The #FreeStacy Story: Why Was My @rsmccain Account Suspended?

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Unexpectedly, and without explanation, my @rsmccain Twitter account was suspended Friday evening. Based on past experiences, my guess would be that this resulted from a complaint by one of the leading “social justice warriors” (SJWs) who have been at war with #GamerGate since August 2014. However, there was no reason stated for the suspension, and who knows? So I’ve switched to the @SexTroubleBook account I created to promote my book and meanwhile, friends who are fed up with Twitter’s bias and censorship started the #FreeStacy hashtag. This morning I shared some thoughts with a blogger friend who followed the #GamerGate saga:

As I have said for years: Being notorious is not the same as being famous, but it’s better than being anonymous.
That is to say, I don’t often complain about being hated or misunderstood. It comes with the territory. I started out in the news business as a $4.50-an-hour staff writer for a tiny weekly newspaper in Austell, Georgia. Most people have no idea what I did before I got involved in political journalism as an assistant national editor for The Washington Times in 1997, or even have any idea of the work I did there. The vast majority of people who read my blog or follow my Twitter feed have no knowledge of or interest in my personal “backstory.” It’s not about me. I am not the story. I am the guy telling the story, or I am the guy making jokes about the story. I understand that. But I think some people in the New Media era lose sight of this reality.
Politics is like football. It’s a team sport. Until I was in my mid-30s, I was a very partisan Democrat. Bill Clinton (who I voted for in 1992) cured me of my Democrat loyalty. During the 1990s, I began a rather deep autodidactic study of politics, history, economics, philosophy, etc. My politics are conservative, my economics are Austrian, my faith is Christian. It’s that simple — and certain people HATE me for it. But those people hate everybody who is not a Democrat. Fine. I understand that kind of hate, having once been a Democrat myself, but Democrats think of their personal hatred as “social justice.” And so I understand them better than they understand me.
However, it’s not about me. . . .

You can read the whole thing at The Ralph Retort.

This has been a crazy experience, but then again, my whole life has been a crazy experience, so I’m cool with it.

UPDATE: Linked by Darleen Click at Protein Wisdom, Legal Insurrection, Da Tech Guy Blog, Battleswarm, featured at Twitchy, Vox Day, now a Memeorandum thread and welcome, Instapundit readers!

UPDATE II: Robby Soave quotes me accurately at Reason magazine, and they’ll probably never forgive him for it.

UPDATE III: Here’s a podcast I did today:

UPDATE IV: Linked by Donald Douglas at American Power and by Dean Esmay at Dean’s World. Arguably the most interesting post, however, is Ken White at Popehat explaining why he really, really dislikes me and yet . . .

Well, he hates me with every fiber of his being, which is OK. It is a free country, and nobody is required to like me, or even to pretend to like me. However, if Hillary is elected president and our nation descends into anarchy and civil war, and from this chaos emerges a military junta in need of a Supreme Leader as figurehead of New America, I’m available for the gig.

Under such a regime, Generalissimo McCain will not only be obeyed, but also respected and, in fact, it will be the duty of his people to admire and praise the Generalissimo.

Is such an outcome . . . likely? Probably not, but you can’t say it is impossible. You are my people, America, and should circumstances require me to rescue our beloved nation — a swift coup d’état, at a time of crisis — then you understand it will be my duty to answer the call. The Enemies of the People will tremble! And the enemies of the Generalissimo are also the Enemies of the People, obviously.

Blog wars? The Generalissimo will be merciful. It would ill behoove the junta to be settling personal grudges and besides, our manpower will be strained to its limits, rounding up Women’s Studies majors and feminist Tumblr bloggers, giving them a few days’ training, loading them onto C-130s and dropping them by parachute into places like Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, etc., as part of our effort to bring about world peace.

 




 

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  7. Below is a quote from Chuck Missler that you might enjoy:

    Then, we have the reason I wear my flag upside down. People point it out, “Chuck, your flag is upside down.” Yes it is, because that’s an international distress signal to communicate that one’s country is in trouble. Our country is in trouble. Barack Obama is the most anti-American man ever to sit in the White House. He should stand up and say out loud, “I’m embracing your enemies and rejecting your friends. I’m ignoring your Constitution. I’m disobeying your laws. Your media is abetting me, and your Congress is not stopping me. Those sworn to defend your Constitution are not removing me. I am, ‘fundamentally transforming the United States of America’.” That was his commitment when he ran for office, and he’s fulfilling it. Our Constitution, liberty, freedom, wealth, and future are no longer at risk; the risk is passed, and they are already lost.

  9. Having good parents is key to attitudinal health.

    When I was 5, somebody called me a name that hurt my feelings, so I went in to tell my Daddy on them. He squatted down, put his hands on my shoulders and said, “I’m going to teach you a rhyme that I want you to memorize. Here it is: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never harm me.”

    I guess some people’s parents never taught them that. But it should be featured, by law, on the cover of every student handbook in the country, and enforced. Then no child would become an ignorant twit.

  10. I voted Perot back in the 90s, and Republican once during midterms, but yeah, I always go back to the left because in the end conservatives are reprehensible douchebags, and are always the worst people.

  11. Um, because allowing that kind of big money into politics undermines democracy, and has lead to full fledged oligarchy, which for some odd reason conservatives seem to like(if this was the era of the American Revolution you would undoubtedly be monarchists; same for France)in just under 7 years.

  12. Gang of 8 was Rubio’s career destroying linchpin of stupid.

    Really, really hoping for Cruz though, even though his wife is one of the evil elite, and he should tell his father to just shut up already. If Trump somehow gets the nomination, I’m just going home because Trump = Clinton = Sanders = Game Over.

  13. “Statutory rapist” Kaitlyn Hunt! Lol. Grow the fuck up panty twister. Those kind of AOC laws that send an 18 year old to prison for having what is in reality a consensual relationship with a 14 or 15 year old classmate represents the absolute worst kind of statism.

  14. Yeah, a 14 year old ninth grader having a consensual hookup with an 18 year old classmate is “pedophilia”! Lol. I graduated high school quite some time ago, but it was totally status quo for freshman to date seniors and no one called it “pedophilia”, or “predatory”. Funny when conservatives appropriate the language of the feminist left.

  16. Yes he has. But I would’ve used the word communist flat out, because that’s exactly what he is. A useful idiot.

  17. Pedophilia
    noun, Psychiatry.
    1. sexual desire in an adult for a child.

    Kate = adult = criminal
    Her victim = child legally incapable of consent

    Funny when conservatives appropriate the language of dictionaries and laws.

    Not so funny when communists appropriate the language of NAMBLA.

  18. No, dear, “useful idiots” are the conservatives who continue to let racist, and red baiting establishment propaganda push them to support concentrating the majority of wealth into just a few hands, interventionist wars, and the growing police state. How one is a useful idiot for supporting tax increases on rich criminals to pay for subsidized healthcare, and education, and curtailing police powers is a mystery to rational people.

  19. I hope anyone reading this remembers when I also said that after SCOTUS illegally passed the slippery slope gay marriage law, that the next thing that would happen would be the lowering of the age of consent laws so that adult pervs could have sex with, and even marry, children.

    This idiot just demonstrated how quickly that’s going to happen.

  21. pedophilia: sexual desire for pre-pubescent children.

    A 14-15 year old girl is no way a “pre-pubescent child”, dummy. There is absolutely no
    DSM category, or paraphilia that covers an 18 year old hooking up with a 14 year old.

    Her “victim”, is a classmate 4 years her junior, who regardless of what the law says “consented”, and as I explained, the state nullifying her consent is the worst kind of statism.

    Oh, boy! Dummy invokes NAMBLA, which for one thing focused on boys, and two, the coupling of young boys and real adult men, and not an 18 year old high school senior, and freshman classmate, you moralistic Christian, jackass.

    PS: communists were socially conservative.

  22. Yeah, moron, arguing that an 18 year old senior having a relationship
    with a freshman classmate is the same as advocating for child brides, and 40 year old men having sex with 12 year old girls. It’s not surprising hearing idiotic hyperbolic and irrational arguments like this from right wing lunatics since they’re the same people that claimed passing Medicare would lead to Soviet style tyranny, gay marriage would lead to legalized beastiality, and the New Deal was Stalinism. Fuck off, and stop voting. Seriously, dig a bunker somewhere and wait for your fantasy God to show up.

  25. “Victim”…these are 100% arbitrary, and legal definitions that change from territory to territory around the world, and from state to state here. Less than 100 years ago the AOC in the USA was roughly 11 years old.

  26. Don’t call me dear.

    No rational person wants to, or should be forced to subsidize healthcare or any other entitlement. There is no such thing as entitlement.

    I would tell this to entitlement whores: There IS such a thing as get off your lazy pathetic ass and get a job or two. And if you hadn’t d1cked off in school with your moron druggie buddies, you would have taken the time and trouble to learn something, which would have positioned you to get a decent job without having to literally stick your greedy entitlement loving hand into the pockets of people who DID work hard to get a good job, and rob them blind because you are a loser.

    I came from a family of poor dirt farmers, and nobody, not even the damn government, paid for my education but me. I worked two jobs simultaneously, one at Wendy’s and one at Sears to pay tuition, while I went to college. ANYBODY could do the same thing IF they are not pathetically lazy and worthless. And if you don’t like that idea, apprentice as an electrician’s or plumber’s helper until you work your way up the ladder.

    I worked my effing fingers to the bone to get what I have, AND I’m a disabled member of a minority, so there is ZERO excuse.

    If you want to help people, you communist idiot, stop enabling the destruction of traditional families with your depraved, immoral and unnatural policies, because there is immense power in the traditional family structure. And get your damned hands out of my pockets, jackwagon. I already pay assloads more taxes than I should have to. It’s not my job to support lazy c0ckg0bblers who refuse to work.

    Now don’t talk to me anymore. I don’t talk to people who are willfully retarded by choice. Actually mentally retarded people are wiser than you are, which I know because I’ve volunteered to work with them. And speaking of which, how much of your salary do you give to charities that help people? How much volunteer work do you do? Offhand, I’d guess zero and zero.

  27. Don’t care sbout your worthless strawman. Kate committed her crime in Florida. She is a criminal whether you like it or not.

  28. I copied and pasted the definition I posted from dictionary.com. If you don’t like it, take it up with them. You adding the words “pre-pubescent child” is totally your own fantasy, and I’m beginning to wonder about your own ideology, considering your fascination with pedophilia.

    I know what NAMBLA is. NAMBLA makes the same excuses for depraved behavior as you do, hence my ability to compare you with them.

    Like it or not, Kate is a criminal. Worse, she was given the sweetest deal that any pedo in history ever got, and she STILL couldn’t control her perversion. All I can say is, if you don’t like it, stay out of Florida, before you also get caught.

    PS: communists worked hard to break up families. That is not social conservatism.

  29. In reality, it is you who will someday dig a bunker somewhere in the hope of escaping the judgment that you have earned.

    Also, I was here first. It is you who needs to eff off, Che. Probably they’re missing you over at Politico.

  30. Spoken like a true blue selfish boomer asshole who speaks in mindless cliches, and generalizations, had everything handed to them, grew up in boom times, and now wants nothing more than to make it hard on young people and would deny someone something as simple as education, or healthcare in what is the absolute richest country on Earth. It’s amazing g that reactionary right wing morons consider those things “free stuff” as if they’re on the level of base consumer products, and the gubmint is giving you a free Toyota and flat screen TV! Your bullshit Christianity is apparent as well, DEAR. I love the red baiting bullshit, too, you fucking reactionary evangelical shitbag who then assumes to know what my opinion is in the traditional family! I love the way you asshats put everyone in the same box, and pretend to know what I think. In any case, there is no God stupid. It’s pathetic superstition and you know it. Nothing more than arm of the capitalist deep state to keep the working class away from “godless socialism” that might cost rich crooks a few more dollars I taxes. You’re going to lose this fight eventually because my generation is the future, and there is nothing you can do to stop it.

  31. And in say, France, she wouldn’t be idiot. This is the arbitrary, and statist nature of AOC laws. Live the way right wing reactionaries are a for freedom, and less government when it comes to the free market God that only bestows its blessings on the wealthy, but everything else, especially about personal choice on sex or drugs, Big Brother needs to repress.

  33. No, you evangelical nutbag, I didn’t add on “pre-pubescent
    children.

    http://www.neulaw.org/blog/1034-class-blog/1415-the-dsm-diagnostic-criteria-for-pedophilia

    Notice how it also says 13 years or younger, and the person is at least 5 years older than the “child”.

    You simply have no fucking idea what you’re talking about. And of course if I’m arguing this with you, I must be guilty myself! Like I said, you’re as typical as a regressive left feminist. You’re the mirror image.

    What communists worked hard to break up the family? The ones that banned abortion in Romania?

    Like I said, she’s a “criminal” under arbitrary and statist America law, homophobe, and if she was in some other part of the world she would be guilty of no crime.

  34. She’s guilty under Florida law. So any of your contradictory strawman links are worth a sum total of zero. Who gives a crap about some other place you can pull out of your bum?

    If you don’t like the statism here, move somewhere else where there is the sort of statism you like. Like North Korea. Or China. Or how about the Middle East? They seem like your homies; they enjoy pedophilia and they hate Christians. You’ll fit right in.

  35. I love this “I paid for my education working at Wendy’s bullshit, too! When the fuck did you go to school? It definitely was not In the last 35 years, this much is for certain, because there is absolutely no way you’re going to pay for a college education on a minimum wage job, you dumb, privileged asshole. And of course, the old, “charity” will take care of the poor and those in need of college and healthcare! Lol! Do you not understand how inconsistent charity is, and cannot take the place of the government? Love your very Christian attitude toward the poor who you categorize like every
    other conservative asshole as a poor drug addict! Think much? I’m sure Jesus would be very proud, too!

  37. Move to France then. I heard that the Simone de Beauvoir fanclub is looking for a new president. Oh…maybe not president. I guess they need some comrades, Comrade.

  38. “Contradictory strawman”? You mean the standard definition according to American psychiatrists? You’ve actually convinced me of one thing: IQ doesn’t mean shit. I’ve read you touting your so called Mensa status, and based on your arguments it’s quite clear it’s an absolutely worthless metric, and achieved mainly through privileged status and tutoring. Your arguments are shit, and your reasoning is pathetic. And of course the poor attempt to label me a criminal because I’m taking apart your irrational crap ideas.

  39. Oh really? Christians share their blessings with others. Of their choice. Again, I’d be willing to bet money that I contribute more time and money to charities than you ever will. Seeing as how it’s a proven fact that conservatives in general and Christians in particular give far more to charities than Marxists such as yourself.

    But I really enjoyed your last statement, and I’m guessing everyone else here will also, so I’ll quote it here so we can all see your evil heart:

    You’re going to lose this fight eventually because my generation is the future, and there is nothing you can do to stop it.

  40. A person who is criminalized by someone is commonly called a victim. I’m guessing that the child’s parents would agree with that characterization.

  43. Woe to those who call the good, evil, and the evil, good. Lol! Your lack of compassion, and empathy is apparent. The great weakness of reactionaries is that they don’t understand civil rights.

  45. Yeah, I understand the parents hate homosexuals, and are as bourgeois and misled by statist propaganda as most people.

  46. The thing is, nobody here cares what you think. Mainly because you don’t. You only quote progressive talking points.

    Oh, and Planned Parenthood is also morally reprehensible.

  48. False statement jackass. You didn’t work your way through college anyway, so how would you know? I worked two minimim wage jobs to pay tuition at a…wait for it…private STEM college that cost a damn small fortune, but was worth it.

    p.s. You don’t know Jesus, so what would you know about what He thinks? You don’t even think He’s alive, so why would you even care? Well, someday you will, but not right now.

  49. […] As it happens, social media platforms yet have not swallowed the internet whole. But many millions live in them, and want the rules of the old internet erased or re-written. Unstated rules and arbitrary bans have multiplied on Twitter. Lastly there actually is such a thing as a Twitter Trust and Safety Council that advises the company, though it doesn’t have climate folk on it. Yesterday a critic of activists who are on this ridiculous abomination of a ‘Council’, was suspended from Twitter. […]

  50. You were even demonizing recreational drug use, you pathetic prig! Lol! The evil
    wacky tobacky and a hit of windowpane is the real cause of economic hardship, and not a rigged financial system! Meanwhile, Wall Street shitbags have the highest rate of substance abuse of any industry including entertainment!

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