For ‘Crying’ out loud

Christopher Cantwell, the fascist with the weirdly almostsympathetic nickname, the “Crying Nazi,” may finally be getting the justice he deserves now that he’s on trial in federal court in Concord.

No, as a piece in The Informant points out, Crying isn’t facing charges for calling for the murder of journalist and activist Molly Conger. Or for threatening Roberta Kaplan, the attorney representing victims in the lawsuit against organizers of the 2017 “Unite the Right” riot/rally in Charlottesville, Va. Or after telling his social media followers the benefits of murdering the “50 loudest leftists.” Or for the several times he called for the rape and murder of Informant writer Hilary Sargent.

But he is on trial for threatening and attempting to extort someone else.

And that someone else is a fellow neo-Nazi and his wife.

Cantwell: Bad feelings

Prosecutors say Crying threatened to rape (he specifically used the word “f—k” in his missive) the wife of the neo-Nazi (in front of their kids, BTW) if he didn’t give up the personal info of a third neo-Nazi for whom Crying also held some, shall we say, animus.

But just in case you’re drumming up some sympathy for the other two neo-Nazis, a point of reference: Both are members of the “Bowl Patrol,” which labels mass shooters as “saints” and hails the violence they think will set off a race war.

But justice emerges in strange guises, considering Crying was finally charged for threatening dudes like this and not for regular people (all women, BTW) who were just doing their jobs.

And no word on whether Crying was spotted crying on his way to the Rudman courthouse.

Season of the ‘witch’

One last word on Michael Caputo, the HHS spox now on temporary “voluntary” medical leave after his wackedout Facebook Live tirade accusing government scientists of “sedition” and claiming he was a target for assassination.

One person who likely had a beaming smile across his face after MC’s self immolation was NH’s own self-styled political genius/Trump whisperer, Corey Lewandowski.

CL was likely nursing a grudge against MC these many years after CL himself was fired from his own highprofile gig as Trump’s campaign manager back during the ’16 campaign.

Upon hearing of CL’s misfortune at the time, the sympathetic MC tweeted, “Ding dong the witch is dead.”

Oh, and MC — who apparently has a longstanding verbal diarrhea problem — was kicked off the campaign as an adviser after that ’16 tweet.

The great unmaker

John H. Sununu, New Hampshire’s original King John, patriarch of the clan that bears his name, makes a cameo appearance in Kurt Andersen’s new bestseller, “Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America, A Recent History.”

In the book — a look at both conservative perfidy and liberal complicity — the former NH guv and Bush 41 chief of staff JHS is described as “a nobody libertarian college teacher” and “an asshole personally” who “radiated the conviction that he was the smartest person in every room.”

In the White House, Sununu, Andersen writes, became “a critical figure in turning the party away from reason and science and common sense toward full bore denial of climate change.”

After Secretary of State Jim Baker gave a speech warning of global climate change, Andersen quotes Sununu telling him, “Steer clear of this greenhouse-effect nonsense. You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

And when a staff member referred to an initiative to reduce the use of fossil fuels, Sununu is cited snapping, “I don’t want anyone in this administration without a scientific background using ‘climate change’ or ‘global warming’ ever again.”

Andersen concludes that “Sununu had almost singlehandedly turned climate change into a partisan issue, and put denial of the science on its way toward Republican orthodoxy.”

Andersen recalls that “right after JHS lost his job for being a jerk,” a writer at the late, lamented Spy magazine — which Andersen co-founded — called the new jobseeker. The writer posed as a corporate headhunter seeking to fill a CEO slot at an oil company.

“Most of what I’ve been putting together as packages start at three and a half million,” ever-confident JHS told the headhunter. That’s $3.5m in 1992 dollars, in case you weren’t focusing completely.

MAKING THE ROUNDS

Are Dick Hinch’s days numbered as House GOP leader? Ask Al Baldasaro.

If you’re a state rep and can’t sit through a session without craving a beer, you’ve got bigger issues than whining about mask-wearing.

BTW, has anyone ever found empty beer cans in various trash receptacles in the House of State post- House sessions? Inquiring minds would love to know.

And next time you see Craig Benson, don’t forget to thank him for welcoming those Free Staters way back during his (only) term as guv: At least eight of the 47 budding Covid superspreader reps, who refused to wear a mask at the veto override session, are Free Staters. And the rest, dare we say, are just fellow travelers.

If you’re keeping score at home, add the name of former state Sen. Dan Innis to the list of peeps who really need to learn how to safely use social media, after he was forced to quit as Portsmouth chamber chair for anti-mask (despite the chamber’s pro-mask stance) and anti-Black Lives Matter tweets.