A trip down the rabbit hole- I explore Truth Social so you don't have to
Trust me, you'll be better off for avoiding it altogether
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Once upon a time, for reasons I still can’t fully explain, I decide to sign up for an account on Truth Social, Donny Diaperfull’s social media platform. Perhaps I wanted to see how the other half lived. I knew I couldn’t handle the idea of subjecting myself to long stretches of watching Fox News Channel. Truth Social seemed like something I could engage with and disengage from as needed.
At least Fox News has to make a pretense of appearing rational. Truth Social has no guardrails, no lane markers, no anything intended to keep account holders between the lines…because there ARE no lines.
Truth Social can be, and usually is, a genuine freak show. QAnon conspiracy theorists, MAGA devotees, Trump worshipers, and all manner of intellectual and moral bottom feeders are to be found in abundance. Why? Because they know they’ll be welcomed with open arms.
What does that make me, then? Am I the exception, a minnow swimming upstream against the current of sheer, unmedicated lunacy? Or am I a masochist enjoying the give and take with some seriously irrational, ignorant, and unbalanced examples of humanity?
I’ll take Door #2. Why? Because I hate the thought of sharing the water with the moral and intellectual bottom-feeders who call Truth Social home.
There are people like Mark Levin, who tries his damnedest to portray a Right-wing intellectual. Unfortunately, his inner wackjob comes out at times when he probably doesn’t want it to (Biden’s “Communist Chinese money?”), and he’s not nearly as humorous or intellectually gifted as he gives himself credit for.
The good news is that Levin can’t do much damage on Truth Social. It’s not like he’s changing hearts and minds; he’s preaching to the amoral and uneducated choir.
Then there’s Donald Trump, Jr., who- and this is difficult to imagine- is an even bigger clown than his demented father. Junior, who fancies himself an expert on virtually everything under the sun, would be Donny Diaperfull’s dumbest son, but he’s saved from that fate by the existence of his brother, Eric.
If his last name weren’t “Trump,” Junior would struggle to manage a Dairy Queen, but like any male Trump, has manage to fuck up TrumpCo in astonishing fashion. You can do that when you pile lie upon prevarication upon deceit and so on and so forth ‘til death do us part.
He’d be well-advised to exercise caution when throwing aroung the term, “clown.” Junior is so devoid of self-awareness he could be wearing size-22 clown shoes and not know it.
Of course, I’d be remiss were I not to recognize the driving force behind Truth Social, Donny Diaperfull himself. Having been booted from Twitter after the January 6 insurrection and then deciding he wanted a platform where he could preach to the choir, Orange Jesus cobbled together his own echo chamber.
Somehow, the Republic has survived for almost a quarter-millennium without a President being indicted immediately upon leaving office…until Donald Trump came along. A thoroughly corrupt and immoral shithead who believes himself to be above and beyond the reach of the law, he believes absolute immunity is the only answer. Not conducting oneself in a moral, ethical, and legal manner, mind you. No, only absolute immunity will do for his unique brand of personal misconduct.
And how could we forget Rep. Marjorie Trailer Greene (R-GA), that arbiter of freedom and Dumbass Double-Digit-IQ Conservatism ©? Dumber than a post-turtle and more dishonest than Joe Isuzu, MTG is the gasoline to the partisan fire raging in Congress these days.
When she talks about “Democrats and the media” lying, you know she’s accusing them of precisely the same tactics she’s using against her adversaries.
To MTG, politics is a zero-sum game, and no tactic, if it accrues to her advantage, is too nasty, underhanded, or evil for use against her enemies on the other side of the aisle. For her, politics is a blood sport. If she had her way, it would be a literal “blood sport.” The body count would be large and her attempt to cleanse America of “vermin” would be righteous and never-ending.
And you have to love a social media site that platforms a critter who goes by “Catturd” (“Dog shit” was already claimed??). I don’t know what his weak schtick is; nor do I care. He’s completely self-absorbed, self-righteous, doesn’t give a damn about anyone else, and has only a hearty “FUCK YOU!” for the rest of the world.
He seems nice, eh? Mama must be SO proud….
I have NO idea who this guy is, but he seems like a winner, yeah??
I should also include Kari Lake, failed gubernatorial candidate and now a candidate for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s Senate seat in Arizona. Lake, whose Truth Social bio describes her as “Follower of Christ. Wife to Jeff. Mother to Ruby & Leo. A Nightmare for the Fake News.” She’s a nightmare to the truth, and while I can’t speak to her Christian faith, you’d never know of her relationship with Christ by her actions on the campaign trail.
And she’s nowhere near as intelligent, gifted, or popular as she gives herself credit for. As I understand it, she uses to be a decent TV personality in Phoenix…at least before the worms ate her brain.
It’s difficult to know what takes precedent for Ms. Lake, her desire to serve, or her all-consuming ambition, though her ambition generally rises more visibly to the surface. I do feel sorry for her husband, Jeff. He’s the one who has to wake up next to her every morning. That must be a treat.
And how about South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R), who’s not the sharpest tool in the box? Somehow, though, the “Christian family values” Republican did manage to carry on an extramarital affair with former Trump advisor Corey Lewandowski. Somehow she managed to square that with her faith and family values, enough so that she’s considered a possible VP candidate for Donald Trump.
What she doesn’t understand is that the South Dakota National Guard doesn’t exist to defend South Dakota from a tyrannical (i.e.- Democratic) federal government. Gov. Noem can mobilize it in case of a natural disaster or other emergency, but she’s not the Commander-in-Chief of a fighting force.
No, South Dakota isn’t going to war against Iowa or the federal government. Someone should probably let Gov. Noem know that she can’t buy rifles and missiles from North Korea in case she has to go to war with Joe Biden.
Next, we come to Charlie Kirk, the head of Toilet Paper USA Turning Point USA (sorry, I’ve been on Reddit too much), who’s firmly convinced that he has the answer to everything and that all of the problems facing American can be summed up in one word: LIBERALS. Oh, and fixing everything means understanding that Jesus is a hard-Right Conservative Republican.
Yeah, I think I’ll just leave that one lying in its own fetid swamp where it belongs.
I could go on at some considerable length about the undesirables, lowlifes, assholes, dumbasses, and assorted other human flotsam one might run across on Truth Social, but one might think me overly judgmental. I’ll leave that assessment to my readers. Anytime you want to take a walk on the ignorant, racist, Christofascist, homophobic, and neo-Nazi side, you know where to go.
Good luck with that.
There are a lot of truly deranged accounts I didn’t get to, like @libsoftiktok - who’s the textbook definition of a sociopath and just generally about as unpleasant as one could be without getting booted from the site. Chaya Raichik is a kind, compassionate human being in the same way I’m the Unabomber. Then again, this is Truth Social, where, as long as one is reliably right of center, you’d have to work pretty hard to get suspended.
And Chaya Raichik is considered a Hero of the Cause ©.
Sure, you could take a look around Truth Social, but why would you want to? I’ve had an account on the platform for a little over a year now, and I question why I’m still on the site. I tell myself it’s because I love getting under the skin of the knuckle-draggers, but even that holds my interest for only a very short time. Being the target of rage and cheap personal insults from people who barely know how to write in complete sentences loses its allure pretty quickly.
And it’s not like they have anything to say that I find edifying or interesting. My latest attempt at a conversation revolved around drag queens and pedophilia. Folks didn’t take kindly to my pointing out that pedophiles are rarely drag queens, and that in the vast majority of cases they’re White Conservative Christian Cisgender Heterosexual males…many of them in Christian churches.
Yeah, that truth bomb went off with all the collateral damage one might expect. On Truth Social, “truth” isn’t always what one expects it to be. Very often, “truth” is simply an article of faith for which the veracity of said article is completely beside the point.
Most people on Truth Social are convinced that drag queens are pedophiles- ergo, that is accepted as the ironclad, inviolate “truth.” Pointing out that it’s not, in fact, true will only get one metaphorically burned at the stake. It’s fun playing the game for a while, but you’re not going to change hearts and mind. The best you can hope is to elevate the blood pressures of a few trolls along the way.
If you’re not inclined to take things personally- I’m not- you can have some fun with the miscreants before their rage becomes tiresome.
Stick and stones and all that….
There’s the vicarious thrill of feeling as if you’re trolling the moral and intellctually vacant behind enemy lines, but as cheap entertainment it has its limitations. Still, it’s free and I haven’t been threatened with having my accounted suspended, even though I post my newsletters there daily.
Perhaps someone will figure it out at some point…or perhaps I’m not a big enough irritant. Whatever the case, I suspect I’ll get bored with it eventually.
Until then, party on, Garth….
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