Last week The Root ran a clearly satirical story titled Is the Trump Administration Running a Child-Trafficking Ring or Nah? Follow Me Down the Rabbit Hole. This story, if you read it, worked on many levels to troll the Trump and the not-fake news. It used a question in the title to mock Fox News and it’e previous ‘we ask, you decide’ motto. It made fun on the liar-in-chief conspiracy theories such as the fake birth certificate, the pizza child trafficking, among others. It set up a conspiracy theory as a serious proposition by ‘connecting the dots’.
Like any good satire, the primary purpose of this piece was to discus a serious issue. The fact that children were being taken away from their parents and the border, and the fact that we don't know what has become of all those children. It is very likely there is some relatively benign explanation, but conservatives do not tend to favor the benign explanation. They like conspiracy theory. So this article, as the title clearly states, takes us down the rabbit hole to a possible but unlikely world.
Which would be the end of it as I can’t imagine many in the white nationalist world reads The Root, although it claims to reach over 6 million unique visitors a month, and has a rank in the low thousands. Fortunately, for us, the people at the White House got offered, and unfortunately for them no one over there is internet literate enough to have heard of the Streisand Effect.
So, being the idiot garbage fire staters that they are, the first lady’s communication director started a twitter war over the article. That she started the war not with the author of the article, but with the White House correspondent that shared the article, is even more evidence that these people are rank amateurs who can only respond to stimuli like some basic one celled organism. That this quickly turned into bullying by the communication director, and piling on by Fox News.
Perhaps the First Lady and her staff should begin to get some fucking empathy and realize that these immigrant parents are literally just like her, and they love their children just as much as she does. Maybe she could use her resources to make sure the kids we drag from their loving parents are ok. Maybe that would #bebest.