Babylon Bullshit

So the Babylon Bee is a right-wing religious political humour site, of which this is an example:

Oh what a comedy classic. John Fetterman is a Democrat senator and, as of last year, a stroke survivor. Whether or not he should be in politics in his not exactly optimal state of health is a question for which I don’t there’s an easy answer, except to note that an appearance he made where he greeted the audience by saying “good night” (I presume that’s at least in part what inspired this “joke”) did him few favours…

Anyway, he’s in politics with a disability (he apparently has no cognitive damage but does have auditory processing disorder; I’m not sure how that doesn’t constitute a cognitive issue) and he’s a liberal politician at that, so obviously that makes him a fair target because disability is FUNNY AS FUCK, isn’t it, when you don’t have one. And, well, I responded to the Babylon Bee by hoping that they did.

And then a moment later this happened:

…OK, then. I fired back a response asking them to explain why my tweet was apparently so much more abusive than the BB’s original post mocking a man’s health issues, and they basically told me to go fuck myself (not in those words as such, but you know what I mean). Anyway, I didn’t feel like pulling a Jordan Peterson cos I find Twatter useful enough even now that I don’t want to abandon it entirely (too many people I follow there don’t want to switch to Mastodon), so I deleted the tweet and have to wait until tomorrow to use the account again… but, while conceding I said something pretty harsh, I stand by it nonetheless. Fuck Babylon Bee.