By JACKIE TAYLOR | September 9, 2026

Partisan politics?

After the last few days of seeing the hatred, terrible comments, etc. on Facebook, it’s once again very apparent how caustic Facebook is. People can say terrible things on there, all without thinking there are any repercussions, and, after posting their say they go on with their lives.

I’m thinking of one blog that just popped up that is completely anonymous – but promises to be Dick Tracy come to life. Do what you want on Facebook – but own it – put your name on the things you run. Putting comments on, whether true or not, without stating whose comments they are is cowardice.

Anyone can be a brave keyboard warrior when they hide behind anonymity.

But remember, anyone can be sued for their comments – there is such a thing as defamation and more and Facebook posts are not immune.

I was amazed at some of the comments I read concerning the Lindsay Clancy trial where the mother killed her 8-month-old, three year and five-year-old children claiming post-partum depression and a host of other medical issues written up in a Freud journal.

I’m not debating the issue of the killing; there are lots of details of her medicine use, lack of mental health treatment and more that throw goo in the already huge fire. Heaven help the jury – no wonder there were issues.

I look at the issue from maybe a different slant. Massachusetts just enacted legislation that allows babies be killed up until the time they are due to be born. A bunch of women hugging each other and ready to go party after the legislation was signed by the governor was shown on the news; not a tear in the room for the full-term babies that would die due to it being inconvenient to have a child.

Enter the Lindsay Clancy trial where she killed her babies and the jury was hung – 11 to 1, with apparently the 11 saying she was not guilty and one saying she was. I look at where the state of Massachusetts is at with their legislature and the fist-bumping applauding the killing of babies ready to be born, and I don’t wonder that a jury would have found her not guilty of murder.

The woman was obviously mentally ill; to do something as terrible as she did to those three sweet babies, she was possessed by the devil.

Now, step forward a few days and discussion on the case still continues – many saying she is guilty of murder, others citing drug interactions and lack of mental health as the reason for the killings. Degrade the discussion a bit more and several dingdongs on Facebook state “that is what happens because of MAGA,” “Donald Trump….” and the other side calling names such as “libtards, communist Dems,” etc.

The discussion has nothing to do with politics; it centers on mental health, sociopathic tendencies and more.

Idiots on Facebook try to inflame a very contentious topic with malarkey, as Joe calls it, trying to do further damage to our political system in this country – like we need more gas on an already blazing inferno.

Back to Facebook, as a reader – I urge you to question who the author is on some of these sites. Question why they don’t put their name on what they pen – is it something you want to be associated with? Can you trust the source?

Facebook is a land where little fish swim in big waters trying to make big splashes - buyer beware.