Five Stories That Show the Left’s Control of the ‘Truth’ is Slipping
The leftist authoritarian domination of the popular narrative is crumbling faster than we can document it. Here are five news stories in just the last week that demonstrate this trend.
1. The Delegitimization of the Female Bully.
A few days ago, many Americans were shocked to see this scene of a middle-aged woman physically assaulting a father who won the scramble for a loose home run ball during a Phillies/Marlins baseball game. If you have not seen the video, it’s worth taking a few minutes to watch. A father out with his son correctly anticipated that a homerun baseball would land near his seat and scrambled to retrieve it. A woman sitting nearby managed to touch the ball before he did, but could not gain control of it before the man scooped it up. As everyone who has ever attended an MLB game knows, the ball was his fair and square.
But as the man returned to his son, elated to have retrieved the precious souvenir, he was physically accosted by the woman who demanded he surrender “her” ball. She put her hand on his arm, forcing him to turn and face her. The shock of the confrontation led to the man shrugging and taking the ball from his son, surrendering it to the angry bully. For me, and apparently for many other Americans posting about it on X, it recalled the hysteria that seemed to possess a certain type of woman during COVID—the kind who would call the police for mask violations and then righteously congregate to protest against police the very next week.
A year ago, the public, although disapproving of her antics, would have stopped short at expressing its disapproval while simultaneously congratulating the man for his deference and maturity in “avoiding a scene.” Things have changed. Americans have finally lost their patience for these types of characters, and the reaction to the father’s deference looks quite different.
As Jack Posobiec pointed out, his meek surrender enables women like this to go on abusing people from a position of privilege—inserting themselves into situations they know little about and spreading their entitled terror. Posobiec called what happened “The Phillies Karen and the Death of American Manhood,” and went on to say that “we’re losing our nation one surrender at a time.” Yes, men should stand up to the crazy woman! She shouldn’t win by being a bully, even if she is a woman.
2. The Failure of the Anti-RFK Astroturf Plot
It was impossible for many who watched the Phillies Karen scold and bully to get her baseball, not to be reminded of Senator Elizabeth Warren last Friday shouting at Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his testimony before Congress. RFK’s questioners put on an impressive act, pretending to be emotional and exhibit concern for their constituents, which repeating the talking points of their Big Pharma donors.
If this were about science, there would be no need to scream at the HHS secretary, interrupt him, and bend his words into gross distortions. JD Vance exposed their hypocrisy in a post on X, in which he asked why anyone should trust people talking about science when it is known that they support hormone “therapies” for children seeking to become transgendered.
Again, we’re reminded of the COVID pandemic, when social media censorship aligned with the interests of pharmaceutical companies rather than advancing the public interest. Moreover, the days of cowing people into silence merely by screaming at them for “questioning the science” are over. This line of reasoning is no longer credible to much of the public.
In the midst of the apparent collapse of the Democrats’ ability to coordinate and dominate the messages and agenda that Americans see in the public forums, however, there’s one venue where their power seems to remain intact—Congress. There, the pro-pharma agenda they so often push through their allies in the government and media still holds sway and the pushers imagine there is an audience for it among the people. They are mistaken. The infrastructure may remain, but public skepticism has blunted their effect. RFK appears secure in his current position.
3. Trans Authoritarianism
Americans were recently horrified by the arrest and persecution of an Irish comedian, Graham Linehan, after British officials arrested him for his various tweets critical of the trans community. Immediately after his release, he showed up outside a courthouse with a sandwich board declaring, “there’s no such thing as a trans child.” Great Britain has lost its reputation as a bastion of free speech as it now routinely arrests citizens for criticizing the trans movement or questioning the official pro-immigration policy. But Linehan was not re-arrested for his second act of civil disobedience, suggesting that a little courage goes a long way.
4. Tech Giants Appear to Gobble Up Red Pills
President Trump recently hosted a dinner with many of the tech executives who previously used their companies to stifle and thwart Trump and his followers. It wasn’t long ago that Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook banned Trump from his platform, yet there Zuckerberg sat in a room at the White House, apparently willing to collaborate with the president he opposed on midwifing America’s coming tech boom. Poor Melania Trump had the unenviable position of sitting next to a former Trump foe, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who used his fortune to oppose Trump.
These leaders were probably never true believers in the left’s social agenda, so much as they caved to the left’s pressure and power. Now that the left is out of power, it is good to be reminded that what really motivates them is something entirely predictable: money and power.
5. The End of Google’s Monopoly Over Truth
In a recent antitrust decision, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta declined to break up Google to address its monopoly over search and advertising. I queried the large language model (LLM) Perplexity for context. It then dawned on me that I had just proven Judge Mehta’s point: The market has already done what the Justice Department sought to have done through judicial intervention. Google is no longer the optimal way to research a question.
Google’s monopoly over internet search gave it the power to disappear historical facts. This became increasingly apparent to anyone who covered the Russia Collusion Hoax. Well-established facts that contradicted official narrative required lengthy prompts and interminable scrolling to find and verify. In contrast, one could always easily find debunked smears against President Trump. While the LLMs are similarly guilty of anti-Trump bias, they are much easier to penetrate and one has multiple alternatives if one LLM stymies the search for a particular fact. We should expect that these alternatives will only multiply.
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