Imagine my surprise to get back from the dog park to find eleven comments in moderation. One from a long time commenter who, for some reason known only to WP, got stuck there as happens from time to time to a variety of our regular commenters. And ten from new commenters all either demanding to see all of Professor Ford’s therapy sessions files and notes and/or referring to our own regular commenters who either expressed that they believe her or recounted their own similar experiences in a variety of disgusting ways. And, amazingly, these remarks were not directed to me or Alain or any of the other identifiably male front pagers or commenters in BettyC’s thread, just the women – both front pagers and regular commenters. Now why is that?
Now here’s the housekeeping note: I move comments like these directly into the trash. I then notify Cole about what I did with the details so he can review, and if he decides I’ve acted rashly, reverse the action I took. I get that those of you in the “fuck your feelings” and “we can’t afford to be PC” crowd are, in fact, a bunch of pissant, pissy, whiny, intolerant, small minded snowflakes that believe you’re constantly looked down upon, under constant verbal, political, social, economic, and religious assault, and are history’s only true victims. I only have the following to say to you:
- FUCK YOUR FEELINGS!!!!
- WE CAN’T AFFORD TO BE PC ABOUT THIS RIGHT NOW!!!!
For a bunch of self declared alpha males and females, you’re the whiniest, neediest bunch of people the world has ever seen.
This housekeeping note has been brought to you by my personal manual of etiquette and decorum.
Have a nice night.
Open thread!
dmsilev
Thank you, Adam.
Splitting Image
You’re making David Brooks and Maggie Haberman sad.
Keep up the good work.
Jeffro
Adam, I’m just not clear what you’re trying to say here…please be a little more direct in the future.
LOL, j/k, and thanks for making snowflakes go ‘way!
Ninedragonspot
You can moderate my threads anytime.
TheMightyTrowel
*applause.gif*
Baud
So that’s how the quality of this blog always remains so high.
Dan B
Did the dog put you up to this or is it the d8mn willow that’s too close to the house?
Spanky
Or … could be the work of the third shift in St. Petersburg. Which would be notable for the fact that there’s not been any third shift action lately that I’ve noticed.
Staffing up for our November election?
Bobby Thomson
MAGAts with glass jaws? They take their cue from the {Gendered insult good enough for Michelle Wolf} in Chief.
NotMax
“Whaddaya mean I can’t freely usurp your platform to promote my retrograde, crackpot swill?”
:)
Dan B
@Ninedragonspot: I imagine Mae West purring this very line.
You can moderate my threads anytime big fella!
Bobby Thomson
@Spanky: don’t kid yourself. There are literally thousands of sleeper Twitter and Facebook accounts ready to spam the shit out of all political posts.
Adam L Silverman
@Dan B: I don’t have any willow trees. The dogs had a great Sunday. They got a pancake when I was making breakfast, there were no thunderstorms or monsoons, and they got to go to the dog park. They’re currently snoozing.
Spanky
@Adam L Silverman: To some people* all front-pagers look like Cole. I’ll leave it to you two to figure out which one should be insulted.
*- or bots, of course
Adam L Silverman
@Ninedragonspot: @Dan B: You two get a room and talk about your etchings or something…//
Adam L Silverman
@Spanky: I’m sure BettyC, TaMara, Kay, Cheryl, and ABL will be thrilled to know that.
(((CassandraLeo)))
Just dropping in to say keep doing what you’re doing. I’ve got no tolerance for transparent sealioning, whataboutism, trolling, etc. and see no reason why blogs should entertain it. It improves the discussion quality to simply cut that bullshit out at the source.
MomSense
???
Thank you.
SiubhanDuinne, Badass Jackal
I love you, Adam. You are usually so calm and measured that on the rare occasions you go into Rant Mode, I’m all “Whoa What The Fuck Was THAT Way To Go Adam!”
You just stay you, hear?
TaMara (HFG)
That was some ugly shit. Thanks for dumping it into the trash.
cain
I miss the old days when the trolls would come and the entire blog would stop whatever sniping they did with their favorite adversary and focus on the troll. Ahh, the great days of miq2xu aka goat boy.. that kid never learned and would get pummeled. :-)
Adam L Silverman
Speaking of pissant, pissy, whiny, intolerant, small minded snowflakes that believe you’re constantly looked down upon, under constant verbal, political, social, economic, and religious assault, and are history’s only true victims
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne, Badass Jackal: Took a good number of years and a lot of martial arts to get here. But thanks!
Ken
@Adam L Silverman: Well of course he will, and not just for the reasons you cite. He simply doesn’t know when to keep quiet. Remember, the mainstream press had managed to “forget” about Puerto Rico and Maria until he opened his big fat Twitter account.
Adam L Silverman
@cain: If this was trolling, I would have released the comments and let everyone go to town. This wasn’t trolling.
Miss Bianca
Erk?
(long-time pestiferous commenter saying, “WTF? Are we being trolled like that? And Adam et. al having to deal with it?” How this be?”)
I iz a Naive.
debit
Thank you, Adam.
Gin & Tonic
@Adam L Silverman: Well, I guess that’s one way to drive voter turnout.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I’m not sure about that, they still let me comment.
Doug R
Maybe Megan McArdle discovered this blog?
Cheryl Rofer
I’ve been seeing notes on Twitter from people who monitor such things about bot activity supporting Trump in various things lately. Haven’t seen anything about Kavenaugh but will keep my eyes open.
I also had two comments today on Twitter on this subject that I can’t see. Maybe people or bots I’ve blocked?
I have to admit that I haven’t been checking on comments in moderation. Seems like they mostly get there because folks got something wrong in their nyms or email addresses, and they recognize that quickly.
But this is interesting. Thanks, Adam.
Mnemosyne
Thank you for your service, Adam. ?
Gravenstone
@Adam L Silverman: That’ll do wonders for female voter outreach in the midterms…
debbie
@Adam L Silverman:
Doubtless he’s got a spare $130,000 lying around somewhere.
Adam L Silverman
@Gravenstone: No doubt.
Adam L Silverman
@debbie: Doubtful.
catclub
@Ken:
This. They did not care when that 3000 dead number came up. Now they have to think about why the number grew so high when there were not thousands dead from flooding two days after the storm. – Which is how most Katrina deaths occurred.
Mismanaged recovery!
catclub
@Gravenstone: i wish that would make a difference. But I think there is a poster here who does not put her faith in white women voters to save us from Trump. What do they know about Trump now that they did not know in 2016?
The Midnight Lurker
Thank you, Dr. Silverman. I have no doubt that this kind of thing will become more prevalent in the next few days before Kavanaugh’s confirmation vote, and keep getting worse right up until the midterms and beyond.
You would not believe the ratfucking Cruz’ campaign is pulling. Some really sick shit. I marvel at the level of the mind that comes up with some of this stuff.
These people will do anything to stay in power. Anything.
We’re at war, folks.
Adam L Silverman
@The Midnight Lurker: I saw the mailer they sent.
As for this, the morons are still submitting comments which sit in moderation until I send them to the trash.
Tim
This may be the best post I’ve ever read on this blog and I’ve been lurking for years. Congrats
Adam L Silverman
@Tim: Thank you.
zhena gogolia
@Tim:
Yeah, it’s primo.
Duane
@Adam L Silverman: You and Cole seem to be thinking alike tonight. Many others too. That rotten orange is coming to my city on Friday. I’ll be there.
Fuck you feelings, empathy and all the rest. Lock him up.
Lyrebird
Thank you Adam!
Ya know, Robyn Penacchia has a regular column about “garbage men” where she exposes some of the rancid swill spewed by various misogynists on the web. I respect her bravery, but I would so much rather come here and see this. Or hear germy or Mumphrey Pumphrey talk about their wives with appreciation. Or AL or Mnem or Major^4 about their husbands. And so on.
Thanks.
Adam L Silverman
@Duane: Decisions were made. Actions were taken. No one was spared.
Adam L Silverman
@Lyrebird: You’re welcome.
SFAW
@Adam L Silverman:
Passive voice was used?
RepubAnon
Republicans: people who can kick a defenseless man when he’s down, and then claim that they are the real victim because they stubbed their toe while doing so.
Example: Right wingnuts claiming that anyone criticizing them in any way is infringing upon the wingnut’s First Amendment rights… because only right wingnuts have free speech rights.
Chris
YES, well said, thank you. Fasten your seat belts folks things are going to get even uglier.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Some people don’t realize how easy it is to not read that front past posters who is clearing being a troll? I got caught up with it for a moment and then sat back, thought why was I getting upset with people I other wise agreed with, realized that front poster was deliberately twisting the story for the luz just to piss everyone else off (at lest I hope so, go we all so screwed if even the left is going full derp) and like Fox News, simply ignored them after that.
Matt McIrvin
@cain: Funny, I don’t miss those old days at all!
Adam L Silverman
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Have you considered reading this whole section together?
catbirdman
@Tim: Indeed.
Ella in New Mexico
Jesus H. Christ I do not ever, EVER want your job, Adam, John or any of the front-pagers here at BJ.
I’m SO glad all I have to do is manage people’s life and death health while they’re in ICU.
stinger
Thanks, Adam. You do us all a service.
Adam L Silverman
@Ella in New Mexico: Honestly, these weren’t the worst comments I’ve seen. At my last writing home, we got much, much worse on a regular basis. And, in my opinion, we tolerated far, far too many of them.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Yeah, it comes with the territory. Used to write for a top 100,000,00 blog and run another and that sort of sick-making stuff constantly slithered in.
Interesting experiment would be for you to post once or twice as Agatha Silverman and see what that draws out.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: Probably a murder on a train.
J R in WV
@Adam L Silverman:
Well, HELL YES he will.
Lump: “That SLUT has no right to block my Supreme Court savior who will keep me from being FORCED to testify in front of a Grand Jury!!”
Paraphrase as I can’t do a grammar free rant as Trump does. We are in a moral free zone now, from the RussoRepublican mobocracy.
NotMax
@NotMax
Dropped a zero.
top 100,000,000 blog
Also should note that much of it is definitely unadulterated sexism. A female sounding nym is suggestive but by not necessarily indicative of gender, and becomes a target by its very existence.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Depends on which direction what you post politically express is oriented.
;)
@NotMax
Scratch the extraneous “by.”
NotMax
@NotMax
Not my day. Eighty-six the word “post.”
Le sigh.
Amir Khalid
@Adam L Silverman:
In active voice:
See? Active voice is nice and punchy. On the other hand, it sounds like it’s all about you. I seem to recall the Republicans griping about Obama saying “I” all the time..
joel hanes
@Adam L Silverman:
ABL
*sigh*
joel hanes
@Tim:
he best post I’ve ever read on this blog
The night that vanderleun claimed
on Lawyers, Guns, and Money
to be aware of all internet traditions
towers above all other nights on the internet.
Sadly, No! and Balloon Juice reflected
just a bit of The Greatest Thread Evar Bar None
It was Epic. Legendary.
Achrachno
Adam: “snowflakes that believe you’re constantly looked down upon”
I’m sorry but they are right to believe that — at least I tend to constantly look down on them. And it’s getting worse as time goes along. For some reason my feelings about the wingnuts never seem to improve.
J R in WV
Thanks, Adam!
While I do believe in freedom of speech and opinion, some people have no knowledge or factual basis for their opinions. Thus, their opinions are mere mush poured into their head through their eyes and ears.
We gain nothing from listening to these people’s opinions, as they are not based upon an understanding of reality, but come from within a bubble of disbelief.
So thank you for removing their ranting and nonsense from our blog space!
Well done!
Sister Golden Bear
Bravo! And thank you!
celticdragonchick
Adam…you are the best!
opiejeanne
@Adam L Silverman: Thank you for that. Betty’s thread was a serious discussion by men and women of how prevalent assault is, and the women who spoke about being assaulted do not deserve to be verbally assaulted. I’ve never shared my story before partially for that reason.
Again, thank you.
Dev Null
You go, Adam!