Thanks for the kind words, HC!
Yes, last spring I asked mods from Maniac Nebula to give their two cents about the upcoming election. I like what they've contributed. Before anyone replied, here's what I posted:
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3-20-2024
Message From Site Operator:
Election cycle is in full swing. Three in five Americans don’t want a Biden vs Trump rematch. We are a conspiracy site, though. We analyze why the political duopoly has been so strong. We look at the viability of independents such as RFK Jr. The Maniac Nebula was created with a healthy skepticism of the Establishment, therefore most the moderators screened have truly unique perspectives on life. Nonetheless, a point is made to include ordinary viewpoints.
Deprogramming Maga
Her ideas stem from a Hegelian dialectic where a thesis is confronted with an antithesis creating a synthesis and, over time, becomes the new thesis starting the cycle over again. In the spirit of Herbert Marcuse, she does not believe any candidate must be affirmed, but rather, she believes it is critical to negate the worst of the bunch. This would be Orange Jesus, in her eyes.
I let my mods know they are free to create personal profile pages to help you deal with this site. As the election gets closer and closer, you can expect more content from them to be created. I personally don’t focus on the candidates individually as much as the conspiracies around them. They say “follow the money” and that’s what I do. Who is trying to influence them? Who is susceptible to mind bending? Where are they trying to take the country? These are the issues we deal with.
Sincerely,
Demented
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9-23-2025
I've had a year and and a half to digest these things. Maniac Nebula has taken many forms over the years. It was a bulletin board site, like Sheeple Gateway is here and now. It used to be open to the public. That became too difficult, so it went into hiding and required recommendations to get in. Members learned to create their own sites, so I considered that to be in the Maniac Nebula network so long as we were on friendly terms. In its current state, it's more of a blog, and as I've mentioned, I have a hidden site that only a handful of people know about.
At the myBB Maniac Nebula site, we had an ordinary forum, and we had one for special interests. These were topics about politics and religion, mainly. These issues can go off the rails, and they're difficult to moderate. Yesterday, I noticed a new sub forum was created called The Special Abode. I knew this was a matter of time. The launch of Sheeple Gateway has been smooth, but over the past week, a few new members decided to create many threads selling different products or services. In one of the incarnations of Maniac Nebula, this was not allowed at all, but homercocktail is running this thing and he operates it the way he sees fit. I think he's serious enough about the "Sheeple" part of this site, and I don't think he's trying to implement any strict rules just yet. Of course, someone came by and posted 28 threads in 6 hours. That defied anybody's tolerance, and the threads were sent to The Special Abode.
I've been reluctant to post anything political here. It's homercocktail's site, and I want it to take on its own personality. With that said, I think The Special Abode is a great place to put in the hot button topics. I tried to stay objective as a forum operator at the beginning of 2024. It was difficult. I don't care that my mods have radical beliefs, as long as their fair about how they treat members. Me? As the forum operator, I just want the whole thing to function. I don't want to compare it to PBS, but some networks at least PRETEND to be objected. That all ended on Good Friday of last year. Donald Trump re-posted a doctored photo of Joe Biden hog-tied in the back of a pickup truck. On Easter Sunday, he spent all day throwing a tantrum and tweeting crazy shit instead of posting pictures of being with his family. All bets were off, and I no longer spent any energy portraying myself as objective. I launched Never Trump Blog.
In some ways, I enjoy Never Trump Blog more than Maniac Nebula. It was a great weight off my shoulders, and I hated bottling my angst inside of me. At the beginning, it was only me. One by one, some of the mods would come over and contribute, and they'd leave their names when they wrote commentary pieces. Lately, we're in agreement about many of the issues so we stopped signing our individual names, and we sign commentary pieces as Never Trump Blog.
Swarth Hog never came over because he's a staunch Republican. I got into it with Swarth Hog at Refugees Tavern about a month ago. This is a splinter site that he owned and operated. I enjoyed Swarth Hog's company over the years, and I still respect him as a person. He argued for Trump last year because he said he believes the Republican system is the best way to go. He said he'll vote Republican in 2028 and 2032, provided he lives that long. I respect that. My issue with Swarth Hog a month ago was that the entire Republican Party has become RINO--Republican In Name Only. Not only this, people in the public are saying GOP stands for Guardians of Pedos because of the way they've handled the Epstein Files. If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck! Right? Republicans today aren't behaving as if they want to run a republic. It's been said before, but presidents preside, and dictators dictate. There's a whole lot of dictating going on in the White House as we speak. I respect that Swarth Hog believes in republics over democracies, but that's not how things are run anymore. They're not even trying to HIDE that they've cancelled democracy and moved on to a dictatorship. Trump even said something stupid like, "A lot of people are saying they want a dictatorship." This was after he deployed the National Guard to Washington, DC. All I wanted was to explain to Swarth Hog that we can clearly and safely call it fascism now. There is no gray area.
I wasn't alone in this discussion. People had already started #TrumpDead on X/ Twitter. It was viral. I hardly ever drink alcohol while I post online, but my emotions were running high and I had liquor on my belly. New Year's Eve? That's an exception! I get toasted nearly every year for that holiday. Everybody started dogpiling on Swarth Hog, and I felt bad. The problem is that he supports a person who never, ever, ever, ever, ever says he's wrong! The jobs numbers come out, and he fires the person who prepares them! Inflation is through the roof, and today he told the UN it's gone down! He approval rating is rock bottom, and even Fox News confronted him about it. It's 38% approve, 52% disapprove according to them. You know what he said? Rupert Murdoch has pollsters who suck! This is a paraphrase, but the MAGA crowd falls in line with him. I was sad that Swarth Hog was doing the same, and I was genuinely trying to get him to see that he fell into mob mentality, and he was speaking like a cult member.
This is why The Special Abode is needed. Today, David Pakman released a video where he interviewed a guy from the Election Truth Alliance. Stats show the 2024 election numbers radically deviate from statistical probability. Of course, I've covered this at Never Trump Blog, and I have a page dedicated to it. There is a lot of vitriol when you start discussing politics and religion with strangers. At Maniac Nebula, I kept it off the the main forum, and I think homercocktail wants the same done here. Also at Maniac Nebula, we strongly discouraged call out threads, and call outs in general. Members could refer to each other by name as long as they were cordial. The thing between me and Swarth Hog got wild, and I apologize. We're supposed to attack bad ideas, and we're not supposed to conflate or contribute that to being a bad person. There's a lot going on in the news, and I can do this Sheeple thing for so long. I have a normal life. I spend a lot of time at a coffee shop near where I live. I'd like to offer social commentary on people walking their dogs, or fashion of the women and men walking by. It's not in my blood, though. Everything is a conspiracy to me, and I want to discuss it with the World. In bad moments, I'm full of vitriol just like anyone else. Nemesis Duck posted a picture of a bull in a China store. That's who I am.
I will post a new thread to The Special Abode. I don't believe that place should only house spam from crazy bots. We can have genuine discussions there. I'll start a thread about election rigging. I have a lot to say, but I'll start simple. I'll post the David Pakman video I watched earlier. I'll probably post the HBO documentary, Hacking Democracy. There's another political scandal going on regarding Tom Homan. He accepted a $50,000 bribe from undercover FBI agents. I'll save that for later if it's still an issue. Trump accepted a jumbo jet from Qatar after he said he couldn't be bribed or bought off. Qatar was allowed special technology in microchips as a result. The USA is going further and further down the Kleptocracy Hole, and it's disturbing. I hope to see some of you at The Special Abode, but don't force it. If you're a Normie, take it slow. These issues will screw with your head if you're not prepared.
-- Demented
Yes, last spring I asked mods from Maniac Nebula to give their two cents about the upcoming election. I like what they've contributed. Before anyone replied, here's what I posted:
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3-20-2024
Message From Site Operator:
Election cycle is in full swing. Three in five Americans don’t want a Biden vs Trump rematch. We are a conspiracy site, though. We analyze why the political duopoly has been so strong. We look at the viability of independents such as RFK Jr. The Maniac Nebula was created with a healthy skepticism of the Establishment, therefore most the moderators screened have truly unique perspectives on life. Nonetheless, a point is made to include ordinary viewpoints.
- Captain Grifter is our Biden advocate
- Grumpy Old Man is our MAGA guy
- Space Ghost is backing RFK Jr
Deprogramming Maga
Her ideas stem from a Hegelian dialectic where a thesis is confronted with an antithesis creating a synthesis and, over time, becomes the new thesis starting the cycle over again. In the spirit of Herbert Marcuse, she does not believe any candidate must be affirmed, but rather, she believes it is critical to negate the worst of the bunch. This would be Orange Jesus, in her eyes.
I let my mods know they are free to create personal profile pages to help you deal with this site. As the election gets closer and closer, you can expect more content from them to be created. I personally don’t focus on the candidates individually as much as the conspiracies around them. They say “follow the money” and that’s what I do. Who is trying to influence them? Who is susceptible to mind bending? Where are they trying to take the country? These are the issues we deal with.
Sincerely,
Demented
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9-23-2025
I've had a year and and a half to digest these things. Maniac Nebula has taken many forms over the years. It was a bulletin board site, like Sheeple Gateway is here and now. It used to be open to the public. That became too difficult, so it went into hiding and required recommendations to get in. Members learned to create their own sites, so I considered that to be in the Maniac Nebula network so long as we were on friendly terms. In its current state, it's more of a blog, and as I've mentioned, I have a hidden site that only a handful of people know about.
At the myBB Maniac Nebula site, we had an ordinary forum, and we had one for special interests. These were topics about politics and religion, mainly. These issues can go off the rails, and they're difficult to moderate. Yesterday, I noticed a new sub forum was created called The Special Abode. I knew this was a matter of time. The launch of Sheeple Gateway has been smooth, but over the past week, a few new members decided to create many threads selling different products or services. In one of the incarnations of Maniac Nebula, this was not allowed at all, but homercocktail is running this thing and he operates it the way he sees fit. I think he's serious enough about the "Sheeple" part of this site, and I don't think he's trying to implement any strict rules just yet. Of course, someone came by and posted 28 threads in 6 hours. That defied anybody's tolerance, and the threads were sent to The Special Abode.
I've been reluctant to post anything political here. It's homercocktail's site, and I want it to take on its own personality. With that said, I think The Special Abode is a great place to put in the hot button topics. I tried to stay objective as a forum operator at the beginning of 2024. It was difficult. I don't care that my mods have radical beliefs, as long as their fair about how they treat members. Me? As the forum operator, I just want the whole thing to function. I don't want to compare it to PBS, but some networks at least PRETEND to be objected. That all ended on Good Friday of last year. Donald Trump re-posted a doctored photo of Joe Biden hog-tied in the back of a pickup truck. On Easter Sunday, he spent all day throwing a tantrum and tweeting crazy shit instead of posting pictures of being with his family. All bets were off, and I no longer spent any energy portraying myself as objective. I launched Never Trump Blog.
In some ways, I enjoy Never Trump Blog more than Maniac Nebula. It was a great weight off my shoulders, and I hated bottling my angst inside of me. At the beginning, it was only me. One by one, some of the mods would come over and contribute, and they'd leave their names when they wrote commentary pieces. Lately, we're in agreement about many of the issues so we stopped signing our individual names, and we sign commentary pieces as Never Trump Blog.
Swarth Hog never came over because he's a staunch Republican. I got into it with Swarth Hog at Refugees Tavern about a month ago. This is a splinter site that he owned and operated. I enjoyed Swarth Hog's company over the years, and I still respect him as a person. He argued for Trump last year because he said he believes the Republican system is the best way to go. He said he'll vote Republican in 2028 and 2032, provided he lives that long. I respect that. My issue with Swarth Hog a month ago was that the entire Republican Party has become RINO--Republican In Name Only. Not only this, people in the public are saying GOP stands for Guardians of Pedos because of the way they've handled the Epstein Files. If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's a duck! Right? Republicans today aren't behaving as if they want to run a republic. It's been said before, but presidents preside, and dictators dictate. There's a whole lot of dictating going on in the White House as we speak. I respect that Swarth Hog believes in republics over democracies, but that's not how things are run anymore. They're not even trying to HIDE that they've cancelled democracy and moved on to a dictatorship. Trump even said something stupid like, "A lot of people are saying they want a dictatorship." This was after he deployed the National Guard to Washington, DC. All I wanted was to explain to Swarth Hog that we can clearly and safely call it fascism now. There is no gray area.
I wasn't alone in this discussion. People had already started #TrumpDead on X/ Twitter. It was viral. I hardly ever drink alcohol while I post online, but my emotions were running high and I had liquor on my belly. New Year's Eve? That's an exception! I get toasted nearly every year for that holiday. Everybody started dogpiling on Swarth Hog, and I felt bad. The problem is that he supports a person who never, ever, ever, ever, ever says he's wrong! The jobs numbers come out, and he fires the person who prepares them! Inflation is through the roof, and today he told the UN it's gone down! He approval rating is rock bottom, and even Fox News confronted him about it. It's 38% approve, 52% disapprove according to them. You know what he said? Rupert Murdoch has pollsters who suck! This is a paraphrase, but the MAGA crowd falls in line with him. I was sad that Swarth Hog was doing the same, and I was genuinely trying to get him to see that he fell into mob mentality, and he was speaking like a cult member.
This is why The Special Abode is needed. Today, David Pakman released a video where he interviewed a guy from the Election Truth Alliance. Stats show the 2024 election numbers radically deviate from statistical probability. Of course, I've covered this at Never Trump Blog, and I have a page dedicated to it. There is a lot of vitriol when you start discussing politics and religion with strangers. At Maniac Nebula, I kept it off the the main forum, and I think homercocktail wants the same done here. Also at Maniac Nebula, we strongly discouraged call out threads, and call outs in general. Members could refer to each other by name as long as they were cordial. The thing between me and Swarth Hog got wild, and I apologize. We're supposed to attack bad ideas, and we're not supposed to conflate or contribute that to being a bad person. There's a lot going on in the news, and I can do this Sheeple thing for so long. I have a normal life. I spend a lot of time at a coffee shop near where I live. I'd like to offer social commentary on people walking their dogs, or fashion of the women and men walking by. It's not in my blood, though. Everything is a conspiracy to me, and I want to discuss it with the World. In bad moments, I'm full of vitriol just like anyone else. Nemesis Duck posted a picture of a bull in a China store. That's who I am.
I will post a new thread to The Special Abode. I don't believe that place should only house spam from crazy bots. We can have genuine discussions there. I'll start a thread about election rigging. I have a lot to say, but I'll start simple. I'll post the David Pakman video I watched earlier. I'll probably post the HBO documentary, Hacking Democracy. There's another political scandal going on regarding Tom Homan. He accepted a $50,000 bribe from undercover FBI agents. I'll save that for later if it's still an issue. Trump accepted a jumbo jet from Qatar after he said he couldn't be bribed or bought off. Qatar was allowed special technology in microchips as a result. The USA is going further and further down the Kleptocracy Hole, and it's disturbing. I hope to see some of you at The Special Abode, but don't force it. If you're a Normie, take it slow. These issues will screw with your head if you're not prepared.
-- Demented
site operator of Maniac Nebula