So much for hashtag diplomacy

Remember back in April when an Islamist terror group called Boko Haram kidnapped a couple hundred Nigerian school girls? And remember the brilliant "hashtag diplomacy" campaign intended to put international "pressure" on Boko Haram to force the return of the captives? Yeah, that was some good shit, right? Gave us pictures like this:

Yeah, Michelle even put on her sad face to add to the pressure on Boko Haram. How did that work out? Yeah, maybe not so well. As Ace tells us, Boko Haram was unimpressed by the "international pressure" placed upon them by "hashtag diplomacy," known in the White House as "smart power" and everywhere else as "rank stupidity." Yeah, it seems that Boko Haram finally stopped laughing long enough to tell folks how effective their efforts were:

The leader of Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram has issued a new video in which he denied claims of a deal to free the 200 girls kidnapped in April from a school in the northern town of Chibok.
Abubakar Shekau, the mercurial leader of the Islamist group, smirked as he said that the girls would never be released because they had been "married off" to fighters.
"The issue of the girls is long forgotten because I have long ago married them off," he said, laughing. "In this war, there is no going back."
Speaking in Hausa, the local dialect, Shekau denied claims made last month by Nigeria's military and presidency that they had reached a deal to end five years of deadly violence in the country's northeast, as well as agreement to release the Chibok girls.

It's almost like these guys never go on Facebook, or Twitter or Instagram. How else could they resist the irresistable, the groundswell of international disapproval that greets their every action? It's almost like the only way to influence these people is through violent action. What would Michelle hashtag about that?

Yeah, maybe that would fit.