You may remember Milo Yiannopoulos from his many appearances as an openly gay Englishman with a penchant for taking lots of charity fundraising money that mysteriously didn’t make its way to said charity. The former tech editor for Breibart has been off the radar for some time since being de-platformed from popular social media sites after running racist campaigns against Leslie Jones, and generally promoting all kinds of hateful attacks on marginalized groups of children.
Here’s an update: Yiannopoulos’s bank account got very thin, so then Milo tried some last-ditch efforts at promoting alt-right militant violence. After that didn’t earn him much money, Milo found God, and now he isn’t gay anymore. In fact, he’s anti-gay, and a certain kind of conservative Christian that still allows Yiannopoulos to peddle mostly in hate while working on finding new revenue streams. Sounds a tad bit sociopathic! Sounds a smidgen bizarre, right? An itty-bit opportunistic and ... craven?
No worries, it looks like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene likes the cut of Milo’s jib and seems to have hired him. What?! Yuuuuuuuup!
Before we get into all of that let’s see what Milo Yiannopoulos has been doing lately.
Got it. I feel the Spirit of the Lord! So what’s the thing about MTG? First, DailyMail reported that Yiannopoulos was mentioned by name as someone worth bringing onto Capitol grounds to have a Marjorie Taylor Greene-style freedom of speech conference along with Elon Musk. Greene explained that she wanted to get a lot of people together, as Musk may or may not be buying Twitter, and Yiannopoulos has been banned from the platform for about four years now. Oh, she also wanted Alex Jones to be at this round table of luminaries.
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“We'll put together a great list of people who have been just almost deleted from public life due to this type of censorship, and I think Elon Musk will enjoy talking to them,” she reportedly blurted out in front of reporters on Thursday, May 2. At the same time, the Washington Examiner published a photo of a suited-up Milo standing backstage at the Republican primary debate Greene was likely screaming during, along with the Georgia rep's current communications director and her reelection campaign manager.
I forgot to mention that the last time Yiannopoulos was “canceled,” it was by conservatives who felt uncomfortable having him speak at their events after video surfaced of him talking about “the merits of gay relationships between adults and boys as young as 13.” It was awkward. Anywho. What has Yiannopoulos been doing in between hawking Virgin Mary statues and looking like he works for Marjorie Taylor Greene?
Got it. On Monday, The Daily Beast and others report that Milo isn’t just moonlighting as Rep. Greene’s backstage buddy—he’s her new intern. This happened after Yiannopoulos reportedly posted what seems to be a congressional badge with his name and face on it to the social media site Telegram.
“I’ve finally been persuaded out of retirement,” wrote the British right-wing media troll. “But my skills are a bit rusty, so the best role I could land was an unpaid internship with a friend. Pray for me!”
He added: “Mummy always said I’d end up in government.”
Wheeeee!
Before we all jump out of our skin, let’s remember why Yiannopoulos was, as the right-wing say “canceled.” He was promoting racism, attacking prominent Black celebrities, and sending the hoards of followers he had to harass them, claiming LGBTQ+ folks were basically grooming children and the like. He has subsequently followed that up by embedding himself into the militant conservative Christian QAnon world of conspiracy, and constantly threatening a white person civil war.
That’s the GOP’s platform in 2022.
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