 2017
He didn’t much care for Oates comparing Trump to Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad, either:
Assad, one of the tyrannical war criminals whom our morally & emotionally stunted minority-pres. much admires & would emulate if he could. https://t.co/ePj9r741pW
— Joyce Carol Oates (@JoyceCarolOates) March 14, 2017
Ms. Oates, have you know shame? You must stop these awful comparisons of your President with murderers. You sound blood-thirsty. https://t.co/o89SpBgSOF
— Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) March 14, 2017
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