85 Comments
User's avatar
Rikard's avatar

Twitter feels very much to me how I imagine the englishmen of olden times felt when they went to Bedlam, paid the warden a farthing, and got to look at the loonies for a while.

A guilty pleasure, a little pity, and some "there but for the grace of good luck and genetics go I"-kind of feeling.

That said, the teabagging-twittering is surely part of the idea that the Party must make it impossible for JB to run again.

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

I wish I could enjoy it that much. It mostly scares and depresses me if I take it too seriously. "These people are your neighbors," it says, "psychotic chimps with rocks who hate you and are drunk on bloodlust."

When I take it too seriously.

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

But yeah, I think the writing is on the wall. The old man has been written out of the script.

Expand full comment
Rikard's avatar

It's because you are at heart a good human?

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

On the rare occasions that I am sufficiently drunk, I believe that.

Expand full comment
la chevalerie vit's avatar

As a Person Who Is Voluntarily Underserved By Twitter, I lack the perspective to understand the apparent joy exhibited by many Persons Formerly Served By Twitter upon their recent Re-Servicing. The visions of a lib echo chamber populated by an unruly cancel hungry mob keeps any peckish for rubber necking at bay. To my chagrin, I have slid a bit down the LinkedIn slippery slope, and must battle frequent regressive temptations of rantaholism.

Expand full comment
Ryan Gardner's avatar

i was just reinstated after a couple month "freeze" to LinkedIn after showing my support for the Canadian Truckers.

they basically told me that if I posted something of this nature again (meaning anything about covid contrary to narrative) I would forfeit all the info of my correspondence with "connections".

I had a chance to dispute it. So I did and I said this: Go fuck yourselves and tell all 3,000 of my connections that LinkedIn supports TOTALITARIANISM.

Randomly I was just reinstated with no explanation.

we are on our way to a dark place I fear.

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

I mean... they probably do.

Expand full comment
la chevalerie vit's avatar

Fuxkin awesome! Good work.

Expand full comment
Integrity and Karma's avatar

That was...paradoxical.

" Go fuck yourself, and you're totalitarians!"totalitarian!.

" Hey Ryan! Welcome back!"

🥴

Expand full comment
Carol Anne's avatar

Ryan, bully for you! Bravo! I pray we are not on our way to a dark place. But I’m not very happy with where we are right now. Good luck sir!

Expand full comment
DeDeFlyover's avatar

Oh, the joy is schwacking the likes of POTUS (or should I say whatever little pony-tailed (sorry BM), soyboy pretending to be Brandon), and the myriad of other nasty leftist virtue signaling narcissists who love to see themselves on social media. With a cup of coffee or two, I allow my fingers to fire all the armament of the nasty crap circling around in my head in lieu of using my actual weaponry. It’s very cathartic. I always seem to have a very upbeat, joyful day after unloading! 🙂

Expand full comment
Integrity and Karma's avatar

I can't say it's joyful, but I'm finding quite a lot of conservative voices and a crapton of information. It's much easier for me to access fact people like The Ethical Skeptic and FOIA2.0 on there,and I gotta tell you, Toby (uTobian) is much spicier on there than he is on his stack. 😂

Expand full comment
Tardigrade's avatar

Spending way too much time IFOK anyway, I'm grateful that I only tiptoe into the Twitterverse following an occasional link, and thanks to their proclivity for spamming, always eschewed LinkedIn.

Expand full comment
Daniel D's avatar

They probably got ChatGPT handling Brandon's POTUS twitter account now.

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

Kidding aside, it doesn't sound quite like AI. It has a particular kind of cringe and tone-deafness that comes from a human.

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

But hey, it worked for Buzzfeed.

Expand full comment
Daniel D's avatar

Yeah, it's getting hard these days to tell the AI chatbots apart from the DC apparatchiks, but you're probably right that it's a human NPC, rather than a machine.

Expand full comment
Daniel D's avatar

Either that or the White House went ahead and transferred control of Brandon's twitter to the leader of the forthcoming alien 👽 invasion, to make the transition smoother.

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

This scans for me.

Expand full comment
Bandit's avatar

That's awesome that they can translate to English so well so soon after arriving! 🙄 (I really wish there was also a crossed eyes emoji.)🤪 (close enough, I guess.)

Expand full comment
Daniel D's avatar

English is the language used by air traffic controllers around the galaxy, which is good news for us if we're looking to fly a ship to another solar system, but not so good if we're about to be invaded, because they already know our language. The Chinese and Arab nations should give the aliens some trouble though. From what I hear, Mandarin and Arabic are the two hardest languages for extraterrestrials to learn.

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

Pound for pound the most difficult Earth language is Russian.

Which I coincidentally started studying a few weeks ago on alternate days to staying in Japanese practice.

Expand full comment
Tardigrade's avatar

Not Navajo?

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

Nope. Navaho was used during WW2 because it was a linguistic isolate that bore no resemblance to any European language and, they reasoned, made it unintuitive to break.

The fact that all its extant speakers were Americans helped.

Expand full comment
Doctor Hammer's avatar

The Thai might like to have a word with you.

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

It's not my personal opinion, there was apparently some index of languages years ago rating them on grammatical complexity, size of vocabulary, etc., and pound for pound Russian was the most difficult.

Expand full comment
Bandit's avatar

Thanks for that update! I'm glad they'll understand me when we have tea.

Expand full comment
DeDeFlyover's avatar

They don’t hold a candle to Dineh (Navajo code talkers).

Expand full comment
Integrity and Karma's avatar

Does Noone else wonder how Daniel has this knowledge? 🤔

Expand full comment
Bandit's avatar

Looks like Daniel is a robot. I thought robots knew everything.

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

Robots absolutely do not know everything. Exhibit 1 and only: ChatGPT.

Expand full comment
AndyinBC's avatar

Actually, "the leader of the forthcoming alien 👽 invasion" is probably being groomed to take over from Brandon and Cackles.

Expand full comment
Rikard's avatar

So which kind of alien are we talking about? Giger-esque Xenomorphs or a legion of multicoloured space-babes wanting to sue Cpn Kirk for alimony payments for their kids?

In an old 2000AD comic, the aliens are tourists come to spend gold and take pictures and buy quaint little souvenirs (like the Eiffel Tower). Maybe that's what's going to happen, tourists from space coming here the way rich people go slumming in various parts of the world.

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

Any race with interstellar travel would rightly view our present state of development as a fascinating anthropological shit show. Maybe the aliens are pith-helmeted Jane Goodalls here to gawk at the self-destructing monkeys.

Expand full comment
Rikard's avatar

Any race/species capable of ftl-travel in any way, which is pretty much a requirement for stellar exploration and colonisation (lest evolution becomes so divergent the colonists are no longer the same species when the next ship from home arrives) have zero need for colonies nor "invade and steal their water".

Don't know if you've read "The Forever War", it deals with the problems that arise from the soldiers having 700 years (Earth time, not ship time) to travel to and from the battle zone. So your gear is either centuries ahead of the enemies, or vice versa.

Pretty much the only reason would be to seek out new life and new civilisations, really. Unless we're talking Space Balls-style kind of stardrives.

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

Don't roll your eyes at me but I wrote a paper on The Forever War.

Not an important paper, mind you.

It's true that it deals with the sci-fi implications of asymmetrical technology, but it mainly deals with coming back from Vietnam.

Expand full comment
Bandit's avatar

"...a fascinating anthropological shit show"

If I wasn't living it, it might be more entertaining to watch. And again, more opportunities to sell souvenirs, work as guides to the biggest parts of the shit show, such as NY and CA, or even try to interest them in seeing FL as an alternate view (at least somewhat).

Expand full comment
Integrity and Karma's avatar

😂🤣😂...he was such a slut!

Expand full comment
Bandit's avatar

Hey, more money for us Earthlings selling souvenirs! They can have at it! 😉😊😋

Expand full comment
Integrity and Karma's avatar

I've seen a few,but to be honest, I'm just as likely to ignore WH tweets.

...what did PA lose?

Not as much as Ohio is losing atm, I'm guessing. Yikes.

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

Pennsylvania dropped the football. Lots of men were yelling. I'm not completely sure.

But yeah, Ohio was busy melting that whole time. Wonder what that's about.

Expand full comment
Phisto Sobanii's avatar

That’s just Ohio. We’ll name a beer after it.

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

"Strange Vapors - A Playful IPA"

Expand full comment
Phisto Sobanii's avatar

Burning River is an IPA made by Great Lakes Brewery.

So, basically.

Expand full comment
la chevalerie vit's avatar

Read on Breitbart that Philly fans were maintaining their rep by flipping a car before the game even started - and another update from B is the former Eagles coach beat his old team.

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

Philly (and to a lesser extent Pittsburgh) is a reminder that dense urban centers are about as representative of their state culture as a side salad is representative of McDonald's.

Expand full comment
la chevalerie vit's avatar

Chicken nuggets (new menu addition) with an array of sauces during breaks in band camp - before the salad days: now them there are some memories.

Expand full comment
la chevalerie vit's avatar

Indeed one could make quite a list comprising many large cities - Detroit Chicago NYC Miami Atlanta Minneapolis Seattle and a handful of smaller “whole nother universe”s such as Boulder, Portland Austin

Expand full comment
Rikard's avatar

There is something to say about team sports and violence, for sure.

You never see riots from MMA-fans, or curling or biathlon. But football, or football, or rugby, or hockey or even cricket nowadays, if "our ladz" win we riot and if they loose we riot.

Here in Europe there's a long-standing tradition that the hardcore fans arrange meet-ups and duke it out, either one-on-one or as a huge free-for-all, or both.

Used to be (30+ years ago), the police were happy to let us go at it provided it was done without collateral damages; with social media they too know beforehand. So nowadays there's usually three gangs involved: two groups of hooligans and the police.

You do that in the states too?

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

No, our police haven't really had a sense of humor in a long time.

Expand full comment
la chevalerie vit's avatar

Am not aware of that in states, only of belligerently buying beer with inebriated buddies in bars while bravado baiting brawl-ready belligerents.

Expand full comment
Rikard's avatar

No contrarian chums constantly craving clear-cut conflict?

Expand full comment
la chevalerie vit's avatar

Perhaps a possibility of persons with proclivity for prearranged punching precipitatng paddywagon.

Expand full comment
Dr. Colleen Huber's avatar

Yep, as soon as they realized he's unwinnable next year, they're shoving him toward the cliff.

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

That felt like the low- hanging answer from the beginning, but I didn't feel like they had made that decision yet. Maybe they have.

Expand full comment
Joe Dirt's avatar

They replaced the SM manager recently with someone who is a true believer. How else can you explain the cringe and obvious lies? OK, I will give you it may be the same person and the bivalent booster injury has kicked in hard and they are now significantly brain damaged, that is certainly possible.

You know, one of the great things about Trump was that when there was a tweet from his account, it was clearly him doing the tweeting and if it went over badly with the left his answer was to own it and back it up, not walk it back and blame some schmuck that has now been replaced as the SM manager.

To me the tweets coming out now are being written by committee, that is certainly what they sound like, 7 pencil necked leftists who have to vote unanimously to approve all tweets and each are responsible for 1 voter block. 7 low information voter blocks because the crap that comes out it utterly ridiculous on a truth scale.

Expand full comment
Bandit's avatar

I thought that was all of them, not just 7.

Expand full comment
William Hunter Duncan's avatar

I'm not on Twitter, but I just went there to see the POTUS site. I didn't even know that POS Lula was here on the 11th. Democracy, you say, like forcing the poor to get jabbed, to get benefits? Brandon's posts read like they are just cribbing off the SOTU. And that pic with the LIUNA guys last week - looks like it was taken about 10 years ago.

Expand full comment
SimulationCommander's avatar

I've noticed the media is talking an awful lot about his deficiencies.

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

Yep, I think the memo has been distributed.

Expand full comment
Rikard's avatar

Which was considered hate-spech by the same media as recent as October last year.

Funny that, don't you think?

Expand full comment
Mark Bisone's avatar

Look at it this way, GM:

https://youtu.be/p93w7MpbZRw

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

There aren't a lot of "rules" involved in propaganda, generally, and especially lately. I just wonder what the process is.

Or was the video just to say I should get shot with a nail gun?

Expand full comment
Mark Bisone's avatar

There is one eternal rule to propaganda: that people must pay attention to it for it to matter.

(Also, please don't get shot with a nail gun. Very painful, and not as fun as it sounds.)

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

I have known of at least one person IRL who has died from it (an accident, not like The Wire).

But right, attention. So why crave more attention now, at this moment? And if the answer is simply "you always want as much as possible," which is a fair one, what prompted the gear shift (if I'm right that there is one)?

Expand full comment
Anthony S Burkett's avatar

Still banned from Twitter (I occasionally check to assure myself of my mental superiority)... I wouldn't fuck Meta with my dog's dick and any interest in association with the rest of the online social cesspool is deep in the negative zone... but thanks for letting me know nothing has changed.

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

Yeah, it's absolute garbage and I'll be done soon.

Expand full comment
Carol Anne's avatar

Anthony, you made me laugh so hard I blew my ice tea out my nose. Awesome statement.🤣

Expand full comment
Anthony S Burkett's avatar

You are most welcome... and I have never received such an awesome compliment... Thank you!

Expand full comment
Mike Hind's avatar

Off topic, but I'm looking forward to old Biders inadvertently admitting that Nordstream was blown up on his orders.

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

It isn't really off topic: I think even a spoon feed idiot recognizes, if only instinctively, this cacophonic blur of bullshit is distraction from at least SOMEthing.

That said, I've been interested from day one in WHO the whistle-blower was- it would help explain how the story has effectively disappeared.

I keep waiting, with diminished hope, for someone to pop their head above the cloud holding receipts.

I REALLY want this to get incontrovertibly out. I think it can start a very big boulder rolling.

Expand full comment
Mike Hind's avatar

Yeah, well that boulder looks like yet another American war. But fought this time much closer to me than I want (I live in France)

Expand full comment
Carol Anne's avatar

Way cool that you are on twitter. What is your @? I’ve been on since 2015, and wouldn’t miss it for the world. I’m smart enough to know not to get myself in too deep. I know the bots, the idiots, the haters, the bullshit, and my conservative pals. I would tweet The Donald’s public comments after he was booted. I’d send out scathing and/or hilarious memes, poking fun at covidiots, liberals and progressives. I enjoyed every minute. It was my escape from the shit show in the US since the last presidential election. Even with his few faults, Elon is my hero. In my heart, I believe we are on the path to some free speech.

Expand full comment
Sathanas Juggernaut's avatar

I had a petty little nothing account to have the occasional look at what people where saying and for the memes. I did the "ok groomer" thing to some senator or whatever and got locked out, with a demand for a phone number to get back in. Obviously, fuck that, but it seems during the Elon purge I was also purged as I've re-registered with the same info and it's like I never existed. I wonder ify old tweets still exist?

Expand full comment
Sathanas Juggernaut's avatar

Also, after clown-face (she of the 1619 fiction) demanded to known what Thomas Sowell knows about anything, I want to make "Read Sowell" hate speech.

I want them to tell me promoting a black professor with years of celebrated philosophy is white supremacy.

Expand full comment
Guttermouth's avatar

I've already seen this asserted elsewhere. Sowell is internalized white supremacy, just like Asians are white-adjacent.

Expand full comment
Rikard's avatar

Well, old Adolf himself declared the japanese "honorary aryans" back in the day, so there's precedent.

Expand full comment