LEOWIFE I will miss you

Oh my word.  Thank you for posting that. I 100% agree. 

in addition, before everyone tries to canonize Leowife as this saint of a woman - need I remind you that she tried to politicize the Christmas card list. The Christmas card list! She explicitly put in the original Christmas card list post that she was going to check political affiliations and she was going to BAN those that she didn’t agree with. Plus she wanted everyone’s full name and address or she wouldn’t have allowed you to join the list. That woman had control issues. I think it was best she stepped away from the board.

Seriously. Someone up thread mentioned that we always do this. Not really. Most of the time the threads are have you heard from xyz because they are taking a break. But the only time peas mention a deleted account is on the thread where they notice the delete. 

This and the other threads were started to start crap.

Like I said, mnm needs to turn that pitch fork around and proudly be it because she didn't start this thread out of concern. Why when we all know LEOWIFE is gone.

    Restless Spirit-your second paragraph is completely untrue. I have been a part of the original Christmas Card List (not the new version) for the past 5-6 years including this year. I am also a Democrat and have been since I turned 18. Leowife did not ban anyone from the CCL (Christmas card list) due to political affiliations. In fact in her last email regarding the swap she asked us to keep politics out of the swap-that the election would have just happened and tensions would be high, but the swap was not the place for politics. 

It saddens me greatly that we can't have discussions on this board  when we do disagree with someone for whatever reason, on whatever subject we can't treat each other with respect and agree to disagree. It's what grownups should do. Not behave like childish brats that resort to name calling because one person doesn't agree with your stance on whatever issue. Not saying all Peas do this, but some do and that is what I believe drove Leowife away. She did the honorable thing-she waited until the CCL was completely finished and ready to go before she left. I wish her well and I'm sad she left. 

As I said I am a Democrat, my father (who I love very much and who I am very close to) is a life long Republican and yet we talk politics quite frequently, but because we respect each other we leave the discussion by agreeing to disagree. Same with religion. In my family I am Catholic, DH is Baptist, DS is an Atheist, my father and sister are Lutherans and my mother is Russian Orthodox. You should hear our conversations regarding religion around the dinner table when all of us are together. It's funny, it's thought provoking, but it's always respectful. 

I wouldn't want a forum with everyone exactly the same agreeing on every subject. How boring would that be? With all of our different backgrounds, beliefs, etc. we can learn so much from each other if we just remember to treat each other with respect. 

Racism of course should always be called out. In every instance. I however don't remember any of the Leowife comments I read (and I don't read all of the posts everyday) to be racist.

Needs to be more rabid.

I know it looks like a jalapeño but it came up under a google search for pea with a pitchfork. And it has little bumps like a peapod.

Also, I thought it would never again be seen after that thread, so I didn’t put much effort in. MizIndependent’s version is much better.

Pitchfork peas = the new Hoff

BLASPHEMY! Nothing can replace The Hoff!!

😂😂

FTR I will state that I do not know her full post history.  So this is me just hypothesizing on the information I am reading in this thread.

Could it be that the issues other areas are seeing she does not see in her area? For example in SD we don't have police brutality cases and we don't have high crime though either.  So for me reading about rioting and looting after the election just seems unfathomable because we don't experience that here. 

I also think that sometimes when your fear is so great you tend to not see the other perspectives or other things happening.  Every shift her dh works there is that risk of something happening to him.  Her fear in that is real.  I am sure that clouds what we feel should be logical thoughts.

Again, I don't know enough about her posts. If she has posted blatant comments like I hate this race or such and such race is a problem then disregard what I said. 

I hear what you are saying and would respectfully ask you to view the fact that she showed the same disrespect for peas of color and other peas who participated in protests against police brutality. 

It certainly is/was a 2-way street. Her comments were equally hurtful to a number of people here, and even more so when she refused to entertain any evidence to the contrary of her claims about protestors. 

Not everyone, contrary to her claims, that participated in BLM protests was violent, a thug, did something illegal, or did anything other than exercised their own first amendment rights.  In fact the overwhelming majority did none of what she claimed and yet anyone who challenged her on that is now portrayed as “the bad guy” because it apparently is okay to publicly slam huge swaths of people if you choose to then leave this board when that doesn’t go unchallenged. 

I’m sorry that she felt the need to leave. Truly. And equally sorry that she never responded to any of my posts providing her with multiple links to evidence that contradicted her wildly false claims about BLM and BLM protestors. 

Mary, Mary, Mary. What a petulant little child you are.

There, there, it will be okay.

Maybe you can follow her? You don't seem very happy here.

Disagree.  Hoff with a pitchfork! I'm sure a talented pea can photoshop out the Baywatch rescue board and replace with a pitchfork. 

I agree with what is said here. I participated in one thread and overwhelmingly people were posting that while the vast majority of people protesting were doing so peacefully a small number of people were doing the rioting. Everyone acknowledged that; everyone said the rioters were wrong. We just asked her to agree with the same statement ~ the vast majority of police officers do their jobs almost perfectly yet there are still some that do not.

Not only would she agree that a small number of police are not good people, she doubled down and said the vast majority of protesters were criminals. And she gave stats, not links but just in her own typing. Stats that multiple people disputed with their own links to reputable research that either she ignored or said were flat out wrong.

No one on that particular thread was trying to get her to say all cops suck. We were asked her to confirm some did. Her husband did the training so there’s no possible way anyone could ever go against what he trained them to do, nationwide.

I read the thread referenced either in this thread or the other Leowife left thread that she started asking about relationship status. Besides her initial post her only other post said:

“LADIES, thank you. The stories, the loss, the long marriages the second time, the memories....

I do belive love helps shapes ideas and beliefs. We never really know where or when that will come into play.”

I just found that odd. While I agree love shapes us, from her history it felt to me that she was acquiring data on the posters and comparing their relationship status to their political posts. I could be totally off base and would probably never have thought that about a different poster but, as it was said earlier in this thread, what you post follows you around on the board, and it was my first thought about her.

I have felt this way for awhile. I honestly thought she was collecting data. Am I sure she was? No. But I just got a feeling that she was...