Thank God!: Alex Jones’s Infowars is about to be banned from YouTube

Finally, Alex Jones is getting what he deserves.

The Hill has the story

Conspiracy theory outlet Infowars is one strike away from being banned from YouTube.

The channel said it received an alert from YouTube on Tuesday morning, saying Infowars received a second strike on a video about the Parkland, Fla., high school shooting and will temporarily be unable to upload new content.

“This is the second strike applied to your account within three months. As a result, you’re unable to post new content to YouTube for two weeks,” the alert said. “If there are no further issues, the ability to upload will be automatically restored after this two week period.”

Infowars’s second strike comes as social media giants like YouTube and Twitter grapple with how to handle extremist or conspiracy theory content.

I would like to officially go on the record as saying, that I believe this is a good thing. As someone who has conservative leanings, I find myself very embarrassed by the fact that Alex Jones is even regarded as a legitimate media outlet. Because some of the stuff that Alex Jones promotes on his site, borderlines on manacle hysteria and outright stupidity.

Not to mention, some of the things that he has said on his site are a direct insult to victims of mass shootings. I personally believe if Alex Jones wants to promote those wackadoodle conspiracy theories, then he should do it on his own server, where he can upload videos to his heart’s content. Instead of on a site such as YouTube where all Americans can access it. Now I’m sure Alex Jones is going to scream repression of freedom of speech. Sorry Alex, but that’s a bunch of BS. YouTube is not a government ran site; YouTube is a private business or entity and reserves the rights to prohibit someone of your caliber from using their service. Not to mention the fact that they accept advertising dollars and I’m sure some advertisers do not want to share the same platform as you.

Now if one of Alex Jones is mindless followers happens to stumble over this article and starts to comment that I’m some sort of government controlled person or that I’m some sort of die-hard liberal; nothing could be further from the truth. I voted for Trump and I too would like to see America great again. However, I do not like Alex Jones. I never have. I’ve always thought him to be a crank and opportunist and a charlatan. So, before you waste your breath or your bandwidth on calling me stuff that I’m not. Save it, because you would be dead wrong.

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Living proof that the Republican party is no longer neoconservative

I saw this on two different sites and needless to say I was kind of surprised.

Writing over at the New York Times, Mona Charen tells the story:

I’ve been a conservative my entire life. I fell hard for William F. Buckley as a
teenager and my first job was as editorial assistant at Buckley’ s National
Review, followed by stints writing speeches for first lady Nancy Reagan and
then working for the Gipper himself. Looking toward the 1988 race, Vice
President George H.W. Bush wasn’t conservative enough for me . I went to
work as a speechwriter for Representative Jack Kemp in 1986.

So you’d think that the Conservative Political A ction Conference , or
CPAC, would be a natur al fit. It once was. But on Saturday, after speaking to
this year ’s gathering, I had to be escorted from the premises by several
guards who seemed genuinely concerned for my safety .

What happened to me at CP AC is the perfect illustration of the collective
experience of a whole swath of conservatives since Donald Trump became
the Republican nominee. We built and organized this party — b ut now we’re
made to feel like interlopers.

I was surprised that I was even ask ed to speak at CPAC. My views on
Trump, Roy Moore and Steve Bannon are no secret. I knew the crowd would
be hostile, and so I was tempted to pass.

But too many of us have given up the fight. W e’ve let disgust and dismay
lead us to withdraw while bad actors tak e control of the direction of our
movement. I know how encouraged I feel whenever someone simply states
the truth, and so I decided to accept CPAC’s invitation.

Politico tells the rest:

Mona Charen, a well-known conservative author and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, was among four women discussing issues of feminism and sexual abuse on the final day of the annual right-wing gathering. Asked by the moderator to name something that gets their “blood boiling” as it relates to those subjects, Charen replied, “I am disappointed in people on our side for being hypocrites about sexual harassers and abusers of women, who are in our party, who are sitting in the White House, who brag about their extramarital affairs, who brag about mistreating women—and because he happens to have an ‘R’ next to his name we look the other way.”

And she didn’t stop there. With the audience silent and seemingly paralyzed by her assault on Trump—whose Friday-morning speech highlighted three days of uninterrupted adulation—Charen added: “This is a party that endorsed Roy Moore for the Senate in the state of Alabama even though he was a credibly accused child molester. You cannot claim that you stand for women and put up with that.” Her final line was interrupted with jeers and boos from the audience, mixed with scattered applause, with one woman near the front repeatedly yelling: “Not true! Not true!”The moderator scrambled to move the panel forward, mentioning the “explosion” of incidents in which “accusation has been equal to conviction.” Many in the crowd continued shouting, several of them about the need to defend men from baseless allegations and separate good guys from bad guys.“Speaking of bad guys,” Charen interjected, her tone louder and more aggressive than before, “there was quite an interesting person who was on this stage the other day. Her name is Marion Le Pen. Now, why was she here? Why was she here? She’s a young, no-longer-in-office politician from France. I think the only reason she was here is because she’s named Le Pen.” A man screamed from the audience: “Why are you here?” Charen continued: “And the Le Pen name is a disgrace. Her grandfather is a racist and a Nazi. She claims that she stands for him. And the fact that CPAC invited her is a disgrace.”By the time Charen had finished, boos and taunts drowned out the applause. “You’re a disgrace!” another man shouted.

Waiting for Charen afterward in a hallway inside the Gaylord National Resort, I was surprised to see her surrounded by three security officers. She was surprised, too. Charen told me the detail had suddenly appeared backstage, “seemingly nervous,” having been assigned to protect her on the way out. As we talked, and the detail marched Charen briskly toward the front doors, a few people tried to approach her but nobody got close. “They were acting as if I were in real danger,” she texted me afterward, “which I didn’t feel at all.”

This incident right here is kind of what troubles me about the Republican Party nowadays. Although I will tell you this the only sign that this is, is that the Republican party, at least the Grassroots is not buying the BS of the neoconservative right anymore. You have to understand something the Republican Grassroots we’re the ones who were subjected to the lies of the George W Bush Administration; when they told us that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and true Mona Charen was one of the ones who preached that Doctrine. Well, nowadays, the Republican Grassroots simply is not open to neoconservative or any sort of progressive thought because the last time they were open to that sort of thought, this nation got dragged into the Iraq War which almost destroyed the Republican Party standing in National politics and put a humongous stain on this country. This lady ought not to be surprised, she ought to be a little more cautious where she appears; because quite frankly her Jewish-first conservatism is simply not wanted anymore in the Republican party or any political party for that matter anymore.

I fried my laptop

It’s it’s been a while since I posted here. So, I thought I would let you guys know about something that happened to me.

Basically I fried my laptop. Yes, you read that correctly I fried my gaming laptop that I bought and was so proud of.

I mentioned on here before, that I play American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2. I even went out and bought; or I should accurately say went on Amazon and bought a Logitech g920 steering wheel controller. It’s one of those kind that makes you feel like you’re on the road and it vibrates and Shakes and jumps and does all sorts of crazy stuff, technically it’s called a forced feedback steering wheel.

that’s right, fried my laptop…. totally screwed it up. I happened to be playing World of Warships and I happened to be streaming on a now-defunct YouTube channel and all the sudden, it was as if somebody reached over and hit the power button and the laptop went dead. I unplugged it from AC power attempted to Power It Up via battery and no such luck; wouldn’t even power up and so I I proceeded to be hit with a severe case of fear and dread and then I remembered: I had an extended warranty on it which was for three years. After a lot of wrangling and running around with Asus, I was able to get the number of the place that handled warranty claims for Newegg where I bought it and I got a claim started and they shipped me a Nifty little box and I put the laptop in it and sent it off to be repaired. I also found out something rather shocking that the extended warranty that I got; while it covers defects from the manufacturer, it does not cover accidental damages and so I now wait to hear from the company that’s repairing my laptop as to what the damage is going to be, meaning how much the repairs going to be.

One of the reasons why this kind of cheeses me off, is because I was under the impression that this warranty covered everything: defects, accidental damage, that sort of thing. Well, according to what the warranty company told me, I did not have that sort of coverage. I was under the impression that I did. lesson learned: read the fine print. What actually I believe caused the poor laptop to have a heart attack is basically one day I was refilling my vape tank and I got a little bit of vape Juice near the touchpad where the button is that you touch to use act as a mouse if you don’t have one.A little bit got close to it and I got it away from it. I didn’t think anything got in the touchpad inside of it??.. apparently it did and it got down to where the motherboard was and it had a heart attack and shut down.

I also want to say this considering all the Ringling that I had to do with Asus and based on the fact that they never bothered to call me back to say if they were going to cover the damage or not; I think my next laptop will be an Alienware by Dell. The last couple Dell laptops that I had, I was extremely impressed with their warranty service; in fact, my first laptop which was a Dell Inspiron 1501. Dell actually sent out a service technician to fix my display when it acted up after I made a stupid mistake with it involving liquid. I was basically cleaning the laptop and instead of being smart and wetting a paper towel and cleaning it off. I sprayed Windex right onto the display! oops, big mistake. I shouldn’t have done that and they luckily it was under warranty which covered accidental damage and they replaced it no questions asked.

The thing that really got me about the Asus laptop was it was only 3 days out of warranty and they never bothered to call me back to tell me if they were going to fix it or not. So, I ended up having to use the extended warranty and the extended warranty wasn’t what I thought it was and now I’m going to have to pay out-of-pocket to fix the stupid laptop. This is not a good way to do business and my next one will be an Alienware. This the Asus laptop has an excellent video card in it ,it is a G-Force card and it is a very good laptop, plenty fast plenty of hard drive space and plenty of video card. But Asus has warranty service leaves a lot to be desired.

So for now I am forced to do everything that I normally do on the internet with my laptop on this galaxy view 18.5 tablet. Something I bought a few years ago and never really used it because it was so impractical to use that being that it is so large I’m glad I bought it otherwise I would be doing everything from my Galaxy S8.

I guess the moral of this story is is two things: read the fine print on an extended contract through a computer vendor and if you’re going to refill your vape tank, be sure to close the lid on your laptop otherwise you could be learning an expensive lesson. 😳😶