Damn! Freeperland is down. I was going to go in and give them my Eat Shit farewell

[brewens]

post ahead of time. I was going to tell them I had to do it now because I know damn well their little cesspool will be crashed tommorrow! I was also going to rip them on letting RimJob fleece them for his own personal gain. You can't tell me he couldn't, if he wanted to, have a little more reliable system. We have problems under severe load but I'm impressed that DU seems to mostly hold up. I sure can't bitch anyway because unfortuneately I haven't been able to afford to contribute lately.

Imagine all the Freepers at home on what's a work day for most of us, down in their mom's basement, yelling at their monitor 24 hours out from election day, and already they can't get on their forum! Freakin' Morans!

[GoneOffShore]

1. It's baaaack! Like a bad penny.

Though probably intermittent, because http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ showed it down and then I clicked through and got there. Closed the browser immediately because it just makes me ill.
Nastiness oozes off the page.

[Frustratedlady]

11. It's down. I've tried 3 times...no go. eom

[Buddaman]

2. Freakin' Morans!

[texasmomof3]

3. That would be moron...not moran and it's working.

[sufrommich]

4. That's the joke.nt

[cali]

5. No, honey. We refer to freep idiots as "morans". It's intentionally spelled

incorrectly in this context. The history is a tea bagging asswipe holding a sign where moron is spelled "moran" - and not ironically.

[madinmaryland]

7. "moran" came from the "Get a Brain, Morans" guy...

[Bake]

12. Thank you! Thank you for trotting the Moran Guy out again!

Apparently some of our newbies haven't met him!



Bake

[Viva_La_Revolution]

17. and the chicky in the halfshirt next to him is holding a sign saying

Free Ripublic

:rol:

I wish I still had the full picture, but it was on my old hard drive

[HappyMe]

8. That is the way it's

spelled in rethug/bagger world.

[FLyellowdog]

9. That would be "moran" and who cares?

[Sheepshank]

16. did you deliberately misspell maroon, moran, moroon?

sheesh

[ChiciB1]

24. NO, It's MORAN... Came From A Sign

some (moron) was holding up during 2008. Saw it several times & it caught on... so YES it's MORAN here!

[CoffeeCat]

6. That place has become a very sad cave of denial...

Two weeks ago, their "Romney in a landslide!" posts were troubling. I found myself looking at all of the polls and the data, wondering if they saw something that I didn't.

Nope, it turns out, they were just listening to the packaged up pile of malarkey that Fox News, Karl Rove and the rest of talk radio has sold them.

It's really sad to see. I actually feel sorry for them, and I have NEVER felt sorry for them. Fox News gives them a few cherry picked data points--on which they hang all of their hope. They refuse to even LOOK at the average of all of the state polls, that give Obama wins or ties. In every single battleground state!

They repeatedly cite Rasmussen. OMG. They criticize Nate Silver, but they hug their big Rasmussen pillows, while ignoring so much data!

They are stuck on a couple of data points--That Romney is doing so well with Independents. Ok, yeah, Romney is ahead in most polls with Indies, but not by much. They fail to deal with the fact that Obama is winning the majority of the swing-state polls! And if you break down the demographics, Obama is winning overwhelmingly with Hispanics, African Americans and women.

They're clinging big time over there, and they're not letting go of their illusions. They're all going to be in shock on election night.

[brewens]

10. I actually do feel sorry for a few of my conservative friends. Especially a guy

that was one of my first bosses because he's a reasonable small business conservative guy. Guys like that are pissed about all the hate and abortion suff. He'd like to see the teabaggers booted out because he thinks all the wackjobs would still vote Republican.

[Bake]

13. Then HE needs to do something about HIS PARTY!

THat is all.

Bake

[BlueStreak]

15. It is a real problem. Many of the people who get news from RW sources

seem to be completely unaware that it is not truthful.

Of course, they place themselves inside that bubble, but once inside they get enough reinforcement that they begin to look at everything outside the bubble as being invalid for one reason or another.

Ultimately they are intellectually dishonest, and they are only living inside the bubble because they want to believe shit instead of reality. But my point is that to many of them, that is very real to them. They truly think that is the real world.

[KharmaTrain]

20. Denial Is A Powerful Drug...

These people watch and listen to that stuff willingly...by choice. They know there are other sources out there but deny anything except what their drug induced minders tell them. It's been intellectually lazy...walling yourself off from reality in a phony world where all answers are simple and goes back to a mythical time that never really existed. It's real to them by design and has hardened in recent years to a point where millions now vote against their own best interests based on a "standing" in a make believe world...

[Firebirds01]

21. I know repugs

who get their news from world net daily and breitbart sort of places. I point out that it isnt a real news source but they dont understand and think its perfectly legitimate. And that if it wasnt true it wouldnt be published on the web.

[CoffeeCat]

22. Right-wing pundits and anchors...

...have convinced voters that Fox News is the choice of smart, wise people. If you listen to talk radio and Fox News, they constantly stoke their egos--telling them that they're smarter than liberals and wiser than everyone else who doesn't listen to Fox News.

In effect, these people and their egos are heavily invested in believing that Fox News is true. That's how they get them to believe things that aren't supported by the facts or science. Despite glaring evidence, they must believe. If Fox News is wrong, that means that Fox viewers are no longer the wisest people in the room getting the inside scoop from Sean Hannity.

It's seriously becoming cult-like.

Now, Fox is in the phase of convincing them of things that are the complete opposite of their religious and moral views. Most Fox viewers were convinced that the mortgage crisis was precipitated by poor people getting mortgages they couldn't afford. So, the corporate types who needed American to lobby for further deregulation of the banks, convinced these Fox viewers that regulation is bad. It really makes your mouth drop. These lemmings will carry the water for these corporate interests and anti-democracy forces. All you have to do is continue to stoke their egos and keep them convinced that Fox News listener-ship means that they are so smart!

They're all like toddlers clinging to these radio hosts like teddy bears. It really is getting creepy.

[richmwill]

14. JimBob is a pathetic, laughable little figure...

The highlight for me was him slinking back like an obedient dog to his GOP overlords a month or so ago. After a year and a half of "There will be NO campaigning for Romney on this site- not now, not ever! I'll shut the damn place down if I have to!!", screaming about he would never ever vote for "the Rino Romney", he predictably buckled like a belt and proved himself a man of no character whatsoever (even more so than before) by becoming a full-on Romney supporter, proudly posting his absolute support of him and how he will proudly vote for him.

[sufrommich]

18. You better do it now, tomorrow those hamsters

on wheels that generate power for FR will be crashing all day. I think Free Republic is on it's last legs.

[Firebirds01]

19. Right now there are two types of posts

1. How to be a survivalist and live through a end-of-civilization-event.

and

2. Saying the Gallup, and only the Gallup, shows Romney up by 1% point on the popular vote so he will naturally cruise to a huge victory tomorrow. Seriously, they are ignoring 99% of the other polls and just looking at the one where their boy is within the margin of error for the popular vote. Do they know elections arent won that way?

[CoffeeCat]

23. Fox News is feeding them select data bits...

...and the Freepers are hyperfocused on only those narrow bits of information. They're clinging on close national polls and Romney's slight lead with Independents, as proof that they're going to win in a landslide. Oh, and also their enthusiasm!

They have about 10 percent of the whole story. They don't know and don't care that the majority of the swing states have solid Obama leads and the remaining few are ties. That is lost to them. If there is a poll, or several polls, that lean Obama they have a reason to not like it. Yet, they hold all of their stock in right-leaning Rasmussen.

It's totally bizarre.

I've said this many times before, I don't think their right-wing leaders do them any favors by bamboozling them. It's too bad they can't feed them reality--instead of a steady dose of baloney.

In my state alone, in early voting--Dems are up 60,000 votes so far over Republicans. Early voting in my state has surpassed 2008 numbers. Democrats are on fire. Yet, they call my state of Iowa a tie and say Dems aren't enthusiastic. Oh lordy!

In Ohio, they only talk about one thing--How Obama has fewer early votes than he did in 2008. Their entire argument is that Obama can't make up this difference. Isn't that bizarre? Look at Ohio early voting. The Democrats are up 2:1. Romney would have to win 60 percent of the remaining votes on election day. They won't see it. They won't hear. They've got their Rove-dictated talking points and that's all they can focus on.

Election night is going to be a big leap into icy-cold, polar waters for most hard-right Republicans who have lived in Fox fantasy land throughout this election.