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He’s in the Jailhouse Now

by John Cole|  October 6, 20209:55 am| 58 Comments

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I supposed it was inevitable:

He's in the Jailhouse Now

Pretty clearly they did a search for hope+die. Team of rocket scientists at twitter.

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  1. 1.

    Immanentize

    October 6, 2020 at 10:00 am

    I hope they cast the die of love.

  2. 2.

    hells littlest angel

    October 6, 2020 at 10:00 am

    I’ll do anything I can to help, cross my heart and hope to di —

     

    [This WordPress account has been temporarily suspended.]

  3. 3.

    Raoul Paste

    October 6, 2020 at 10:01 am

    Now you’ve done it

  4. 4.

    A Ghost to Most

    October 6, 2020 at 10:03 am

    To quote the nazi base:

    “If’n y’all ain’t rubbin’, y’all ain’t racin'”

  5. 5.

    DougJ

    October 6, 2020 at 10:03 am

    Sorry to bigfoot you, though in a way it’s kind of apropos here!

  6. 6.

    Johannes

    October 6, 2020 at 10:03 am

    Cole!  You’ve been framed!

    https://youtu.be/DelYvJHTvH0

  7. 7.

    DougJ

    October 6, 2020 at 10:05 am

    Woulda gone with Folsom County Prison Blues, I Fought the Law, or Jail Guitar Doors.

  8. 8.

    satby

    October 6, 2020 at 10:09 am

    Yeah, I got the bad poster timeout for calling it the White (trash) House. But at least you shared the lentil soup recipe first.

  9. 9.

    donnah

    October 6, 2020 at 10:10 am

    I noticed a big surge in blank twitter posts a few days ago as they started deleting “questionable” posts. It made me realize that there are a lot of people who would have been happy to see Trump’s demise and say so.

    I love John’s tweets and hope he gets his voice back soon, if he hasn’t already. They’re fun and funny. Like the “pot pie being basically soup with a lid.”

  10. 10.

    satby

    October 6, 2020 at 10:12 am

    @DougJ: can’t go wrong with the Soggy Bottom Boys.

  11. 11.

    mrmoshpotato

    October 6, 2020 at 10:14 am

    ?IN CONSTANT SORROW AND HEADBANGING ?

  12. 12.

    mrmoshpotato

    October 6, 2020 at 10:16 am

    @donnah: Bread! Bowl! :)

  13. 13.

    cain

    October 6, 2020 at 10:16 am

    It was long time in coming – enjoy the jail! :D

  14. 14.

    Leto

    October 6, 2020 at 10:19 am

    So “the Squad” (AOC and company) can get death threats/threats of violence on Twitter all day long, but president* dum-dum is off-limits. BuT LiB-rUl bIAs!!!! Conservatives are down trodden!

    Fucking hate all these platforms.

  15. 15.

    Nicole

    October 6, 2020 at 10:20 am

    ATTICA ATTICA ATTICA

  16. 16.

    Leto

    October 6, 2020 at 10:21 am

    @satby: I think he’d get better donations with a SBB reunion tour.

  17. 17.

    MattF

    October 6, 2020 at 10:21 am

    Hope + die + Trump = bad

    Hope + die + rape = OK

  18. 18.

    Johannes

    October 6, 2020 at 10:24 am

    @DougJ: Fair.

  19. 19.

    Shakti

    October 6, 2020 at 10:24 am

    One of my mutuals got baninnated for telling trolls happy over RGB’s death to go fuck themselves and to suck her dick.   She moved more of her activities to IG.

     

    All of these simpering pious god-botherers saying “I’ll pray for you” while reciting Psalm 109:6-20 during the Obama years? Not a peep about that.

  20. 20.

    Morzer

    October 6, 2020 at 10:27 am

    @mrmoshpotato: More like in constant sorrow, cat-shaving and receiving blood transfusions.

  21. 21.

    mrmoshpotato

    October 6, 2020 at 10:29 am

    @Leto: Ummm…..yes.  That’s how it works.  Do you not know about the Fabulous, Tea-Baggulous Bush-Off Machine?

  22. 22.

    Leto

    October 6, 2020 at 10:31 am

    @Morzer: And to top it off, he uses Fop!

  23. 23.

    mrmoshpotato

    October 6, 2020 at 10:31 am

    @Morzer: Multi-task!

  24. 24.

    Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)

    October 6, 2020 at 10:32 am

    That’s rather depressing.  Surely, they can use some common sense on these calls.

  25. 25.

    Morzer

    October 6, 2020 at 10:38 am

    @Leto: Well, yes, everyone knows that, but enough about Mike Pence, is Cole a Dapper Dan man?

  26. 26.

    Betty

    October 6, 2020 at 10:41 am

    Twitter jail is often incomprehensible. At least they told you what you did wrong. The last time they suspended me, I protested and they unsuspended me. Never did understand why.

  27. 27.

    MazeDancer

    October 6, 2020 at 10:42 am

    Think GOP trolls are doing the Trump+die search.

    They know it is a rich time for reporting, so they’re taking advantage of it.

    Remove the tweets as requested, John, get released, then craft a dozen more. Just use Orange One, or something like it, instead of Trump.

    Also, asking your speculation as a question works. Then you’re just asking, not “abusing”.

  28. 28.

    trollhattan

    October 6, 2020 at 10:47 am

    @MazeDancer:

    I’d like to point out Trump+Dye=Our Orange President.

  29. 29.

    Ken

    October 6, 2020 at 10:48 am

    @MazeDancer: Also, asking your speculation as a question works.

    It’s well-known that appending “?” to a political slander makes it perfectly innocent.  In this context it is sometimes called the “Fox mark”.  For example:  “Did Joe Biden eat the flesh of infants before his debate?”

  30. 30.

    trollhattan

    October 6, 2020 at 10:50 am

    Holy moly, national polls.

    CNN: Biden 57% Trump 41%
    NBC-WSJ: Biden 53% Trump 39%
    ?

  31. 31.

    Omnes Omnibus

    October 6, 2020 at 10:54 am

    @DougJ: Ooooh, Jail Guitar Doors.  Haven’t heard that in a long time.  Must remedy now.

  32. 32.

    oatler.

    October 6, 2020 at 11:00 am

    5446 Was My Number

    RIP Toots

  33. 33.

    NotMax

    October 6, 2020 at 11:01 am

    Obigatory?

    :)

  34. 34.

    Morzer

    October 6, 2020 at 11:02 am

    @trollhattan: I think there’s room for discussion of Trump and pining for the fjords…

  35. 35.

    Villago Delenda Est

    October 6, 2020 at 11:04 am

    Their algorithms are as moronic as Jack himself.

  36. 36.

    Barbara

    October 6, 2020 at 11:05 am

    @trollhattan: “Reality” shows are not nearly as enjoyable to live through as they are to watch on tv.  “Watch me burn down the house!” isn’t much fun when it’s your house.

  37. 37.

    Villago Delenda Est

    October 6, 2020 at 11:07 am

    @Betty: I was put in jail for commenting that KAC congratulating Smokey Eye’s replacement was “a bitch congratulating a bitch replacing a bitch.”

    Then I was suspended indefinitely for referring to Robert L. Johnson with two words:  “Uncle Tom.”

  38. 38.

    Gravenstone

    October 6, 2020 at 11:09 am

    @Ken: “Cavuto mark” isn’t it? Since he seems favor that rhetorical approach.

  39. 39.

    VeniceRiley

    October 6, 2020 at 11:10 am

    Someone who does not like you found and reported those

  40. 40.

    WereBear

    October 6, 2020 at 11:11 am

    Care for some gopher?

  41. 41.

    Ken

    October 6, 2020 at 11:20 am

    @WereBear: Was there supposed to be a link?  Apologies if I’m missing a Caddyshack reference.

  42. 42.

    Oklahomo

    October 6, 2020 at 11:22 am

    I got twitter jailed twice; once for tweeting horse poop at the president with “too many hashtags;” so I deleted those and retweeted horse poop with no hash tags.  Another time there was no reason and when I appealed, everything went back to normal with no reasons ever stated.

  43. 43.

    Mai Naem mobile

    October 6, 2020 at 11:22 am

    My twitter got suspended once for calling Doug Ducey,  Dougie Dougie Douchebag. The thing is mentally I still think of him as Dougie Dougie Douchebag .

  44. 44.

    Citizen Alan

    October 6, 2020 at 11:24 am

    @Leto: Fucking hate all these platforms.

    My account was suspended permanently. I don’t even know which tweet it was that did it, but I’m sure it was some butthurt MAGAt that reported it. I’ve thought about getting a new account, but Twitter brings out the absolute worst in me, even worse than FB. (Hell, I’ve pruned my Friends list down to 30 people, and I still have to control my temper when one Friend’s “Racist Aunt Sally ™” pisses me off.

  45. 45.

    WereBear

    October 6, 2020 at 11:25 am

    @Ken: It was an Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? reference.

  46. 46.

    Citizen Alan

    October 6, 2020 at 11:27 am

    @Shakti:

    All of these simpering pious god-botherers saying “I’ll pray for you” while reciting Psalm 109:6-20 during the Obama years? Not a peep about that.

    About the only thing that keeps me from becoming an outright Atheist is that I cling to the hope of seeing these assholes’ faces on Judgment Day when Christ tells them to their ugly faces “I never knew you! Depart!” before sending them all to Hell.

  47. 47.

    qkslvrwolf

    October 6, 2020 at 11:28 am

    ye gods, you only got 12 hours? Mine was basically the same, but I got 7 days!

    probably fewer follower counts = longer bans.

    Meanwhile, a million people tell the squad and well..every woman on twitter they’re going to kill them PERSONALLY every day, and..nothing

  48. 48.

    Frank Wilhoit

    October 6, 2020 at 11:30 am

    1.  Boycott the platform.
    2.  Send links to [email protected] to each of the millions of tweets hoping that a Democrat dies.
  49. 49.

    Oklahomo

    October 6, 2020 at 11:40 am

    @Citizen Alan: There are a lot of MAGAt accounts that do nothing but follow and wait for a post they can pounce on and report.

  50. 50.

    Searcher

    October 6, 2020 at 11:44 am

    So you’ve only publicly, on twitter, wished death on Trump twice in the last decade?

    You’d think it be more.

  51. 51.

    The Enderville Phantom

    October 6, 2020 at 11:50 am

    Free John Cole!

     

    Print up the t-shirts and posters.

     

    This aggression cannot stand man.

  52. 52.

    Eric K

    October 6, 2020 at 12:10 pm

    I got a 24 hour ban from them once because I told a Republican congressman to go fuck himself, very worth it.

  53. 53.

    Just One More Canuck

    October 6, 2020 at 12:13 pm

    @DougJ: “I was mean to someone on twitter, just to watch him cry” doesn’t have the same impact

  54. 54.

    tinare

    October 6, 2020 at 12:39 pm

    I was knocked off once for saying someone should die in prison. I tried to argue with Twitter that I wasn’t actually wishing them death, that I actually was wishing for a long life, just a longer prison sentence, but I still had to take my 48 hours.

  55. 55.

    PaulWartenberg

    October 6, 2020 at 12:55 pm

    I envy you! I still haven’t been twitter-banned!

    Is there a tat you get when you get sent to Twitter Jail?

  56. 56.

    EmanG

    October 6, 2020 at 1:50 pm

    Oh John, you’re such a scamp.

  57. 57.

    J R in WV

    October 6, 2020 at 2:29 pm

     

    So seriously, someone wishing death from Covid-19 on Trump gets banned from Twitter, yet promising to kill AOC after raping her is OK?

    That’s pretty sick, folks.

    Glad I never signed up for Twitter.

    I may have started a signup for Facebook back when it was a tiny startup, if so I don’t remember user name nor password. Pretty sure I never signed in and perhaps didn’t complete the account. Never use it even as a visitor, have their trackers blocked with multiple tools.

  58. 58.

    Barney

    October 6, 2020 at 2:35 pm

    Since the recent tweet was specifically hoping he doesn’t die (and not sarcastically, because the prison term was explicit), that’s a fucked-up algorithm/poorly-paid Twitter moderator.

    On the subject of Twitter jail, you can find yourself with bad company there: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-president-trump-twitter-locked-ny-post-20201006-gnv5wacehfd5fantuv4hiv2rpm-story.html

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