Comforaby Smug of Twitter is an agent provocateur, right-wing troll, and creator of fake news, and has been so prolific that he had a news story written about him in BuzzFeed. Last night he posted something that he later deleted, and Nate Silver posted a reply that was, well, gobsmacking:
To which Comfortably Smug replied:
Yeah. Nate Silver thinks Trump should get a break while he’s lying about the ISIS raid, congratulating is buddy Putin for (not) helping, violating the Constitution on a daily basis, ripping children from their parents’ arms at the border and then letting them die without medical attention, calling Democrats and never-Trumper-Republicans “human scum,” inciting violence in his supporters, and so on.
Comfortably Smug is a horrible person of the first order, and very well known as the “Villain of Hurricane Sandy” because he spread a passel of lies about New York during the Hurricane. A blip from the 2012 BuzzFeed article:
During the storm last night (Hurricane Sandy), user @comfortablysmug was the source of a load of frightening but false information about conditions in New York City that spread wildly on Twitter and onto news broadcasts before Con Ed, the MTA, and Wall Street sources had to take time out of the crisis situation to refute them….
What @comfortablysmug didn’t count on, apparently, was losing that anonymity. Based on photos he censored and posted to the account but I found unedited elsewhere, @comfortablysmug is Shashank Tripathi the campaign manager of Christopher R. Wight, this year’s Republican candidate for the U.S. House from New York’s 12th Congressional District.
FEC documents show Wight has paid Tripathi thousands of dollars this election cycle as a “consultant.” @comfortablysmug has been a vocal supporter of Mitt Romney and posted tweets suggesting he attended this year's Republican convention. He's listed here by a local Republican group coordinating volunteers for a Romney phone bank. He's 29 years old.
For years, he’s been a prolific commenter at NYmag.com and a popular conservative presence on Twitter. In 2008, he penned an entry for the site’s popular sex diary feature that “detailed a week of obsession, rough sex, and Ambien.”
He kind-of apologized for his vile lies during Hurricane Sandy:
@Comfortablysmug’s greatest sin was adding more panic, worry, and confusion to what the city was already dealing with as Sandy charged ashore (and there was plenty). He tweeted, falsely, that Con Edison workers were trapped in a facility, that the floor of the New York Stock Exchange had flooded, and that ConEd would shut down power to all of Manhattan. These are the kinds of things that make their way into news reports that then terrify people, who already have plenty of real reasons to be scared. Of course, reporters should check their sources outside Twitter. And that’s exactly why @comfortablysmug won’t find any allies in the media. As Mashable’s Stephanie Haberman tweets, “I was working FAR too late into the night last night verifying truth from rumor to accept @comfortablysmug’s apology. Sorry I’m not sorry.”
This year, he sicked a troll army to Elizabeth Warren’s Twitter feed:
Yet, inexplicably, Nate Silver the political aficionado who most assuredly knows who ComfortablySmug is, 1) engages with this well-known Republican operative, creep, and liar, 2) seems to agree with a now deleted tweet, 3) bashes ‘libs’ for bashing Trump because, apparently, Nate Silver thinks libs are unfair to Donald J. Trump. Silver apparently believes Trump should be allowed to bask in his non-glory in taking credit for something he had nothing to do with on any level, except perhaps approving the mission. Libs are meanies, according to Nate Silver.
My God. We’ve entered the Twilight Zone.
Thought you’d like to know.