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Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

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Donald Jessica Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

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Getting the Gang Back Together

So apparently a reporter at the Washington Post wrote a story saying the name of a person behind some tiktok account I had never heard of (libsoftiktok) who apparently posts all sorts of random shit allegedly making fun of left wingers. I don’t really know what they do, to be honest, because for whatever reason I had never heard of it until today. I’d like to pause here and thank the algorithm at tiktok which has kept my feed at a steady stream of 50% animals, 25% cooking and DIY, 10% politics, 10% humor targeting middle aged gen xers, and about 5% attractive women with Australian accents. That is all.

At any rate, the person behind the account has rebranded herself multiple times, and I don’t even know if she actually believes but I think she’s just someone smart enough to keep rebranding and riding a wave of instant yet anonymous celebrity to keep tons of royalty money rolling in. And good for her. She’s also signed her actual name to openly available information that apparently was easily obtainable, and is no longer “anonymous.”

You can look it all up yourself because honestly I have no wasted all the time I intend to on something that I have never seen, but instead, I wanted us to all unite in the glory of the screenshot above, which immediately transported me back in time to 2005. I mean would you look at that lineup there- that is some CPAC honoree circa 2008 shit right there. Captain Ed! Ye Old Perfesser! Breitbart! Red State! Box Wine Anne! I mean if we could find Malkin and if the Confederate Yankee hadn’t offed himself or if Pam Gellar and Hoft were still around, we’d have the whole gang back.

Can’t you just feel the excitement? We could go over all the greatest hits! The terrorist fist jab! Flight 93 Memorial is a nod to Islam! Rachel Ray’s scarf is terrorist! Marble Countertops! Let’s mail rock salt to Olympia Snowe!

Almost twenty fucking years and not one iota of personal growth from these idiots. I guess me either, because I am still pointing at them and laughing.

*** Update ***

Whole lot more to the story, and boy howdy was I off on Libsoftiktok. Total scumbag. Click here for a great Anne Laurie post.

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  2. 2.

    Kropacetic

    @DCrefugee: I don’t even engage anymore. Maybe if there are legitimate questions, but once I figure out you spend any appreciable amount of time in the right wing information sphere, you’re cut off. We can talk about something else or not at all.

  3. 3.

    Old Man Shadow

    I wouldn’t care about these people except this lady is spouting yet another version of the blood libel in order to get attention.

    LGBTQ folks were Othered for so fucking long and it’s taken so many goddamned years for people to see them as normal human beings… and now these fucks are coming along spouting bullshit and bearing false witness against  them to rebrand them as Other again via pedophilia libels.

    The conservative movement in this country is pure evil.

  4. 4.

    Honus

    Pam Gellar and Hoft are gone?  And I forgot Confederate Yankee, but did he really off himself?

  7. 7.

    Baud

    @Kropacetic:

    There are people doing yeoman’s work bringing accountability to the right wing swamp.  But it’s not something that can be done casually or part time.  I just thank the heroes in the field for letting me ignore most of the garbage.

  8. 8.

    Kropacetic

    @Old Man Shadow: and now these fucks are coming along spouting bullshit and bearing false witness against  them to rebrand them as Other again via pedophilia libels.

    And, worse, a fair amount of people who should know better take it seriously. If the pandemic hadn’t made me shed my last bit of faith in humanity; this, too, would have done it.

  9. 9.

    ronno2018

    I feel seen, except my TikTok feed is %100 attractive women with Australian accents…

  10. 10.

    Poe Larity

    Did Hugh Hewitt die? Kinda scared to google what Malkin looks like now.

    Also, too, do you still have keys to Redstate? Asking for a friend.

  11. 11.

    caphilldcne

    This Tik Tok woman goes and finds relatively innocuous and obscure videos of LGBTQ teachers and other such professions, cuts them apart and re-edits them in the worst light and then broadcasts them to a national audience and calls them groomers. She’s going to get someone killed. Hoping this article puts a stop to it.

  12. 12.

    Kropacetic

    @Baud: Right, but are persuadables listening?

    Also, for me these people are friends. Of the several I had to deliver this ultimatum to, only one agreed to not talk politics with me. It’s an obsession among most of them. I don’t know what to do and I’m past wanting to try.

    @caphilldcne: Heinous behavior.

  14. 14.

    RaflW

    Her feed has picked on random teachers. She’s helping nutbags figure out which non-public-figure LGBTQ people to target for harassment and possible firing. Just for being who they are.

    One only needs think of, say, Gabby Giffords or the Pulse Nightclub to figure out where she’s pointing people.

    So no, monetizing hate is not a “good for her.”

  16. 16.

    oatler

    Looking for Hewitt and other Bush-era armchair warriors? If it’s Sunday, it’s “Meet the Press”. Chris Christie fucking OWNS that chair.

  17. 17.

    Baud

    @Kropacetic:

    Right, but are persuadables listening?

     
    If they are, I think the only thing they will respond to is us standing up for our people and being clear that the people spreading lies are disgusting human beings.

    Also, for me these people are friends.

    If you have friends that think Dems or LGBT are all pedophiles, I don’t know what to tell you.

  18. 18.

    Kropacetic

    @Baud: This is why I disengaged from them. They won’t listen to sense and won’t stop spreading their bile. Some started calling me a pedophile, before it became “cool.”

    Not worth it. And I worry about the less politically committed people who still listen to them, but you can only point out the truth and the reliable dishonesty of the other side so many times.

  19. 19.

    Geminid

    @Poe Larity: Hew Hewitt’s still kicking. He has a three hour morning radio show in a town near me, and is on a couple hundred radio stations nationwide. Hewitt’s maybe 60 years old. He’s also head of the Nixon Presidential Library.

  20. 20.

    Gin & Tonic

    I have absolutely no idea what any of this is about. It’s like trying to read cricket commentary – sounds vaguely like English, but devoid of meaningful content.

  21. 21.

    Baud

    @Kropacetic:

    I’m no expert, but I think at some point it stops making sense to tell people they are wrong rather than telling them they are bad people.

  22. 22.

    Old School

    Has Ronny Jackson’s potential involvement in the January 6th attacks been mentioned here?

    In the exchange on January 6, an unidentified Oath Keeper texts the group chat that “Ronnie Jackson (TX) office inside Capitol – he needs OK help. Anyone inside?”

    The same Oath Keeper provides an update less than 10 minutes later: “Dr Ronnie Jackson – on the move. Needs protection. If anyone inside cover him. He has critical data to protect.”

    Rhodes quickly responds: “Give him my cell.”

  23. 23.

    Kropacetic

    @Baud: Haha, oh, that assertion flew both ways. Bad people can assert others badness with more conviction, though, on average.

  25. 25.

    caphilldcne

    I think one thing I find disturbing is it’s a well known nazi tactic and it works, especially if you have a national propaganda television station.

  26. 26.

    Ksmiami

    @Baud: exactly- that’s what I say to the idiots- get out of my life you’re a bad person and should look at yourself in the mirror. Buh Bye now.

  27. 27.

    ian

    @Geminid:

    He’s also head of the of the Nixon Presidential Library.

    Driftglass refers to him as a cyborg from the future.  Who knew terminator also ran libraries?

  29. 29.

    Kropacetic

    @Baud: You’re probably right.  A little out of character for me and when I go that far I’m prone to go too far. Some here may still be familiar…

  30. 30.

    Honus

    @Geminid: Hewitt’s younger than us?  That’s scary.

    ETA Hugh Hewitt (born February 22, 1956) He’s a year younger than me and I think a year or two older than you.

  31. 31.

    Baud

    @Kropacetic:

    FWIW, bullets was just an analogy.  Don’t shoot anybody.

    I don’t think you need to go far.  Just disengage, if you can.  It’s the same advice you would give to anyone in a bad or unhealthy relationship.

  32. 32.

    Harrym

    You do know that all the stuff she posts are reposts of actual videos other people posted, right? Don’t kill – or doxx – the messenger. Even if the original posters don’t want their doings seen by the general public and not their echo chambers.

  35. 35.

    Harrym

    @Kropacetic: Most of the online death threats I’ve seen have been against women who believe that souls don’t have innate genders but bodies do. Personally, I don’t believe in threatening people with differing opinions with death, or rape, or doxxing, or losing their jobs, no matter what side of the political spectrum they’re on.

  38. 38.

    Kropacetic

    @Baud: Oh and it’s especially the trans bit. Can’t go an hour without dunking on trans folk. It’s like “bro, you have some personal emotional issues you need to work out?”

  44. 44.

    trollhattan

    @John Cole: 
    Was he the guy who held a fundraiser to replace the grill he lost in a hurricane?

    Confess the story lines blur after these many years.

  46. 46.

    Geminid

    @oatler: Hewitt got his start as a young lawyer in Reagan’s White House Counsel’s office. Then he practiced real estate law out of Southern California, representing big developers.

    Hewitt was bragging the other day that he had handled endangered species and wetlands matters in just about every state west of the Mississippi. It’s not hard to guess what side he was on.

  49. 49.

    Honus

    @Geminid: OK. I always thought you were younger than me but I guess you spent more time studying than I thought you did before you started laying stone. ;)

  50. 50.

    Kropacetic

    @zhena gogolia: Hewitt was bragging the other day that he had handled endangered species and wetlands matters in just about every state west of the Mississippi. It’s not hard to guess what side he was on.

    Endangerment? Is there a prize for guessing?

  52. 52.

    Kay

    They’re mad because the article is a direct hit. It reveals not just “libs of tick tock” but the fact that all Right wing influencers are relying on, repackaging, and selling the same content at the same time over all their various media platforms. It’s all the same shit, whether it’s Fox or any of the others:

    The account has been promoted by podcast host Joe Rogan, and it’s been featured in the New York Post, the Federalist, the Post Millennial and a slew of other right-wing news sites. Meghan McCain has retweeted it. The online influencer Glenn Greenwald has amplified it to his 1.8 million Twitter followers while calling himself the account’s “Godfather.” Last Thursday, the woman behind the account appeared anonymously on Tucker Carlson’s show to complain about being temporarily suspended for violating Twitter’s community guidelines. Fox News often creates news packages around the content that Libs of TikTok has surfaced.

     

     

  53. 53.

    debbie

    I was just reading a NY Post article trying to understand all this. I gave up after a couple of minutes, but the Post said it’s a parody account.  ??‍♀️

  56. 56.

    different-church-lady

    I am somewhat comforted by the fact that I have no idea what any of this post means.

  60. 60.

    Kay

    @Baud:

    I think it’s amusing. Taylor Lorenz seems to be a long time ENEMY of theirs, judging by the incredibly specific and detailed accounts of why they HATE HER :)

    She got em good with just ordinary journalism. They’re pissed. Boo hoo. Maybe they should try coming up with some original content.

  63. 63.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    Call me when we get to 2007. I want to relive the glorious Hillary-Obama wars.

  66. 66.

    laura

    While this is off topic, I strongly urge you all to check Emptywheel’s twitter feed- she is pulling several threads together and holy fuckballs! @emptywheel

  68. 68.

    laura

    @laura: short version- 6 years of wondering why Paul Manafort worked for free on the Trump campaign and who hired him.

  72. 72.

    EZSmirkzz

    *We won’t get drooled on again!

    Meet the new dross!

    Same as the old dross!

    and the blather they all bored us with in the blog wars.

    Well John, you prove YA that  you are aware of all internet traditions, or at least aware of people who are aware of all internet traditions. It is disconcerting to learn that algorithms rhymes with Al Gore Rhythms, (identicals are not rhymes we all know,) make you one of the nicest people on the internet, not just you being you.

    In that spirit, let me state that MTG suffers from doing skull crushers with an overloaded straight bar to failure too many times. Now Tuckerballs seems to only suffer from having shoved his head up his information bubble for too long too often.

    *Apologies to Whom it may concern-

    I cede the floor to you sir.

  73. 73.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Box Wine Anne

    Oh, help me… this woman was a big target at Eschaton, IIRC? She was a crusader against men wearing shorts, had a brief tenure at the NYT, what was her last name?

    @Poe Larity: Where have all the PUMAs gone?
    long time passing…

    (I wondered that a lot in 2016, I don’t think they reappeared in blog-world. Remember the strike?)

  74. 74.

    catclub

    @Kropacetic: ​
     

    And, worse, a fair amount of people who should know better take it seriously.

    The little rascals daycare court case was a precursor.

  76. 76.

    Soprano2

    I find the concept of “doxxing” somewhat strange, since I’m old enough to remember when most people’s names and phone numbers were published with their addresses in a book that went to everyone in the area where they lived. It wasn’t considered to be private information unless you took action to keep it private.

  77. 77.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Soprano2: and IIRC you had to pay the phone company (“We’re the Phone Company. We don’t care, we don’t have to.”) to keep your name out of the book

  79. 79.

    Another Scott

    ObOpenThread:

    Nate Sliver says something stupid again.

    The average American visits the ICU once every 75 years. Having doctors and nurses there instead of a self serve first-aid kit might be good or bad at the margin, but it is unlikely to make a major difference in the overall quality of American healthcare. pic.twitter.com/eYF67Xbs3F

    — Carl T. Bergstrom (@CT_Bergstrom) April 19, 2022

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  80. 80.

    Another Scott

    ObOpenThread:

    The details of the @BeanstalkFarms $182M hack are truly absurd but par for the course.

    The attacker borrowed enough governance tokens to be able to vote through any proposal then simply proposed to send themselves all the money then returned the tokens?https://t.co/B5Ojvoquy5

    — Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) April 17, 2022

    It’s a good thing that crypto is the future, right??

    (via dsquareddigest)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

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