Operation Republican Freedom (Reason For The Season, Thirteen.)

We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world, a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us. No redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you. Who does vote for these dishonest shitheads? Who among us can be happy and proud of having all this innocent blood on our hands? Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammad Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hate mongers among us; they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them. ~Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom Of Fear (2004)

I woke up this morning to find that Elon Musk had suspended a whole bunch of journalists from Twitter. At first, with no reason given, then the reasons given were shown to be bullshit.

I'm finding that:

#1 this autocratic, capricious one-man show horseshit is very tiresome. I used to be a conservative, I just don't work that way. If you can't, don't or won't clearly define your beliefs or rules and stick by them, I'm not going to keep playing with you, because after awhile the cheating, goalpost-moving and the hypocrisy gets old.

And people wonder why I'm not a Republican anymore...

#2 Whatever conspiratorial bullshit Musk believes that's causing this shit is already smacking hard into the wall of reality. People are simply jumping to other platforms. Mastodon, for one, is pretty chill and I don't have to worry about this kind of stupid shit over there. A lot of the people I follow on Twitter who are there have already followed me there, and I'm good with that.

Anyway...

Musk and his weird goons and "Conservatives" more generally seem to think they've won a great victory, somehow "taken down" and "taken over" some kind of "Leftist political organizing org disguised as a corporation." (Yes, I've heard/seen people say this.) It's not that, you idiots, a lot of the user base was journalists and politicians. All the Democrats are on there, yes, but so are all the Republicans. That was by design for what was previously the digital public square.

Twitter was a business, run by business people, on the American ethic that businesses should serve everybody.

But that's not the world these fucking people want to live in.

Musk and Republicans seem to want to turn it into all of the above...but only for far-right/fascist types thinking it'll somehow keep its previous organizing power but now only they can use it and somehow it would retain-and they would gain-its popularity.

Whole thing's already falling apart if you ask me. Seems like the Apartheid/Segregationist types fail to understand you can't really make a living, most places, if you're only serving White Conservative customers and their assorted kiss-asses and wannabe hangers-on.

And, meanwhile, people besides them (naturally) are moving on. I mean, among other things, what else can we do?

Because guess what? We really don't have to put up with this shit. 

This is America, it's a free country, we can go to another venue. Modern "Conservatives" just don't seem to understand that. And they're about to start shouting at us that we have to listen to them, because they have Twitter now!

Yeah, it's going to inconvenience everybody to rebuild all the networking we had on Twitter and that's going to take awhile. But I think we can rest assured the "Conservatives" will make a hash of Twitter and everybody will just end up inconvenienced and pissed off at them. 

So yeah, basically, it's just another Friday.

Meanwhile, and I've been warning about this for a long time, in Republican-land they're presently referring to Ronna Romney-McDaniel as a "Leftist" and blaming her for the Republicans' overall failure in the midterm elections.

The Zampolit class of "Professional Conservatives" is saying she spent too much money on "Leftist" luxuries like, ya know, transportation...?

Like what, she's supposed to walk? March wherever she has to go along with her assorted retinue?

As if Benny Johnson fancies himself some kind of rigid, straight-backed traditionalist-Catholic Vichy French General with a massive mustache and a fancy uniform (and a moldering, outdated army complete with Renault FT-17 tanks in 1942) who eschews luxuries and eats sausage off the end of a knife...and how did any of that shit really work out, anyway? 

LOL.

"Work, Family, Fatherland" only seems to last until they get to wherever tonight's Cocaine Orgy happens to be.

Not a word about the $1 BILLION+ that seems to have just disappeared under Rick Scott's leadership, though. 

It's like Operation Iraqi Freedom, but only for Republicans. 

And it's funny how so much of this shit seems to be "They just don't want other people to find out about that."

Don't worry, they'll hire a bunch of scammy "contractors" to root out the imagined problem, watch even more money go up in smoke, and accomplish nothing because they can't/won't admit what the problem even is...that they're all trying to scam each other, and the donors, and the voters.

But, before they come for the rest of us, they will have knives out for each other...and more seriously, for any institution, be it the government, the military, the police, etc. that they think might be able to stop them.

And they're telling on themselves, in that they appear to be switching their adoration and loyalty from Trump to Elon Musk. It's Christmas, and these motherfuckers think Ebenezer Scrooge is the fucking good guy.

These people don't want to live in America as it is...they want to live in the Aliens franchise where almost everything is run by corporations and the Marine Corps sends a squad to deal with a potential major crisis. 

And they see Elon and SpaceX and all that other crap as a means to get there. Oh yes, they do. They want to live in a world that's run the way God-Emperor Elon runs Twitter.

And this...they claim...is freedom.

Mind the Aliens, they bite.

Twelve

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. ~Ronald Reagan

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No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten. ~Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas