Suit up, folks – the fit has hit the shan over in greater Freepistan for sure.
When I put last week’s “Downfall” parody together, I had no idea how closely reality would follow satire, but it has, and more.
This:
…had become this:
Let’s put this FReepathon to bed. We have bigger fish to fry.
April 27, 2012 | 2ndDivisionVetPosted on Friday, April 27, 2012 6:56:50 AM by2ndDivisionVet
Everyone please send whatever you are able to, whether it is $10, $100 or $1,000+.The DUmmies, Morons, Kos Kiddies and that crew are laughing up their sleeves. Jim may have to make this site members only or allow ads. Better for us to just help with what we can. Maybe you can donate as a memorial for a lost loved one, a servicemember who never made it home or was disabled defending our country. Perhaps you’d like to give to keep free discussion alive and to show them that we’re not knuckling under. I’m sure a well thought out or prayerful meditation will lead you to see the need and how you can help. If every registered FReeper and our lurkers would each just help out with a fin or a sawbuck, or better yet a Ben Franklin, we could put this to bed and get on with the conservative cause.
1 posted on Friday, April 27, 2012 6:56:52 AM by2ndDivisionVetComment #2 Removed by Moderator
To: 2ndDivisionVetYes, ya’ll haven’t smeared Romney near enough to re-elect your favcrite house negro President.2 posted on Friday, April 27, 2012 7:15:58 AM byPeter from Rutland
Perhaps you’d like to give to keep free discussion alive (???????)To: wtc911You don’t believe that free discussion takes place here?
11 posted on Friday, April 27, 2012 8:01:02 AM by2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
To: 2ndDivisionVetInsulting FReepers is not exactly the best way to solicit funds.
You may want to reflect on why contributions are way off.
12 posted on Friday, April 27, 2012 8:03:32 AM bySecond Amendment First (“Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not…” – Thomas Jefferson.)
To: 2ndDivisionVetI believe that there used to be a model of free discussion here. But, the number of zots over opinion as opposed to violation of posting rules gives credence to those who say that this model has ceased to exist.You know that I speak my mind. What you don’t know is that I have received well over a dozen messages in the past two years from freepers who said that they were afraid to post similar opinions for fear of being zotted.
That’s the fact of it…many long-time freepers do not feel “free” to discuss. I believe that the pendulum will swing back but in the mean-time FR will lose good people.
To: wtc911http://www.theblaze.com/stories/blogger-could-be-thrown-in-jail-for-writing-about-his-diet/
If FR survives the next four years of Obama, I will be pleasantly surprised.
18 posted on Friday, April 27, 2012 8:19:07 AM bynetmilsmom (I am Breitbart)
To: 2ndDivisionVetTry harder next time, perhaps threaten my life.
19 posted on Friday, April 27, 2012 8:20:22 AM byPeter from RutlandTo: Peter from RutlandAren’t we the little martyr?And your “house negro” comment sure doesn’t hurt those enemies of FreeRepublic who constantly attempt to paint us all as hood wearing Klansmen or skinhead neo-Nazis.
Just what a troll would do.
28 posted on Friday, April 27, 2012 8:41:51 AM by2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)To: WatchOutForSnakesAsk all the people who have been run off over a simple difference of opinionBless your heart. It’s not a simple difference of opinion.
1. A Conservative bastion cannot support a socialist.
2. Conservatives are fighting Republican liberals for control. Surrendering is just that, surrender. Why would they ever believe conservatives “line in the sand” if we cave to them again?
3. Principles matter.
To: Peter from RutlandThe originator of this post is doing a fine job of “putting this FReepathon to bed”.
I wonder if he is actually an anti-freeper looking to put the final nail in FR as we have known it.
35 posted on Friday, April 27, 2012 8:52:03 AM bySecond Amendment First (“Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not…” – Thomas Jefferson.)To: wtc911You are so correct. I have been a member since 2001 and have always been quite loyal. However, the insults and constant badgering that is currently allowed has soured me on the site. Believe me I am extremely conservative, but feel that it is more important to remove Obama than anything else. That is obviously no longer the objective on this site. Instead it seems to be to insult anyone who believes as I do.Because this site is supported by we who contribute, I don’t understand the thinking that only some peoples ideas can be heard. Of course, if I am an Obama backer I should be insulted and banned, but that is far from the case. It will unfortunately destroy the site. I am so sad, because I have always loved this site. i just don’t come here any more because of the insults.
44 posted on Friday, April 27, 2012 9:05:19 AM byw1andsodidwe (Barrak has now won the contest. He is even worse than Jimmah.)To: 2ndDivisionVetThe vindictiveness that comes out on almost every thread is far from open and free discussion. This is a major part of the donation problem, as I see it.
47 posted on Friday, April 27, 2012 9:12:02 AM bySouthTexas (You cannot bargain with the devil, shut the government down.)
To: Second Amendment Firstthose being banned are the ones silenced for expressing their opinions.The owner has made clear that Conservative FR will not support a socialist. Those banned for various reasons know the rules. They made a choice.
A decade ago this used to be a real free discussion site
Then you haven’t been paying attention. For the whole life of FR there have been “lines in the sand” and there has been those who chose to cross them.
49 posted on Friday, April 27, 2012 9:17:00 AM byDJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)To: 2ndDivisionVet“Free discussion…” LOL! How can you even post such a lie.I told the goon squad last January they were losing donations due to their stupid antics of Zotting, tattle tailing(sic) and brow beating posters that don’t tow(sic) the line. Now you come with your tin cup in hand wondering where the money went.It’s NOT the economy but you all won’t listen anyways.51 posted on Friday, April 27, 2012 9:20:20 AM byladyvet ( I would rather have Incitatus then the asses that are in congress today.)To: norwaypinesavageI don’t believe that telling the truth is “stirring the pot”. Sometimes the truth hurts, but that’s usually when it most needs to be said.That is not what you are doing. This is a fund raising thread
(Clouseau) “Not any-meure.”
To: DJ MacWoWPrinciples matter? Are you kidding. They are so fluid here, I’m not even sure they exist. Many of the “Go Newt!” crowd were flaming him as a liberal they couldnt vote for as late as last December.
55 posted on Friday, April 27, 2012 9:25:47 AM byRaider Sam (They’re on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
Woooooowww…
Are we seeing the end of Freepersville?
I hope not, Eddie.
It would leave an enormous hole in my Saturday mornings.
Tommy
(teaser cross-posted to the GOS because it’s too delicious not to share)
Tommy
Well, we always knew this would happen eventually. And now, instead of flushing their funds down the ever swirling toilet that is FR, they will be donating to and working for Republican campaigns.
If JimRob had been just a leeeeetle more subtle, many would still be martyrs to purity and and directing their energy and time to the the woefully lost causes they’re so very fond of. Kind of a bummer there.
But funnier then hell to watch, I’ll admit that 🙂
Won’t be long before Jim Rob is the only person on his site, talking to himself in his own comment threads, squeakily ranting about “the Revolution” and “the homosexualists” while the pizza boxes and unpaid bills pile up by the door.
I hope he films it. It’ll be hilarious.
They’re stupid enough to eat their own, knowing it’ll only make them sicker…
Thanks as usual, Tommy. Jim “’tis merely a flesh wound!” Robinson may not be astute in figuring out when the battle has been lost, but he sure is good with labels.
Now, as one last tribute to the foundering USS Freeperville, I offer, “The Decline of Free Republic – a Freeper’s View.”
“I think that it is clear, after reading the roughly 1,500 posts in the above thread that FreeRepublic is in trouble. I can only surmise that one of three things is causing it:
1. Aborto-Libera-Crats have infiltrated the site and are trying to disrupt the Freepathon Alinsky style.
2. JimRob is tired of running FR, and has sown discontent to ensure the Freepathon’s failure so that he may make a graceful departure.
3. Aborto-Romney-publicans are destroying FR from within using a combination of divisive Rovian messaging and Romneybots. Let’s face it, Romney has so much money he can hire all sorts of people just to post on FR all day and take out the site!
All three of these only mean one thing: we have them on the run! We may be down to a small number of True Patriots ™, but even Jesus only needed 12! And one of those was a traitor! The establishment knows that FreeRepublic is a force to be reckonned with in Presidential politics, otherwise why would they be engaging in such a conspiracy to keep us down?!?>1?!??
I call on all True Patriots ™ to join me in donating to FR! I think if you shake the Magic Jesus Ball and Search Your Heart ™ you will find there is no other way to stop the coming Aborto-Establisho-GunNoNo-Blacko-Browno-Femino-Commies.”
Hopefully I captured the essence of a Freeper. Look for my off-off-off-off-Broadway one man show, “The Agony and the Psychopathy of Jim Robinson.”
“but even Jesus only needed 12! And one of those was a traitor!”
ROFL!
Tommy
It’s hilarious when they start eating their own… Granted they are all covered in a film of flung poo…so there’s a bit of a piquant ‘zip’ of flavor added. I’m sure this isn’t their first taste, so they aren’t averse.
Ugh…
Thanks Tommy for taking the risk to make us enter an otherwise gnarly Monday w/a grin. 🙂
Wow. Just wow. Thanks TommyT!!!!!!!!!<–for Adros.
Could it be that they have gotten so used to getting their way by operating in hate mode, that hate mode became the only way they know?
Also, one possibly plausible outcome. I have seen hatefule conservative posts spread across the internet which appear to be the work of a single person posting under multiple aliases. Will the FR become the site of heated discussions of a handful of a few paid propagandists making long threads by posting under the horde of alisases?
Wooow!
http://hyphytek.net/wordpress/wp-content/gallery/illustrations-by-leon-ryan/clown-car-crash.png
Thanks for once again journeying into the snake pit of insanity, Tommy. I needed something to laugh about and your tales from the Freepers always work. I look forward to it each week
And the Freepathon is up to 37% of the (new) goal of $84,000. Oddly enough, the goal has come down from $94,000 last week. If the goal post hadn’t moved, they would be at only 35%. Tommy, please, please tell me which side I bet on (and be honest).
[Added in proof: I actually wrote that before reading this week’s Obsession.]
And, right out of the gate, 2ndDivisionVet is cheering for me (or Tommy–I still don’t know which).
I don’t know about the others, but I’m not even trying to hide my laughs in my sleeves. Although I’m half tempted to donate, just to preserve the entertainment.
Two for the price of one?
When FR wants your opinions they’ll give them to you.
I really wish I could find that quote about the last guy left, beating himself up in the mirror over the length of his hair (or even remember the origin of the quote).
So that would be The Ace of Spades? Self zotting. I always suspected he had a little more sense than he let on.
I usually just skim by these things, but how are the IN crowd “attacking like banshees from hell in all other threads” if they “never post in other conservative threads”. I guess only the Freepathon threads are sufficiently conservative for Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
–Kibitzer
Bumper crop of cool and insightful comments – my thanks to all!
Tommy
It’s a plot! An evil plot, I tell you!
Hilarious. Conservatives all around the blogosphere are drowning in their own self-importance.