Thank you for trying out my new Substack page, UNSAFE! This is where I will put all my writings – including the sorts of things that, in the rest of the known universe, would lead to shadow-bans, suspensions, cancelation and censorship imposed by 24-year-old recent college graduates who majored in “Speech Is Violence.”
No laughing at the ruling class! No jokes about our woke overlords! Only hackery is consistently rewarded.
That’s why I was so happy to find Substack. No more shadow-bans or suspensions.
Your support allows me to say what I think is true -- not what I have to say to keep a job or to evade the Nazi block watchers. And it allows you to get most of my content delivered straight to your inbox.
ABOUT – “UNSAFE”
“You must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you, until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.”
-- Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
On the other hand, maybe you’ll be right. I doubt it, but maybe. It happens.
The fun of being a “pundit” (or as I like to call myself, AUTHOR OF 13 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS) used to be debating things – politics, religion, war, crime, history, sex, race, soccer, or even a real sport. Arguments are honed, stupid points crushed, and enlightenment achieved. Grateful thanks are offered, to which I always say, “You’re welcome!”
But that can’t happen if there’s nobody to point out that the “fact upon fact” isn’t … a fact, at all. As you’ve probably noticed, that’s pretty much all we see in the mainstream media these days.
In an odd devolution that seems to rely on old people in nursing homes who don’t how to work their remotes, the new model for TV debate is:
HOST: [Rhetorical question based on a false premise.]
Guest: You’re absolutely right! [Adds several more false premises.]
HOST: I get smarter every time I have you on! [The last time being 20 minutes ago.]
It’s terrific that TV and print journalists can do their jobs in their sleep, spouting nonsense without fear of contradiction, giving audiences all the thrill and excitement of a pre-programmed tennis game. But it’s not so great for public dialogue or for – what is it liberals are so terrified of losing again? -- democracy. Which I’m told dies in darkness.
That’s why the only interesting intellectual debate these days is on Twitter. Excuse me, I mean Twitter circa 2016.
In 2020, during the Kenosha riots, I was suspended from both Twitter and Instagram for jokes and cartoons that suggested I thought Kyle Rittenhouse was innocent (and an excellent marksman), such as this one:
… One year later, Rittenhouse: NOT GUILTY.
Short of inventing a time machine or having the richest man in the world buy the platform and end the censorship -- but what are the odds of that? – there simply exists no real public debate in the U.S. today. Even on a free and fair Twitter, the ability to mount a counter-attack to the entire media-industrial complex is limited to 140 characters.
Often that’s enough. But sometimes I’ve got to bend your ear a little longer. That’s why Substack is where I plan to debate my enemies.
My Substack – UNSAFE – will be the Rapid Response Team to the Democratic Party and its subsidiaries, The New York Times, The Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN, et al; as well as 90 percent of the Republican Party.
Read it here first – don’t wait for original ideas to be pilfered by 22-year-old television interns, translated by computer into Romanian, then back into English, passed on to the boss and re-stated on air by not-very-bright cable news hosts!
WHY SUBSCRIBE?
If you subscribe you will get the UNSAFE newsletter, Ask-Ann-Anything sessions, Comments and full podcasts. (You definitely want to subscribe early to catch my beginner’s mistakes. I make a lot of mistakes to keep you on your toes.) Every edition of the UNSAFE newsletter will go directly to your in-box a few times a week (not like those annoying Trump fundraising emails that fill up your email box at a rate of one per hour). No ads, no censors, no safe spaces.
For the first month, everything will be FREE! After that, some content will be free, but some -- the outré stuff, the comments section, and Ask Ann Anything sessions -- will be yours for only $5 a month, or $50 a year. As you’ve probably noticed, this means you can get the whole shooting match every month for less the cost of one gallon of gas, or, if Biden is reelected, a quarter gallon of gas.
Finally, for the SPECIAL VIP RATE of $1,000, you will be able to communicate directly with me whenever you like through a private email account. Most importantly, you will have my eternal gratitude for supporting my work.
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So excited!
Twitter's got a prob
It's as big as a whale
So I'm about to set sail
For Substack baby...