Milo, Pobrecito

If there's one thing that never gets old it's watching professional assholes getting swallowed up in their own shit storms.  Seeing Milo Yiannapolous get booted from CPAC and lose his book deal with Simon and Schuster after the video of him saying sex between 30-year-olds and 14-year-olds is fine if the teenager consents to it and that he was the instigator of his own molestation on the Joe Rogan podcast started making the Internet rounds.  Milo, of course, deeply regretted his word choices now that they've come back to bite him so viciously, and even made a Facebook post with links to his stories of outing other pedophiles as proof of his hatred for the practice. The only problem with all of that is the first person he names was never even charged with any sex crimes, and the second has had accusations against her going back to 2006.  So, of the three, one was never actually charged with anything, ever, the second was Milo piggybacking off of long established info, and the third is up for trial.  Not exactly the sterling crusader record he's projecting, but, we all have to work with what we have.

It's been legitimately hilarious watching Milo trying to play the victim in all this.  The guy who got kicked off Twitter for telling his followers to hurl racist and sexist slurs at Leslie Jones because... she's black and a woman or something is suddenly deploring how awful it is that people can suffer because of public pressure generated from something on the internet. Indeed, dude, that's just awful.


The more interesting aspect of all this is just how shocked Milo, someone who makes a living outraging people, is that people are outraged by something he said.  Well, more specifically, that he's  experiencing negative consequences for said outrage instead of getting paid for it.  Giving liberals the vapors has always been Milo's bread and butter, now that he's resigned from Breitbart, however, Milo doesn't have the direct platform to rebuild is brand to his main audience.  Sure, he's still got his Facebook profile now, but it's looking like what was supposed to be a banner year for the self-proclaimed dangerous faggot will instead start to be very lean indeed.

Which, really, he should've seen coming.  Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are in a lot of ways Milo's forebears in exemplifying right-wing douchery and both of them had their own falls from grace (although the two of them actually got to deliver their speeches to CPAC before that happened).  Limbaugh did himself in with the whole Sandra Fluke fiasco, which cost him advertisers and affiliates he's never been able to recover from.  Beck burned out because that's really the only road his brand of crazy made available to him, and has been sliding ever deeper into irrelevance over at The Blaze.   So, the good news seems to be that once these assholes cross the point of no return, there's really no coming back for them.  Because for all the talk about how these guys are men of their own making, men who are bold and reshape the world with their sheer force of personality, when the chips are down all of them turn out to be petty little things that just wind up complaining about how unfair the world is and they just can't get a fair shake from all the PC, SJW Feminazi's out to get them.

Underneath all his flamboyance, Milo is a garden variety white-supremacist, and once someone new comes along to justify conservatives hate-boners, he'll be left to wither along with the rest of the right-wing blowhards who got shunted once they became too toxic to support; and  a demagogue without a microphone, after all, is just a loud, belligerent asshole you have to skip past on the sidewalk. Good riddance, I say, and on to the next.