Posted on 05/03/2021 4:37:59 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
This will be the final piece published at DBDailyUpdate.
Over the past few months, I’ve spent a lot of time contemplating whether to continue on with this project, which began on a whim almost five years ago now, during the midst of the 2016 presidential campaign for America’s future. It started with short commentaries on Facebook and on a free blogsite, and then expanded in December 2016 to the creation of this website.
As interest in the Trump presidency grew, so did the traffic to this website, and along with that, the length and frequency of the commentary. The Trump revolution, and the consequent renaissance of America’s economy and prospects created the energy around all of this, and enhanced my own energy for doing it. The abrupt end to that presidency via corrupt means has in turn diminished both.
I could blame Google, which has systematically blocked traffic to the site – or more accurately, the count of that traffic, upon which all advertising revenue is based. That has certainly had a depressing effect. Watching Google’s counter take its “count” of traffic from central linking sites that a few months ago would number in the thousands per day down to literally zero certainly diminishes the creative juices.
But that’s not really all there is to this decision to shut this thing down, or even the main reason. The main reason is that it has become a depressing exercise each day to comment on all the societal destruction the communist Democrat party is wreaking on our country.
Simply put: This is no longer fun. When I started writing newspaper commentaries 35 years ago, I told myself and my wife that I would do them as long as it remained fun to do. I stopped doing those 10 years ago when they no longer were.
I applied the same principle to this endeavor: So long as it was fun to do and generated a little income, I could justify getting up at 5:00 every morning to spend a few hours doing it. But both factors are now gone, and maintaining it is a fairly expensive proposition.
I know many of you have made reading these each morning a part of your daily routine and have been extremely loyal to DBDailyUpdate, and I truly do appreciate you. To you, I owe an apology for this decision not to continue on, and I hope you understand the reasons.
This will leave something of a void in your morning, and to fill it I highly recommend writers like Kurt Schlichter and Glenn Greenwald and Byron Wright and the great Mollie Hemingway to you as alternatives. In fact, the Substack.com and the Federalist.com sites are filled with excellent, witty and insightful commentary and information every day of the week.
This may seem like a sudden, even rash decision to you, but be assured it is not. It’s something I’ve contemplated doing since January, and I just reached the final decision to do it over the weekend. I will continue to post short commentary on my social media accounts, and plan to also devote the found time I will suddenly have to other writing endeavors, including finishing a book I’ve been sporadically working on for the past two years.
So this is not a goodbye; it’s just a so long.
Thank you for taking the time to read my stuff, and for your loyalty.
God bless you all, and God bless what’s left of America.
That is all.
Adios! Best wishes.
Hate to see you go.
Always enjoyed reading your updates.
I enjoyed your stuff. All the best.
Your commentary will be missed. Enjoy your free time.
Thanks David Blackmon. God bless you and yours.
Well written and I can relate. I think many of us could use a sabbatical. I believe DB will be back after a much needed rest.
I completely understand. I no longer desire to read much of what is happening in both our countries.....I can’t imagine wanting to write about it.
God bless you and your future endeavours. Perhaps we can all anticipate a turnaround.
Yes, Amerika today is depressing. Good luck to you.
Best to you.
This is the Commie plan - wear you down to the point you throw up your hands and give up. Do not let them do that to you - never surrender to the dark clinched fist of tyranny.
Thanks for what you did, very well, for the last 5 years.
Your perspective and insights will be missed.
GodSpeed.
I get it, good luck.
"Well, I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life."
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Canada soon felt the need to erect a wall on *her* southern border...just like we were doing until a couple months ago.
“There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part”.
Canada is further down the path of destruction than America. We don’t have the passionate patriotism that you guys enjoy. We’re a bunch of pushovers, sadly. Some are fighting this woke takeover, but too many sheep are just plodding along, thinking this corrupt liberal dictatorship is doing what’s best for its citizens.
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