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Gary T's avatar

I'm here for the same reason you are, Jeff writes good stories and I agree with his assessment of what happened. On occasions when Jeff makes a claim of a 'win' or some good news and a prediction like today "There is tremendous residual anger over how the pandemic was handled. This thing ain’t over, not by a long shot." This is clearly not true and just some pep talk language. On many occasions commenters point out that there has been no accountability and how frustrating it is to be told "just wait till (whatever)", like the Fauci hearing or some court case like Missouri v Biden then nothing happens and the GOP reps turn out looking like fools, like is happening in the Hunter Biden trial right now. Why is it ok when some people do it but not me? Even if hunter is convicted, which he won't be, it will be a slap on the wrist and he will laugh as Trump sits in jail. The gaslighting that team reality has won anything is silly.

To comment on the comments - Has anyone noticed that I am not trying to silence or censor or discourage anyone from having their point of view? I'm commenting in the comments section, are only comments you like approved? What don't you like about a realistic opinion? Is blind optimism the only thing allowed? The one thing I have faced on C&C, after commenting for years on this stack, as Kathleen's paranoid schizophrenia is showing(I'm DoD?🙄), is attempts to discourage me from participating - exclusion from the group, but just by some people, some are supportive of my view that Jeff is being unrealistic or naive. Also, just because I don't participate in the 'display' part of social media like most people I must not be real. Too bad, I agree with Kathleen that there has been no accountability and the lack of trying is frustrating.

Maybe you have seen in some of my past posts pointing out what Jeff posted about yesterday, women are the reason we face tyranny right now, most women are democrats, most democrats are women and democrats are now the party of tyranny. The reason I say that is Jeff didn't explain why that is the case. It's because women and men handle social behavior differently, women exclude people from the group if they don't agree, men fight to persuade others to agree with them. I am trying to encourage Jeff to stop with the B.S. good news when it is not warranted, as you can see, every comment I receive trying to exclude me from doing that is from a woman. Instead of trying to exclude me for commenting on my desire to hear reality maybe you could not be so offended by a brash comment and persuade your green haired, nose ringed child murderer friends to at least stop voting?

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Shellie Willmering's avatar

Personally, and fellow woman here, I like reading the comments from everyone here. It's actually some of the best reading every day. I've learned so much reading the opinions and commentary of everyone. Well, I'll admit I skip/scroll right over b2n and that other guy, and even Harold what's his name some of the time. I do appreciate everyone's honesty and points of view. I think it helps me to stay open minded and to not fall into a clique minded way of thinking. No one should be excluded from civil conversation here. Honestly, as much as I love Mr. Childer's stack every single day, it's the commentary of his subscribers (free and paid) that got me hooked. It's wonderful being a part of clean, adult conversation.

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Gary T's avatar

I agree the Jeff has the best comment section around, smart people with interesting ideas and great links!

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