RPF members missing in action...

[Carlybee]

I still read.

I $#@!ed my rt elbow in February splitting firewood.
Typing speed went from 80 wpm to hunt and peck lefty...

RPF is among the other million things, now on hold, that righty used to do.

Ouch...hope you feel better soon!

[loveshiscountry]

For the record, while I have disagreed quite a bit with dannno on all sorts of issues from bestiality to Trump, I've never been called a troll by him, nor do I think he is a troll, just misinformed. I care nothing about the opinion of the other person you mentioned and I have not cared for a long time.

I thought we were all on the same side of the bestiality issue??? This place has gone to hell in a handbag.

[Danke]

Christopher A. Brown

[oyarde]

Christopher A. Brown

Seems like not long ago I saw him around , maybe it was an old post .

[oyarde]

Personally I think there is something wrong with bestiality , but if it is your livestock I say go ahead just do not tell me about it . I am just glad Danke is back .

[opal]

I am pretty sure he never posted here but damn I miss RON PAUL!

[RJB]

I am pretty sure he never posted here but damn I miss RON PAUL!

I heard that he occasionally stops by and post under a secret identity. I heard the name he uses is oyarde, danke, or something like that.

[Danke]

I am pretty sure he never posted here but damn I miss RON PAUL!

He only made one post that I'm aware of:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...egates-Abstain

[Bryan]

He only made one post that I'm aware of:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...egates-Abstain

Wow, that shouldn't have been an approved account. Had to change it.

[Danke]

Wow, that shouldn't have been an approved account. Had to change it.

Party pooper.

[Danke]

[William Tell]

Does Jennifer go to Walmarx parties?

[Danke]

Does Jennifer go to Walmarx parties?

i doubt Bryan will respond.

[Origanalist]

Does Jennifer go to Walmarx parties?

[ChristianAnarchist]

He only made one post that I'm aware of:

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...egates-Abstain

Why do you say that was Ron Paul, or are you kidding...

[jmdrake]

What about JM Drake ?

I took a break after my mom's twin sister died. Then I realized how much more peaceful my life was. I'm going to try and not argue with stupid people this time around.

[tod evans]

I took a break after my mom's twin sister died. Then I realized how much more peaceful my life was. I'm going to try and not argue with stupid people this time around.

Good luck with that!

Made me chuckle.

[Danke]

I took a break after my mom's twin sister died. Then I realized how much more peaceful my life was. I'm going to try and not argue with stupid people this time around.

Is talking to yourself a sign of mental illness? An expert delivers her verdict:

http://theconversation.com/is-talkin...-verdict-77058

[jmdrake]

Is talking to yourself a sign of mental illness? An expert delivers her verdict:

http://theconversation.com/is-talkin...-verdict-77058

LOL. I tell you what. I never argue with myself. How about you?

[helmuth_hubener]

I never argue with myself. How about you?

Welcome back, Drake. I do.
That's how I think, so I do.

[RJB]

Sometimes myself is the only person I feel I can trust to talk to. Other times, not so much. I am thinking of starting a forum and only allowing only my sock puppets to discuss issues.

[oyarde]

Why do you say that was Ron Paul, or are you kidding...

Of course it was Ron Paul . I bet Bryan bans him though.

[oyarde]

I am pretty sure the local police here would claim those bottom three pics violate local obscenity ordinances , even if they were just making it up everybody would probably play along .

[oyarde]

I heard that he occasionally stops by and post under a secret identity. I heard the name he uses is oyarde, danke, or something like that.

I wonder what user name Massie has .

[RJB]

I wonder what user name Massie has .

Eduardo?

[helmuth_hubener]

Interesting theory. Problem is, it doesn't hold water. Not a drop.

Trolls, so far as the definition goes, were here from the beginning. They have been a constant feature of the site. The forum rose with trolls around, peaked with trolls around, slid with trolls around. People liked having the trolls around. People used them for target practice, so their arguments would be sharp enough to use on the people they ran into elsewhere. Trolls were not what changed. Something did change, but that wasn't it. So, obviously, if the forum changed, if its fortunes changed, and trolls were a constant, there must be another, better explanation.

There is a car magazine called Car and Driver. In the 1980s it was exceptionally popular. It had some very good writers at that time. Some were extremely well versed in engineering. Some were very colorful and prosaic writers in the Tom McCahill tradition. The writers of this very successful magazine formed cliques along those very lines. The engineers banded together against what they perceived as the 'wine and cheese faction'. And they eventually drove them out, at which time they founded Automobile magazine. But Automobile never achieved the popularity of Car and Driver. What's more, Car and Driver never again achieved its old popularity, either. The gearheads and the wine and cheese set may have resented each other and had trouble getting along, but their readers wanted both. They wanted to have the engineering of the new cars explained to them as though they were intelligent adults, but they wanted the more amusing banter and colorful prose too. They appreciated the fact that, with two factions fighting for the limited space in the magazine, only the very best writing from both factions made the cut. No page of that magazine wasted your time; it was worth reading from cover to cover. The audience was complex and sophisticated, and had enough sides to their personalities to appreciate both factions more than the factions appreciated each other.

The Establishment loves to divide and conquer. They tried and failed to do it to us--they tried and failed to distract us into supporting the lesser of their hand-selected evils--through two election cycles. But they are nothing if not persistent. After all, they basically have all the power in the world to lose. And this last time they divided and conquered us--or if they didn't, you can never tell it by looking at this forum.

They turned members into trolls. They divided us so adroitly we couldn't tell members from trolls. Which freedom-loving members were the trolls became a subject of serious contention.

How did they do it? Did they fool us with their 24/7 news cycle proclaiming every minute of every day that Trump the Billionaire Celebrity of the Deep State Media was anti-establishment? Did they do it by throwing us a chicken bone or two, like the end of the TPP? Did they just send better trolls? Or did Bryan lack the good sense that Josh had, and take sides where Josh never did?

Does it matter? Car and Driver probably did finally figure out how they screwed the pooch. But it was too late to keep their readers. They were never able to fix it.

Once upon a time the Powers that Be made an aisle. And they drew it down the middle of the country, and used it to divide the people against themselves. And the powerful gained, and the people, being divided, fell, and suffered.

Then one day, a guy named Ron Paul drew people from both sides of that aisle. And the people from both sides of that aisle learned they had less to fear from their fellow citizens from across that aisle than they did from the powers that be. And it was promising, and it looked like a lot of good could come from it.

Then the Powers that Be fixed their aisle, and the people stopped talking to each other again. And they went back to suffering, and the Powers that Be lived happily ever after.

This post is full of Epic Win.
Let's Make RPF Great Again!

[William Tell]

I worry about Intoxiklown.

He's back.

[Anti Federalist]

JK/SEA

[Anti Federalist]

JFKIII

[Anti Federalist]

Kludge