Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Second rate reporter says what?

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Come on, man.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Everybody saw this coming.

I was promised a recession.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

No one could have predicted…

Good lord, these people are nuts.

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Late Night Open Thread: Adieu, @DPRK_News

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It might have been content like this that got it narced…


(Explainer)

But more likely, it was this:

On the snark-positive side, TFG has a new social media site planned, but how long are his minions gonna be able to keep *this* one up?


Are we sure it’s fake?

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43Comments

  1. 1.

    MattF

    I think TFG’s recent, entirely spiteful posts on Powell and Cheney demonstrate that there is now no filter between him and the outside world. The few remaining actual Republicans should be concerned, the Trumpites are getting what they want.

  2. 2.

    Burnspbesq

    Does Twitter really think it’s part of its mission to protect the tender sensibilities of those too fucking stupid to understand the nature of DPRK News Service?

    Efg them.

  4. 4.

    Burnspbesq

    Whatever I pay for Paramount+, it’s worth it. European football is sn excellent cure for insomnia.

    Leicester … Spartakzzzzzzz

  5. 5.

    dmsilev

    ‘Now available for pre-order in the Apple App Store”. WTF does that even mean? ‘Download this placeholder app that Jared was responsible for, and the real app will be released soon, trust me.’ Sounds legit.

  6. 6.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    I am pretty sure it was the tweet about Kim being the only one allowed to murder members of the people assembly that got DPRK News to pull the plug. As I was mentioning earlier today the Tory Troll bots were swarming DPRK news for daring to make a joke about their Martyred MP.

    And even the NYT Pitchbot has problems with people not getting it’s a parody account, even though it says it’s a parody account.

  10. 10.

    Steeplejack

    It’s not clear to me that the @DPRK_News account has been blocked. It’s still visible, with the latest post about seven hours ago. That might be around the time it was blocked, but I thought blocked accounts were not visible to other readers.

  13. 13.

    Fair Economist

    @Major Major Major Major: Gotta agree, what’s the big deal about a parody account calling it a parody account? In general, requiring spoofers to identify themselves is a good rule, and I don’t see a line to draw between this and a lot of potential malicious spoofs. And it *is* spoofing an actual government; a pretty awful one, sure, but again where do you draw the line between governments allowed verifiable communication and those denied it?

  16. 16.

    MattF

    @dmsilev: It may mean that some number of competent developers have said ‘You want an app? Money up front. And the check must clear’.

  17. 17.

    cain

    Looks like DPRK_News could be setup on the new Trump social media site.

    Can’t wait to see what is going to be released. The last one was not very impressive. :)

  19. 19.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Major Major Major Major: On the one hand, sure: “say somewhere on your page that you’re a parody”[1].  On the other, they only ever do this to the powerless, or when they’re forced.  Anybody with actual power, actual ability to hurt them, they just turn a blind eye.  I mean, Cucker Tarlson is a great example: he’s still on the boob, still on twitter, still spreading his lies, still getting people killed.  And twitter does nothing about it.

    [1] because there will always be imbeciles, and, sure, we need to keep them from being deluded.  But only by DPRK, not by Cucker Tarlson — that’d be going too far.

  21. 21.

    mrmoshpotato

    The twenty-third rule for Trump’s planned social media site is that you can’t use it to make fun of his new social media site.

    LOL!  And to have voted for this whiny ass titty baby because you thought he was strong…

    You stupid, Dump-humping, fascist shitstains.

  22. 22.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Burnspbesq:

    Devin Nunes Cow is still up and running, thank FSM. 

    Thanks for the reminder.  Gotta see what that treasonous, cow fucker (Nunes) has been up to lately.

  23. 23.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    And even the NYT Pitchbot has problems with people not getting it’s a parody account, even though it says it’s a parody account. 

    That’s because the fucking New York Times writes stupider shit than DougJ’s pitchbot.

  24. 24.

    Danielx

    Yet another Trump attempt at a social media site. Gosh, wonder what the pitch deck for VCs will look like. “No, really, it will work this time! Promise!”

  25. 25.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Danielx:

    “No, really, it will work this time! Promise!”

    If he’s gonna be on social media, this is probably the best way for it to happen: I cannot imagine him being able to hire or select am even marginally-competent team to run it for him.  Much better than if he gets his Twitter account back.

  26. 26.

    Morzer

    So the Loser of Far-a Lardo is trying to erect yet another insta-dysfunctional social media site to stiffen the morale of the MAGAARGH hordes? How long before this one goes floppy – assuming, of course, that it ever does stand up?

  27. 27.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    Remember when the famous satirical work by Jonathan Swift had the title: “A Modest Proposal (Just Kidding, This Is Not a Real Proposal)”?

    — Scott Stein ☕ (@sstein) October 21, 2021

  28. 28.

    Mary G

    Some Twitter people are gleeful that the site is a “Mastodon fork” with only the colors changed. I have no idea what that is, but it sounds like they’re incompetent. Par for the course with these imbeciles.

  32. 32.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    I’m sure this will be a smashing success just like Trump steaks

  33. 33.

    The Dangerman

    MobiousKlein, if you are around, you suggested to me downstairs doing my own, um, scaping before my ablation. Now, I have no particular to having some cute nurse VERY CAREFULLY cleaning me up down there, although I assume that would happen after lights out. No big deal unless he/she braids it, puts a bow in it, or similar. Curious about your suggestion.

    Can’t get the Genesis song The Brazilian out of my head right now. No lyrics to the song but always thought it was about Rio.

  34. 34.

    Shalimar

    23rd rule? Why does it take so long to get to it? God was smart enough to put “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain” 2nd.

  35. 35.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    And even the NYT Pitchbot has problems with people not getting it’s a parody account, even though it says it’s a parody account.

    @Chetan Murthy:

    who reads the damn bio?

    Hell, sometimes I don’t bother looking at someone’s nym before firing off a response, let alone the bio.

    I actually did respond to DougJ seriously once, for exactly that reason. Then I looked at the nym and said, “oops.”

    @mrmoshpotato:

    That’s because the fucking New York Times writes stupider shit than DougJ’s pitchbot.

    That, too.

  36. 36.

    Ken

    @Shalimar: 23rd rule? Why does it take so long to get to it?

    Either rules 1-22 are a direct copy of Twitter’s, or rather of Twitter’s as of whatever version of the code they forked.

    Or, rules 1-22 are about the requirements to at all times praise TFG and send him money.

  39. 39.

    prostratedragon

    A “special purpose acquisition company,” or SPAC*, is the 21st century version of “A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is” from the 18th.

    At the time that investors bought shares in Digital World, it had not disclosed what, if any, companies it planned to acquire. On its website, Digital World said that its goal was “to focus on combining with a leading tech company.”

    At least one of the investors, Saba Capital Management, did not know at the time of the initial public offering that Digital World would be doing a transaction with Mr. Trump, according to a person familiar with the matter.

    Mr. Trump, who has repeatedly lied about the results of the 2020 election while accusing the mainstream news media of publishing “fake” stories to discredit him, leaned hard into the notion of truth as his new company’s governing ethos.

    * Talk about rebranding! “No, no, no, not on spec, on SPAC!”

  41. 41.

    Ella in New Mexico

    “TRUTH Social: the place to go hang with friends when your briain is fried from watching NewsMax, OANN and Fox for the past 9 hours”

    $110 bucks say isn’t TFG’s idea, it’s Dumfuck Jr’s idea so he can keep on grifting from his grifter “Faaahtha”.

    100% sure he’s going to pay himself millions to serve on it’s board or act aas a n advisor, which Daddy will transfer to him from one of his many “2024” PAC’s calling it “contractual services” or some such bullshit.

    But because it’s got Junior’s fingers on it it will definitely fail.

  42. 42.

    Bill Arnold

    From the Terms of Service, bold mine:

    upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) viruses, Trojan horses, or other material, including excessive use of capital letters

    The Terms of Service document has MULTIPLE ENTIRE SECTIONS in all-caps, and some of them are ALSO IN BOLD.
    (I looked at it using a Tor window in the Brave browser: https://truthsocial.com/terms-of-service/ )
    The site will be [played with]; it is catnip for cats who like to play hard with vulnerable things.

  43. 43.

    Bill Arnold

    @Fair Economist:

    Gotta agree, what’s the big deal about a parody account calling it a parody account?

    I’m surprised at the nanny-state advocacy in this thread. Is untagged sarcasm next in the ban list? How about puns? How about unclear language? How about deliberately misleading language? How about language deliberately crafted with multiple truthful parsings that some readers read one way and some others read another way?

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