america’s favorite wingnut watering hole, free republic dotcom, defenders of trump, guns, god & country—and in exactly that order—is not a monolithic entity. in my years of lurking at the enemy’s, i’ve found many to be sane and reasonable on any given topic. however, for every seemingly sensible member, there’s at least one other topic that horribly reminds us why that same person became a member in the first place.
for the most part, freeperville enjoys a substantial proportion of (at least self-proclaimed) veterans, including site founder and owner jim robinson, who makes reverence of the military a founding principle (but only as long as that same military is aimed at freeperville’s collective enemies). some years ago during obama’s tenure, a beloved birther, in a heated exchange about the court-martial of an awol army doctor who, in defiance of the kenyan imposter-in-chief, refused to deploy with his unit, almost got herself summarily drummed out of freeper corps for an almost unforgivable breach of decorum:
This makes me want to spit on the United States military. I have never been so ashamed of this country at any point in my life. To have to sit down and grovel before Lind, to try to convince her that she’s holding up 3 fingers when he knows she’s holding up 1, is reminiscent of George Orwell’s “1984”.
I can’t stand this.
today a smaller freeperville belongs to trump, thanks to a series of post-election purges.
so what are trump’s fiercest cultists saying about dear leader’s newly unearthed slurs against all aspects of military service and veterans? slurs that everyone is talking about?
that’s right.
danger danger jim robinson! thoughtcrime!
the single diary i could find on the topic is long gone now. if there were any others, they too are long gone (buried under multiple diaries fauxraging over nancy’s hair and gloating over the police killing of a suspect in the recent death of an ammosexual in portland).
on orders from the grand poobah himself.
and that’s how we know that the veteran-worshipping red-blooded patriots of freeperville know that this latest outrage hurts. they’re forbidden to even speak of it, much less defend it.