Nick Searcy was at the capitol on January 6th, and has put together a documentary about it. Only I hesitate to say that this is just about the events of that day, because it is more about the society we live in. Where truth gets twisted into narratives, and God help you if you’re inconvenient to that narrative.
Using footage and interviews he shows the difference between what happened, and how it got portrayed afterwards. Then he gets into what happened to many of the people involved, who are getting stomped on by the government, regardless of whether they actually did anything there or not.
I’ll be honest, I put off watching this one because I’m a political sort, who keeps up on all of this kind of thing, and I thought it was going to be depressing to watch. I should have known better, because this is Nick we are talking about, and he’s too irreverent to give a damn. He mocks what deserves to get mocked and he’s a funny dude.
That said, there’s some parts that are going to make you tear up. I’ll warn you of that in advance.
If you’re not the kind of person who keeps up on the news (or worse, actually believes everything on the news!) you’re the target audience, because this situation is a travesty. If you keep up on this stuff, the evidence that has come out since they finished this documentary makes their case even stronger.
It’s for sale at the link. I’ve seen people complain that they aren’t giving it out for free, but that’s kinda stupid to expect a bunch of movie production people to work for free, in order to tell a story that the regular media isn’t going to touch with a ten foot pole. If you complain about this in the comments I’m going to make fun of you. š
So everybody knows about Elon buying Twitter, and we all know that Twitter has been a bunch of biased, censorious assholes.
What we did not know however was just how bad they really were. For years when conservatives/libertarians/non-progs complained, we got gas lit and told it was in our imagination. When our followers vanished, said they didn’t see our tweets, or our follower counts seemed to freeze and never grow, we were told that was just because we suck, and nobody wanted to listen to our evil right wing lies.
Until, of course, Elon started trying to buy the joint, and then they went from it never happens, to it happens and it is good and necessary.
I want to tell you guys what I’ve seen personally involving my account, and what’s changed in the last 48 hours.
I used Twitter a lot starting around 2011 or so, and kept using it for about five or six years pretty steadily. Then I got annoyed by the fact that I was clearly getting throttled, and mostly bailed, only using it to post links to blog posts and the occasional fight with an idiot. I stuck mostly to Facebook because I had more fans there who tended to actually buy books. Fast forward to 2020, where Facebook had gotten so bad that I couldn’t do or say anything without catching another 30 day ban (I’m on my 13th 30 day now), so I started using Twitter again.
For the last year I used it a lot, and I discovered that I could say a lot more political stuff without catching a ban. However, I could tell that I was still being throttled, and I would occasionally hear from friends I knew in real life about how they didn’t ever see me post there, and a few of them said that they knew they clicked to follow me, and had for a while, but then I would vanish from their list and they would have to re-follow.
Keep in mind, I’m a relative nobody on there. I got up to like 12k followers before I bailed out. That’s zilch in the grand scheme of things, but I’ve done enough culture war bullshit that my name usually shows up on the naughty list. In the time I’ve been posting regularly again, that follower count remained remarkably static, only growing by a few hundred people over a year.
Along comes Elon Musk, everybody is celebrating, having a good time, and I posted about how my feed looked a lot different. I was seeing people I’d not seen for years. (my first thought was that these were people who had been gone but were checking back in because of Elon buying it, but nope, they had been posting there the whole time)
Then I started getting tweets from followers who are like, whoa, Larry is back on Twitter!
So I got curious and started asking about this, and then the posts started coming. Dozens of them. Oh yeah, I thought you weren’t on here! I thought you only posted like once a month! I never see you post. So on and so forth. It was remarkably consistent.
I knew I was throttled, but I had not realized just how bad it was. It was way harder than I thought.
Then remember how my follower count had been static for the last year, even though I’d been tweeting a lot? I don’t know the actual numbers because I didn’t think to note them beforehand, but I jumped more that day than I had the prior year. It was like a pathetic growth of 200 for a year, and then 200 more THAT MORNING. I think it’s like 400 today.
Which makes me wonder how many followers I would actually have if they’d not been hiding my stuff? Facebook does the same thing. My follower count on there grew steadily and rapidly up to around 20k, where it froze and has remained stable for the last few years, which isn’t suspicious at all)
I’m just a social media blip. Yet meanwhile, all the big mega famous conservative accounts are jumping 5k, 10k, 80k(!) followers that day. While the giant lefty/RINO accounts are mysteriously shrinking by equally gigantic numbers.
This was of course blamed on angry leftists leaving in protest, and curious conservatives arriving… Except I don’t buy that. Some yes. All? No way. That’s somebody at Twitter putting their thumb on the scale to make the people with bad politics look weaker, and those with good politics look more popular.
Now, people were quick to point out that not enough time has passed for Elon to make changes. Nope. But changes have clearly happened. There is undeniable evidence of that. Which means while Twitter was busy burning evidence of all the things they lied to congress about, they must have flipped the Fuck Conservatives switch to off. The change was so sudden, blatant, and glaring that it was impossible to miss. Free speech had clumsily returned to Twitter.
Twitter may be a wretched hive of scum and villainy, but it is also a big hive which has been disproportionately persuasive in American culture. Polling shows that Twitter users lean overwhelmingly left (do they really though?) and the most prolific and popular (?) swing super crazy left. The problem then is stupid corporations (Disney, Netflix) look at Twitter, think it represents America, say lets cater to that, and then promptly step on their dicks, because it turns out that’s not what regular normal America wants at all.
So Elon forcing that thumb off the scale is potentially a huge thing in the culture war. I’ve been enjoying the hell out of all the wailing and gnashing of teeth from leftist blue checks, because they know their ideas are such shit, the only way they can win is to lie with impunity about their competitors.
The whole fake follower thing has been hilarious to watch. For example, Super RINO Bill Kristol supposedly has nearly a million followers. I’ve got a measly 13k. Yet when we post stuff, I get a similar amount of interaction (likes, comments, quotes, etc.) Yet he’s got 75 TIMES the actual human followers I do? Uh huh… That’s totally plausible.
Long time readers will remember Sad Puppies, which in a lot of ways was a proto battle of the Culture Wars. The left used all the same sleazy dishonest tactics then, that are common now. If you’ll recall there was this one “news” website for scifi/fantasy publishing that everybody thought had this gigantic following. For years writers and publishers kissed this scumbag psycho’s fat ass, because they thought he had the power to make or break careers. Until we exposed the fact that 93% of his traffic was from Chinese bots, then poof. He became a meaningless punch line, and it turned out his audience was just a pathetic bunch of irrelevant whiners.
This is the same sort of thing, only orders of magnitude larger. The tech has evolved, but the grift remains the same. Leftists need everyone to think that their stupid beliefs are far more popular than they are. They have to control the narrative, because their actual platform is fucking garbage, which can’t ever stand up to logic or scrutiny.
Its the same reason Twitter does the shadow banning and hides posts from you. They need you to feel isolated and alone. They want you to feel like you’re the weirdo with the odd beliefs, and oh look over here, that polite RINO squish who thinks the GOP’s greatest purpose is to lose with dignity is wildly popular, and by golly, they’re gonna shove his stupid posts in your face every single day, regardless of how many times you say quit showing me this asshole.
How much has social media swayed people? How much difference does controlling the narrative and hiding inconvenient truths (hey Hunter come get your laptop!) make? How many points is that worth in an election?
And most importantly of all, how many more books could I have sold if these guys weren’t such pricks? š
We all knew the game was rigged, but now we get to see by how much!
First off, none of these are going to be April Fools jokes, because April Fools isnāt as fun when the regular news is already this absurd and insane every day.
Okay, I am back from my most recent one month ban from social media, so it has now become tradition for me to do a catch-up post of all the daily news events I would have commented on during that time, if Mark Zuckerburg wasnāt an evil lizard person in a human skin suit, dedicated to destroying freedom.
A. Far more important than any of the other stuff that happened like WW3 or the complete disintegration of American society, I had a new book come out. So thatās pretty cool. You guys should quit doom scrolling for a bit and read more books. SERVANTS OF WAR
B. Just like last time Iām not going to pretend to be an expert on global geo-politics, but I would like to express special thanks to Ukraine for proving what fucking dipshits democrat politicians like Eric Swalwell are for previously declaring that a bunch of hillbilly rednecks with our AR-16s could never hope to stand up to a government with tanks and attack helicopters.
C. However I will dabble as an amateurish global geo-political expert (I’ve still got a better track record of guessing than MUH EXPERTISE Tom Nichols!) long enough to pontificate that it’s probably a bad idea to farm out all your nation’s energy production to a psychopathic KGB agent with nukes, because you didn’t want to make Greta Thurnburg cry.
D. Last war comment I promise… but holy shit I want some Javelin missiles. I own enough small arms to equip a rifle platoon but I am sorely lacking in anti tank missiles. Get on that, 3D printing community!
E. The stupidest bit of news to grab headlines is The Slap Heard Around The World. My comments on that are as follows.
E2. Lots of people think that was faked for ratings. Nope. Neither of those two are a good enough actors. Also, the Academy sure as shit isn’t going to talk a guy who is up for best actor to do something that is going to make him look like an idiot on the biggest night of his life, while bringing back all the memes about how he’s a cuck and his wife is a tramp.
(also, the whole body language break down where Chris Rock smiled after ergo fake… That’s pretty normal when somebody *nice* is trying to process that their social contract just got violated, because our society teaches people to smile to show that everything is okay even when its not. Very bad people understand this and watch for that when picking victims.)
E3. All the people going off about “Honor Culture”, snort, I grew up in poor but proud dairy farmer country. That wasn’t an honorable act. That was the straw that broke the cuckhold’s back, and he lost his shit. Actual “Honor Culture” would have been taking a crow bar to the cranium of the guy who was banging his wife. (which is probably why a bunch of the guys I went to high school with are in prison!)
E4. Also, the people talking about slapping vs. punching, lol. Trust me on this one, but sometimes slapping the shit out of a dude works better than punching them. It is more insulting/degrading, so is more of a corrective insult than an actual beating. Plus, you don’t risk breaking your finger, which sucks.
F. It turns out Alan Ritchson is based because after The Slap, he called Will Smith a petulant man baby, mocked his open marriage as being a train wreck, and then quoted the New Testament. Good thing that guy already got a second season because otherwise he would be toast for talking that kind of sense! This one gets a different letter though because I watched Reacher and it was actually pretty good, being an old school throw back show where a big tough guy solves problems by beating/shooting bad people. So way to go, big guy! (who is still 3 inches shorter than me and the actual book character, but Hollywood is made of tiny people so I’ll take it)
F1. Lee Child clearly knows jack shit about guns though. The TV show was faithful to that part!
G. Oh, so NOW the proper media admits that the Hunter Biden laptop is legit! I seem to recall catching one of my many 30 day bans from Facebook for talking about that before the election. Go figure. It was almost like Big Tech and media corporations were actively colluding to swing an election in favor of their corrupt candidate or something. Naw. That’s crazy conspiracy talk. I’m sure this was an innocent mistake. I’ll eagerly await my apology from Mark Zuckerburg, censorious lizard man.
G2. This laptop is a big fucking deal. There is some shit on there that is downright nefarious. Mark my words. The fact that the mainstream news is talking about this now is indicative of much bigger things being afoot. Biden is such an incompetent piece of shit that he is threatening to destroy the DNC’s powerbase for a generation. My guess is that this is laying the groundwork to get rid of the albatross from their neck.
H. Only judging by the polling, too late, assholes! You have pushed too far. You have forgotten the lessons of your lefty forefathers. To push your insidious shit you have to boil the frog slowly. Instead you cranked the heat to 11 and broke off the knob, and now the frogs are pissed. I tortured some metaphors there, but you get the idea. The left has shot their wad, shown their true selves, and now regular sane people have woken up to their scam.
I. Earlier this year I predicted that America has hit Peak Woke. Many of you said I was crazy. Nope. I think this is it. Don’t get me wrong. They’ll still keep pushing harder and harder for crazier and fringier things. What I mean is that we hit the national carrying capacity of how much shit regular normal people are willing to put up with before pushing back. It will still take years, but I can feel the change in the air. The Woke will become increasingly irrelevant as a social movement until they’re looked upon by most people as a joke like unto the hippies of old.
J. I went on Rekeita Law. That was cool. I was on there for five hours. The highlight was my dramatic reading of Daily Unbreaded. I almost made it through a whole page without losing it.
K. Speaking of podcasts, I also did Blasters and Blades again, this time with Steve Diamond. Wow. It sure would be nice to promote these things at the actual pertinent time in the place where most of my fans congregate, Mark Zuckerburg, you forked tongued lizard creature.
L. I almost forgot! The infamous Don’t Say Gay bill that doesn’t actually have Don’t Say Gay anywhere in it! This one is extra funny, because there are two competing narratives. The conservative one, which happens to actually match the actual text of the law, where school teachers aren’t allowed to talk to your five year olds about sex stuff VS. some lefty bullshit about how this is the Handmaid’s Tale x1000. Remember what I said about the left forgetting to boil the frog slowly? This is the left taking a flame thrower to your frogs.
L2. This is creepy weirdo groomer shit. Because the most important issue in the world to the left is their right to talk to other people’s kids about sex. Keep in mind that this law is specifically about kids who haven’t lost their baby teeth yet, who often think they are dinosaurs or robots. It wasn’t enough to teach older kids that they are inherently evil for existing, and all they have to do is declare they are some alternate sexuality to get out of the oppressor class and claim some awesome victim cred.
L3. So now that the Biden Administration is done giving out free crack pipes, they can switch to handing out puberty blockers. Because we all know nobody makes sane and rational, rest of their life altering decisions like emotional basket case teenagers. (Note: This one isn’t even satire. They’re actually pushing for that.)
M. So along comes Disney to tell parents to shut up and let crazy people indoctrinate their kids. This gets its own letter because if it wasn’t this issue, it would be something else bringing this all to a head. Because the left has been using their disproportionate ability to bring social pressure against corporations to do their bidding for a very long time. And the right is just starting to wake up to this (even though guys like me have been getting told to shush by our polite betters as we’ve been talking about this growing culture war for a decade).
M2. that leaked Disney management zoom call is kinda hilarious. Hey, corporate world, I know you thought it was cool to hire SJWs, but when you get a critical mass of them, they will inevitably fuck up your business. And whatever your core mission is will get replaced by social justice bullshit instead.
N. On the bright side, all of this culture war stuff has gotten us the best razor commercial ever.
N1. We are going to see more and more of this in the business world. The left has spent a lot of time and energy driving us wrong thinkers out of society. The problem is, those people they are pushing out are pretty fucking smart (especially since they’re usually the ones who built the industries the left is squatting in).
N2. This is turning into a post with lots of predictions, but watch. The left has gotten away with their bullshit in most industries because the masses have been under the illusion that these people must be appeased or else. As that illusion crumbles, so does the left’s power. Switches will get flipped. They only have power because they are disproportionately loud and run the institutions that people get information from. As the people lose faith in those institutions, they’ll look elsewhere.
O. In sorta related news, until then- fuck your women’s sports. That was nice while it lasted. Seriously lady athletes, that is going to continue until you take a stand and fight back.
O1. My governor Spencer Cox is an invertebrate squish. Rather than do the right thing, he does the *nice* thing. (Utah is the natural habitat of the Great White RINO) Luckily the Utah legislature overruled his veto.
P. Remember where I said I couldn’t make any April Fools jokes today? That’s because we live in a world that has gone so nuts that a SCOTUS nominee can’t come out and say what a woman is because it’ll cause the left to get the vapors and retire to their fainting couches.
P1. This same SCOTUS nominee gives such lenient sentences to pedophiles that the only guy to serve less hard time is Jussie Smollett!
Q. Oh yeah, Jussie “I am not suicidal!” Smollett went to jail for a hot minute. Then he said jail is sad and scary so they let him out. Which just goes to show that all this talk about White Privilege is total bullshit. The real privilege in America is Connected Liberal Privilege.
Q2. Don’t believe me about Connected Liberal Privilege? Imagine instead of Alec Baldwin, Adam Baldwin had shot somebody on a movie set. He’d be in jail right now. (only this wouldn’t happen, because Adam is smart, and understands how gun works). Or even better, imagine any non-leftist–regardless of skin color–had gone up on stage and bitch slapped Chris Rock. It would be the end of the fucking world.
Q3. Ironically, Connected Liberal Privilege overshadows everything else, because if you want to see some real crazy hate, follow somebody trans or gay on Twitter who says “Hey, woke mega corps and the state should stop trying to indoctrinate kindergartners, and this is making us look nuts.” The resulting REEEEEEE is off the charts!
R. I almost forgot our “booming economy”! As a former accountant… Hahahahahahahahaha. š That’s so patently fucking ridiculous I don’t even know what to say about that. My stock portfolio still hasn’t recovered from the crash after Biden tried to talk for two hours, inflation has gone batshit, and gas is bonkers. But don’t worry. The government says poor people should just go buy $50,000 electric cars.
S. On that note, apparently if you say that electric tractors are a joke on Twitter, thousands of insane Watermelons (green on the outside, red on the inside) will come yell at you for weeks. So that’s now something I’m an expert on!
S2. Seriously, that one was hilarious. I don’t hate EVs (I bought Tesla stock early!), but Watermelons were showing me tractors that had 3000 foot extension cords. š
T. Speaking of the Martian Emperor, Elon is by far my favorite billionaire, because not only does he infuriate all the right idiots, Yard Moose Mountain finally has fast internet. Thank you Star Link. My K/D ratio has shot up dramatically!
U. On that note, the free to play game Enlisted is actually pretty damn good. I’ve got a shocking amount of play out of it so far and I’m still not bored.
V. There is a rumor that Utah AG Reyes is gunning for Mitt Romney when he is up in the primary. Good. Mitt Romney is a ziplock bag of hair gel. I’ve met Reyes a couple times (once was FanX because it turns out he’s a geek), but he gets my vote just for back during the election, having Utah join the Texas lawsuit, and when our shitty governor Gary “Fuckface Tried To Murder My Wife Because He Was So Scared Of Covid He Wouldn’t Let Hospitals Treat Cancer” Herbert cried about it, Reyes basically told him the AG was elected by the people, not the governor, so he was going to do what the people wanted.
So good luck and happy RINO hunting.
W. This one is cheating, because it was the day after my ban was over, but FenCon announced that I am their writer Guest of Honor. Immediately a bunch of Caring Leftists threw a temper tantrum and demanded that I get kicked out because of my evil badthink. But FenCon issued a statement and stuck to their guns. So that was refreshing! I’ve found it’s about 50/50 when SJWs throw a tantrum if the event caves and kicks me out or not.
X. Did I mention y’all need to read more books? SERVANTS OF WAR came out! Yes. I know this is cheating, but that’s a lot of letters and I can’t remember what else happened this month.
Y. FREE SPACE. (I make the rules here!)
Z. Bridget and I celebrated our 24th anniversary. I know this might not count as news to you guys, but I think it’s pretty bad ass! š
So the cats out of the bag now! Baen Books will be trying something new on Twitter tonight ā a Tweet Storm, Author Q&A with Larry Correia and Steve Diamond, and Baen prize patrol. And because we love you mad, beautiful bastards, weāre sharing the details with you before we share it with anyone else.
Weāre doing a big push on Twitter with the #ServantsofWar hashtag, and if we see it trending, weāll share some more info on one of Larryās upcoming projects, and Baen will throw more books and swag into the prize pool. Including copies of our April releases you otherwise wonāt get your hands on for another few weeks. So hereās what weāre giving away. Weāre giving out signed copies of Servants of War, Destroyers of Worlds, signed bookplates for the folks who already have books, Baen swag. Over on the official Baen Books Twitter, we will be doing a fan Q&A between 5pm and midnight with Larry and Steve.
The post will go live at 5pm EST, and Larry and Steve will be replying to questions as they come. We will be monitoring the Q&A and the #ServantsofWar hashtag for giveaways. Hereās how you get your lovely mitts on them, and what we want to see from you guys: Between 5pm and 12am EST, send out a tweet with the hashtag #ServantsofWar, with one of the following:-A picture of your collection of Larry Corriea and Steve Diamond books-A picture of a Larry Corriea book from the craziest place you can manage. Nothing dangerous please.-A few reasons why you love Larry and/or Steve as a writer-What is your favorite book by Larry and/or Steve?-What is it youāre most excited for about Servants of War?-If youāve read it already, what were some of your favorite parts of Servants of War? No spoilers!-Dank memes! Hit us with your best related to Larryās books, Servants of War or Baen.
Donāt forget that #ServantsofWar hashtag! We canāt pick winners if we canāt find them!Like I said, this is something new for Baen Books, and if it works out, weāre going to try it with other books and other authors. Hereās hoping you guys give them one hell of a tough act to follow.
And yes. My publisher did misspell my name. I forgive them as they are trying to sell books for me. š
So use the hashtag #servantsofwar on Twitter and tell your friends so Baen can give away a bunch of stuff. This is an experiment for Baen so let’s see how it shakes out.
