Let Them Say What They Want

Let Them Say What They Will

Kathy and I were enjoying a beer together last night when she said to me, “Do you see what people are saying about you online?”

There it was on a Facebook page, an Eugene tabloid blasting me, for of all things, living in Montana and speaking out on what’s happening in the state I had lived in for over 60 years.

How dare I? LOL

The same people who accuse me of gaslighting and clickbaiting, gaslight me and use me for clickbait.

I scroll through the comments and see the usual name-calling and desperate attempts to paint me into something I am not.

The problem these novists have is that I spent decades doing my job, creating connections and understanding the state I love, Oregon.

I respond to a few comments and thank the page managers for addressing some of the more libelous accusations, and smile.

You know you’re hitting a nerve when this is all your opposition can come up with.

That and the juvenile name-calling.

I lived most of my life in Oregon.

My connections, contacts, and knowledge of how the state works and how it doesn’t are vast.

We learned during the overreaction to COVID that people like me, who do video work, social media management, and podcasting, can work from anywhere.

They call us influencers because we share our information to give voice to large groups of people, who never get listened to by the very organizations that criticize us.

This tabloid and its followers obviously don’t understand that the world is much bigger than where you live; it’s what you know.

Boil it down, and that’s the issue.

While they sell a few hundred thousand papers a year(I’m being generous), we get anywhere between 6 and 9 million views on just two social media pages each month.

I truly believe informing people and giving them a voice is what changes the world.

This has been my career from the start, and that didn’t change.

What has changed is that by not living in Oregon, I am free to talk about things that are counter-culture.

The ideas and thoughts of the formerly silent majority are finally being heard, and the censorship lords don’t like that at all.

It’s hard to own the conversation for decades and all of a sudden have those you lorded your ideas over, turn on you.

A month ago, I started reading one chapter in Proverbs each day.

Ironic how God meets you where you are.

Each verse today seems to speak to the artificial beating I’m taking from some online.

KPNW Radio invited me to come talk about this on their radio program on Monday morning at 7:35.

I said yes, why wouldn’t I take the opportunity to talk about the things I love?

Things like freedom, crushing censorship, truth and justice, My Oregon, and all those people out there, turning on the narrative of despair.

Here are just a few verses that stuck out.

“Trust in God with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.” Proverbs 3:5

“Do not be wise in your own eyes, fear God, and turn away from evil.” Proverb 3:7

“The curse of God is on the house of the wrong. But he blesses the home of righteousness.”  Proverbs 3:33

“He certainly scoffs at the scoffers but gives favour to the humble.” Proverbs 3:34

“The wise do inherit esteem, but fools are bearing away in shame.” Proverbs 3:35

Welcome to 2026.

This is guaranteed to be an interesting year.