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Monday, February 02, 2026

A Letter to the Left To those who still believe, from someone who once did too. I need to tell you something, and I need you to hear me out before you decide what I am. I was one of you. Not in some distant, theoretical way. I was deeply one of you. I marched. I shared the posts. I believed, with total conviction, that the progressive vision of the world was not only morally correct but self-evidently so. Anyone who disagreed was ignorant or malicious. I had Trump Derangement Syndrome, but then, I complained about all politicians. I couldn't see it was a case of choosing the best of'. I had no middle ground. And that's what finally shook me awake: the realisation that I had stopped allowing for middle ground. My thinking had become entirely black and white. I had radicalised"slowly, invisibly"without even noticing it was happening to me.

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X posts are now the new Articles? From an Australian?

This looks like a new low from someone you thought couldn't go any lower.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-02 12:53 PM | Reply

69!!!!!

#2 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-02-02 12:55 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#1. Did you read what she wrote? Who am I kidding, of course you didn't.

#3 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-02 12:57 PM | Reply

X posts are now the new Articles?

It seems to be where BullBringer is getting all his information from recently.

Between watching clips of child pornography.

X is a great source for racism and pedophilia.

Elon Musk really made it a place he can call home.

From an Australian?

BullBringer is outsourcing his trolling to foreigners agitators.

They're his betters.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-02 01:05 PM | Reply

X posts are now the new Articles?
~ Corky

We see all sorts of "news articles" from Social media sites. I think the owner of the site prefers not to have links to the actual articles.

#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-02 01:15 PM | Reply

- I think

A fact not in evidence, counselor.

Not ever even once.

;;
And yes, Painful Pole, I skim read just enough to escape with only minor eye bleed and no actual loss of IQ.

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-02 01:18 PM | Reply

IAMRUNT frequents twitter for the abundant CSAM.

#7 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-02-02 01:19 PM | Reply

We see all sorts of "news articles" from Social media sites.

"We" being his fellow hackers in the Chinese "Spamouflage" group.

Spamouflage has been observed on over 50 platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X (formerly Twitter), Reddit, Pinterest, and Quora.

#8 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-02-02 01:21 PM | Reply

#5 | POSTED BY ONETRUMPER

This incel lives on X.

Musk is his personal hero.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-02 01:23 PM | Reply

Most actual news articles have at least some standards, and are less likely to be written by a Kremlin troll farm.

X, not so much.

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-02 01:23 PM | Reply

I had radicalised"slowly, invisibly"without even noticing it was happening to me.

Says the DR Dillin Mulvaney who shills for MAGA Lite.

Pi&& off, idiot.

#11 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-02 01:43 PM | Reply

Interesting post.

#12 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-02-02 02:13 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

"And that's what finally shook me awake: the realisation that I had stopped allowing for middle ground."

^
This has Hasbara dripping off it.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-02 02:18 PM | Reply

" #11 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2026-02-02 01:43 PM | FLAG: "

I did t write it, moron.

#14 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-02 02:31 PM | Reply

"this has Hasbara dripping off it."

Zionists used to pretend they were lefties until the embraced their inner white, ethno-supremacist Nazi (for cuddles, of course). Then, during a fight they should've easily won, they took one brutal punch to the face and their liberal toupees got torn off on live television, revealing to the world a swastika carved just above their collective hairlines.

#15 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2026-02-02 02:40 PM | Reply

"Zionists used to pretend they were lefties"

^
JILL STEIN 2028 has entered the chat.

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-02 02:53 PM | Reply

I did t write it, moron.

#14 | Posted by BellRinger

No, but you thought it was worth posting for discussion while you yourself are insanely lacking in self awareness along with nearly every other MAGA moron on where they stand in an actual, objective left/right spectrum.

The only one that makes me laugh harder is when Boaz acts like he's in the middle.

#17 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-02 02:57 PM | Reply

It's hard werk being a Republican these days.

Maybe Jeff and Major B should go all MTG, and at least have a bit of reality on their side... rather than playing footsies wif da Fuehrer all day long making excuses for his atrocities against the People.

#18 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-02 03:24 PM | Reply

This letter drips of fakery. It reads like a childish caricature of what MAGAts believe Democrats to be.

And Trump Derangement Syndrome?!? Based on what the guy has actually done, more like Trump Reality Syndrome.

#19 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-02-02 03:31 PM | Reply

"It reads like a childish caricature of what MAGAts believe Democrats to be."

That's exactly why it sounds so sensible to JeffJ.

#20 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-02 03:32 PM | Reply

" in the middle.

#17 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2026-02-02 02:57 PM | FLAG: "

What is hilarious is you even thinking you are in the middle.

#21 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-02 03:34 PM | Reply

What is hilarious is you even thinking you are in the middle.

#21 | Posted by BellRinger

Compared to you dips*&^s, I am.

Left of center, but pretty in the middle.

Meanwhile, you half a&&ed support American fascism but want to think you're not extreme right...

#22 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-02 03:42 PM | Reply

This thread is simply a cry for attention from the DR's biggest attention whore.

#23 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-02 03:56 PM | Reply

" This thread is simply a cry for attention from the DR's biggest attention whore."

He's trying to keep his mind off Trump weaponizing the DOJ, $melania getting a $28 million "licensing fee", daily Constitutional violations of Due Process, and under-trained Gestapo killing American citizens.

You know ... stuff he'd be posting about day and night if things were (D)ifferent.

#24 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-02-02 04:02 PM | Reply

Jeffy is like the Boy who cried, "Wolf!"... he gets a lot of attention, but loses any respect he might have had in the process.

#25 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-02 04:04 PM | Reply

-Left of center, but pretty in the middle.

It's hard to see that. Same with myself. I'm very much in the middle but that's not what people assume from my posts.

#26 | Posted by eberly at 2026-02-02 04:30 PM | Reply

Most actual news articles have at least some standards, and are less likely to be written by a Kremlin troll farm.

No they don't they claim "anon sources" then turn out be incorrect, some would call it lying.

Today the left and right "credentialed press" lies without remorse. Explain to me why anyone on SocialMedia should be held to a higher standard.

#27 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-02 04:36 PM | Reply


I'm very much in the middle but that's not what people assume from my posts.

#26 | POSTED BY EBERLY

LOL Middle? You are either a Nazi or a "Liberal", there's no inbetween, just ask Corky, Zed, and Snoofy.

#28 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-02 04:38 PM | Reply

gabe_vibes_only

You can get on social media and ask, "Did he really shit himself?" and everyone immediately understands that you're referring to the President of the United States.

What a time to be alive.

#29 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-02 04:38 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

" they claim "anon sources" then turn out be incorrect"

And that's when the quality publications retract, apologize, and correct the record.

Fox News, by contrast, will tell the truth amongst themselves, then turn around and lie to the public.

$787 million worth of lies.

#30 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-02-02 04:40 PM | Reply

You are either a Nazi or a "Liberal", there's no inbetween
#28 | POSTED BY ONETRUMPER

"I'm an open borders liberal!"
- Same guy

#31 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-02 04:40 PM | Reply

For instance consider :

1) Borders are fake and should not be policed.
2) That land can be "stolen."

Whats the logic here? Well if you call a Lumper out on any of this you're a fascist.

#32 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-02 04:42 PM | Reply

" This letter drips of fakery. It reads like a childish caricature of what MAGAts believe Democrats to be."

I posted this because it describes a fair number of people on this site.

#33 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-02 04:42 PM | Reply

" Left of center, but pretty in the middle."

It's not how you come across.

#34 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-02 04:45 PM | Reply

I posted this because I'm a troll
#33 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

We know.

#35 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-02 04:46 PM | Reply

" I posted this because it describes a fair number of people on this site."

What a riot.

It's YOUR FANTASY of what they must be, penned by an Always-Trumper pretending to be a Democrat.

OF COURSE you'd fall for it.

#36 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-02-02 04:46 PM | Reply

For instance consider :

1) Borders are fake and should not be policed.
2) That land can be "stolen."

Whats the logic here?
#32 | POSTED BY ONETRUMPER

Pretty sure the logic is, you're fucking retarded.

#37 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-02 04:47 PM | Reply

The LeftOfCenter views Lumpers as well meaning but wrong. Lumpers view centrists as Nazis.

#38 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-02 04:49 PM | Reply | Funny: 1


I posted this because it describes a fair number of people on this site.
#33 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Name names!

#39 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-02 04:49 PM | Reply

The LeftOfCenter views Lumpers as well meaning but wrong. Lumpers view centrists as Nazis.
#38 | POSTED BY ONETRUMPER

Aren't the "left of center" the "Lumpers"?

#40 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-02 04:57 PM | Reply

One thing you can say about 1NoNuts is that he does have his picture next to a classic definition:

"A person who believes they are above everyone else is often described as having a superiority complex, being a narcissist, or being haughty, smug, or pretentious.

They display an exaggerated sense of self-importance, entitlement, and a tendency to look down on others as inferior."

www.google.com

Even AI has him pegged.

#41 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-02 05:04 PM | Reply

Ballwasher the MAGAT clown can go fuck his cowardly ass

#42 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-02 05:17 PM | Reply

I posted this because it describes a fair number of people on this site.

#33 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

What you posted was the whinings of a man who wants the world to see fascists as being somehow moderate.

People act like Nazis; they get labelled as Nazis.

#43 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-02 05:54 PM | Reply

" People act like Nazis; they get labelled as Nazis.

#43 | POSTED BY ZED AT 2026-02-02 05:54 PM | FLAG: "

Clearly you are a Holocaust denier.

#44 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-02 05:57 PM | Reply

Clearly you are a Holocaust denier.

#44 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Another joke?

So hard to tell.

#45 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-02 05:59 PM | Reply

Anyone who supports an America citizen being dragged through a windscreen for not showing her passport fast enough to some masked high school clown is a Nazis.

#46 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-02 06:00 PM | Reply

Trump today states that he wants to "nationalize " U.S. elections.

In gross violation of our Constitution.

Anyone who agrees with him is a swamp-running Nazi.

#47 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-02 06:09 PM | Reply

"A Letter to the Right - We Kill NAZIS"

#48 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-02 06:12 PM | Reply

People who have lost so much perspective that they obfuscate for Traitor Trump on a daily basis, having basically sold their souls to the Oligarch's Gangster Government headed by the Trump Crime Family at home and Jarad abroad.

Which is what Germans did in the 1930's when their Industrial Billionaires selected and financed a failed painter from Austria, who turned his bitterness and resentment against immigrant Jews to oppress and murder in the streets to gain political support and attack other peoples and countries at will.

That was the 3rd Reich. We have the dubious honor of watching the birth of the Fourth, which may be even messier and more evil.

#49 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-02 06:12 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Nice" deflection thread. It's an absurdity to say the least.

#50 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2026-02-02 06:17 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Does he actually buy it, or does his little pea-brain think coming off as a boot-licking MAGAT toady make him look less like an incel cuck? Kind of like that midget Bovino wearing Nazi BDSM overcoats.

#51 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-02 06:19 PM | Reply

Does he actually buy it

#51 | POSTED BY LEGALLYYOURDEAD

BELLRINGER, for reasons peculiar to himself, believes that he holds the moral high ground and routinely post things to suggest that he's on the side of the Angels.

#52 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-02 06:29 PM | Reply

" Another joke?"

No, I'm dead serious, Zed.

Anyone who denigrates the memory of those who experienced the unspeakable horro of the Holocaust and uses it for cheap partisan rhetoric is a vile and despicable person. Now, you've never struck me being THAT malicious, so I'm being charitable and chalking it up as you being ignorant as to what happened during the Holocaust.

#53 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-02 06:31 PM | Reply

" Trump today states that he wants to "nationalize " U.S. elections.

In gross violation of our Constitution."

Democrats tried to do that very thing in 2021. They failed only because they couldn't get Sinema and Manchin to support nuking the filibuster.

#54 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-02-02 06:34 PM | Reply

#53 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Nazis are a thing in this country.

If you behave as a Nazis, you are a Nazis.

No Jewish person living or did would argue with me on that point.

#55 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-02 06:34 PM | Reply

"Democrats tried to do that very thing in 2021."

You cannot be serious...

#56 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-02-02 06:37 PM | Reply

Democrats tried to do that very thing in 2021.

#54 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

If true, then that was a very bad thing.

Is it still a very bad thing when Trump does it?

Play the man. Commit your opinion.

Obviously I have follow-on questions no matter what you lie about.

#57 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-02 06:37 PM | Reply

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