Posted on 05/31/2016 2:19:09 PM PDT by Axeslinger II
Apparently this never got posted here because of the limitations of probation, so here you go:
So...here we are...18 years. Mostly good. Clintons a Liar, Dr Raouls costumes, AppyPappy's daughter singing the National Anthem, Kristinns wonderful reporting. The repugnant lies of Classy Green Eyed Blonde and DeepInTheHurtgenForest. The surreal cryptic posts of quidam. The lib trolls like Eschoir. The March for Justice? Heady times. They really were. Fighting against a President who had the gall to look us in the eye and lie to us.
But the last 9 months? Absolutely unrecognizable. A lot of great FReepers run off. And most of the ones doing the chasing have no idea of any of those people or events that I referenced above, have no idea of FR's history.
And for what? A two bit carnival barker who has backed every liberal cause that crosses his path. A man who is the very embodiment of a crass know-it-all liberal New Yorker. A man who has spent his life supporting everything that, at its founding, this website has fought against tooth and nail.
I get it. Y'all want to win. You want someone who will stick a shiv in the GOP. I want the GOP gutted too. They are lowlife scum who are selling us down the river. But, for some of you, your desire for revenge is being invested in a man who has lived his life with values completely antithetical to your own, completely antithetical to the constitution you once said you revered. And for the rest of you, you're probably hack trolls and faux conservatives who wouldn't know a conservative value if it walked up and kicked you in the ass. There have actually been some "conservatives" on this site who were A-ok with Trump becoming a dictator...as long as he's their dictator (true statement...look it up).
Another former long time FReeper has been banned for having the temerity to post Jim's OWN WORDS where he highlighted what a disaster Donald Trump is. (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2706770/posts?page=109#109)
Every time someone has the guts to espouse a point of view that is contrary to St. Trump, they are set upon and the calls for banning ensue. And yet no one, including JR, will ever answer the question....what has he actually DONE that caused you to reverse your opinion of him?
And I know...the trumpeters are now going to wail and gnash their teeth saying they were set upon first...that all the bannings were justified. Those mean old Cruzers were making the poor Trumpeter snowflakes MELT!!!! Perhaps take a step back from the kindergarten playground arguments and face things head on. In my own case, I challenge anyone reading this to go back and find my offensive posts. I will tell you what you will find: I used the word trumpeters....sorry, it's shorter than writing "trump supporters" every time. And you will find the occasion when I called dynoman a troll because, rather than answer a question about Trump, he would snarkily post more of his ridiculous pictures. And in point of fact, ultimately he recognized that he WAS trolling and we then engaged in a conversation. And you will find over and over and over again my appeal for someone, anyone to tell me what Trump has ever DONE in his nearly 70 years on the planet that shows he has a sincerely held conservative belief. Keyword is DONE. I get lots and lots of excuses, was even told to "watch The Apprentice, then you'll see". That's it. (For the record, none of you has answered the question....not one).
So what caused my banning after 18 years? I told Jim that I thought he was going to regret his backing of the charlatan and that he was abdicating the principles upon which FREE Republic had fought for. Apparently FREE means something different once the Trump worship kicks in? Meanwhile disgusting pieces of human refuse like GPH can post things like this about another long standing FReeper and somehow doesn't get banned:
"2ndDivisionVet is a pathological liar and moral degenerate." -GPH
And right now all of you sycophants are sputtering, "but it's Jim's site." Um, no it's not. It belongs to everyone who has posted and reveled in the FREE exchange and discussion of beliefs. If Jim fell over dead tomorrow, the idea that WAS Free Republic would continue. Free Republic was about an idea that we can win when we advance conservative, constitutional ideals...an idea that has been profoundly corrupted and abandoned here. Jim is just another man who puts his pants on one leg at a time. And like all men he can be wrong...and holy crap, go back and read the archives and see how far this site has fallen....he's wrong.
And in the meantime, every manner of despicable attack on staunch conservatives has been lauded and encouraged. Everyone of you who claims to be a conservative and aren't just here shilling should be ashamed of yourselves (it's just a job, right BFAC, you liberal hack? Oh and for the record, drop the pretense....you aren't black, and the closest you've ever been to being an army captain is you saw one in a movie once...rumor has it the female part might be true though, right Pamela?). All of YOU are the reason the country is slipping away. Yes, you! You place such low value on your alleged principles, the ones you've been thumping your chests about these many years, that you will cast them all aside for the guy who whispers sweet nothings in your ear that, "yes, he will still love you in the morning". In case you still languish under your misguided delusions, here's some reality for you: there will be no wall...there will be no conservative Supreme Court justices (don't hand me any BS about that list "he" posted, there were so many disclaimers thrown in there as to render it meaningless)...there will be no gutting of the GOP....instead there will be deal after deal after deal. He has no principles so he will have no second thoughts whatsoever about selling those things down the river. Enjoy your art of the deal. As I believe liberalism to be the cause of all that ails my beloved country, whose uniform I was proud to wear, I vowed to never vote for a liberal. Donald Trump's lifelong actions show him to be just another lowlife scum liberal....truly: #NeverTrump, #NeverHillary...I will not blindly vote for one liberal statist over another liberal statist.
And I know, now you will all post your snarky little comments, reveling in your self perceived superiority and the echo chamber that Free Republic has become. Enjoy it. It will be fleeting. Because, in your arrogance and desire for revenge all you have done is condemn all of us and our posterity to a post-Constitutional America. May our posterity forget you were our countrymen and may your chains be a millstone.
Nah, nah, nah, nah...nah, nah, nah, nah...hey, hey, hey, goodbye.
As one of the older members here, I totally disagree. What has been done here in the past years is better than what was done in the heady early days. Back then we didn't quite realize that GOPe betrayed Gingrich and the contract with America the second they actually took power. This last time we learned that the Republicans are set up to screw us worse than the democrats.
We have worked through and vetted a tiresomely long list of possible presidential candidates. We have pointed out the flaws of each, and we have learned the error of the old ways arguing liberal versus conservative, which we thought was substantive, but in fact was just a door swinging on the uniparty hinge always opening for those who were trying to profit at the expense of America. We have nailed the last nail in the coffin of GOPe and were successful in communicating to the sellout GOPeers that they are the ones inside of it.
Anyone here remember Jeb! - Jeb! who? Never heard of him, That is how effective we have been.
We have figured out a direction that our country must go to be our great country again. It must worry about America and Americans and stop worrying about the rest of the world or selling out to globalist frauds selling us a bill of goods.
It's been a very good year for FreeRepublic indeed. It's been the best ever to date.
And we do have a great task ahead of us. We need to hold Trump accountable to live up to his promises and stay on the straight and narrow as Washington DC tries to knock him off course. We need to support him when he works for us and let him know our great disappointment when he gives into the K-street crowd.
Sorry to see you go.
You’ll be needing a new hobby.
How about getting Hooked on Swing Dancing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHANNkKBSNU
If Cruz had caught fire, won numerous Primaries and amassed the required Delegates like Trump did, Jim would have supported him over Trump and told the embattled Trumpsters to give it up and support the Nominee.
The thing is, FReepers had nothing to do with Trump winning and Cruz losing. Trump played the game better than Cruz and it was obvious to me as a former Cruzer that the Die was Cast after Iowa became a footnote if not a blip in the doomed Cruz Campaign.
Cruz proved himself to be a Regional Candidate and the last two Months of his Campaign were painful for me to observe.
Now that the Presumptive Nominee is Trump, we either fight the War with the Army we have or we just give up and wait for Hillary's Coronation. Looks like you choose the latter.
No Candidate is perfect. The Bush's (41 and 43) were RINO’s and to be perfectly honest, if not for Trump you would be blaming your fellow FReepers because Jeb! would be the presumptive Nominee at this moment in time.
Cruz's downfall was his fault alone, not the fault of the FR Trump contingent most of whom were Cruz Supporters long before they became Trump supporters. I stuck with Cruz as long as it made sense to do so, but I knew when it was time to get on the Trump Lifeboat as I watched the S.S. Cruztanic glide under the waves.
Anyway, have a nice life. I wish you well whether we agree or not. Time to look forward to defeating Hillary and the DemoncRats in November. I hope you will join the effort.
We are way past right vs left. That is not a meaningful concept. It is America against the uniparty rats inside our barn eating our seed-corn while telling us they are liberal rats or conservative rats. And we have figured out that your heros Rush,and Levin,and Beck are part of the problem, playing the same game- supporting "right-wing" rats.
There have been more than a few whose exit from FR I regret, and even mourn, as far as that can go in today's digital world. But being here before 2000 shouldn't grant an unlimited "get out of courtesy jail free" card. At some point, a few have simply worn out their welcome.
And I disagree with Axeslinger II's premise that is is not Jim Robinson's forum...it IS his forum. We don't want Free Republic to be a victim of "the tragedy of the commons".
I really believe the immigration issue is at the core of most of the nevertrump people. Many even here support or did support the cheap labor express and as long as there is cheap labor they don’t care what it is doing to destroy our country.
That's been a fairly common refrain coming from those on their way out.
They just didn't seem to be able to accept the fact that their arguments didn't persuade fellow FReepers, and as a result became unacceptably abusive.
lolololol
Thank you for spelling that “boogeyman” - “boogieman” would have also be great. Either way.
I remember the days of “bogeyman”. Almost made one loose it.
Just kidding.
Kush
Cantankerousness is all some have got left. You young whippersnappers is all the same-no respect for your elders! Lol
The Good Book says iron sharpens iron, and that’s Gods truth, but I have also found iron against flint only makes sparks...
Gee, I guess you really believed Ted's talking points.
Too bad, that kind of hyperbole (called lies) really hurt him with people that weren't true believers (in Cruz).
The truth is far from that. Just so you understand: Hillary, now THERE's a raging social liberal. Trump certainly isn't a reliable social conservative, but for you to still believe he's a raging social lib means you either haven't actually listened and looked at his positions, or you simply want to rehash old (and untrue) garbage.
“Back in 2005 me and Travis McGee and others put with with exponentially more shite from posters here including old timers and for positions that today are hallmarks here”
Here here! As far as I’m concerned Travis’ “quislings hanging from the trees” comment during that time frame was profound and likely, in time prophetic.
Well, look at his political donations. Hillary, Jerry Brown, Kamala Harris, etc.
I have a new tagline tonight.
If Jim Robinson decides he has had enough of it, watch how long this forum lasts.
It isn’t a perpetual motion machine. Someone has to impart some energy to it to keep it going.
It suits the mood around here lately. God bless every one. Let’s fight the real enemy.
Oooo, Well said!
Awesome reaction.
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