Up in La Belle Province, Alexandre Bissonnette is on trial for shooting up a mosque in Quebec City on January 29, 2017, killing six people and wounding 19 others. As part of the evidence against Bissonnette, who apparently knew full well what he was doing and is an accomplished bullshit artist besides, the prosecutors entered a list of the Twitter feeds that Bissonnette visited while he was ramping himself up to mass murder. Andy Riga of The Montreal Gazette reports on the quite unsurprising details.

In the weeks before the attack, Bissonnette checked the Twitter feeds of right-wing American commentators, as well as conspiracy theorists, and alt-right and white supremacist/neo-Nazi leaders, a document presented at the hearing shows.

This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.

Evidence presented at Alexandre Bissonnette's sentencing hearing this morning includes a list of some of the Twitter accounts he was checking in the month before he killed six men at a Quebec City mosque. pic.twitter.com/Xdew4HbjkQ — Andy Riga, Montreal (@andyriga) April 16, 2018

(I have to admit that Commentarice politique conservatrice makes even Laura Ingraham sound classy.)

Way I figure it, Canada is trying to export the worst of its fossil fuels down here while we export the worst of our political and cultural waste products up there. I blame NAFTA.

Respond to this article on the Esquire Politics Facebook page.

Charles P. Pierce Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.

This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io