The end of CHT might be inevitable
This whole thing started in 2001 in the aftermath of 911 when Yahoo ran a story entitled "Bush Soars in the Polls". A small group of people continued to interact in that comment section, literally keeping that story on the Yahoo archives for months that went on into literal years. There were thousands of comments from this group, but eventually that story fell off the boards.
Prior to this I started a simple website where I ran one story a week with a comment thread using a third party plug in. For a short period of time I had a message board forum as sort of a backup or in case the Yahoo story went away. That was used for a short period of time in some limited capacity.
In 2004 I started the "Coldheartedtruth" blog on my own domain (coldheartedtruth.com). Many of those soars board commenters ended up interacting there.
The success of that blog exploded to the point where I was moved to a virtual personal server to account for the necessary resources. I had thousands of members (you had to sign up as a member to comment). I even had alternate blogs for other authors. I gain national notoriety for that blog and I cannot count how often my posts were shared and quoted around the blogosphere.
Eventually the blogosphere as a whole started to fade as Twitter and Facebook became a place for political discussions. Around that time I moved my blog to blogger where it has been maintained for several years.
Bottom line.. a bunch of us have been debating back and forth for over two decades and many others have joined us through the years. This has been made possible because one of us (me) kept something rolling to give everyone a place to meet up and interact.
But lately everything has become more difficult for honest open political discussions. I see people being banned and suspended for twitter comments that would have been commonplace a few years ago. Blogger has decided to install a "spam filter" that seems to just "randomly" toss posts into the spam area, requiring me to constantly check to make sure everything there gets published.
I was told by Blogger that the spam filter would learn, but it hasn't. The concept of censoring and controlling the content has become the mainstream concept for social media. Blogger appears to be no exception. Make NO MISTAKE. This is all on snowflake liberals who find words to be violence and cannot accept free speech. That is the sole reason that a filter was added here. Blogger simply had to get in on the idea of taking over and filtering content.
But all of this could be tolerated if certain people didn't have to be complete and total assholes about it. I get that it is frustrating. It is frustrating to me that blogger does not allow me any access to control or turn off the filter. But the brunt of this is a bunch of name calling and anger raged at me, when I am literally doing everything I can to keep publishing things... hoping that it will eventually learn.
Bottom line... I get complaints all the time from people suggesting that the blog is overrun with spam cut and paste and that there is very little actual debate anymore. I have to deal with people calling me names over something I cannot control. It gets extremely tiresome.
Too tiresome at times... Perhaps it is time for this whole thing to just come to an end. I think for quite a few, they have already made that decision.
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I believe you and I won't accuse you again
You me and rrb and kputz are the oldest members
I believe 🙏 you
The only reason I stayed here is to keep 💯 my mind 💯 active 💯 😌
The blogger company is trying to keep dangerous things under control.
I will simply say the following.
Although I do a lot of cutting and pasting from Taeggan Goddard, most of those postss are short paragraphs which, if someone wants to, could be gone to on the site and clicked on for more information.
It is less often that I post really long articles. And when I do, it's because I think they are especially good.
I do think that Roger should cut back some on the number and length of articles he posts. I also think FDaddy should cut back on the kind of repetitious stuff he posts.
More civility all around would be helpful.
Those things alond would make this a better place to go for information and discussion.
Move away from Trump like
Former President 0Donald Trump’s fundraising has drastically slowed in recent months, according to a report Friday from WinRed, the Republican donation processing portal.
While his name and image continue to dominate the Republican Party, his grip on voters appears to be loosening. The first half of 2022 was the first time since he left office 18 months ago that Trump’s fundraising in a six-month period failed to exceed $50 million, 0The Washington Post reported.
This decline starkly contrasts with the fundraising growth of other Republican candidates — such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Endorsed: People are doing the #BidenBikeChallenge in Delaware
LOL
GOOD NEWS FOR AMERICA?
Justice Department Steps Up January 6 Probe
July 16, 2022 at 6:57 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment
“The Justice Department is adding prosecutors and resources to its investigation into the actions of former President Donald Trump’s allies to overturn the 2020 election, as the related congressional hearings have turbocharged interest in Mr. Trump’s own role in that effort,”
the Wall Street Journal reports.
“A Justice Department team focusing on elements of the investigation beyond the violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has in recent weeks been given more personnel, office space and an expanded mandate.”
EXPANDED TO WHAT AND WHO?
Propaganda on steroids
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/bombshells-belie-big-lie-21-confirmed-illegalities-irregularities-2020
https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-steps-up-jan-6-probe-of-those-in-trumps-orbit-11657974467?mod=hp_lead_pos6
I posted it
The false-electors portion of the Justice Department’s investigation has been under way for several months. Prosecutors have issued subpoenas seeking information about the unauthorized pro-Trump electors, two people familiar with the subpoenas said.
One subpoena, issued in May to Patrick Gartland, a Georgia Republican who signed up to be a Trump elector but said he withdrew before the election, sought any communications about any efforts to serve as a Trump elector with a list of nearly 30 people, including attorneys John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani and other conservative activists, according to a copy reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Trump lost Georgia by nearly 12,000 votes.
Mr. Gartland said he spoke to federal investigators who visited his home. The subpoena and other aspects of Mr. Windom’s focus were earlier reported by the New York Times.
In Maryland, Mr. Windom developed a reputation as a standout prosecutor who scored convictions in several high-profile domestic terrorism cases. Those include that of U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Christopher Paul Hasson, a white nationalist who was sentenced in 2020 to more than 13 years in prison for plotting to kill journalists, Supreme Court justices and politicians and having a cache of illegal weapons.
The Jan. 6 committee hearings have intensified pressure on Attorney General Merrick Garland to pursue a criminal case against Mr. Trump. Mr. Garland has said the only pressure he feels is “to do the right thing.”
They are operating away from the January 6th committee
https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-steps-up-jan-6-probe-of-those-in-trumps-orbit-11657974467?mod=hp_lead_pos6
Who????
The false-electors portion of the Justice Department’s investigation has been under way for several months. Prosecutors have issued subpoenas seeking information about the unauthorized pro-Trump electors, two people familiar with the subpoenas said
6:20
THAT is an EXTREMELY important WSJ article that we all should read and take very seriously. There is a LOT IN IT.
HERE'S THE LINK AGAIN:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-steps-up-jan-6-probe-of-those-in-trumps-orbit-11657974467?mod=hp_lead_pos6
No one attacks Republicans more viciously than Donald Trump, not even top Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer!
Eventually that will come back to bite him.!
A lot of Republicans want him to dissappear
But one more thing. Axios has a very disturbing story 😳
A lawyer with deep ties to conservative groups and conspiracy theorists pushed several extreme ideas to then-President Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 elections, according to a document obtained by the New York Times.
Why it matters: In the memo, William Olson conceded that his proposed plans could be regarded as tantamount to declaring “martial law” and could be compared with Watergate.
His plans included tampering with the Justice Department and firing the acting attorney general, according to the Dec. 28 memo titled “Preserving Constitutional Order”.The document highlights how Trump was turning to extreme, far-right figures outside the White House to pursue options to cling to power, the New York Times writes. Many of his official advisers had told him those options were impossible or unlawful.
Details: The New York Times reports that Trump continued to seek extreme legal advice that went against the recommendations of the DOJ.
According to the memo, Olson suggested that the DOJ would intercede directly with the Supreme Court to reverse Trump's defeat.He also encouraged Trump to fire or reassign acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen if he would not use the DOJ to challenge the election in court. Olson acknowledged that doing so would draw negative media coverage.
Background: Olson currently represents conspiracy theorist and MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell, who was sanctioned over an election suit.
Olson also had ties to Republican super PACs and promoted a conspiracy theory that Kamala Harris is not eligible to be vice president, falsely claiming she is not a natural-born U.S. citizen.
The former President was willing to consider this.
James read this article
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/16/politics/january-6-committee-latest/index.html
They might have enough
A Wisconsin judge found that one of the state’s top Republican lawmakers “violated the public records law” and must produce documents about a partisan review of the 2020 election.
Roughly a year ago, Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) appointed former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman to act as a special counsel to review the 2020 results. Vos has indulged former President Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, which Joe Biden won in Wisconsin by more than 20,000 votes. Efforts to overturn those results failed in state and federal court. Even after an audit found no widespread fraud, Vos and Gableman moved ahead with a GOP-backed partisan review. Both Vos and Gableman have been scolded by state courts repeatedly for failing to turn over records on it.
Earlier this year in March, Dane County Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn found Vos in contempt for failing to produce records seeking information about that investigation.
On Friday, Bailey-Rihn ruled against Vos again in a lawsuit filed against him by the watchdog group American Oversight.
He's a loony too
The watchdog’s senior advisor Melanie Sloan called Vos’s actions “ironic” in light of his rhetoric.
“It’s ironic that Vos claimed an investigation was necessary to instill confidence in the election outcome, but then has done everything in his power to prevent Wisconsinites from learning the whole truth,” Sloan said in a statement. “Vos is not above the law and American Oversight is gratified to see him held accountable for violating Wisconsin’s public records law.”
American Oversight says that it has obtained hundreds of pages of records from Vos, Gableman’s office, and the Wisconsin Assembly to date from this and two other lawsuits. Expense records the group obtained showed Gableman’s travel costs, including for his trip to the symposium of Donald Trump ally, conspiracy theorist and MyPillow salesman Mike Lindell.
The thousands of dollars in travel expenses, which the watchdog group calls “questionable,” is on top of the Gableman’s salary as special counsel. The original deal called for Gableman to make $11,000 per month, but the special counsel is currently making half of that amount: $5,500 per month, American Oversight says.
The judge gave Vos up to 20 days to provide the requested records but declined to impose punitive damages. Vos did not respond to Law&Crime’s email requesting comment.
Shut it down for 3-4 weeks Alky will literally die
‘Drunk monkey with a machine gun crazy’: MSNBC panelist shocked by latest reports on Trump White House
Bob Brigham
July 16, 2022
The "unhinged" White House Dec. 18 meeting that featured three men linked to Russian spies looks even worse from a counterterrorism perspective, an analyst explained on MSNBC on Saturday.
"Four days after the electors met across the country and made Joe Biden the president elect, Donald Trump was still trying to find a way to hang on to the presidency," Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said in Tuesday's select committee public hearing.
"On Friday, December 18th, his team of outside advisers paid him a surprise visit in the White House that would quickly become the stuff of legend," Raskin continued. "The meeting has been called unhinged, not normal and the craziest meeting of the Trump presidency. The outside lawyers who'd been involved in dozens of failed lawsuits had lots of theories supporting the big lie, but no evidence to support it."
The idea of using the U.S. military to seize voting machines was discussed.
"In the wee hours of December 19th, dissatisfied with his options, Donald Trump decided to call for a large and wild crowd on Wednesday, January 6th, the day when Congress would meet to certify the electoral votes," Raskin explained. "Never before in American history had a president called for a crowd to come contest the counting of electoral votes by Congress or engaged in any effort designed to influence, delay, or obstruct the joint session of Congress in doing its work required by our Constitution and the Electoral Count Act. As we'll see, Donald Trump's 1:42 AM tweet electrified and galvanized his supporters, especially the dangerous extremists in the Oath Keepers, the Proud Boys, and other racist and white nationalist groups spoiling for a fight against the government."
Roger, who's the oldest here?
If memory serves, I signed up 19th overall.
And yet, Roger keeps up with the cut and pastes. Don't you learn anything?
Or was it 17th?
I read the article, Roger. That and the 9pm above are bizzzzzzaaaaaaarrrrr.
William Olson, a conservative lawyer who once worked in the Nixon White House and now represents MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, sent a detailed plan to President Donald Trump to help him attempt to remain in power.
The memo, which was obtained by The New York Times, was sent to Trump on December 28, 2020. A few days prior, on Christmas Day, Trump and Olson spoke on the phone, highlighting the range of right-wing figures who were in the president's ear as he sought to subvert the election results.
The memo and the call had not previously been reported.
In the memo, Olson told Trump that people around him at the White House and the Justice Department were not doing enough to contest the election results, but that the president still had options. He said one White House lawyer, who was not named, had a "shameful and dismissive attitude" that was "unacceptable."
"While the time to act was short when we spoke on Christmas Day, time is about to run out," the memo said.
"You have a duty to prevent this electoral fraud on the American People," Olson continued, adding: "It is no understatement to say that the very existence of our Constitutional Republic is slipping away."
He then outlined a five-part plan that involved Trump hiring new lawyers and leaving Mar-a-Lago to head back to the White House as soon as possible.
The third part involved Trump ordering the acting attorney general, who at the time was Jeffrey Rosen, to file a lawsuit on behalf of the US the following day. If he refused, Olson recommended Trump fire or reassign him.
"This step will likely bring on a thousand stories making an anaolgy [sic] to Saturday Night Massacre in 1973 when President Nixon ordered AG Elliot Richardson to fire Archibald [sic] Cox as a special counsel investigating Watergate," Olson wrote.
Saturday Night Massacre refers to an evening in 1973 when President Richard Nixon ordered the firing of Archibold Cox, the special prosecutor investigating Nixon's involvement in the Watergate scandal. Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus both refused to carry out the order and resigned. The third most senior Justice Department official, Solicitor General Robert Bork, followed the order and fired Cox. The episode was damning for Nixon, whose impeachment began ten days later.
Olson also said Trump's new White House counsel would identify how the powers of the presidency could be used to ensure a fair election count.
"Our little band of lawyers is working on a memorandum that explains exactly what you can do. The media will call this martial law, but it that is 'fake news' — a concept with which you are well familiar," he wrote.
No evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election has ever been uncovered and courts have dismissed dozens of lawsuits alleging fraud. This week, a group of Republican lawyers, judges, and lawmakers released a report that concluded there was no evidence of widespread fraud.
Olson currently represents MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a staunch Trump supporter who is facing several lawsuits for promoting false claims about the election.
Olson also worked as a White House intern in 1971 while Nixon was in office, according to his website, which also features a photo of him and Nixon.
Olson did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
KEEP READING
NEWS
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell compared Walmart to Nazi Germany in a rambling monologue, after it pulled his product from its stores
A few days prior, on Christmas Day, Trump and Olson spoke on the phone, highlighting the range of right-wing figures who were in the president's ear as he sought to subvert the election results.
https://www.businessinsider.com/conservative-lawyer-sent-trump-detailed-plan-to-overturn-election-2022-7?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=topbar
He entered to rapturous applause, flattered his hosts shamelessly, told them about his political vision and sold them merchandise bearing his name.
Tucker Carlson’s appearance in Iowa on Friday looked like a presidential run, walked like a presidential run and quacked like a presidential run but was most certainly not a presidential run, at least as far as anyone knows.
The Fox News host was the keynote speaker at the Family Leadership Summit, a gathering of more than 1,800 religious conservatives in Des Moines, Iowa, which every four years is the first state to have a say in picking the Republican presidential nominee.
It was at the same forum in the same state seven years ago that businessman and reality TV star Donald Trump told the audience that Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, was “not a war hero” – instantly dooming his candidacy, or so everyone thought.
James and Roger have put up 83% of the posts on this thread. The Trump obsession of two old men is ruining this blog. Even on a thread about shutting down the site becauseof whatthey're doing, they still continue their bullshit. Wtf. What assholes.
Honest, decent, truthful Rev. said...
I will simply say the following.
Although I do a lot of cutting and pasting from Taeggan Goddard, most of those postss are short paragraphs which, if someone wants to, could be gone to on the site and clicked on for more information.
It is less often that I post really long articles. And when I do, it's because I think they are especially good.
I do think that Roger should cut back some on the number and length of articles he posts. I also think FDaddy should cut back on the kind of repetitious stuff he posts.
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Good thing you are not running the blog you narcistic asshole
Personally my story goes way back under the moniker of "poll watcher" with only occasional posts/snarks. I enjoyed the on-topic threads including politics, sports and American Idol. And an occasional "open mic" which encouraged open discussion on anything. There was a poster called God Reagan, or something similar, and after a while of participation on the site (with maybe 10 or 15 active posters) a poster named jamesnewleaf showed up. He appeared quite oily but also lightweight and easily ignorable.
Around that time I changed my moniker to King Obama after his election. That greatly annoyed james and he started calling me a coward for using that moniker. He also started posting using my moniker. A change to "cowardly king obama" incorporating his charge didn't help and he continued his bullshit. With his aversion to profanity I became "James's Fucking Daddy" (along with Commander-in-Thief Biden) to overcome that since it figured he would not fraudulently post under that. Wrong. He has still continued to this day.
He also began plagiarizing from Goddard and spamming every thread to the point any thread can no longer remotely resembles the thread topic. He even spammed the exact same content on every recent thread. And repeated it on newly opened threads on any topic. A total asshole. And his actions were sadly copied by roger.
So apparently Google is now running an AI spam detector. We have all interacted with it but for the past few months for me (and apparently most of us) it has kind of disappeared into the background. But people who spam are having trouble with it. In order to avoid the spam filter, from what they have said, their "workaround" is blasting out more spam !!! Repeating the exact same posts and using different monikers with the exact same content!! It is obvious how AI has dealt with that and they are now identified as the sites spam kings by AI and apparently are very frustrated. Looks like it is working. Of course they falsely accused everyone but themselves.
As far as the future of the site my recommendation would be to consider moving to sub-stack. While that would lose the interaction you do have a real talent in the content of your posts. Perhaps you could get some help with Trende in getting a jumpstart? Maybe even get paid subscribers. You could use this blog temporarily to direct people there.
Whatever you end up doing thanks for all your efforts over the years
You were a shining light on the hill.
And maybe will continue to be.
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