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I Existed - The Prequel


Writer's Note: It was after the election and I had been suspended from "The Free Speech Platform" for the second time because I made a joke about how running over protestors blocking traffic was going to be a necessary form of protest, to counteract all of the unemployed behavior that the left was conducting after the "deMOCKracy" that they were crying about didn't work the way they wanted it too. I was watching the X platform devolve into haves and have nots and realized that to play on the platform you had to play the game of the platform, and I didn't like the platform anymore. I wrote this which became why I started my "I Existed" blogs. Something that is mine, that isn't supporting someone else's engagement, or can be eliminated on a whim from a man baby, like many on the right found out during those weeks.

Many years back in the wee hours of the morning, I watched Greg Gutfeld, Andy Levy, Bill Schulz and whoever they could get to sit in “the leg chair” on a show called RedEye. I got out of work at 2, it was on at 3, and it was the perfect wind down to my day before I went to bed and started my life procedure all over again the next day. It was the abnormal that was my life at that time, and I was grateful for it.

It was because of this show and the hashtag #RedEye that I really had anything to do with Twitter at all for many years. If you poke through my 3000 or so followers and most of my 2000 or so following you will see the remnants of the RedEye army that goes back to the early 2010s, and to be fair broke up slowly after Greg Gutfeld left for Tom Shillue.

That show, and a gang of wannabe comedians hash tagging #Redeye all night and #TCOT or #Teaparty all day got a lot of us through the Obama years and helped us get over the horrible Mitt Romney decision that the party of denial forced on us. I managed to stick around Twitter long enough to see what a reality TV star with a red #MAGA hat was going to force the owners of Twitter to perpetrate on all of us and left. I hear it only got worse for the four years after that.

I sit here right now writing my first X article because like before, I am not going to hang out on the platform and look at everyone else play while I am on a 12-hour ban for posting a “comment” about hitting insane leftist protestors with a car when they are glued to the pavement. That isn’t hate speech, it is a realistic outcome from people that have had enough being forced to do things by insane protestors. At least it was before our minds were turned to mush by online group think.

The difference between Twitter and X may be the ideology of ownership, or it may be that I was at least seen by Twitter for all those years before they started beating me down and making my “Free Speech” censored. Right now, anything I post at best is seen by 50 brand new con artist profiles, and I am being fed 1000s of items a day from huge X accounts that only argue amongst the other huge profiles on the other side of their argument. We are all so blessed to be able to watch them farm for engagement.

Don’t get me wrong, freedom of speech isn’t “the right to be heard” and I am the first person to defend that. Of course, the real argument is the right to peaceably assemble. I go where I go for a reason, and I talk to who I talk to for a reason, and that is my right too. It isn’t an honor to be spoken to, and I have the right to not listen, especially if I have no realistic chance of getting heard, in one form or another. I’m just hoping that someone who needs to hear that can get something out of my rant, because sometimes liking and commenting on things doesn’t make you heard, it just makes you an unpaid employee. At the very least you should get to say what you need to say while being an unpaid employee.

I really had no intention of posting an article to begin with. I just thought I was supporting a better version of Twitter when I paid for the pro service. Live and learn. I just figured while I couldn’t post or comment I should write something down. When I lose the interest to post and comment, because there is still “unfair” censorship and leave everyone else to the uniparty of X I have a eulogy this time. I had given up on the uniparty of DC when I left Twitter, because I wanted to vote for Trump and was sick of being banned for common sense or wanting to tell the truth. I never spoke up. Maybe this will be seen if I quit this time. Probably not.

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