This may be the funniest thing I have ever seen:
Effective immediately, new users may *not* shill for Ron Paul in any way shape, form or fashion. Not in comments, not in diaries, nada. If your account is less than 6 months old, you can talk about something else, you can participate in the other threads and be your zany libertarian self all you want, but you cannot pimp Ron Paul. Those with accounts more than six months old may proceed as normal.
Of course, those who post at Red State with accounts more than six months old amount to Leon, Erick Erickson, Ben Domenech, Rush Limbaugh’s intern, the frothing fucking lunatic who now pretends to be Moe Lane but simply can not be the same person who posted with that account a couple years ago, four members of the House who haven’t been told people laugh at Red State, a few members of the Lavender Bund, Tom DeLay’s former chief-of-staff, the founders of the Victory Caucus, and some drunk guy who posts from a DC Public Library, who may or may not have been the inspiration for the movie Conspiracy Theory.
Everyone else with an account that old stopped reading them or reads them now only to giggle and mock. The remainder of the folks who have tried to post at Red State got banned within a week of forming their account for “trolling,” which is loosely defined as saying anything about Bush or Republicans that would not make it onto the front page of a knob-slobbering, Bush-worshipping Hugh Hewitt post. Really, try it for yourself.
In other words, Red State is banning the mention of Ron Paul. Why? We aren’t sure, but let’s go for the all-purpose answer at Red State:
“THE DEMOCRATS ARE WORSE!”
*** Update ***
In somewhat related news, this important announcement on Tom DeLay’s blog:
TomDeLay.com is making room for upgrades and a new announcement! Please check back soon for details.
I am sure you all are as excited as I am.
Stealth
I can’t wait to hear about this Crushing Of Dissent from Prof. Reynolds.
Cols714
You forgot Streif, the worst of the all.
Bubblegum Tate
You know, Ron Paul and I agree on precisely one issue (granted, it’s the biggest issue of the moment), but I think it’s absolutely awesome the way he is causing the wingnuts to go apoplectic and do shit like this just because Paul acknowledges the reality of Iraq instead of hiding behind wingnut-approved talking points. It’s fucking great to watch.
John Cole
Bubblegum:
I concur completely. I would never vote for him for President (sure love him in the House raising hell, and love him at the debates stirring things up), but the way he gets these guys to react is PRICELESS.
capelza
Love this post! The roster is right on.
Feeling frisky John?
Cause you know someone is going to come over and shake their head sadly at your “decline”…
John Cole
Or claim I was co-opted by my commenters!
Zifnab
Last I checked, we live in a Democracy. Which… means stuff. But we’re in a market economy based on private property. Which… means other stuff.
It’s always fun to see conservative concern trolls bounce between “Serious Discourse Only!!1!” and “You’re squelching my right to talk about the murder of Vince Foster whydoyouhateAMERICA!”
I’ll give RS points for this at least. They continue to have a functional site in the face of repeated blanket bannings every Friedman or so. I only wish I could start a webpage where one of my biggest problems was all the people I had to boot.
Cain
You know, John. You have an account that’s more than 6 months old. You should post a front page about how great Ron Paul is. Of course if you’re looking to get banned or your account deleted this is the fastest way I can think of.
cain
Jay C
Hey! Carp for yourself, Cole! Yrs truly has an “old” RedState account – I got mine via Josh (Tacitus) Trevino’s old blog when the RS crew started up. Of course, that was back before RS became the Internet equivalent of Skull & Bones; back when Josh (as well as Moe Lane) used to post stuff on the blog that wasn’t just repetetive, nasty neo-Stalinist theo-fascist sniffery.
*Sigh*
Anyway, I guess this means I could go over there and shill for Ron Paul if I wanted to. God knows why I’d want to, though: Moe or Erick would probably just blam me for the fun of it.
Bubblegum Tate
“I got co-opted, and all I wanted was a timeshare.”
John Cole
I actually don’t remember my account info or I would do just that. I remember losing it around the time they went from Red State.org to .com. There was a lot going on at the time, including numerous server difficulties.
Tsulagi
I think you need a new tag: Redstate Stupidity. It’s been strong with them lately. Bonus ease being the tag and site have the same initials.
For a little added comedy, 1/3 of The Stooges takes issue with the Captain calling them on their hivemind silliness.
John Cole
I actually like Leon, who really is a decent fellow (as are most of the folks who have posted there in the past and some who still do). Erick Erickson is actually pretty damned funny, and while he posts a lot of stuff that infuriates folks (me, at times, too), he doesn’t take himself very seriously.
Moe Lane, however, seems to have lost his mind. And Jeff Emmanuel can blow me (especially since he seems to think I am some violent homophobe).
capelza
Didn’t Moe Lane help found ObWings? I’ve been reading blogs long enough to remember when he seemed like a reasonable person. WTF happened to him?
Alan
Maybe Delay has decided the GOP is a lost cause for God and is going third party with the Dobsonites.
Ugh
Yep yep yep. Everytime I go over there he’s either (i) giving commenters assignments (or they’ll be banned); (ii) requiring commenters to apologize for things they didn’t say (or they’ll be banned); (iii) banning people for no good reason; or (iv) acting as you say.
I think his keyboard gets stickier everytime he bans someone, hence the repetition.
The Populist
The same group of mental midgets who cry about Vince Foster, black helicopters, ATF raids, freedom being “taken away” by the Clintons, hatred of tax and spend, etc, etc are the same morons who love the Patriot Act, perpetual war, deficit spending and Blackwater patrols.
I ask these people this…do you not see the very people you love so much are truly WORSE for you in these areas than the Dems or an independent/libertarian candidate? Argh, it makes me so mad…
Where did all these militia loving freaks go to? Before Clinton left office it seemed more and more of them were popping up everyday! Why are they not concerned about Blackwater setting up a possible training facility on US soil? Do they not realize that Blackwater is a FOR HIRE organization? Who’s to say these folks (who aren’t regulated) don’t wind up doing somebody else’s bidding at some point in the future?
I noticed that they are building a new facility in SoCal somewhere. In this facility will be a training area for “urban warfare.” Why do they need this if they only want to work the border? Is it because Bush would use these people in place of the Guard for emergencies? Would he use them when/if he declares martial law as stated in his most ludicrous of Executive Orders?
Why is it these folks won’t ask these questions? Is it because they have some irrational hatred of people who aren’t as conservative as them?
r€nato
I dunno, it’s pretty hard to beat a Baptist minister in Alabama who dies while hogtied, dressed in two scuba wetsuits with rubber undies and a dildo up his ass.
The Populist
BTW, God bless Ron Paul. Some may have issues with him but at least he’s honest, willing to stick to his principles and cares about the constitution.
Yes, he may not win, but he is holding on and dictating the direction of debate in this country. THAT is good and that is why the righties are so scared of him.
r€nato
They think they can eat their cake and have it too, and hell I’d probably assume the same thing considering how they got away with the anti-Clinton witch hunt.
When a Democrat takes office in 2009, wingnuts will suddenly re-discover the danger of unchecked executive power.
rawshark
why would you beat him?
Mike S
My favorite was Tommy Boy. He once posted that he was going to have a pizza party when every Democrat in the country died. When one of the regulars there said that he was over the line the “editers” all jumped on him for saying that.
jcricket
Don’t forget the dildo had a condom on it.
I believe the Republican party motto in 2008 is something like: “The beatings will continue until morale improves”.
r€nato
“…or until the safe word is given.”
jcricket
Republicans lurv to beat dead horses (Democrats did it first, Hiltery, etc) so why not beat a dead Baptist?
“I love my dead gay son”
maxbaer (not the original)
I liked this little blog over at RS:
“Ron Paul does not belong in the race for the GOP nomination”
If Paul doesn’t belong in the race, who does? It’s not exactly a field of heavyweights. Duncan and Tancredo?
Mike S
Here’s the whole comment. It was during the Benji fiascso.
You have to go here to find it because the “Directers” sanitized it. That’s hardly surprising.
Ted
Wasn’t RS founded to be sort of the conservative equivalent of DailyKos? An open community site useful for blogging, organizing, and fundraising? What the hell happened to it? (I wouldn’t have a clue as I’ve only visited it a couple of times.)
Same reason I like Huckabee (his persona, not his politics), despite my DemonRAT!!1 membership card. The man seems honest and up-front, at least. But yeah, Paul is the gift that keeps on giving. Especially since he’s not having much of a problem raising money, and seems to be regarded as something of a rock star among a lot of younger people.
Tsulagi
Lately they’ve gone to (v): Rewriting the off-message comment and banning so the assembled can collectively giggle while getting off on the blam. Gotta love that Big Tent smell at RS.
I think one of the funnier banning tirades was done by Leon. Brownback had switched his vote on immigration within the span of about six minutes. Some of the commenters were using the flip-flopping label and making fun of the Brownbackster. Leon didn’t see the humor. Blaming carnage ensued.
But Leon sure added to the humor when trying to defend Brownback’s votes. He said something like while he probably wouldn’t change an issue position within the span of just six minutes, “Brownback marches to a different drummer.” LOL! I think his talking zygotes would agree.
I read RS sometimes mainly for the comedy. Much of it delivered unintentionally which makes it even better.
Ted
A super hard-core libertarian (small ‘L’) friend of mine informs me Ron Paul is known as “Dr. No!” among a lot of libertarians for his standard practice of voting No on just about everything the House does, as a reflex.
Tax Analyst
You know, you may find this hard to believe, but this very item popped up in the Continuing Education Tax Class session my colleague and I just conducted for our support staff here at work.
Sometimes we just can’t help ourselves.
OH…BTW – you forgot to mention the multiple chains and belts he was also wearing…and that the dildo had a condom on it. Guess someone forgot to tell the Reverend that although using a condom is generally considered “Safe Sex”, it doesn’t work to avoid asphyxiation. Maybe he was unclear on the concept.
Dennis-SGMM
It’s really sad when conservatives can’t even have a circle jerk without some of them finding it necessary to give direction.
Mike S
Is this directed at John?
That shows how deeply ingrained their Bush cultism has become. It’s like when Bush said that all of the insurgent attacks proived that we were winning.
Bubblegum Tate
Which was, to the uber-fundies, the worst part of the whole thing.
Jake
All together: If you haven’t done anything wrong you don’t have anything to worry about. Brrrrawk!
How?
Psycheout
Have you not been swarmed by Ron Paul supporters before? If you had, you would probably agree with taking measures against Paulunacy. His online supporters are some of the most obnoxious people in the world.
Mike S
Goseph Gerbils
The Populist Says:
Maybe they are Blackwater. The jackboots sound different when you’re the one wearin’ ’em.
Paul L.
Got anymore other than Redstate?
Here is a list of progressive blogs who delete comments that disagree with their narrative.
Crooks and Liars
The fem-blogs (Firedoglake,Feministing,Feministe,Pandagon,Shakesville)
Juan Cole
Brad Delong
Oliver Willis
Mike
The funniest things I’ve ever seen on RedState were the Ben Domenech plagiarism threads. Minute by minute, as the evidence piled up, they got more and more psychotic, blaming the damned lying liberal stalkers, the editors that inserted stolen material into Ben’s articles without telling him, the right-wingers who were abandoning Ben in his hour of need, and the vicious bastards who were attacking him with no evidence. And naturally they threatened to ban anyone who mentioned his obvious guilt. When Domenech finally came clean, not a word about the pathetic lies he’d been telling up until then, just admiration for a real standup guy.
Mike S
Paul, so few of you Bush cultists allow comments that it makes your comment absurd.
Mike S
Don’t forget, Benji is still one of their main guys.
Ted
He’ll still get a nice job at Heritage or the Weekly Standard.
The Populist
All together: If you haven’t done anything wrong you don’t have anything to worry about. Brrrrawk!
Keep saying that and ***poof*** all your liberties will be gone.
That’s cool…keep chanting that b.s. while people like myself work hard to keep the Constitution from being used as toilet paper.
Paul L.
From my RSS reader the following allow comments:
Ace of Spades HQ
Blackfive
Captain’s Quarters
Confederate Yankee
Daily Pundit
Don Surber
Gateway Pundit
Hot Air
Patterico
Riehl World View
Say Anything
SayUncle
QandO
Tim Blair
Wizbang
Alan
@Mike,
As long as he claims to be pro-life; he’s a conservative in good standing. That’s why Tom Delay is still a cool guy.
Bruce Moomaw
“…that every banned poster that comes back, every aggrieved and petulant outside blog post, every whiny comment on other discussion boards… every single one of these reinforces the message that what we think on this topic matters. Keep that in mind, Ronulans: your hate and rage only rebounds to our benefit.”
Obviously they’ve been reading Nietzsche — who, you’ll recall, said “That which makes me look like an idiot makes me stronger.” Oh, wait…
John Harrold
How odd. I checked my email archives and it seems I created an account with redstate back in June of 2005. I actually thought there were some folks with something worthwhile to discuss there (I think there actually were at the time). However, my login and password do not seem to work. Alas, I was going to offer it to John and let him enjoy himself.
Tim F.
Look dude, we liberal bloggers made it through Dean without losing our shit. You guys can survive this.
r€nato
crooks and liars deletes comments from trolls (real trolls, not merely those who disagree).
RSA
Must. . .preserve. . .precious. . .bandwidth. . .
capelza
Hahahaa…Pschyeout was just quoted on Olbermann’s show!
From that wacko Blogs4Brownback…
Jon H
The funniest thing is how Red State lived down to their own name, per the old understanding of Red being ‘Communist’.
Is there a more Stalinist site out there that runs in English?
Any day now they’ll be banning people who speak as if Ron Paul had ever run in the first place.
cleek
i’ve been banned 3x and my work IP is blocked from even seeing their pages… but I still get the newsletter!
Moe Lane… hah. a name that already lives in infamy. him and Trevino. what a couple of buffoons.
Dulcie
I saw that, Capelza – it made my night!
Jon H
“…that every banned poster that comes back, every aggrieved and petulant outside blog post, every whiny comment on other discussion boards… every single one of these reinforces the message that what we think on this topic matters. Keep that in mind, Ronulans: your hate and rage only rebounds to our benefit.”
The restraining order just shows how much she loves me. You’ll see.
Mike S
There are a ton of things that he and I disagree on and he has said things that piss me off. But in the current world of new Republicans he is an alright guy. He has gone farther than almost all of them in defending Democrats from the bigger bs attacks thown at us. In one he took on the entire right side of blogastan when nthey were praising an attack by Rove.
Jon H
“There are a ton of things that he and I disagree on and he has said things that piss me off. But in the current world of new Republicans he is an alright guy.”
Trevino?
Maybe before he lost the last shreds of his character to the GOP groupthink machine.
Harley
I spent a lotta time with Moe over at Tacitus back in the old days, and for cryin’ out loud, he put up a picture of my newborn daughter during the first few weeks Obsidian Wings was up and running. I don’t know what the frack happened to him. But, to use the now (I hope) immortal phrase coined by David Lynch yesterday. He appears to be wearing the ‘suffocating rubber clown suit of hate.’
Which is, of course, both funny and sad.
John Cole
You won’t ever hear me say a bad word about Trevino. I think he is a great guy.
Hell, you won’t hear me say anything bad about any of them, really. You all are probably forgetting that it was in a thread DEFENDING Ben Domenech that the “Jane Hamshers of the Left” was born. And Leon Wolf really is a good guy.
I do, however, reserve the right to make fun of them when they say stupid shit.
Jon H
I’ll take your word on their personal qualities, John, but isn’t it time for someone who cares to hold an intervention?
stickler
Well, John, you can say this:
But as someone who was personally banned by Mr. Leon Wolf, I’ll just have to disagree. And all I did was try to defend Goldwater conservatism (this was in late 2005, I think, though I can’t find the e-mail “blam” right now).
The man is uptight, prissy, and full of himself. Even by blogger standards. He’s clearly got no fricking idea how the Pharisee wing of the GOP, panty-sniffers and Pecksniffs all, is killing Republicanism west of the Rockies. And he’s pretty arrogant about it, which would be amusing if the party weren’t simultaneously taking the country over the cliff.
jake
I see…
Paulell has yet to learn the difference between “Allows Comments” and “Deletes Comments.” But he sure knows his jackalopes.
The Populist needs to learn to recognize a joke when it leaps up and steals his crackers. Wrrrrawk.
Tom DeLayTheVote needs to realize the Give A Fuck Express has long since left the station. Unless he’s going to jail.
ecgordon
> Same reason I like Huckabee (his persona, not his politics), despite my DemonRAT!!1 membership card. The man seems honest and up-front, at least.
Does it matter that Huckabee has a problem with comparators, eg., arguing that 1 out of 54 equates to “most”? Is he innumerate, ignorant, dishonest, ill informed, or simply pandering to the prejudices of his audience? And, as David Brooks has noted, he comes across as the sanest, most decent, indeed most electable, of the Republican field. This is the best the Republicans have to offer?
From http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/056664.php:
I’ve sort of gotten tired of explaining that, no, the Founding Fathers
actually weren’t all born-agains and bible thumpers. Not
hardly. (Probably better to say that the great majority ranged from
believers in an entirely impersonal God — Deists — to believing
Christians who nonetheless viewed popular religious enthusiasm with a
polite and paternal disdain.) But presidential candidate and former
Arkansas Governoer Mike Huckabee, himself a Baptist minister, actually
told a crowd yesterday that “most” of the signers of the Declaration
of Independence were “clergymen.”
As these folks at Politifact.com point out, one out of 56 were clergymen.
It’s a creative definition of ‘most’.
Jay C
POTD to Harley!!
PeterJ
The best one from politifact is this one.
The Other Steve
Apparently politifact has a sense of humor. :-)
Bubblegum Tate
Yeah, that was great. Olbermann didn’t seem to get that Psycheout’s a spoof…I can’t decide if that makes it more awesome or less awesome. Probably more.
Psycheout
Olbermann quoted me on Countdown tonight? Don’t tell me it was because of that Think Progress link to the Dumbledore is gay post. That would be my guess.
I don’t get MS-DNC and wouldn’t have watched it anyway. But it would be interesting to hear what he had to say. YouTube anyone?
Peter Johnson
It’s easy to laugh that that, but sometimes that is what it means. In your sterile liberal world, feelings could never be that messy, but the line between love and hate can be lot finer than some of you think.
Fruitbat
Peter Johnson, I love you and your sexy spoofiness.
tBone
So is the line between spoofy and creepy, as your post clearly illustrates.
Ted
This is the conservative thinking that defends husbands or wives who murder their spouses because of an affair. In some muslim states, Pakistan, Iran, etc, this is elevated to a service of the government (at least for female adulterers).
rilkefan
Moe Lane was a good guy for a long time at Obsidian Wings. It’s my uninformed guess that – well, who cares. I can’t make myself believe this RS crap is a permanent change for him. Hopefully after a few administrations have come and gone and the country is less divided, he and John and the rest of us will be hanging out in whatever medium replaces blogs and laughing about these days.
Peter Johnson
Moe still is a great guy, IHMO.
Doug M.
I knew Moe before Obsidian Wings… way the hell back in ’99, 2000. He was a great correspondent: thoughtful, funny.
I join with John and others in wondering what the hell happened.
Doug M.
TenguPhule
Love and Hate are not the same, though oft confused in more then name.
There is literally nothing this Prick will not defend as long as Republicans do it.
Justin Slotman
If Olbermann didn’t get that Psycheout’s a spoof that makes it much, much more awesome. I don’t think even DougJ got a television media member to read his stuff on the air.
Lupin
I was on RS once and I left (not banned, I quit) because of an absurd argument with Lunatic Leon about abortion. It wasn’t about pro- and con- but about his insulting dismissal of my faith purely because it went against his dogma.
Psycheout
Just thought I’d share. This is the kind of crap I hear all the time from Ron Paul fanatics:
This after I linked to pro-Ron Paul threads on Stormfront and posted a current image of a Ron Paul donation link that’s on every page at that site.
The Paulunatic then claims that it’s all an elaborate conspiracy of the neocon cabal trying to smear Saint Paul and that white nationalists would never endorse him. 450+ posts in a single thread about RP are all fabrications by white power neocons in disguise, or something.
An absolute tin foil hat conspiracy theorist. And this is your average Ron Paul supporter. They are intolerable nutjobs and totally impervious to logic.
Pb
Heh. Anyone remember when Free Republic banned Giuliani supporters? Or how about LGF? This guy even started a blog about them, after he was banned…
chopper
sounds like the voice of experience. has she ever called back?
chopper
or he?
Punchy
OT:
This cannot be good:
Let’s recap–the Kurds are our only “friends” in Iraq, and pretty much keep the North section calm. So we’ll bomb them. To please the Turks. Who allow us flyover and resupply missions, that we use to continue to help and please the Kurds. Whom we’ll bomb. To make Turkey happy.
And I’m sure those cruise missles won’t kill any civies. None. No pics of dead babies and moms. Those thangs are acc-u-ritttttte!
Somebody please explain all this to me. My head hurtz.
chopper
obviously, the kurds need to be seperated. any good cheese maker will tell you that.
Punchy
Great point. We should send all the Nat. Guards from Wisconsin to do the job…they’ve been fighting Curds for years….
Dennis-SGMM
Oooo, cruise missiles and smart bombs. I think that everyone who tells us how accurate and controlled these things are should volunteer stand in a group at White Sands Proving Ground while said weapons are delivered say, fifty or one-hundred yards away.
Zifnab
If I remember my blog-history correctly, the Freepers banned Bush supporters way back in 2000. Then they pulled a 180 when the party-line memo finally made it down the wire.
I’ve heard various rumblings in the wingnut’o’sphere, all favoring Romney. I honestly think he’s the ordained nominee from here on in. Guiliani just needs to be slowly and gently shown the door and then its open waters till Romney gets totally trounced by Clinton in ’08.
carpeicthus
the frothing fucking lunatic who now pretends to be Moe Lane but simply can not be the same person who posted with that account a couple years ago
That makes me so sad. Remember when he was more reasonable than John?
Evinfuilt
Well, we need to whey all out options.
cleek
not exactly a ringing endorsement. it’s like complimenting someone for being the world’s strongest quadriplegic.
neil
RedState blocked my account, but they still put me on their spam mailing list and sent me a fundraising letter or some shit last week.
r€nato
Shorter Peter Johnson: Stalking is just another way of showing how much you care.
libarbarian
Go Nor Luap!!!!!
Nor Luap for President!!!!!!!
Zifnab
That’s the Republican Party in a nutshell.
STFU, and give us money.
Zifnab
*snickers*
neil
I just don’t see why they have not managed to create an open, vibrant community like DailyKos. It boggles the mind.
They made fun of Kos when he banned the 9/11 truthers, didn’t they?
Alan
There was an exodus of Bush supporters in the spring and summer of ’99. People got pissed at the owner because he didn’t want another coke addict in the WH. :) Lucianne.com was a spinoff from that exodus.
Here’s the Salon article which covered it.
Dan
Let me explain this Kurdistan PKK thing for John Cole and all his librul pals.
Left wingers are always complaining about the warrantless wiretapping and loss of privacy. They don’t see that we’re fighting a war against a bunch of guys in caves who are going to force everyone to wear burkhas. Bush has to take away your rights to ensure that other people don’t take them away.
Turkey has promised to come to Kurdistan to fight the PKK. Thus, we have to bomb our allies in order to ensure that other people don’t bomb them.
Afterward, we’ll mount a “hearts and minds” campaign until 51% of Kurds are pro-bombing, and then – well, who cares what happens after that?
Peter Johnson
I was the one who filed the restraining order.
LITBMueller
Sorta like the fine line between clever and stupid?
I’m praying that the Red State Fatwa will backfire – that the hardcore Paul supporters will make an all out blitz on RedState, opening up new accounts and posting and getting blammed so many times that Leon’s hand hurts from all the blamming and Streiff flips out and goes postal on a 7-11 somewhere.
That would be hilarious.
neil
opening up new accounts and posting
Ah, but see, you can’t do that. You can only post from an account after a probationary period, an ideological correctness committee evaluation and a series of hazing rituals. That’s why it’s such a hotbed of interesting discussion, you see.
The Other Steve
There is no country called Kurdistan.
Zifnab
And how did that make you feel?
Zifnab
You should inform the Kurdistanians of that.
chopper
Whatever you say, Dicky Thomas.
Bubblegum Tate
OK, I think we’ve milked this cheesy joke long enough.
Zifnab
Is he going to put our rights in a lock box?
Sorry. I’m just filled with snark today.
Tsulagi
What could possibly go wrong? Look forward to the Yon dispatches of everyday Kurds chanting USA!, USA! cheering the action.
Jake
Unfortunately the judge denied Peter Hugh Johnson’s request that she be restrained from calling the cops when she finds him hiding in the bushes; screaming “Get out of here creep!” when he shows up at her place of employment/parents’house/friend’s houses/gym/place of worship/bedroom closet; tearing up the poetry he writes for her; not answering the phone when he calls; dating that guy who doesn’t love her half as much as he does; running away or otherwise seeking to escape the suffocating iron grip of his affections.
Too bad he didn’t get a hearing from that judge who deemed forced sex at gun point was merely theft of services.
Demosthenes
Mr. Cole:
Funny you should mention Red State’s wide use of “banning” “trolls”. About 4 months ago, I registered at the site. I purposefully wrote very polite posts mildly disagreeing with some of the crazier stuff there. In addition, I almost always quoted prominent Republicans in support of my thoughts (such as quoting William F. Buckely on the Iraq War). I was banned within a few weeks. Some website, huh?
Tax Analyst
Peter, Peter, Peter – will you EVER learn? It’s a BIG, BIG, mistake to let your monkey out of the closet and personally introduce him to folks like the Balloon Juice crowd.
On the other hand, I sense that you enjoy and perhaps even revel in the ridicule. If that’s the case, well, by all means carry on.
slippytoad
I had an RS account and I often spoke my mind. I was sure on several occasions that I was going to be banned, but I think in retrospect it was because I was being oblique enough in my criticism that they simply didn’t understand what I said.
Of course, it appears that blamming has gotten much much worse these days. But even then it was like trying to have a discussion with a bunch of impatient jack-booted thugs. Open disagreement was NEVER tolerated, and people were frequently threatened with a blam if this or that rule was violated.
And for some reason they were just fanatic about not using fuck and shit. Jackbooted Ned Flanderses, they were.
jcricket
Hi-Diddly-Ho Mutha Fuckers! followed by machine gun fire
Demosthenes
Slippytoad:
Not to speak heresy, but I don’t blame RS on profanity. What does it accomplish in comments anyway? Nevertheless, as I stated in an earlier comment, I was banned by RS, despite being very polite and using no profanity. Indeed, my comments were very guarded, and never recited Democratic Party talking points. I usually relied upon Republicans as support. Nevertheless I was banned after a few commenters responded that, although I was polite, I must be a troll since I had the temerity to disagree with the prevailing “wisdom” at RS.
Tax Analyst
Well, banning “objectionable language” allows you to support things like “torture” and still claim to occupy a higher moral ground. What’s the current acceptable euphemism for “torture” anyway? Oh, yeah…”Enhanced Interrogation”. Sounds like they’ve added some vitamins to it so it meets one’s minimum daily requirement of something beneficial – like “Iron” maybe. If you parse the abhorrent nicely enough you can ignore the screams of those subjected to it. Hell, you can tell by the inarticulate way those poor bastards yelp for mercy that they’re intellectually-limited and definitely not in you class. I’ll bet people that are water-boarded drool all over themselves, too.
Tax Analyst
One more point on “censorship”. You can start with “objectionable words”, but from there it is but a small step to “objectionable ideas”…as defined by the censors, of course. So on Red State “slippytoad” is banned or censored for “objectionable words”…seemingly a supportable rationale to some folks, but before you know it Demosthenes finds himself banned for “guarded disagreement” with Red State’s arbiter’s of “acceptable commentary”. Once the boundaries of what can and cannot be said are defined to suit the mind-set of the “decider’s” it’s pretty easy to formulate a consensus among the remaining folks that reinforces their pre-conceived notions and allows them to cluck & nod their heads in agreement.
And yet these same clowns have the gall and audacity to toss around words like “Freedom” as those they have any understanding of what it means.
So let me just say with all due respect, Fuck those assholes, they wouldn’t know “Freedom” if it bit them on the dick.
Tax Analyst
Damn it! Just as I hit the “Submit Comment” my eyes catch a grammatical fuck-up. Sometimes proof-reading something three times is just not quite enough.
OniHanzo
That Salon link is comedy gold, Alan.
Too funny.
Carl Gordon
Yep, there’s deep murmurings reverberating through the DC malarial feverish jungle canopy like them crazy drums and pointy-head pundits that never stop. When I asked (or axed if you’re stupid or have lousy taste in music) somebody if the drums ever stop, they replied, “No. Very bad when drums stop. Then we get bass solo!”.
Okay, bad joke. Anyway, have you ever seen those lists of all the elements in the human body and how much they would be worth if you could cook them down, extract, and sell them? The gist of it is that we’re all made of mostly oxygen, hydrogen and carbon with small amounts of stuff like potassium and phosphorus thrown in for flavoring and color, and altogether our component elements are worth a little less than a dollar, assuming you could find a buyer for tiny amounts of easily obtainable elements. Well, we’d have to take a loss on this seven year disaster (don’t know if it’s tax deductible) but it just might be time to accept a tolerable level of loss and throw Boosh, Chainy, the whole Republican congress, and, ah hell, let’s throw in Coulter and her adam’s apple, any employee at Faux, and even Rush (careful, don’t strain yourself – don’t know if it’s covered by rip-off insurance), and see if we can walk away from this disaster of stupendous proportions with enough chump change in our pocket for a twelve pack of Schlitz and a pound of head cheese. Hell, the resultant hangover and intestinal upset would be tolerable if I didn’t have to gaze one more time upon the slack-jawed mouth-breathing Gimp attempting to thrash out some brain dead 3rd graders half-baked glue-inspired “thoughts”.
John
We. Must. Defend.
mclaren
John mentioned:
Oh, c’mon! It’s obvious. Ron Paull is banned because he’s a Republican.
I don’t know what these current 24%ers who call themselves “Republicans” really are, but they’re not conservatives. They want huge government, big spending, eternal war, a police state, zero privacy, a charismatic ultramacho leader with dictatorial powers, they want to spy on every citizen, they want to bug and wiretape every man, woman and child without a warrant and without cause, they want to tear up the constitution and shred the Bill of Rights… That’s not a Republican. I don’t know what that is. Royalist? Brownshirt? Apparatchik of the Soviet Central Committee? Taliban? Who knows? But it sure ain’t a Republican.
Republicans believe in individual responsibility, the right to privacy, fiscal responsibility, small government, sharp limits of government powers, the rule of law, and most of all, the right of the individual to be left alone as long s/he’s not bothering anybody.
Sounds like what Ron Paul believes in. It’s sure as hell not what the 24%ers believe in. So, of course, they’ve banned him. Ron Paul refuses to salute their charismatic leader and attend their torchlight rallies. Just more proof of how completely the party which now calls itself “Republican” has abandoned every single conservative principle known to political philosophy.
Sour Kraut
OK, I think we’ve milked this cheesy joke long enough.
Agreed. No more gouda will come from it.
slightly_peeved
I camembert puns like that.
jake
Electric-olytes.
chopper
“it’s got what plants crave!”
Christopher J. Arndt
Good news!
I have a redstate account!
It’s over two years old and I have never ever used it since I signed on 2 years 51 weeks ago.
So I can talk about Ron Paul there.
Just to piss people off.