The Ugly, Embarrassing Spectacle of ‘Milling’ Around Online

No surprise, casual social-media chatter about the Russian has been unhinged. I mean that almost literally: It’s as if an important door has been ripped off its hinges, allowing all the worst thoughts ever thought in the history of thinking in sentences to come spilling out. These include jokes—attempts at dark humor for dark times—that end up being like, “I don’t know about you, but this is not the ‘vibe shift’ I was hoping for.” Then there’s the deeper horror of stupid sincerity. The actor AnnaLynne McCord recorded herself (wearing a turtle-tank!) doing about how if she had been Vladimir Putin’s mom, he would not have become evil. “I. A woman who went to the same college as I did (Lord, help us!) let her fellow “empaths” know that it is to take a break from the news and find your inner peace, while an impressive number of Americans that they should not have to do their “silly little email jobs” during a war, and that they were of “living through historic events.”