Sic Transit Twitter

I've asked some friends to post this over on Twitter in absentia...

A Word of Caution to Congress...

There Goes the "We're Rioting Because We're Poor and Oppressed" Excuse!

Pair of Brooklyn lawyers including Ivy League corporate attorney charged in Molotov cocktail attack on NYPD cruiser https://t.co/EmMTqZ5pcZ

— Peter Schweizer (@peterschweizer) May 31, 2020

The Things That Happen When You're Not Paying Attention, Voter Fraud Division

I hadn't done a poll here in quite a while, so I decided to do one this last weekend. Lo and behold, the widget that used to let you easily post a poll on Blogger was nowhere in sight! So, I put up the poll on Twitter, and you can cast your vote here in the comments.

What do you think is the current state of #VoterFraud in the US?

— Mike a.k.a. Proof 🇺🇸 (@ProofBlog) November 25, 2018

Anybody Remember Michelle Wolf? Anybody at All?

Michelle Wolf is blasting the White House Correspondents Dinner as cowards for not having a comedian speak there this year.
The rest of America blasted the White House Correspondents Dinner for not having a comedian speak there *last* year.#WHCA #MichelleWolf

— Mike a.k.a. Proof 🇺🇸 (@ProofBlog) November 19, 2018

A Modest Prayer Request

That's ridiculous- probably explains why you're such a mediocre loser yourself

— Gipper's gravespin (@ReaganiteGOPer) September 10, 2018

I used to be friends with the "Reaganite Republican" (Now the Reaganite Independent). He even asked me to guest post over at his blog while he vacationed. I don't think about him too much, these days. Occasionally he has commented on my Twitter feed. Usually along the lines of "Get off my lawn!"

I stopped linking to him on the sidebar when he, IMHO, started to "lose it". I had to search for it today to see if his blog was current. (It is) I typically promote the Quote du juor over on Twitter and GAB. The above tweet was the response I got from today's quote.

In my typical mediocre loser fashion, I'd like you to take a moment today, if you are the praying sort, to say a little prayer for James. He seems to me to be very bitter and angry. I did not believe him to be one to spew gratuitous insults, but here we are.

I don't agree with all my friends. Lord knows I don't agree with all my relatives, but I don't gratuitously insult them just because they disagree with me. But, then, I AM a mediocre loser! What do I know?? : )

Mediocre loser that I am, I mistakenly thought he was referring to a Krauthammer quote, when it was actually Anthony Hopkins. My bad!

Update: Faced by making the embarrassing mistake of thinking the Anthony Hopkins quote was mine, dropping a couple of "F" bombs and blaming me and my "dipsh*t" friends for 'taking the nation over the cliff', (I'm going from memory here, since his quotes have been swallowed by a memory hole.)
he responded not by acknowledging his errors, potty mouth or bad attitude, but a tacit acknowledgement that he had no rational response to anything I said.

My responses were nothing but soft answers, blessings and Bible* quotes - nothing offensive or insulting, and... he blocked me! Pity. He used to be a rational conservative.

*  "Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh"

The Power of James Woods

This #AntifaGoon screamed she didn't want her picture taken while being arrested. Please respect her privacy. Do not retweet 10,000 times. pic.twitter.com/r0dNSGxEEl

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) August 29, 2017

James Woods asked facetiously that this Tweet not be retweeted 10,000 times. He got his wish.
It was retweeted nearly 50,000 times!

Look, Ma! I'm Bilingual!

Update: Oui, oui!

And:

Twitter tried to translate this tweet, claiming it was Portuguese. Needless to say the translation was unsuccessful. pic.twitter.com/dZb57S9vIV

— Theliefie1 (@theliefie1) June 11, 2018

DDoS is Screwing With de Internet

In case you haven't noticed, there have been some major disturbances in the Force, er, interruptions in the Internet today. Several of you have commented here, and I have not replied because Disqus is down. Not just here, but most everywhere I've visited. The Disqus site itself is accessible, but comments are down.

Twitter is down, along with other random sites. It has been called a Distributed Denial of Service attack. The Feds are aware of it and are trying to track down those responsible for it.

There's is nothing wrong with your set. We control the vertical. We control the horizontal.

If you are suffering from Extreme Twitter Withdrawal, please call 1-800-Get-a-Life. Operators are standing by...

Where is the Outrage?

#debatenight The look on #Hillary's face when #Trump accused her of being behind his Bimbo eruptions. #WhereIsTheOutrage? pic.twitter.com/kZQlPeqO4U

— Mike aka Proof (@ProofBlog) October 20, 2016

Cold blooded? Or merely acknowledging the truth?

Is Twitter Running Interference for Hillary?

I had noticed it before, but again, when I posted the following Tweet, I tagged Hillary in the photo:

The Pickle That Really Bites Back!https://t.co/Xq57eS5zwE #Hillary pic.twitter.com/HlU9gvgyYM

— Mike aka Proof (@ProofBlog) August 25, 2016

Hillary's name disappeared, as it had in several other Tweets I'd noticed. As a test, I posted an old Photoshop of Trump and tagged him:

Test. I want to see if Twitter removes #Trump's name when I tag him in a Photoshop pic.twitter.com/6AvcLKiYGu

— Mike aka Proof (@ProofBlog) August 25, 2016

His tag survived intact.

Is Twitter running interference for Hillary by refusing to tag any potentially embarrassing pictures or graphics bearing her name?
Inquiring minds want to know!

Update: Just for grins, I Tweeted Hillary to see if maybe she'd blocked me. Nope. That ain't the reason!

Politics Makes Strange Bedpersons

Anti-Trump group is running Facebook ads to drive up Mormon turnout in Utah and Arizona. https://t.co/v6ZZPKPMPp pic.twitter.com/Gps5KPbb2T

— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) March 21, 2016

Effective? Or the makings of a very big backfire?

...Keeps Going and Going...

The Energizer Romney (A MAD Mini-Poster) http://t.co/JvyDqpXGDN pic.twitter.com/F1c4qJbU3j
— MAD Magazine (@MADmagazine) January 15, 2015

Michelle Haz a Sad...

It's not like her husband could actually do anything about it!

http://cheezburger.com/8179318016

Quote du jour

Dame Maggie drug me kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Now I'm a noob on Twitter!

-Proof, my very first tweet!
11:01 PM - 1 Jan 2012

"The Steaks are High"

Now that it's legal, CO cattlemen have taken to mixing #marijuana in with the alfalfa. "The steaks are high", a spokesman said.

— Proof (@ProofBlog) January 4, 2014

Friday Night Babe -Stacey Dash

Tonight's FNB* is in the news for her recent Twitter dust up over her support of Mitt Romney...Stacey Dash!

(*a.k.a. Rule Five Friday)

Quote du jour

Those who do not learn from history are destined to retweet it.

-Proof

Character: Twitter 140, Obama 0

Wouldn't it have been nice for Obama to have to answer all the questions tweeted to him, and not just those cherry picked ones he got?

H/T Smitty, The Other McCain

Hackers Post False Obama Assassination on Fox's Twitter

My first impression, when I first heard this story, after getting through the sense of revulsion that anyone would pull such a sick, despicable hoax, was that it was probably a bunch of liberals who did the hacking, seeing as how they targeted Fox News and not, say, the Huffington Post.

"Fox News was selected because we figured their security would be just as much of a joke as their reporting,” said the Script Kiddies representative.

Sounds mighty like a liberal to me!

Update: The Secret Service is taking names!

WASHINGTON — The Secret Service said Monday it will investigate the hacking of Fox's political Twitter account over updates claiming that President Barack Obama had been assassinated. Secret Service spokesman George Ogilvie says the law enforcement agency whose job it is to protect the president will conduct a probe of the false postings and that "we will conduct the appropriate follow up."

Hackers broke into the FoxNewsPolitics account early Monday, leaving a series of six tweets reporting that Obama had been shot to death in Iowa and the shooter was unknown. In a statement posted on its website, Fox News called the tweets "malicious" and "false."

H/T Memeorandum

Cross posted at LCR, Say Anything.