Matt Taibbi: The Media Has Completely Suppressed Proof That Democrats Constantly Asked Twitter to Ban Accounts on Grounds as Slender as "Mentioned Immigration."

He calls this latest Twitter files "Comic Interlude: A Media Experiment."

I'm not laughing.

Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
Feb 18
TWITTER FILES #16
Comic Interlude: A Media Experiment
2. The #TwitterFiles have revealed a lot: thousands of moderation requests from every corner of government, Feds mistaking both conservatives and leftists for fictional Russians, even Twitter deciding on paper to cede moderation authority to the "U.S. intelligence community"...
3. These and at least a dozen other newsworthy revelations produced exactly zilch in mainstream news coverage in the last two months...

5. Purely to show the bankruptcy of media in this area, let’s introduce a pair of loud new data points, and see if any press figures at all cover either of them.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 19, 2023

7. Here’s Maine Senator Angus King writing to Twitter to call a slew of accounts “suspicious” for reasons like:

“Rand Paul visit excitement”
“Bot (averages 20 tweets a day)”
Being followed by rival Eric Brakey
Or, my personal favorite: “Mentions immigration.” pic.twitter.com/uoJRlfrlOp
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 19, 2023

8. King's office declined comment. If Dick Nixon sniffed glue, this is what his enemies list might have looked like.

A "Republican" -- allegedly -- State Department official also asked Twitter to ban accounts... for being skeptical of Russiagate.

10. Lenzi wrote to Twitter bluntly asking to remove 14 accounts distinguished among other things by skepticism of Russiagate: “The below are some Russian controlled accounts that I think you will want to look into and delete.” pic.twitter.com/EWmStMTRpr
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 19, 2023

11.A government official, writing from a State department email, asks to "delete" 14 accounts that are engaged in legit speech and for which no evidence is shown they're Russian controlled or bots (in fact, we at Racket know some of these people). A clear First Amendment issue.

12. I noted before there were many crazy requests in Twitter records from officials wanting foes taken off Twitter, with Californian Adam Schiff’s effort to ban a reporter and stop “any and all search results” about a staffer making Angus King’s spreadsheet gambit look tame. pic.twitter.com/VVp1lwVI1T
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) February 19, 2023

13. The fact that mainstream outlets ignored the Schiff story but howled about Teigen shows what they're about. Responses like this are designed to keep blue-leaning audiences especially focused on moronic partisan spats, obscuring bigger picture narratives.
14. The real story emerging in the #TwitterFiles is about a ballooning federal censorship bureaucracy that's not aimed at either the left or the right per se, but at the whole population of outsiders, who are being systematically defined as threats.
15. Beginning in March, we'll start using the Twitter Files to tell this larger story about how Americans turned their counterterrorism machinery against themselves, to disastrous effect, through little-known federal agencies like the Global Engagement Center (GEC).

He also asks anyone appearing on Angus King's Spreadsheet McCarthyism list to contact him.

Posted by: Ace at 03:26 PM

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1 'Ch'?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at February 20, 2023 03:27 PM (zZu0s)

2 Pfirst!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 20, 2023 03:27 PM (XlE1Z)

3 You're not done with that title, yet Ace.

Posted by: Axeman at February 20, 2023 03:27 PM (krQz2)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

5 "Because it's fake news, peons."

"This has been debunked."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 20, 2023 03:28 PM (PZCwT)

6 After Sponge!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 20, 2023 03:28 PM (EZaTx)

7 Dammit, now my question seems random.

Probably par for the course, but still...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at February 20, 2023 03:29 PM (zZu0s)

8 Who are you going to believe?

Me, or your lying eyes!?!?

Posted by: rd at February 20, 2023 03:29 PM (Z32m1)

9 My main point earlier today. Twitter has always had facilities to request the removal of a single post.

"Ban this user" never existed as a user option. The Dems were asking to ban entire accounts based on the slur that they were "Russian bot accounts" when later study proved them not to be.

There IS no comparison. But it's hard to tell Dems things.

Posted by: Axeman at February 20, 2023 03:29 PM (krQz2)

10 First?

Posted by: Fox2! at February 20, 2023 03:30 PM (WhP3q)

11 8 Who are you going to believe?

Me, or your lying eyes!?!?
Posted by: rd at February 20, 2023 03:29 PM (Z32m1)

ace is altering the post before our very eyes!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at February 20, 2023 03:30 PM (zZu0s)

12 Elon is amazing

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 20, 2023 03:30 PM (Xlnez)

13 Thirteenth

Posted by: N.Lurker at February 20, 2023 03:30 PM (eGTCV)

14 Willowed.

And now for something completely different, transman has a screaming shit fit.

https://bit.ly/419NYrC

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 20, 2023 03:31 PM (FVME7)

15 [20 Comment rule]

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)

16 The real story emerging in the #TwitterFiles is about a ballooning federal censorship bureaucracy that's not aimed at either the left or the right per se, but at the whole population of outsiders, who are being systematically defined as threats.

Narrator: it is almost entirely aimed at the right, and the people not on the right are identified as being right wing by the government.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 20, 2023 03:31 PM (0hOvj)

17 Government suppressing free speech. In America.

Posted by: runner at February 20, 2023 03:31 PM (V13WU)

18 14. The real story emerging in the #TwitterFiles is about a ballooning federal censorship bureaucracy that's not aimed at either the left or the right per se, but at the whole population of outsiders, who are being systematically defined as threats.

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"BOTH SIDES!!!!!"

-- Looks like Taibbi is stealing Jonah Goldberg's shtick

Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 20, 2023 03:32 PM (wsx8x)

19 15 [20 Comment rule]
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 03:31 PM (Zz0t1)

Before you can declare 'first'?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at February 20, 2023 03:32 PM (zZu0s)

20 "Because it's fake news, peons."

"This has been debunked."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 20, 2023 03:28 PM (PZCwT)

"It happened like 4-5 years ago, why are we even still talking about it?"

Posted by: Dr. T (Google It!) at February 20, 2023 03:32 PM (bhRsz)

21
And now for something completely different, transman has a screaming shit fit.

https://bit.ly/419NYrC
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 20, 2023 03:31 PM (FVME7)

That's old footage, but that thing that's yelling is obviously broken and damaged.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 03:33 PM (Zz0t1)

22 Note to Mr. Taibbi: Style guide mandates that Adam Schiff's name be preceded by "pop-eyed bobblehead" at all times.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 20, 2023 03:33 PM (XlE1Z)

23 Government suppressing free speech. In America.
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2023 03:31 PM (V13WU)
---
Just read that if you spend too much time online about 1984, it flags you as "suspicious".

Not even outright irony stops these people.

Posted by: Axeman at February 20, 2023 03:33 PM (krQz2)

24 At some point one has to recognize that the Government is full blown totalitarian fascist... just don't tell the serfs.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 20, 2023 03:33 PM (jiV4n)

25 The Democrats Propaganda Ministry wouldn't be without suppressing anything not on their plans

Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2023 03:33 PM (xhxe8)

26 Of course the mainstream press isn't covering this. It would give people a negative impression of their family members in government.

Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at February 20, 2023 03:34 PM (GsLqH)

27 14. The real story emerging in the #TwitterFiles is about a ballooning federal censorship bureaucracy that's not aimed at either the left or the right per se, but at the whole population of outsiders, who are being systematically defined as threats.

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"BOTH SIDES!!!!!"

-- Looks like Taibbi is stealing Jonah Goldberg's shtick
Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 20, 2023 03:32 PM (wsx8x)

To be fair, Taibbi is one of those off-the-plantation liberals that does get the hammer from time to time because he doesn't toe the line completely.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2023 03:34 PM (eoQWY)

28
ace is altering the post before our very eyes!
Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at February 20, 2023 03:30 PM (zZu0s)

"Alter any post using this one neat trick!"

- - AdBot

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)

29 The leftist style sheet:

1. This never happened, what story?
2. OK it might have happened, but only on a small scale, it was rare and addressed by Twitter policy
3. Whenever it happened, it was not by Democrats
4. White Supremacists are blowing this all out of proportion
5. This is an old story, lets move on and stop being so divisive!
6. This never happened, what story?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 20, 2023 03:34 PM (0hOvj)

30 Scared, psychotic, just plain insecure and dumb?

What's to explain our "elites" asking Twitter to suspend a few rain drops in a thunderstorm?

Fucking pathetic.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 20, 2023 03:34 PM (KbCG3)

31 No, it's not all "outsiders". It's the far right, and far right being defined by the progressives, so it's just a big tent.

Posted by: DFCtomm at February 20, 2023 03:34 PM (xge03)

32 22 Note to Mr. Taibbi: Style guide mandates that Adam Schiff's name be preceded by "pop-eyed bobblehead" at all times.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 20, 2023 03:33 PM (XlE1Z)

I thought the preference was weirdo bug eyed pedophile freak.

Posted by: N.Lurker at February 20, 2023 03:35 PM (eGTCV)

33 Scared, psychotic, just plain insecure and dumb?

What's to explain our "elites" asking Twitter to suspend a few rain drops in a thunderstorm?

Fucking pathetic.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 20, 2023 03:34 PM (KbCG3)

Most of the above.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2023 03:35 PM (eoQWY)

34 And, if bigK thinks J6 curating by Tucker is going to pacify us, he's wrong.

Also, I have yet to hear his part in the fencing around the Capitol.

Anyone in Gaetz, Biggs, Gosar, etc. district so that you'd be allowed to send an email? I sent one to my rep John Carter last week. Nothing.

Posted by: micky at February 20, 2023 03:35 PM (3byMq)

35 At this point, what difference does it make?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 20, 2023 03:35 PM (EZaTx)

36 Government suppressing free speech. In America.
Posted by: runner at February 20, 2023 03:31 PM

And J6 people are rotting in Bidens gulags, denied of their constitutional rights. It's not America anymore. The constitution means nothing to these fascists.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 20, 2023 03:35 PM (GwxCX)

37 I thought the preference was weirdo bug eyed pedophile freak.
Posted by: N.Lurker at February 20, 2023 03:35 PM (eGTCV)

You keep forgetting "serial liar and traitor"

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2023 03:35 PM (eoQWY)

38 bloody shame no one give a shit about any of this. half our "countrymen" agree with the systematic censoring of anyone one who goes against the narrative.

i just hope the next iteration has a method to keep govt in check somehow...

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 20, 2023 03:36 PM (Mkvkw)

39 BREAKING: Powerful Earthquakes Strike Turkish-Syrian Border
Multiple buildings collapsed, tsunami warning issued

Two consecutive quakes have struck Türkiye’s Hatay province, one of the areas worst hit by a similar disaster two weeks ago

https://tinyurl.com/swk2svht

link to twitter, with videos

Posted by: one of the quiet ones at February 20, 2023 03:37 PM (BaX0n)

40 In the prior thread I commented that, if you move out of the US you leave your Bill of Rights behind.
I amend that to say that our Bill of Rights are under attack here in the US, by our own government who is (ostensibly) sworn to protect them.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, gimpy edition at February 20, 2023 03:37 PM (jTmQV)

41 38 bloody shame no one give a shit about any of this. half our "countrymen" agree with the systematic censoring of anyone one who goes against the narrative.

i just hope the next iteration has a method to keep govt in check somehow...
Posted by: SturmToddler at February 20, 2023 03:36 PM (Mkvkw)

Well, the ban against the income tax was a big impediment. But it was removed in the interest of the 'Big Crisis' of the day.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at February 20, 2023 03:38 PM (zZu0s)

42 So rather than deal with serious issues in a serious, thoughtful manner, our betters in government have nothing more to do with their time than play at "gotcha" like junior high schoolers.

OK. Let me know when the adults are back in charge.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2023 03:38 PM (YIVH2)

43 Two consecutive quakes have struck Türkiye’s Hatay province, one of the areas worst hit by a similar disaster two weeks ago
-------------
That's the region where Indiana Jones and co. traveled to find the Holy Grail.

Mere coincidence?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 20, 2023 03:38 PM (XlE1Z)

44 The regulatory state has become sentient. It has no use for humans other than their physical ability to bring necessary energy to sustain the regulatory state.

It's HAL 9000 without the hardware.
And most of us are unnecessary to its continued existence.

Posted by: torabora at February 20, 2023 03:38 PM (OUiUM)

45 In the prior thread I commented that, if you move out of the US you leave your Bill of Rights behind.
I amend that to say that our Bill of Rights are under attack here in the US, by our own government who is (ostensibly) sworn to protect them.
==
have a plan to bury yourself in the sand

Posted by: YMMV at February 20, 2023 03:38 PM (9FgrY)

46 >>>What's to explain our "elites" asking Twitter to suspend a few rain drops in a thunderstorm?

Because they cannot direct that persons of their choosing be knelt before a trench just before the bullet in the back of the neck.

Not yet.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 20, 2023 03:38 PM (jiV4n)

47 Isn't Chrissy Teigen one of those "stars" who supposedly was a regular on Epstein's Lolita Express?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2023 03:39 PM (FUVRY)

48

Why is uh-uh every uh thing psychedelic?

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at February 20, 2023 03:40 PM (vwCZJ)

49 ace is altering the post before our very eyes!
Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at February 20, 2023 03:30 PM (zZu0s)

"Alter any post using this one neat trick!"

- - AdBot
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 03:34 PM (Zz0t1)

just don't forget the close tags...

Posted by: SturmToddler at February 20, 2023 03:41 PM (Mkvkw)

50 $100k in Facebook ads by Russia "hacked the 2016 election."

But hundreds of millions in actial and in-kind censorship donations by Big Tech in 2020 "fortified our democracy."

Neat, huh?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2023 03:41 PM (eUBLn)

51 OK. Let me know when the adults are back in charge.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2023 03:38 PM (YIVH2)

++++++++

That's the problem, these are the adults. It's called decadence, and in the future these guys are going to look very competent.

Posted by: DFCtomm at February 20, 2023 03:41 PM (xge03)

52 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 20, 2023 03:41 PM (T4tVD)

53 No one can be trusted more than Russian bots.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 20, 2023 03:41 PM (5+3xF)

54 That's the problem, these are the adults. It's called decadence, and in the future these guys are going to look very competent.
Posted by: DFCtomm at February 20, 2023 03:41 PM (xge03)

I would prefer Dwayne Comacho Mountain Dew III.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at February 20, 2023 03:42 PM (zZu0s)

55 I thought Al Gore invented the internet so it would foster the exchange of ideas and freedom of expression, not become an electronic version of the Volkischer Beobachter.

Twitter and the criminal democrats should be ashamed of themselves, but in reality they do not give a fuck and nothing will happen to them.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 20, 2023 03:43 PM (z1bdm)

56 It's HAL 9000 without the hardware.
And most of us are unnecessary to its continued existence.
Posted by: torabora at February 20, 2023 03:38 PM (OUiUM)

+++++

I prefer to say that SKYNET has become self aware, but that's the gist of it.

Posted by: DFCtomm at February 20, 2023 03:43 PM (xge03)

57 That's the problem, these are the adults. It's called decadence, and in the future these guys are going to look very competent.
Posted by: DFCtomm at February 20, 2023 03:41 PM (xge03)
---
Mentally, they are all still juveniles. Age doesn't bestow wisdom. They make the petty squabbling by faculty seem sophisticated by comparison.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2023 03:44 PM (YIVH2)

58
I would prefer Dwayne Comacho Mountain Dew III.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at February 20, 2023 03:42 PM (zZu0s)

Wouldn't you rather have someone smooooth?

Posted by: Keith Stone at February 20, 2023 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)

59 How many articles about this have appeared in National Review?

Or is Trump still the biggest, most pressing fascist threat to America?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2023 03:44 PM (eUBLn)

60 14 Willowed.

And now for something completely different, transman has a screaming shit fit.

https://bit.ly/419NYrC
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 20, 2023 03:31 PM (FVME7)

Ooh, I'd be really excited about watching that, you betcha.

Posted by: m at February 20, 2023 03:45 PM (dvbwR)

61 If I were a more prolific writer, I'd start a blog "Ask a Russian Bot".

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 20, 2023 03:45 PM (5+3xF)

62 If a majority of citizens do not care about protecting their own rights, then no mechanism on earth can do it for them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 20, 2023 03:45 PM (OK0jK)

63 Just put the phones down and get off Social Media Platforms, completely.

Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2023 03:46 PM (1aMXN)

64
Ooh, I'd be really excited about watching that, you betcha.
Posted by: m at February 20, 2023 03:45 PM (dvbwR)

You can really see how broken their brain is, but that's about it.

Posted by: Keith Stone at February 20, 2023 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

65 Kind of disappointed that I never wound up on the "banned by Congress" list...

Posted by: pookysgirl has very few badges of e-honor at February 20, 2023 03:46 PM (dtlDP)

66 How many articles about this have appeared in National Review?

Or is Trump still the biggest, most pressing fascist threat to America?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2023 03:44 PM (eUBLn)

Hardly of academic interest to me, they have left the fight.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2023 03:46 PM (eoQWY)

67 Damn.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 03:46 PM (Zz0t1)

68 If I were a more prolific writer, I'd start a blog "Ask a Russian Bot".
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 20, 2023 03:45 PM (5+3xF)
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How about a children's book? "If You Give A Russian Bot A Cookie".

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 20, 2023 03:46 PM (XlE1Z)

69 14 Willowed.

And now for something completely different, transman has a screaming shit fit.

https://bit.ly/419NYrC
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

She seems nice.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 20, 2023 03:47 PM (9jKO6)

70
She seems nice.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 20, 2023 03:47 PM (9jKO6)

She sounds vaccinated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 03:47 PM (Zz0t1)

71 47 Isn't Chrissy Teigen one of those "stars" who supposedly was a regular on Epstein's Lolita Express?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2023 03:39 PM (FUVRY)

yes, now that you mention it. And her husband, too.

Posted by: Flyover at February 20, 2023 03:47 PM (Rbu5d)

72 Nobody wanted to hear what Chrissy Tiegen had to say about anything way back when she was still fuckable.

What is it that she thinks has changed?

Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2023 03:47 PM (1aMXN)

73 61 If I were a more prolific writer, I'd start a blog "Ask a Russian Bot".
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 20, 2023 03:45 PM (5+3xF)

Here's an idea--bring on a bunch of co-bloggers.
Autocorrect wanted to turn that into cob loggers, which sounds weird.

Posted by: N.Lurker at February 20, 2023 03:47 PM (eGTCV)

74 The left knows this was illegal.
They also know it will be used against them soon.

But, they're also the same people who see communism riding atop 100 million bodies in the last 100 years and say, "we should try that."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2023 03:48 PM (eUBLn)

75 >>ace is altering the post before our very eyes!

Pray he does not alter it further.

Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2023 03:48 PM (1aMXN)

76 Pretty nice out thar.

Posted by: JT at February 20, 2023 03:48 PM (T4tVD)

77 If I were a more prolific writer, I'd start a blog "Ask a Russian Bot".
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 20, 2023 03:45 PM (5+3xF)
-----------
How about a children's book? "If You Give A Russian Bot A Cookie".
Posted by: Captain Obvious

"Ask a Bot" could be a really funny blog

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 20, 2023 03:48 PM (Xlnez)

78 Eff Bee Eye paid Twitter to break 1st Amendment rights, Congressman requested people to lose theirs.
So much for Amendment rights not to be infringed

Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2023 03:48 PM (xhxe8)

79 Pretty nice out thar.
Posted by: JT at February 20, 2023 03:48 PM (T4tVD)
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Birdbath unfrozen?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 20, 2023 03:49 PM (XlE1Z)

80 And once again, not a damn thing will happen to a single person over this.

Not a thing.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at February 20, 2023 03:50 PM (TU8Tj)

81 And now for something completely different, transman has a screaming shit fit.

https://bit.ly/419NYrC
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

She seems nice.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 20, 2023 03:47 PM (9jKO6)

I can't imagine what planet you would have to be on to think that is helping your cause. Another fine product of our university system, hope the student loan payments are worth it.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2023 03:50 PM (eoQWY)

82 What is a cob logger and why would autocorrect have it in the data base?

Posted by: N.Lurker at February 20, 2023 03:50 PM (eGTCV)

83 63 Just put the phones down and get off Social Media Platforms, completely.
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2023 03:46 PM (1aMXN)

Yes.

Posted by: m at February 20, 2023 03:50 PM (dvbwR)

84 61 If I were a more prolific writer, I'd start a blog "Ask a Russian Bot".
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 20, 2023 03:45 PM (5+3xF)
___________

I'm going to launch a management fad by writing a book entitled, "Who Move My Borscht?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 20, 2023 03:51 PM (YqDXo)

85 >>What is a cob logger

A Logger of Cob.

It's right there in the name. Like a PB&J sammich.

Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2023 03:51 PM (1aMXN)

86 Posted by: N.Lurker at February 20, 2023 03:50 PM (eGTCV)

The co-bloggers who are actually lumberjacks as their paid work, "I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok"?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 20, 2023 03:51 PM (FUVRY)

87 I never really understood why Twitter always seemed so important. Now I know it is how government electeds and bureaucrats have been controlling the media and manipulating the narrative for the last 10 years.

Davoisie = Twitterati

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2023 03:52 PM (Wl6Ns)

88 But, they're also the same people who see communism riding atop 100 million bodies in the last 100 years and say, "we should try that."
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2023 03:48 PM (eUBLn)

They always think that they will be the ones riding on top. Anyone with sense would realize that isn't likely to be so...ask Trotsky. Hell ask Lenin, there's reason to think he was 'encouraged' to pass on.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2023 03:52 PM (eoQWY)

89
Just put the phones down and get off Social Media Platforms, completely.
Posted by: garrett at February 20, 2023 03:46 PM (1aMXN)

Yes.
Posted by: m

No

Posted by: Bob from NSA at February 20, 2023 03:52 PM (vwCZJ)

90 Cob lager might make sense to me.

Posted by: N.Lurker at February 20, 2023 03:52 PM (eGTCV)

91 "It has nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with population control."

Paul Joseph Watson: http://bit.ly/3EkZ4jC

In the UK today, in Western nations across the world by 2030.

And all based on the lie of "climate change".

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 20, 2023 03:52 PM (Do5/p)

92 So much for Amendment rights not to be infringed

To paraphrase Dr. Malcolm, "Power finds a way"

Posted by: Halfhand at February 20, 2023 03:52 PM (vJSFc)

93 Why doesn't someone report Anus King for spreading disinformation? He keeps claiming he's an Independent.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at February 20, 2023 03:52 PM (gf7Ez)

94 All 'journalists' see themselves as actors not reporters. Its basically the mean girl club from Junior High.

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 20, 2023 03:52 PM (xSnmX)

95 Who Synergized My Cheese?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2023 03:52 PM (Wl6Ns)

96 82 What is a cob logger and why would autocorrect have it in the data base?
Posted by: N.Lurker at February 20, 2023 03:50 PM (eGTCV)

Cob-logger is a time-honored AoSHq ironic misspelling of the obviously correct spelling of co-blogger.

Posted by: m at February 20, 2023 03:53 PM (dvbwR)

97 * comment deleted by author *

Posted by: Sarah at February 20, 2023 03:53 PM (Vn19V)

98 I prefer to hang out with log cobbers, myself.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 20, 2023 03:53 PM (EZaTx)

99 The part in The Anus King that always makes me die is when Harambe gets killed.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at February 20, 2023 03:54 PM (KFhLj)

100 100

Posted by: m at February 20, 2023 03:54 PM (dvbwR)

101 Pretty nice out thar.
Posted by: JT at February 20, 2023 03:48 PM (T4tVD)
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Birdbath unfrozen?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

Yeah; but it was half empty this morning.

Had a thirsty visitor in the night.

Posted by: JT at February 20, 2023 03:54 PM (T4tVD)

102 Who Synergized My Cheese?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2023 03:52 PM (Wl6Ns)
______________

And its companion volume, "Who Are The Stakeholders In My Cheese?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 20, 2023 03:54 PM (YqDXo)

103 I prefer to hang out with log cobbers, myself.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 20, 2023 03:53 PM (EZaTx)

Log cobblers have a tough time in this economy, as logs have no feet.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 20, 2023 03:54 PM (eoQWY)

104 How many articles about this have appeared in National Review?

Or is Trump still the biggest, most pressing fascist threat to America?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 20, 2023 03:44 PM (eUBLn)
******
Not a chance you'll see it at NR.
At least the Maine Wire covered the story.

"Maine Republicans Rip Angus King for Conspiring with Twitter, Facebook to Censor Mainers"

https://tinyurl.com/yx5kaa7v

Posted by: redridinghood at February 20, 2023 03:55 PM (NpAcC)

105 Pretty nice out thar.
Posted by: JT at February 20, 2023 03:48 PM (T4tVD)

Yup. Shor is.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 20, 2023 03:55 PM (BdMk6)

106 @TheInsiderPaper · 14minutes
BREAKING: Major explosion reported at metal factory in #Bedford, Ohio

https://tinyurl.com/ycxhe3t7

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 20, 2023 03:55 PM (Vwz3I)

107 If I were a more prolific writer, I'd start a blog "Ask a Russian Bot".

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 20, 2023 03:45 PM (5+3xF)

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ChatKGB.

Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 20, 2023 03:56 PM (wsx8x)

108 107 If I were a more prolific writer, I'd start a blog "Ask a Russian Bot".

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 20, 2023 03:45 PM (5+3xF)

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ChatKGB.
Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 20, 2023 03:56 PM (wsx8x)

heh

Posted by: m at February 20, 2023 03:57 PM (dvbwR)

109 I saw Metal Factory open for The Firm in '85. They blew The Firm away.

Posted by: fd at February 20, 2023 03:57 PM (iayUP)

110 Taibbi sounds like a 23-yr old discovering the systematic histrionic distortion that has replaced any semblance of a "press".

So is the House GOP going to do some pokazuka with hearings on this, which will be largely ignored, and when not ignored will only excite much reaction in a small slice of the populace? Is that what the "weaponizing guvamint" people are claiming to do/plan to do?

Posted by: rhomboid at February 20, 2023 03:57 PM (OTzUX)

111 >>BREAKING: Major explosion reported at metal factory in #Bedford, Ohio

I know that guy!

Posted by: Gen. Disarray at February 20, 2023 03:57 PM (1aMXN)

112 @TheInsiderPaper · 14minutes
BREAKING: Major explosion reported at metal factory in #Bedford, Ohio
_____________

Now it can be told: the Chinese spy balloon was dropping incendiaries as traversed the country.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 20, 2023 03:57 PM (YqDXo)

113 If I were a more prolific writer, I'd start a blog "Ask a Russian Bot".

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 20, 2023 03:45 PM (5+3xF)

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ChatKGB.
Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 20, 2023 03:56 PM (wsx8x)

From Russia with Love.

Posted by: runner at February 20, 2023 03:57 PM (V13WU)

114 AVENGE ME!!!

Posted by: zombie Harambe at February 20, 2023 03:57 PM (Vwz3I)

115 "If Dick Nixon sniffed glue, this is what his enemies list might have looked like."

Spreadsheet was composed by an obsessive-compulsive on crank.

Posted by: Filesystem /gp Rebuilding 8% at February 20, 2023 03:57 PM (24fqN)

116 It appears to be a mostly peaceful explosion.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at February 20, 2023 03:58 PM (gf7Ez)

117 Some rumors were going around about Putin calling it quits in Ukraine to some degree and just consolidating with what they have now in a big speech he has coming up but I think Biden just fucked that up.

Now, well never know.

Posted by: pawn at February 20, 2023 03:58 PM (kYVzH)

118 What is a cob logger and why would autocorrect have it in the data base?

Posted by: N.Lurker at February 20, 2023 03:50 PM (eGTCV)

Ask one of your cow orkers...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2023 03:58 PM (XIJ/X)

119 Not a chance you'll see it at NR.
At least the Maine Wire covered the story.

"Maine Republicans Rip Angus King for Conspiring with Twitter, Facebook to Censor Mainers"

https://tinyurl.com/yx5kaa7v
Posted by: redridinghood at February 20, 2023 03:55 PM (NpAcC)

We've moved from pouncing and seizing to ripping. I dig it.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 20, 2023 03:59 PM (KbCG3)

120 106 Good grief, Ohio’s having a bad time of it these days.

I blame John Kasich.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 20, 2023 04:00 PM (EZaTx)

121 moooo

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 20, 2023 04:00 PM (xcxpd)

122
100 100
Posted by: m at February 20, 2023 03:54 PM (dvbwR)

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 04:00 PM (Zz0t1)

123
I blame John Kasich.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 20, 2023 04:00 PM (EZaTx)

Why do you hate mailmen?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 04:00 PM (Zz0t1)

124 moooo
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 20, 2023 04:00 PM (xcxpd)

You rang?

Posted by: Stacy Abrams at February 20, 2023 04:01 PM (Zz0t1)

125 Who Synergized My Cheese?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 20, 2023 03:52 PM (Wl6Ns)
______________

And its companion volume, "Who Are The Stakeholders In My Cheese?"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 20, 2023 03:54 PM (YqDXo)

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"Cheese Mold and the Green New Meal."

Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 20, 2023 04:01 PM (wsx8x)

126 We've moved from pouncing and seizing to ripping. I dig it.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

Meh. Let me know when we get to the evisceration and disemboweling.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at February 20, 2023 04:02 PM (Wy1BU)

127 Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene @RepMTG · 2h
J6 video tapes will also be available for all J6 defendants.

All 42,000+ hours.

Thank you Speaker McCarthy.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 20, 2023 04:02 PM (Vwz3I)

128 Some rumors were going around about Putin calling it quits in Ukraine to some degree and just consolidating with what they have now in a big speech he has coming up but I think Biden just fucked that up.

Now, well never know.
Posted by: pawn at February 20, 2023 03:58 PM (kYVzH)
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Because no one can fuck up a shit sandwich like a Biden!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 20, 2023 04:02 PM (YIVH2)

129 "Maine Republicans Rip Angus King for Conspiring with Twitter, Facebook to Censor Mainers"

https://tinyurl.com/yx5kaa7v
Posted by: redridinghood

Republicans POUNCE.

Posted by: From about that time at February 20, 2023 04:03 PM (4780s)

130 I saw Cob Logger open for Psyllium Husk Powder at the Canal Club in '98.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 20, 2023 04:03 PM (44ww/)

131 Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene @RepMTG · 2h
J6 video tapes will also be available for all J6 defendants.

All 42,000+ hours.

Thank you Speaker McCarthy.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 20, 2023 04:02 PM (Vwz3I)

She will thank him later, in a leather teddy holding a cat o 9 tails.

Posted by: Stacy Abrams at February 20, 2023 04:03 PM (Zz0t1)

132 73 61 If I were a more prolific writer, I'd start a blog "Ask a Russian Bot".
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 20, 2023 03:45 PM (5+3xF)

Here's an idea--bring on a bunch of co-bloggers.
Autocorrect wanted to turn that into cob loggers, which sounds weird.

Posted by: N.Lurker at February 20, 2023 03:47 PM (eGTCV) [/]

This was the first place I ran into the term "co bloggers" and at first I always read it as "cob loggers".

Posted by: a.moron at February 20, 2023 04:03 PM (tu3iY)

133 shitfire.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 04:03 PM (Zz0t1)

134 Quote from O'Keefe videos...

Greg Price @greg_price11 · 2h
O'Keefe: "A former board member told me 10 years ago, Project Veritas will never be stopped from the outside. It will only be because we stopped ourselves... We find ourselves in that situation today, where I have been stripped of my authority as CEO and removed from the board."

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 20, 2023 04:03 PM (Vwz3I)

135 Ya they play to win.

Not saying we should become like them, just saying we need to accept, majority of them would cheerfully put all of us in camps. To them Islam, china, etc these are people who can be bought, flattered, negotiated with. Not us, to them, we are demom zombies unworthy of engaging at any level.

They were ramping it up during COVID. Weirdly the vaccine may have saved us by weakening their hand politically. But we all know next crisis they will not let go to waste.

Posted by: Shiggz (defective slave) at February 20, 2023 04:04 PM (0SrVS)

136 15. Beginning in March, we'll start using the Twitter Files to tell this larger story about how Americans turned their counterterrorism machinery against themselves, to disastrous effect, through little-known federal agencies like the Global Engagement Center (GEC).

The football spiking by Sundance is going to be...epic.

Posted by: blaster at February 20, 2023 04:04 PM (pwExq)

137 What is a cob logger and why would autocorrect have it in the data base?
Posted by: N.Lurker at February 20, 2023 03:50 PM (eGTCV)

Ask one of your cow orkers...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 20, 2023 03:58 PM (XIJ/X)

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I sure miss that meme of the obese black woman R.I. State Senator cow twerking upside down,

Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 20, 2023 04:04 PM (wsx8x)

138 The Communists cannot be voted out, particularly in swing States.

And the Communists will refuse to accept defeat in the unlikely case there were to be a surprise, fair vote result ...

Failure is not to plan for and/or to participate in civil disobedience once the 2024 affirms, with no doubt , that the Communists are not and will not allow elections.
.

Posted by: Voter theater. at February 20, 2023 04:04 PM (Ih0Cz)

139 ----------

I sure miss that meme of the obese black woman R.I. State Senator cow twerking upside down,
Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 20, 2023 04:04 PM (wsx8x)

That was hot.

Posted by: Horny African Elephant at February 20, 2023 04:05 PM (Zz0t1)

140 90 Cob lager might make sense to me.

Posted by: N.Lurker at February 20, 2023 03:52 PM (eGTCV)

Corn beer?

Posted by: a.moron at February 20, 2023 04:05 PM (tu3iY)

141 @106

You can bet your bottom dollar that Wray will have more top men on this current explosion in OH than when they faked the noose so that Bubba Wallace could get a leg up on being a super duper Nascar hero and champion.

Posted by: micky at February 20, 2023 04:05 PM (3byMq)

142 "moooo
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 20, 2023 04:00 PM (xcxpd)

You rang?
Posted by: Stacy Abrams"

Wouldn't that be "sooey"?

Posted by: fd at February 20, 2023 04:05 PM (iayUP)

143 Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene @RepMTG · 2h
J6 video tapes will also be available for all J6 defendants.

All 42,000+ hours.

Thank you Speaker McCarthy.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 20, 2023 04:02 PM (Vwz3I)

She will thank him later, in a leather teddy holding a cat o 9 tails.
Posted by: Stacy Abrams at

Sounds like actual good news?

Posted by: Shiggz (defective slave) at February 20, 2023 04:05 PM (0SrVS)

144 The mass murdering left can now claim that their mass murders ,past and future , are good for planet. All the humans who are killed will have zero carbon footprint once their bodies rot. Heads they win , tails you lose.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2023 04:05 PM (ss7/4)

145 106 @TheInsiderPaper · 14minutes
BREAKING: Major explosion reported at metal factory in #Bedford, Ohio

https://tinyurl.com/ycxhe3t7
Posted by: andycanuck

In the Before times, I'd just consider this an accident. Stuff happens. Now? Outside forces want Ohio to stop being such a Red State? Squishy Red but still Red. Not outside the realms of possibility these days. All conspiracy theories are 6-7 newz cycles away.

Posted by: Puddleglum at February 20, 2023 04:06 PM (sAmhv)

146 131 Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene @RepMTG · 2h
J6 video tapes will also be available for all J6 defendants.

All 42,000+ hours.

Thank you Speaker McCarthy.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 20, 2023 04:02 PM (Vwz3I)

She will thank him later, in a leather teddy holding a cat o 9 tails.
Posted by: Stacy Abrams at February 20, 2023 04:03 PM (Zz0t1)

Over my limp dick!

Posted by: Frank Luntz at February 20, 2023 04:06 PM (KbCG3)

147 "ballooning federal censorship bureaucracy"?

Fire those Sidewinders posthaste!

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 20, 2023 04:07 PM (EJqYm)

148 No reason to think Russia is planning to consolidate and sit. Quite the contrary. Ongoing offensive action and preparation for more in the center-north. Not a chance they can/will just stop in those areas until all territory of the two breakaway oblasts is under their control, AND they have secured an artillery cordon around them (this may vary in size depending on location).

In the south, who knows. Was a dubious move to bite off two more oblasts, which is more than Russia could chew, at least last year. Those areas might see a long-term division and population exchange. And Russia has been building static fortification lines in those areas.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 20, 2023 04:07 PM (OTzUX)

149 Failure is not to plan for and/or to participate in civil disobedience once the 2024 affirms, with no doubt , that the Communists are not and will not allow elections.
==
This is that new T-1000 from the future glowies.

Posted by: mcG at February 20, 2023 04:07 PM (vNXfL)

150 Who's going to watch 42,000 hours of video?

Posted by: fd at February 20, 2023 04:07 PM (iayUP)

151 "Because no one can fuck up a shit sandwich like a Biden!"

Oh, now I wonder if he did it on purpose. It seems that it was done for no real reason other that to tweak the Russians.

Biden, killing of the prospect of a truce just to keep the graft going.

Posted by: pawn at February 20, 2023 04:07 PM (kYVzH)

152 Musk paid $44b for this. And leftist-totalitarians fled to Mastadon, Siberia. ahahaha

Posted by: 13times at February 20, 2023 04:07 PM (lCnJy)

153 The football spiking by Sundance is going to be...epic.

Posted by: blaster at February 20, 2023 04:04 PM (pwExq)

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Heh. He's been doing that a lot lately, and to paraphrase Dizzy Dean: "It ain't spiking if you can do it."

Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 20, 2023 04:08 PM (wsx8x)

154
She will thank him later, in a leather teddy holding a cat o 9 tails.
Posted by: Stacy Abrams at February 20, 2023 04:03 PM (Zz0t1)

The more this gets copied, the worse I feel for the unfortunate sock fail.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 04:08 PM (Zz0t1)

155 94 All 'journalists' see themselves as actors not reporters. Its basically the mean girl club from Junior High.

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 20, 2023 03:52 PM (xSnmX)

They were all told in J-school that Woodward & Bernstein were the Heroes of Watergate for bringing down Evil Tricky Dick, and they all want to change the world. Instead of just writing the freakin' story the way it happened.

Posted by: a.moron at February 20, 2023 04:08 PM (tu3iY)

156
Journalists. Businessmen. Soldiers. Policemen. Judges. Teachers. Priests. Doctors. The bell-ringers for the Salvation Army, FFS.

When all of them are corrupt, what does it matter if one is?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 20, 2023 04:08 PM (oINRc)

157 I'll have an Angus King. Hold the pickles. Hold the lettuce.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2023 04:08 PM (63Dwl)

158 That was hot.

Posted by: Horny African Elephant at February 20, 2023 04:05 PM (Zz0t1)

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LMAO Sponge.

Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 20, 2023 04:08 PM (wsx8x)

159 I'll have an Angus King. Hold the pickles. Hold the lettuce.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2023 04:08 PM (63Dwl)

"Jack? Where's the angus?"

- - Jack in the Box Commercial

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 04:10 PM (Zz0t1)

160 Well Putin started it, I think he can stop it too. The situation on the ground doesn't reflect the political realities.

Some of the folks on Substack were rumbling about this. That's all I got.

But now well never know, not that that is a change in anything.

Posted by: pawn at February 20, 2023 04:11 PM (kYVzH)

161 You know, as a Russian bot, I find this whole thing quite offensive.

Posted by: Comrade Roboto at February 20, 2023 04:11 PM (+DS2f)

162 The news is a series of suspicions of what may be happening now, and confirmations of what was happening 2 years ago.

This is the world we have been living in for some time.

For the next two years, new crimes and atrocities will occur. Rights will be abrogated, removed, destroyed. Things we could previously only imagine in the worst of countries.

And we will hear about and see "proof" of some of these violations in two years - all while the next two years of systematic subjugation occurs.

Posted by: ... at February 20, 2023 04:12 PM (BXxcV)

163 TheInsiderPaper · 14minutes
BREAKING: Major explosion reported at metal factory in #Bedford, Ohio

https://tinyurl.com/ycxhe3t7
Posted by: andycanuck
===
Gonna give Florida a run for its money.

Posted by: Ohioman at February 20, 2023 04:12 PM (7Icug)

164 Funny that liberals are freaking out over the release of all the J6 footage that Democrats have hidden for years. It destroys every narrative and lies they've tried to create.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 20, 2023 04:12 PM (j32Ud)

165 Me too.

Posted by: Ivan "totally not a bot" Cyberski at February 20, 2023 04:12 PM (+DS2f)

166 You know, as a Russian bot, I find this whole thing quite offensive.
Posted by: Comrade Roboto at February 20, 2023 04:11 PM (+DS2f)

Domo Arigato.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 04:13 PM (Zz0t1)

167 Crystal-balling future events in Ukraine is folly - especially considering what happened a year ago this week.

Posted by: 13times at February 20, 2023 04:13 PM (lCnJy)

168 Ivan? Is that you comrade?

We will, we will, Bot you!

Posted by: Comrade Roboto at February 20, 2023 04:13 PM (+DS2f)

169 Maine is dogshit. You've got Angus King and Susan Collins pretending to be either Republican or Independent. Meanwhile they're both authoritarian assholes. Not to quick on the uptake, are you Mainers?

Posted by: Marcus T at February 20, 2023 04:14 PM (j32Ud)

170 Not to quick on the uptake, are you Mainers?
Posted by: Marcus T at February 20, 2023 04:14 PM (j32Ud)

It gets cold up there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 04:15 PM (Zz0t1)

171 I'll have an Angus King. Hold the pickles. Hold the lettuce.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 20, 2023 04:08 PM (63Dwl)

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Speaking of which: wifey and her friend, neither of whom are really burger fans, couldn't stop raving about the burgers at a restaurant here in our small downtown at an old historic hotel -- recently reopened after being closed a couple of years during the covid insanity "for remodeling."

So, we went there for lunch yesterday and I had to agree -- a fantastic burger. After complimenting it to our waitress, she revealed that is was so yummy, unique, and popular because it's half Angus beef and half brisket -- and of course with wifey being from Texas, we're yuge brisket fans.

Anyway, had never heard of anyone doing that before, but I'm sure it's been done elsewhere and likely for a while.

Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 20, 2023 04:15 PM (wsx8x)

172 Colonel Angus is a righteous dude!

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 20, 2023 04:15 PM (4I/2K)

173 So, everyone that opposes the Junta is a Russian bot.

How many accounts are controlled by people formally in the pay of China? Britain? Israel? Saudi? Etc?

We know the answer, but odd how the only problem is Russian aligned accounts isn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2023 04:15 PM (lc5cP)

174 Meanwhile, over at Amazon my book is at the #4 slot in Chinese History. It's still the #1 new release in that category, so thanks everyone who snagged a copy yesterday and earlier today.

The book is Walls of Men: A Military History of China 2500 B.C. to A.D. 2020, and it's got all manner of fun stuff about Sun Tzu, Mao's Little Red Book, and a very revisionist take on Chiang Kai-Shek's military skill.

Link in the nic.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2023 04:15 PM (llXky)

175 Colonel Angus is a righteous dude!
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 20, 2023 04:15 PM (4I/2K)

But Rooney is an asshole.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 04:15 PM (Zz0t1)

176 But seriously folks, life as a Russian Bot isn't all that bad. For example, I get free wi fi.

And by "free" I mean I steal it from you, comrade.

Posted by: Comrade Roboto at February 20, 2023 04:16 PM (+DS2f)

177 Angus King - so "independent" you literally can distinguish between him and any other Democrat.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2023 04:16 PM (lc5cP)

178 How many accounts are controlled by people formally in the pay of China? Britain? Israel? Saudi? Etc?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2023 04:15 PM (lc5cP)
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Speaking of China, I've got a book that might interest you.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2023 04:16 PM (llXky)

179 Ivan? Is that you comrade?

We will, we will, Bot you!

Posted by: Comrade Roboto at February 20, 2023 04:13 PM (+DS2f)

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"In Soviet Russia, bot control you!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 20, 2023 04:17 PM (wsx8x)

180 I watched the Joe Rogan podcast with Matt Taibbi and got the feeling that Matt is a former lefty who got red pilled. Like many, I presume.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, gimpy edition at February 20, 2023 04:17 PM (jTmQV)

181 The book is Walls of Men: A Military History of China 2500 B.C. to A.D. 2020, and it's got all manner of fun stuff about Sun Tzu, Mao's Little Red Book, and a very revisionist take on Chiang Kai-Shek's military skill.

One period I'm interested in - the Chinese intervention in Korea.

It seems the Americans annihilated the Chinese in the field with losses 10X or more for China, yet the Chinese achieved their goal - they bloodied the Americans enough so that we stopped trying to win the war.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2023 04:18 PM (lc5cP)

182 Wow. I missed a lot going on a college visit with the minime today. I wish I could be 2019 hopeful.

Posted by: Catherine at February 20, 2023 04:18 PM (ZSsrh)

183 And we will hear about and see "proof" of some of these violations in two years - all while the next two years of systematic subjugation occurs.
Posted by: ... at February 20, 2023 04:12 PM (BXxcV)

Two years? Do you really think these tyrants are going to give up their power?

Do you really think Trump or DeSantis have a chance of winning a prez election?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 20, 2023 04:18 PM (BdMk6)

184 Not to quick on the uptake, are you Mainers?

**********

I used to work for a Maine company. I've seen cardboard boxes exhibit more intelligence than the locals there.

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at February 20, 2023 04:18 PM (VTu1l)

185 King Angus produces superior beef.

Posted by: N.Lurker at February 20, 2023 04:19 PM (eGTCV)

186 Yeah, but, someone told me that one un named WH employee asked us to review a tweet be Chrissy Tiegen. So both sides! Move on!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 20, 2023 04:19 PM (DK4U1)

187 #UnfollowVeritas

https://tinyurl.com/29dxsrsm

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 20, 2023 04:19 PM (Vwz3I)

188 Do you really think Trump or DeSantis have a chance of winning a prez election?
==
Don't worry, Mitt Romney will save us!!!!!

Posted by: In retrospect, what were we thinking at February 20, 2023 04:20 PM (7Icug)

189 Honestly, what kind of anti-American, anti First Amendment, book banning, speech Nazi conspires with the media to remove people's opinions and ability to freely speak simply because they don't agree with them?

You're a fascist, fag, manbaby, Angus.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 20, 2023 04:20 PM (j32Ud)

190 I don't have an opinion on the matter until I hear from my Republican leadership.

Posted by: Clueless Asshole That Keeps Sending Money at February 20, 2023 04:20 PM (D25PY)

191 ~~LL Cool J~~

LL Col A
Ladies Love the Colonel!

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 20, 2023 04:20 PM (4I/2K)

192 One period I'm interested in - the Chinese intervention in Korea.

It seems the Americans annihilated the Chinese in the field with losses 10X or more for China, yet the Chinese achieved their goal - they bloodied the Americans enough so that we stopped trying to win the war.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 20, 2023 04:18 PM (lc5cP)
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I've got a chapter on that gives you more of the Chinese side of things. By the time you reach that point, you understand that China was ALWAYS going to intervene. Korea has been a tributary state for centuries. Same with Vietnam, btw.

Did you know the Chicoms were the ones running North Vietnam's air defenses? Like to the tune of 300,000 troops?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2023 04:21 PM (llXky)

193 The twitter files goes to show exactly how the government would behave, given even the smallest chance of censorship.

Consider this - those requests likely came from the office of those officials, not the person themselves. That means a lowly flunky with Grade C senator like Angus King felt it was A-ok to use his name and account to get people banned from twitter.

That is how this will work - every damn low level flunky in the government will put in requests to get this or that banned. Without consequence.

Heck, even us Russian bots will be able to ban people.

Posted by: Comrade Roboto at February 20, 2023 04:21 PM (+DS2f)

194 "Do you really think Trump or DeSantis have a chance of winning a prez election? "

A month ago I would have said no. In speaking with people since then I would say, yes, hell yes, and you're lucky if mobs of people don't start breaking shit before that.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 20, 2023 04:22 PM (j32Ud)

195 Who do you think the people of Ohio will be voting for next round?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 20, 2023 04:23 PM (Zz0t1)

196 7 Dammit, now my question seems random.

Probably par for the course, but still...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson Work Laptop at February 20, 2023 03:29 PM (zZu0s)
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No no, use 'stochastic' instead of 'random', just what the Left loves, uncommon words that they had to look up and then use incorrectly. I'd only ever seen this term used in Thermodynamics before this blog (some months ago?).

Posted by: Ciampino - concretion is what happens in a Liberal's head at February 20, 2023 04:23 PM (qfLjt)

197
That is how this will work - every damn low level flunky in the government will put in requests to get this or that banned. Without consequence.

Heck, even us Russian bots will be able to ban people.
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and your annoying lib in-laws and coworkers.

Posted by: The Lives Of Others - The Tower of Babel was real at February 20, 2023 04:23 PM (jqsYi)

198 yeah, well....this is what happens when your political party has to ask for a teacher's note from the other side to even make a point.

Posted by: sockamster, Doctor at blogothopy at February 20, 2023 04:24 PM (MLrvz)

199 "I used to work for a Maine company. I've seen cardboard boxes exhibit more intelligence than the locals there."

There is a lot of competition for The Most Vapid Fool and Dupe Award. But they have moved into the front spot.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 20, 2023 04:24 PM (j32Ud)

200 Did you know the Chicoms were the ones running North Vietnam's air defenses? Like to the tune of 300,000 troops?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2023 04:21 PM (llXky)

Vietnam was Russia's proxy war. The Vietnamese hate the Chinese.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 20, 2023 04:25 PM (BdMk6)

201 Who do you think the people of Ohio will be voting for next round?

Whoever the hell we tell you they voted for.

Posted by: The Powers That Be at February 20, 2023 04:25 PM (CQY7u)

202 A month ago I would have said no. In speaking with people since then I would say, yes, hell yes, and you're lucky if mobs of people don't start breaking shit before that.
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that's what is going to happen this time after the loss, Jan 6th not withstanding.

Posted by: Its not much of a prediction as a comment about human nature at February 20, 2023 04:25 PM (7Icug)

203 Nood

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at February 20, 2023 04:27 PM (gf7Ez)

204 Vietnam was Russia's proxy war. The Vietnamese hate the Chinese.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 20, 2023 04:25 PM (BdMk6)
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Nope. China's. Mao wanted the French gone and then the US as well. Huge amount of Chinese military aid went to the Vietnamese. The problem was that the Vietnamese didn't trust the Chinese and so turned to the Soviets.

The Chicoms invaded to try to force Vietnam to get out of Cambodia, but it didn't work and the PLA took massive losses. Lots of stuff going on that most of us never hear about.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2023 04:27 PM (llXky)

205 When all of them are corrupt, what does it matter if one is?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 20, 2023 04:08 PM (oINRc)

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I like (the romantic component at least) of the mystical notion in Judaism of the 36 righteous people (the Tzadikim Nistarim -- literally "hidden righteous ones") mentioned in The Talmud.

"It is said that at all times there are 36 special people in the world, and that were it not for them, all of them, if even one of them was missing, the world would come to an end."

Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 20, 2023 04:27 PM (wsx8x)

206 "Angus King" sounds like the name of a fictional Texas cattle rancher

Posted by: JoeF. at February 20, 2023 04:27 PM (mR6Gs)

207 I overcame my reluctance to use Amazon to order Walls Of Men. You can't boycott everything.

Posted by: fd at February 20, 2023 04:28 PM (iayUP)

208 Apparently Spain is legalizing bestiality, as long as it doesn't injure the animal badly enough to require a vet visit.

Some on the left are calling this "fake news", on the grounds that bestiality wasn't illegal in Spain to begin with, or something.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2023 04:28 PM (bW8dp)

209 @200 the Vietnamese hate the Chinese but they did business with them to beat us. Tons of supplies came across that border. When the war ended it was only a couple of years before the Vietnamese and Chinese were shooting at each other

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2023 04:30 PM (ss7/4)

210 192 Same with Vietnam, btw.

Did you know the Chicoms were the ones running North Vietnam's air defenses? Like to the tune of 300,000 troops?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at February 20, 2023 04:21 PM (llXky)

I'm curious what happened that caused them to go from that to open war between Vietnam and China just a few years later?

Posted by: a.moron at February 20, 2023 04:31 PM (tu3iY)

211 This is the very same Democrat Party that Some Hollywood celebrity with sawdust for Brains said was Of the People, By the People and for the People which proves hat there is a large gap between the American People and Hollywood Airheads

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 20, 2023 04:32 PM (FLiOE)

212 @208 the cock in Spain is stuck mainly in the sheep's drain

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 20, 2023 04:35 PM (ss7/4)

213 I'm curious what happened that caused them to go from that to open war between Vietnam and China just a few years later?

Posted by: a.moron

Other than China's ground invasion? Lots of tangled webs over there, when Vietnam is the "good guy" for invading Cambodia to put a stop to the Khmer Rouge. China's probably not thrilled at having a completely independent and functional communist government on its southern flank, one with considerable military hardware.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 20, 2023 04:37 PM (KAi1n)

214 Not to quick on the uptake, are you Mainers?
Posted by: Marcus T at February 20, 2023 04:14 PM

Not for nothing did one of our local morning drive shows have a comedy segment called Men From Maine. Basically hick jokes reworked for Maine. They weren't entirely wrong.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 20, 2023 04:41 PM (Wnv9h)

215 84

I'm going to launch a management fad by writing a book entitled, "Who Move My Borscht?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 20, 2023 03:51 PM (YqDXo)
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Well matured Gorgonzola will walk right out of the fridge when you whistle. So it will move itself.

Posted by: Ciampino - concretion is what happens in a Liberal's head! at February 20, 2023 04:50 PM (qfLjt)

216 No Trump censorship request tweet shown, just asserted?

I call bullshit.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at February 20, 2023 05:52 PM (Ndje9)

217 I have seen them say "The Trump Admin requested censorship"--but its always Fauci or Wray, etc--the same old Nazis.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at February 20, 2023 05:54 PM (Ndje9)

218 The real tragedy in all of this, is the number of #conservatives who read all this stuff, and then turn right around and parrot what some government expert just said, or what some FBI whistleblower just said.

Every single human being who eats because of a check from the federal government is your mortal enemy. You can rationalize your fee-fees all day long, but these people will always defend and support the parts of the system that ensures the gravy train keeps running.

They don't care that the gravy is carved out of you.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at February 20, 2023 06:32 PM (05nK9)

219 We're post-law, but case law is very clear. A government agent can not direct a private individual to violate another person's Constitutional rights.

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