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Liberals say the darndest things on social media

Posted: December 12, 2024 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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Just like most Conservatives and Libertarians who post regularly on social media, I have been bullied and harassed by my progressive friends constantly.  These tedious verbal assaults prove that the political left is a vast top-down echo chamber where reality is frowned upon. For this article I have complied a list of the most common or most absurd comments that my progressive friends have tortured me with over the years.

Just because I was celebrating the fact that Planned Parenthood funding will most likely be on the Department of Government Efficiency chopping block a liberal friend decided to chronicle every single gynecological issue her and her family ever had. She claimed falsely that poor women all across this country would die if Planned Parenthood did not receive funding because that is the only place they get care.  She also repeated the lie over and over again that women in red states are dying because gynecological care was banned by pro-life laws. 

My liberal friends get incensed every time I post the fundamental truth that abortion is murder.  I get bombarded with absurd comments claiming that unborn children are not alive. I often get called a science denier.  Oh the irony. 

One liberal friend informed me that only certain religious sects maintain that unborn children are a vessel for life.  That same friend told me repeatedly that that religion must be kept out of politics.   I found that statement to be rather absurd on several levels. 

Our entire legal system was based on Judean Christian principles.  If you divorce religious morality from government, you get atrocities such as the holocaust and all of the mass slaughters that occurred under communism.

The separation of church and state is a myth.  The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment only prevents the United States from declaring an official State Religion.  It does not prevent individuals from governing according to religious beliefs.  That is actually protected by the Free Exercise of Religion Clause of the First Amendment.

There is one primary difference between the Political Left and the Political Right on Social Media

Posted: December 5, 2024 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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Over and over again I have been bullied and harassed on social media by individuals who inhabit the political left.  All I have to do to trigger an onslaught of mean-spirited and abusive comments is to post something on Facebook that goes against official progressive orthodoxy. 

Whenever I encounter posts from my progressive friends that I do not agree with, or that I know are incorrect, or that I know are pure bovine excrement, I simply scroll past like an adult.  My liberal friends rarely return the favor.  There have been times when I’ve had to do battle with 4 or 5 angry leftists at the same time. Each time this happened I felt very much I was ambushed by a pack of rabid dogs.

None of my Conservative or Libertarian friends engage in the same type of bullying and harassing behavior that progressives engage in regularly.  Just about all of my right leaning friends have been tormented by hoards of angry liberals.  Just about all of my progressive friends have bullied and harassed me.  That is the primary difference between the right and the left when it comes to social media.

It took me quite a while to figure out why liberals constantly engage in this holy war against posts that they do not agree with.  Their goal is to bully and harass individuals who do not share their beliefs into silence.  We are heretics to them.  Freedom of speech is not a two-way street to leftists.  They label posts that go against progressive groupthink as misinformation, or hate speech, or both.  Then they declare all-out war on those individuals that dare think for themselves.

The only way I found to fight against this bullying and harassment is to unfriend those that attempt to bully me into silence.  I tried to engage in rational debate and a respectful sharing of views and opinions.  That was not well received at all.  They responded with insults and tantrums.  The bullying only escalated. 

I firmly believe that every individual has a right to believe whatever they wish to believe, and to give voice to those beliefs however they wish.  I firmly believe that no individual has the right to force their beliefs on any other individual.  Sadly, those on the political left do not share these beliefs.

Social media influencers add no votes for Kamala Harris

Posted: October 27, 2024 by John Ruberry in culture, election 2024, elections, News/opinion, opinion/news, politics, twitter
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By John Ruberry

There’s a tendency by the left to refer to supporters of Donald J. Trump as a cult.

We’re not.

Oh, before I move on, if you plan to vote for the Trump-Vance ticket and other Republican candidates, do so now. While our side typically likes to vote on Election Day, there’s always that chance you’ll be ill that day, have car problems, a family emergency might arise, or inclement weather might sneak up on you. All of these things can happen tomorrow–however, there’s always the day after.

Except on Election Day.

Mrs. Marathon Pundit and I voted–for Trump of course–last week. Up until post-election day in 2020, both of us opposed early voting. But we’re against the Democrats even more.

Back to “the cult.”

The Democrats dragged a senile old man over the finish line in 2020. So instead of wandering the beaches of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, Joe Biden was living in the world’s priciest nursing home, the White House. Now the Dems, citing first “joy,” and now “Trump is Hitler,” are trying to accomplish the same stunt for Kamala Harris, the poster child of that disease of the public sector, failing upwards.

Cult-leaders believe their followers will fall for anything. Which brings me to influencers.

One bizarre campaign strategy of the Dems is the use of social media influencers who mindlessly cheer on the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz ticket. They were just as zombie-like for Biden-Harris. Since they often post on social media on the same topic almost simultaneously, I suspect all of them are being fed the same lies, oops, make that lines, by the Democratic Party or Dem PACs.

Cult members fall for such appeals to emotion.

The worst of the bunch is the man-child, Harry Sisson. More often than the others, Sissons begins many of his posts with “BOOM,” or “OMG.” And he regularly claims, almost always falsely, that a Trump rally venue is dominated by empty seats, or has attendees leaving early, which course, Sisson will say, cause the Trump-Vance campaign to “panic.”

Thru a couple of liberal PACs, Sisson is paid for his X blather, according to Community Notes on X.

A couple of other influence tools are almost as bad. Until the day Biden was pushed out of the campaign, the Kamala’s Wins X page was known as Biden’s Wins.

What wins?

In an X post last week, Kamala’s Wins said about a Tempe event, “BREAKING: Local reporters in Arizona are reporting that Donald Trump is struggling to fill seats for his rally tonight. Trump’s rallies have been emptier than ever lately.”

That Tempe rally, according to an X video posted in that account’s comments feed, didn’t seem to have a single empty seat.

Then there is Victor Shi, another influencer. Today he said on X, “This matters,” about a Madden game between Tim Walz and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Because he appears to be about 60 years old, the worst of the Harris influencer ilk is Jon Cooper.

For the last few days, Cooper has been claiming on X that a “devastating” video damaging to Trump would be released soon. We’re still waiting. If such a video existed, it would be out by now. What was that I said earlier about early voting? Depending on where you live, it began days ago–or weeks ago.

If Kamala Harris believes these influencers change or add a single vote for her, then it’s solid proof that she is too dumb to be president.

In the 2028 presidential campaign, I predict the use of influencers by Democratic presidential campaigns will be greatly diminished.

But Dem cultists, like shell game operators who can’t fool anyone anymore, will move on to something else.

John Ruberry regularly blogs at Marathon Pundit.

Meta AI on Facebook gives biased answers on Biden and Trump’s health

Posted: June 2, 2024 by John Ruberry in election 2024, News/opinion, opinion/news, politics
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By John Ruberry

Artificial Intelligence, AI for short, is dangerous.

Musical instruments can be used to create beautiful and soul-stirring music, such as Beethoven’s 9th Symphony; they can also be abused to grind out aural rubbish such as Screaming Lord Sutch’s Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends, which a BBC poll found to be the worst album of all time.

Artificial intelligence can be twisted to produce ugliness, distortions, and lies.

On my smartphone, I asked Meta AI, thru Facebook, “Is Biden healthy?”

This is the answer I received:

President Joe Biden has generally been considered healthy for his age. In 2021, his physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor, released a medical report stating that Biden was “healthy” and “vigorous” and that he was fit to serve as president.

However, like many people his age, Biden has had some health issues, including:

– A history of brain aneurysms (Successfully treated in 1988).
– A pulmonary embolism (treated in 1988).
– Atrial fibrillation (an irregular heartbeat).
– High cholesterol.
– Acid reflux.
– A minor foot fracture in 2020.
– COVID-19 in 2022 (mild symptoms).

Despite these issues, Biden has maintained an active schedule and has been cleared by his doctors to continue serving as president.

While I am not a doctor, but clearly the president is that the president is “an old 81” and at the very least, should submit to a full cognitive exam from a qualified and unbiased team of psychiatrists.

Meta AI doesn’t mention Biden’s frequent mental wanderings, the most recent of which was last month’s disastrous Biden press conference that was abruptly ended by Karine Jean-Pierre.

Let’s check into Meta AI’s opinion on the presumptive Republican nominee for president, Donald J. Trump.

“Is Trump healthy?”

Former President Donald Trump’s health has been a subject of interest and controversy. In 2019, his then-personal physician, Dr. Harold Bornstein, wrote a letter stating that Trump was in “excellent physical health” and that his lab results were “astonishingly excellent.” However, there have been some concerns and controversies surrounding Trump’s health, including:

– Obesity (he is reportedly 6’3″ and weighed 230 pounds in 2019).
– High cholesterol.
– A history of fast food consumption and poor diet.
– Questions about his mental health and cognitive abilities.
. – A bout of COVID-19 in 2020 (he was hospitalized for a few days).
– A history of esophageal reflux and sleep apnea.

It’s important to note that Trump’s health records have not been fully disclosed, and some of his medical information has been disputed or controversial.

Shameful.

As the Washington Post says, “Democracy dies in darkness.” It can also choke to death from lies.

Yes, Trump’s diet sucks and he’s overweight. Yet one Meta AI distortion about Trump jumps out: “Questions about his mental health and cognitive abilities.” Trump’s political rallies are an exercise of streams of consciousness. No one ever questioned James Joyce’s cognitive abilities. The same goes for legendary baseball manager Casey Stengel. Trump’s mind is as sharp as a pin, while Biden can’t even make it through a brief speech in front of a teleprompter.

“Controversy” and “controversial” are used in Meta AI’s account of Trump’s health, but not in Biden’s health rundown.

I could go on and on, but two more things: I’ve always been skeptical about the established line that Biden’s “minor foot fracture” was the result of the then-president-elect playing with his dog. And while Meta AI while mentions that Trump suffers from sleep apnea, it’s been widely reported–but not by Meta AI–that Biden uses a CPAP machine to treat his sleep apnea.

If America ever collapses, an Edward Gibbon of the future will need to include a chapter or two about social media in that account of the decline and fall.

I played around the Meta AI a bit more, not every answer about Trump’s health was a biased as the one documented here, but perhaps Meta AI was getting wise to me.

I’m sure Meta AI has a file on me that includes the words “right-wing lunatic.”

John Ruberry regularly blogs, without the use of AI, at Marathon Pundit.

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