‘Free Republic’ Now A Safe Space for Donald Trump Supporters [Jim's response at post 25]

The Federalist ^ | 05/12/2016 | Robert Tracinski

[nhwingut]

On the right, we’ve grown to pride ourselves on our greater openness to debate and ideas, on having no need to toe a Politically Correct line or crawl into a “safe space” like pampered college kids who just can’t handle hearing from anyone who disagrees with them.

For myself, I am so personally dedicated to this ideal that I even perform the great personal sacrifice of reading the comments field beneath my articles.

Yet somehow I wasn’t surprised to see Donald Trump supporters, those swaggering tough guys, turn one of their favorite Internet forums into a safe space where they no longer need to encounter criticism or opposition. Earlier today, Free Republic proprietor Jim Robinson announced that the discussion board would no longer tolerate opposition to Trump’s candidacy.

[Jim Robinson]

My regrets are that I didn’t do enough to persuade people not to support Mittens in the primary and then after he won the nomination, I allowed NeverMitts to hang around FR way too long causing all kinds of grief. Those not voting for Romney gave us Obama. Not going to make that mistake again.

[EarlyBird]

I remember A+Bert.

I don’t miss him at all!

[bootless]

>>Given the above you picked a really bad screen name. Nothing perfect about you. <<

Nor any of us. While I don’t agree with a_perfect_lady, I respect her honesty.

[TheNext]

Your post is a prime example of Things Not to Say in Words, Even though You Thought of Them.

o Democrat Violent Persecution

Grandma and grandpa sharing a tea party gathering at the city park. Dems sick big govt on them.

o Democrat Violent Persecution

Antebellum slavery.

o Republican/Democrat Violent Persecution

Soros anti Trump riots.

o Democrat Violent Persecution

Islamic invasion. BLM. Roman crucifixion.

The primitive tribal nature of the hostile minority has shut up the silent majority for 1000s of years. Communist Socialists are a sick hostile cult that relys upon secrecy.

-- Speak Up!

[EarlyBird]

In my experience, all ladies have a temper! I usually learn pretty quickly how not to raise that temper!

Tell me more!

Where in California do you live?

[EarlyBird]

I’ll second that! I never knew we had such beautiful FReepers!

[zeugma]

It’s from Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

[MCH]

Shouldn't be hard, 90% of the Class of 1998 has been zotted.

Yet another still around, although not a big regular poster.

What I've never really understood is the level of vitriol that some FR posters show every election cycle, in post after post, toward any one of the non-Demoncrat candidates. I just don't see that as being productive at all, and it really does start to get annoying to skim through all the non-constructive nastiness.

I absolutely detested McLame to the extent that I dropped out of the Repub party and became unaffiliated after he was nominated. But I wasn't on FR everyday blasting out nasty posts about what a closet liberal, leftist media pandering @hole he was, even though I thought it. How would that help anything? And in the end I did end up holding my nose & voting for the scumbag anyway, given the alternative being so much worse.

This time around I would have been far happier to support either Trump OR Cruz, especially relative to someone like McLame, albeit for different reasons. Yeah I was pretty disappointed in Cruz's cozying up to the GOPe types and other tactics of desperation as his goal started to slip away. But it didn't change his voting record and pro-conservative prior actions, which IMHO speak far more than a politician's words, especially during a heated campaign. I really didn't understand the extreme vitriol I read here regularly targeted at Cruz. I did at times wonder what had happened to FR.

As for Trump, I'm also a fan, although with some trepidation about what he might do. No doubt the guy loves America though, AND has common sense (which is no longer common), both of which will go a really long way. Most importantly though, I absolutely LOVE the way he handles the media, ignores PC BS, sticks to his guns, and otherwise isn't anything like the pathetic, doormat, whipping-boy Repub candidates we've seen ever since Reagan.

I don't see why JimRob has to tolerate lots of nasty comments against Trump, or any candidate he supports that might run against the Demoncrat socialist/communist agenda, on this site. How is that even remotely constructive? Constant nastiness against folks who you might not like but are NOT the enemy, doesn't help anything, and it gets people needlessly riled up against the wrong side.

I joined back in '98 for the same reason most folks did back then - out of extreme disgust and anger against the Clinton crime machine and the unbelievable level of crap they were getting away with. I was at the March for Justice, House Manager's rally, etc., trying to do what little I could to make an impact against the Clintons.

So here they are again, taking another shot at the WH. I agree with JimRob that crushing any chance those self-serving, POS, amoral criminals have of getting back the reigns of power is paramount. Constantly attacking the best fighting candidate the Republicans have put up in many years runs totally counter to that. And regardless, incessant nasty posts about either Trump, Cruz, or anyone else who would have gone up against the Clintons is counterproductive to the entire mission of FR.

[Jim Robinson]

Bless you.

[Dr.Deth]

Shouldn't be hard, 90% of the Class of 1998 has been zotted.

What, me worry?

[zeugma]

http://www.freerepublic.com/~nathanfedford/

Crap. That sucks. He's someone I always loved to read, even when we didn't agree.

[EarlyBird]

I love your about page. Are those dogs still puppies?

I have a black lab. I remember when she was just a puppy! Sniff!

She’s now a well-trained 8-year-old retriever who can find my hiding daughters by smelling their clothes! A trick I learned from the Dog Whisperer.

And thanks for that about Tony Snow....

[zeugma]

Not to be confused with "nathanbedford", who appears to still be a FReeper in good standing.

Excellent. As you might note from my previous post, I completely missed the misspelling. I'd have been bummed to have lost him as well.

[itsahoot]

[higgmeister]

(Me too!! -’98 er..)

Yes you are!

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Shouldn’t be hard, 90% of the Class of 1998 has been zotted.

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Night Hides Not, this article posted drew These 28 FRiends from a 1998 sign-up. Well, one is 1997 but there are many others from 1999.

Your 90% figure is statistically busted if you'll check the number of '98ers on the Zot list posted here.

Night Hides Not; musicman; zeugma; Col Freeper; cyberaxe; ozzymandus; Allen In Texas Hill Country; M. Thatcher; HalfIrish; exit82; gnarledmaw; usconservative; sargon; be-baw; Daveinyork; sauropod; EternalHope; dragnet2; Nita Nupress; fone; bigbob; Excellence; xzins; SuperLuminal; Theophilus; Raycpa; justlurking; EarlyBird;

[SaveFerris]

It’s a different name - fooled me too. :)

[EarlyBird]

Thanks for that great list of 1998 FReepers, Higgmeister!

Maybe we should all keep in touch to see who gets zotted! LOL!

[Dr.Deth]

Before you go, can you let me know where is the new site that FR’s Cruz people absconded to?

Holds up hand.

The problem for Constitutionalists in national politics, it has become increasingly apparent, is that the Republican Party will not allow them to oppose the Democrats.

The GOPe thinks they can make promises to conservatives for their support, and then break every one to gladhand with Democrats, Communists, Progressives, Leftists. Scum and villains all. They need to be broken like naughty puppies.

If Cruz is the vehicle to break the GOPe, go Cruz.

If Trump is the vehicle to break the GOPe, go Trump.

Dunno if that's a popular idea but that's my take. I've no desire to watch RINO squishes drive the country over a cliff at 55 mph instead of the Left doing it at 90 mph. Time to get off the road, before even stomping the brakes will no longer suffice. It will take an outsider - with balls - to do it.

I think we have one in Trump. Right now it's of utmost importance to elect someone who will turn over the tables of the moneychangers in the temple.

[zeugma]

 

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474 total posts, by 184 distinct posters. 2.6 average posts per poster.
3 posts were removed.
Average poster seniority: 13.0y.

Thought you might be interested in a poster report for this thread so far...

[DeSoto]

Are you sure you aren’t thinking of
http://www.freerepublic.com/~nathanbedford/