Hashtag diplomacy is back, you guys. And this time, Michelle Obama is leading the charge:
https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/464152990149279744
Very disappointed. Just look how sad FLOTUS looks:
Our prayers are with the missing Nigerian girls and their families. It's time to #BringBackOurGirls. -mo pic.twitter.com/glDKDotJRt
— First Lady- Archived (@FLOTUS44) May 7, 2014
Poor, poor FLOTUS.
.@redsteeze is she seriously doing the sad duck face?
— Fritz Morton (@fritzmorton) May 7, 2014
Of course she is. That’s how we know she, like Hillary Clinton, is super-serious about wanting to save the lives of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by radical Islamic terrorists.
https://twitter.com/ahgregs/status/464150687556071424
https://twitter.com/MetricButtload/status/464154895445000192
Hey guys, since there's a Hashtag AND a real serious looking selfie PLUS a hand written sign. I bet it totally works. @ABCPolitics @FLOTUS
— Artist_Angie: Sensei of Sarcasm (@Artist_Angie) May 7, 2014
Surely a hashtag will tug at Boko Haram’s heartstrings, right?
https://twitter.com/ChrisBarnhart/status/464151254566854656
smart power has now made way for HASHPOWER
— Nino (@baldingschemer) May 7, 2014
https://twitter.com/jrsalzman/status/464158149826854912
@FLOTUS @charlescwcooke Yeah, that hashtag is literally the least you can do.
— Sarah Wells (@SarahWW) May 7, 2014
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/464152771630215168
@FLOTUS @NSCPress Loving the Hashtag Foreign Policy that we have now. Instead of doing anything, take to Twitter. That will show 'em.
— J (@NavyvetPC) May 7, 2014
What an absolute joke.
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/464150142031896576
@redsteeze SAVE TIBET! as long as I don't have to do anything about it myself.
— Dead Buffalo (@DeadBuffaloBlog) May 7, 2014
Michelle Obama tweeting that hashtag and photo further proves that action is not as important as "feeling" for the left.
— RBe (@RBPundit) May 7, 2014
"Look! I support them! I tweeted a sadface pic with a hashtag! I care."
— RBe (@RBPundit) May 7, 2014
if this were 1987, we'd be all like #teardownthiswall
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) May 7, 2014
https://twitter.com/chelseagrunwald/status/464153674634522624
How far we’ve fallen.
Nigerian girls grateful for the #Hashtag. JK this isn't helpful at all. pic.twitter.com/2GdkBLv72Q via @markknoller #BringBackOurGirls
— Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair ? (@senatorshoshana) May 7, 2014
Your husband is President and a hashtag on twitter is the best you can do?!? MT @FLOTUS #BringBackOurGirls pic.twitter.com/CF5K1l0JSy
— Kerfuffle Actual ??? (@shoshido) May 7, 2014
https://twitter.com/daiyaane/status/464150558463766528
https://twitter.com/seattlecourtney/status/464158006477746176
So weak and manipulative. RT @GPollowitz: #ThreeWeeksTooLate via @FLOTUS #BringBackOurGirls. pic.twitter.com/haNwlqObYV
— The Curve Is Bent. Time to Free Us! (@NolteNC) May 7, 2014
Does anyone think Muslim extremist monster animals have any effs to give about a hashtag and a concerned look? https://t.co/y6bmo0sWHj
— Kelly (@flyoverangel) May 7, 2014
https://twitter.com/hboulware/status/464158239928885248
https://twitter.com/Tark31/status/464151247319490561
https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/464153583261581312
Only a matter of time.
@FLOTUS holding signs. Changing the world. Failure.
— Evan the Elder (@EvanGage) May 7, 2014
What is it with people within the executive branch holding up pieces of paper with hashtags written on them? High level moral positioning?
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) May 7, 2014
Pretty much, yeah:
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/464150987322568704
https://twitter.com/Tark31/status/464153159590768640
Bingo. Guess what, FLOTUS and friends: Actions speak a whole lot louder than asinine hashtags.
You know what terrorists respond to? Smoking holes where their buddies used to be. Not hashtags.
— Sarah (@sarah_wxtx) May 7, 2014
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