Today I am at last unsubscribing from all the political and ideological emails I’ve been getting since 2016. I didn’t ask for a lot of ‘em, but I didn’t mind them; it made me feel au courant.
Since November 3, I have gotten more, not less: Save the Senate! Help Kelly! Help David! Help The NRC meet its CRITICAL year end goal!
No thankee. I got into this for Trump.I didn’t set out to like him, I knew nothing about him except what the world knows, never saw The Apprentice nor WWF. But he was different, he was special, something new.
Tru dat! In addition to the heretofore “impossible” things he accomplished during his term, we have the extraordinary, desperate efforts mounted by the Aden’s and their allies the PinkChinks to stop him at all costs, to do anything no matter how blatantly fraudulent, to prevent him from getting a second term.
They did it. They won.
His accomplishments with the federal judiciary and the Supreme Court, his unwavering support for his nominees (Kavanaugh, do you remember? At all?) have not availed us, his constituency, anything.
Yes, “we” are going to lose the Senate on Jan 5. I don’t need any more emails telling me that, begging for more money, telling me that only I can save the country. I can’t, okay? It’s not gonna help.
“Did you give up, Hypatia?” Many of them scream in the emails.
Yes. You bozos played me for a sucker, the way I see it.
I’m just, in no hurry to read the inevitable bad news about our country’s decline, which Trump briefly and gloriously turned around.
He’s gone. And I no longer give a shit about politics. We’re on a train to socialism,we can’t get off, and I ain’t spendin’ no more money at the concession stand.
ST UnWoked & UnVaxxed! 
I’m with you. I recently cancelled two political magazines, one of them being NR after Rich Lowry wrote an unspeakable column on the Don. (BTW, I was a subscriber for 15 yrs and I know WFB is rolling in his grave.)
I was willing to tolerate his attitude because of Charles Cooke, Nordlinger and several other sections I’d enjoyed.
Now it is all business: WSJ and IBD where I am able to read some factual information.
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Liz, WSJ isn’t ‘factual’, either; they jumped on the AP bandwagon, early, despite evidence of fraud – sickening. Buh-Bye, Rupert the Bear. Facts don’t matter… I’m done with “news”, period. Probably done with online media (except here, of course.)
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No argument here Nanda but I do enjoy Kimberley Strassel on the Op-Ed page and have rcvd some decent advice that has helped me with my trading.
But let it be said that IBD remains my favorite!
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I’ve re-engaged with “Radio Derb”; his enlightened pessimism seems appropriate. Wish there were someplace I could enjoy Tucker, Catherine Herridge and Kimberley Strassel – and maybe Brett Baier – without Rupert’s biases….Sigh.
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I ignore all the horsecrap emails from the feckless GOP.
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Yes well #metoo, TW, but there they are, clogging up my inbox, so many of ‘em to wade thru if only to delete’em that I actually might miss some personal ones. That’s why today is “click to unsubscribe” day for me.
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Y’all will find you can move faster now that you’ve dropped that pack.
In Hoc Signo Vinces
/ “ἐν τούτῳ νίκα”
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Only Greek 101 was only offered at my university and that is and was the limit of my Greek studies; however, I do like to go back to the original Greek in the Bible on the rare occasion to admit the truth.
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I looked this up again. “IHS” is a cryptogram for “Christ”, but also, though this isn’t in the Bible of course, the words “ In Hoc Signo Vinces” were what appeared to Constantine superimposed on his vision of the. Cross. He did win that battle and that’s why he adopted Christianity as the religion of the empire thenceforward.
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I am trying to imagine the mindset of the grunts freezing and starving in Valley Forge under the command of General George Washington. Must have felt like a ‘big ask’ to go up against the world’s superpower.
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Not to mention the world’s most feared mercenaries- the Hessians!
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Yes, and I think that’s why we shouldn’t change our national anthem. Like in Key’s poem: ”O thus be it e’er/When free men shall stand/ Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation…” Those barefoot soldiers had nothing to lose and everything to gain.
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What about losing toes to frostbite?
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The pain and misery cannot be overestimated! But they were traitors to the Crown! If they lost, their lives were forfeit.
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It’s so sad, so unbearably sad, to think that future generations of Americans( or whatever they’ll be called) will not revere the sacrifice of those first patriots. At best maybe they’ll see those suffering but ultimately victorious soldiers as relatively powerless (though not innocent, oh no!) pawns of the slaveholding imperialists…
WTF has happened to our country and HOW could it have happened so FAST?
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“It’s so sad, so unbearably sad, to think that future generations of Americans( or whatever they’ll be called) will not revere the sacrifice of those first patriots.”
It makes me want to cry. To put it crudely, we are pissing on our ancestors graves.
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Exactly.
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No, we’re not (as JaC reminds me every so often). If we don’t succeed in holding the torch high enough, long enough, we are still ‘living history’ – a bit of what Americans can/could be – while we live….
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With all due respect Nanda, I believe the Founders would be shocked and appalled at the state of affairs today even though they experienced some pretty rough political infighting themselves and my hero allowed himself to be killed in a duel by a very bad dude.
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No argument, Liz, but – as long as we, or anyone like us – is here, holding up the Founders’ legacy: America lives. I realize that Franklin’s caveat comes into play, but we are not done.
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I can’t afford to be done!
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Absotively posilutely, Liz!
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