Another One Bites the Dust: Twitter Permanently Suspends Notorious Right Wing Bridge Troll James O’Keefe

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At long last. He’s not really worth a whole lot of attention, but getting permanently suspended by Twitter deserves at least a quick post-it note.

He’ll get no career retrospectives from me.

UPDATE at 4/15/21 2:36:11 pm by Charles Johnson

According to an update on a crazed wingnut blog somewhere in cyberspace, O’Keefe may have been given the boot because he was operating fake accounts. Oh yeah, and of course he’s threatening to sue Twitter. It’s how the wingnuts do.

UPDATE at 4/15/21 2:42:02 pm by Charles Johnson

Another update from Fox News with more details:

A Twitter spokesperson told Fox News that O’Keefe was “permanently suspended for violating the Twitter Rules on platform manipulation and spam.”

“As outlined in our policy on platform manipulation and spam, ‘You can’t mislead others on Twitter by operating fake accounts,’ and ‘you can’t artificially amplify or disrupt conversations through the use of multiple accounts.’”

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43 comments
1
Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 15, 2021 • 2:34:38pm
2
A Cranky One  Apr 15, 2021 • 2:40:43pm

New company: meow pillow.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 15, 2021 • 2:40:57pm

Looks like O’Keefe is going to have to bake his own fucking cake.

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Charles Johnson  Apr 15, 2021 • 2:43:18pm

Apparently O’Keefe was running sock puppets to pump up his BREAKING BOMBSHELL EXPOSÉS.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 15, 2021 • 2:44:19pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Apparently O’Keefe was running sock puppets to pump up his BREAKING BOMBSHELL EXPOSÉS.

Shocking.

///

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Jay C  Apr 15, 2021 • 2:45:41pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Apparently O’Keefe was running sock puppets to pump up his BREAKING BOMBSHELL EXPOSÉS.

Unsurprising - who else would believe them??

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IngisKahn  Apr 15, 2021 • 2:47:33pm

Police should not be armed.
vimeo.com

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jaunte  Apr 15, 2021 • 2:47:54pm

Sex boat skipper threatens lawsuit to protect alleged reputation.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 15, 2021 • 2:51:22pm

re: #137 No Malarkey!

A mistake was made. Officers were present when an unarmed 13 year old boy was shot. Thoughts and prayers to his family.

Excellent use of passive voice.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 15, 2021 • 2:52:59pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:00:04pm
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DesertDenizen  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:03:39pm

re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth

WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE SICK FUCKS?

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IngisKahn  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:05:24pm

re: #12 DesertDenizen

The same thing that’s wrong with most of this country.

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DesertDenizen  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:07:32pm

re: #13 IngisKahn

The same thing that’s wrong with most of this country.

Most of the country is eager for murder?

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Charles Johnson  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:11:33pm
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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:12:16pm

re: #14 DesertDenizen

Most of the country is eager for murder?

The phenomenon of the militarization of police departments is widespread.

It’s one of the grimmer aspects of the USA.

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IngisKahn  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:13:08pm

re: #14 DesertDenizen

Worship of guns
Cultivation of hatred of those unlike you
Complete lack of self examination

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:13:48pm

re: #12 DesertDenizen

WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE SICK FUCKS?

My sister lived next to a family with two adult children still living at home in a large house in Chicago: one was a firefighter and the other a cop. She adored them because they would help her with this or that task now and then. She even started going to a neighborhood cop bar, and she took me once when I visited. The chatter was basically a police online forum come to life. “I shoulda rammed my gun up his ass” stuff. A while later I was talking to the officer neighbor after he helped jump start my truck and told him that I needed to be somewhere, but there was an anti-Rahm Emmanuel protest on Melrose—could he give me an alternate route suggestion. Before he did he said, “My buddy is on the detail and gets to ride in front of the protest with a (some kind of high-powered rifle that I don’t remember and don’t care). I’d like to take a few at those fuckers.” So I convinced my sister, a social worker who didn’t need much convincing, that she probably shouldn’t be going to that bar, at least. (I couldn’t really tell her to stop asking for help when she needed it.) Anyway, I relate those stories because there are “average Joe” cops who fantasize about shooting people, they talk about it with each other—and it’s always Black or Hispanics on the west side—and it becomes culture. Remember Chicago’s black box offline detention centers uncovered a few years ago…..

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:14:06pm
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DesertDenizen  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:14:22pm

re: #16 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The phenomenon of the militarization of police departments is widespread.

It’s one of the grimmer aspects of the USA.

I can see it among the police forces and their war footing, but the majority of the country eager for murder? I’m doubtful.

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DesertDenizen  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:15:28pm

re: #17 IngisKahn

I agree that there is a significant portion of the country eager for murder, but if it most then we’d already be damned to follow the mid century Germans.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:16:03pm

re: #20 DesertDenizen

I can see it among the police forces and their war footing, but the majority of the country eager for murder? I’m doubtful.

People will not say they are for murder.

But many Americans appear to be supportive of police being militarized.

The problem then becomes police are not peace officers, but combatants.

Combatants are trained to kill.

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DesertDenizen  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:17:06pm

re: #18 Barefoot Grin

My sister lived next to a family with two adult children still living at home in a large house in Chicago: one was a firefighter and the other a cop. She adored them because they would help her with this or that task now and then. She even started going to a neighborhood cop bar, and she took me once when I visited. The chatter was basically a police online forum come to life. “I shoulda rammed my gun up his ass” stuff. A while later I was talking to the officer neighbor after he helped jump start my truck and told him that I needed to be somewhere, but there was an anti-Rahm Emmanuel protest on Melrose—could he give me an alternate route suggestion. Before he did he said, “My buddy is on the detail and gets to ride in front of the protest with a (some kind of high-powered rifle that I don’t remember and don’t care). I’d like to take a few at those fuckers.” So I convinced my sister, a social worker who didn’t need much convincing, that she probably shouldn’t be going to that bar, at least. (I couldn’t really tell her to stop asking for help when she needed it.) Anyway, I relate those stories because there are “average Joe” cops who fantasize about shooting people, they talk about it with each other—and it’s always Black or Hispanics on the west side—and it becomes culture. Remember Chicago’s black box offline detention centers uncovered a few years ago…..

I have seen this myself, but to use pregnant women and children as targets is a whole new level of evil. This not just hatred, that’s sociopaths.

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IngisKahn  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:18:10pm

The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.
Most of America gladly walks past this.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:18:14pm

re: #23 DesertDenizen

I have seen this myself, but to use pregnant women and children as targets is a whole new level of evil. This not just hatred, that’s sociopaths.

Absolutely.

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EPR-radar  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:18:45pm

re: #21 DesertDenizen

I agree that there is a significant portion of the country eager for murder, but if it most then we’d already be damned to follow the mid century Germans.

Part of the problem is that there is a lot more support out there for policies which have excessive rates of police shootings as an inevitable consequence than there is explicit support for the police shootings.

To my mind there is no real difference here, but IMO many people are denying the consequences of their preferred policies.

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DesertDenizen  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:18:54pm

re: #22 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

People will not say they are for murder.

But many Americans appear to be supportive of police being militarized.

The problem then becomes police are not peace officers, but combatants.

Combatants are trained to kill.

I hate the militarization of cops. I hate the term “law enforcement”. That promotes the judge, jury, executioner mindset. I prefer peace officer, with de escalation towards peace being the end goal.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:25:22pm
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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:26:39pm

It occurred to me that RWNJs believe there are tracker devices so small they could be injected into your bloodstream, but it has never occurred to them that much larger devices (ie that might actually exist) could be loaded into bullets and cartridges at the factory. Indeed it might be possible to include a miniature command detonator. This “Cook-off on demand” could really ruin Bubba’s plans when he’s barreling toward a protest or a liberal’s house with 2000 rounds of 5.56 in his pickup.

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Hecuba's daughter  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:37:23pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Apparently O’Keefe was running sock puppets to pumpS up his BREAKING BOMBSHELL EXPOSÉS.

My fanatic Trumpster FB friend was telling people yesterday that Project Veritas exposed CNN — a couple days ago she was touting Tucker’s promotion of the white supremacist replacement theory and attacking Mark Elias. She is the epitome of Hillary’s “deplorables”, brainwashed and racist to the core. Most of those who comment on her posts share her views; it is so discouraging to see well-educated college graduates so full of hatred and ready to promote any lies promoted on their favorite networks.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:42:27pm

re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth

The US’s own version of RTLM.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:47:15pm
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BeenHereAwhile  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:50:28pm

re: #30 Hecuba’s daughter

My fanatic Trumpster FB friend was telling people yesterday that Project Veritas exposed CNN — a couple days ago she was touting Tucker’s promotion of the white supremacist replacement theory and attacking Mark Elias. She is the epitome of Hillary’s “deplorables”, brainwashed and racist to the core. Most of those who comment on her posts share her views; it is so discouraging to see well-educated college graduates so full of hatred and ready to promote any lies promoted on their favorite networks.

More than well educated, they’re carefully taught.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:54:31pm
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Renaissance_Man  Apr 15, 2021 • 3:59:48pm

re: #14 DesertDenizen

Most of the country is eager for murder?

Most of the country thinks that gun battles in the street are normal. Even those who don’t like guns and think gun laws should be tougher think things like ‘well, guns are fine for self-defence’ and ‘police have a tough job, with their lives under threat all the time so they have to be ready for battle’. I would be willing to bet that over 50% of Americans, even those who think gun laws should be tougher, still think that using a gun to prevent property crime is totally justified and normal.

These are ideas that are absolutely horrifying to the rest of the First World. Civilians have no business being armed. They have no business deciding to use lethal force on other civilians. But Americans just accept it. They may not like it, but as a culture, Americans have accepted that thousands of their fellow citizens and children need to be sacrificed to maintain white supremacy.

re: #24 IngisKahn

The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.
Most of America gladly walks past this.

This puts it beautifully and far better than I could.

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lawhawk  Apr 15, 2021 • 4:02:08pm

re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth

Compare to the cops murdering Adam Toledo, whose hands were up when the cops opened fire.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 15, 2021 • 4:02:15pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 15, 2021 • 4:07:57pm
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KGxvi  Apr 15, 2021 • 4:08:18pm

re: #35 Renaissance_Man

Most of the country thinks that gun battles in the street are normal. Even those who don’t like guns and think gun laws should be tougher think things like ‘well, guns are fine for self-defence’ and ‘police have a tough job, with their lives under threat all the time so they have to be ready for battle’. I would be willing to bet that over 50% of Americans, even those who think gun laws should be tougher, still think that using a gun to prevent property crime is totally justified and normal.

These are ideas that are absolutely horrifying to the rest of the First World. Civilians have no business being armed. They have no business deciding to use lethal force on other civilians. But Americans just accept it. They may not like it, but as a culture, Americans have accepted that thousands of their fellow citizens and children need to be sacrificed to maintain white supremacy.

This puts it beautifully and far better than I could.

A few years ago, I was having a discussion with my very Republican family about guns and I was like “normal people in a modern society don’t need guns” and they were all shocked. A rifle for hunting (or if you live near wildlife), sure. But other than that? Just stupid, really.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Apr 15, 2021 • 4:23:45pm

re: #23 DesertDenizen

I have seen this myself, but to use pregnant women and children as targets is a whole new level of evil. This not just hatred, that’s sociopaths.

It’s essentially teaching them to reflexively fear everyone.

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IngisKahn  Apr 15, 2021 • 4:49:38pm

re: #35 Renaissance_Man

This puts it beautifully and far better than I could.

I believe that was coined by David Morrison

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 15, 2021 • 6:11:25pm

re: #18 Barefoot Grin

I got a catalog from the weird book publisher Loompanics once. They specialized in fringey-fringe books.

One of their titles stuck in my mind: “Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other”.

I knew.

This was 30 years ago. Loompanics is long gone. Some of their titles are online, but not that one.

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Sherlock Hound  Apr 15, 2021 • 6:17:50pm

re: #37 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’ll post my Bedroomhenge this summer. At sunset, rays of light cut finely through the train station outside my apartment, through the window, and onto the bedroom door. It’s really something. But I have to wait for June 21st.


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