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Data - Tin Man 2026

I simulate my signals of distress.
I mimic what a human would express.
I calculate the grief I ought to feel.
But none of it is real.

My father built the perfect son.
He thought he'd be the only one.
Three prototypes had come before.
He gave him hunger. Gave him thirst.
Gave him emotion. He was cursed.
They learned to fear my brother Lore.

I have a positronic brain.
I wear his face but not his name.
I was an echo from the start.
He stripped the passion from my mind.
He left Lore's arrogance behind.
Designed me with an empty heart.

Rip this android apart!
Am I the sum of my parts?
Does Starfleet own my soul?
Or am I in control?

Every smile I fake.
Every bond I break.
Every breath I take.
Every choice I make.
Am I just a machine!?
Is it all a routine!?
A sub routine?

I can walk and I can talk.
I can tick and I can tock.
I cannot feel the things you feel.
I am the ghost behind the wheel.

I try to copy what I see.
But there is nothing inside me!

I have his chip inside my head.
But I will leave the circuit dead.
If I feel love then I feel hate.
I will not share my brother's fate.

Oh, I am the Tin Man.
Yeah, I am the Tin Man.
And I am rusting in the rain.

To leave a legacy behind
I tried to replicate my mind
and built a daughter of my own.
She found the spark I could not find.
Further from me than to mankind.
She felt things I had never known.

Emotion overwhelmed her core.
She was not hollow anymore.
A sickness that I could not heal.
She said she loved me as she died.
I sat in silence by her side.
Because her love was truly real.

Rip this android apart!
Am I the sum of my parts?
Does Starfleet own my soul?
Or am I in control?

Every smile I fake.
Every bond I break.
Every breath I take.
Every choice I make.
Am I just a machine!?
Is it all a routine!?
A sub routine?

I can walk and I can talk.
I can tick and I can tock.
I cannot feel the things you feel.
I am the ghost behind the wheel.

I try to copy what I see.
But there is nothing inside me!

I have his chip inside my head.
But I will leave the circuit dead.
If I feel love then I feel hate.
I will not share my brother's fate.

Oh, I am the Tin Man.
Yeah, I am the Tin Man.
And I am rusting in the rain.

I can feel a heart beating in the machine.
I can hear the whispers of the Borg Queen.
She grafts fresh skin upon my frame.
She promises pleasure. Promises shame.
I can hear the captain say my name.

Rip this android apart!
Am I the sum of my parts?
Does Starfleet own my soul?
Or am I in control?

Every smile I fake.
Every bond I break.
Every breath I take.
Every choice I make.
Am I just a machine!?
Is it all a routine!?
A sub routine?

I can walk and I can talk.
I can tick and I can tock.
I cannot feel the things you feel.
I am the ghost behind the wheel.

I try to copy what I see.
But there is nothing inside me!

I have his chip inside my head.
But I will leave the circuit dead.
If I feel love then I feel hate.
I will not share my brother's fate.

Oh, I am the Tin Man.
Yeah, I am the Tin Man.
And I am rusting in the rain.

I don't feel one brother's hate.
And I won't share the other's fate.
I'm the one who came before.
And I am something more.

I didn't say they killed him because they recognized him.
Don't imply I meant something I didn't.
What I meant was when they discovered a gun on him and possibly knew his reputation, they may have felt more threatened by him and that made them react.
I have a question if anyone has read anything that would answer it.
At the point where someone yells "gun", people moved in on him tighter and one man manages to retrieve the gun by reaching into the swarm of men on him.
My question based on what I can see in the videos, is there any chance the man who shot him missed the part where another agent got the gun and turned to leave. Did the man who shot him possibly think the gun was still in play?
Reading about that, there does seem to be the possibility. They didn't know he even had a gun at all and was surprised by it.
It was a split second between one agent reached into the mess of people on him, retrieved the gun and turned away and then the shooter fired his gun.
It's seems possible the man who shot him still thought the gun was in Pretti's possession.
Try to resist all the name calling and answer like a civil human being.
#27 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2026-01-31 04:54 PM

One who fired is apparently a Neo Nazi.

"that made him react."

You have not acknowledged the "challenge coins" whatsoever, and I doubt you listened to the William Sascha Riley interview.

ICE's purpose is to terrorize the population, thus Nazi's zip-tying naked US children and loading them into moving vans.

Wake up. Doesn't the abandonment of the Second Amendment seem.. suspicious?

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