I Had a Little Troll, But It Wasn't Cute

So... had an interesting cyber experience this summer as a result of going to federal court with my Dad in Nevada - my first personal experience with trolls. 

A lot of my dad's friends seem to not like it so much (I guess having lies told about you constantly isn't the most fun) but to be honest everything that was said was so outrageous I found it hilarious. 

Yes, I laughed. A lot. 

I mean - publicity is good, whether positive or not, yes? Lol... not exactly ;p  But still - very funny.

I think you all remember I went to a writer's conference in July? I wrote about it here. 

Now, some info for y'all. My dad does politics full time. Meaning he attends all the trials for the men involved with the Bundies and other men who are being prosecuted, as my Dad feels, wrongly. He updates the public through his Facebook page, reaching thousands of people and telling them what happens in the courtroom. Letting many people know about things that they would otherwise not ever hear about.

As my dad does this full time he can't work, so people occasionally help out with donations. At this specific time his sister was getting married and people gave more money to help him travel down to her wedding.

Like anything, there are haters. And Dad has many of them.

Like any idiot - these people decided to jump to conclusions. They decided since I was with my dad attending a writer's conference he must have payed for it.

In all honesty, I used my own money. Which I work for very hard. My dad was returning from the wedding to the trials in Nevada.

For quite some time he had wanted me to attend court with him. This happened to work out. We drove to Nevada, stopping at my conference. While I was with writing friends Dad was staying somewhere else continuing his political research. And then we continued on up to Las Vegas where I spent a week in court with Dad before I had to return home to work.

After this I guess they decided to stalk me a bit I guess? They shared my post I wrote about my time in Las Vegas. But not in a positive way... lol.

And here's where the wild guesses start... not sure what they think we stole ;p ;) 

This is hilarious. We are neither Mennonite nor Amish. And we have no more online presence or tech gadgets than any other normal person... so I'm not sure what's up with that ;p 

Sorry, Ivie. You are most certainly not stupid. And what in the world is he talking about how I center my text??? That's art ;p But maybe that makes you stupid to center blog text? I don't know... but shall continue doing so :D 

But his readers seem to think he's smart for making fun of how I align my text. To be honest I was quite surprised they didn't say anything about the pink, lol. 

"...At least can spell." HAHA! Thank you...? to be honest, I'm not really that great of a speller. Auto-correct is truly a friend, and my readers who will occasionally point out to me, "You need to change this before too many people see the horrid thing you just wrote!" 

But I do appreciate these kind words spoken by the infamous troll :) 

Well, technically we are lambs not baboons. But whatever. As to genius? Like the post says... it doesn't take a genius to recognize corruption. I sure wasn't trying to act like I was smart. Just stating what I saw. ;) 

I'm glad they liked my headline: "Corruption is obvious. But what are we going to do about it - beyond ranting?"

Yet why do I sense so much sarcasm... as if they really could top it? LOL And I really don't think they understood the ranting vs. doing part... 

I hope you all enjoyed this post. I know it's a bit different than I normally do. But these people drew a lot of traffic to my blog. So it's only fair I gave them just a bit of thanks :p Laughter is always good? 

And this is a good lesson for us, too. Make sure you are well informed about what you claim to know a lot about. Other wise you'll look very much like an ignorant fool. Something that is never fun... ;/ 

But comedy is good - so maybe we shouldn't stop the idiocy?