Bill Ryder's Politics

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

...most sincere appreciation to anyone who gives me a few minutes of thought on this one. What would motivate you to engage on my blog page? Money? Prizes? I need ideas!

Hey guys,

So on Facebook, for a lot of years now, easily over a decade, I've engaged in political discourse with a significant response from a high percentage of different Facebook friends. I've moved my political posting over to Blogger in an effort, frankly, to see if I can turn blogging into a vehicle that may get me known and/or turn into a minor income stream.

I know I say things that interest people, people who agree. People who disagree. I know people like to engage in responding, debating, dialoging with each other as a result. I've have Facebook responses to an original post number in the hundreds, with a friends list of maybe 700 people or even less people when the posts were restricted to my own private politics Facebook group. That is, in the past my posts haven't been exposed to very many people, yet there's been enough interest to generate large quantities of dialog.

Yet since moving to Blogger and posting 10s of posts, no one has responded on Blogger. It should be pretty easy. For Facebook users, you click the post to go read my article, and within the article, at the bottom somewhere there is a link to respond. You shouldn't have to register for anything. You just type a response.

Yet I'm still waiting for response #1 on Blogger. My own family has not thrown me a bone. lol I would like to dwarf Rush Limbaugh or Rachael Maddow some day, but it start with this: can I simply get just one response? I think to myself: does no one want to be the famous first responder? I find it hard to believe?

So this post is meant to ask for your help? What can I do on a limited budget to motivate more Blogger responses? Can I pay something per response? Can I create some kind of contest? I need help from a marketing expert I guess, ideally. What can I do so that you, my Facebook followers and frequent comments (as a first step) will continue to do what you always did and respond as you have always responded, but over on Blogger? I will generate my own ideas in any case, but most sincere appreciation to anyone who gives me a few minutes of thought on this one. Respond to this in any way you want. Send me an email. Maybe use it as your first Blogger response. Respond however you will. But to those who respond somehow I will truly be grateful! I need to get this thing moving!

Monday, April 23, 2018

Kellanne Conway is a low class scumbag.

Melania Trump, from pictures I've seen, likes the Obamas better than she likes her own husband. Kellyanne Conway is mad because *her* husband dissed her in tweets because he's a sane person who can't stand Trump like most other sane people. So here's scumbag Kelkyanne bad plastic surgery Conway trying to come at the the most moral, intelligent, kind first family to occupy the whitehouse in decades, and drive a wedge between Michelle and Melania at the same time.

Please take your weak presidential sugar daddy and crawl under a rock with him where the two of you belong. Don't blame Michelle because your husband doesn't like you anymore.

https://latest.com/2018/04/kellyanne-conway-says-on-video-that-melania-trump-is-superior-first-lady-to-michelle-obama/

Sunday, April 22, 2018

Hmm. Kellyanne Conway projecting a little bit maybe? Her anger makes me think they may be on the verge of divorce.

Seems like Dana Bash asking a light hearted question unearthed some real trama/drama for Conway. Might be time Conway looks in the mirror and in her own house for the source of her angst.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kellyanne-conway-cnn-tweets_us_5adc8b3de4b089e33c88e691

Ellen says she's ashamed as a white person. I'm not ashamed as a white person...

So, in thinking about this idea that white people should feel ashamed, I don't feel ashamed due to my racial identity. I just don't feel that. I absolutely think race based discrepancies and racism need to be wiped out, but I would never do these things to a person, and I don't think the majority of white people would. Way too many, but not enough to simply refer to "white people" as acting that way.

Further, I feel like it lumps me into the wrong group. I simply do not associate myself with racists. Period. And I feel like... looking at myself as a white person who is part of that group would be just as bad as if I judged anyone else only by the color of their skin. Rascist are assholes. I'm not an asshole just because some other asshole has the same color of skin that I do.

So I think when someone like Ellen claims to be ashamed based on their own skin color we need to be real careful that they are not simply falling in line with their political identity, same as many Fox news viewers. We get it Ellen. You are liberal. But don't act the stereotype at the detriment of actual progress.

If we want to improve race relations one thing required will be to stop seeing all actions through a lens of race. Racists are assholes. Racists... can be any color. And Racists should be blamed as a group for racism. I'm just a white guy. And I'm on the side of and will fight for any victim of racism. But I'm not blaming myself for being a white guy because some other white guy is an asshole. I think that line of thought might actually be racist and perpetuate exactly the focus on race that I hope becomes moot and inconsequential some day...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ellen_us_5adb6f8ae4b009869bf9e01f