Last week Levin complained at length to his followers on X about the poor service he was getting from AOL. This was deemed sufficient justification for his rivals and foes to mock and attack the Fox News pundit as if he had appeared naked in church with Jello on his head. Conservatives with about 2/3 of Levin’s brain weight piled on along with the Mad Left.
Daily Wire commentator Matt Walsh joked about a bad dial-up connection, and asked whether someone had been tying up the landline. (I have a landline. Bite me.) Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) used the controversy completely unrelated to her obsessions to take a cheap shot anyway. “The last man on Earth still using AOL is also the last man still arguing for endless Middle East wars,” Mace wrote. A former Rep. even less credible than Mace, Matt Gaetz, posted, “Your AOL email address was promised to someone else 3,000 years ago.”
HAHAHAHA! Who cares what Matt Gaetz thinks? About anything! I wouldn’t trust him to walk my dog.
Jeet Heer of “The Nation” called Levin one of the top five people Trump listened to in deciding to go to war with Iran. Journalist Mehdi Hasan said he could not decide whether to laugh at the ridiculousness of the man or cry that someone so ridiculous had helped the president start a Middle East war that he said killed 120 children on its first day. Yeah, using AOL is so relevant to deciding that an international criminal nation should finally be stopped and that the U.S. is the only nation that can do it.
First, I am thrilled that someone with more visibility and followers than me (Levin: 5,000,000; me: 5) is complaining about tech company customer service, which is beyond disgraceful, wasting millions of productive hours and undoubtedly driving many into the mouth of madness.
Second, I have AOL, because Verizon sold its email service to them. I would change to a more useful email provider if I had a staff, could afford one, and wasn’t having enough problems as it is running a business that requires at least two people while maintaining an active blog in the wake of my business partner (and wife) dropping dead.
Third, AOL is hardly on the verge of following the Archaeopteryx into extinction, with 30 million monthly users, three million daily users, and still among the top ten email providers in the world.
Finally, I wonder how many of the smug jerks mocking Levin use gmail. That provider is completely untrustworthy: it reads your mail, leaks your data, tries to warp your thinking and world view, and any lawyer who uses it for client communication is violating client confidentiality. Google itself is an Axis ally and villain.
Mark Levin wastes his intellect and authority by being gratuitously obnoxious (Remind you of anybody?) but he didn’t deserve this.
ADDED: Right after posting this, Merrick Bank texted that I was late with my credit card payment. I went to the website to pay, and was, of course, instructed to wait for a “secure code” to be texted to my cell phone (I have one of those, too.) It never came. The secure code from Merrick Bank always takes eons to arrive, or, like this time, doesn’t arrive at all. So I call customer service. The bot asks for my name. Correctamundo! It identifies my account! Then it asks for the last four digits of my Social Security Number. I punch it in, and am told it is an “invalid entry.” It is always an invalid entry! So I scream for an agent, and eventually get one in the credit card department. She lets me pay my bill (she is professional and speaks English with no accent!), and when I tell her about the missing code (which still hasn’t arrived) and the SS# fail, she says I should talk to a customer service rep. No, I say, paying this bill has taken too much time already. I know I will go through the same frustrating process next month.
Keep bitching, Mark.
