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Banned From Twitter… Again


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Part of the reason for the reboot of the GayPatriot blog is my Twitter addiction. I joined Twitter in 2007, and fell in love with the brevity and the instant feedback from followers. That addiction resulted in my brain ‘thinking’ in 180, then 240 characters. My desire to ‘long form’ blog died off as writing tweets became my creative attention span. However, as most of you know, the free-flowing and fun days of Twitter are long behind us. From 2007 to 2018, I tweeted from the infamous Twitter handle – @GayPatriot. I had built up quite a following too; over 75,000 followers. But left-wing loons went after me in 2018 and that handle was permanently banned (including my IP address and cellphone number!). So, as the story goes, I’ve had at least 10 different handles from 2018 through yesterday. But it appears the anti-conservative cancel squad found me while I was tweeting about the Super Bowl last night. Once again, I’ve been banned by Big Tech. Such is life in 2021. I have rebooted this site in part to make sure my voice is heard and people can find me and join in a conversation with me. Thanks for being a part of our GayPatriot community, everyone!

Travels With Hercules


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One of my favorite authors from my English classes in high school was John Steinbeck.  I’ve always gravitated toward ‘historical fiction’ and his observations on society were very different than my experiences growing up.

Steinbeck’s non-fictional story, “Travels with Charley: In Search of America,” was my favorite of his books though.   He travelled across the country he loved with his French poodle.  After reading the book as a teenager, I immediately wanted to journey across the country with my future dog.

For better or worse — thanks to COVID — I had the chance to drive across a quarter of the country the last two weeks with our newest Patriot Pooch, Hercules.   Herc is a mix of beagle, pitbull, and golden retriever.   We adopted him in July 2020 from a home that wasn’t a good fit for him; he had been abused by the kids in the house.   He’s had some emotional issues since joining our home which we are still working through.   But it turns out, he was a wonderful road companion.

I’m going to write another post or two about the trip.   It turns out I drove nearly the same route in March of 2020 — “two weeks” after the COVID lockdowns began.  So I’ve seen a lot of how America is doing — at least in the Southeast.   And it isn’t good.

For now, here is Herc.   He’s a good boy.