Kathy Griffin Finds Another Way to Get Attention
Kathy Griffin Finds Another Way to Get Attention
Her Twitter account just got cut off at the neck
Here’s a palate-cleanser while you’re popping corn and waiting for tomorrow’s election results: Alleged comedienne Kathy Griffin was just suspended from Twitter for impersonating another user, in violation of the bird app’s terms of service.
Griffin had changed her Twitter account settings to resemble the account of… Elon Musk. Yeah, the guy who just bought Twitter.
Those are her words, not Musk’s. She used her blue check next to the fake name to make it look like Musk’s verified account.
Get it?
Apparently this is the latest craze among bluecheck liberals, who are tired of rebelling against Trump and need a new stepdad to performatively mock in front of their friends. They’re impersonating Musk’s account and then saying all kinds of stupid stuff, as if they’ve accomplished something. And it’s clearly against the rules, so they’re getting suspended.
But let’s back up a sec. The libs are mad because Musk just fired all of Twitter’s official censors. Up until last Friday, there were entire divisions of workers, thousands of them, who were hired to control speech on Twitter. Here are a few of the “teams” that got the boot:
Curation
ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability
Human Rights
Climate
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility
Why the hell does a social media app need a Climate team? To make sure nobody fiddles with the thermostat?
Instead of giving Twitter users better tools to curate our own experience, the company hired hordes of hall monitors to tell us what we can and can’t say. The people Musk just fired weren’t running the site. They were running the users.
All of which brings us back to Kathy Griffin. She’s really mad about all that, so she impersonated Elon Musk and now her account is deader than Suddenly Susan.
It’s the funniest thing she’s ever done, as my pal Prison Mitch demonstrates:
Griffin seems to be taking it well. She’s currently evading the ban (yet another TOS violation) by reanimating her dead mother’s Twitter account:
That seems psychologically healthy!
Musk finds the whole thing amusing, which infuriates the libs because it’s true. When notorious plagiarist Benny Johnson noted the ban, Musk replied:
Now that’s funny.
The best part is that Musk wants to charge these hysterical ninnies $8 a month to maintain and improve their blue check verification. So they’re protesting by impersonating him, which demonstrates that the verification system they cherish needs to be overhauled. They just proved him right. They’re too dumb to know how dumb they are.
I’ve never gotten verified on Twitter, incidentally, and I’ve yet to be convinced I should even try. But given the fact that I was once suspended just for using the wrong emojis to address Bradley Manning, it’s great to watch these dummies protest being banned for purposely flouting the rules.
It’s difficult to put into words how deeply satisfying all this is. Every bit of it. The downfall of the censors, the seething at a billionaire who doesn’t spend his wealth the way the libs demand, the lamentation of the journos and celebrities who thought a little blue check made them special… the whole nine yardbirds.
Tee-hee!
Speaking of comediennes who have yet to prove it, Amy Schumer hosted SNL last weekend and I wasn’t sure why. What was she promoting? Hollywood stopped letting her star in movies years ago, after it became obvious Trainwreck was just a fluke. Was she on SNL just because she’s funny? No, that couldn’t be it.
It turns out her old Comedy Central show Inside Amy Schumer has been back for weeks, this time on a streaming service that’s obviously starved for any content whatsoever:
If you thought that was funny, you’ll probably think this is funny too:
I don’t know what that was. How does something like that even make it to air? It’s like a child’s drawing on a refrigerator: I’m supposed to pretend it’s good so I don’t hurt anybody’s feelings.
The good news is that Schumer has obviously stopped stealing jokes, or else I might have laughed even once.
It’s bizarre… Unlike every other comedian in the history of the world, each pound Amy Schumer gains makes her less funny.
Okay, then, I’m done thinking about Amy Schumer for another 5-6 years. Whew!
Last Friday, the Today Show aired this report on the Paul Pelosi attack:
NBC News has now scrubbed this report from the internet, with no explanation other than: “The piece should not have aired because it did not meet NBC News reporting standards.”
This is now the third significant detail of the story that was reported and then unreported. First David DePape was in his underwear, then he wasn’t. There was a third person in the house, then there wasn’t. Now this.
Weird how that keeps happening, huh?
Biden has made at least a dozen gaffes since the last time I sent this newsletter (Friday), but this one was my favorite:
No, you silly geese, he didn’t say “drilling.” He said grilling. There’s no more grilling, because it’s getting too cold outside. Do better, wingnuts!
I guess this is supposed to be something?
Sorry, but this is just amateur hour. “Ron DeSanctimonious”? It’s way too long to fit in a meme, and way too many syllables for a decent chant. The old man is losing his touch.
Some Republicans are upset about this. “Couldn’t Trump wait three days and bash DeSantis after the midterms?” Three days? Why would he wait three seconds? This is Trump we’re talking about. He doesn’t care about the midterms, DeSantis, or anything else that doesn’t affect him personally.
Trump is about Trump. After the past decade, how is anybody still confused about that?
The journos love it, though. They think DeSantis is almost as bad as Trump, and yet now they’re excited about Trump owning DeSantis. It doesn’t make sense, because as I mentioned, they’re libs.
Hope you’re enjoying the calm before the storm. If you think the libs are freaking out now, it’s just gonna get worse after the midterms. Or, depending on your perspective, better.
Thank you, thank you! I hurt myself laughing today. Elon Musk has to be a great guy making all these losers’ heads explode!
As for Kathy Griffin, she is among a largish group of comediennes feted as being funny, who just isn't. See, Amy Schumer , that weird Ozzie "standup" who whines about how miserable her life is, and so on.
Treacher is way funnier than Griffin. And just when did "bitchy" become a synonym for "funny"?
My wife still watches SNL, so I catch parts of it. Not only was Schumer unfunny most of the time, SNL is still apparently trying to find a few new funny people. They're mostly failing. The cold opening was only funny to the extent that at least some writer understands how lousy most Dem candidates are now. Oh, well.