Posted on 11/02/2013 9:02:45 AM PDT by Republicanprofessor
I don’t do Facebook, but here’s my two cents.
If your goal is to educate and inform, stick to factual reports or opinion pieces backed up with solid facts.
Don’t post articles or opinion pieces which criticize or lampoon Obama personally. Stick to policies. Obama will soon be history. But the policies he has managed to institute will live on and need to be reversed.
If you find a piece from a liberal source or liberal author critical of Obama’s policies, that’s a bonus. I.E., the recent columns by Ezra Klein critiquing the Obamacare rollout.
There are many woefully uninformed or misinformed folks out there. If some of those are among your family members or friends, then by all means try to enlighten them.
I had a FB “friend” and colleague defriend me when I called him on the lies he spread about Romney. There was this great article, probably from FR, about the lying strategies Democrats use, and he was using them. I called him on it, posted the article and he defriended me. Oh well, his posts were incredibly left wing rampant ranting; no loss. Although it is good to see how they (the libs) are thinking.
Another professor from a different college defriended me when I compared Obama’s manipulation of children on an issue (probably gun control after the CT shooting) with Hitler doing similar things.
I thought “liberals” were supposed to be open to other ideas...right.
Good point about the “internet expertise.” He is obviously poor at implementing websites like Obamacare, or overseeing the implementation thereof.
What I meant is that he seemed to use social media very well in his campaigns. He is a great campaigner. Too bad he can’t govern or lead worth a damn.
My FB friends, along with the NSA, know exactly where I stand politically and theologically. A few have “de-friended” me. That’s fine. In fact, it is to be expected, just as darkness cannot stand light. A crypto-communist narcissist currently holds the office of President, and he is fully supported by a like-minded staff/media. They only have authority that has been given from Above. No matter how overreaching or overbearing they may appear, in the end they serve the Church, and their liberal arts (good film and music) serve us as well. They are the slaves, not I.
I am often saying, “Would you support a Republican who did these things ________?” (insert any scandal you like: Benghazi, NSA, IRS, etc.)
They never reply....but maybe they are thinking...
That is often my tactic: to post intriguing articles, especially those by Thomas Sowell, that might spark some thought. I try to be polite as I do so... (Many of the liberal friends have dismissed Sowell as a “crackpot” since I posted an article of his about how liberal college professors are. But I keep posting anyway.)
I can only hope they are read as much as those by your friends.
I love your statement “Sometimes it hurts to think.”
To be precise, the quote is: "Great minds talk about ideas; mediocre minds talk about events; small minds talk about other people."
Frequently and falsely attributed (by liberals) to Eleanor Roosevelt.
Great graph, thanks. The YouTube statistics are staggering.
Social media for the moment is an agressive tool for getting the “Conservative message” out among folks that have no idea what it is all about, along with the rank & File foot soldier of conservative bent.. Recently, after the 2012 election, conservatives started to get the message. Both John McCain (2008) & Mitt Romney were terribly weak candidates, with no hint at all of messaging through modern media!!!
Ted Cruz, etc., is miles above and ahead of them and their RINO deadbeats!!! That is why folks like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Rush Limbaugh, the Dailey Caller, and hundreds of individual conservatives across the country are now posting heavily on “Facebook, Twitter”, etc.
The difference between the postings of Obamabots & Conservatives is that Conservatives tend to keep their language reasonable, while the Obamabot group favors the rants, raves & cursing. I believe this outreach is having substantial success for conservatives, across the political spectrum, and the success will continue unabated!!!
We must also take advantage fo the “Obamacare Implosion” currently ongoing!!! We must use this media and others to grab voters who, prior to this Obama farce were living in the Obama bubble!!! a powerful tool is now in our hands...Use it!!!
That’s why they’re so anxious to get Hillary in for 8 years. To frighten people into silence due to sexism. I wonder if it will work?
Or try this: "Which of Obama's policies do you believe I'd support if he were fully white, and not half-white?"
That should nonplus them for a moment.
I remember when there was a doubt he even knew how to drive a car! How was it proved that he did? Parking tickets up the wazoo!
Liberal seminar posters call for this on social media all the time, as if the Republicans are somehow to blame for the name-calling. What they mean by "working together" is: "Democrats will propose something far to the Left, RINOs will counter with a moderate proposal giving Democrats most of what they really want, and a 'bipartisan' consensus will then be achieved that is well to the left of where we are today."
A scorched earth, "No More Spending - Period!" approach is what is needed, and a wrenching of the whole landscape of the debate back toward liberty and away from collectivism.
High school friend dropped me after I posted about the Trayvon Martin trial. We’re culturally very much in line. Except he was always more politically liberal he went on and got a PHD. Along the way he became a huge liberal. The kind that would say we should spend trillions and print as much money as we need because it’s just paper.
Whenever he posted some anti-conservative macro, I’d offer a rebuttal to which he’d get upset and sometimes pull down the convo. I asked him if it was bothering him because I’ll reserve myself on commenting on his posts as I don’t wish to cause a problem with the friendship. He declined saying it’s not a problem when I post and he pulls them down because he’s tired of keeping them on his page. Apparently, that was not true.
One day when I posted about Zimmerman’s trial and how near the end it’s become apparent this was a railroading and the state essentially proved that Zimmerman was acting in self-defense he got upset and played the racism angle. That Trayvon was a victim of a racist Zimmerman. That sparked an argument with other friends and family where he started mockingly calling people “cracker” and eventually he defriended me though I never belittled or insulted him.
I agree, he had a well-run web presence. I just don’t believe he knew one iota about it and it’s execution.
The only thing I’ve ever seen in media about what he actually does himself is riding a girl’s bicycle like a homo, observing real karate matches on the WH lawn - like a poofter, and standing on a short step ladder hanging window curtains - like a homo.
Every other presence he’s had in the media is a big effing mouth, spouting about how he’d change this country.....unfortunately, that is the one area in which he has apparently succeeded.
Nice post!
Your friend shared many of the same traits that Obama described in one of his books...the ability to befriend whites and not seem scary.
Unfortunately, this never is truly friendship. It is just tolerance and acting for their own purposes.
Learn to spot it.
MY FB page is PRIMARILY political...I am trying to EDUCATE my nieces, nephews, grandchildren and other family members as well as friends....one “cousin” who hates politics has finally started liking some of my posts...even a 26 yr old granddaughter is reposting...but, she married a Mormon!
I am sure some of my “friends” have removed me...and I lost a 30+ year “friend” last year, but that was from an email....
I refuse to live a FAKE life...
I think the Left displays characteristics of some kind of mass or collective/communal demonic infestation.
I say this not at all jokingly but based on empirical observation.
For example, I have noticed with individuals I know personally which have no connection to each other exhibit traits which are identical (and pathological). There is a profound intellectual dishonesty bordering on blindness which is common. And then there is a tendency to make boldface lies (by folks I have known for years who were previously honest people).
There is a kind of mass insanity if you will.
Now as to the demonic aspect of it...
I use the concept of demonic infestation because the traits I mention aren't morally random (i.e. some good, some bad, some morally ambiguous). These traits are ALL hostile, hurtful, injurious, and, yes, deeply angry when taken to the conclusions to which they seem to be pointing.
It's similar to what I have read about regarding psychiatrists who have worked with people who claim to have been abducted by aliens (one such psychiatrist is the now deceased Dr John Mack of Harvard).
While Dr Mack drew no conclusions initially of the truthfulness or lack thereof of the experiences, many of which were conveyed to him in hypnosis, many of details provided from a wide range of disparate individuals (from different backgrounds and none knowing the others) were identical. And ultimately, these experiences these individuals endured were (again) not morally random but, like the traits exhibited the members of the Left, were dark and malevolent. Many were filled with what might have been historically thought of occult symbolism (including sadomasochism and perverse sexuality).
There is the question of some (actually many) in the community of professionals who have looked into the alien abduction phenomenon that perhaps these ARE NOT "alien" experiences at all but a kind of demonic possession or infestation. The trauma that results is quite similar to that which some psychiatrists have associated with those who have eventually undergone ritual exorcisms. And, yes, the psychiatric community is always brought into modern evaluations as to demonic possess. Only cases which cannot be explained medically/psychiatrically are considered for possible exorcism (and even then many if not most are rejected by the churches).
In conclusion, let me clarify that those who have been traumatized by what they believe are "alien abductions" are quite different from those on the Left. The abductees appear to be innocent victims whereas those mindless zombies of the Left seem to be active and gleefully willing participants.
The Left moves with a herdlike singularity...always to a goal of spreading the soulless religion of the tolerance of amorality and truthlessness. The Left has a herd-mentality when it comes to their hatred of empirical reasoning and examination of themselves. They appear pathological in their apparent willingness to accept the death or imprisonment of those who disagree with them.
Anyway, just saying.
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