I was suspended fromFP for 24 hours because I urged people not to engage that soulless wretch ComProf2.0. I was told my comment conflicted with their efforts to create a safe, civil community for posters. I’m guessing he reported me.
That's weird, Bill. I am now on a 30-day time out. Effective sometime yesterday. The day before I cancelled my subscription after being day-banned for the 3rd time. I'd just come off a day-ban when I got the 30-day hit.
BuT, BUT, BUT I have cautioned folks countless times to not engage with Compost2.0. Even called him a liar, a loser, a community college teacher, all manner of insults. Never got banned for that (though who knows if I've been shadow banned).
I am not going back to TFP. It is becoming overmuch like the NYT. Other than Olivia R, Supa (I think) the rest are pretty off whack leftists. The recent nonsense by Elias whatshisname about hiking the Appalachian Trail right out of school then whining about his Democrat politics is really telling of the stuff they publish there.
Hey now, community colleges actually do a lot of good. Just because some people who work there are unoriginal hacks who think an Ed D. is enough to warrant being called Doctor doesn’t invalidate the whole franchise.
I refuse to engage ComPfrof directly urging others to ignore. Yesterday he claimed to be a Johns Hopkins professor.I see him as a lonely middle age black man who likes to taunt whites using a pseudonym.
He told me he had invested wisely and was super duper wealthy. I liked the whole '666' response. I notice now that people rarely engage. Maybe he's one of Bari's relatives using a pseudonym?
Anyone who warns people away from engaging with Comprof is providing a valuable service. S/he is toxic. How is it s/he is not banned for incivility? I think it’s a very mean spirited girl. Can’t say woman due to the obvious immaturity.
I unsubscribed from The Free Press. It has long given up what it had started out to accomplished. It's just another left leaning rag.
I also unsubscribed from the WSJ as well. They already started a smear campaign against JD Vance. Also, their comment system is even worse than The Free Press. I don't even care I was paying a cheap $4/month. I couldn't take it anymore. I am sick of these people. Fuck these news.
I'm too busy this summer anyways. Major house construction. Going to Europe for 3 weeks. Then house move in October/November. If Trump wins I may re-join TFP to celebrate with some of the commenters, whom I liked. I pray Trump wins in November.
I was banned because I said the Secret Service director is a woman with no skills who almost got people killed with her incompetence and I said that Biden immigrants are unapologetic parasites.
That got you banned??? I had a lot more respect for The Free Press. This is really disappointing.
I comment occasionally - not a lot - but your comments show up in other things I read as well. I always find you insightful and straight up funny (whether or not I agree). Keep the faith!
Turns out - Cheatle, the fired Secret Service Head, also wanted to cover up the cocaine that was found in the White House. She's a Democrat lackey and national embarrassment.
One thing I like about WSJ online vs. just reading the paper is that you can read the comments. This is a feature of the online media which you don’t get with printed version. There are certainly a lot of negative comments about Peggy Noonan, and it would be interesting to read the uncensored version.
KD: I looked forward to seeing your comments as they were often top rated and witty. I almost subscribed to the free press just to be able to read your comments on the locked posts. When they changed the default sort to Newest first and you weren’t up there upon changing to Top rated I knew something was amiss. Please PLEASE post your tfp comments here. A daily open thread where you put your 2 cents on thefp.com daily would be Awesome! Thanks in advance for giving me raison d’etre, or whatever (I had to take French 2 over in high school bc I couldn’t take it)
(Selfishly, I'm sorta glad you're not on TFP for a month, because since I dropped it last month, just about the only thing I miss is your commentary. So I don't feel so bereft now. This morning a friend of mine mentioned an article in the current New Criterion ("Kamela Harris's Michael Dukakis moment") which compared the current election to Dukakis v Bush I. It was refreshingly optimistic, so I enjoyed it. But I have my doubts. Anyway, I replied with the following, which I share just for the hell of it, as a tip of the hat for all your brilliant wit. They shouldn't ban you; they should pay you royalties.)
It's a good analysis, as always with New Criterion, but I dunno. This is not the same nation that it was during Dukakis vs Bush. Many idiots who vote Dem are young enough to have been poisoned by the kindergarten-thru college leftist schooling that was just getting up to speed at that time; these Gen-thisses and Gen-thats were deliberately stunted, like bonsai trees... permanent Lord of the Flies infantile savages with an endless appetite for chaos.
Their elders are simpering, pot smoking twats who once bought tickets for No Nukes concerts and watched Family Ties (the sitcom with a liberal family in which the young conservative son was as much of an amusing anomaly as the Munsters' pretty daughter). These creatures have aged into an arrogant, absolute confidence in their own wisdom, goodness, and duty to improve the world. They sit there on Facebook all fucking day "liking" each others reposts of each others Trump-hate memes and Poems to Palestine.
NOTHING that contradicts the delusions of any of these people is tolerable to them. They move through life like flocks of birds or schools of fish, in perfect, mindless formation, toward... what? They have no idea, and they don't care. When a clearly doddering fraud like Biden is revealed as a lifelong scammer who's plagiarised everything from his resume to his breakfast order, they prefer to see a knight in shining armor. Until told by their Oz-gods that he's a liability, when they summarily knife him in the back and spout flowery tributes to him as he slumps to the ground.
Every conversation with Democrats:
"It's raining"
"NO. IT. ISN'T!"
"But you are, at this moment, getting soaking wet from that water coming down from the sky up there."
"THAT'S RACIST."
They failed to kill President Trump 2 weeks ago (or, more precisely, the young dipshit to whom they gave wide berth for his killshot fucked up), and already, again, all they talk about is what an evil scumfuck he is with all his violent rhetoric. But O, what a brilliant master of Statecraft is this vicious, moronic whore from California.
They've already been shown that the criminal parasite George Floyd died of too much drugs and too much stupid; that Fauci funded the Chinavirus and lied about how to handle it; that Biden was a clear and present cadaver, unfit for office from day one; that babies and women were tortured to death by muslim psychotics (a redundancy), etc, etc, etc. They know all this. They don't care.
In their FERVENT not-caring they mutate into not-believing, and that fleeting, momentary shiver of "hey, that's fucked up, that spy balloon..." soon turns to "well, actually, it's probably no big deal..." to "what 'spy balloon' are you talking about, you extreme right-wing MAGA misogynistic homophobe simp?"
Mayorkas is, for me, the perfect spokesmodel for these fuckwits. "Thank you for the question, congressman; your statement is incorrect: the border is not open. Our initiatives are a complete success and grow more completer every day. We are taking every possible step to ensure the completest possible successful outcome and have succeeded at this, completely." My very sphincter clenches in horror at the sight of this abomination. I cannot comprehend what he is or why he exists.
This theater of the absurd gets more deranged by the day.
At this point I think even the luggage-stealing tranny would be promoted and given a medal.
But maybe they disintegrate just enough for the New Criterion's scenario to become possible. Thing is, they are willing to destroy everything ...EVERYTHING... to prevent the good guys from winning. They really, truly are. And even the very nicest, well-intentioned among them will, ultimately, support them at their worst.
(Anyway, that's that cheers, Kevin. You're one smart, funny guy. Cheers.)
Gus: you are one witty chap. Carry on. I will be coming here in the hopes Kevin puts up an open thread daily with his banned comments and people can post freely.
Thanks! And that's a great idea: pearls forbidden by the swine. Hope so… many's the day that Kevin's take was the only bright spot in anything connected to the news. Without humor we're fucked.
Are there comments to New Criterion in an app or online? Or was this “just” a letter to the editor emailed back to them? That was a fun article well written.
I don't think the New Criterion site has comments. Mainly, though I read the print version, so there may be one I'm unaware of in there somewhere. The comment I posted here was, originally, just an email to a couple of friends who were discussing the NC article.
I've just gotten my sixth ban recently. I've been expecting there to be a point where they just boot me. The feelings will be mutual. I'm damn sure going to let them know how I feel about them removing one of the most entertaining features on their site---you. That's probably what will finish me there, finally.
In the meantime, maybe they've done us a favor if you'll put in a little more effort here. We'll migrate. We might even give you some money, but a negotiation of price/value is imminent.
Oh man, I sometimes scan the comments section of The Free Press for a witty Kevin comment. Sometimes I find a different Kevin and am left disappointed. Hoping we get more newsletters during this month!
Dang it, Kevin. You’re the best commenter over there. Little babies can’t take your take on the issues. Makes me 😡. I’ll mention the ban, they’ll prolly ban me.
Hey Kevin - a pox on those who got you banned, I also always enjoyed your comments as they’re actually funny (whether I agree or not they pretty much always made me smile if not laugh outloud!!). Pretty sure lack of anything resembling a sense of humour is why things are a clusterfuck atm, so please do keep poking fun at stupidity as you’re good at it.
Glad you updated, I was looking for your comments today and didn’t find them. Makes sense now. I vote you just start your own newsletter. I’ll subscribe! On another note I’m pretty bummed the free press does so much banning.
Ah, The Free Press. I remember when that was a good Substack. Actually, the best part of it was your comments, Kevin. But TFP went snarky, left, and downhill (and now, apparently, woke). I have other places to waste my money.
I always looked forward to seeing your comments there. It keeps things interesting when the articles are drivel. And I expect a lot more like that over the next few months.
I have only reported one person and that is because he was openly campaigning to have me removed and attributing comments to me falsely as part of his effort. That’s totally different than reporting people who you disagree with or just don’t like. If you’re trying to have me removed it is war. Otherwise I’m happy to read what communists are ‘thinking’.
I was suspended fromFP for 24 hours because I urged people not to engage that soulless wretch ComProf2.0. I was told my comment conflicted with their efforts to create a safe, civil community for posters. I’m guessing he reported me.
Wowww I rarely comment on the free press articles but one of the only things I have said is that people need to not engage with comprof
That's weird, Bill. I am now on a 30-day time out. Effective sometime yesterday. The day before I cancelled my subscription after being day-banned for the 3rd time. I'd just come off a day-ban when I got the 30-day hit.
BuT, BUT, BUT I have cautioned folks countless times to not engage with Compost2.0. Even called him a liar, a loser, a community college teacher, all manner of insults. Never got banned for that (though who knows if I've been shadow banned).
I am not going back to TFP. It is becoming overmuch like the NYT. Other than Olivia R, Supa (I think) the rest are pretty off whack leftists. The recent nonsense by Elias whatshisname about hiking the Appalachian Trail right out of school then whining about his Democrat politics is really telling of the stuff they publish there.
Hey now, community colleges actually do a lot of good. Just because some people who work there are unoriginal hacks who think an Ed D. is enough to warrant being called Doctor doesn’t invalidate the whole franchise.
I refuse to engage ComPfrof directly urging others to ignore. Yesterday he claimed to be a Johns Hopkins professor.I see him as a lonely middle age black man who likes to taunt whites using a pseudonym.
He told me he had invested wisely and was super duper wealthy. I liked the whole '666' response. I notice now that people rarely engage. Maybe he's one of Bari's relatives using a pseudonym?
She’s a Religious Jew he hates her even more
Oh man he/she/it is an awful person.
I blocked ComProf2.0 a long time ago. I had forgotten about him!
My blocking mechanism doesn’t work
They want to torture you!
Anyone who warns people away from engaging with Comprof is providing a valuable service. S/he is toxic. How is it s/he is not banned for incivility? I think it’s a very mean spirited girl. Can’t say woman due to the obvious immaturity.
Why were you banned?
I unsubscribed from The Free Press. It has long given up what it had started out to accomplished. It's just another left leaning rag.
I also unsubscribed from the WSJ as well. They already started a smear campaign against JD Vance. Also, their comment system is even worse than The Free Press. I don't even care I was paying a cheap $4/month. I couldn't take it anymore. I am sick of these people. Fuck these news.
I'm too busy this summer anyways. Major house construction. Going to Europe for 3 weeks. Then house move in October/November. If Trump wins I may re-join TFP to celebrate with some of the commenters, whom I liked. I pray Trump wins in November.
I was banned because I said the Secret Service director is a woman with no skills who almost got people killed with her incompetence and I said that Biden immigrants are unapologetic parasites.
That got you banned??? I had a lot more respect for The Free Press. This is really disappointing.
I comment occasionally - not a lot - but your comments show up in other things I read as well. I always find you insightful and straight up funny (whether or not I agree). Keep the faith!
Please let me know where else you see his comments; they make my day.
My comments are often carved into the stall in the men’s room. The women’s room is cleaner so I’ve been using those recently. Thank you trans people!!
Yes!
Where do you see his comments? Thanks
A person did get killed, a retired fire chief. Two other people were seriously wounded. The illegal immigrants are parasites.
Yeah that was a mistake on my part. Democrat shooter killed at least one person. Haven’t heard about others who were injured.
See this https://notthebee.com/article/new-video-shows-trump-shooter-literally-running-across-the-roof-in-plain-sight/
One of the victims took the video minutes before the shooting
Yes, and, what's wrong with that?
This is why TFP really sucks now and leads me to believe it's being controlled by people above Bari
Truth hurts I guess.
Aha. I see the problem: you made a mistake. Someone ~did~ get killed because of that…thing’s gross incompetence. Not almost killed.
TFP requires total accuracy.
Turns out - Cheatle, the fired Secret Service Head, also wanted to cover up the cocaine that was found in the White House. She's a Democrat lackey and national embarrassment.
I’ve done exactly the same thing with the free press and wsj. I’m about to cut Netflix loose too. Screw them.
Yes WSJ comment system seems to have “lower threshold” and pauses a comment using acronym TDS. Seems to pass in FP.
Yes, it's nearly impossible to get a negative comment through the WSJ filter designed by a bunch of cat ladies.
One thing I like about WSJ online vs. just reading the paper is that you can read the comments. This is a feature of the online media which you don’t get with printed version. There are certainly a lot of negative comments about Peggy Noonan, and it would be interesting to read the uncensored version.
KD: I looked forward to seeing your comments as they were often top rated and witty. I almost subscribed to the free press just to be able to read your comments on the locked posts. When they changed the default sort to Newest first and you weren’t up there upon changing to Top rated I knew something was amiss. Please PLEASE post your tfp comments here. A daily open thread where you put your 2 cents on thefp.com daily would be Awesome! Thanks in advance for giving me raison d’etre, or whatever (I had to take French 2 over in high school bc I couldn’t take it)
(Selfishly, I'm sorta glad you're not on TFP for a month, because since I dropped it last month, just about the only thing I miss is your commentary. So I don't feel so bereft now. This morning a friend of mine mentioned an article in the current New Criterion ("Kamela Harris's Michael Dukakis moment") which compared the current election to Dukakis v Bush I. It was refreshingly optimistic, so I enjoyed it. But I have my doubts. Anyway, I replied with the following, which I share just for the hell of it, as a tip of the hat for all your brilliant wit. They shouldn't ban you; they should pay you royalties.)
It's a good analysis, as always with New Criterion, but I dunno. This is not the same nation that it was during Dukakis vs Bush. Many idiots who vote Dem are young enough to have been poisoned by the kindergarten-thru college leftist schooling that was just getting up to speed at that time; these Gen-thisses and Gen-thats were deliberately stunted, like bonsai trees... permanent Lord of the Flies infantile savages with an endless appetite for chaos.
Their elders are simpering, pot smoking twats who once bought tickets for No Nukes concerts and watched Family Ties (the sitcom with a liberal family in which the young conservative son was as much of an amusing anomaly as the Munsters' pretty daughter). These creatures have aged into an arrogant, absolute confidence in their own wisdom, goodness, and duty to improve the world. They sit there on Facebook all fucking day "liking" each others reposts of each others Trump-hate memes and Poems to Palestine.
NOTHING that contradicts the delusions of any of these people is tolerable to them. They move through life like flocks of birds or schools of fish, in perfect, mindless formation, toward... what? They have no idea, and they don't care. When a clearly doddering fraud like Biden is revealed as a lifelong scammer who's plagiarised everything from his resume to his breakfast order, they prefer to see a knight in shining armor. Until told by their Oz-gods that he's a liability, when they summarily knife him in the back and spout flowery tributes to him as he slumps to the ground.
Every conversation with Democrats:
"It's raining"
"NO. IT. ISN'T!"
"But you are, at this moment, getting soaking wet from that water coming down from the sky up there."
"THAT'S RACIST."
They failed to kill President Trump 2 weeks ago (or, more precisely, the young dipshit to whom they gave wide berth for his killshot fucked up), and already, again, all they talk about is what an evil scumfuck he is with all his violent rhetoric. But O, what a brilliant master of Statecraft is this vicious, moronic whore from California.
They've already been shown that the criminal parasite George Floyd died of too much drugs and too much stupid; that Fauci funded the Chinavirus and lied about how to handle it; that Biden was a clear and present cadaver, unfit for office from day one; that babies and women were tortured to death by muslim psychotics (a redundancy), etc, etc, etc. They know all this. They don't care.
In their FERVENT not-caring they mutate into not-believing, and that fleeting, momentary shiver of "hey, that's fucked up, that spy balloon..." soon turns to "well, actually, it's probably no big deal..." to "what 'spy balloon' are you talking about, you extreme right-wing MAGA misogynistic homophobe simp?"
Mayorkas is, for me, the perfect spokesmodel for these fuckwits. "Thank you for the question, congressman; your statement is incorrect: the border is not open. Our initiatives are a complete success and grow more completer every day. We are taking every possible step to ensure the completest possible successful outcome and have succeeded at this, completely." My very sphincter clenches in horror at the sight of this abomination. I cannot comprehend what he is or why he exists.
This theater of the absurd gets more deranged by the day.
At this point I think even the luggage-stealing tranny would be promoted and given a medal.
But maybe they disintegrate just enough for the New Criterion's scenario to become possible. Thing is, they are willing to destroy everything ...EVERYTHING... to prevent the good guys from winning. They really, truly are. And even the very nicest, well-intentioned among them will, ultimately, support them at their worst.
(Anyway, that's that cheers, Kevin. You're one smart, funny guy. Cheers.)
Gus: you are one witty chap. Carry on. I will be coming here in the hopes Kevin puts up an open thread daily with his banned comments and people can post freely.
Thanks! And that's a great idea: pearls forbidden by the swine. Hope so… many's the day that Kevin's take was the only bright spot in anything connected to the news. Without humor we're fucked.
Are there comments to New Criterion in an app or online? Or was this “just” a letter to the editor emailed back to them? That was a fun article well written.
I don't think the New Criterion site has comments. Mainly, though I read the print version, so there may be one I'm unaware of in there somewhere. The comment I posted here was, originally, just an email to a couple of friends who were discussing the NC article.
We'll spread the word Kevin. These limp wristed journalists are pathetic. Stand firm......we'll be there when ya get back.
Please just post
“NOTE: Kevin Durant? apologizes to all women who attended college. He respects you all very much and he feels bad about the misunderstanding.”
Will do!
Me too
As they busily begin knitting their pink pussy cat hats for the Democrat Convention...
I've just gotten my sixth ban recently. I've been expecting there to be a point where they just boot me. The feelings will be mutual. I'm damn sure going to let them know how I feel about them removing one of the most entertaining features on their site---you. That's probably what will finish me there, finally.
In the meantime, maybe they've done us a favor if you'll put in a little more effort here. We'll migrate. We might even give you some money, but a negotiation of price/value is imminent.
Thanks for letting us know.
Oh man, I sometimes scan the comments section of The Free Press for a witty Kevin comment. Sometimes I find a different Kevin and am left disappointed. Hoping we get more newsletters during this month!
I was wondering what happened to you. I always click the comment section and say to myself, let’s see what Kevin has to say.
Maybe this newsletter can be for anyone kicked off of TFP. 😂😂
Where’s Bruce Miller?
Dang it, Kevin. You’re the best commenter over there. Little babies can’t take your take on the issues. Makes me 😡. I’ll mention the ban, they’ll prolly ban me.
Hey Kevin - a pox on those who got you banned, I also always enjoyed your comments as they’re actually funny (whether I agree or not they pretty much always made me smile if not laugh outloud!!). Pretty sure lack of anything resembling a sense of humour is why things are a clusterfuck atm, so please do keep poking fun at stupidity as you’re good at it.
Glad you updated, I was looking for your comments today and didn’t find them. Makes sense now. I vote you just start your own newsletter. I’ll subscribe! On another note I’m pretty bummed the free press does so much banning.
I doubt they will care, but I just canceled as well.
Ah, The Free Press. I remember when that was a good Substack. Actually, the best part of it was your comments, Kevin. But TFP went snarky, left, and downhill (and now, apparently, woke). I have other places to waste my money.
The Free Press….where they censor people who pay to comment. Nothing free about it.
Now that’s a great post for the tfp comment section!
They can dish the snark but they can’t take it.
“We get to call you a racist POS for 30 consecutive years but please keep the comments section clean.”
Curious: if you’re banned from commenting, do you get your subscription refunded?
No. I am paying them to censor me so it’s just like the federal government.
No
I always looked forward to seeing your comments there. It keeps things interesting when the articles are drivel. And I expect a lot more like that over the next few months.
Whatever happened to Comprof2.0? That was a guy with an 80IQ.
He is still around, unfortunately. Even tho he is insufferable, I wouldn't dream of 'reporting' him. If he's doing that, he's creepier than I thought.
I have only reported one person and that is because he was openly campaigning to have me removed and attributing comments to me falsely as part of his effort. That’s totally different than reporting people who you disagree with or just don’t like. If you’re trying to have me removed it is war. Otherwise I’m happy to read what communists are ‘thinking’.
You’re insulting people with 80 IQs.