When I first read your posts all those many years ago describing how you had come up with an idea that you believed would force BigMoney out of our political campaigns, I was intrigued. And while I kept having trouble understanding how you expected to achieve the goals you kept claiming were possible based on nothing but hopeful dreams, I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt. “Voucher Vendetta”, or whatever you were specifically calling it, from an organizational stand point, seemed to have lots of areas that set off red flags that would likely prevent your idea from ever taking shape. I should have realized that you were not going to be very receptive to any criticism as you were extremely defensive when people suggested that the name of your dream movement might not be the best for getting people to join you as it made no sense to them — even after you explained what it meant. Despite your oddly overboard love of that name, I still admired your desire to be a catalyst for change and I wanted to assist you if I could. But when I looked at your website, I saw a large number of things that I recognized would be pitfalls for any non-profit movement. I took the time to list these areas and explained why they were areas that would hurt your organization from being taken seriously out of a desire to help.

And I was not the only person who tried to offer you assistance based on our own expertise and insight by pointing out areas that we thought were questionable — like claiming to be a “non-profit Organization” without bothering to show any evidence that you’d ever filed for tax-exempt status or your lack of having a board of directors. You responded to any criticism or question about best practices with hostility and took offense that we could not see the genius to your ideas. You discounted our experience working in areas that you openly admit to having no experience in, and dismissed any suggestions we offered as being the result of our inability to recognize your vision’s greatness.

We’ve asked simple questions that you responded to with rhetoric and babbling in an obvious attempt to not address the subject matter. From that point on, anytime we try to get you to actually address the question we posed, you act as if you have adequately answered it in the past.

You fail to realize that just about everyone here has attempted to understand how OneDumbPlan could work, and we have all come back with the clear understanding that it cannot work as you have set it up. You have no desire to work on this project to make it better — it’s perfect as is! We tried to help you in good faith and you tell us that we are wrong to point out OneDumbPlan’s faults and then attack our intelligence for not accepting your claims without any supporting evidence. You simply want people to praise your idea and to ignore how the world really works.

I watched the first evening of the Joe Biden Infomercial yesterday. On the whole the Dems pulled off this brave new world of "virtual convention" fairly well.

Under the circumstances, I also thought they did a pretty good job.

Production values were top drawer and the speakers did okay without the crowd feedback. In fact, I enjoyed hearing each speech without the constant interruption of kabuki theater live applause.

It just zipped right along too, which sure made the speeches "pop" versus the constant long interruptions that make them seem more disjointed. I really think Bernie Sanders gave a great speech last night.

I was reminded why a lot of Dems are in love with Michelle Obama as she gave what turned out to be my favorite speech of the evening. That Gal has political chops, a-yup.

I know, right; she's definitely good at speechifying! She's brutally good at the pomp and circumstance required for politics even though she claims she hates it; she is a master debater/slasher. It is what it is. ;)

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/08/18/democratic-convention-day-one-we-the-people/

Check it out!

:-)

Getting ready for the second night now...

-CW

Coolness.

76 DAYS * 05 HOURS * 12 MINUTES

or, you know, a story in a store or a store load of stories to tell or ... :)

We should definitely schedule it! Make them tell us everything, EM. Handle it. ;)

And your entire point is trolling nonsense.

No it isn't. You can't refute it so you label it and dismiss it; it's your standard repetitive modus operandi.

The only thing you got right is that I did not specifically direct my comment to CW.

Incorrect, as per your usual. I got a lot of other things right:

* CW is definitely ignoring you; he said he was. If he wasn't, you wouldn't still be trolling him with the same shit over and over.

* CW definitely banned you.

* Somebody asking you to "butt out" is not the equivalent of somebody "telling" you to "butt out."

* Lots of other things I "got right," but you get the general idea.

But you have often butted in on the comments that I did specifically direct to CW which is okay to do because all comments are fair game for all commenters.

I do not believe I have "often butted in" on comments that you specifically addressed to CW. If I have done it so often as you claim, then you won't mind proving it, right? Except that your standard modus operandi is to frequently make fantasyland claims for which you have no proof whatsoever and then refuse to provide it when asked by MtnCaddy, JL, Russ, TS or pretty much anyone else on the forum. You then hurl out some kind of insult about "reset" BS, blah, blah, blah... same routine over and over... lather, rinse, repeat... all part of your regular standard drivel and spew shtick that we're ALL way beyond getting tired of (props to CW).

I do feel for you though. With Michale on hiatus it must be very frustrating got you when I am all that is left for you spew your nonsense about and I am not cooperating by getting drawn into a point by point back and forth with your repetitive trolling reset comments and lies and am mostly just pointing out that you are doing it.

"I am all that is left" *laughs* Nice try, Sigmund, but I was attempting to speak with another person here when you so rudely interrupted with your standard drivel and spew troll routine; this revisionist history bullshit of yours is freaking hysterical. If you think you are all that is left on this forum, then you might want to curtail your monomania for just a scintilla of a second and "clue in" to facts and reality... not something you're used to, for sure. Contrary to your typical fantasyland where unicorns fart rainbows and pixies frolic in the meadow purity test, I happened to have been attempting to speak to someone else when you decided to butt in and troll me. As such, you aren't remotely "all that is left"! There are many other posters on this forum, yet you want to spew the nonsensical claim that you are all that is left! I can't stop. *paroxysms of laughter*

Additionally, you can mount your sanctimonious purity high horse until the cows come home, and you may claim that you're rubber and I'm glue (props to JFC) and you're not getting drawn into whatever, but you seem pretty damn drawn in from what I can see and to anybody else with two brain cells to rub together because there are definitely other people here besides you!

I do feel for you though. With Michale on hiatus it must be very frustrating got you when I am all that is left for you spew your nonsense about and I am not cooperating by getting drawn into a point by point back and forth with your repetitive trolling reset comments and lies and am mostly just pointing out that you are doing it.

~ Don Harris

^^Discussing trolls, Don Harris confesses to being "all that is left."^^

So to recap: While I'm quite sure Don isn't setting out to keep making my point for me over and over in repetitive fashion, it appears that he cannot seem to stop himself from doing it. :)

Wow, GT and TS. Very coolness. :)

Indeed! I'm sure you guys have a store or two to share ...

I am not the board troll- you are.

Opinions are like board trolls.

You can once again post CW's comment calling me a troll but that does not mean it is true.

Okay, if you insist:

[54] Chris Weigant wrote:

Don Harris [49] -

Yes. You are a troll. Deal with it.

As for your language, you are pushing me very very close to banning the first person ever from my site. You have been warned, and this is your final warning.

If ignoring you doesn't work, then banning you just might. Address the issues in the articles or the comments to those articles, and quit with your own monomania, because nobody's listening. Instead, you are just trolling.

And we're ALL way beyond getting tired of it.

Is that clear enough?

-CW

[Thursday, April 2nd, 2020 at 16:05 UTC]

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/04/01/april-is-the-cruelest-month/#comment-156925

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There you go, Don.

I responded to CW's post explaining why he was wrong and he did not offer any counter argument. So that quote is nonsense.

He is ignoring you because you're a troll, and he explained it clearly in the comment you begged me to repost above. He banned you and gave you a warning to stop being a troll so I'm pretty sure he meant it whether or not he has provided a written counterargument since you were definitely banned.

He's right about your monomania and your trolling, of course, and we're ALL way beyond getting tired of it.

All comments here are fair game to any commenter.

"Fair game"? I'll take "Things a Board Troll Would Claim" for $500, Alex.

You did not hesitate to butt in to my comment to CW.

You did not address your comment to CW; you just made a general comment. My comment was actually addressed to "C. R. Stucki." See the difference? I wanted to tease him and make sure he was doing okay. I don't really think he's a bona fide troll like you; I'm sure that news will upset him since he tries so hard to be a menace when he occasionally posts. ;)

Why should I have to butt out in your comment Teasing/trolling CRS?

See the author's comment addressed to you in the blockquote above for an explanation of why you should not troll. In addition, you should only stop trolling comments not addressed to you unless you enjoy being referred to as a/the "board troll."

Note the difference. You are telling me to butt out but I do not care if you butt in.

Yes, Don, your repetitive trolling just screams: "I do not care." /sarcasm off

Also, somebody asking: "Why don't you butt out?" isn't the equivalent of "telling" you to "butt out," but what would the Don Harris troll have to talk about without his constant and repetitive false equivalency shtick? Not a whole lot, it seems.

Your butting in only exposes you as a troll.

I agree that your butting in only exposes you as a troll. Why don't you stop trolling? That was indeed my entire point. :)

I hope you're taking care of yourself, mountain man. :)

Not true. Do you claim that if you belong Republican party, you're a 'Republic'??

I made/make no such claim.

Do you claim if you belong to the Libertarian party, you're a 'libertar'??

No.

Do you claim if you belong to the Socialist party, you're a 'social'???

No.

I claim that, for you, question marks are like potato chips... in that one is never enough.

Of course not, so why do you claim it you belong to the Democratic party, you're not a 'Democratic'???

I don't belong to the Democratic Party so I make no such claim, but I do know that a member of the Democratic Party is referred to as a "Democrat." It's a proper noun, Stucki, so you must use it properly. ;)

I realize that you are only marginally literate, but don't try to justify that situation by claiming that it's OK because everybody else is also only marginally illiterate!

I made/make no such claim, right??? :)

I was reminded why a lot of Dems are in love with Michelle Obama as she gave what turned out to be my favorite speech of the evening. That Gal has political chops, a-yup.

Psychoanalysis is easy when analyzing an anal psycho.

Said the psychotic board troll. So here's the thing, Don. I was teasing Stucki. Why don't you butt out?

Not true. Do you claim that if you belong Republican party, you're a 'Republic'?? Do you claim if you belong to the Libertarian party, you're a 'libertar'?? Do you claim if you belong to the Socialist party, you're a 'social'???

Of course not, so why do you claim it you belong to the Democratic party, you're not a 'Democratic'???

I realize that you are only marginally literate, but don't try to justify that situation by claiming that it's OK because everybody else is also only marginally illiterate!

A bit a Freudian slip there admitting that you don't know why you invent stuff in your comments.

Vass ziss? Zo you zink psychoanalyziss is zomesing performed via zee Internets? Must be zuffering from Dropped on Head Syndrome az a childt und complikations of Oedipal Complex and Peniz Envy, nicht wahr?

The "Democratics" is a political Party that only exists in your imagination. I am wondering why trolls have the propensity to invent shit.

I was subcontracted to The Grateful Dead during the summer of 1974. One hr. set-up, 2 hr. breakdown & repack. Got 200 bucks and a B class backstage pass with food & other goodies for my trouble. Performance quality varied greatly from day to day - there was a lot friction within the band at the time.

Come to think of it... I still have a couple of set lists and guitar picks.

Back in '02 they did the 40 Licks Tour, were T.O.A.S.T... Tour Of Arenas Stadiums Theaters.

Pretty much every city they went to they would play an arena or stadium and then do a small venue theater...

I can honestly say the only thing better than seeing the Stones in concert, is getting paid to watch them in concert.

I think I even have my crew shirts still, and definitely my tour jacket.

They even did a documentary on it... good watch.

And, just as promptly, checked off the list! Woo Hoo! Dropped a few pounds in the process, of course. Just can't sit still.

I didn't know the Stones played so many small venues. It gives me hope.

The Centre in the Square would be perfect for them. Best acoustics in North America. Heck, Glen Campbell was here to tape his 25th Anniversary as a rhinestone cowboy with Anne Murry as guest, so ...

Loved, loved, loved Like A Rolling Stone!!!

Those aren't charts, Don... just more of your invented drivel and spew signifying absolutely nothing. :)

Wow. You're all in. I can't imagine that you'll be disappointed with any of it. I was watching one of their concert films on AXSTV this afternoon. Totally Stripped. Had never seen it.

So Poor Donald is struggling in numerous states that the GOP normally doesn't generally have to give a second thought to. Sure explains why he is acting like a cornered hyena.