All is not well in Freeperville

An unprecedented 2 commenters - kidglov3s and FresnoGrifter found this one for me:.

Even with the recent Freeper funding woes, Most Freeper fundraising threads are super boring - full of false good feelings and rote triumphalism.  But under the surface, there is a lot of resentment about Free Republic's anti-Romney, and indeed anti-dissent culture.

In this thread, the feelings have boiled over, and the results are fascinating:


VeniVidiVici blames all the religious zealots:

"FR doesn't support Socialists." Hmmm, not entirely. One thing that's completely flummoxed me is how the anti-Romney jihadists get away with posting thread after thread of anti-Romney propaganda often accompanied by other anti-Romney jihadists piling on commenting how "four more years of Obama is preferable to 8 years of Romney", or other similar statements.
Most of them used to stay in their Religion forum playpen but the primaries let them bring it out in the open. So there are "pro-Obama" folks here who are evidently allowed to support the reelection of the communist.

Ace of Spades thinks head Freeper Jim Robinson is reaping what he hath sowed:

Jim was warned years ago that banning and insulting his followers was going to lead down this path. He chose arrogance, pride and misguided principles (whatever they may be at the moment) over the financial health of this site and now he’s reaping the rewards. You want our money? Change the way you do business. Simple as that.

 bigheadfred doesn't much care about the controversy, he just has cancer but also wants to beat up all the Congressmen:

I have a feeling I’m not so much different than a lot of people around. I think and feel the way they do.
The difference may lie in the fact that without treatment soon I will be dead by years end.
It changes my perspective.
I look at my beautiful two grandbabies and there is no doubt that I can pull that trigger and put a bullet in THE GOVERNMENT.
Too much talk about Obama. Too much debate about POTUS.
There are 535 MOTHER F###ERS in Congress who haven’t and will not do anything for me.
It isn’t about what THEY SAY THEY WILL DO.
It is about what I SAY THEY WILL DO.
535 is a few more than I can take. So if I could only find around 50 more people to help, I think the video of that little donnybrook may even make it onto Youtube. Hell. It may even go viral.
Now for the funny part.
If I could find 1,000 people to kick ten bucks each into the Get Well Pat Fund I wouldn’t need those other 50 people’s help.

dforest mixes metaphors brilliantly:

Well, I will choose the wolf in sheeps clothing this time and take my chances. Couldn’t get any worse, could it?
Believe me, at least I can hope that wolf will do something about the economy and observe and respect all branches of our Government.
The one we have now does not do that at all.
He just rules by fiat.

Only Wolf President is savage enough to save us all! MizSterious is so close to having an epiphany about how Freepers think about the world:

Trouble is, to you folks, a different opinion automatically makes the perp “socialist.”

Peter from Rutland also fails to generalize his insights to apply to people beyond himself:

You can accuse me of being Adolf Hitler but it doesn’t make it true.
You people have gone over the line with me a number of times and I’ve had enough. I was going to shut up but I’ve decided to make a stand because there are more out here just like me, they’re just too afraid to stand up to you people.
The rest of the sane world is working to get rid of Obama, no matter what the cost is because the country you fought for cannot stand another four years of this.
Winning the Senate and the House is not enough because Obama has proven he will simply go around them. Yet it seems a vast majority here want to plant their feet in the ground and stand on some false sense of “no more RINOs, it stops here”.
Well, this isn’t the time for it. Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

 DJ MacWoW breaks out the "Bless your Heart," which is Southern for "Fuck you."

Bless 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.

SteveAustin will stick around for the awesome military discussions, but laments the recent popular clique's power trip:

I’ve been reading here since the beginning and been signed up since 2000.
This is still a great site to discuss breaking news and military issues. Many very knowledgable and good people on the site.
But since we are all speaking freely tonight, the site has become damn near unreadable the past year as it relates to politics. There are about 15 super active posters on here who camp out and ridicule everything. And usually they do it under the guise of carrying Jim Rob’s flag.
I’ve seen too many good conversations turn sour here with comments like “you know we don’t allow no RINO’s on here. I’m going to tell Jim Rob.”
Jim Rob did a great civic duty creating this site. And he can make the decision if he wants to have a larger more influential site like we had in the past or a marginalized small pond. I’d vote for the old days.

xkaydet65 also remembers the good old days:

I remember when every thread proclaimed “Rove, you magnificent bastard!!” When Ann Coulter’s essays and appearances sparked ten threads praising her thought, her wit and her looks each day.Now they are the spawn of the devil. Crypto socialists and big govt progressives. As the Joe Mantegna and Don Ameche film said, “Things change.”

altura hates people keeping lists of bad thinkers:

Oh, you betcha they keep lists.
During the height of the Cain mania, which was supported by this site, Cain hated Perry and made that known.
So a cadre of Cain supporters got together and established a ping list to disrupt all the positive Perry posts that were put up.
I have to say that those people were the ugliest, most profane, vulgar, vicious and lying people I’ve ever seen on this site. Some were people I thought I knew.
It would not have been allowed in the old days.

McLynnan gets like amillion replies agreeing with this post

A few shrieking, tattletale banshees, operating with the approval of the owner and moderators, spend their days and nights on patrol enforcing the one site/one mind rule. They have managed to run off just about anybody with a brain (or a dollar.) They are at it on this very thread. They remind me of high school mean girls and have turned internet bullying into a blood sport. New posters are welcomed with scorn and ridicule and accused of being trolls just because they haven’t been here since day one. That’s a great way to attract new people.
I left FR a while back because I got tired of the attacks against me and like minded people because we were from Texas and we supported Governor Perry. Many of the Texas contingent left FR and took their dollars with them during that time. We were honestly blind sided and shell shocked by our treatment. Governor Perry may not be the most articulate man in the world, he is not perfect, but he is conservative, a patriot, a Christian, knows how to attract business and a heck of an improvement over Mitt. You only have to look at Texas to know he can’t be the complete dunce his FR detractors claim he is. What was wrong with supporting a conservative?

That "high school mean girls" thing sure seems to be coming up again and again. mojitojoe also, too:

There is a posse on here that consists of about 20-30 that relentlessly goes after anyone that says they will vote for ABO. That group is relentless and abusive. They hate or pretend to hate mittens more than anything on earth . I wonder if they realize the harm they are doing to this great forum.
and I’m done, I swore I wouldn’t comment but couldn’t help myself.

And then it just degenerates to youtube comments level: 2ndDivisionVet will not be bullied:

I am a 6ft, 360lbs Army and security veteran. I don’t really think I need to threaten anyone. Why are you trying to bait me? Did my talk of trolling for Obama perhaps hit a little too close to home? We know that various and sundry Axelrod dupes are assigned to FR and other conservative sites to stir the excreta. You’re sounding more and more like one of them.

onyx gets involved in this catfight:

I have a lot of FB buddies...and don't have a clue who that is! Funny thing...I hadn't seen it until you posted it! That tells me you spend more time at True Blue than I do! LOL!
I'll have to go take a look! Do you disrupt there?...or just lurk?
You are a trip!

No, it was sent to me about YOU! I don’t leave Free Republic.

"True Blue Liberty" seems to be a site populated by zotted Freepers.