Comments are once again closed for Monday’s column. With decades of studying combined arms warfare and scores of hours research into the Russo-Ukrainian Conflict I have things to contribute to this topic.

Congrats again on meeting another fund-raising goal and all the very best in 2023 to you and your excellent blog!

With love,
LizM

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and advance congratulations on another successful fund-raising drive!

Just to let you know, I posted my little contribution to you on Wednesday Dec 21st by way of Canada Post. I didn't pay to have it tracked so let me know when you get it - hopefully before the end of the year ...

Take good care!
LizM

I wrote you using an address from 2016. Hope it reaches you.

Ken

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Do ya'all!?? I mean, yea.. I DO have a very low opinion of some of ya'all.. But if ya'all ACTUALLY buy into the crap that electing Republicans will result in arrest and death of Democrat children?? Well, apparently my opinion isn't nearly low enough.. :^/

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2022/11/04/friday-talking-points-get-out-and-vote/#comment-200386

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He hates Democrats; we already get that. Enough of the damn trolling already. These personal attacks are neither humorous nor on topic.

"Our Affliated Sites."

Do you mean "Our Affiliated Sites"?
Regards,
Andy Gaus

In your defense, it should be said that the typeface used for that bar is one that mashes together certain letter combinations such as "ffi" and "ffl", making it easy to suppose that maybe there is an "i" hiding under the second "f". But even looking close, I don't see that there is. It looks to be a mashed-together "ffl". What you need is a mashed-together "ffi" followed by an "l". By the way, the technical term for a mashed-together letter sequence is a "ligature," like AEsop's fables or OEdipus Rex.

A week ago I was feeling a little hopeful about your site, but no longer. I was ready to send you a $200 donation, but no longer.

I see no appreciable difference. I consider the massive increase in Republican lies, conspiracy theories and hate speech to be a real problem. I'm not wiling to fund a site that tolerates it on the level that you do. There's more malignant troll slime on your site than anything else including your work.

I stopped visiting your site for a while. When I came back, I actually commented about it being a ghost town and maybe it wasn't a good idea to let trolls run amok. Then it came back worse than ever. I wish there were others to join in conversations, but that will NEVER be possible with that troll poisoning your comment threads with massive, ugly spams and the inevitable flame wars.

Good luck to you. I'll probably just drift away again. This joint just isn't much fun with it around.

JFC

Please either:

(1) Stop the troll from posting and reposting the same lying bullshit over and over and over ad nauseam for multiple days on end and the posting of the endless off-topic trolling of other commenters trying to discuss your columns.

or

(2) Let us know your intention to do nothing about it.

I reiterate: Please.

It's impossible to have a serious discussion with anyone else while an alleged adult 60-year-old retarded man-baby is allowed to hurl repetitive cut-and-pasted insults toward other posters on an endless loop while also shitting all over the board unabated with off-topic posts lifted from other articles and copied and pasted in their entirely spanning multiple comment boxes on your website.

Enough.

Please either:

(1) Stop the troll from posting and reposting the same lying bullshit over and over and over ad nauseam for multiple days on end and the posting of the endless off-topic trolling of other commenters trying to discuss your columns.

or

(2) Let us know your intention to do nothing about it.

I reiterate: Please.

It's impossible to have a serious discussion with anyone else while an alleged adult 60-year-old retarded man-baby is allowed to hurl repetitive cut-and-pasted insults toward other posters on an endless loop while also shitting all over the board unabated with off-topic posts lifted from other articles and copied and pasted in their entirely spanning multiple comment boxes on your website.

Enough.

I respectfully request a good reason for subsidizing this endless posting of entire articles and repetitive troll shit that has nothing to do with the subject of your blog posts.

Otherwise, sincerely hope you are well.

https://imgflip.com/memetemplate/272192101/Trump-Jail-Pumpkin

I am so sorry for not sending you my contribution to the last fundraising drive. Believe it or not, I misplaced the money order and I just found it the other day, mixed in with my 2021 tax papers. I am so unorganized these days!!! Anyway, I will send it off to you tomorrow or Monday of next week.

I will try to never let that happen again!

Your friend, always,
Elizabeth

This isn't a discussion or an exchange of views or even different opinions on your political observations (which I personally check every day to feel grounded and informed). It is demagoguery, plain and simple, and it is exhausting.

Please give us a break. Maybe limit the number of responses per day. Maybe ban him. Just please give us some breathing space to consider what you write for us. My index finger is cramping from having to scroll past this troll, searching for reasonable discourse.

Why is this mother effing troll allowed to post the same shit over and over and over? It's beyond belief.

Do something about this. He keeps claiming you're dead, and it's not effing funny. Do something.

The House January 6th Select Committee Hearings [Episode 7]

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2022/07/12/the-house-january-6th-select-committee-hearings-episode-7/

Barry Ritholtz, my second favorite blogger after yourself, ended his comments section. But before doing so, he published what i consider the gold standard in comment policy pages. I hope you see fit to read it in its entirety, in the hopes that it helps your own comments section avoid the same fate.

https://ritholtz.com/comment-policy/

Best,

JL

It was bound to happen.

I was eventually going to make a mistake with crazy unreasonable nasty troll.

If only there was an acronym I could use to make it easier. :D
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CW

I don't get it, CW. Don continues to hurl out insults in terms he was asked to stop using.

Your response? Nonexistent.

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2022/04/25/utah-democrats-to-try-a-political-experiment/#comment-190357

Filthy mouth Don right back at it.

I am developing a swollen index finger scrolling down -- and down and down -- to bypass his blather. I have, on a daily basis, enjoyed your columns and observations for more than six years now, and even infrequently joined the conversation myself.

But I can't take it anymore.

You don't have to ban him -- he has his freedom of speech and occasionally, very occasionally, has a point -- but please do something to allow breathing room for the rest of us. Please.

Ericksor

"Biden could have stood strongly (as he had pledged to do) for the rights of people working for him not to be bullied while doing their jobs. Instead, he wound up looking detached and weak."
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Nice. Now explain how this is any different than Chris Weigant allowing a troll to dominate his comments section and thereby stifle all pertinent conversation between those who would like to discuss the actual column? Detached and weak? Who was it who set the rules and refuses to enforce them?

I know, I know.

I've been a slacker about supporting your work since I joined the peanut gallery, 2 or 3 years ago. JSYK it's because I've been out of work for some time, with an impending spinal fusion surgery on my neck. I'll be in a neck bravmce 24/7 for two months and undoubtedly the future butt of jokes in my little town of 500. And I wouldn't have a roof over my head head if not for our good old Socialist Dystopian Veterans Administration.

But help is on the way! If just some of my fiendish plans work I have already budgeted some decent money for you.

I don't think Michale showing up has helped the cause, but who knows? Maybe he's your biggest benefactor even though he's welching on the bets he lost. Whatever.

I posted this today and I'm proud of it because my discovery really works!

"**Public Service Announcement**

AHA!

I JUST STUMBLED ACROSS a way to enjoy the Weigantia that I love and even get enjoyment (rather than annoyance) out of the delusional self-centered spam from our twin trolls.

I SIMPLY skip through their posts -- they often make it so easy with their boldified ALL CAPS...

READ everyone else, natch.

While Weigantians I disagree with like C.R. Stucki are serious these clowns plainly are not.

SO when you get suckered into giving them attention, yes, I'll have to read whatever you quote but instantly followed by your (hopefully) gratifying body slam. I think of it as a highlight reel that skips all but the most spankable lowlights...much more efficient AND enjoyable!

SO BY ALL MEANS let 'em have it! When I feel the need to channel my inner Pro Wrestling Commentator I promise to bestow BEST BODY SLAM OF THE DAY/WEEK/MONTH awards. Make them good...and with hard work and a little luck any one of you boys and girls could end up The Best Body Slammer in ALL of the Kingdom! Bwahahahaha!!!

Oh KICK where art Thou?
I miss your work here in Weigantia*sigh*"

NNTR until next year (if you even do reply.) FYI you're my first stop most mornings (reading about politics is close to a full time gig -- I love it THAT much) and I've really enjoyed this Trump-era death march with you and the crew. It's been a grind and I sense exhaustion here lately.

Best Regards,

T.M. Stratelak

'Nowadays, Chris provides advice to Democratic officeholders on a weekly basis, with his renowned "Friday Talking Points" advice column on how Democrats really should frame things positively; as well as his monthly wrapups of President Barack Obama's job approval poll ratings over at "ObamaPollWatch.com".'

As I'm sure you know, the last part is kind of out of date, with the link to the OPW.com being quite dead. Are you now doing a BidenPollWatch column??

Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday season,

John Magoun
Stamford, CT

I won't post this on the site, and I'll cut to the chase. So, Don Harris and his nonstop advertisements that continue unabated wherein you and your commenters are insulted near daily wherein supporting you means supporting this redundant crap... nonstop repetitive advertisements for One Demand by name...

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/11/02/not-bad-for-half-a-loaf/#comment-181386

spamming, trolling where Harris continually refers to your commenters and yourself in disparaging and even vulgar terms, insinuating we're racist or much worse... never stops.

While I suspect you just ignore the near daily advertisements and insults... it seems it's not without ignoring the rest of us.

You do not know the difference between reality and what you want to believe.

I was not acting like an idiot. Kick was acting like a cunt and did much more than just call me an idiot or needling for several weeks before I responded after warning Kick that would respond if she did not stop.

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/07/16/friday-talking-points-gop-defunded-the-tax-police/#comment-179150

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Don Harris continues in his delusion and whining repetitive crusade against the entire forum. Meanwhile, I am dealing with 2 deaths in my family, one which requires Trustee duties on my part, so I haven't been able to post all that much lately but am still around and reading when I can and always playing catchup. I have now caught up to where I am almost back even, and I have a question:

Why is Don Harris still allowed to disparage me or any commenter in these terms on multiple repetitive occasions? Imagine being away and doing your best to keep up and then returning to this repetitive troll still using these disparaging terms after all this time.

To be honest with you, at this point it's not like it's even coming from Don Harris anymore because you are the one allowing it to go on repetitively; it feels like it's coming directly from you at this point.

Hope you and your family are well.

This is a re-send of a note I just sent, because I switched to https when I got here and upon pressing send was informed that I needed to be logged in to send you a note. Good one; I am.

Are you aware that though one can come to your site with https, every last link one might click on to navigate within the site still uses http? Sort of obviates the protection of an https connection.

I don't know if this is easy to update, but one place you might start is with whatever generates the permalinks. At least new things would then be up-to-date.

I'm not really expecting a response, but if you are so inclined, you need to know that my email isn't the one I originally registered with. I moved about two years ago and no longer have access to that ISP. I found that updating my email here made it impossible to post, so I reverted to the dead email. Just an FYI.

I guess if this also fails, I'm not allowed to write to you. Ah, well, one must sometimes choose between posting and sending private notes.

Thanks for all you do,
Martha
MJ.Selig@gmail.com

Sorry to bother you about this but I'm still not sure if you ever received my pledge ($100 US Money Order) for last year. I sent it out December 31st but I didn't pay the extra $40 to track it!

I sure hope you received it!

LizM

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[23] Don Harris wrote:

Liz (2)-
Why the sad face about FTP?

CW just said you will be getting FTP every day until the impeachment is done.

[ Permalink ] [ Tuesday, February 9th, 2021 at 05:04 ]
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[24] Elizabeth Miller wrote:

So, a party every night, then!

[ Permalink ] [ Tuesday, February 9th, 2021 at 05:35 ]

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[25] Don Harris wrote:

Only if you consider date rape a party.

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2021/02/08/impeachment-preview/#comment-174948

I can't.

[ Permalink ] [ Thursday, January 7th, 2021 at 19:31 ]

You can delete that one, please. I deleted the accidental duplicated extra link and posted in 120. Thank you.

Here is a short note just to let you know that I mailed out my pledge today but I didn't pay the extra for expedited/trackable service ... the exchange rate was too ridiculously high on the pledge itself, so ... anyway, it'll be coming to you through regular mail, sometime this century, I hope. Heh. Seriously, though, let me know when you get it.

In the meantime, take very good care at all times and stay safe!

Love,
LizM

TheStig

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/08/31/joe-bidens-pittsburgh-speech/#comment-168357

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/08/25/uplifting-could-have-fooled-me/#comment-168104

I would like to propose an alternative fundraiser. Your operation is a small one. Exactly the kind of thing we're supposed to spend our $1,200 pandemic payments on. Start a thermometer and I'll even give you a chunk of mine before they even appropriate the money because, like you said, we know that they will. Get your car fixed.

JFC

Moose poop. He's doesn't wish to discuss politics. His every post is a monotonous group insult.

So to recap: He insults over and over while insisting on being given a "safe space" where he can troll and post entire lifted articles as he pleases. Bollocks.

CW's concern is that he be prosecuted for me posting other people's commentaries..

I have secured permission from that web site to reprint their articles in full here..

That addresses CW's concern..

This is not your blog to police..

So shut the fuck up, cunt...

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/07/24/friday-talking-points-trump-forced-to-reverse-course/#comment-165357

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Seriously? Who needs this?

I see the racist Democrat Party lost one of their top race-baiting racist scumbags recently...

One less racist in the world..

That's a good thing..

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/07/17/ftp582/#comment-164146

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I'll give you one guess who posted this crap. Can you please erase this garbage off the board? It's offensive and total unnecessary.

Please advise in today's peanut gallery.

-MtnCaddy

You might have missed this page:

https://electoral-vote.com/evp2020/Pres/ec_graph-2020.html

Which is linked to "Electoral Vote Graphs". It has the same information as your first graph, but for the entire year.

It's sister graph is

https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2020/Senate/sen_graph-2020.html

which is "Control of the Senate" on the Senate page

Andy Tanenbaum

If you have a moment, please delete comment number 40 from the comments on your latest piece or, at the very least, change it to conform with the corrected version in comment number 41.

This is pretty urgent!

Thanks,
Liz

Perhaps if we all joined in the practice, it would become obvious how intolerable it was. Excellent idea!

I would wager most of your readers don't come here to read entire lifted articles from other websites. The board troll continues to publish entire articles on your website even though you've asked him repeatedly to stop doing it.

It's illegal. I asked him to stop doing it, and he claims I'm the only one who's asked.

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/06/08/will-we-know-who-won-on-election-night/#comment-160345

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2020/05/07/hit-trump-back-on-china/#comment-158918

I liked your Thursday column. You got the impact of events right, but the timing of this crisis is what is astonishing in the shift of daily routines. Everything has happened so fast - with no plans or leadership from the top - and the adjustments are being made on a daily basis. State governors are playing an important role in decisions directly being felt in their states and emphasizing the lack of universal cooperation as the wave of infections goes from large cities to more remote areas where there are almost no medical resources. Hopefully, this will get through to enough people to reconsider their support of a government that doesn't have a clue as to how to support its citizens.

I don't know if you noticed, but Worldmeter computes the percentage of deaths among infected patients with respect to closed cases with 2 possible outcomes for each patient:

Case A: the patient recovers and goes home.
Case B: the patient dies.

In population biology terms, they are measuring the fate of a cohort of patients going into hospital on the same day and who either die in hospital or are discharged alive at some point in the future. The ratio is an estimate of mortality for one cohort of infected patients associated with one day.

Many, if not most news outlets and commentators seem to compute the death rate by simply dividing the number of deaths to date by the number of patients who have been infected to date. The problem with this approach is that infection doubling time is much shorter (2 days) than average time it takes to die in hospital (closer to a week). This dilutes the cumulative death rate with a bigger and bigger number of infected recruits who haven't had enough time to die yet.

Worldview currently estimates the probability of death at 15%, while the more naive approach is currently about 5% or even less. Both approaches will tend to converge as the epidemic ends, but we are hell of a long way from that it would seem. You can guess which analysis Trump will cite as he attempts to revive the economy.

but that said, i'd say our friend don shows many of the diagnostic criteria for NPD.

this site is a better read and possibly more up to date than the mayo site:

https://www.psycom.net/personality-disorders/narcissistic/

https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/news/china/article/3052721/wuhan-killer/index.html?src=pm

I am thinking about you and my other friend in California a lot during these worrisome times.

We are only up to 14 cases here in Kitchener (mostly due to travel, 2 community spread), last time I checked. I think the seriousness with which everyone is taking the guidelines and warnings came into place at a good time for us. But, grocery shelves are still empty for certain items.

Anyway, I just wanted to check in through email - the best way for the time being and, probably, beyond - if you know what I mean and I'm sure that you do. :)

All the very best to you and your family - take very, very good care!

Still, your number one fan. :)

1: Bernie's policies aren't as popular with Democrats as left leaning Democrats would like to think.

2: Bernie's self branding as Democratic Socialist was toxic to many Democrats.

3: Bernie surrounded himself with toxic people.

https://dailyblocks.com/r/PoliticalVideos/comments/fh6ube/why_bernie_lost_david_pakman_show/

Corona has gone pandemic with a mortality rate higher than the Spanish Flu.

The markets have tanked and tanked and tanked yet sgain.

I think Trump may be going a bit cray-cray just now. At some point before Election Day does Don throw in the towel and hand the reality show over to his VEEP - with a handshake on a blanket pardon? A quick to North Korea to slap his name on that empty tower of a hotel.

Well, it's fun to dream.

Nice prognostication on your part this year.

I've just figured out why I haven't been able to post for some time and you haven't answered my emails.

I've moved and had to give up the email I had when I registered my account. The old email account is no longer valid, but I've changed it back to that in my profile and now I can post.

If you only needed my account at registration to prove I'm a person, I'm OK with leaving it as is. If you want your bookkeeping to be up to date, my email is now MJ.Selig@gmail.com.

The favor of a response is appreciated at the above email address. That will close the loop for me and I'll know I can be in touch.

Thanks,
Martha

If you need a headline you could do worse than:

ORPHAN JOE BIDEN INHERITS BLOOMBERG FORTUNE

Oh that's right.. Yer a pussy Democrat who is afraid of guns.."
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Daddy's Little Knob-gobbler... Any daddy will do for you...

I am sorry your father touched you in all the wrong places... But that doesn't mean you have to do the same to your own kids..

Like I said, Victoria.. Your best choice would be just to off yourself...
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As far as you leaving?? When Trump win's re-election in a landslide and yer fellow Dumbocrats lose the House..

You'll be gone from here.. :D
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I can just see the tears running down your face when you think of how pathetic and useless your life is.. That everyone you know just wants you to end your life and quit being a burden to them..

It would be nice to discuss political issues in the comments section versus the regularly invented bullshit he's constantly spewing at anyone who isn't "loyal to a man"... Donald Trump.

Enough already, Chris... do something.

The most recent Dem Debate pulled in about 7 million voters. I wasn't one of them because I don't subcribe to CNN.

On other hand, I see a ton of Bloomer TV commercials every time I watch the evening news on broadcast TV...or visit the internet. I suspect the number of viewers watching the paid ads is many multiples of the debate. The ads are pretty good...or let me re-phrase that - they are well produced.

I don't think Bloomberg cares about much about the broadcast debates. He may be wrong, but I think he may be mostly right. I hope I'm wrong.

That's the fatal flaw in American Governance - Strategic Plurality rule! That and a Constitution that is often vague and set in concrete.

Trump has demonstrated that there is no need for consensus building. Divide and conquer is the best way to game the US Constitution and retain power. Especially when mass media are so cheap and so engaging to the public.

Things are going to get worse before they get a whole lot worse. Our politics is a circus and we seem to have a genuine tyrant who is testing the limits of his power.

Can't you please do something about daily deluge and regular posting of these ENTIRE articles that are broken down into multiple comment boxes but comprise entire copied articles that do nothing but litter the forum?

Please do something.

I've decided to simply not read the CW.com comments anymore. This feature is yet another victim of the Tragedy of the Commons. Any finite resource that doesn't become more costly as exploitation increases will eventually become blighted and/or go extinct.

Non-moderated comments sections are going dying all over the web. So it goes. Only the trolls seem to be crying about it. Let 'em start their own Goddamn columns....and pay the bills and meet the deadlines.

I remain a loyal reader of your columns. They are fun to read, very well written and researched and wander into corners of politics (and elsewhere) that main stream media don't choose to explore. I will continue to support you at the Christmas fund raiser. On that note - Sorry that my contribution was a bit light this year....car and multiple electronic repairs left my budget a bit tapped out in December. I think you will sympathize with that :)

Ex Stig

There is a comment on your new piece that needs to be deleted.

Also, I've learned that the first syllable of your last name is pronounced "WEE." Is the second syllable pronounced with a hard "G" as in Golf or a soft "G" (like "J") as in Gentleman?

Best Regards,

T. Michael Stratelak

P.S. My handle, MtnCaddy, is a combination of my Army nickname ("Stratelak -- rhymes with "Cadillac,") and that I've lived in the San Bernardino mountains since 1985.

This shit needs to stop already. Enough.

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/11/15/ftp551/#comment-149438

Yes, there will be blood.. That is all but certain.

And the funny thing is, one side has all the training and 98% of the guns in the nation..

The other side is afraid of guns and couldn't even fire one if their life depended on it..

So, that side?? The Trump/America hating side??

THAT side is going to be massacred..

Read this post from 10/28/2019, please. I genuinely want to ensure you understand the effect of the sheer volume of copied and pasted shit that is lifted off the lunatic fringe and deposited onto this website where we come to read your columns and not Drudge and QAnon bullshit and where we cannot post our original comments without being trolled and lies being spun/invented about our genuine posts. It's wall to wall shit, and it has an effect.

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Mike
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As usual, Victoria is spewing herself and proving how much space she gives me in her head.. :D

You're the one who's got their knickers in a twist about my post, dumbfuck, and quite obviously not the other way around. Then there's your obvious hatred and obsession with the opposition Party.

Let's talk about me some more, Mike. I don't think you've done enough whining and flailing about that simple little post of mine wherein you got your knickers in a twist. What an effing ignorant tool you are.

Phone rings... I answer... I post one simple sentence of a conversation among friends. Mike reads it and goes apeshit and starts inventing lies and gets his knickers all in an effing twist for multiple days. *laughs*

It's just too hard for Mike's brain cell to grasp how people can talk on phones.

She is SOOO easy to manipulate... :D

You're the one flailing about my little post, skippy, not the other way around. Do you need me to explain again how phones work and how people can communicate via voice and how everyone is not an obvious Internet whore like yourself and "mining the web" daily for bullshit they can spam onto another guy's forum and fill up his comments sections with the filth he lifts and copies from right-wingnut sites and foists onto that author's readers who come to read and discuss his columns and post about current events rather than whatever lunatic BS they're carrying on over at Fox, Brietbart, or whatever the conspiracy theory bullshit of the week is over on Drudge and QAnon?

Why CW allows you to fill up the comments section of his columns with your endless trails of pilfered right-wingnut copied lunatic shit is beyond me, and why you can't understand how simple telephone conversations work and how news comes from other places besides the right-wingnut places where you prostitute in order pollute CW's forum and foist that shit on others who couldn't care less what's occurring on the sick lunatic fringe is equally baffling.

It's reprehensible yet goes on regularly. Why?

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/09/30/attempted-smears-against-whistleblower-are-irrelevant/#comment-145788
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Trump supporters are well armed and well trained..

Trump/America haters are afraid of guns and the only training they have is in protesting and boycotting..

Trump/America haters will be slaughtered..

And President Trump remains in office..

The board troll is again pushing violence. Enough already.

It was treated as a minor side story, just another one of those "Trump stonewalls Congress" episodes that are become more frequent as time goes by.

Think you meant “becoming”.

Just wanted to make you aware of this.

-Russ

I've noticed that there is quite a lot of misleading information - throughout the media and in comments here - having to do with Trump's attempts to label Senator Biden as a corrupt politician.

The best way to prevent this from happening, at least in the comments sections here, would be for you to set the record straight on this issue. There are some pieces out there such as the Intercept piece but more are needed.

I am most curious about just how Hunter Biden found himself on the board of Burisma.

I understand Trump will do anything to win the next election and smearing Biden may be the biggest part of his strategy or, if it's not Biden, Trump may not need much of a strategy at all.

Anyway, I hope you'll consider looking into this and presenting the facts in one of your future columns.

All the best,
Liz

As of this reading, 23 comments out of 25 posted are by the troll -- who started off completely off topic and quickly descended into insults. Where is the balance and discussion of your good work and insight accomplished in literally minutes after the event? I noticed that the two non-troll responses were reasoned and addressed each other, totally ignoring the troll. What does this tell you?

Ericksor

I know conflict is the source of interest and excitement in any entertainment vehicle, but I have to assume, after reading your posts for years, that is not your goal in continuing this commentary.

So why not ban Michale? Others have stepped up with opposing viewpoints or quibbles, but he dominates and smothers the discussion, often with obscene comments and almost always with inaccurate or misleading "facts."

I, like others, have taken to just scrolling past his entries, looking for some semblance of conversation and debate and trying to get past the empty invective.

Just a suggestion. I've begun looking for other sites that will inform and stimulate me in the continuing political discussion, but I really like your take on current events and your analysis of what is happening.

It will be a real shame to miss out on that, but I'm close to calling it a day because of that idiot.

Ericksor

Why not give her complete charge of your badly compromised website?

Next up for me will be departing your company, no matter how sage your personal entries are.

Put some starch in your collar, please.

It's certainly not the first time he's done it and likely won't be the last, but why is Michael Worley allowed to tell other posters to kill themselves? He's the only one who does this, and he's been asked to stop by others many times.

While it's funny on one level because he can't handle the truth and wants people dead who dare to reveal the facts, it's disgusting on another level when you consider there are people in the universe who are contemplating suicide.

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/08/07/keep-the-pressure-on-mitch-mcconnell/#comment-142051

Your board troll isn't a cop. He's a liar and criminal.

Will your comment policy be kicking in soon? Perhaps a reminder, like a pop-up people have to agree to when they log in, is in order. I've just read your policy again and the only thing I haven't seen from your list is a direct threat to you.

In my opinion, hands-off is not working. Maybe some quiet enforcement might help.

Just asking for a friend.

Your writing is insightful and informative.

Her writing is aggressive and annoying to the point that I just go away.

Is this the signpost on your highway to the future?

Michele posts entry after entry, eclipsing other commentators and casting a dark shadow even over your own rhetoric.

How about limiting the number and length of posts?

Enough already!

This shit where the troll makes up fake quotes and ideas and accuses your commenters of violence needs to fucking stop already!

Do something about it, please. Enough!

BUT... if people wanted to read ENTIRE ARTICLES from the right-wingnut-o-sphere, they'd wouldn't be on your forum, they be on web pages on Earth II where facts are near nonexistent.

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/07/16/a-race-for-second-place-in-the-democratic-field/#comment-139781

Seriously, though, just letting you know that your regular readers who are genuinely attempting to discuss Democratic Party issues get tired of all the shit from the trolling trolls, the being constantly referred to as things like "America haters" and "cunts." It's simply not necessary.

Don't make me beg. :)

I'm about ready to write you off completely because your critic is dominating what reaches me.

Posting after posting, mostly in bold.

Way too much noise, frankly, and the times are too perilous to read your opinions despite the rancor you seem all too willing to tolerate.

Plenty of agitprop available elsewhere if I want to imbibe toxic crap.

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2019/05/17/ftp527/#comment-135538

https://tinyurl.com/y2lanymq

Did you know that Hulu was premiering their "Hulu Original" Catch-22 with George Clooney on May 17th... the exact same day you wrote about it? :)