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Posted on 06/08/2024 2:35:05 PM PDT by LukeL

In the past couple of years I have noticed there is a complete lake of regard for other posters on this site. Not only that but swearing seems to be tolerated. In the past day I have been called gay, a lair, that I am talking out of my *** and I am full of ****. Do we even have to go into the fighting on any thread about Ukraine or Russia. Even hard facts from multiple sources no longer seem to matter. Instead it is whoever can come up with the snarkiest reply.


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To: dware

By now you should quit worrying about what we look like. The RATs sure don’t. And they are running things because of our meekness.


441 posted on 06/09/2024 10:05:49 AM PDT by dforest ( )
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To: dware

I am going to start using a different hair spray.


442 posted on 06/09/2024 10:09:16 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma deuce)
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To: LukeL

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443 posted on 06/09/2024 10:28:30 AM PDT by TomServo
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To: dware
I ignore them, you ignore them, but not everyone does. Ultimately, at the end of the day, they make a mockery of political discourse and make all of us look like idiots. Them and the Baitway Pundit with their constant BOOM and EXPLOSIVE and KRAKEN bogus clickbait headlines.

Bttt

444 posted on 06/09/2024 10:29:51 AM PDT by TomServo
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To: mac_truck
To be honest, I'm so sick of the guy I had planned on not voting for him, but the conviction and the leftist reaction convinced me to hold my nose and vote for him a third time.

Then I start reading all the stuff written by trumpers, and begin reconsidering yet again. You guys truly are your own worst enemies.

445 posted on 06/09/2024 10:53:32 AM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin ( )
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To: Allegra
Maybe Snek slipped up and thought he was posting on TBR. That’s where he’s been spreading his bile recently.

No, I just saw this thread last night and noted the usual "uncivil" crowd's responses, and supposed that none of you appreciated the irony. I was right.

And yes, we saw you trying to sneak in and out of TBR unnoticed, and got a good laugh out of it.

BTW, here's a flashback:

“Do not post to me” - Repost

446 posted on 06/09/2024 10:55:54 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." --George Washington)
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To: Kazan
A notorious, Never Trump Zeeper rears his ugly head!

Again, thank you for making the OP's point.

447 posted on 06/09/2024 10:56:56 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace." --George Washington)
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To: going hot

LOL, I knew I couldn’t have been the only one!


448 posted on 06/09/2024 10:57:17 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: ronniesgal

It was very unpleasant. It is someone whose name you see all the time in those threads, too.


449 posted on 06/09/2024 10:58:22 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: LukeL

Agree.
And a reason I get involved much less in discussions.
Having a discussion with an exchange of ideas is extremely valuable .
People can learn from other viewpoints and honestly it’s a good training ground to push back on the left in our spheres of influence.
When name calling and the insults start, the open exchange of ideas shuts down .
There is a way to have debates and defend one’s viewpoints without virulently attacking the other person.


450 posted on 06/09/2024 11:00:46 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: rlmorel
It was totally weird. I have seen this person’s posts for years, and barely ever said boo, and the first time I did, she came at me like some furious harpy with snakes for hair.

Sorry.

I'll never do it again.

Until next time.

451 posted on 06/09/2024 11:03:29 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Trump's experience? We're next.)
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To: Lazamataz

LOL. Well, YOU, I have said “boo” to...:)


452 posted on 06/09/2024 11:10:29 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: rlmorel

it IS unpleasant, and i suspect alot of those pesky types would not have the nerve to confront anyone if this was RL.
By the way- what kinda “hosts” did you guys get?
we had to have unblessed hosts once and they tasted like dry paste. no amount of wine would have made them desirable.
PS You’re not going to hell for a harmless prank. Zealots are just ridiculous.


453 posted on 06/09/2024 11:16:34 AM PDT by ronniesgal (have you even tried to mind your own business?)
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To: ronniesgal

Oh yes...they did taste bland and pasty! They were the small ones in the garbage bag, maybe an inch across. The had the bigger, ceremonial ones that they would hold above their heads and break into pieces, and those were stacked in small four inch square boxes perhaps two inches high.

They didn’t taste good, but the fact that it was illicit and probably shocking to some is what made us eat them!


454 posted on 06/09/2024 11:32:19 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: Timber Rattler

Are you secretly hoping Juan Merchan imprisons Donald Trump?


455 posted on 06/09/2024 11:32:54 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

“Then I start reading all the stuff written by trumpers....”

Curious as to the stuff written by Trumper’s. Would you mind citing some examples. Maybe they’re not really Trumpers but controlled opposition.


456 posted on 06/09/2024 11:38:50 AM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: Timber Rattler

“And yes, we saw you trying to sneak in and out of TBR unnoticed, and got a good laugh out of it.”

___________________________________________________________________
Who’s “we,” short stuff? You and your fellow zeeper, the Chin? And sneaking? Nah, but dream on. I even updated my profile. That’s hardly “sneaking,” little dude. Yeah, I look in there occasionally. And others were FReepmailing me your bilious, middle-school girl comments as we chuckled.

Oh…and here’s a more updated flashback for ya, Half-Pint;

“Finally, if someone says STOP, then STOP! If someone asks you to take them off your ping list, then take them off! If someone asks you to stop posting to them, the adult and polite thing to do is to accommodate them.” -Jim Robinson

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4166577/posts

So, keep me off of your vicious little ping lists, Shorty. Bye!


457 posted on 06/09/2024 11:39:12 AM PDT by Allegra (Toss a zeeper in the Dnieper)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It is my suspicion that we have one or two Kremlinbots getting paid by Vladimir Putin to post Russian propaganda.

There are several admitted Russians on FR - one of which is a proud former Soviet officer.

Whether or not the pro-Russians are paid or not, they do repeat Kremlin origin propaganda, while proudly proclaiming they are Americans, despite their bad English. Russian emigres?


458 posted on 06/09/2024 11:48:12 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

Meh...I couldn’t care less who folks like you claim you voted for.

I do object to your using this forum to disparage President Trump as he runs for another term in office.

Maybe its time you took another years long hiatus.


459 posted on 06/09/2024 11:51:13 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: rlmorel

good! I was feeling cheated. :)


460 posted on 06/09/2024 11:55:01 AM PDT by ronniesgal (have you even tried to mind your own business?)
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