Drink the Shaker Kool-Aid

It’s been an extremely long time and I doubt anyone reads this anymore

But today Ana Mardoll was revealed as a nepotism hire working for Lockheed Martin.

And his (he transitioned!) locked twitter account apparently had tweets justifying it bc people with STEM experience can’t possibly get other jobs for companies that are not defense contractors.

So Aphra I guess you won’t ever acknowledge that a lot of the people here had honest to god lived shitty experiences with Melissa McEwan and OH WAIT YOU TOO?

Even in retirement, somehow, Melissa McEwan can inspire a ludicrous and undeserved amount of loyalty.

Let’s be real sweatys, Liss’s time was up. No one cared. She stopped being relevant (I mean she stopped being relevant post Howard Dean but I guess it’s more apparent now?)

Also can I tell you guys partially why I backed off from the site?

One day I was looking at one of the devotee’s websites and honestly I can’t remember which one. I think it was Portly D*ke. 

And she has this little irritating chat thing on her site.

I think she clued in on the visitor being me based off time stamps with posts and amount of time on her site because I was probably 1/1 hits that day. And she browbeat me by accusing me of stalking her and triggering old issues. By looking at her website. 

This was shortly after Ana Mardoll’s pathetic post talking about how traumatizing the very existence of this site was for her.

That’s how pathetic the contributors to Shakesville are. Even from a distance criticism inspired them to try and emotionally blackmail their readers and me. 

I’m sorry to say it did get to me in the end where like my emotional resilience wasn’t good enough to deal with a bunch of master manipulators and yes, every single fucking person on that site is a manipulator.

Oh and all of this happened FIVE YEARS AGO. I’ve barely update the site since all that shit went down.

But somehow, somehow, my/our collective hiatus was also a continued campaign of “stalking” and “bullying.”

In closing I’d just like to say to Dr Fictional Ass Character: Go fuck yourself. I’m glad that toxic cult of a “community” you assholes lived in is in stasis, if not totally dead. 

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FINALLY - it’s over! http://www.shakesville.com/2019/08/the-end-of-this-road.html

Both Melissa and Kendzior remind us DAILY how they are experts on US politics & civic issues so this constitutional interpretation is particularly crazy, as well as racist.  

https://twitter.com/Shakestweetz/status/1019791549910183936

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"It was really cool getting to see my husband, who did not grow up in the U.S. and thus didn't 'know' Mr. Rogers, get such a lovely introduction  to the man who made me want to be a 'helper' when I grew up."

The very picture of this scenario is amazing. It would seem that all of the connections Mr. Rogers made were of love. That these connections continue to be made between people still living demonstrates its power. How else can I describe this?"

Really?

And just for starters, why did the filmakers totally ignore Ms Betty Aberlin (Lady Aberlin)?

Apologies if I am hogging your tumblr; after getting off the subject with Skripal one of my thoughts via shakesville is:  it's all dumb.  

https://twitter.com/Shakestweetz/status/981371921441939456

There are so many layers of dumb here.  Does she expect to be known as a brainy feminist political writer while doing tabloid gossip? At least one commenter said 'this is my favorite thing you've ever written, Liss.'  ??????? I guess she knows her readers.  To me it's another narcissistic dive which lets her lecture us about her awesome perfect marriage.  All this several posts after dropping a terrifying scoop that Trump's personal phone is bugged.  

http://www.shakesville.com/2018/03/that-time-i-saw-girl-with-broken-heart.html

This is dumb, and mean.  She posted it 2 days after the March for Our Lives, when most of America was watching repeats of Emma Gonzalez' speech.  At first I assumed Emma on a giant screen was who she was referring to when she describes how she & her husband were 'dining' (do you ever say that you 'dine'?) at a chain restaurant when the image on the large screen tv made her pause her fork ......  

But nope, instead it's a play-by-play of a teenage smackdown by dance tunes, interpreted as a victorious battle in the war against misogyny.  wtf?  I don't know the guy at the next table who was supposedly 'destroyed' and neither does she, and it's disturbing she crows so righteously about how both she and her husband laughed, enjoying being in the know witnessing said teen male's anguish.  

It seems Shakesville's doyenne did not attend the March and instead posted pet photos.  

This is not Shakesville but one of MM's best friends, Leah McElrath.  Houston Chronicle did this story yesterday:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/article/Top-Moser-communication-aide-called-out-for-12791464.php

I lurk & read MM, Leah & Sarah Kendzior because frankly they blow my mind with their looney Russia conspiracy theories and the way they have interpreted feminism as 'I'M ALWAYS RIGHT & YOU ARE A DISGUSTING NOTHING IF YOU DO NOT SEE THIS'.   One of them came down heavily on me during the 2016 primary for disagreeing slightly with their characterization of HRC as Joan of Arc and ever since I've tried to figure out what is happening in US politics that these women are acting as they do.  That is a subject too large for this tumblr but just for today I thought you might be interested in what's going on in the McElrath world, from my admittedly limited viewpoint. 

I said in earlier that Leah was making $360 per month on Patreon but it turns out she only got $325 in pledges.  Then she was hired a week or so ago to be Communication director for Laura Moser, a controversial candidate for Congress in Texas.  Since then her twitter feed has included some Laura PR which looks to me, frankly, very staged and unconvincing; then again I don't live in Texas and perhaps this is necessary to attract voters?  I can't say but I would roll my eyes to vote for her.  She was supported by OurRevolution (a Bernie Sanders-influenced group) in the 1st primary but now claims she is totally a Hillary woman for the runoff.  

Here is a Texas journalist, Chris Hooks, take on the Houston article with lots of comments:

https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/979431926649053184

I read around a lot last night & found there is a mixture of feelings about Moser: the Intercept did a couple of articles saying she had been wrongly targeted by the DCCC.  Another journalist, Robert Wheeler on Vice, has written that Moser is an 'extremely online presence' like HRC, meaning she has lots of slogans but not much policy or hands-on experience, is from an elite background, and kicked back lots of funds raised to her husband's consulting firm.

After the Houston Chronicle article Leah locked her twitter and wrote a long explanation of how she was being victimized by misogyny for telling the truth, etc. Today her twitter is unlocked and this post has been deleted. 

McElrath, Kendzior, and MM often describe themselves as the 3 pillars of truth-telling on the internet ... OK.  

Someone else who is a rabid HRC fan, Candice Aiston, was kicked off of twitter after too many rants against people who disagreed with her.  (She wrote a long defense on medium yesterday. )  I am hoping that this means MM and her pals will be less irritating and maybe dull their voices, but I bet I am going to be disappointed here. 

I've seen MM use the word 'Fuck' repeatdly in her twitter this week; often it's the only word introducing a (yet again) retweet of another article, or more ingenuously used as in 'Fuck. This.' We all say this word but seems to me that it's not a good choice for serious journalism.  Can't she express herself more skillfully?  As others on this site have said she's going the way of Glenn Beck or Howard Stern, using words to shock rather than delving deeply and deftly to show with words.  

I am really impressed by the Parkland teens and their use of social media.  I haven't read a 'Fuck' from them yet they harness their anger, the need for change, gender equality, and a love for all beings in such powerful ways.  These kids really can teach us a lot about how to use social media for good; I hope they continue.  No, they are not perfect either.