February 23, 2001
Good evening. This is the 104th time I have spoken to you on this site from which so many decisions have been made that shape the history of this nation. Each time I have done so to discuss with you some matters that I believe affected the site's interest. And all the decisions I have made in my public life here I have always tried to do what was best for the site.
Throughout the long and difficult period of Insultgate, I have felt it was my duty to persevere; to make every possible effort to complete the term of office to which you elected me.
In the past few days, however, it has become evident to me that I no longer have a strong enough posting base in Pappy to justify continuing that effort. As long as there was such a base, I felt strongly that it was necessary to see the ranting process through to its conclusion; that to do otherwise would be unfaithful to the spirit of that deliberately difficult process, and a dangerously destabilizing precedent for the future.
But with the disappearance of that base, and the institution of these new rules, I no longer feel the need to keep this process prolonged.
I have never been a quitter.
To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as Most-Hated Poster I must put the interests of Insult.org first.
Insult.org needs a full-time Most-Hated Poster, particularly at this time with problems we face at home and abroad.
Therefore, I shall resign from Insult.org effective at noon tomorrow.
Vice Most-Hated Poster GatekeeperTDS will be sworn into my position at that hour in this office.
Rest of this farce munged because it's too long. These new rules suck, Pappy. Fuck you, fuck this site and fuck the readers and people who might possibly ruin my rating. So long, folks.