Robert, thank you for what you do. I made a (small, unfortunately) donation and purchased a subscription for my father, a long-retired entrepreneur who was always a Republican, and who is now very Trumpy. I think you are uniquely positioned to reach people like this because you are a principled critic of Trump who was never a man of the left. Essentially, "only Nixon could go to China".
Also, just a piece of free advice, leave the "Support" link in all your writings when possible. As you know well, media business models and structures are rapidly shifting under our feet, so there is nothing wrong with a little benevolent patronage for a constructive voice during critical times like these. Maybe that is the new business model for ideas that don't simply confirm our pre-existing biases.
I love the gift subscription idea and urge you to remind your subscribers of this opportunity more often. By ordering gift subscriptions, you not only get some well-earned funding, You get to "spread the word" to more subscribers. I just ordered three annual gift subscriptions and will order more as I think of others who I think would benefit from your wisdom.
If only I had Harlan Crow kinda moolah, R.T. would not want for his daily bread and could make like a Marxist, I mean like Karl the Monk in London library all day…Resistance is not futile, as is it one’s prime directive moral duty to oppose Trumpism in all its grotesque forms…just as it is not right and proper to freak out like that female seeking female, so called bishop in gay Italian garb making up stupid shitte about the incoming Trump’s non existent threat to kids claiming to be the opposite sex her God created them as..just as I would say to The Don himself-you can pass a tough anti migration law, let’s just see you try to enforce it..just as the laughable Episcopalian minister on the public dole can spend her own money helping the stranger and condemn Trump for things he has done, not what she has already found the no good Trump Bible Huckster of guilty of literally that the graffiti bull shitte artiste has not having done…but, I will be the first to admit I am wrong if you told me so…and Heat Miser is not at all “frightened” about what the fragile lamp of lesser god has to say, other than she is not a boot licker like so many so called Republicans in Congress and FOX[Y] TV. PRAY TO END TRUMPISM. Gotta run on. Thanks for taking my rant R.T. Peace through superior mental firepower
Robert, as you are no doubt aware, I've been following and supporting you since at least 2006 (one of Sherri's art recommendations that I ended up purchasing that year is still a prized possession). I will make a donation because I value your thoughts and wish to support your work. I do need to point out, however, that I have been agreeing with you less and less recently.
From your (seemingly, at least) refusal to acknowledge anyone who questions Covid vaccines at all despite having some potentially valid points to a complete disregard and dismissal for anyone who may decide that Trump is less bad enough to not support a party that has systematically tried to implement 1984-like controls over thought, action and (most importantly) Free Speech are both very concerning. I am not at all saying that you should refrain from criticising Trump - or to champion science and that Covid vaccines did have a role to play in reducing deaths. But to ignore the release of pent-up despair and gloom because of what has occurred under the Democrats (including during Covid and mandates) in the last 4 years (this is the first time since election coverage started in earnest last year I have noticed that you will even spend some time on the failure of the Left and the only thing you will speak of is "race"?) is so one-sided that it is difficult to take it all seriously.
This is not the first time in the last 4-5 months that I have written to you in the comments section and I have been disappointed that you have not deemed any of my thoughts / questions / concerns worth your time to respond. Perhaps this time will be different because I am responding to your plea with a donation and I would very much like to hear your thoughts - even if they come with both barrels.
Robert, thank you for what you do. I made a (small, unfortunately) donation and purchased a subscription for my father, a long-retired entrepreneur who was always a Republican, and who is now very Trumpy. I think you are uniquely positioned to reach people like this because you are a principled critic of Trump who was never a man of the left. Essentially, "only Nixon could go to China".
Also, just a piece of free advice, leave the "Support" link in all your writings when possible. As you know well, media business models and structures are rapidly shifting under our feet, so there is nothing wrong with a little benevolent patronage for a constructive voice during critical times like these. Maybe that is the new business model for ideas that don't simply confirm our pre-existing biases.
I love the gift subscription idea and urge you to remind your subscribers of this opportunity more often. By ordering gift subscriptions, you not only get some well-earned funding, You get to "spread the word" to more subscribers. I just ordered three annual gift subscriptions and will order more as I think of others who I think would benefit from your wisdom.
I just noticed those gift subscriptions, and thank you very much!
If only I had Harlan Crow kinda moolah, R.T. would not want for his daily bread and could make like a Marxist, I mean like Karl the Monk in London library all day…Resistance is not futile, as is it one’s prime directive moral duty to oppose Trumpism in all its grotesque forms…just as it is not right and proper to freak out like that female seeking female, so called bishop in gay Italian garb making up stupid shitte about the incoming Trump’s non existent threat to kids claiming to be the opposite sex her God created them as..just as I would say to The Don himself-you can pass a tough anti migration law, let’s just see you try to enforce it..just as the laughable Episcopalian minister on the public dole can spend her own money helping the stranger and condemn Trump for things he has done, not what she has already found the no good Trump Bible Huckster of guilty of literally that the graffiti bull shitte artiste has not having done…but, I will be the first to admit I am wrong if you told me so…and Heat Miser is not at all “frightened” about what the fragile lamp of lesser god has to say, other than she is not a boot licker like so many so called Republicans in Congress and FOX[Y] TV. PRAY TO END TRUMPISM. Gotta run on. Thanks for taking my rant R.T. Peace through superior mental firepower
Robert, as you are no doubt aware, I've been following and supporting you since at least 2006 (one of Sherri's art recommendations that I ended up purchasing that year is still a prized possession). I will make a donation because I value your thoughts and wish to support your work. I do need to point out, however, that I have been agreeing with you less and less recently.
From your (seemingly, at least) refusal to acknowledge anyone who questions Covid vaccines at all despite having some potentially valid points to a complete disregard and dismissal for anyone who may decide that Trump is less bad enough to not support a party that has systematically tried to implement 1984-like controls over thought, action and (most importantly) Free Speech are both very concerning. I am not at all saying that you should refrain from criticising Trump - or to champion science and that Covid vaccines did have a role to play in reducing deaths. But to ignore the release of pent-up despair and gloom because of what has occurred under the Democrats (including during Covid and mandates) in the last 4 years (this is the first time since election coverage started in earnest last year I have noticed that you will even spend some time on the failure of the Left and the only thing you will speak of is "race"?) is so one-sided that it is difficult to take it all seriously.
This is not the first time in the last 4-5 months that I have written to you in the comments section and I have been disappointed that you have not deemed any of my thoughts / questions / concerns worth your time to respond. Perhaps this time will be different because I am responding to your plea with a donation and I would very much like to hear your thoughts - even if they come with both barrels.