For some unknown reason, TBP set an all-time high for visitor count in March. It seems 494,000 people were drawn to the doom. I find that interesting. With the stock market at all time highs and the government reporting fantastic jobs numbers, you would think doom websites would see visitor counts plummeting.
The year to date visitor count is 30% higher than last year. That is a pretty dramatic surge in one year. I think we owe The Man With No Name a lot of credit. The site runs like a well oiled machine now. It ran like a 1973 Ford Pinto before he arrived on the scene.
It is an interesting contrast that CNBC’s ratings hit an all-time low in March, while a libertarian anarchist website gains more visitors by the day.
I think this is a positive development in that more people seem to be coming to their senses and realizing the government, the banks, and the mainstream media are the enemy. They are beginning to comprehend that we are in the midst of a Crisis, whose outcome will determine the future course of this country.
Thank you to all the TBP contributors, commenters, lurkers, and DHS surveillance agents for keeping this dysfunctional family of shit throwing monkeys together.
Admin,
Congratulations on a job well done. You have by far the most entertaining and enlightening website on the interwebs. A huge plus is the no holds barred comment section. Thanks again.
Bob.
Admin, bet most of them were .gov IP addresses…the NSA lurking. (just kiddin’)
People love a good fight. Think back to your high school daze. A fight in the hallway or schoolyard … we all loved watching it. We daydream about kicking a cop in the fuck.
One reason (of many) this place is getting all those hits is because it’s the ONLY “economics” place on the net (as far as I know) where you can say whatever the fuck you want, without getting shit-canned. (DP and RE being the exceptions.)
What I’m sayin’ is … people love the shit-fests.
More specifically people greatly enjoy seeing Llpoh and SSS getting the shit kicked out of them, and Billy coming unglued. It is a beautiful thing, which often brings tears of joy to my weary eyes. Kabukie theater at its finest.
The sugar high of the MSM is a fleeting sensation. You have to come to a place like TBP for a real meal that will feed your brain good nutrition. Pass the gravy already.
Wonderful Admin, now if the new lurkers would just send in a donation to keep the “well-oiled machine” running, and/or make up a name and jump in here, the web-life would be perfect!
In my daily prayers, (new, btw, haven’t prayed daily for over 30 years) I ask that God help show the closed to the truth, I ask that he helps them save themselves while they still can. Then I thank him for the things I’ve learned, the pain and angst they cause me (pain creates want to change, it is not always a bad thing) is the cost of admission to preparation.
Thank you for providing this place Jim. Thank you for risking yourself and your family, thank you for the dedication of time, thank you for your essays and observations, the shock, the horror, the laughs, the tears.
About time more people start to awaken and find you, or find you and then awaken. Either way.
Well, this is a tribute most of all to Admin’s writing skill and temperament. You can’t keep a good irishman down. Only a shitload of booze can do that.
“More specifically people greatly enjoy seeing Llpoh and SSS getting the shit kicked out of them”
—-Stucky
Eat my shorts.
Congrats, Admin.
Thanks SSS
You’ve been here from the very beginning. You have borne the brunt of many of the jokes and abuse tossed around over the years with good humor and class.
Here is a video in your honor. You’ve had to put up with some heavy shit.
Admin – did David Pierre and RE get tossed from the site as Stuck says? Back in the early days of TBP, some of the greatest fun was at DP’s expense. I kind of miss that draft-dodging loser.
Robmu1
DP was banned a few years ago. He shows up occasionally by using a different IP address, but he is usually occupied “tending” his sheep and practicing the Banjo.
I gave RE the boot a few months ago after he pushed me too far. The site sure has suffered from the loss of his contributions.
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hahaha regarding the above video.
For the Newbies who might be reading this ….. SSS is rabidly anti-pot smoking. He advocates life imprisonment for pot users. As to pot sellers, on one thread he said the most reasonable course of action is too have them beheaded. Yeah, that’s the truf. So, the pot-head video is really quite a funny “honor”.
Billy
WTF??????????????????????????
You turning on me, boy???
Don’t force me into posting Kentsucky hillbilly shit.
By the way, congrats Admin…
TBP getting serious traction just shows how fed up people are getting with the official line of bullshit spewed at them every day…
I hope your numbers climb into the millions…
@ Stuck,
No, just poking fun, is all…
Jeebuz Krist… and people say Germans don’t have a sense of humor.. I made a joke once, asking my wife if all Germans had their sense of humor surgically removed at birth – and if so, does it ever grow back? I got “that look”…. anyone who is married knows “that look”…
Come ON Stuck! And you say people come here to see me lose my shit!
It must have been the rebel camp against the Holy Trinity of Bulshit war a while back that brought in all the new peeps. Stucky is right, folks will tune in for a good fight.
I wonder if most of the newbies are from the south. Hope so.
Congrats ADMIN !!!!!!
admin-“It is an interesting contrast that CNBC’s ratings hit an all-time low in March, while a libertarian anarchist website gains more visitors by the day.”
Like I told DC on the KD quits thread…baby steps..we all need keep cranking it up .I send TBP to everyone I know and post links on pages I frequent…who can say how many will come over and stay ? No effort is futile.
It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Samuel Adams
Congrats Admin, since I discovered this site a few years back with your Bad Moon Rising essay I have been hooked. I haven’t read every post during that time but I have tried, read dang near every comment too. Love to read the perspectives of the regulars and the new folks weighing in while Stucky stirs up the shit to keep the conversations boiling. Kudos to all that make this a fun and informative place to spend time.
Stuck, SSS is against dope because , when he came back from flying all that shit out of the Golden Triangle under the cover of the Vietnam war, he had enough cash laid aside to come to terms with all the damage he and his CIA buds had wrought due to the craze for south Asian smack they artificially created.
..just kidding , SSS only flew the marijuana in. He wouldn’t fly the horse.
It was my HZK Chronicles, heh.
My writing teacher really liked them anyway, sigh. Said I was a nice cross between Jim Butcher (of the Harry Dresden series) and that Sarah Hoyt lady.
(It’s an online course so she may just be putting me on but it still was nice.)
Admin- Congratulations, your tireless sounding of the alarm is resonating.
Adm:
We come to you for the truth.
Let me chime in and offer thanks, Jim for creating TBP. I reference your site with a link in my comments on other sites I sound off on. None of which compare to the content you offer here and the regular crowd which I feel is quite tuned-in for the most part (you know who the exceptions are)
Contgrats…I agree all around with Westcoaster. TBP has the best original articles and best comments section by far. All the contributors add great content.
This site and Martin Armstrong’s blog are the only sites I check daily.
Keep up the good work, It does matter.
Jim, It would be great to hear you on Internet radio. Shows like Jimmy Church’s Fade to Black or John B Wells Caravan to Midnight. They both are good a letting the guest just talk about anything with no forced agenda or forum. Each of them have millions of listeners. Then your web views would go through the roof.
“Jeebuz Krist… and people say Germans don’t have a sense of humor” ———– Billy
I was just kidding ALSO. I said, “You turning on me, boy???” If I was not kidding, I would have said, “”You turning on me, ASSHOLE???” See the difference?
BTW, the map is very funny because that’s REALLY how Austrians see the rest of Europe!
Admin: The NSA probably has you colonoscopy video.
Dutchman
Those polyps were probably implanted by the NSA as listening devices.
Well done. An oasis of sanity in a sea of lies.
It was my GOOD article, and all the Aussies I am bringing to the site.
Stuck – as SSS says, eat his shorts.
Congrats, Admin. Well done.
Now if each of those visitors will send in one thin dime, you will hit your target.
Come on, you cheapskates, getting to watch the monkey show is not free. Send in those nickels and dimes.
Llpoh
Your article accounted for a large number of those visitors.
The great news has unleashed a torrent of donations totaling $0 today. It matched yesterday’s haul. And the day before’s. I’m starting to think the Paypal button is broken.
My daily stop for truth. I’ve had to rethink all my opinions about our country as a result of TBP. Kudos.
The problem you have, Admin, is not the number of clientele, but the quality!
The folks around these parts squeeze a nickel so hard the buffalo screams. Even the Scots are not as cheap as these bastards.
You need more folks from the FSA, who will happily borrow money to send in.
Admin,
Donation sent. Now give us more doom.
TBP? I thought this was TMZ, and I’ve always thought, “my God, their website sucks…”
Honestly Admin, I truly enjoy the site and commenters, and I vow someday soon I WILL send money to prove it!
Love,
cz
I think I deserve a lot of credit for this achievement. I sent word through the FedEx computer system .FedEx has only has about two hundred thousand employees. Everyone got an E mail. I did this 3 times .So if you ever make any money I want my cut. I’ll just go ahead and say thank you.
This is a libertarian anarchist website?
Don’t worry. All is well. I just got this email. As soon as I give him my bank information and Social Security number the $850,000 is all mine.
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Don’t take it personal Suck, Billeh pokes a little fun at me all the time
Thanks admin for keepin Billeh occupied and congrats on your blog.
bb you are terminated with extreme prejudice.
Little bb can stay.
Taking time off in April, so adjust ongoing forecast for 200,003 less hits.
Admin,
I made a new years resolution to place all Amazon orders using your link in addition to my donation to help you keep spreading the doom. If you haven’t seen an reasonable / sizable uptick in Amazon commissions I am screwing something up. Do you count those commissions in the keep TBP fighting meter or is that only the donations?
Please don’t judge based on the purchases I have made…… I trust you can keep my secrets.
folly
I only count the donations on the meter. I get about $100 per month from the Amazon commissions. All help is much appreciated.
Admin, I think you expected great numbers. You had to, it is a thought provoking great site. Expect more of the same. It’s funny ,too.
I’m very glad to see that visitor count. I’ve been surprised to see this site referenced in comments on some of the agriculture sites lately.
Kudos admin! This place appealed to me from my very first visit. Your original articles filled in many blanks. The rest of the content here makes for a well rounded doom porn experience. I sincerely appreciate TBP. Thank you!
@Admin – Holy crap that is pathetic. I know your audience tends to be frugal but I would have expected that with 490K visitors per month you would be earning more in Amazon commissions than that. Keep up the fight I know of several people who have had their eyes opened by your articles. The seeds you are sowing are growing.
The rest of you cheap bastards should click on admins links once in while or send him some money. He isn’t even earning minimum wage for the good work he is doing here.
We’ll done, but I’m not a bit surprised. Keep up the good work until TPTB can bear you no more.