46 thoughts on “SWMBO”

  4. I originally tried to avoid exposure to this ā€œlove-bombing hatefestā€. Reminds me of those ā€˜60s Synanon encounter sessions; ā€œloveā€ thatā€™s actually virtue-signaling contempt. Makes me wanna šŸ¤® upchuck, that is….Sorry to see it – and that you had to endure it, hermano!

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      1. No, I canā€™t….I got a taste of it, too. Treacle-with-arsenic. ā€œLove-bombingā€ was what those druggies-turned-counselors at Synanon called their ā€˜techniqueā€™. No love in it at all, actually, just loud, smug, overwhelming condescension.

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      1. She did call you a foxtrotting meddlesome old woman before ordering you to butt out. I thought it embodied perfectly the family-friendly motto of that site.

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      2. They are such scum. I am torn on this: I hope and believe that most conservatives would be shocked at how those who run L1 and L2 really feel about combat veterans. I am very inclined to believe that both those sites are over run with paid operatives, and the many of those who aren’t paid are so desperate to be on a site that they have sold their souls to the devil. And of course, there are also those who don’t check in on a regular basis: they are unaware. There might be something to be said for making them aware.

        The way you were treated on both sites is beyond a disgrace. I believe and hope and pray that most people would be horrified by the treatment you received.

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      5. Sorry to say, JaC, they arenā€™t America – yet – but theyā€™re helping to form its new image and likeness.

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      6. You might be unpleasantly surprised, JaC, at what academic and coastal conservatism looks like today. EVERYONE is resigned to big government; one side just wants to spend more-slowly than the other. Not sure when the ā€œcenterā€ of center-right started getting more attention on L1, but itā€™s not ā€˜conservativeā€™ anymore. As to paying no more than lip-service to honoring veterans; youā€™re gonna have to head for flyover country to find it: pockets on both coasts and in the great, unwashed middle. Lack of awareness may have been true before 9/11/01, but weā€™ve been at war for nearly two decades. Lack of awareness is a choice now, it seems to me. And these self-described ā€˜conservativeā€™ sites prove it.

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      7. Nanda, I live in Massachusetts, and have spent most of my life here. I have never encountered the attitudes and disrespect for veterans that exists on both L1 and L2; the people on those sites are not normal, Nanda. Not anywhere.

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      8. Maybe you and I are blessed to be in pockets of ā€œflyover countryā€, JaC. Even some veterans have decided to accept the scenario handed them by the ā€˜mental healthā€™ and VA system, that their service makes them damaged goods, whoā€™ll have to be drugged-up zombies, and rehearse their pain forever in ā€˜group therapyā€™, to endure daily life. Make the stupid STOP, somehow…..

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  6. “Is dueling legal in any State of the Union?”

    Maybe with banjos….P.S. My ā€˜editā€™ button is Missing in Action again, Your Graciously Unleashedness. (The button showed up at the PC again.)

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    1. I know. They are giving America in general and American conservatives in particular a very bad name; I think they are doing it on purpose.

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  8. “Sorry to say, JaC, they arenā€™t America ā€“ yet ā€“ but theyā€™re helping to form itā€™s new image and likeness.”

    I disagree. With all due respect, Nanda, to say that L2 is going to help form America’s new image and likeness is laughable: they are a tiny group of about 10 guys. They aren’t shaping anything. Last I checked, L1 claimed to have 5000 members: I would be skeptical of that claim. The vast, vast majority of Americans are totally unaware that either site even exists, and if they ever become aware, they will be repelled by what they read. In both cases, we are talking about a very small, strange group of people: please don’t flatter them by painting them as influential. They aren’t.

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    1. Very early on during my membership on L1, I encountered a member whose attitude I found obnoxious-this being very early on, I was shocked and appalled to encounter such an obnoxious attitude in a fellow conservative. I totally went off on the guy: apparently, no one was paying attention, because I probably was out of line, but God he was such a jerk. I told him and everyone else flat out that I suspected him of being a bad actor who was purposely trying to make conservatives look bad. When I think of the hell my parents went through, it makes me so mad that these asswipes on the internet claim to represent me: they don’t represent anyone other than their sorry selves.

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      2. No, different asshole, lol šŸ™‚ I actually can’t remember the guy’s name, there were so many jerks over there, you lose track

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  9. I think theyā€™re determining which way the wind blows – and on which side their bread should be buttered (maybe both?). They are a media-sharing platform first, a blog last, and a profit-seeking entity, always. (I refer to L1 here. L2 seems to be a coed intellectual steam room, where draped towels sometimes slide out of place, and words are deployed, not typed. Itā€™s a ā€œbrave old worldā€ out there.)

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    1. Well, but, no, they are not determining which way the wind blows. If that were the case, Trump never would have been elected.

      A profit seeking entity? Are you sure about that? National Review was very influential for a long time-past tense-but it was never profitable.

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      1. Not talking about NR; RL, in an early podcast, said that making a ā€œsweetā€ profit was a goal re: L1.

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      2. LOL, yeah, I am sure that it’s a goal, but has that goal been achieved? I seriously doubt it.

        Making a sweet profit is always a goal, for everyone, but really, Nanda, you take these people far too seriously. If making money was really Rob Long’s main goal, or a goal for him at all, he would be doing something else, I assure you.

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      3. No, they took themselves seriously; I donā€™t take anyone seriously but the Ineffable – and, occasionally, ST – anymore. No worries about that, JaC. šŸ¼

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  10. The majority of our ‘members’ are not living in American. My guess is most of them are not US citizens living overseas. Most of our lurkers are from America.

    I believe we have a hardcore group of American lurkers who review our site daily but refuse to ‘join’ for their very own personal reasons.

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    1. I don’t understand what you are saying? Do you believe that those in power can ascertain what hundreds of millions of Americans want through L1?

      I don’t want to keep seeing this, but I grew up in the pro-life movement: I have spent my entire life surrounded by hard core conservatives, and I was shocked and appalled by what I encountered on L1. I really, seriously, believe that most of the “members” there are not for real.

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      1. Attempting to ascertain, I suppose: Finger in the air, to determine which way they should lean, Hence, right became center-right, becomes…,ā€

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      2. “…. are not for real.”

        They may not be ‘for real’, JaC,, but the self-satisfied venom they spew is real enough; they are the face and voice of ‘conservatism’ right now – since others with intelligence have aged-out, or burned out.

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      4. Agree to disagree here, JaC; I don’t consider DJT as a ‘conservative’ – he is a pragmatist – nothing wrong with that. I have little quarrel with the President’s policy initiatives, but, I can’t go further than that. (That’s been my stance since the campaign, btw, lest I be thought of as inconsistent. šŸ™‚

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  13. Okay GOOD morning!
    Hey, Simon! We the ā€˜Ettes are ALL Americans, as are you, and in my humble homegrown opinion, we make up one awesome posse!
    Okay weā€™ve been wounded, you twice, Judy and me once, by vindictive and unjust banishment. Moi, Iā€™m furious about it. For ALL of us. It is a bug not a feature of America today that the most sensitive get to determine what everybody else can say.
    But we canā€™t turn on our country now! She needs us more than ever at this critical juncture. You, our soldier, and all of us at home need to remain ā€œalways faithfulā€ . Frankly I donā€™t know if we can get through this. But ā€œonce more dear friends unto the breach!ā€,

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