One thought that the Rightwing regional Flemish Party the Vlaams Belang has disappeared as Charles “Icarus” Johnson’s favorite bogey man. With the rise of the Tea Party, he has neglected the danger of this regional party in Belgium. Not no more!
In the latest conspiracy theory of the obscure 70′s/80′s Jazz Guitarist, he links Rand Paul to the dreaded Vlaams Belang!
Oh no it’s the Vlaams Belang, run and hide! Those damn Flemish-Belgians, they are behind everything! They even control Rand Paul!
Save us Icarus, save us!
(Cross Posted@ Diary of Daedalus)
This is an open thread and please, don’t take this too serious, it’s just for humor!
Update: On this same thread, The Jazz Guitarist named Icarus outright lies about Rand Paul statement about crime. He twists Paul’s word into saying that if everyone was Christian, there would be no need for laws. One problem, Rand Paul says no such thing.
One problem, Paul does not say that if everyone was Christian, we would not need laws.
I’m a Christian. We go to the Presbyterian Church. My wife’s a Deacon there and we’ve gone there ever since we came to town. I see that Christianity and values is the basis of our society… . 98% of us won’t murder people, won’t steal, won’t break the law and it helps a society to have that religious underpinning. You still need to have the laws but I think it helps to have a people who believe in law and order and who have a moral compass or a moral basis for their day to day life.
Nowhere does he say this, instead he says if people where moral there would be no need of laws. He says if would help if people believed in Laws and had a moral compass. That’s a huge difference than what Radical Totalitarian Progressive Charles “Icarus” Johnson claims Rand Paul says. It doesn’t matter, for Icarus it’s all about lying to smear those he seeks to silence.
Icarus and his lies crash into reality yet again!
Update II: The above picture is called the Lament of Icarus by Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel The Elder. No wonder The Jazz Artist hates the Flemish, they foretold his fall in a painting 450 years ago!
Update III: Charles “Icarus” Johnson needs to stick to Jazz Guitars and not discuss Politics!
Tags: Rand Paul, Vlaams Belang
Can you fix this, please ?
VLAAMS BELANG!!!!!!!!!!
THE most dangerous regional Belgian political party in history!
coldwarrior wrote:
rofl
Damn the Belgians! No wonder Hitler invaded them, with all these nefarious characters thre. How could he have felt safe with Belgium so close?
He wishes that after his big fall, he’s approached by naked nymphs…
Flemish Nationalists…always a threat throughout history.
how big is belgium???
Iron Fist wrote:
Are you kiddin?
I don’t feel safe now.
It’s game over man . . . . game over.
“…it ties together many of the crazy fringe ideas that have caused me to make serious political reassessments…”
He has been Connecting the Dots. And when he is done, he knows he will find a picture of Hitler. That is why he has lined the walls with tin foil and has set the correlator tool to sound “racist” at periodic intervals.
Why does he worry about Vlaams Belang? I know they have an unsavory past but the USA shouldn’t be worrying about them. The 2 Koreas might start fighting again and there are greater things to worry about.
Iron Fist wrote:
Fear Inspector Hercule Poirot.
@ Guggi:
Fixed!
mtc wrote:
Your right. I’ll be back in an hour or so, I have to go out and stock up on LG batteries for my LG cell phone.
i think Big Tulip is behind this!
I wouldn’t worry too much about Vlaams Belang. You know how those Belgians waffle…
@ chickadee:
OMG Rand Paul is controlled by Belgians!
Hide!
Overlook wrote:
And he will also find a picture of the Tennessee State Flag.
@ Overlook:
That is why he hears dog whistles and sees nazi symbols in the Tennessee flag. He is the kook who ties all the loose ends together.
OT- I nailed Ludwig for Racism over at Diary of Daedalus!
Ludwig reveals his racist colors
coldwarrior wrote:
No helium for Big Tulip!
@ chickadee:
lol, same ideas.
Poor Charles. A mind is a terrible thing. And then there’s the waist.
snork wrote:
nope…this is the root cause that cj is looking for!
snowcrash wrote:
I am beginning to see the formation of a new political movement, symbolized by the pony tail. The binding together of loose ends… Wait a sec. Wasn’t the fascist movement also a binding together – symbolized by bound faggots?
snowcrash wrote:
Hey snow, wasn’t Jackson’s video of her pup so adorable.
The left is so confused about anyone who opposes them.
It’s rich fat cats wearing Brooks Brothers suits! No wait! It’s trailer-park trash without properly creased pants!
It’s whacko anti-government radicals who want to tear down the state! No wait! It’s Nazis!
It’s militia members plotting to off cops! No wait! It’s people who want a police state!
I’ll have to hand it to Chucky. It’s the Vlaams Belang!
@ Overlook:
Indeed it was, HOWEVER, the fasces were a Roman invention, predates Mussolini by 2500 years or so.
You know, I’ve always thought that these “guilt-by-association” tropes should decrease, like many natural laws do, as the square of the distance. E.g. RP->RATC->FDW->VB ought to quantify as 1/8th guilt. But it seems the metric is more the “single drop” measure. No doubt LVQ has already worked this all out, perhaps one day he’ll clarify.
Whoa, Kirly! Check this out!
@ chickadee:
My dog had a little pinkish nose when she was a puppy too. I favorited the page so I can check out the other Boston Terrier videos. I’m such a dweeb. LOL. Seriously, when the political news is totally frustrating, cute or funny animal videos hit the spot.
@ Overlook:
And all that binding ties right in with all the S&M threads at the swamp. I think you’ve nailed it.
@ Overlook:
Oh, a bundle of sticks and an axe! Yes , I checked. LOL
@ snork:
yeah, i watched that just about 10 minutes ago. Crusader Rabbit had it posted.
also, to this. and there is a part 2 as well. “Other Than Mexicans” are generally terrorists and coming across our borders.
@ Kirly:
it’s a catch and release program.
I have a vision of LGF’s 500 or 1,000 remaining Lizards standing in a crowded room doing the two minutes of hate at Vlaams, luxuriating in the group catharsis, and then the next day, two minutes of hate at Rand Paul, and then Sarah, and then people who don’t like comic books.
OT: but nice
Always Walk in the Tracks
Good men.
@ nil stooge:
Nils, love the gray ribbon. Mmmm brains are gray. lol
@ snork:
that woman speaking is a professor. these idiots should be fired! my damn tax $$ are paying for her to spew this crap.
I think cluckie is delusional. He reminds me of a homeless person, muttering to himself, shuffling along, trying to come up with something to get him some attention and a quarter.
I reject this whole premise – if anything since the GOP machine was behind the other candidate (Mitchell? Can’t remember his name) this rather proves the Tea Party is truly bipartisan – they owe their allegence to no party!
I know a Finnish guy that digs heavy metal and has his Grandfathers armory buried somewhere on their ancestral land.
Run Charles
Kirly wrote:
Were the boos in that video for what the speaker was saying, or were they in sympathy with her? I think that at least the initial boos were opposed to her, but it got hard to tell.
Frankly, the fact that people are getting back the gumption to boo is one of the most encouraging things I’ve seen in years. I have been to performances in New York which were utterly dismal, and nobody had the nerve to stand up and boo.
Schmuckles should have said “It ties together many of the crazy ideas I have in my greasy, balding scraggly ponytailed head and makes me sound like a conspiracy-theory idiot who sees a nazi behind every bush”.
(*snicker*)
Stand by for next installment: “Schmuckles craps his diaper and smashes his favorite Spiderman sippy-cup against his high chair when his fruit and water lady serves him his usual afternoon bowl of alphabet noodle soup and the letters spell… NAZI”
@ vapig:
He is the new face only in CJ’s mind. How many Rand Paul post now?
dude wrote:
Hey dude, that is cult behavior and I agree, they are poised to begin the hate sessions.
wolfie wrote:
You forgot theocracy, man! It’s the Theocracy!!!!!!!
snowcrash wrote:
And how many Charlie Rangel Threads?
Kirly wrote:
She sounds like a typical smug useful idiot. And she knows all the dumb p.c. jargon. And feels so great abt. herself when she spews that shit.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
have to agree with you. initially it was obvious opposition but later it wasn’t so clear. and yes, finally, people speaking up for what is right! and, even more encouraging, this was most likely primarily young people and it was the Commencement of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences! shocking.
Look at this charming picture of Obami and and an Arab leader? All smiles.
Well at least Christians are getting a much needed break from cluckie bashing.
@ PrincessNatasha:
Check the update! That portrait of Icarus is done by a Flemish painter!
@ Nevergiveup:
He loves 3rd World Leaders!
@ Kirly:
Here are her credentials:
http://ws.web.arizona.edu/people/faculty/soto.php
@ snowcrash:
Doing my part for Zombie Awareness Month.
@ savage:
Latin literature, so I guess she’s an expert on Seneca?
/
@ Kirly:
The audience sure wasn’t having any of it. F’ing vainglorious yoch.
Nevergiveup wrote:
Look how the pos is guffawing, mouth wide open, donkey teeth showing. And leaning into the muzz like a magnet is pulling him .
zero’s body lingo says it all.
he fcking loves this arab.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Three cheers for the boo!!!
@ PrincessNatasha:
I haven’t seen this meme but no doubt it’s out there – something to the effect that you can’t spell ‘nazi’ without ‘AZ’; or ‘AZ’ is 50% ‘nazi’.
@ savage:
We need to clean up our universities. All that useless subject matter that has been turned into disciplines for advanced degrees. This idiot is a community agitator, that’s all.
Rodan wrote:
and newton: Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica
Rodan wrote:
Saw that! But, Schmuckles is no Icarus. No wing design or jet design in the world could lift that corpulent carcass off the ground! Hell, that tub-o-lard would splatter if he fell off his high chair!
@ savage:
She should’ve gone for the full-fledged ‘ottics’ degree instead of settling for simply ‘semiotics’.
/ht Dibdin’s “Back to Bologna”
savage wrote:
Oy. I wonder if queer theory has anything to do with strange attractors?
snork wrote:
Shake your boo, Tea!
PrincessNatasha wrote:
the air force and boeing will tell you that they can make anything fly…given a large enough engine!
@ PrincessNatasha:
It’s all that fruit and water!
chickadee wrote:
And here I am tormenting myself studying Engineering. WTF… I could have just majored in ‘Interpretive goat-sodomy in early Islam as the rebellion against the racism of the White Man’, and already had my PhD and a cushy do-nothing-but-get-loads-of-cash “job”… Damn, I must not be as clever as I think I am.
coldwarrior wrote:
Well, we Army Engineers can make some shit fly… But it won’t look the same once it lands… And there is no guarantee it will land in the same spot from which it took off… Nor is there a guarantee it will all land in one spot…
@ savage:
“queer theory”. lovely.
btw, i captured pix from the vids. http://kirls.blogspot.com/2010/05/americas-border-fence.html
PrincessNatasha wrote:
But then you would have had to sodomize a goat for your senior paper. Kinda hard for normal chicks to do. The game’s rigged in favor of chicks with dicks.
@ PrincessNatasha:
as illustrated by the difference in basic mission
nil stooge wrote:
oh yeah. check out the new shirts at cafe press. just search on “1070″ and you’ll find plenty of that bull.
@ coldwarrior:
Indeed, but the only Boeing engine large enough to haul that bloated pig is the Saturn V engine.
Fire up them babies and send CJ off to the Andromeda galaxy.
snork wrote:
Now there’s a possible new candy bar sensation: ChixDix™!
It’s the candy bar that crosses all boundaries!
Kirly wrote:
I think that’s where Chuck’s been getting a lot of his hot poop lately. His recent thread about the outrageous minister is from a 15 year old story in one of our local
fag ragsalternative papers.savage wrote:
big honkin’ rocket!
mtc wrote:
He wasn’t worried about them til Pamela Geller supported them.Don’t worry there’ll soon be another comet coming thru and all of the green morons will hitch a ride.
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
Available in dark chocolate for the open-minded, and white chocolate for the racist market.
My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. ….
@ snork:
Don’t know about that, but if we had the Easy LaTex plugin for WP then if we figured it out we could write up the proof with equations.
/mmm
donutsequations…Grimcargo wrote:
Oh, please, oh, please, oh, please, oh, please, oh, please, oh, please…
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/05/24/1454538/why-must-i-apologize-for-being.html
Interesting article. A muslim attacking liberals. A must read with some actual substance. Keep in mind it’s essentially a liberal attacking liberals from the left, but still a pretty good read.
@ Kirly:
Not surprised.
nil stooge wrote:
LMAO
One of these people Hen is bashing ought to sue him and make him prove what he is saying as fact. You know you don’t even have to win to make that sob suffer. (He’d have to pay an attorney.Oh wait I forgot about Reel West)
@ Nevergiveup:
…and the Guci Militia Marronite guy is sitting astride like a man with bullocks and Zero crosses his legs at his knees and leans over like some coquette posturing for another piece of Turkish Delight.
I hear he left his jazz guitar in the car while he went to Von’s to buy a case of twinkies and two bottles of cough syrup. When he came back he discovered that someone had broken in to the car and put three more jazz guitars in there.
@ Grimcargo:
Biggest liar I have ever met. What a POS that fucker is.
oh Hariri…my bad….gilded coke snorting Muz from Riyad. I forgot they came in to power as the buffer to full Hez rule.
@ savage:
That’s a death threat!
You are evil!
/
@ Crusader Rabbit:
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is Chicago’s Mayor Daley guilty of ‘terroristic threats’?
The guy’s psycho.
@ snork:
Typical Progressive, wishing to silence his opponents.
snork wrote:
I could hire some wannabe jihadnik to do the dirty work.
snork wrote:
He’s pissing away the city he inherited from his daddy, and he’s too in thrall to the progressives who infiltrated the oldfashioned, straightforwardly corrupt Machine to be able to pull the city out of the morass.
He realizes that not only has he destroyed his father’s legacy, and does not measure up to dear old Dad, but that he himself is actually less man of power than figurehead.
@ PrincessNatasha:
Bestiality is another reason to despise Islam. Just one of many!
Rodan wrote:
“How do I hate thee (pEE-Slam), let me count the ways…”
… or something.
You figure Moobs Johnson has an “I want to Believe” poster hanging over his computer screen?
ET, phone home.
@ wolfie:
He’d have had to search very hard to find a more obscure group to freak out about. Couldn’t he just whine about flouride in the water?
@ PrincessNatasha:
I’m a Islam hater and proud!
Rodan wrote:
Dogs aren’t unclean. That’s an Imam’s excuse. They’re just too fast!
Goodbye_Natalie wrote:
Yeah, but his is a modified version. “I want to believe” is the caption under the hammer and sickle and a mugshot of Karl Marx.
@ Goodbye_Natalie:
Yup while Un Mata Hari serves him fruit and water!
@ PrincessNatasha:
With pictures of Che, Castro and Hugo Chavez on his wall!
Rodan wrote:
My uber-tolerant Dad has joined us “haters” as well… Well, he was pretty much ready since 9/11/01, but recently it became official, loud, and proclaimed with so much Russian profanity that even I, notorious for exquisitely foul language, was in awe… A man of my father’s level of education and professional expertise rarely condescends to cursing… When people like that do… Drunk Russian sailors AND Satan himself blush and plug their ears.
@ Poteen:
A dog can bite you, while the Holy Goat® won’t. No word about the beautiful camels…
@ PrincessNatasha:
The hate runs deep in my family. My Grandfather’s parents where Spaniard, he hated Islam. My Grandmother’s parents were Lebanese Christains, she hated Islam. My Colombian Step dad hated Islam as well. I was never tolerant!
Rodan wrote:
She also serves him alphabet noodle soup, but with “N”s “A”s “Z”s and “I”s taken out, just so accidental NAZIs won’t happen in his soup!
@ PrincessNatasha:
i know how he feels. all this hate-on that the elitists have for my beloved home state of Arizona right now turns me into a curser too.
Iron Fist wrote:
ROTFLMAO… As soon as I read that, the Marilyn Manson song popped up in my head: “The beautiful camels, the beautiful camels….”
Kirly wrote:
And it is usually the non-cursers who come up with such exquisite, such elaborate curses when they DO let loose, all we average daily cursers just have to shut up and gape in dumbfounded awe.
@ PrincessNatasha:
Well, let’s get to the music!
@ PrincessNatasha:
@ Iron Fist:
How the hell does the Jazz Man turn Rand Paul’s word into laws are not needed if we are all Christian?
He knows he’s smearing.
@ savage:
@ Rodan:
I win, I got it on first! bwhahaa
@ savage:
Look who’s crying about this thread!
Poor Kurt!
PrincessNatasha wrote:
And they frequently involve dead relatives of mothers.
Rodan wrote:
The question is, what’s he smearing all over the walls and his face?
Charles Johnson and Long Gone, Forgotten are a waste of time and energy.
That blog should be put down and buried…..without a headstone.
@ IslandLibertarian:
Unhallowed ground…
IslandLibertarian wrote:
They should be linked all over the net,,,, under ‘humor’.
Chuck and fruit/water lady are in this video… Guess who they are, among numerous characters, but be patient and see to the end…
@ PrincessNatasha:
Pigs can’t get a break, can they?
Speaking of that video I linked… I love the battle elephants stomping the hell out of the swine herd… Maybe NSDWP should think about changing their jackass to a more accurate pig.
@ Rodan:
Aww, poor widdle babies. Lets see, we got a convicted child molester, a lab janitor, a failed screenwriter and a Albanian jihadi sympathizer in that mix.
And they think we are nuts, hmmmm
@ Rodan:
His vacation home? LOL! He can’t even afford a new shirt! (someone send the man a new shirt please – so over the flannel)
HIT THE TIP JAR!
Oh, BTW, that note that “Chuck” stamps with his snout in the video says: “YOU ARE ALL BANNED!!! GET OFF MY BLOG!!!!!!”
@ m:
bwaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaha!!!!!
And it is what he is yelling when he is in the cage.
Oh good grief, Geezus Louizas – taht fat dope is actually going to make me like Rand Paul (against my will too!).
He’s always been a leftist, who’s he kidding?
savage wrote:
What ever happened to Medaura?
Urban Infidel wrote:
Quite concur! For eight years he was living a lie on his blog.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yeah what do they have 17 members in a parliament of over 130?
Iron Fist wrote:
They were seduced by that great Belgian chocolate.
@ Speranza:
Rodan and I called him out as a Communist a LONG time ago.
@ Poteen:
Maybe it’s just me, but to give that group of lemmings any attention is counter productive. It’s ike feeding a rabid dog.
They should be shunned. Ignored. Forgotten.
What CJ let happen with KilgoreTrout and Ace of Spades is their watermark, their identity. They are no longer worthwhile.
Just trash to be thrown out.
@ PrincessNatasha:
What is that!
savage wrote:
Care to elaborate?
@ Speranza:
I didn’t know it then, but I do now. His taste in music should have been the tip-off.
savage wrote:
Out of curiosity what made you think that. I admit that I thought in the good old days (2002 -06) that he was a heckuva guy.
@ savage:
Yup!
Urban Infidel wrote:
Not a huge fan of jazz although I do like jazz fusion which combines jazz with the blues or with rock.
@ Speranza:
I tried to help that guy TWICE in getting his household goods from NYC to Charlotte, even told him I would do it for free, all he would have to do was buy the fuel. Both times he weaseled out of it.
And the guy LIED out the ass about his dad being a firefighter that got killed at the WTC on 9/11.
savage wrote:
I am aware of the 9/11 story. Iron Fist says he knows the reason why he made that claim (LGF Watch actually called him out on it) but it would have to be a hell of a reason in my book.
@ Speranza:
There were certain things he said that screamed Marxist and that didn’t quite match up. I have been studying Communists since I was in first grade.
@ Speranza:
I saw his Leftist tenancies.
savage wrote:
Actually the claim was that his dad a 79 year old man ran into the building to help out and got killed for his trouble. To be charitable, I think that was a cry for attention.
@ Rodan:
I called him on that when we first got acquainted a few years ago.
Rodan wrote:
How so? He was not a hard core social conservative but neither was I. He seemed a pragmatic center-right person who understood what the real threat to Western civilization was and i twas no tcoming from creationists.
@ Speranza:
His group think and some of the things he wrote. He came across as a Leftist.
Rodan wrote:
A hilarious video made by a Russian band ‘Glukoza’.
savage wrote:
You were more perceptive on his leftist (I would not call him a Marxist though) than I was. But then he rarely commented on his threads because he actually had a job.
PrincessNatasha wrote:
But the little pig-Hitler and his fat lady-minder reminded me of Schmuckles and the un-Mata-Hari. So I posted it.
Rodan wrote:
Was he leading us in those days or were we leading him and then he eventually rebelled?
@ Speranza:
It was in late 2007/ early 2008 he started repeating Leftist anti-Serb talking points. He began to enforce group think and had Sharmuta and Killgore as enforcers. This was a Collectivist mentality that gave a whiff of Marxism. Then he encouraged Christian bashing.
There was just something about him that smacked of a Leftist, Savage and I were right!
@ Speranza:
Well, I have no compassion for weaklings or liars. I have no time for that. Sorry if I seem cold but most of the people I have met during my time on this planet have gone out of their way to stab me in the back, cheat on me, have boyfriends on the side when I am out busting my fucking ass to put food on the table, none of that.
@ Rodan:
I admit taht he started changing in 2007 whe nhe started the feud with Pam Geller and also started his nonsense with Creationism, but from 2002 -06, he certainly gave no hint to me of his future radical leftism.
@ Speranza:
Was he leading us in those days or were we leading him and then he eventually rebelled?
When he began his rebellion and targeting of Social Conservatives, I knew something was up. Then he toned down on his anti-Islamic rhetoric. Something screamed of Leftist to me. His calling of Spencer and Geller as Fascists was more evidence.
@ Speranza:
Right I’m talking about 2007, then when I saw his Leftism.
Speranza wrote:
I don’t think it is either. I think the guy is the ultimate opportunist and weather-vane. When it was “in” to be conservative and patriotic, there he was… When, he thought, things changed forever, he made like a chameleon and changed his skin… After next elections, wait and see what happens. I suspect my theory is right… But only time will tell.
savage wrote:
Not excusing it at all, only explaining it (trying to at any rate).
PrincessNatasha wrote:
Yes but starting in 2003 after the Iraq war it became less and less cool to be conservative and snowball was staunch in his support for the war and for Bush in 2004.
Speaking of LGF Watch they have this gem up
It seems that our work here, as far as LGF and Charles Johnson are concerned, is just about done. Charles has become a reformed character and the most venomous of the Lizards have been booted or left in disgust. Well done LGF Watch!
Unfortunately, during his rabid days, Charles encouraged others to the dark side. One such is “batshit crazy” Pamela Oshry Geller, mentioned here at LGF Watch many times: (see tags).
Since we have space available, here she is today, boobs to shoulder with the John Birch Society. Note in the small print of the Tennessee Tea Party shindig that the TTP is planning to give away FIREARMS at their rally!
Speranza wrote:
However, Bush still won the elections in 2004. And leftards were up in arms that anyone “leftist” would be in trouble and hurt. So, Schmuckles, being the gullible coward, thought it would be safe to be on the right. Once Zer0 showed up on the scene, and there was noise about Zer0 becoming a dictator and tightening some proverbial screws, Schmuckles, again being the coward that he is, decided to play it safe and kiss the ass of what he believed to be the new master.
In short, Schmuck has no convictions and no morals. He just wants to save his fat drooping ass, no matter what. If he lived in Nazi Germany and Nazis were in power, he’d be the “good German” denouncing Jews… Once allies kicked Nazi ass and rolled into town, he’d be one of the: “I never liked them Nazi bastards anyway!! Why…Why… My best friends were Jews!!! Yeah!! I only did what I was told you see… I was blind!”
@ PrincessNatasha:
Quite concur!
@ Speranza:
Like I said.. Wait till the next election and see what happens, as far as Schmuck goes. He’ll either change direction again. Or, knowing it is expected, he will shut down LGF and either emerge as something else and hope nobody makes the connection, or quit blogging altogether.
PrincessNatasha wrote:
I don’t think he will change back. More likely he will slowly shut down his blog. We (on the Right) will never forgive or trust him again, and the Left still has a hard on for him for the TANG memo forgery,
Rodan wrote:
You, and the core of Blogmocracy generally, were leading him. His articles weren’t worth linking for their own sake until 2004. CJ improved as a writer and independent thinker over the decade; you-plural, the commenters there, helped him do it. (Not me. I joined late.)
But then CJ hit his limit. As for when he hit that limit, I don’t know. It might depend on the subject. Obviously we who joined after 2007 didn’t help him; look at him now.
What you (before 2007) and we (after) can agree on: is that the upding / downding pavlovian system which he foisted upon his blog turned it into a cult. A cult leader doesn’t have to improve as a writer or independent thinker; he just has to stay in command.
I posted this on Daedalus
Rand Paul the face of the GOP? Give me a fucking break you unbelievably ignorant moron! The GOP establishment supported someone else and even when the GOP controlled congress – what committee chairmanship did his dad Ron Paul hold?
#171 was a Speranza quote; excuse me. Rodan would be included in “the core of Blogmocracy generally”. A few other names.
I think Yourish and other right-wing and/or pro-Israel Jewish bloggers influenced CJ most at first. Later, Medaura (who also influenced me).
Zimriel wrote:
We fed him most of his stories for threads. I agree that the upding/downding system greatly contributed to the ruin of LGF.
Zimriel wrote:
I notice that Meryl Yourish does not have LGF on her blogroll. All his old friends – Pam Geller, Powerline, Tim Blair, Glenn Reynolds, Meryl Yourish – all were thrown under the bus or walked away form him.
Speranza wrote:
On the topic of Medaura, I haven’t heard anything substantive from her in a year. She’s tiptoed away from the mess too, is my guess.
She wanted to remake LGF, but not into what it is now.