I’m the only member left from the team that launched this site in 2006. It’s always been owned by others, first by Michelle Malkin and then by Salem Communications, but when you’re part of a project from the jump and you invest 36,591 hours into making it work (many more than that, truthfully) you come to think of it as yours.
I have no identity as a writer apart from my site. When I wake up tomorrow, Hot Air will belong to someone else and I’ll be a different person.
Losing your identity in middle age: Not a great feeling. On the spectrum of traumatic experiences to have in your 40.s, it ranks somewhere between a colonoscopy and divorce. I don’t recommend it.
But I understand why it’s happening. Somehow it feels too soon and overdue.
The Allahpundit is a true anonymous blogger. While there are supposed pictures of the man, he has kept his identity secret for years. Allahpundit became somewhat of a "never-Trumper" and has been providing a little balance to the otherwise conservative Hot Air forum. I could almost always tell which posts were his without even needing to look at the author. Just the headlines would give it away!
I suspect that this was sort of him being pushed out for that reason (still calls the tens of millions of Americans who support Donald Trump "cultists"). He doesn't come right out and say why he is leaving, but being nudged is the impression I got. There was actually a recent "opening" floated for a new blogger to join the site as a full time writer.
He will be leaving apparently to go join Jonah Goldberg and David French over at the "dispatch" where he will no doubt be still Trump bashing and not feeling at all uncomfortable about it. I believe he will be missed, however, at Hot Air. At least I will miss him.
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Lola
"Trumpaholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from Trumpaholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to emotionally detach from Donald Trump."
Have a great day 😀 Scott
Lola
Roger met her in a club down on old Soho where the drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola!
L-o-l-a
Lola...
KD.
Roger , you will leave as promised in 3 days and 12 hours, right?
Lola might be what he calls the 5th Beetle
Well, I'd left home just a week before
And I'd never, ever kissed a woman before
Lola smiled and took me by the hand
She said, "Little boy, gonna make you a man"
Well I'm not the world's most masculine man
But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man
And so is Lola
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola
Lo-Lo-Lo-Lo-Lola
KD.
Last night Joe Failure gave a speech now known as " The Red Sermon "
It was as divisive a speech ever given .
KD.
Bye Bye Roger.
You totally don't understand Bidenomics and the coming Hard Landing.
"Federal Reserve chief Jerome Powell, with his Aug. 26 Jackson Hole speech, ditched his optimism that policymakers can engineer a soft landing for the U.S. economy, skirting recession. The new goal: avoiding a major crash."
Allahpundit reminds me a bit of Charles Johnson from Little Green Footballs
Someone I liked and then just quit him
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