2-10-25

Well, its official……I may have recovered my Facebook page…..I say its officially in

the “may have” category because I haven’t personally seen it yet, but my digital

people tell me its back…..that would be amazing…..I had thousands of followers,

or friends, or subscribers, or whatever they’re called on that one and haven’t

been able to access it for several years…..but it appears that its back and I’m glad

to hear it because we plan to make as much use of it as possible now that Mark

Zuckerberg has had the scales drop from his eyes……I have no idea how we lost

it….one day I had it, the next day it was gone…..we randomly looked the other day

and all of a sudden we could see the account again but couldn’t get into it…..it

was back, sort of, from some long lost social media purgatory…..I really don’t

know why…..but knowing me I probably said something very true that hurt

someone’s feelings and just like that I was locked out…..

It wasn’t so long ago that I was banned from Twitter, now X…..temporarily at

least……somehow, some way I have offended the gods of Twitter …..that’s “gods”

with a little-g by the way……they slapped me with a time out in the penalty box

for 24 hours or some such nonsense……who knows what I allegedly

said…..truthfully I think I know what it was…..a liberal troll called me a “domestic

terrorist”…..it spilled out of the fact that I called out the liberal Mayor of

Birmingham for his 15000 blanket pardons for drug possession….to which I

mocked my Twitter troll laughingly with one of those memes that shows someone

spitting out their coffee at something funny……how sad, really….How ridiculous is

that?........I, as a conservative call out a liberal and then have the ubiquitous label

of “domestic terrorist” thrown on me…..and I get blocked…..the level to which

some folks will go to make sure that you are not allowed to say something…..or

take offense…..or feel triggered……or need their safe space……

I don’t know what the world would have been like if Elon Musk had not purchased

Twitter, literally carried a kitchen sink in the front door, fired all of the snowflakes

and rebranded it as X,……does anybody remember Jack Dorsey? The guy who

looked like a hobo and ran the old Twitter like a censorship machine?.....where is

he now….like the Bible says, you will look for them and they will not be

found…..but seriously, the level to which the left used to go (very recently) to

make sure that nothing was said that triggered anyone, or caused offense, or

shocked their sensitive natures, or stepped on their baby goat toes, or made them

feel bad for having a therapy peacock…..it was really something…..it was sad…..it

was like one tantrum after another…..

My suggestion is that real life needs to get back to the life we see in the

movies……I know that sounded weird but bear with me here……

Ok, name me your favorite movie…….you name it and I guarantee there are parts

of it that you can quote outright…..the kind where people in the room with you

look over and ask “so, how many times have you watched this flick?”…….after

which you just try to restrain yourself and maybe mouth the words…..Charlene

knows that if we’re watching TV and not yet settled on something that there is

the very real risk that I’m going to stop on a channel that has one of those favorite

movies…..which will usually cause her to say “I don’t recall agreeing to this one….”

After which I give a pleading look and quickly look back to the TV saying

something lame like…..”yeah, I know but this is almost to the part that so and so

says so and so……just a minute”……On a good day she’ll just give me a look that I

can feel more than see and with a deep sigh she will look at social media on her

phone while I pretend that I only want to watch just a minute……she’s listening

right now so I may have just given away too much information…….

I’ve got several of those movies that I can’t resist stopping on to see what part of

the storyline its in……and of course all of the quotes……

- One of them is “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?”…..I love that movie!

Charlene hates it. But there are more one-liners out of that single film than

any other……every member of my team in Baghdad loved it and it was

inevitable that when things were bad one of the guys on the team would up

and say “C’mon in fellers….the water is fine”…..direct from the movie…..

- Or how about “The Outlaw Josey Wales”……”you gonna pull them pistols or

whistle Dixie?”…….Clint Eastwood is such an icon……

- Or Braveheart……”Where are you going?.......I’m going to pick a

fight…..hmm, sure as we didn’t get dressed up for nothin’….”

- And the one that almost guarantees …..with a high rate of return….. that

the remote control is going to stop on whatever channel it happens to be

on……..Tombstone…….oh yeah……Kurt Russell, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton as the

Earp brothers and of course the role of his life…..Val Kilmer playing Doc

Holiday……how many notable quotables come from that one single

movie?!......and most of them came from Kilmer’s character…..”Why Johnny

Ringo….you look as though somebody just walked on your grave…” and of

course the maddening challenge that every man has repeated at least once

in his life…..”I’m your huckleberry”……I love that movie…..

Here’s the thing….here’s my point……I would bet that of any of the movies that

you love which have quotable lines……sayings that stick with you…..I would bet

that most of say things that people get banned for by the snowflakes who act as

the gatekeepers on social media……That’s because heroes don’t talk like politically

correct non-binary lip synchers who squint in the sun and run to their safe spaces

when the mean ol’ everyday salt of the earth real folks who make our society

function say something ……I don’t know …..”Normal”……

There is nothing inspiring about tepid words…….the great speeches….the halftime

locker room inspirations…..the quotes that fire us up, or inspire us to

action….those don’t come from a highly moderated overly-sensitive alternate

reality where people who are not even a part of the conversation are allowed to

judge the merit and worth of your words after the fact and out of context…..I

mean, wow……what would Tombstone have been like…..”Why Johny Ringo….hello

and I don’t want to be offensive or cause you any concern but I believe that I need

to intervene in this tense situation”……..that’s a hard no……

Now I get it…….words can be offensive….and its true that bullying often starts

with words……emotional abuse and suppressive language can damage people…..

……I’ve also said for years that if you can’t express yourself without profanity or

threats then you either lack education, lack intelligence, or lack self-control….or

all of the above…..in any event if threats and profanity are your go-to’s then you

need to work on your vocabulary…… but that’s not what I’m talking about here

today…..What I am talking about is a return to dialogue……the ability for people to

express opinions…..lace them with humor…..laugh at themselves and risk being

laughed at by others……jack up the opposition when they’re wrong and tell them

what line they are not allowed to cross…….to be able to share a thought with

others without concern that a non-participant is going to attempt to intervene

after the fact and out of context to provide some penalty or limitation on your

ability to do so……

Facebook did that…..they became the harbingers of truth and the gatekeepers of

misinformation…..Twitter became its own worst enemy……Google announced

they’re doing away with DEI now…..Tik Tok may be going the way of the dodo

bird….Instagram, well we will see……the bottom line is that the electronic public

square is real….it is here to stay…….there is certainly a need for decorum, and

profanity and pornography, and child exploitation and other criminal conduct

should not be allowed….but actual people talking and sharing opinions should not

be governed by overly sensitive soy boys in cry rooms who only want the world to

be more like anime…..

Liberals are generally uninspiring……their words don’t motivate me…..except to

make me want to galvanize more conservatives to action…..so that’s what we’re

going to keep on doing here on Rightside Radio……we’re going to use the medium

of radio to continue to reach thousands every day……and we’re taking back social

media with so many of you……and from we can see from here…..its working……

Hey liberal snowflakes…..I’m your huckleberry……..

And that’s a wrap for the Rightside Way