I have been avoiding them for a couple of months now.
Just keep pecking at them with insults and they’ll either leave on their own or return fire and get zotted.
Then FR will be closer to a true Trumptopia.
Reeducation, perhaps.
What a great idea. And what a good sign of things to come if he's POTUS.
We need to shut up and silence anything about Lyin Ted and/or the stupid Constitution. Who cares about that-We don't need it- It's just more rules anyway-get rid of it. Trump will tell us what to do.
To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
Agree. I have been staying off of those threads for the most part.
Alienating Cruz supporters isn’t winning them over to Trump. Childish name calling and flaming isn’t either. This site used to inform, make you think, and challenge opinions. FR is likely to see its base decrease along with donations. Hope it doesn’t though.
Both candidates love America, as do their supporters. I’m pro Cruz even though I know he’s unlikely to win. If that means I don’t belong here after 15 years so be it.
This whole thread represents the demise of Free Republic as I’ve known it all these years. I honestly prefer others to Trump in large part because I am intimately familiar with the type and sceptical about his true motives. I don’t believe you can invest your trust in any one man the way many Trump supporters have done. Trump supporter behavior both on Free Republic and in my community have increased rather than lessened my doubts about the man. The dragging in of questionable sources, outright lies and ignoring legitimate information has made this forum unreadable. I can go through and read the articles and avoid the comments but I can also go to the sources on my own. Without the fellowship of and interaction in the comments section the forum has a greatly reduced value. I logged on today for the first time in a week or so to see if it was any better. The first post I see is one that advocates elimination of all but a single point of view. What more can I say.
Calls to boycott this or prohibit that are pathetic, in my opinion, and give a bad impression of one’s candidate.
I’ve noticed 2nddivisionvet has quit his posting since last tuesday.
You should maybe go back - oh, way back - and look at how supportive this forum was for Ted Cruz up to the point where Trump started pushing your emotional buttons. Feel free to delete Cruz supporters, I expect this kind of behavior from Trump cultists, but please don’t ever again use the false argument that Trump is some kind of Big Tent genius.
YOU ARE SUPPRESSING THE 1st AMENDMENT! And I don’t care which man you support. FR has become known as TRUMP CENTRAL, JUST LIKE BREITBART, FNC AND DRUDGE. NO FAIRNESS ALLOWED.
You are driving long time FR supporters away. That means you are going to have to dig deeper to support the site.
FR has become a Trump love fest forum. After 16 years with FR...goodbye all. I will find somewhere that has intelligent discourse.
You’ve already banned and zotted 90% of the pro-Cruz FReepers.
Notice the slow fund raising for FR.
Notice the stale Posts and near absence of hard news.
Notice how the negative news on Obama and Hillary have slowed to a trickle on FR?
Banning dissent does not create cohesion.
I’ve been labeled a racist for supporting Cruz by a proTrump spammer on this site. My enthusiasm for FR has diminished greatly over this election season. Damn the Constitution, full speed ahead...just without me.
Cruz is proving to be a damn crook that does not deserve any votes. He and Hillary make an excellent pair.
Cruz is the spawn of politics as usual. Practiced by the worst of characters this country can find. No wonder Trump is winning. The people of this country are finally waking up to the absolute corruption of the political system. Your vote counts for zip.
I don’t respond to them, never have but a few times. I have wished people would just ignore them and let the threads die.
On the other hand is the thought that if things get posted that are out there, untrue or what have you and no one responds will people that do happen to stumble on that thread think it is accurate because no one corrected what was said?
You talk about “inciting” yet first thing in your post is “Lyin Ted.” You lose any credibility for your arguement right there.
hmmm. ban me please—I mean it. because this website has changed so much in the past 16 years. the Trump people remind me of Hillary who told Sanders he had to tone down his rhetoric. free speech will now be dead on this website because of the aggressiveness and vitriol of Trump supporters. Mean is the word. You can say everything and anything about Cruz but when someone raises a hand to defend Cruz against this onslaught of lies and attacks, you cry foul. Strange though—I noticed when Cruz was accused of alleged adultery, this site roundly discussed and re-discussed that allegation. But when Donald Trump was SUED this past week for past alleged rape, you could hear the crickets. You have become what you hated.
Yes, but...no I won't go there.
I'll leave it to Jim Robinson to decide who to ban.
My thoughts are that Cruz and Trump supporters are way too obsessed with politics.