Coltrane and then the Lindsey del ragio (sp?) that someone else mentioned too. Barnes trolls, but you almost have to give credit for the immense effortJohn Francis Donaghy said:MASAXET said:True all the way around. Her and I (plus some other attorneys on the board) used to openly engage on legal discussions, but the last few years she really went down the rabbit hole. I think it began around Mueller and the Gen. Flynn case and she kept getting deeper into all sorts of nonsense. There were PLENTY of legitimate areas for criticism and debate on both of those but she bit on some really outlandish stuff. It really popped off during the election and, you're right, she was even citing Watkins as an "expert." The worst part was if anyone actually dared to disagree with the deeply flawed legal "analysis", how defensive she became when she didn't used to be that way.John Francis Donaghy said:Duncan Idaho said:oragator said:
True story - Years ago I posted in F16 a bit. Liked the idea of seeing the POV from a different part of the country. Some dude (can't even remember who) was following me around, comparing my posts, at one point he accused me of being a sock (I didn't even know what that was at that point). Apparently he thought I was some known crazy person, a girl maybe if I remember right? And he got like 10 likes on that post, as if he had made some massive investigative discovery. And when I pointed out that I had posted here for years and wasn't a sock, instead of apologizing he blamed me for being hypocritical and inconsistent and making it look like that's what I was (for saying I voted for someone I didn't agree with 100 percent because they were the least worst choice) in my posts and got a whole bunch more likes. Rather than explain why all of that was crazy to a group that was out for blood, that was the end of my foray.
To her credit, Aggiehawg defended me a bit, but nothing from anyone else, especially the mods, so that was it. And it wasn't even a question of thin skin, and I don't care about that... it was just a ludicrous conversation, and seems to be the norm. Wasted energy.
/coolstorybro
There is a cautionary tale.
Seems to have been a fairly competent attorney in a previous life but damned if she didn't fall hook line and sinker for an MFBarnes sock and all the "kraken" BS
Sadly, agree. Used to have lots of good legal conversations with Hawg about current legal events. But over the last year or so she got deep into some corners of the internet she didn't really understand, and ended up in a rabbit hole. To make it relevent, she followed/cited Ron Watkins as an authority on a number of issues following the election, particularly election technology. Something I would not have expected from Hawg even a year or two ago.
It's sad and unfortunate that the Q thread was allowed to live as long as it did on F16. People say they didn't follow it, or it was only a handful of active posters, and the rest didn't believe. But the reality is the Q thread tainted the board as a whole. The true Q believers being around on a daily basis and posting Q adjacent stuff on non-Q threads blurred the line between reality and Q world, and even people who don't think they were Q followers ended up exposed to enough Q related fake news that it became part of their reality. Gradually being desensitized to the BS until it sounded normal.
You would have thought maybe she'd learn a lesson after falling for the latest barnes troll where he was posing as an ex-FBI agent, but no such luck.
Was that part of his Roscoe P Coltrane schtick, or has there been another Barnes event since then that I missed?