Wherein a Freeper starts to figure it out...

[stevedeshazer]

Am I the only one thinking....
vanity | 08/13/11 | winston's julia
Posted on Sat Aug 13 2011 17:27:52 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) by Winstons Julia

This Freepathon's going to to end just in time for the next one to begin??

Give already. I did. Give something. A little bit.

Times are tough...I know.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2763327/posts

:rofl: Freepers!

Rim Job has run off all but the most, well, "Freeperish" off his site, so now the ridiculous 'Freepathon' runs year-round, even though the site hasn't been changed since about 1995.

[vercetti2021]

1. You know

I've read a lot of posts that mention this rim job guy. Who is he anyways?

[Archae]

2. Jim Robinson, owner of Free Republic.

This is him and Ann Coulter:



He runs FR like his own personal fiefdom.

[vercetti2021]

6. Thanks

I've been wondering who that was and now since i saw this picture, nightmares will ensue.

[Control-Z]

9. A graphic warning

would have been nice.

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[MADem]

13. Well, it IS his own personal fiefdom....for what that's worth.

I have to think there are more savory ways to earn a living.

[peacetalksforall]

16. They look 'soused'. Wine glasses in the background. I'm so glad I wasn't there. :o)

It's one of the great rewards of not having a tv. No Ann Coulter. And it would take a lot of convincing to get me to watch a video of her.

[donco]

20. Jimbob

and his not so silent partner eh?

[Contrary1]

3. This one may have figured out something too:

"My thinking is that if it costs 352 THOUSAND DOLLARS a year to host a website that is nothing more than links and comment sections then the internet is a dead man walking."


As copied from their homepage, misspelled words and all.

Monthly Expenses
Bandwidth and Colocation $2,430
System administation and Programming 7,000
Administrative and Taxes 10,500
Legal and Accounting 1,000
Bank Fees, Credit Card Fees, Processing Fees 800
Equip, Maintenance and Repairs 300
Office Expenses, Rents, Insurance, Telephone, ISP, Supplies, Misc. 2,500
Travel Expenses 800
---------------------25,330

Most of the above is just double talk for Jim and his brother's bank account.

[stevedeshazer]

4. Exactly.

That Freeper, right twice a day like a broken clock, figured it out.

[gateley]

5. System administration and Programming??? Just look at the

site -- they're getting ripped off if they're paying somebody $7K a MONTH for that! :rofl:

[sakabatou]

8. It looks like it was built in the 90s and never updated

[MADem]

They're just padding the bill. They are rip off artists. It's a for-profit enterprise.

They use ideology to steal from stupid people. Be a member of "our" team, because we are "better!" Oh, and send me money so I'll validate that you are one of the "better" ones!

[Erose999]

15. See also: Prosperity Gospel, The.

[Frank Cannon]

19. No kidding. It still looks like a bad GeoCities site a 12-year-old threw together.

No fucking way is that guy spending that kind of scratch on his website. What a joke. Just another right-winger fleecing his fellow idiots for whatever they're dumb enough to send him.

[Erose999]

14. Vacuum tubes and punchcards are expensive. As is having a programmer with the 40 years outdated

training to have worked with hardware and programming languages that antiquated.

[onethatcares]

22. how does an accountant lump admin and taxes into the same slot?

I don't think mine will allow me to do that, especially if I'm only paying her $500.00 a month.:wtf:

[sakabatou]

7. With the crappy way FR is run and looks, why the **** isn't it updated?

Our donations run a week, maybe two, and DU looks spiffy.

[givemebackmycountry]

10. Compared to the stoneage FR - DU is state of the art.

Do you think they ever wander over here and say damn... why ain't OUR website as cool as this one?

[TalkingDog]

17. Well, they don't just hate us for our "freedomes"

n/t

[BR_Parkway]

21. They take pride in their regressiveness - RimJob convinces them that

our site looks "elite" and they express their Pavlovian hatred, instantly no more pressure to update their site, Admin & Site upkeep budget goes into the RimJob pockets.

Standard Televangelist / Mega-church fund-raising formula. Rinse & Repeat as needed

[JohnnyRingo]

18. He's been talking about shutting the site down.

I read a rant there from him where he was pretty much telling the Freeps to kiss his ass if they don't think he's spending enough time and money on the site. He went on to complain how old he is and how he's ready to walk away and retire in Florida or something.

Maybe he's Freepathoning them to death to pad his personal bank account before he quits.

On edit, here's the Head Moran himself: