Conservatives Launch ReaganBook: 'Facebook For Patriots'

[Capt. Obvious]

The president of conservative pro-family group Faith2Action last weekend announced the pre-launch of ReaganBook, a social networking site described as "the Facebook for patriots," according to Right Wing Watch.

Faith2Action President Janet Porter told attendees at the Ohio Liberty Coalition's "Reload 4 Liberty" event that Facebook has been censoring people like anti-gay activist Peter LaBarbera.

Porter lamented that "while tomorrow Facebook employees are gathering to go march at the gay pride parade in San Francisco," they are censoring people with "unpopular opinions."

She then described ReaganBook as a social network that tears down walls like President Reagan.

“We’re tearing down walls of tyranny and censorship," she said.

TPM

Mr Zuckerberg, tear down this wall.

[hunter]

1. Oh great, just what the world needs, a social site celebrating Dementia...

[zickie]

69. THAT'S NOT ALL

You oughta see the tax dollars spent on his diapers when he was in Office. Nancy was using them too...!

[Terra Alta]

2. Good.

Maybe now my RW "friends" and family will now leave FB for this new site and my news feed will be free of anti-Obama posts and RW talking points.

[Capt. Obvious]

5. No way

You think they'll let you forget about Benghazi?

[m-lekktor]

6. the anti obama posts i see on facebook are from the left. nt

[cprise]

40. Good. nt

[LiberalLovinLug]

63. That's a good point

Let them go to Conservapedia for their made up "facts" and leave Wikipedia alone

And now they can go have a circle jerk on Reaganbook. Not that I use Facebook.

[zickie]

70. CIRCLE JERK?

The only place these Reaganite men can wack off is in an airport men's rooms. Please!!

[LiberalLovinLug]

73. Another good point

[TBF]

64. That's what I'm hoping too! nt

[drm604]

3. They just can't get along in normal society can they?

They even need their own Facebook.

I laugh at this, but it's also a bit disturbing. We have people who are doing everything they can to separate themselves from open public discourse. They'll become more and more alienated from the mainstream and more and more radical due to living in an echo chamber.

They have Conservapedia, their own college accreditors, and now their own Facebook. What's next, Republi-twitter? InstaGOP? A GOPoogle search engine?

[HughBeaumont]

7. Likely Civil War, if their lunatics take over the asylum.

Look at comments sections across the interwebs . ... swaths of these loons believe such a thing should happen for real.

[gratuitous]

15. Hammer meet nail

That's it. Conservatives are disappearing up their own assholes, more and more seeking to wall off contrary views, opinions, facts and stories. I spend time at any number of liberal blogs, but I don't put myself in a sealed cocoon.

Glad you mentioned Conservapedia, though. Does anyone know how it's doing? Does it still get traffic? Does it allow for updates, or like the tablets Moses brought down from Sinai, is it inscribed once and for all, carved in stone?

[drm604]

27. "disappearing up their own assholes"

That's perfect!

[MisterP]

29. that's how the fundies have worked since maybe the 60s (before that even they were making

fun of places like Zion, Ill.)

[NoGOPZone]

4. Congrats. They figured out how to make Facebook suck even more. nt

[Tetris_Iguana]

8. Lame.

Totally Lame.
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[NightWatcher]

9. can anyone join or do you have to have Alzheimers and be a dummy puppet of war mongers?

Reagan was a hack actor who starred along side chimps who rose to fame by his willingness to sell out to anyone who wanted to control him. Enter the CIA and their guy George HW Bush. Just like Dick was close enough as the VP to actually sit there with his hand up Jr's ass the entire time (that he wasn't out shooting people in the face), so too was GHWB able to control the friendly looking and seeming pleasant Reagan.

And these morans worship this guy???

[frylock]

10. at the top of the list for pages is 'I Hate Niggers'

isn't that lovely.

[drm604]

25. People are trolling the hell out of it.

That one is now on the second page of the list. Below it is Reagan Was A Horrible President.

Currently, on the first page of that list there are 5 pages called The Barack Hussein Obama Fanclub.

This thing screams Poe's Law. Not just the member pages, but the site itself. Reagan Book? Seriously? Republibook or Conservabook I could buy, but the name Reaganbook sounds like a parody of a conservative site. And the thing looks a parody of a conservative site. Of course, that just means that it's probably real.

[Quasimodem]

41. I was only one of three people ...

... who were allowed to join Reaganbook under the name Al Zheimers. The three of us were conducting a flamewar about which two of us are impostors.

When I left, the site was announcing it was in "offline mode," which I took to mean censoring and deleting risible memberships.

[drm604]

72. LOL

That's totally inappropriate but I can't help but laugh.

Are you the Quasimodem on Straightdope?

[Lancero]

11. Wait, what?

I thought the Tea Party already launched a facebook for patriots?

Am confused.

[NuclearDem]

12. With blackjack, and hookers.

[Initech]

14. On second thought forget about Facebook!

[hifiguy]

32. Wish I could rec this post.

Will always rec Futurama.

[JaneyVee]

16. HILARIOUS!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. Saint Reagan

The Republicans wish he could run in 2016.

[Initech]

19. Weekend At Ronnie's

[freshwest]

74. Zombie Reagan Raised From Grave To Lead GOP

Published on Feb 6, 2014

From The Archives:

Republicans say they have found their fresh new face in the corpse of Ronald Reagan, recently back from the dead.

Beats the rest of the crew anticipated to run in 2016 hands down, if you ask me. Unfortunately, it's The Onion...

[JHB]

18. "ReaganBook: so the RIGHT People sell your data, not that Zuckerberg kid"

That conservative outrage dollar is a good dollar ... And it should be OUR dollar!

[Coventina]

20. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

21. Reaganbook - can't recognize friends and gets confused when you click on something

[love_katz]

60. DUZY!

[zickie]

68. Not to forget diapers

And you become incotinent and crap your pants. His ideals were as old as the crust in his underwear.

[Tom Ripley]

22. Will the users constantly forget their passwords?

[Capt. Obvious]

23. Or wander aimlessly around the Oval Office looking for the corners

[zickie]

71. Oh his penile pump

[mr blur]

24. So, it'll be like Discussionist, then? (nt)

[SunSeeker]

42. LOL nt

[budkin]

26. Can't make this shit up!

CROFL!!!

[JEFF9K]

28. "Sucker-dependent" companies many find ReaganBook ...

... a great place to advertise. Anyone need fat "literally melted away?"

[Populist_Prole]

30. Yecchh! 'Patriots'. That friggin' word again

It's now the official the official dog whistle word that really means "right wing jerkweed". They've co-opted the word so that I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.

[Blue Idaho]

36. But But But...

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

[Populist_Prole]

38. And so it is

[Rex]

31. WTF!? Is she announcing this in a church?

I swear to Koresh people like Janet Porter were born just to make the world suck.

Reload 4 Liberty? Please tell me she is also one of these doomsday preppers that hopefully one day will go live in their Cold War fallout shelters and leave decent human beings alone to be happy and prosper.

[Ikonoklast]

47. Do you want Morlocks?

Because that's how you get Morlocks.

[hifiguy]

33. Reagan has now been out of office

as long as FDR had been when I was 16. Does anyone but the mossback mental cases remember him fondly?

[ChisolmTrailDem]

34. Facebook already is ReaganBook, according to my feed.

[Beartracks]

35. No censorship at Reaganbook? Sweet. Someone start some gay chat groups over there.

And then we'll see about their no-censorship prattle.

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[Beartracks]

37. This Repub tendency to hide from the world and be "holier-than-thou" sounds like...

... those people they profess to hate in the middle east: disengaging from normal discourse (i.e. hiding in caves), ranting at the perceived cultural and moral failings of others, spouting off about "reloading" and "taking back" their country, believing in their own supremacy and righteousness.

Dangerous much?

"American Taliban" is a pretty accurate description.

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[tclambert]

39. We're gonna need a new regular thread for "Stupidities from ReaganBook."

With sub-threads for "Racially Offensive Stupidities from ReaganBook" and "Homophobic Stupidities from ReaganBook" and "ReaganBook's Outreach to Women and Minorities--Fail."

Oh, but that means someone here would have to monitor the "Facebook for Idiots" I mean "Facebook for Patriots." Not it!

[LanternWaste]

43. Can we mock this without having read it...?

Can we mock this activity without having read any of it...?

[cheapdate]

55. Safe to say yes. n/t

[paulkienitz]

44. want to make any bets of how little censorship it will have?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

45. If you like a post, you get to Reagan it. If you want to say something, you Reagan on it.

If you want to speak to someone privately, you send them a Reagan message.

If you find something offensive, you send administrators a Reagan.

You can join in games such as Reaganville.

Screen names must include the name Reagan, and each member's password will be Reagan. Reagan must be prominently displayed on all photographs posted to Reaganbook.

All posts must be about Reagan and use the word Reagan a minimum of eight times.

Reagan.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

58. .

[Arugula Latte]

46. Let me guess what some of the most "liked" things on ReaganBook will be:

- Amnesia
- Confusing Movies for Reality
- Ketchup and Other Vegetables
- Arms for Hostage Swapping
- Peasant Slaughter
- Caribbean Island Invasion
- Decision-Making Through Astrology

[Ikonoklast]

48. - Appeasing Terror Organizations

- Cutting And Running

[Thor_MN]

50. Those threads wii have "stickies" for reasons you really don't want to know....

[Arugula Latte]

62. Are we talking about "dinosaur porn" again?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

53. We should troll it "extolling" Reagan's accomplishments.

Sold arms to Iran.

Cut and run in Lebanon.

Raised social security contribution. Doubled employee contribution and, iirc, tripled self employed contribution.

Taxed social security.

Did away with credit card interest deductions.

Did away with auto loan interest deduction.

Taxed waiters and waitresses on tip money.

[hifiguy]

66. Now THAT is a classic post

[Aerows]

49. Flakebook. n/t

[spanone]

51. why don't they just canonize him?

[hifiguy]

67. "Canonize" is too hard to spell

and they don't know what it means.

[wyldwolf]

52. It's apparently closed while they boot the riff raff

"Thank you to all those who participated in the pre-release of ReaganBook.com Your participation is helping us build a more secure site. Thank you! Please be patient while we make the necessary changes to keep the site free from obscenity, pornography, and those intent on the destruction of life, liberty, and the family. We will be opening the doors again soon with additional protections in place. As Reagan taught us, trust, but verify.
--Management"

[catbyte]

57. "those intent on destroying life, liberty, and the family."

And who would that be? Anybody who isn't a dirt bagger? They're sad & lame at the same time. Christ on a cracker. And tax that freaking church allowing that nutjob to announce this bs site.

[RadicalGeek]

54. Another Day

Another "Echo Chamber". Like "The Blaze" and Palin's 'Network', Alex Jones, etc.

And folks like to accuse the left of being isolated?

[MineralMan]

56. ArseBook?

Or ButtBook...

[Courtesy Flush]

59. tearing down walls of tyranny and censorship

Guarantee I'd get censored like crazy if I were there.

[blkmusclmachine]

61. Fascists Untie!!!1!

[TBF]

65. "The site is currently in "Offline Mode"." -

I see it is working about as well as anything else they attempt ...