(0823) Morning all … the wonders of a decent sleep … it really does help. (0844)

 

7. Moosh corner (and Vicky)

6. TDS (blogrolls for link)

5. Earlyish roundup, minus letters, minus hyperlinks, unsorted

4. Andrew Torba strikes back, ha ha

Yesterday a journalist from the New York Times reached out to me about a story he was working on regarding social media companies that cater to either the left or the right. Following the election many left-wing users of X are leaving the platform and migrating to platforms like Bluesky and Facebook’s Threads platform as alternatives. I’ve been predicting and writing about what I have been calling the balkanization of social media for many years now and it seems that this trend is starting to accelerate. 

The rise of the free speech ecosystem on the right started out of necessity. We were told that if we didn’t like the ambiguous terms of service, censorship, and selective promotion of left-wing ideals on mainstream social networks that we could “go and build our own.” So that’s exactly what we did. We quickly learned that the left wouldn’t simply leave us alone to build our own social media ecosystem in peace though. 

Left-wing journalists and extremist organizations like the ADL spent the past eight years smearing our platform and community. Cloud hosting providers, app stores, payment processors, and even banks banned us from using their services. None of this stopped us, in fact it made our ecosystem more resilient and robust. Now instead of simply having our own social network we have our own payment processors, hosting services, AI tools, commerce platforms, and much more on the way. 

Gab is undoubtably the central node and tip of the spear in this movement that started back in 2016 when we launched. During the mass wave of censorship by Big Tech platforms following Donald Trump’s first election, Gab was the single social network on the internet to have a first amendment terms of service. When Parler went down because of their dependence on Big Tech infrastructure Gab remained strong and exploded in growth thanks to us having our own in-house servers. 

Gab remains the gold standard of free speech online. This allowed our users to get access to information about Covid, the vaccines, the election of 2020, and many other topics that were–and still are– being heavily censored across every other social network on the internet. We also shared messages from Donald Trump on a Gab account that we reserved for him with millions of followers while he was banned from all of the Big Tech platforms, which helped keep the Trump movement alive and informed while he built Truth Social. 

After the results of 2024 we are seeing a similar pattern emerge on the left with many left-wing users flooding to platforms like Threads and Bluesky. I think this trend will continue in the coming years. We are entering a period of fragmentation and balkanization with social media. As traditional news media continues to decline, fragmented values-aligned social networks are taking the place of the likes of Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, etc. Similar to how consumers watch multiple channels they will also use multiple platforms like Gab, X, etc. The period of consolidation in social media is over. The period of fragmentation has just begun. 

It’s so funny to me that Chris Wallace, who recently announced that he is leaving CNN, and other mainstream media talking heads think they can just start a podcast and the CNN audience will just magically follow them. That’s not how this works. People are watching Rogan and others because they seek to speak the truth and actually have talent. Don Lemon averages like 15k views per video on his Youtube channel because no one cares what he has to say. Tucker is an exception because he actually has talent and also seeks to speak the truth. These mainstream media people fundamentally don’t get it and never will.

Gab is arguably the most well positioned company for this period of social media fragmentation. Many people wrote off Gab after Elon purchased Twitter, but all that Elon has done is normalize and mainstream free speech social networking for us which has caused our traffic to more than double since his acquisition. At around the time he bought Twitter our traffic was hovering at around 20 million unique visitors a month, now it’s at 52 million a month. 

I’ll also note how Elon is parroting many of the undeniable truths I’ve been highlighting myself for eight years now. Frankly, I can’t stop smiling. Never could I have ever imagined back in 2016 when I launched Gab that the richest man in the world would be noticing and pointing out the same things I do or that he would normalize and mainstream a movement that Gab started from my humble cabin in the middle of the woods. 

The right will continue to use our own tools and ecosystem to mobilize. Nothing and no one can stop us. The movement is now too big and has too much momentum to be stopped. We’re going to use these tools to see to it that the people have the ability to speak their minds and gain access to the truth that the postwar liberal regime so desperately wants hidden from them. 

The future is bright and I want to thank all of you for helping Gab get to this point over the past eight years.

(0524)(0656)

 

3. Some Sort of Op Ed

Were we to survive all this (jury’s out), then poets and scribes could write rollicking epics of heroes and villains, loyalists and traitors, and call it How the West was Won(Lost). In no particular order, just as the ideas flitted through the mind:

§ The heroes appear out of the woodwork, e.g. Rambo, the good side has a formidable set of allies but the dark forces are highly disciplined and ubiquitous vast armies of mindless orcs.

§ The black joke is that until the civil war started, the dark side saw themselves as light and saw the light as dark … classic s*t*n*c inversion … the dark called itself “liberal” and at Harris’s last rally, had a banner behind her proclaiming “Freedom”, just to mock the light side.

§ Her armies of pink and purple haired “intellectuals” were arrayed to fight us evil “fascists” of ordinary people but the sick joke, as Yuri Bezmenov mentioned in the mid 80s, was that these would be the first up against the wall, the poor, sad saps. The real armies of orcs we’ve already seen, at first sporadically, but now far more often … these are the ones there to slaughter.

§ And us? The array of the ordinary, the exasperated, the furious, the seething? Almost equally useless as we’re simply unherdable cats, falling out over what end up being trifles, niceties, party designations from the legacy days of civilised society. It starts with further rape and slaughter, finally defences are prepared, just as the 10 to 15 percent (in real terms) have done all through The Troubles, with another 15 to 20 percent the bewildered and more again the dismayed … woe is us type … won’t somebody do something!

§ Iconoclasty is a large part of it … old symbols of our culture smashed, burnt, defaced, mistreated … all the better to send us into apoplexy and despair … classic psy-ops. Replaced by monstrosities in town squares, risibly called “art”. Keep an eye on “Christmas” decorations this year.

§ And of course, there’s a hidden shadow govt in waiting … not clown Schultz but the real enemy … I saw one of them in plain sight at a WEF meeting … unremarkable to look at, tallish, nondescript in standard suit, you’d not know him in the crowd. He’s one of the string pullers for his master, well bred yet savage if you gaze through those eyes … pitiless, remorseless, no loyalties but to a dark lord.

§ The gallant but eccentric Monty or Patton of today in the US … he knows, having hobnobbed with the type, but he’s ageing now … he attacks supply lines first … the UN, EU, NATO, the letter agencies … but he’s stymied at every turn by forces not remotely interested in law and order … the Eliases of the world stealing McCormick’s seat and if they succeed … the next sap, in whose seat they suddenly find newly written-in boxes of ballots.

§ But can’t SCOTUS act, the SCs in each state? They could … but check the names on each against the Epstein client list … they won’t or at least will delay until the flipping is over and the houses are Demonrat. In the Senate, the GOP is already termited, the enemy is in control, picked up well by soc-med pundits. Zero intention, the dark side, the Uniparty, that the madman in the WH will ever get there but if he does, it will be with nobbled generals.

§ Why so calm about it? Any true Christian could tell you or any demi-historian who’s read, say, Senator William Jenner from 1954, that this is an army pouring through every chink, every crack … in fiction, we saw it in Matrix 3 … it’s always been out there in plain sight for those who would see.

§ Then there is the zeitgeist of today, no accident by any means, the moral spirit of this age, encapsulated in this tweet by a fellow Xer:

We could of course go back to Kubrik’s orgy film of 1998, Eyes Wide Shut … I myself have written a book in three parts called Masquerade … Sodom and Gomorrah stuff … Nicole Kidman said of it all:

“There was a lot of interest in Eyes Wide Shut before it was released. But the weekend it came out, July 16, 1999, was the death of JFK Jr., his wife and her sister – a black, black weekend. And for Stanley to have died [on March 7, 1999, at age 70] before the film opened… Well, it all felt so dark and strange. Stanley had sent over the cut he considered done to us, Tom and I watched it in New York – and then he died.”

Coincidence? Have it your own way but it certainly describes today, the great falling away before the barbarians descend. Why so calm, I asked? I’m just a scribe.

§ Which is the Donald? Some sort of Christian Moses? Or the other fella who goes on to abominate The New Temple? I’m thinking he may be too old, there may be another in the wings to take up what he started. Nuff for now.

2. DAD drops these

a) France is grappling with an alarming surge in drug-related violence, from grisly murders in Marseille to deadly clashes in smaller towns. As criminal networks thrive, the government has declared the fight against trafficking a “national cause” – but experts warn the crisis may be spiralling beyond the control of law enforcement.*

*JH: This will also be part of SSofOE soonish.

b) The ‘new’ crime wave in Paris on older ladies [60 – 90 years.] They describe the same well-oiled modus operandi: they were returning home, to their building, when a tall man (1m89 precisely), of slim build (89 kilos), of African type, followed them under the pretext of going to a neighbor’s, before getting into the elevator with her …..

c) French farmers are planning their manifestations. The main agricultural unions – the FNSEA and the JA from Monday …..

d) Several names engraved on the war memorial on Place Bernard-Roumégoux in Gradignan have been seriously damaged. The city has decided to file a complaint …..*

*JH: See previous two notes.

1. Steve and excerpts from the drops at 878

Evets 4: Russia Open to Ukraine Peace Talks as Long as Trump Starts Them, But Those Need To Be Based on the ‘Realities on the Ground’- Ambassador

Evets 3: Dem Congressman Openly Reveals Plot to Form Shadow Government – Names Individuals Who Could Undermine Every Trump Cabinet Member*

*JH: Going to develop a case soon today, starting with this statement.

Evets 2: More Russian Strikes Hit Kiev Forces In Kursk

Evets 1: Meet the Anti-Baby Activists Trying to Ensure Humanity Literally Has No Future