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Question: What Does "Being On Vacation" Have In Common With "Being a Democrat", "Having a Stroke", and "Dying"???

Posted on 08/24/2026 11:45:47 AM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot

Answer - All are lame excuses for not contributing to the Free Republic 3Q2026 fund raiser.

Is it me, or are we wayyyyyyyyyyyyy behindddddddd on the quarterly fund-raisins? Only 25% and 2/3 of the way through the quarter?!?!? Maybe some have seen it worse than this.

And the number of postings seem to have decreased, unless I am looking at the wrong page.

Help me understand the situation.


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KEYWORDS: freepathon

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1 posted on 08/24/2026 11:45:47 AM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: Susquehanna Patriot

Well, counting in the headline, it is at least 4 votes.


2 posted on 08/24/2026 11:48:25 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob ( My pronoun is EXIT. Generally full of /S -- Living with Havana Syndrome -infected from Main Stream)
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To: Susquehanna Patriot

Folks, we all need to help out to keep the lights on.

I know the Breaking News is basically filled with incredibly outdated news and I know a number of threads are being deleted. I do not understand how things are being handled, but we do have decent content for what is posted and we have a wonderful history to delve through.

I am a monthly donor and I encourage everyone else to also help.


3 posted on 08/24/2026 11:50:57 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Susquehanna Patriot

There are too many rules in the posting articles.


4 posted on 08/24/2026 11:51:39 AM PDT by roving
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To: Susquehanna Patriot

We need to step up the fundraising or Free Republic will go away.


5 posted on 08/24/2026 11:52:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Susquehanna Patriot

None of them involve any physical effort........


6 posted on 08/24/2026 11:55:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: Susquehanna Patriot
Help me understand the situation.

Pretty long story, not one I want to explore right now.

7 posted on 08/24/2026 11:59:12 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Technology can industrialize evil.)
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To: Susquehanna Patriot

Part of the problem is that some posters believe that their opinions are facts and if you don’t share their opinions they call you names. Rather than get into continuous pissing contests it is much easier to disengage and move on. There are other sources of info out there ... most allow you to block or mute people that you choose to avoid.


8 posted on 08/24/2026 12:09:16 PM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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To: Susquehanna Patriot

“Question: What Does “Being On Vacation” Have In Common With “Being a Democrat”, “Having a Stroke”, and “Dying”???. Vacation is leaving and never coming back, but you can vote.


9 posted on 08/24/2026 12:11:48 PM PDT by kawhill (Dywedwch + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
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To: Susquehanna Patriot

Help me understand the situation.

_________________________

What situation? What are you worried about?

If management isn’t concerned about this Freepathon, then why should you?


10 posted on 08/24/2026 12:16:14 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (TDS: Trump Deification Syndrome)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Only 25% and 2/3 of the way through the quarter.

If you discussed with management, please share the strategy for closing the gap in the next 40 days. Or do they have a reserve fund for droughts and famines? I have no management contacts. Thanks!


11 posted on 08/24/2026 12:23:40 PM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: bankwalker

“Part of the problem is that some posters believe that their opinions are facts and if you don’t share their opinions they call you names.”

Or worse. My guess is that everyone here has experienced some level of this. Politics is a tough sport really - ask Trump or the idiot Schumer from NY.

Here among FRiends one would expect to be cut slack from ad hominem attacks, though I have seen some legitimate challenges to opinions be taken as a personal attack. If anything, FR is a good place to challenge, be challenged and develop/keep a thick political skin.

There are a few here I do not engage in discussion for the reasons you stated. But I won’t let those types keep me away, or from supporting FR.


12 posted on 08/24/2026 12:33:54 PM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: MtnClimber

I recently read that the powers that be are going to sell FR if they don’t make the money.


13 posted on 08/24/2026 1:27:50 PM PDT by ronniesgal (can FR please get a "like" button and a "block" button? Please.)
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To: Susquehanna Patriot

someone dying is not a good enough excuse for you?? I don’t think FR is in everybody’s will.


14 posted on 08/24/2026 1:36:56 PM PDT by ronniesgal (can FR please get a "like" button and a "block" button? Please.)
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To: ronniesgal

Demonkrats have armies of dead ballot submitters and campaign contributors ...just saying.


15 posted on 08/24/2026 2:12:29 PM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: Lazamataz

Sorry to hear that.

You’ve got a big fam base out here Laz. I see your name popping up and you are not even in the threads. You are in the class of Freeper “influencer”. Don’t go too far away.


16 posted on 08/24/2026 2:15:24 PM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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To: Susquehanna Patriot; ronniesgal; Responsibility2nd; kawhill; bankwalker; Lazamataz; Red Badger; ...

I’m only preaching to the choir.

This is an excellent private funded website. There’s no other like it.

I’m proud to be a dollar-a-day donor. That’s what I can handle. Please just send five or ten bucks a month to keep us online.


17 posted on 08/24/2026 5:06:11 PM PDT by KitJ (Shall not be infringed...)
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To: Susquehanna Patriot

“Being On Vacation” Have In Common With “Being a Democrat”, “Having a Stroke”, and “Dying”???.
= = =

Well i got caught commenting without reading . . .

I thought this was about Mitch McConnell.


18 posted on 08/24/2026 5:27:45 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob ( My pronoun is EXIT. Generally full of /S -- Living with Havana Syndrome -infected from Main Stream)
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