I Understood Hal Sparks’s Assignment and Spent Time on Truth Social This Week. I Lasted Only Three Days Until the Convicted-Felon-in-Chief Banned Me.

Trolling the Triggered Tin-Pot Totalitarian on His "'Big Tent' Social Media Platform" That Claims to Protect Free Speech.

Local boy does good. Back in 1987, Sparks was named Chicago’s funniest teenager. Years later as a professional stand-up comic, he snagged the hosting of E!’s Talk Soup and later the role of Michael on Showtime’s Queer as Folk. In addition to his Saturday Sexy Liberal Network radio podcast Megaworldwide that can be heard on Chicago’s WCPT and viewed on YouTube, Sparks hosts Megaworldwide on YouTube five days a week. More of his vast talent can be experienced via his standup and performances as the lead-singer and guitarist for Zero 1 and the tribute band Nerd Halen. He also writes songs, including the comic tune “Florida Man.”

I understood Hal Sparks's assignment so well I earned the grade of “banned.” Sparks may argue I understood it a little too well.

Since he hosted Talk Soup on E!, I've been a fan of fellow Gen-Xer Spark . I watch his Megaworldwide YouTube podcast at the end of my day for not only a laugh and inspiration but to keep me sane and grounded. He's an optimist with a caustic wit and trickster personality. So necessary because Sparks shaves off demoralization on the days I feel overwhelmed and defeated.

So when he gave this assignment on Monday’s Megaworldwide, I jumped to complete it. Sparks said ridicule is one of the most powerful ways to deal with an “emergency situation” where recourses seem or are insubstantial. He provides ways to mock and “drive a wedge” between Musk, Tesla owners, Bezos and Mump-Nazi Reich cultists.

One concrete plan he gave was mocking and trolling the Convicted-Felon-in-Chief in his filthy sandbox otherwise known as Truth Social. Sparks advised his “Sparklers” to open a free Proton Mail account to use just for starting a Truth Social account. Once that part of his assignment is completed, Sparklers like me are to post bad pictures of Inmate Number P011035809 and information that refutes his posts and exposes his lies.

Sparks also recommended using a Russian name for a handle. I did. It was the name of a dissident Russian poet that Inmate Number P01135809 and his Mump-Nazi Reich cultists would never know. He also said not to engage with anyone who responds. Sparks asserted that we “just leave the stuff there” because “they haven’t earned the right to discourse.” (You can watch the entire episode featuring

Tara Dublin

below.)

Once I opened my Truth Social account as the dissident Russian poet, I dropped these pictures of Inmate Number P01135809 on several of his older posts.

For his newest post cheering a Mump-Nazi Reich cult member whom he claimed was building and fixing houses the day Jimmy Carter was lying in repose at the Carter Center, I posted this beneath the Convicted-Felon-in-Chief’s post and as a quote “retruth.”

Since Sparks said to post and go, I left Truth Social to concentrate on this thing called life. When I returned the next day, I discovered my Truth Social account had been deleted.

No worries. I started a new Truth Social account. So caught up in the joy of trolling the Convicted Felon-in-Chief, I did not even think of taking screen shots of my trolling photos to his posts. Those photos included:.

I also forgot to screen shot my trolls to his posts about the U.S. invading and annexing Canada as the 51st state. My first troll was to this unhinged post.

Here is the image from the Washington Post that I uploaded beneath his post with the words “Lebensraum. Translation: Living space.” written above it. Of course I also posted this as a quote “retruth.”

Five minutes after his first batshit “map,” he posted one equally nutty but more bland one:

Beneath that post that I also quote “retruthed,” I included a link defining Lebensraum from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The U.S. Holocaust Museum was installed because of President Carter’s presidential commission on The Holocaust’s advocacy.

Yup. You guessed it. My second account was deleted as well. But Inmate Number P01135809 went two steps further. He banned not only my account but the phone number I was required to provide in order to start an account.

Once I receive my first February pay checks from my part-time tutoring and teaching of college writing jobs, I plan to pick up a burner phone or two, so I can open two new accounts (and finally purchase Tara Dublin’s novel The Sound of Settling.): one just to monitor and capture screen shots of the Convicted-Felon-in-Chief’s posts and one just for trolling. Maybe this time I will refine my trolling approach a bit so I can stay on Truth Social longer.

Maybe.

So what else did I do this week beside troll the Convicted-Felon-In-Chief? Pleased to say it was something outside the internet. I picked up some materials for my protest sign that I will carry during the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression’s protest on January 20. The Chicago Alliance is a branch of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.

If you are in Chicago or in the Chicagoland area, the protest meets at Federal Plaza at 11 a.m. CST.

But wait. There's more.

1.) Bust a move with me on Bluesky and Spoutible.

2.) Donate to The Carter Center.

3.) I read Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America after his novel arrived in 2004 and watched the HBO limited series adaptation in 2020. I know the scene below from the HBO series, which people can watch on Max, will play out with a lot of family and friends who voted for the convicted felon and the adjudicated rapist once Hell’s swirling flames their vote unleashed hits the country, them, their friends and their family.

Indeed. Evelyn is a stupid person.

4.) Join Malcolm Nance’s American FAFO — Focused Action, Focused Objectives— opposition movement. Read about and implement his peaceful and creative plans for Inauguration Day rebellion. Among his proposed actions are ordering free Inauguration Day tickets from your U.S. Congressperson or Senator that you will never use and playing “The Imperial March” on a kazoo then sharing a video or audio of you doing so on your favorite social media platform before, during and after the Inauguration.

5.) Listen to an inspirational and galvanizing song by John Lennon.