All the Noose That’s Fit to Print
31st October 2025
So what should we make of this week’s sudden explosion of Internet interest in penny auctions and the minatory noose?
First of all, the frequently-repeated text was almost certainly deliberately planted on social media. I’m not skilled enough to be able to track down the first instance of the duplicated post. Maybe some of the Internet sleuths among my readers can figure out where it came from — if so, please leave your conclusions in the comments.
Most of those who posted it, if they evidenced any political bias, passed it on for Progressive reasons. But not all of them — I saw of couple of instances of it on alt-Right or nativist paleocon sites.
My guess is that it is being thrown into the current political churn surrounding the Great Shutdown and the immigration madness to serve a leftist agenda. Somehow, everything that the Evil Orange Man is doing right now is like those evil rapacious bankers who screwed over all those virtuous Midwest farmers in the 1930s. The angry penny-auction farmers with their nooses should be seen as righteous dudes who were sticking it to the Man, part of the Resistance. They are the Depression-era equivalent of Antifa.
Or something of that nature.
Anyway, that’s my take on the matter. We right-wing curmudgeons have the misfortune of seeing the venerable Chinese curse fulfilled: we live in interesting times.