Lefties Are Unhappy That Rightwingers Communicate On Social Media; Plan To Squelch It

They're mad that we're allowed to talk. At all.

Twitter will be enhancing their 'mute' function and will make it easier not only for people to live in an exclusive bubble of pre-approved sentiments, but also to report others for abuse and hate speech.

Yes, yes, there are real trollish and racist abusers out there on Twitter. With their mean, hurtful words.

But in your heart, you know the intent is to muzzle you, you conservative swine. After all, who is more likely to report your political views as "hateful conduct" than the SJW neo-Victorian purity brigades? Nobody, that's who.

An aside: What really puzzles me about that story at the link is the reference to voter suppression on Twitter. How does that work, exactly? Since deleting my account, have I missed out on an opportunity to be oppressed?

Furthermore, Google and Facebook are implementing measures to yoink ads off of sites that contain content which they refer to as "fake news," thereby depriving those sites of income.

Lots of people think that the internet is full of 'fake news' and has too much influence over what other people can read and communicate to each other. This realization seems to have come to them rather suddenly, as a bolt from the blue, just in the last week.

Facebook's decision to clarify its ad policy language is notable because Mark Zuckerberg, the social network's chief executive, has repeatedly fobbed off criticism that the company had an effect on how people voted. In a post on his Facebook page over the weekend, he said that 99 percent of what people see on the site is authentic, and only a tiny amount is fake news and hoaxes.
"Over all, this makes it extremely unlikely hoaxes changed the outcome of this election in one direction or the other," Mr. Zuckerberg wrote.
Yet within Facebook, employees and executives have been increasingly questioning their responsibilities and role in influencing the electorate, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

My emphasis. The trouble with freedom, as always, is that people use it.

Fake news, eh? If you follow the links in the article, all the 'fake news' they refer to cuts against Hillary/ the left. There is no reference made or any concern about dodgy internet content that cuts against the Right.

But then for that, the NYT would have to cite itself and the rest of the DNC media apparatus. And we know that's not happening.

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1 These oligarchs are REALLY pissed that social media may have helped Trump despite doing everything they could to rig it.

Posted by: Maritime at November 16, 2016 11:19 AM (dtf5I)

2 Saw this this morning

TYPICAL of lefties

Posted by: melodicmetal at November 16, 2016 11:19 AM (GZSAO)

3 3rd!

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at November 16, 2016 11:20 AM (jwosH)

4 Not on twitter, but I really appreciate the mute button on Gab.AI.

Posted by: runner at November 16, 2016 11:21 AM (c6/9Q)

5 The fake news that cuts against the right is the mainstream media.

Posted by: ace at November 16, 2016 11:21 AM (8rNrN)

6 I'd like to submit CNN and the NY Times to Facebook as fake news sites.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at November 16, 2016 11:21 AM (jwosH)

7 We wouldn't want to hurt their feelings!

Posted by: Caliban at November 16, 2016 11:22 AM (DrC22)

8 I don't do Twitter, but if you do, switch to Gab. It's been specifically designed as a right-wing alternative to Twitter; that is, lots of emphasis on free expression, active antipathy toward "policing" of any kind.

Posted by: T at November 16, 2016 11:22 AM (IKdzI)

9 Happier than ever that I deleted my Facebook account. I found out most of the people I cared about keeping in touch with, weren't worth it.

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at November 16, 2016 11:22 AM (FQKBL)

10 I have no fear that Snopes and the latest Lena Dunham antics will still be faithfully included.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at November 16, 2016 11:22 AM (KUaJL)

11 Trump won with very few ads.

Therefore he did not need to raise money for those ads (setting aside his personal wealth).

Therefore he does not owe anyone favors right now.

This is a position many folks are not used to. A person winning presidency and not having to kowtow to anyone except those that voted him in.

Morning in America indeed.

Posted by: Nick in South Bend at November 16, 2016 11:22 AM (H43MS)

12 There is a degree of fake news that pops up... but I think there's every reason to be distrusting of any attempt to prune them... especially when it's being crowdsourced

Posted by: Former mass resident at November 16, 2016 11:22 AM (RaxiV)

13 The point of all of this is to silence opposition to the leftist agenda.

Posted by: Khat Man Chu at November 16, 2016 11:23 AM (s/vC3)

14 From the always dependable Washington Post -

An article that Lawrence Samuel would never have written had the roles been reversed and Hillary had won the EC but lost the popular vote - "States are a relic of the past. It's time to get rid of them."

Posted by: dissent555 at November 16, 2016 11:23 AM (VFhMt)

15 Hopefullly, social media will meet the same fate as traditional media - a declining user base that is laughed at by the public.

Such a Potemkin village they built.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at November 16, 2016 11:23 AM (7ZVPa)

16 Twitter will be enhancing their 'mute' function and will make it easier not only for people to live in an exclusive bubble of pre-approved sentiments, but also to report others for abuse and hate speech.

Twitter will become MySpace before long.
All the kewl kids will have went somewhere else.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 16, 2016 11:23 AM (8N2JI)

17 "Not me Frankie! I created you!!"

Posted by: MFM at November 16, 2016 11:24 AM (326rv)

18 My greatest fear is that they successfully "palin-ize" Trumps presidency before it gets off the ground.

They sure are all-in already.

MSM Delenda Est!

Posted by: Moron Pundit at November 16, 2016 11:24 AM (xeeHA)

19 People who use Twitter or any other "social media" deserve what they get.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at November 16, 2016 11:24 AM (mpXpK)

20 It's been specifically designed as a right-wing alternative to Twitter; that is, lots of emphasis on free expression, active antipathy toward "policing" of any kind.

Ehh, not so much.

The right has adopted it because they say they are for free expression. And they opened after Twitter started cracking down on the right.

But I say this: Twitter started out as a free speech haven, and conservatives used to love it. #TCOT and all that.

So maybe it works for GAB now, but expect them to become a SJW tool at some point, too.

Posted by: blaster at November 16, 2016 11:24 AM (tewYv)

21 OT: I take this with an enormous grain of salt because it sounds too good to be true, but at the very least it's entertaining to consider.

http://tinyurl.com/hkv8txz

Posted by: Sausage McMuffin at November 16, 2016 11:25 AM (T9DQN)

22 Leftist fake news is the NYT. And they wouldn't want to draw attention to that.

Posted by: joncelli, High-Functioning Aspie at November 16, 2016 11:25 AM (RD7QR)

23 Ban The Onion! When it makes fun of Hillary it makes me cry!

Posted by: Hal Dall at November 16, 2016 11:25 AM (mNaGL)

24 I guess by liking the mute, I landed myself in a bubble of exclusive
pre-approved sentiment. But then I do not purchase the products from
companies I don't like either. Maybe I am a total elitist and
exclusivist.

Posted by: runner at November 16, 2016 11:25 AM (c6/9Q)

25 I'm old enough to remember when the left thought it was cool to be against the establishment.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 16, 2016 11:25 AM (/tuJf)

26 *States* are a relic of the past??? Like I'm going to think any differently if they threw Ohio into a state called Greater New York. I'd just be more pissed at the establishment and the elites.

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at November 16, 2016 11:25 AM (FQKBL)

27 I had a lefty acquaintance actually say that Trump supporters were morally equivalent to ISIS. Me: "But ISIS decapitates people and blows people up!" Him: "Yes, but the right wing is blowing us up with their words."

So be grateful. Muzzling you is their kind option. They really want to drone you into silence.

Posted by: wooga at November 16, 2016 11:25 AM (lDX4i)

28 Perhaps we should let these people continue to live in their ever shrinking bubble.

Posted by: SH at November 16, 2016 11:26 AM (gmeXX)

29 https://tinyurl.com/zlzk8fn

Here Are The Early Favorites For Trumps Supreme Court Nominee

Posted by: Evilpens at November 16, 2016 11:26 AM (y3aQB)

30 Someone in the last thread mentioned MeAgain Kelly's Hollywood Reporter photo on Drudge. Yep, the photo of a reporter looking to be taken seriously there.

Posted by: buzzion at November 16, 2016 11:26 AM (bMG0w)

31 I'll fire you all and hire scabs!

Posted by: Buggy Whip Manufacturer at November 16, 2016 11:26 AM (ZsN9X)

32 They're mad that we're allowed to talk. At all.
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Um no. They're mad we're allowed to breathe.

Posted by: justsayin at November 16, 2016 11:27 AM (bsDXW)

33 Kim Jong-Un couldn't be prouder of his American students.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 16, 2016 11:27 AM (IqV8l)

34 Trump is the only reason Twitter still exists.

Posted by: JEM at November 16, 2016 11:27 AM (TppKb)

35 My greatest fear is that they successfully "palin-ize" Trumps presidency before it gets off the ground.

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Hard to do that with someone who won.

Posted by: SH at November 16, 2016 11:27 AM (gmeXX)

36 We are not beholden to the social media sites such as Twitter, FB, etc. unless we allow ourselves to be. Twitter is a turd circling the drain anyways. FB, if I was a betting man, will be continue to have be the 800lb gorilla for what - 3-5 more years? Until the next big thing comes along.

There are alternatives coming into play. Certainly if these two companies continue to censor (which they have a right to do - their toys, their rules), a vacuum is created. And nature abhors a vacuum. And an Entrepreneur is out there somewhere that will fill that void.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 16, 2016 11:27 AM (jxbfJ)

37 Fake news? Like CNN? Like the wave of hate crimes sweeping the nation? That kind of fake news?

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at November 16, 2016 11:27 AM (FqgrG)

38 16,
They and faceplant are already old fogey land (as I'm told by the younger mouses)

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at November 16, 2016 11:27 AM (C9pBZ)

39 28 Perhaps we should let these people continue to live in their ever shrinking bubble.

With their play dough, coloring books and safe zones...

Posted by: deplorable donna at November 16, 2016 11:27 AM (O2RFr)

40 Twitter is a mess, as well as maybe not being financially viable, so while Twitter is taking direct aim at speech it doesn't like, Facebook and Google are the real threats to speech, IMO.

Facebook is kind of a weird institution, with a strong culture and lawyers enforcing it internally. Employees sign highly restrictive employment agreements with non-disparagement clauses and even if the agreements are ultimately non-enforceable the prospect of a legal battle with pockets that deep has to scare anyone.

The point is Facebook might have a diversity of thought even inside itself, and probably does, but externally they are enforcing whatever ethic Zuckerberg decides on. Google, from the outside looking in, is just plain weird and controlling. At least Google might give us flying cars some day (or Sergey Brin might), though.

Posted by: MTF at November 16, 2016 11:28 AM (LISuA)

41 I'm kicking all of you employees who voted for Big Dinosaur off of this gravy train!

You're fired!

Posted by: Whale Oil Refiner at November 16, 2016 11:28 AM (ZsN9X)

42 I noted on one liberal blog (where I will likely be banned soon due to the fact that I just don't give a flying fuck anymore) that it is funny how I can't say what stupid boobs these trump protesters are.. my free speech is curtailed by those trying to excuse the idiot protesters on grounds of free speech.

The clueless assholes still don't believe they actually lost.. or that their bubbles have been burst.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at November 16, 2016 11:28 AM (so+oy)

43 If theyre worried about fake news, they can start by blocking the New York Times, the Washington Post, ABC, CBS, NBC........

Posted by: Mega at November 16, 2016 11:28 AM (cSSD8)

44 https://gab.ai

Posted by: Grump928(c) at November 16, 2016 11:28 AM (QQ+il)

45 Yep, the photo of a reporter looking to be taken seriously there.

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She's not a reporter. She's an entertainer. These people are nothing more than entertainers. Some are less entertaining than others.

Posted by: SH at November 16, 2016 11:28 AM (gmeXX)

46 Eh, shoulda said "customers."

Posted by: Whale Oil Refiner at November 16, 2016 11:28 AM (ZsN9X)

47 Fact checkers! We need more fact checkers!!!!

Posted by: ajmojo at November 16, 2016 11:28 AM (1H9ox)

48 My free speech is violence, while their violence is free speech.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at November 16, 2016 11:28 AM (7ZVPa)

49 Kind of like banning dissenters who comment on your website.

Posted by: JohnJ at November 16, 2016 11:29 AM (TH0iO)

50 Perhaps we should operate the government like a business and offer an early-retirement bonus to Supreme Court justices over 60.

Posted by: JEM at November 16, 2016 11:29 AM (TppKb)

51 So maybe it works for GAB now, but expect them to become a SJW tool at some point, too.
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The Social Justice Savages will have to go somewhere once twitter implodes.

Posted by: Methos at November 16, 2016 11:29 AM (3Liv/)

52 My greatest fear is that they successfully "palin-ize" Trumps presidency before it gets off the ground.
They sure are all-in already.
MSM Delenda Est!
Posted by: Moron Pundit at November 16, 2016 11:24 AM (xeeHA)

Our hope here is that, unlike Bush, McCain, and Romney, Trump fights back.

You'll know it's working when the progtards start whining about "incivility."

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at November 16, 2016 11:29 AM (jwosH)

53
CNBC is all aflutter over this. They just had a segment on social media's responsibility to rooting out fake news. CNBC, home of John Limpwood is worried about fake news. Is there a mirror in the house?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 16, 2016 11:29 AM (493sH)

54 I can't wait to see what classifies as "fake news".

Probably things like ObamaCare has made health care more expensive for the middle class.

Posted by: Maritime at November 16, 2016 11:29 AM (dtf5I)

55 >Furthermore, Google and Facebook are implementing measures to yoink ads off of sites that contain content which they refer to as "fake news," thereby depriving those sites of income.

A friend of mine posted a list. There were some liberal and conservative sites. Mostly I had never heard of them.

I did recognize Red State and Info Wars on the list of fake news sites.

Posted by: Lea at November 16, 2016 11:29 AM (lIU4e)

56 OT: I take this with an enormous grain of salt because it sounds too good to be true, but at the very least it's entertaining to consider.

It starts off with I have a friend who is a trustworthy reporter....

Yeah, no. No you don't.

Posted by: blaster at November 16, 2016 11:30 AM (tewYv)

57 the pot never calls itself black. only the kettle

Posted by: talgus da deplorable at November 16, 2016 11:30 AM (fJQAI)

58 She's not a reporter. She's an entertainer. These people are nothing more than entertainers. Some are less entertaining than others.

Like Hannity, but at least He admits to that..... MeAgain claims to be a serious journalist...

Posted by: deplorable donna at November 16, 2016 11:30 AM (O2RFr)

59 I had a lefty acquaintance actually say that Trump supporters were morally equivalent to ISIS. Me: "But ISIS decapitates people and blows people up!" Him: "Yes, but the right wing is blowing us up with their words."

So be grateful. Muzzling you is their kind option. They really want to drone you into silence.
Posted by: wooga

By that 'logic', everyone who ever wore a che guevera t-shirt or said something complementary about Mao is an advocate of mass murder and political oppression. I kinda doubt that they'd be on-board with that.

Or the notion that obama wants to install a theocracy, since he's been so helpful to one.

Posted by: Blue Hen at November 16, 2016 11:30 AM (326rv)

60 Perhaps we should let these people continue to live in their ever shrinking bubble.

Then they start eating each other.

Win-win.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 16, 2016 11:30 AM (8N2JI)

61 "Fake News" as in:

CNN
MSDNC
CBS
NBC
ABC
Al-Jazeera
RT
Guardian Online
BBC

Posted by: ExurbanDoug at November 16, 2016 11:30 AM (Bw3B2)

62 6 I'd like to submit CNN and the NY Times to Facebook as fake news sites.
Posted by: OregonMuse
!--------------------

It's pretty bad when The Onion has more believable "news" isn't it?

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 16, 2016 11:30 AM (y8Kvt)

63 Hard to do that with someone who won.
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I don't know. They successfully tarred and feathered W. starting with Katrina and never looking back. They'll wait for the first "Katrina" for Trump and destroy him in the media.

The only hope is that the people that voted for him are sufficiently immune to media manipulation.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at November 16, 2016 11:30 AM (xeeHA)

64 The social media guys heard that Trump won because of social media, so they are working to stop that.

Posted by: blaster at November 16, 2016 11:30 AM (tewYv)

65 Twitter will become MySpace before long.
All the kewl kids will have went somewhere else.
Posted by: rickb223

More like Democratic Underground, after the mute button install.

Posted by: Roy at November 16, 2016 11:30 AM (VndSC)

66 This move will help their falling stock prices and improve user growth&retention.

Posted by: Pepe, Proud American Nationalist at November 16, 2016 11:31 AM (nI61m)

67 She's not a reporter. She's an entertainer.
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I'm telling you, CNN's rating would go through the roof if Brooke Baldwin would just preach in the nude.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at November 16, 2016 11:31 AM (FqgrG)

68 Also I don't notice facebook fretting about all those 'trump=hitler' deals I saw.

Posted by: Lea at November 16, 2016 11:31 AM (lIU4e)

69 60 Perhaps we should let these people continue to live in their ever shrinking bubble.

Twitter is not a bubble, it's a zit.

Posted by: Roy at November 16, 2016 11:31 AM (VndSC)

70 Posted by: blaster at November 16, 2016 11:30 AM (tewYv)

I agree, but the thought of Hillary pitching an epic, drunken tantrum and hurling herself at Podesta and Mook like Tony Soprano and Bobby Baccala going at it over a Monopoly board is too delicious not to at least HOPE is true.

Posted by: Sausage McMuffin at November 16, 2016 11:31 AM (T9DQN)

71 >> I did recognize Red State and Info Wars on the list
>> of fake news sites.

There's a lot of fake-site garbage out there, but it'll be interesting to see what opinion and sorta-news sites end up in their dustbin.

Posted by: JEM at November 16, 2016 11:31 AM (TppKb)

72 52
You'll know it's working when the progtards start whining about "incivility."

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at November 16, 2016 11:29 AM (jwosH)

Hell, they are losing their minds over the fact that Trump gave the media the slip last night so he could dine with his family at a favorite restaurant.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 16, 2016 11:32 AM (jxbfJ)

73 We're really seeing the cancerous politics of the Left playing out now.

All the identity politics, the echo-chamber paranoia, the social justice factionalism, the political correctness, all coming to a head.

Right now they're in a paranoid meltdown. They think they have the right to demand concessions from the victors because of their feelings.

Fuck them.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 16, 2016 11:32 AM (+wjl1)

74 I just regret that we (We the People) have to live through another 2 mos of this garbage. There must a way to mute it all, no ? Like the NFL ?

Posted by: runner at November 16, 2016 11:32 AM (c6/9Q)

75 Where do I sign up for anti-social media?

Posted by: Love Gun (post-revolution Love hertz) at November 16, 2016 11:32 AM (no0Da)

76 I just keep working on influencing actual people in actual real time in my actual world.

At least two of my neighbors are now reliable conservative votes, even though they were "raised democrat".

Amazing what can be accomplished over a couple of beers and a cigar, conversing out on the front porch for a while.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at November 16, 2016 11:32 AM (v5iqM)

77 48 My free speech is violence, while their violence is free speech.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at November 16, 2016 11:28 AM (7ZVPa)
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Well said

Posted by: MTF at November 16, 2016 11:32 AM (LISuA)

78 Left good, righteous, serious, meaningful, loving,...
right bad, fake, hateful, mean, dangerous, racist, sexist,homophobic...

Got it. You morons.

Posted by: USNtakim at November 16, 2016 11:32 AM (hMqvx)

79 Facebook seems to have been relegated to the back burner anyway. I know their "numbers" are huge, but most people I have talked to under 30 don't actually engage on it anymore now that it is filled with their parents and grandparents.

I don't know about twitter as my only interaction with it is when some news based organization or blog cites some tweeterer as a news source or reason for a story.

Posted by: ajmojo at November 16, 2016 11:32 AM (1H9ox)

80 49 Kind of like banning dissenters who comment on your website.
Posted by: JohnJ at November 16, 2016 11:29 AM (TH0iO)

Cool. At least we're on the same page that Facebook has no more journalistic weight than Ace.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at November 16, 2016 11:33 AM (KUaJL)

81 Fake News like The Daily Show?

Posted by: Pepe, Proud American Nationalist at November 16, 2016 11:33 AM (nI61m)

82 Click here to see five amazing tricks you can use to stop fake news.

Posted by: Khat Man Chu at November 16, 2016 11:33 AM (s/vC3)

83 >> "Fake News" as in:

As in any site that doesn't have a cute twentysomething female newsreader with nipple studs visible through the blouse.

Isn't that the guideline?

Posted by: JEM at November 16, 2016 11:33 AM (TppKb)

84 On CNN right now: "Hillary knew she was going to lose the election. Had no plans for a presidential transition."

Posted by: V the K at November 16, 2016 11:33 AM (O7MnT)

85 74 I just regret that we (We the People) have to live through another 2 mos of this garbage. There must a way to mute it all, no ? Like the NFL ?

Add the NBA to that too... Some teams are refusing to stay in any Trump owned Hotels while on the road... Like someone said" are they going to refuse to play in States where Trump won too?"

Posted by: deplorable donna at November 16, 2016 11:34 AM (O2RFr)

86 Freedom is like a nuclear weapon; it's OK as long as you don't use it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at November 16, 2016 11:34 AM (Nwg0u)

87 The Democrat party cannot survive without the ignorance of those who support it.

Democrat supporters who learn something true, anything, are in danger of leading the party.

The Democrats will therefore go out of their way to prevent the truth coming anywhere near their supporters.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 16, 2016 11:34 AM (8mIih)

88 The social media guys heard that Trump won because of social media, so they are working to stop that.
Posted by: blaster

Pretty much.

I think liberals had a monopoly on using Social Media in the 2006-2012 elections to help their candidates and causes and now that's not the case anymore. Conservatives are now using it as well to pushback.

Personally, I'd like to see a whole lot less of social media but it is a "thing" we're going to have to use for the foreseeable future to engage certain voters.

Posted by: Maritime at November 16, 2016 11:34 AM (dtf5I)

89 Someone in the last thread mentioned MeAgain Kelly's Hollywood Reporter photo on Drudge. Yep, the photo of a reporter looking to be taken seriously there.
Posted by: buzzion at November 16, 2016 11:26 AM (bMG0w

I'm waiting for either a GQ photo shoot, or a Cosmo. I can only imagine the restraint genuine reporters such as Catherine Harris, etc. have to use when forced to guest on Spandex Spaghetti Straps show.

Posted by: Jen at November 16, 2016 11:34 AM (Q3CCX)

90 In before noon!

For Trump Day, couch potato reviews TWD, Good Behavior & True Memoirs

Link in nic

Posted by: Deplorable Votermom @vm on Gab at November 16, 2016 11:34 AM (Om16U)

91 >>Yet within Facebook, employees and executives have been increasingly
questioning their responsibilities and role in influencing the
electorate...

How about this?
They have no responsibility, and they should NOT influence the electorate. How hard was that? Let the information flow however it wants to flow.

What I wish they were pondering is their role and influence re: ISIS/AQ terror communications/PR recruiting.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 16, 2016 11:34 AM (NOIQH)

92 Time to go "dark". My plan is pretty simple:

1) Close-out ALL social media accounts (mostly done, LinkedIn will be the last to go, probably early next year)
2) Cut the cable (this will take more than a little persuasion of Mrs. DocJ, but I'm working on it)
3) In the meanwhile, actively avoid/boycott all SJW-havens such as ESPN, NFL, NBA, Legacy Media, etc.
4) Convert from Chromebook to Open Source (some flavor of secure Linux, probably TAILS or something similar)

Blue America are mostly just batteries in the globalist matrix, and the batteries don't have any interest in being unplugged. That's their problem, not a reason for me to support their slavery and idiocy with my cash and (more importantly) time.

Posted by: DocJ at November 16, 2016 11:34 AM (NYS7S)

93 Actually I consider adding the word filter and mute to be a step in the right direction. Instead of a creepy panel of leftist idiots banning people they don't like, this lets people filter what they don't want to see.

Yes, its cowardly and pathetic of them, but its not silencing people or shadowbanning them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 16, 2016 11:35 AM (39g3+)

94 "Fake news" is only a concern now that they know the left fell for it far worse than the right.

"Hillary a Lock, click here to see why!"
"How Trump is losing and other secrets of the Alt-Right!"

Posted by: IP at November 16, 2016 11:35 AM (aPd7l)

95 84
On CNN right now: "Hillary knew she was going to lose the election. Had no plans for a presidential transition."

Posted by: V the K at November 16, 2016 11:33 AM (O7MnT)
No comment from the staffers who had to duck from the vase and lamps thrown at them when the FAB learned she lost Wisconsin.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 16, 2016 11:35 AM (jxbfJ)

96 84 On CNN right now: "Hillary knew she was going to lose the election. Had no plans for a presidential transition."

Double BS... She already had Her transition team and many cabinet picks chosen... Now they are trying to pretend She knew She was gonna lose?

Posted by: deplorable donna at November 16, 2016 11:35 AM (O2RFr)

97 Then they start eating each other.

Win-win.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 16, 2016 11:30 AM (8N2JI)

HuffPo published an article against whites wearing the safety pin. From a white author. So maybe it's already beginning

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at November 16, 2016 11:35 AM (/D5Lf)

98 I don't know. They successfully tarred and feathered W. starting with Katrina and never looking back. They'll wait for the first "Katrina" for Trump and destroy him in the media.

The only hope is that the people that voted for him are sufficiently immune to media manipulation.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at November 16, 2016 11:30 AM (xeeHA)

Bush never fought back. Trump will.

And the msm shit the bed so much during the campaign that their credibility among ordinary people is already damaged.

I'll enjoy saying to any family members who rant about Bannon "hey, the media told you Hill was sure to win. You believe them now?"

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at November 16, 2016 11:35 AM (u0lmX)

99 29 https://tinyurl.com/zlzk8fn

Here Are The Early Favorites For Trumps Supreme Court Nominee
Posted by: Evilpens at November 16, 2016 11:26 AM (y3aQB)

fapfapfapfapfapfap

Posted by: joncelli, High-Functioning Aspie at November 16, 2016 11:36 AM (RD7QR)

100 Cool, does this mean Facebook will immediately remove any stories perpetuating "Hands Up Don't Shoot!"?

Posted by: Brisco_County at November 16, 2016 11:36 AM (vVSvq)

101 Worry not Comrade. The people's republic of China will soon be along to make sure any anti-communist voices are squelched without you needing to press any mute buttons. It's part of cyber-sovereignty. /s

Funny how their sovereignty involves silencing people on the internet and our won't let us have a southern border.

Posted by: Flyguy at November 16, 2016 11:36 AM (3sOO0)

102 So when does the boycott of twitter and Facebook begin?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 16, 2016 11:36 AM (/tuJf)

103 Fake News like The Weather Channel?

Posted by: Pepe, Proud American Nationalist at November 16, 2016 11:36 AM (nI61m)

104 The whole "fake news" thing, 90% of the fake news I saw was by leftists trying to discredit Trump and his supporters by posting nonsense about Hillary Clinton and Obama.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 16, 2016 11:36 AM (39g3+)

105 >>Fake News like The Daily Show?

Heh! Also, the detestable Samantha Bee, SNL...

Posted by: Lizzy at November 16, 2016 11:36 AM (NOIQH)

106 96 84 On CNN right now: "Hillary knew she was going to lose the election. Had no plans for a presidential transition."

Double BS... She already had Her transition team and many cabinet picks chosen... Now they are trying to pretend She knew She was gonna lose?

Posted by: deplorable donna at November 16, 2016 11:35 AM (O2RFr)

That's why she totse had her concession speech at the ready

oh wait

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at November 16, 2016 11:37 AM (/D5Lf)

107 Hell, they are losing their minds over the fact that Trump gave the media the slip last night so he could dine with his family at a favorite restaurant.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at November 16, 2016 11:32 AM (jxbfJ

Question...Do Hillary and Bill receive lifetime SS protection? Or is it only for ten years out of office?

Posted by: Jen at November 16, 2016 11:37 AM (Q3CCX)

108 When I asked my daughter why she wasn't on Facebook anymore her response was, "too many aunts and grandmas".

Posted by: Flyover at November 16, 2016 11:37 AM (geh5C)

109 Facebook seems to have been relegated to the back burner anyway. I know their "numbers" are huge, but most people I have talked to under 30 don't actually engage on it anymore now that it is filled with their parents and grandparents.

______

Twitter is on its way to becoming MySpace,

FaceBook will probably be a "thing" for a while.
I do agree though that it's not something I would want to invest in.

The value in it though is you can really target ads and its SO much cheaper than other forms of media like print or television.

Posted by: Maritime at November 16, 2016 11:37 AM (dtf5I)

110 On CNN right now: "Hillary knew she was going to lose the election. Had no plans for a presidential transition."

Posted by: V the K at November 16, 2016 11:33 AM (O7MnT)

That's why they were popping the champagne corks that night before they found out Steiner wasn't showing up?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 16, 2016 11:37 AM (493sH)

111 Double BS... She already had Her transition team and many cabinet picks chosen... Now they are trying to pretend She knew She was gonna lose?
Posted by: deplorable donna
________

I meant to do that.

* throws a lamp *

* stumbles, vomits on her stylish pink pantsuit *

* faceplants *

* passes out *

Posted by: DistHillary at November 16, 2016 11:38 AM (77i7V)

112 Social media is a liberal echo chamber where they feed off each others disinformation and paranoia.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at November 16, 2016 11:38 AM (+wjl1)

113 I remember when fake news was spread by email.

Posted by: Jaqen H'ghar at November 16, 2016 11:38 AM (5fSr7)

114 Everyone with a brain realizes that the populace of this country despised the "media" before the election, and Trump, Hillary, and Assange did a great job of destroying the last vestiges of their credibility.
Googlefacebooktwitter have become the defacto "media".
Googlefacebooktwitter are announcing that they want to place even more editorial control over what is spewed over their ethernetwaves because the populace is too dumb.

That ought to really increase people's opinion of the "media".

Posted by: ajmojo at November 16, 2016 11:38 AM (1H9ox)

115 From the always dependable Washington Post -

An article that Lawrence Samuel would never have written had the roles been reversed and Hillary had won the EC but lost the popular vote - "States are a relic of the past. It's time to get rid of them."

-
Also from the Washington (Dumb As a) Post: Trump has no mandate. People may have voted for Trump but they want Obozo/Hillzebub policies.

https://tinyurl.com/hhsu4bg

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at November 16, 2016 11:39 AM (Nwg0u)

116 /On CNN right now: "Hillary knew she was going to lose the election. Had no plans for a presidential transition."/

I always pop Dom Perignon on the day I know I am about to lose a contest - doesn't everyone ??

Posted by: runner at November 16, 2016 11:39 AM (c6/9Q)

117 Forget Palinizing. They tried, and that day has now passed. Trump is larger than life. He also knows what the Left is. We have never seen anything like what this guy is about to do.

Think about what he did to the Republican party as a citizen, just by tugging on a few keystones and kicking over a couple cornerstones.

He's about to do the same thing to the Democrat Party and the Left. And there is literally nothing they can do about it.

Posted by: Mega at November 16, 2016 11:39 AM (cSSD8)

118 Fake News like Coming on the Kardashian Klan?

Posted by: Pepe, Proud American Nationalist at November 16, 2016 11:39 AM (nI61m)

119 RE: "Palin-ization" of T-rump

Palin was scared out of public office by nuisance lawsuits + some bad MSM press-- all it took to get her gone was the proverbial "whiff of grapeshot"' (Napoleon's famous description of how he easily dispersed a violent mob).

I'm still trying to get myself oriented to what exactly the Pres-elect really IS... but I'm extremely confident that a "whiff of grapeshot" won't work its magic on HIM, as it did on Palin.

The Trumpster has already proven he can survive thermonuclear strikes, let alone a little grapeshot.

Posted by: mnw at November 16, 2016 11:39 AM (+LXO6)

120 When I asked my daughter why she wasn't on Facebook anymore her response was, "too many aunts and grandmas".

Yeah, young people are not on Facebook and Twitter much, its all old people (by their definition). They use stuff like Kik.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 16, 2016 11:40 AM (39g3+)

121 Oh, and Chuck Schumer elected as Senate minority leader. No actual surprise.

Posted by: joncelli, High-Functioning Aspie at November 16, 2016 11:40 AM (RD7QR)

122 Damn alt-right New York Times!

Hillary Clinton Puts White House Transition Team in Place

http://tinyurl.com/z3bbdjw

So is the NYT a fake news site?

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at November 16, 2016 11:40 AM (/D5Lf)

123 Most of the "Fake news" I'm seeing comes from the conventional news outlets.

EG, Tell me again, how Hillary Clinton was "exonerated" by the FBI, etc.

Posted by: looking closely at November 16, 2016 11:40 AM (ji45d)

124 On CNN right now: "Hillary knew she was going to lose the election. Had no plans for a presidential transition."

Posted by: V the K at November 16, 2016 11:33 AM (O7MnT)

That's why they were popping the champagne corks that night before they found out Steiner wasn't showing up?
Posted by: TheQuietMan

I think it's pretty obvious Hillary thought she was going to win and Trump thought he was going to lose.

I don't really buy into the whole "a few smart people at the top in both campaigns were certain this result was going to happen"

As much as I love our victory, it looks exagerrated because of the Electoral College. A bad gaffe or video from Trump in the final days could have easily handed it to Hillary.

Nobody really knew what was going to happen.

Posted by: Maritime at November 16, 2016 11:40 AM (dtf5I)

125 CNN has to protect Hillary, by making it seem like she was smarter and more informed than everyone else even when a loser.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 16, 2016 11:41 AM (39g3+)

126 There's no Palinizing Trump. Sarah Palin felt it necessary to accommodate the media. Donald Trump just doesn't fucking care.

Posted by: Ernie McCracken at November 16, 2016 11:41 AM (OxWMl)

127 On CNN right now: "Hillary knew she was going to lose the election. Had no plans for a presidential transition."

WAIT !! WHAT on the "News Orgs." said she was going to win in blowout

Posted by: Evilpens at November 16, 2016 11:41 AM (y3aQB)

128 The "vote suppression" bit comes from Hillary not pulling in Obama's numbers among blacks. See, the Trump campaign used "ethnic affinity" ad programs with social media to get her bigoted remarks about blacks out SPECIFICALLY to blacks. One of the companies (Google?) is cancelling their "ethnic affinity" program as a result.

Posted by: Robert Crawford at November 16, 2016 11:41 AM (oZ8x7)

129 While I'm sure social media played a part in Trump's victory, reality played a bigger part.

I was at a Trump victory party on Sunday in Waukesha county. The (admittedly older) crowd did not know who or what Brietbart was. They had never heard of Milo. They don't tweet. They FB, but mainly to show off pics of the grandkids.

Those blue collars in WI (not that all of the people at the party were blue collar) and MI and PA don't give a shit about Twitter or who is trending on Google. They care about jobs and their health care premiums going through the roof and their daughter sharing a bathroom with a 45 year perv in a dress.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at November 16, 2016 11:41 AM (u0lmX)

130 He's about to do the same thing to the Democrat Party and the Left. And there is literally nothing they can do about it.
----------------------

I hope you are right. Even as a serious pessimist, I admit it is possible and maybe even probable.

I have trouble with hope after the last 10 years.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at November 16, 2016 11:41 AM (xeeHA)

131 Dear newsies - you were completely wrong, dishonestly so, during the election. I am supposed to buy your stories now why exactly?

Posted by: blaster at November 16, 2016 11:41 AM (tewYv)

132 Palin got clobbered because McCain's genius team was a total mess and had no serious plan to win, they allowed it to happen and then blamed their failures on her.

Posted by: runner at November 16, 2016 11:42 AM (c6/9Q)

133 I forgo Facebook and instead use Chaturbate.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at November 16, 2016 11:42 AM (/D5Lf)

134 That's why they were popping the champagne corks that night before they found out Steiner wasn't showing up?
Posted by: TheQuietMan
-------------------------------------------------------------------
That was a Staged thing

Posted by: Evilpens at November 16, 2016 11:42 AM (y3aQB)

135 Seems to me that Obama's 2012 campaign was much more effective in its use of social media than the Romney campaign. The reaction from our side - our bad, we better get up to speed next time or get left in the dust.

Trump's 2016 campaign apparently got this message and was more effective in the use of social media. The left's reaction - muzzle and shut down our side's access and ability to use social media.

These SJW/snowflake lefties are a bunch of real prize winners, they are. How pathetic they are revealed to be.

Posted by: RM at November 16, 2016 11:42 AM (U3LtS)

136 79 Facebook seems to have been relegated to the back burner anyway. I know their "numbers" are huge, but most people I have talked to under 30 don't actually engage on it anymore now that it is filled with their parents and grandparents.

I don't know about twitter as my only interaction with it is when some news based organization or blog cites some tweeterer as a news source or reason for a story.
Posted by: ajmojo at November 16, 2016 11:32 AM (1H9ox)
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On my last project, a lot of under 40's were saying they were off Facebook. I asked them, "If I'm off, and you're off, how is FB reporting blowout numbers every quarter? Is it all international growth?"

2 months later, it hit that FB has been faking its numbers and overcharging advertisers.

If you ask me, there's a hell of a lot more to come with THAT scandal (that could be easily prosecuted as securities fraud under a Trump presidency).

FB is just trying to throw out stray voltage, and Zuckerberg should be facing the same kind of punishment Ken Lay was.

Posted by: Oschisms at November 16, 2016 11:42 AM (ZsN9X)

137 long past time for a rightwing social media platform/crowdfunding platform.

the "bigger" bloggers on the right might want to think about an alliance...and take the PJ site as an example of what NOT to do.

and get Dennis the Peasant to be the money guy, if he will still talk to anybody

Posted by: Grad School Fool at November 16, 2016 11:43 AM (swEzU)

138 From the always dependable Washington Post -

An article that Lawrence Samuel would never have written had the
roles been reversed and Hillary had won the EC but lost the popular vote
- "States are a relic of the past. It's time to get rid of them."

Posted by: dissent555 at November 16, 2016 11:23 AM

Not surprising. These progs hate the concept of the nation-state. Why wouldn't they hate any smaller subdivision that has policies they don't agree with?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 16, 2016 11:43 AM (kDUMP)

139 As much as I love our victory, it looks exagerrated because of the Electoral College. A bad gaffe or video from Trump in the final days could have easily handed it to Hillary.

Gaffes didn't seem to hurt him much if at all but if the Clinton team had been able to hang on to their big video tape with locker room talk a bit longer as they planned, release it the last week for example, yeah Trump would have lost.

But God intervened, and Hillary collapsed on live video for the world to see, and they panicked, they had to grab the voters again. So they popped their October Surprise too early. Then they had nothing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 16, 2016 11:43 AM (39g3+)

140 I'm really starting to like the idea of the FEC regulating social media with things like the Fairness Doctrine.

Posted by: Maritime at November 16, 2016 11:43 AM (dtf5I)

141 >>There's no Palinizing Trump. Sarah Palin felt it necessary to accommodate the media. Donald Trump just doesn't fucking care.

Of course he cares. He used over a billion dollars of free media to win the nomination. Trump made zillions from being a media and TV star.

Trump just knows how to use the media to his advantage.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 16, 2016 11:43 AM (/tuJf)

142 CNN - "Pelosi's future may be shaky.."

So, its Parkinson's?

Posted by: IP at November 16, 2016 11:43 AM (aPd7l)

143 I recently upgraded to a new computer with Windows 10 , etc. Bing is the standard browser and every time I open a new window, up pops this half page with headlines, story captions, etc.

It's a page filled with clickbait lies, IMO. Not sure whose "newsource" this is, I haven't bothered to check it, but it is just like the old Yahoo news headlines that are filled with not just fake stories, but out and out lies.

So far today, the catchiest one is a photo of Melania with the caption," Trump to use office to sell products."

Uh huh.

Posted by: Jen at November 16, 2016 11:43 AM (Q3CCX)

144 Breitbart.com is already planning a lawsuit against media companies that called it a white-supremacist site.

Trump and Trump-people don't back down.

Posted by: blaster at November 16, 2016 11:43 AM (tewYv)

145 But in your heart, you know the intent is to muzzle you, you conservative swine. After all, who is more likely to report your political views as "hateful conduct" than the SJW neo-Victorian purity brigades? Nobody, that's who.

Plus, they'll be paid to do this.

Paid rats.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 16, 2016 11:43 AM (qCMvj)

146 I don't do Twitter, but if you do, switch to Gab. It's been specifically designed as a right-wing alternative to Twitter; that is, lots of emphasis on free expression, active antipathy toward "policing" of any kind.

Posted by: T at November 16, 2016 11:22 AM (IKdzI)

I'd love to see Teh Donald do that. Really jam the knife into their chests.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 16, 2016 11:43 AM (X6fMO)

147 Yes, but Hillary will never be president.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 16, 2016 11:43 AM (kTF2Z)

148 Ace said it best. The media is nothing but The Democratic Party Entertainment Division.

But you know, they "want you back". Mostly because they opened their kimono so much the last election, we are all scarred for life. Oh yeah and that pesky little issue of making a profit.

They were all counting on spending the next four years fellating their god queen. Now they are seeing the much clearer path to irrelevance. Now thAt. Ivory is there to beat us into submission That includes the social media den's of anarchy and controlled speech.

Good luck with that. Today at a meeting my company had a discussion about how their social media presence may be hurting the brand. I'm rooting for grotesque injuries.

"The time for honoring yourself will soon be at an end".

Posted by: Marcus T at November 16, 2016 11:43 AM (oqH1D)

149 That's their problem, not a reason for me to support their slavery and idiocy with my cash and (more importantly) time.
Posted by: DocJ at November 16, 2016 11:34 AM (NYS7S)

This is a beautiful thing.

These Masters of the Lefty Universe, they're not quick studies.

So you blockade and embargo all sources of rightward leaning information in support of your agenda. Then without warning,
appears: wikileaks.

Truth has a life and a consciousness of its own. It can not be suppressed and it will not be denied.

Posted by: kallisto at November 16, 2016 11:44 AM (jkmtt)

150 76
I just keep working on influencing actual people in actual real time in my actual world.

At least two of my neighbors are now reliable conservative votes, even though they were "raised democrat".

===

That's because the 'real world' *IS* Conservative.

IE, by definiton, "conservatism" is an attempt to keep what works.
"Liberalism". . .by definition. . .is an attempt to change things.

Posted by: looking closely at November 16, 2016 11:44 AM (ji45d)

151 Facebook is for middle-aged women and businesses. That's about it.

Posted by: joncelli, High-Functioning Aspie at November 16, 2016 11:44 AM (RD7QR)

152 It was right wing websites that reported that Hillary's health was poor, we were told that's crazy talk.

Don't read read those WikiLeaks until we the media do because it's Illegal.

Clinton Foundation

You can keep your Dr

Your premiums won't rise

I could go on.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at November 16, 2016 11:44 AM (dKiJG)

153 One of the companies (Google?) is cancelling their "ethnic affinity" program as a result.

That was only supposed to be used by Democrats, dammit!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 16, 2016 11:44 AM (39g3+)

154 116 /On CNN right now: "Hillary knew she was going to lose the election. Had no plans for a presidential transition."/

It's called "covering your ass."

Like when you're in high school and the boy you want to take you to the dance asks someone else and you say "I really don't like him that much anyway."

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at November 16, 2016 11:45 AM (u0lmX)

155 I assume primal screams for presidential assassinations are still good?

Posted by: melodicmetal at November 16, 2016 11:45 AM (GZSAO)

156 21 OT: I take this with an enormous grain of salt because it sounds too good to be true, but at the very least it's entertaining to consider.

http://tinyurl.com/hkv8txz
Posted by: Sausage McMuffin at November 16, 2016 11:25 AM (T9DQN)

This sounds perfectly consistent with multiple past reports of her angry and violent behavior. Numerous insiders have described episodes like this, pretty much ever since Slick was governor of Arkansas.

Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 16, 2016 11:45 AM (0mRoj)

157 MSM is prepping the battlespace for the SC and cabinet nomination fights.

As in "they are all Nazis!!"

Posted by: mrp at November 16, 2016 11:45 AM (JBggj)

158 I honestly think the biggest "online" boost to Donald Trump's campaign was the Reddit subforum "The_Donald"

Posted by: Maritime at November 16, 2016 11:45 AM (dtf5I)

159 >>Fake News like The Daily Show?

Fake News was *good* when it helped Obama.

Posted by: V the K at November 16, 2016 11:45 AM (O7MnT)

160
An article that Lawrence Samuel would never have written had the roles been reversed and Hillary had won the EC but lost the popular vote - "States are a relic of the past. It's time to get rid of them."

Posted by: dissent555 at November 16, 2016 11:23 AM (VFhMt)

Always said that somewhere there was someone saying that states were just administrative extensions of Washington DC. And it was so.

The same people who say that the country has grown too complex for us retarded proles to grasp are always the same ones advocating more central control.

Posted by: Kodos the Executioner at November 16, 2016 11:45 AM (BWL+E)

161 BREAKING: Sen. Chuck "The Schmuck" Schumer has been elected Senate Minority leader in a closed-door meeting with Senate Democrats

Posted by: Jack Reacher at November 16, 2016 11:45 AM (e8kgV)

162 This you have to see, Iggy Azalea on the red carpet, shirtless.

Fox News, your trusted source for real news, real time.

Posted by: Khat Man Chu at November 16, 2016 11:46 AM (s/vC3)

163 When it comes to special snowflakes, Milo said it best:

"I don't give a F--K about your feelings."

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - Takin' My Time on my Ride at November 16, 2016 11:46 AM (WlGX+)

164 Seems like the type of thing that can be prettily easily gamed. I mean, now that I know twitter will be censoring any sites that get reported as "fake news" there's a whole slew of left leaning sites that conservatives could focus on to work on taking down. They've declared war, but have also chosen to publish their nuclear codes. Seems like it would be unsportsman like not to use them.

Posted by: Dr. Mr. Badman at November 16, 2016 11:47 AM (cfjq1)

165 I read that Michelle Obama is starting to sympathize with the immigration control side of things, having lost her job to an immigrant.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 16, 2016 11:47 AM (39g3+)

166 14 From the always dependable Washington Post -

"States are a relic of the past. It's time to get rid of them."
Posted by: dissent555 at November 16, 2016 11:23 AM (VFhMt)

It sounded better in the original German: "Ein Volk. Ein Reich. Ein Fuehrer."

Posted by: rickl the deplorable at November 16, 2016 11:47 AM (zoehZ)

167 142 CNN - "Pelosi's future may be shaky.."

So, its Parkinson's?

Posted by: IP at November 16, 2016 11:43 AM (aPd7l)

Botox poisoning.

Posted by: joncelli, High-Functioning Aspie at November 16, 2016 11:47 AM (RD7QR)

168 >."States are a relic of the past. It's time to get rid of them."

So, the WashPost wants to continue Obama's march the federalize everything?
Shocka!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 16, 2016 11:47 AM (NOIQH)

169 140
I'm really starting to like the idea of the FEC regulating social media with things like the Fairness Doctrine.

Posted by: Maritime at November 16, 2016 11:43 AM (dtf5I)

I don't like the Idea of the Government getting involved but what is the recourse.
Trust Busting, break up some of those media empires would be a nice start.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at November 16, 2016 11:48 AM (dKiJG)

170 84 On CNN right now: "Hillary knew she was going to lose the election. Had no plans for a presidential transition."

Double BS... She already had Her transition team and many cabinet picks chosen... Now they are trying to pretend She knew She was gonna lose?

Posted by: deplorable donna at November 16, 2016 11:35 AM (O2RFr)

I remember the MFM talking about her cabinet picks about a week before the election because they were so certain of her winning

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 16, 2016 11:48 AM (493sH)

171 So Zuckerberg wants a Border Wall around his Facebook? See, we share similar desires.

Posted by: Puddin Head at November 16, 2016 11:48 AM (vV/gB)

172 "154 116 /On CNN right now: "Hillary knew she was going to lose the election. Had no plans for a presidential transition."

I can tell you without details that is patently false. We were already working with them. In fact they were articulating the ways they were going to beat us the next four years.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 16, 2016 11:48 AM (oqH1D)

173 I have no problem with "fake news" because, frankly, I assume it is all "fake news."

Posted by: Jack Reacher at November 16, 2016 11:48 AM (e8kgV)

174 OT

Officer charged with murder in Philandro Castile case.

Saint Anthony MN

Posted by: rd at November 16, 2016 11:48 AM (Rtl0g)

175 "States are a relic of the past. It's time to get rid of them."

They can be replaced by Districts.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at November 16, 2016 11:48 AM (QQ+il)

176 I'm actually glad they're doing this now. Plenty of time for them to go out of business before the next election.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 16, 2016 11:48 AM (kTF2Z)

177 /On CNN right now: "Hillary knew she was going to lose the election. Had no plans for a presidential transition."/
===

Yeah, she just spent the last 18 months of her life campaigning for a job she didn't want, and had no expectation of getting.

Posted by: looking closely at November 16, 2016 11:49 AM (ji45d)

178 Yes, but Hillary will never be president.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at November 16, 2016 11:43 AM (kTF2Z)

Nor will Bill be The First Rapey.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 16, 2016 11:49 AM (qCMvj)

179 Fox News is fast becoming the Megan Kelly Network. Time for a new major network - BNC - Breitbart News Channel

Posted by: runner at November 16, 2016 11:49 AM (c6/9Q)

180 Doesn't matter how hard they squeeze the soap, new fora will crop up to replace them.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at November 16, 2016 11:49 AM (mN+tK)

181 >>They can be replaced by Districts.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 16, 2016 11:49 AM (NOIQH)

182

Conservative snark will go right over their heads too.

So, even a /snark tag on a tweet probably won't help you.

Because you are not Borg.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 16, 2016 11:50 AM (qCMvj)

183 As an aside but also VERY important, that last entry about the NYT "Setting the agenda for the country" (in one of their mahogany rooms I presume) was down right scary. Never before have I really felt the gears of national destruction turn as heavily as the latest Okeefe videos. How the MFM has managed to go dark on those stories is beyond my comprehension.

Meanwhile they accuse US of the horrible things that they ACTUALLY do.

Please President Trump...

Ram it up these fuckers asses. Sideways

Posted by: melodicmetal at November 16, 2016 11:50 AM (GZSAO)

184 I'm really starting to like the idea of the FEC regulating social media with things like the Fairness Doctrine.

Posted by: Maritime at November 16, 2016 11:43 AM (dtf5I)

I don't like the Idea of the Government getting involved but what is the recourse.
Trust Busting, break up some of those media empires would be a nice start.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

If we're going to have campaign finance laws and not allow "in kind" contributions, I think we can start regulating these "networks" like FaceBook that have decided to just be extensions of the Democrat Party. Especially when they start playing favorites.

Posted by: Maritime at November 16, 2016 11:50 AM (dtf5I)

185 168 >."States are a relic of the past. It's time to get rid of them."

The WaPo and Hillary and Obama and the EU think countries are a relic of the past and it's time to get rid of them.

Erase those borders!

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at November 16, 2016 11:50 AM (u0lmX)

186 "States are a relic of the past. It's time to get rid of them."

They can be replaced by Districts.

LA is now far West Texas.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 16, 2016 11:50 AM (8N2JI)

187 Lets face it, the Democrats haven't been this annoyed since the last time we freed their slaves.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 16, 2016 11:50 AM (0tfLf)

188 162 This you have to see, Iggy Azalea on the red carpet, shirtless.

Fox News, your trusted source for real news, real time.

Posted by: Khat Man Chu at November 16, 2016 11:46 AM (s/vC3)

WTF? Botox job gone wrong?

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at November 16, 2016 11:50 AM (/D5Lf)

189 "States are a relic of the past. It's time to get rid of them."

---------------

As I said yesterday, I'd be happy if Texas elevated itself backup to nation status.

Posted by: SH at November 16, 2016 11:51 AM (gmeXX)

190 I was at a Trump victory party on Sunday in Waukesha county. The (admittedly older) crowd did not know who or what Brietbart was. They had never heard of Milo. They don't tweet. They FB, but mainly to show off pics of the grandkids.
...
There are two types of LIVs today. There is the classic LIV...the person who can barely name the current VP or who thinks Brian Williams is a pillar of the community.
And there is the modern version. The Low-Socialmediainfo-voter. As shocking as it is to some, there are a lot of people that don't engage in any social media. And if they do, it is not to decide their world views, but to...get this...socialize with their friends.
This kind of LSMIV doesn't give a crap about Alt-Right, or Twitter bans, or Facebook "news" feeds. They live in the real world. And the real world under the latest brigade of SJWs running the country into the ground has gotten weird and crappy.

Posted by: ajmojo at November 16, 2016 11:51 AM (1H9ox)

191 If Trump selects Kobach, pretty soon the rest of America will hate him as much as we do in Kansas.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 16, 2016 11:51 AM (hqZPQ)

192 On CNN right now: "Hillary knew she was going to lose the election. Had no plans for a presidential transition."/

It would have been nice to have just dropped out at that time. Why go through all that time and money.
Not to mention her dumb ass TV commercials

Posted by: Bruce at November 16, 2016 11:52 AM (8ikIW)

193 The NYT will have to be banned. Remember that obviously fake story it planted in 08 about McCain having an affair with a staffer/consultant?

Posted by: McNease at November 16, 2016 11:52 AM (X+q7f)

194 They must be referring to all the poll results that predicted a Hillary win.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 16, 2016 11:52 AM (1ISKN)

195 I'm pretty sure that on at least one of Pelosi's botox treatments, the doctor placed the needles too deep, and actually injected her brain.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at November 16, 2016 11:53 AM (7ZVPa)

196 I read that Michelle Obama is starting to sympathize with the
immigration control side of things, having lost her job to an immigrant.

I lol'd. Before it was banned.
https://is.gd/BQhh28

Posted by: HR traegt keine Hose at November 16, 2016 11:53 AM (ea2JG)

197 I don't know why those kids were skipping school over Trump's victory. All this means for them is no more meddling first lady trying to feed them crap for lunch.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 16, 2016 11:53 AM (39g3+)

198 The Fox News site is more than balanced. I would say it even leans Right but I think it's more that it leans America First. The Todd Starnes reports are top notch.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at November 16, 2016 11:53 AM (QGpIE)

199 Can't we just make Obama President for Life and end this shit once and for all?

Posted by: tu3031 at November 16, 2016 11:53 AM (qJhUV)

200 This stuff about Hillary "knowing" reminds me of my mom when she watches a mystery and at the end the killer is revealed.

"I KNEEEEEWWWWW IT!!!"

Posted by: Mega at November 16, 2016 11:53 AM (cSSD8)

201 Here is the list of 'fake news' sites

http://tinyurl.com/htcdh8r

Breitbart, Twitchy, The Blaze, and on and on

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at November 16, 2016 11:54 AM (/D5Lf)

202 Semi-related: I recently watched The Sorrow and the Pity, a documentary about the French embracing the fascism of Petain's Vichy government after the Nazi defeat of the Third Republic in 1940. It an amazing look at the corrosive power of fear of the government.

I imagine that a Beast of Chappaqua supporter would interpret that movie as a cautionary tale of a Trump administration. I, of course, saw it as contemporary America under Obozo and what would have been under the Beast.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at November 16, 2016 11:54 AM (Nwg0u)

203 But "Trump" is the Nazi.

Right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 16, 2016 11:54 AM (TA9CI)

204 along this same vein, about withholding rights, and their fears now : remember when they were openly writing articles on how climate deniers and that they should be punished or imprisoned?

in fact how Obama openly said to 'punish your enemies?'

and openly how maybe people should be sent to camps?

this is why they believe Trump will do this, because They advocate for that exact response to differences of opinions and thought.

Posted by: willow at November 16, 2016 11:54 AM (R7cwD)

205 Vashta Narada My free speech is violence, while their violence is free speech.

Awesome.

Posted by: Squeakywheel at November 16, 2016 11:54 AM (sq4tU)

206 91 If Trump selects Kobach, pretty soon the rest of America will hate him as much as we do in Kansas.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 16, 2016 11:51 AM (hqZPQ)

Why was he hated in Kansas?

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at November 16, 2016 11:54 AM (jwosH)

207 I let Twitter work for me. It auto-tweets my blog posts. I rarely do anything else there since I switched to Gab.

Twitter has become a platform for lefties only, and since cons are not welcome there, I went elsewhere.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 16, 2016 11:54 AM (Agn5J)

208 Lauren Samuel?

I really liked him in The Matrix and Pulp Fiction.

Posted by: Chi - #FreeCthulhu at November 16, 2016 11:55 AM (B5ySB)

209 Geez, you'd think these Liberals are totalitarians they way they talk.

Posted by: Meremortal, Bigly Matters at November 16, 2016 11:55 AM (3myMJ)

210 remember Breindon Eich?

Posted by: willow at November 16, 2016 11:55 AM (R7cwD)

211 Here is the list of 'fake news' sites

I'm amused our betters can't even spell "sports."

Posted by: HR traegt keine Hose at November 16, 2016 11:55 AM (ea2JG)

212 156 21 OT: I take this with an enormous grain of salt because it sounds too good to be true, but at the very least it's entertaining to consider.

http://tinyurl.com/hkv8txz
Posted by: Sausage McMuffin at November 16, 2016 11:25 AM (T9DQN)

This sounds perfectly consistent with multiple past reports of her angry and violent behavior. Numerous insiders have described episodes like this, pretty much ever since Slick was governor of Arkansas.
Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 16, 2016 11:45 AM (0mRoj)

Video confirms.
Except there is no video confirming it.
I hate these click baity BS artists.

Posted by: rd at November 16, 2016 11:56 AM (Rtl0g)

213 I haven't talked a lot since the election anyway. Pointing and laughing, yes. But not talking.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 16, 2016 11:56 AM (oqH1D)

214 Palin didn't have the benefit of a fully armed and operational Breitbart/conservative online media response force.

It has been 8 years since 2008, and we didn't have anywhere near the online defense force then as we do now.

Our twitter forces today alone dwarf our entire defense apparatus from 2008.

This is why Trump was able to win. Our side just wasn't ready for digital combat in 2008.

Posted by: Duncan Macleod, The Highlander at November 16, 2016 11:56 AM (NAv1Q)

215 The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.

Did the left learn nothing from Star Wars?

Posted by: JackStraw at November 16, 2016 11:57 AM (/tuJf)

216 there had been a small blip a few days ago that wall street traders were saying nanan na goodbye to Obama. was that true?

Posted by: willow at November 16, 2016 11:57 AM (R7cwD)

217 this is why they believe Trump will do this, because They advocate for that exact response to differences of opinions and thought.

Right, most of their fears are based upon what they'd do, were they in power.

Let's not fall into that trap, with talk about bringing back the "fairness doctrine" or using the IRS against enemies.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 16, 2016 11:57 AM (39g3+)

218 211 Here is the list of 'fake news' sites

I'm amused our betters can't even spell "sports."

Posted by: HR traegt keine Hose at November 16, 2016 11:55 AM (ea2JG)

Sorry. Correction to that. This list was compiled by a professor in Mass.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at November 16, 2016 11:57 AM (/D5Lf)

219 Morning my fellow corgi babies.

Wearing a safety pin as a form of protest too blase for you? Do the next cool thing, donate to Planned Parenthood in Mike Pence's name. Sigh, these people.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/z7qk5rk

"Donate to Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, the Trevor Project, or any charity, in Mike Pence's name! Just donate as a nice gift to him--you get the tax write-off, he gets a thank you note. I want him to have a lot of thank you notes over the Christmas season.
Office of Governor Mike Pence
State House
Room 206
Indianapolis, IN 46204-2797"

Posted by: LizLem at November 16, 2016 11:58 AM (hvf9s)

220 Moron Pundit, if it makes you feel better, I called pretty much this entire year correctly in the face of being called things like delusional and moronic.

.The Left knows how dangerous Trump is to their cause which is why they dropped all pretense and went "all in".

Have some optimism. This is the time for it!!!!!!

Posted by: Mega at November 16, 2016 11:58 AM (cSSD8)

221 "This you have to see, Iggy Azalea on the red carpet, shirtless."

Meh. The tattoo ruins it, and I've seen on-the-job strippers who looked more classy.

Posted by: Robert Crawford at November 16, 2016 11:58 AM (oZ8x7)

222 When there's one Christian remaining, and he's living in an ice cave on the far side of Pluto, I have a gay, pagan, lefty friend who will still be unable to sleep at night... just knowing that Christian is out there not respecting him.

No, they do not want us to talk amongst ourselves. They do not want us to exist.

This is why Satan came into Eden. He just couldn't stand that there was simple happiness and satisfaction somewhere.

Posted by: RKae at November 16, 2016 11:58 AM (ryfZQ)

223 And what exactly, pray tell, is stopping some enterprising conservative from creating a site that allows conservative dialogue? Why should we continue to rely upon the pasty-faced salamanders of Silicon Valley?

Posted by: jbspry at November 16, 2016 11:58 AM (mCOPv)

224 So, it's official.

Social media now means political conformity enforcement.

Got it.

Posted by: Love Gun (post-revolution Love hertz) at November 16, 2016 11:59 AM (no0Da)

225 Fake news:

Hillary's desire to implement a "no fly zone" over Syria and shoot down Russian planes will lead to war with Russia.

Not fake news:

Trump will ban IUDs and ship all gay Muslim women to Mexico.

Do I have that right?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 16, 2016 11:59 AM (X7E8f)

226 The difference btwn McCain and GWB and Romney and Trump is that Trump truly loathes the media and only uses them to his advantage. Dumbass McCain really thought the media were his friends and GWB used to give out cute little nicknames to members of he press. They believed in this foolish idea that they could have a cordial, professional relationship with them. The media loved the ratings he was pulling and couldn't not cover him only to watch him mock and ridicule them at his rallies. That was really effective at marginalizing them and their influence.

Last night he went out to dinner with his family and didn't tell his press pool. They found out about by reading where he was on Twitter. They all ran over to the restaurant and weren't allowed in. Trump only let local media inside and the other reporters were forced to stand outside by the dumpster where they tweeted how poorly they were being treated . Hahahaha. The first question some reporter that got inside was "Mr President Elect, why didn't you tell the press pool that you were going out and leave us behind ?" That story is at gateway.

Posted by: L, Elle at November 16, 2016 11:59 AM (6IPEM)

227 "Donate to Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, the Trevor Project, or any charity, in Mike Pence's name! Just donate as a nice gift to him--you get the tax write-off, he gets a thank you note. I want him to have a lot of thank you notes over the Christmas season.
Office of Governor Mike Pence
State House
Room 206
Indianapolis, IN 46204-2797

Can Pence claim these donations as a tax deduction?

Posted by: Roy at November 16, 2016 11:59 AM (VndSC)

228 The people looking for a "Nazi under every bed" forgot to look in the mirror.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 16, 2016 11:59 AM (oqH1D)

229 in fact how Obama openly said to 'punish your enemies?'

and openly how maybe people should be sent to camps?

this is why they believe Trump will do this, because They advocate for that exact response to differences of opinions and thought.

As an esteemed 'ron said,
"We think they're wrong. They want us dead".

Posted by: rickb223 at November 16, 2016 12:00 PM (8N2JI)

230 Info Wars is an interesting "Fake News" selection given that they are basically a news aggregator.

Posted by: Ernie McCracken at November 16, 2016 12:00 PM (OxWMl)

231 90 In before noon!

For Trump Day, couch potato reviews TWD, Good Behavior & True Memoirs

Link in nic
Posted by: Deplorable Votermom @vm on Gab at November 16, 2016 11:34 AM (Om16U)

Read your TWD blurb. I watched the episode. Negan's a leftist. Takes your guns so you can't resist him and his gang of goons. Where have we seen this before?

Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 16, 2016 12:00 PM (0mRoj)

232 214 Palin didn't have the benefit of a fully armed and operational Breitbart/conservative online media response force."

While true, I think the bigger reason was that Obama was presented as a glamorous superhero who would heal the country racially (yeah right!), and McCain was a completely unexciting RINO. Also Dubya poisoned the well.

I don't think Twitter or Breitbart would have saved the GOP in 2008.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at November 16, 2016 12:00 PM (u0lmX)

233 Right, most of their fears are based upon what they'd do, were they in power.

Let's not fall into that trap, with talk about bringing back the "fairness doctrine" or using the IRS against enemies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I'm sure that strategy will be an effective way to get the Left to stop.

Unilateral surrender to show we're above that.

Posted by: Maritime at November 16, 2016 12:00 PM (dtf5I)

234

so awesome

Breitbart's Pollak, Defending Bannon, Calls Out NPR's 'Racist Programming'

Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large and In-House Counsel Joel B. Pollak appeared Wednesday morning on National Public Radio's Morning Edition with Steve Inskeep, and defended the company's Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon, while calling out NPR's "racist programming."

Bannon was recently named Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor by President-elect Donald Trump.

Presented with selective quotes from Breitbart articles and Bannon's past statements, Pollak challenged Inskeep to defend NPR's taxpayer-funded racial programming, including Code Switch, a series that focuses obsessively on race, and which called the results of the 2016 election "nostalgia for a whiter America."

NPR, fake news?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 16, 2016 12:00 PM (qCMvj)

235 226, Posted by: L, Elle at November 16, 2016 11:59 AM (6IPEM)

Oh good grief. He should send them a bunch of coloring books and crayons.

Posted by: IC at November 16, 2016 12:00 PM (a0IVu)

236 225 Fake news:

Hillary's desire to implement a "no fly zone" over Syria and shoot down Russian planes will lead to war with Russia.

Not fake news:

Trump will ban IUDs and ship all gay Muslim women to Mexico.

Do I have that right?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 16, 2016 11:59 AM (X7E8f)

So what do you call a gay Muslim Mexican?

Posted by: joncelli, High-Functioning Aspie at November 16, 2016 12:01 PM (RD7QR)

237 Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 16, 2016 11:45 AM (0mRoj)

Video confirms.
Except there is no video confirming it.
I hate these click baity BS artists.
Posted by: rd at November 16, 2016 11:56 AM (Rtl0g)

Well, video or not, it sounds perfectly consistent with her character and past behavior.

Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 16, 2016 12:01 PM (0mRoj)

238 Maybe they want to prevent conservatives from forming flash mobs...oh wait, it's the blmers do that.

Posted by: Ansel and Gretel at November 16, 2016 12:01 PM (uz/Pv)

239 NYT is fake news based on the "set up a narrative a year in advance and run it by commissars to see if its approved political speech" doctrine.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 16, 2016 12:02 PM (39g3+)

240 Unilateral surrender to show we're above that.

Posted by: Maritime at November 16, 2016 12:00 PM (dtf5I)

We are at war.

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at November 16, 2016 12:03 PM (QPdNE)

241 Read your TWD blurb. I watched the episode. Negan's a leftist. Takes your guns so you can't resist him and his gang of goons. Where have we seen this before?
Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 16, 2016 12:00 PM (0mRoj)

Negan is a total leftist.

Takes all your guns, most of your stuff as tax, and wants you to publicly kiss his ass.

Posted by: Deplorable Votermom @vm on Gab at November 16, 2016 12:03 PM (Om16U)

242 Oh good grief. He should send them a bunch of coloring books and crayons.
Posted by: IC at November 16, 2016 12:00 PM (a0IVu)
*****
No kidding. I forgot to mention that he got a standing ovation by the crowd at the restaurant which only made the press even more butthurt

Posted by: L, Elle at November 16, 2016 12:03 PM (6IPEM)

243 Something Barry said that Trump hasn't said:

"They bring a knife to a fight, we bring a gun."

Now, imagine those words coming out of Trump's mouth.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 16, 2016 12:03 PM (PY9jH)

244 Sorry in advance.

Please someone cunt punch this fucking piece of shit.

http://tinyurl.com/zeogmaj

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A woman live-streamed herself harassing police officers at an Iowa cafe on Nov. 6th, just days after two Des Moines officers were shot and killed while sitting in their squad cars.

In the video, the woman later identified as Melyssa Jo Kelly is standing in Brewhemia cafe and mentions the black band around the officer's badge. A black band around a badge signifies mourning for officers who have lost a fellow officer in the line of duty.

*link goes to video

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at November 16, 2016 12:03 PM (/D5Lf)

245 So what do you call a gay Muslim Mexican?
Posted by: joncelli, High-Functioning Aspie at November 16, 2016 12:01 PM (RD7QR)

There's a punchline here somewhere but I can't quite piece it together.

Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 16, 2016 12:04 PM (0mRoj)

246 Cut the lines of communication. Isolate people so they annot inform each other of what is going on. You will then be dependent upon official sources of news. If anything serious happens, you will be kept in the dark until it is too late.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 16, 2016 12:04 PM (uz/Pv)

247 Christopher R Taylor (#239)

Thread winnuh!

Posted by: Ernie McCracken at November 16, 2016 12:04 PM (OxWMl)

248 215 The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.

Did the left learn nothing from Star Wars?
Posted by: JackStraw at November 16, 2016 11:57 AM (/tuJf)

I have the tightest grip.

Posted by: Hope Solo at November 16, 2016 12:04 PM (nI61m)

249 Negan is a total leftist.

Takes all your guns, most of your stuff as tax, and wants you to publicly kiss his ass.
Posted by: Deplorable Votermom @vm on Gab at November 16, 2016 12:03 PM (Om16U)

and slavery

go out and get him unique and interesting "stuff"

or Lucille

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 16, 2016 12:04 PM (qCMvj)

250 And the horse they rode in on.

Posted by: SOMESASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at November 16, 2016 12:05 PM (nQHw/)

251 The difference btwn McCain and GWB and Romney and Trump is that Trump truly loathes the media and only uses them to his advantage.
...
True, ironic, and funny. Pre-election, the idea of Trump as President was laughed at because he was nothing but a celebrity. He was only in it for the press coverage and building his "brand".
Now he is a totalitarian that will destroy the media.

He has played these coastal bubble journo jackasses like a master. I still can't get enough of the video of Obama and Seth Myers roasting him and laughing at him...and Trump just sitting there stoically.
It reminds me of DeNiro at the bar in Goodfellas, dragging on his cigarette as he is ticking through the list of people laughing and joking around him that he is going to whack.

Posted by: ajmojo at November 16, 2016 12:05 PM (1H9ox)

252 Hopefully, the overt censorship of right-leaning speech on Twitter and Facebook will kill these two organizations quickly. I'm still pissed at Zuckerburg for personally helping Merkel quash dissent in Germany. Fuck him with the barbed cock of Satan, the sooner the better!

Yep, can't wait for Facebook and Twitter to both go the way of MySpace and Google Plus.

Posted by: Commissar M at November 16, 2016 12:05 PM (vcIHi)

253 Let's not fall into that trap, with talk about bringing back the "fairness doctrine" or using the IRS against enemies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I'm sure that strategy will be an effective way to get the Left to stop.

Unilateral surrender to show we're above that.

Posted by: Maritime

I want to see the left ended.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 16, 2016 12:05 PM (8N2JI)

254 >>"Donate to Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, the Trevor Project, or any
charity, in Mike Pence's name! Just donate as a nice gift to him--you
get the tax write-off, he gets a thank you note.

I think that's a great idea. They're spending *their own money* to support orgs they like. Maybe this will teach them that it's their job, not the government's, to bankroll their causes (I know, they won't).

So...can we defund PP now? They spent $35 million supporting Hillary's campaign - why do they need $500 million in govt. money????

Posted by: Lizzy at November 16, 2016 12:05 PM (NOIQH)

255 Have they called MI yet?

Posted by: deplorable donna at November 16, 2016 12:05 PM (O2RFr)

256 Ok, now they're starting to scare me. Maybe we should go back to carrier pigeons.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at November 16, 2016 12:06 PM (uz/Pv)

257 241 Read your TWD blurb. I watched the episode. Negan's a leftist. Takes your guns so you can't resist him and his gang of goons. Where have we seen this before?
Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 16, 2016 12:00 PM (0mRoj)

Negan is a total leftist.

Takes all your guns, most of your stuff as tax, and wants you to publicly kiss his ass.
Posted by: Deplorable Votermom @vm on Gab at November 16, 2016 12:03 PM (Om16U)

Indeed. I'm still annoyed that they didn't greet the Saviors with hot lead at the gates. I know they have to stretch out the full story arc, but come on. They're amassed at a single choke point in front of a walled, fortified position? It doesn't get any better than that.

Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 16, 2016 12:06 PM (0mRoj)

258 Please someone cunt punch this fucking piece of shit.

http://tinyurl.com/zeogmaj

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A woman live-streamed herself harassing police
officers at an Iowa cafe on Nov. 6th, just days after two Des Moines
officers were shot and killed while sitting in their squad cars.

In the video, the woman later identified as Melyssa Jo Kelly is
standing in Brewhemia cafe and mentions the black band around the
officer's badge. A black band around a badge signifies mourning for
officers who have lost a fellow officer in the line of duty.

OMG. Thank you, Lord, for BP meds. That video would have sent me into a full-blown stroke.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 16, 2016 12:06 PM (PY9jH)

259 So what do you call a gay Muslim Mexican?
....
Barack Jose Obama

Posted by: ajmojo at November 16, 2016 12:06 PM (1H9ox)

260 Have they called MI yet?

------------

There are a few Pontiacs pulling into the parking lot.

Posted by: SH at November 16, 2016 12:06 PM (gmeXX)

261
"this is why they believe Trump will do this, because They advocate for that exact response to differences of opinions and thought."

Good point; had never really quite thought of it that way.

When Obama was elected we joked about being sent to the camps, but it was purely a joke. I don't remember any fear. Now, our side has won. However, most of us dismiss these leftists as annoying idiots. I wish them no harm other than for them not to be shielded from the consequences of their beliefs and actions.

On the other hand, they loathe us. Many of them would literally dance on our graves if given the opportunity. So they assume the same of us. No wonder they're acting so scared.

Posted by: RM at November 16, 2016 12:06 PM (U3LtS)

262 I don't have a problem with NBA teams refusing to stay in Trump hotels. Hell let them say in a Motel Six in kinship with their poorer urban fan base, they have every right to choose where they spend their money.

After all *I* wont shop Target anymore just because they got rude with people warning that saying "trannies welcome to use the Ladies/Mens bathrooms" would lead to perverts saying they were trans-gender to get their jollies.

I *DO* have a problem with the boycotting of whole states but I'll respond by cutting those freaks out of life if they were in it to begin with.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 16, 2016 12:06 PM (Jen0I)

263 OT but Milo had me laughing this morning. 'If I get the Press Sec job, I will do briefings in drag'.

Lol..

Posted by: IC at November 16, 2016 12:07 PM (a0IVu)

264 Negan is a total leftist.

Takes all your guns, most of your stuff as tax, and wants you to publicly kiss his ass.
Posted by: Deplorable Votermom

I'm sure I sound like a tin foil hat guy, but I really do think the episode where he rounds up all of their guns was purposely aired AFTER the election and not before.

That show does have a big impact on the culture right now. And that narrative would have resonated a bit.

I do think guns were a big reason why the Rust Belt did what it did even though everyone thinks it was purely about trade policies.

Posted by: Maritime at November 16, 2016 12:07 PM (dtf5I)

265 Even Florida is laughing at Michigan now.

They don't even have the hanging chad as an excuse.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 16, 2016 12:07 PM (oqH1D)

266 259 So what do you call a gay Muslim Mexican?
....
Barack Jose Obama
Posted by: ajmojo at November 16, 2016 12:06 PM (1H9ox)

Not bad. Not bad at all.

Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 16, 2016 12:07 PM (0mRoj)

267 206 91 If Trump selects Kobach, pretty soon the rest of America will hate him as much as we do in Kansas.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at November 16, 2016 11:51 AM (hqZPQ)
________

Big Fat Meanie, please put your local newspaper down and don't ever pick it up again. You'll feel a lot better.

Posted by: Furious George at November 16, 2016 12:08 PM (77i7V)

268 OT but Milo had me laughing this morning. 'If I get the Press Sec job, I will do briefings in drag'.

Lol..

Posted by: IC at November 16, 2016 12:07 PM (a0IVu)

That would be totally awesome. "Make America FABULOUS Again."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 16, 2016 12:08 PM (PY9jH)

269 235 226, Posted by: L, Elle at November 16, 2016 11:59 AM (6IPEM)

Oh good grief. He should send them a bunch of coloring books and crayons.

Posted by: IC at November 16, 2016 12:00 PM (a0IVu)

There are several stories out there of Obama ditching his press pool.

We need a post of ridiculous reasons Trump ditched the press pool. Such as not wanting them to know he uses his salad fork to eat his steak.

Posted by: buzzion at November 16, 2016 12:08 PM (bMG0w)

270 Another thing of beauty to behold will be these shitheads who tried to defeat him with their lies and attacks be forced to call him "Mr. President."' You know it has to hurt having to call him Mr. President Elect."

Posted by: L, Elle at November 16, 2016 12:08 PM (6IPEM)

271 I don't know why everyone is so angry, I'm having a ball watching the left increasingly go insane.

Right now, CNN is saying that Trump must come out soon with his cabinet picks to prove something, something, something.

Winning. Duh?!

Posted by: JackStraw at November 16, 2016 12:08 PM (/tuJf)

272 We need a post of ridiculous reasons Trump ditched the press pool. Such as not wanting them to know he uses his salad fork to eat his steak.

Uses a caviar spoon to eat soup.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 16, 2016 12:09 PM (8N2JI)

273 We need a post of ridiculous reasons Trump ditched the press pool. Such as not wanting them to know he uses his salad fork to eat his steak.
Posted by: buzzion at November 16, 2016 12:08 PM (bMG0w)

Something only a short-fingered vulgarian would do.

Posted by: Insomniac - 1 in 94,609,000 at November 16, 2016 12:09 PM (0mRoj)

274 OMG. Thank you, Lord, for BP meds. That video would have sent me into a full-blown stroke.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 16, 2016 12:06 PM (PY9jH)

Apparently this 'thing' is a prominent 'protester'

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at November 16, 2016 12:09 PM (/D5Lf)

275

NOOD

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 16, 2016 12:10 PM (qCMvj)

276 >> I still can't get enough of the video of Obama and Seth Myers roasting
him and laughing at him...and Trump just sitting there stoically.

Yup. WashPost invited Trump as their guest so Meyers and Obama could mock him in person. That was the Obama way: striking out at opponents in an environment where they can't respond. He insulted the SCOTUS at SOTU, he invited Paul Ryan to sit in front row at some speech and then insulted him.

I will NOT miss Obama.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 16, 2016 12:10 PM (NOIQH)

277 And what exactly, pray tell, is stopping some enterprising conservative from creating a site that allows conservative dialogue? Why should we continue to rely upon the pasty-faced salamanders of Silicon Valley?
Posted by: jbspry at November 16, 2016 11:58 AM (mCOPv)

I saw the Pasty-Faced Salamanders open for Bite the Wax Tadpole at the Roxy in '87.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at November 16, 2016 12:11 PM (jwosH)

278 Right now, CNN is saying that Trump must come out soon with his cabinet picks to prove something, something, something.

Winning. Duh?!

Posted by: JackStraw at November 16, 2016 12:08 PM (/tuJf)

Bears repeating that Sir Golfsalot was months filling his cabinet. And then rarely met with them.

Oh, and I'm pretty sure Trump won't have a Safe Schools Czar. What's the name of the douche supporter of NAMBLA that served under Barry? And no commie Van Jones wannabes either.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 16, 2016 12:11 PM (PY9jH)

279 Posted by: Jane D'oh at November 16, 2016 12:11 PM (PY9jH)

Kevin Jennings

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at November 16, 2016 12:12 PM (/D5Lf)

280 I don't do Twitter, but if you do, switch to Gab. It's been specifically designed as a right-wing alternative to Twitter; that is, lots of emphasis on free expression, active antipathy toward "policing" of any kind.

Posted by: T at November 16, 2016 11:22 AM (IKdzI)

Couple of nights ago, one of the 'rons here was complaining about Gab because they "allowed racists and/or white supremacists to be heard". I suggested that, hey, that's sort of the point, and that the way to defeat such ideas is to ridicule or ignore them. But some people want to live in a cocoon.

And, no, I'm not on Gab, nor on Twatter, nor Assbook, because, giant time suck.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2016 12:12 PM (bY0uH)

281 I'm sure the lefties would consider Colin Flaherty's ( author of White Girl Bleed Alot and Don't Make The Black Kids Angry) You Tube Channel "fake news", where he comments on actual news stories and broadcasts passed over by The Big Media Propaganda Channels. Nothing faker than that, right?

Posted by: Bloody Well Right at November 16, 2016 12:13 PM (vTfk0)

282 Palin failed because she couldn't get Ace to support her.

Posted by: jwest at November 16, 2016 12:14 PM (Zs4uk)

283 See, we know how the news and the left work. They see this last election when many blacks didn't vote and a bunch voted for Trump. They blame that for the loss of Hillary.

Now, they can't go out and yell insults at blacks like they are white people, because that angers them and turns them away. The left depends on blacks as a totem of their virtue and every couple years for votes.

So their response? Yell racist! racist! racist! racist! racist! racist! for the next four years straight.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 16, 2016 12:14 PM (39g3+)

284 Christopher, I would hope we put in safe guards against those tactics used against any citizens by govt political apparatchiks. and their agencies.

Posted by: willow at November 16, 2016 12:17 PM (R7cwD)

285 "States are a relic of the past. It's time to get rid of them."

They can be replaced by Districts.

LA is now far West Texas.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 16, 2016 11:50 AM (8N2JI)

Most of New Hampshire south of Concord is simply North Massachusetts.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 16, 2016 12:28 PM (X6fMO)

286 "States are a relic of the past. It's time to get rid of them."

They can be replaced by Districts.

I think the correct term would be "fief", you lowly serf.

Posted by: db at November 16, 2016 12:30 PM (v3w9f)

287 Bill Clinton while he was president once said he wanted to punch NYT reporter William Safire in the mouth.

I dont remember any wailing and crying for "safe spaces". Fuck the Left with a flaming pineapple. Trump has taught us. Always attack, never defend, never retreat.

Posted by: Mega at November 16, 2016 12:31 PM (cSSD8)

288 Time to turn Facebook and Twitter into mySpace?

Posted by: John B at November 16, 2016 12:32 PM (xaBAO)

289 I recently ~~upgraded~~ downgraded to a new computer with Windows 10 , etc. Bing is the standard browser and every time I open a new window, up pops this half page with headlines, story captions, etc.

It's a page filled with clickbait lies, IMO. Not sure whose "newsource" this is, I haven't bothered to check it, but it is just like the old Yahoo news headlines that are filled with not just fake stories, but out and out lies.

So far today, the catchiest one is a photo of Melania with the caption," Trump to use office to sell products."

Uh huh.

Posted by: Jen at November 16, 2016 11:43 AM (Q3CCX)

There. Fixed it for you!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 16, 2016 12:33 PM (bY0uH)

290 I'll bet dozens of RINO lilylivers are begging Trump to dump Bannon. I hope he tells them to go f themselves.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at November 16, 2016 12:33 PM (u0lmX)

291 Trump won Independents 52%-36% against Hillary Clinton.
In 2012, Obama won Independents 46% to 41% against Mitt Romney.
Zogby polling.

Posted by: Evilpens at November 16, 2016 12:35 PM (y3aQB)

292
That guy from Breitbart was freaking awesome on NPR. He didn't take any shit from the leftist ass wipe interviewing him......

Trump and his people are on to something here.....fight back EVERY time against media bullsh*t.

Posted by: Some Guy in Wisconsin at November 16, 2016 12:40 PM (ml2A6)

293 232, Oh I agree with that. SP wouldn't have been as damaged by the media though, that was my only point.

Posted by: Duncan Macleod, The Highlander at November 16, 2016 12:50 PM (NAv1Q)

294 Yeah Ace, just switch to Gab. You know you'll be shadowbanned/banned on Twitter anyway soon.

https://gab.ai

Posted by: Jason M at November 16, 2016 12:53 PM (x2TzY)

295 Your eyeballs are the source of twitter's and facebook's revenue. Your posts are their content. Your compensation is trite and shallow interaction.

If they just stayed out of the way for the most part, their platforms would be mostly innocuous time wasters. But they can't help themselves, so it turns into something insidious.

As soon as they decided that their users needed be manipulated by their chosen narrative it's time to sever all ties.

Posted by: Sjg at November 16, 2016 01:33 PM (gDSJf)

296 "Fake News" sounds like the new-age term for "Censorship."

Posted by: K-E at November 16, 2016 01:44 PM (J23oQ)

297 Hey guys and gals, stop it with the caveats about their being trolls and racists on our side before going on to to destroy the dems.

That is a given. BUT, compared to the lefties, It. Just. Aint. So.

They are so racist, they can't even see it.

Posted by: Natrium at November 16, 2016 03:27 PM (6xvrB)

298 Mark Zuckerberg is a troll.

Posted by: katya the designated driver at November 16, 2016 03:44 PM (BHMfA)

299 Ace (and whoever else):

Gab is a alternative to Twitter that does not censor speech

https://gab.ai/

Posted by: shadowofashade at November 16, 2016 04:49 PM (3Vo2B)

300 "They're mad that we're allowed to talk."

No, they are just mad, in the non-PC clinical sense.

Posted by: Bruce at November 16, 2016 05:07 PM (nIUnC)

301 There was some commentator talking about this on CNBC yesterday morning around 9:30 Central Time. Such a condescending, patronizing weenie. His whole argument was that people like us can't decide for ourselves what is true and what isn't, and only betters like him should be allowed to control what trogs like use see.

So does this mean National Enquirer is next? Because they've been publishing fake news as long as I have been alive. Although the story about Hillary being an alien might not be fake...

Posted by: the other coyote at November 16, 2016 05:10 PM (yK44T)

302 Longtime lurker, first time poster. Had almost 5000 Twitter followers, and I quit today. Also am no longer using Google (and I recommend everyone change their search engine - being a Microsoft employee, I recommend Bing...) and I'm done with all social media. They don't want free speech? Fine. They lose my attention, I gain back my time, and eventually their behavior will bite them back when their bubble shrinks to a very unprofitable one.

Posted by: Joseph Dickerson at November 16, 2016 05:16 PM (LDV7V)

303 FB is full of fake news. My liberal friends post links to fake news sites all the time.

Some honest lefty made a list of the bad sites, and then I noticed these sites indeed being used by my friends.

bipartisan report was one of them.

Posted by: Harun at November 16, 2016 06:01 PM (UBBWX)

304 Dump the bird, go to Gab.ai

Posted by: DJ Kozerow at November 17, 2016 09:53 AM (WFCUh)

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