‘Quid Est Veritas?’ Biden Unveils Ministry of Truth

 

The Biden administration is creating a group to counter “disinformation” and “misinformation.” It will be led by a woman who repeatedly pushed both.

The Department of Homeland Security appointed Nina Jankowicz to head the group. Her previous job title was “disinformation fellow” at the Wilson Center, a title that seems a bit on the nose. While at Wilson, she frequently offered false narratives about Hunter Biden’s incriminating “laptop from hell” and Trump’s involvement with Russia. One might even call it misinformation.

On October 20, 2020, the AP interviewed Jankowicz who insisted the laptop was a non-story:

The actual origins of the emails are unclear. And disinformation experts say there are multiple red flags that raise doubts about [the email authenticity, including questions about whether the laptop actually belongs to Hunter Biden, said Nina Jankowicz, a fellow at the nonpartisan Wilson Center in Washington….

“We should view it as a Trump campaign product,” Jankowicz said.

Later that month, Jankowicz tweeted, “Back on the ‘laptop from hell,’ apparently—Biden notes 50 former natsec officials and 5 former CIA heads that believe the laptop is a Russian influence op.”

When that tweet resurfaced this week, she claimed: “For those who believe this tweet is a key to all my views, it is simply a direct quote from both candidates during the final presidential debate. If you look at my timeline, you will see I was livetweeting that evening.”

Back to October 2020. Jankowicz linked to a news article that cast “yet more doubt on the provenance of the NY Post’s Hunter Biden story.” She added, “Not to mention that the emails don’t need to be altered to be part of an influence campaign. Voters deserve that context, not a [fairy] tale about a laptop repair shop.”

She gushed over Christopher Steele, the man who pushed the debunked “Steele dossier” alleging Russian/Trump collusion. “Listened to this last night – Chris Steele (yes THAT Chris Steele) provides some great historical context about the evolution of disinfo,” Jankowicz tweeted in August 2020.

In other words, the DHS anti-disinformation group will be led by a leading purveyor of disinformation.

On Thursday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked about Jankowicz’s ability to head the board. “I don’t have any comment on the laptop,” Psaki replied. “And I don’t know who this individual is, so I have no comment on that specifically.”

That instills confidence.

Jankowicz’s deceptions are bad enough but the very concept of government officials defining “truth” is dangerous if not malevolent.

“Misinformation” vs. “Disinformation”

Since politicians and the media use these terms without context, some definitions are in order. “Disinformation” is intentional false information, whereas “misinformation” is false information, whether intended or not.

Say it’s World War I and the Brits want to demoralize German soldiers. The allies drop leaflets on a Kraut trench saying the Kaiser is about to sue for peace. That is disinformation.

When a deceived German soldier credulously reads the bad info to his buddies, that is what’s usually meant by misinformation. (Technically, it’s both mis- and dif-, but illustrates the difference)

The working definition of both disagrees with the above. When Biden or a cable news anchor uses either term, it means “thing I don’t like.” The Chinese lab-leak theory was misinformation until Trump was well out of office. It was disinfo to claim the vaccine didn’t prevent Covid until the media couldn’t hide the fact any longer. Jankowicz herself claimed Hunter’s laptop was misinfo until it wasn’t.

Partisan actors pretend to defend truth but don’t even know what it is.

Quid Est Veritas?

A confused Pontius Pilate famously asked Christ “what is truth?” Our current rulers are just as ignorant, as are the media and academia. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy spills 13,000 words giving various answers to that question, only leaving the reader more confused.

If the greatest minds in history couldn’t settle on a definition, I doubt Joe Biden will be the first. Even sincere folks without an agenda won’t agree on what they think is true, let alone define truth itself. But the left definitely has an agenda.

Biologically, only two genders exist, one with XY chromosomes and one with XX. That is a fact, repeatedly proven by science, philosophy, theology, tradition, and history. It still will be tagged “misinformation” because the left doesn’t like it. Instead, they will describe 57 genders as “fact,” at least until they’re told there are 63 or 86. Then, they only need to update the Newspeak Dictionary and the lie becomes the officially approved “truth.”

Newspeak Dictionary, 12th Edition

The AP Stylebook has done this for years. Earlier this month, Stylebook editor Paula Froke announced numerous additions and updates to the bible of journalism. “Among the changes she announced were a new inclusive storytelling chapter, plus updates and expansions covering disabilities; race-related coverage; gender, sex and sexual orientation; pronouns; and religion,” their blog post stated.

Last year’s update shows just how flighty and arbitrary “truth” is to the media:

Since the most recent print edition, the AP decided to capitalize Black, but advises using an individual’s identity, if known. (Froke said that while “white” remains lowercase when used as a racial identifier, “that’s subject to further discussion down the road.”) The stylebook now capitalizes “Indigenous.” Of “brown” as an identifying label, it says, “Avoid this broad and imprecise term in racial, ethnic or cultural references” because “Interpretations of what the term includes vary widely.” “People of color” is acceptable in “broad references to multiple races other than white,” the stylebook advises, though many people object to the term in part because it “lumps together into one monolithic group anyone who isn’t white.” And it advises, as so many entries now do, to “Be specific whenever possible.”

I guarantee the above paragraph will be tagged “misinformation” in a few years when all the terms have changed yet again. The 55 previous editions of the stylebook will be memory-holed; Newspeak has evolved.

Biden’s Ministry of Truth will be far less powerful than the one described by George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, at least at the start. But the goal is similar. As Orwell wrote, “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”

He described this more clearly later in the novel:

In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?

Orwell had a limited imagination. Today, one plus one makes 57.

Nina Jankowicz’s job isn’t to root out misinformation or disinformation. It is to call common-sense “lies” and replace it with ever more complex deceptions. Politicians, academia, and the media can’t define “truth” and have no need for a definition anyway. Their goal is power and they will twist facts however needed to obtain it.

They have exchanged the truth for a lie and every honest person knows it.

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  1. Stad Coolidge
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    Skyler (View Comment):

    I’m sorry to ask, but is this really a woman? Nowadays, and especially with this person’s reputation for lies, such questions should be asked.

    I agree.  Is there a biologist in the house?

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  2. DrewInWisconsin, Oik! Member
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    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    I’m going to make a prediction that this gets walked back pretty fast, and the position eliminated.

    I’m going to make a prediction that it won’t. The Biden administration is doing a lot of horrific things, and few if any are getting walked back. They don’t care what we think.

    Nanocelt TheContrarian (View Comment):
    I’m going to make a prediction that this remains and if Republicans ever hold the House, Senate, and White House they will continue this office rather than eliminate it.

    Yep. My money’s on that.

    Unsk (View Comment):
    Isn’t about time some Republican with clout in Congress declare that this assault on Free Speech and almost all of our inalienable  rights has to stop. Immediately.

    See above. They aren’t against the idea. They just want to be the ones in control of it.

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  3. Henry Racette Member
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    Nanocelt TheContrarian (View Comment):
    Still, I will happily buy Henry Racette a steak dinner if the Republicans win the House and Senate and make any effort at all to withhold funding of this agency or cancel it completely.

    I appreciate the thought, but, while I’m an optimist, I’m not a crazy optimist: I won’t bet higher than a cup of coffee on this one. (Which, by 2023, could cost as much as a steak dinner, of course….)

    • #33
  4. Stina Inactive
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    Retail Lawyer (View Comment):

    When did misinformation become such a problem? So big we need a Government Ministry to “prevent it from traveling around the country”, as Psaki described he ministry’s purpose. Is it really a problem? I’m not the smartest guy but I honestly don’t think I’ve ever believed something that turned out to be misinformation. I think the term now means information the government or the MSM would rather you not be aware of.

    It became a big deal when the government decided outright and obvious lies was going to be a critical part of their policy implementation.

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  5. Old Bathos Member
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    W Bob (View Comment):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=povU9qiQt70

    In case you didn’t see it on Tucker. It starts at 1:20. I sat stunned for minutes after seeing this.

    Wow.

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  6. Chuck Coolidge
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    DrewInWisconsin, Oik! (View Comment):

    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    I’m going to make a prediction that this gets walked back pretty fast, and the position eliminated.

    I’m going to make a prediction that it won’t. The Biden administration is doing a lot of horrific things, and few if any are getting walked back. They don’t care what we think.

    Dollars to donuts one of you is correct.

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  7. Bishop Wash Member
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    DrewInWisconsin, Oik! (View Comment):

    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    I’m going to make a prediction that this gets walked back pretty fast, and the position eliminated.

    I’m going to make a prediction that it won’t. The Biden administration is doing a lot of horrific things, and few if any are getting walked back. They don’t care what we think.

    I didn’t realize until fairly recently that the Department of Education, which Republicans have been promising to eliminate the entire time I’ve been old enough to vote, was established just before Reagan was elected. If Republicans can’t kill a department that began operating on May 4, 1980 upon reaching the Presidency on January 21, 1981, this position won’t be eliminated.

    I’ll predict that if Republicans are allowed to win in 2024, the position will still be used to target conservatives.

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  8. Mackinder Coolidge
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    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    I’m going to make a prediction that this gets walked back pretty fast, and the position eliminated.

    It’s not just literally Orwellian, it’s atrociously bad optics during a period of widespread mocking of the hand-wringing left over its fear of free speech. It’s overreach.

    I know things happen slowly in government and it’s hard to get rid of anything, but I don’t expect this new organization to still exist by election day.

    I am wondering whether this is even legal. Is there statutory authority to just whip this up out of thin air? Generally, Congress must authorize such changes in Cabinet Agencies (I think) and must set forth the roles, responsibilities, and authorities for them. Also, I think the funding for it needs to be approved through the congressional authorization and appropriations process. I would think that this might be grounds for a lawsuit that would not even need to get bogged down in the political arguments surrounding what is “disinformation”.

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  9. Henry Racette Member
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    Mackinder (View Comment):

    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    I’m going to make a prediction that this gets walked back pretty fast, and the position eliminated.

    It’s not just literally Orwellian, it’s atrociously bad optics during a period of widespread mocking of the hand-wringing left over its fear of free speech. It’s overreach.

    I know things happen slowly in government and it’s hard to get rid of anything, but I don’t expect this new organization to still exist by election day.

    I am wondering whether this is even legal. Is there statutory authority to just whip this up out of thin air? Generally, Congress must authorize such changes in Cabinet Agencies (I think) and must set forth the roles, responsibilities, and authorities for them. Also, I think the funding for it needs to be approved through the congressional authorization and appropriations process. I would think that this might be grounds for a lawsuit that would not even need to get bogged down in the political arguments surrounding what is “disinformation”.

    Just guessing, but I suspect DHS has a cabinet seat but this saucy chick is just running a subdivision with that organization, and so can be hired by executive fiat. But, like I said, just guessing — what do I know about how our government works, anyway?

    But I do think the courts, full of new Constitution-approving Trump appointees, are likely to take a dim view of this.

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  10. Unsk Member
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    Nanocelt: Republicans tend to be accessories after the fact. They will never turn back Progressive policies.

    Exactly. So where is the  real ‘Republican” opposition or shall we say defenders of the Republic?

    OMG! I am absolutely sure any moment Cocaine Mitch,  John Thune, Mittens, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Cronyn, Burr,  Kevin McCarthy, and all the rest of Never Trumper Traitor Caucus are all going to shout from the rooftops in one booming chorus , “This Stops Here”!……….Oh Wait , I’m still waiting.

    Henry: I’m going to make a prediction that this gets walked back pretty fast, and the position eliminated.

    Ha, Ha! That was a joke right?      If you are serious, I think you seriously underestimate the Deep State’s war on our Republic.  It won’t just  be ‘walked back” because the mainstream news media almost without any dissent will loudly exclaim how this new department has to get to work right away, or our Republic will be at risk!  The Media will give this department great cover and the ultimate blue ribbon seal of approval. One only has to look at the response to Musk buying our Twitter to see how the left will react.   Also, you perhaps do not appreciate how the Left severely punishes those who stray from the flock on important matters. 

    The Never Trumper Traitor Caucus in Congress also is our traitor Commie Left’s  first and most reliable line of defense.  Every single time. They do the real lasting dirty work and savage any real defense of the Republic before any real serious effort to stop it will begin. 

    They will excuse away this issue and explain why  in the end nothing can be done because of this or that , and how you know all those evil domestic terrorists are still out there lurking just like the ones on January the 6th who created the “worst attack on our Republic in the last 200 years”!

     

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  11. DrewInWisconsin, Oik! Member
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    It is absolutely fascinating how, in the space of less than a decade, our press went from being in favor of free speech to in favor of suppressing it everywhere to SAVE DEMOCRACY!

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  12. Unsk Member
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    @Unsk

    Bit of an apology ( to Kevin McCarthy hopefully others):

    from  Steve Watson via Summit News via Zerohedge  :

     Kevin McCarthy: “Leave it to Democrats to think free speech is the problem and more government is the solution,” McCarthy told The Daily Wire.

    “The notion that the same party that spent four years promoting the Russia collusion hoax, suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story, and equated parents to domestic terrorists believes it has the credibility to tell Americans what is true is laughable,” he added.

    Referring to Nina Jankowicz, the Congressman added that “it is telling that the person who would run Biden’s Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board is a political activist who has a long history of falling for and spreading disinformation.”

    “It is easy to imagine this person abusing the term ‘disinformation’ to suppress facts and spin away inconvenient truths about the administration’s many failures, including their failures to secure the border,” McCarthy further urged, adding “The idea that the federal government should control speech sounds uncomfortably close to the Thought Police. Biden must immediately abandon his plan to create a modern-day Ministry of Truth.”

    Real Conservative Senator Josh Hawley:

    Heading the opposition to what has been compared to the Ministry of Truth in Orwell’s 1984, Senator Josh Hawley wrote to DHS Secretary Mayorkas noting “I confess, I at first thought this announcement was satire.”

    “Surely no American Administration would ever use the power of Government to sit in judgement on the First Amendment speech of its own citizens,” Hawley continued.

    “Sadly,” he added, “I was mistaken. Rather than protecting our border or the American homeland, you have chosen to make policing Americans’ speech your priority. This new board is almost certainly unconstitutional and should be dissolved immediately.

    “It can only be assumed that the sole purpose of this new Disinformation Governance Board will be to marshal the power of the federal government to censor conservative and dissenting speech,” the Senator concluded, urging “This is dangerous and un-American.”

    Tulsi Gabbard:

    “Every dictatorship has a propaganda arm—a “Ministry of Truth.” The Biden Administration has now formally joined the ranks of such dictatorships with their creation of the so-called “Disinformation Governance Board.”

    So maybe Henry is at  least partially right.  Ten years ago this proposal would have been laughed at.  Time will tell whether the Republican Party as a whole will speak loudly against this nonsense. That said all these “Ministry of Truth ” actions are to protect thousands upon thousands of Democrat activists that have brazenly broken the law. Have no doubt about that.   This battle is for real and very consequential.  When Biden stole the election in the manner that he did, squelching of free speech and other draconian Stalinist actions were almost a given  to follow.  The core of the Democrat party will not give up this fight easily. 

     

     

     

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  13. Instugator Thatcher
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    The name says it all.

    Disinformation Governance Board.

    The goal is to “Govern” the Disinformation, not eliminate it.

     

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  14. Gazpacho Grande' Coolidge
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    Front Seat Cat (View Comment):

    Oddly I was just reading this morning about a story on “newspeak”. It was titled how the WEF uses newspeak to wage war. by Tessa Lena. She defines it as a military term and can e used to redefine anything from an idea to language to a crisis and make it seem like something else.

    The WEF is calling a segment of it’s Great Reset, “Global Shapers”. You start to feel like you’re the odd one out when a new narrative appears and what you’re being told is the new truth.

    https://www.globalshapers.org/

    Indeed.  What would the New World Order look like if it isn’t properly shaped first?

    As usual, The Shape (Shifter) Group is right on the cusp of the edge of cutting – getting in front of that 2.5 year-old pandemic thing, shaping the City (meaning no private transpo and green-enabled sidewalks for your condescension pleasures), and, of course, Edumacation, where you will be rigorously trained in collectivism taught the critical components of nothing like math or science.

    Instead, we offer you a soft, somewhat gelatinous palette of malformed ideologies wrapped in an aging danish of hippiedom, with a splash of Sorosisan Fascism, er, love for Gaia ™.

    • #44
  15. Gazpacho Grande' Coolidge
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    Front Seat Cat (View Comment):

    Oddly I was just reading this morning about a story on “newspeak”. It was titled how the WEF uses newspeak to wage war. by Tessa Lena. She defines it as a military term and can e used to redefine anything from an idea to language to a crisis and make it seem like something else.

    The WEF is calling a segment of it’s Great Reset, “Global Shapers”. You start to feel like you’re the odd one out when a new narrative appears and what you’re being told is the new truth.

    https://www.globalshapers.org/

     

    Also, the globe has been pre-shaped for us already, courtesy of science.

    It’s round.

    • #45
  16. Gazpacho Grande' Coolidge
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    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    Nanocelt TheContrarian (View Comment):
    Still, I will happily buy Henry Racette a steak dinner if the Republicans win the House and Senate and make any effort at all to withhold funding of this agency or cancel it completely.

    I appreciate the thought, but, while I’m an optimist, I’m not a crazy optimist: I won’t bet higher than a cup of coffee on this one. (Which, by 2023, could cost as much as a steak dinner, of course….)

    I’d buy Drew a steak just for his contributions on Ricochet.  Like this one.  Dude, they’re even sliced for you.

     

    See the source image

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  17. Bishop Wash Member
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    Gazpacho Grande' (View Comment):

    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    Nanocelt TheContrarian (View Comment):
    Still, I will happily buy Henry Racette a steak dinner if the Republicans win the House and Senate and make any effort at all to withhold funding of this agency or cancel it completely.

    I appreciate the thought, but, while I’m an optimist, I’m not a crazy optimist: I won’t bet higher than a cup of coffee on this one. (Which, by 2023, could cost as much as a steak dinner, of course….)

    I’d buy Drew a steak just for his contributions on Ricochet. Like this one. Dude, they’re even sliced for you.

     

    See the source image

    One of Twitter’s favorite corporate accounts.

    • #47
  18. Henry Racette Member
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    Gazpacho Grande' (View Comment):

    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    Nanocelt TheContrarian (View Comment):
    Still, I will happily buy Henry Racette a steak dinner if the Republicans win the House and Senate and make any effort at all to withhold funding of this agency or cancel it completely.

    I appreciate the thought, but, while I’m an optimist, I’m not a crazy optimist: I won’t bet higher than a cup of coffee on this one. (Which, by 2023, could cost as much as a steak dinner, of course….)

    I’d buy Drew a steak just for his contributions on Ricochet. Like this one. Dude, they’re even sliced for you.

     

    See the source image

    Great. Now I’m hungry.

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  19. Gazpacho Grande' Coolidge
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    @ChrisCampion

    Bishop Wash (View Comment):

    Gazpacho Grande’ (View Comment):

    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    Nanocelt TheContrarian (View Comment):
    Still, I will happily buy Henry Racette a steak dinner if the Republicans win the House and Senate and make any effort at all to withhold funding of this agency or cancel it completely.

    I appreciate the thought, but, while I’m an optimist, I’m not a crazy optimist: I won’t bet higher than a cup of coffee on this one. (Which, by 2023, could cost as much as a steak dinner, of course….)

    I’d buy Drew a steak just for his contributions on Ricochet. Like this one. Dude, they’re even sliced for you.

     

    See the source image

    One of Twitter’s favorite corporate accounts.

    OK, that’s weird -if you look at the bottom left, it says “Chopped, Shaped, Thinly Sliced”.

    That’s weird.

    • #49
  20. MarciN Member
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    The Republicans should insist that any words that come from this new department be labeled as such. That way, we’ll know immediately that they are lies. :-) 

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  21. Henry Racette Member
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    MarciN (View Comment):

    The Republicans should insist that any words that come from this new department be labeled as such. That way, we’ll know immediately that they are lies. :-)

    Nice thought.

    But, no, this experiment in state control of thought and expression has to be torn down, the ground salted, and everyone involved with it hanged (figuratively speaking). Anything less will be an unconscionable failure.

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  22. kedavis Coolidge
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    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    MarciN (View Comment):

    The Republicans should insist that any words that come from this new department be labeled as such. That way, we’ll know immediately that they are lies. :-)

    Nice thought.

    But, no, this experiment in state control of thought and expression has to be torn down, the ground salted, and everyone involved with it hanged (figuratively speaking). Anything less will be an unconscionable failure.

    I can’t be the only one wondering if the GOP’s failure to do those things, would finally lose your support?

    • #52
  23. Henry Racette Member
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    MarciN (View Comment):

    The Republicans should insist that any words that come from this new department be labeled as such. That way, we’ll know immediately that they are lies. :-)

    Nice thought.

    But, no, this experiment in state control of thought and expression has to be torn down, the ground salted, and everyone involved with it hanged (figuratively speaking). Anything less will be an unconscionable failure.

    I can’t be the only one wondering if the GOP’s failure to do those things, would finally lose your support?

    KE, I don’t know how many different ways I can say this, or how often I have to say this to get people to understand.

    I will continue to support whatever party, organization, or faction I believe is the best hope for preserving and restoring the country.

    If the Republicans fail to eliminate this new agency, I will be harshly critical of that failure. However, if the Republicans remain the only viable bulwark against the Democrats, I will continue to support them, because the goal remains — must remain — the same: do whatever has the best chance of defending, preserving, and restoring the country.

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  24. kedavis Coolidge
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    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    MarciN (View Comment):

    The Republicans should insist that any words that come from this new department be labeled as such. That way, we’ll know immediately that they are lies. :-)

    Nice thought.

    But, no, this experiment in state control of thought and expression has to be torn down, the ground salted, and everyone involved with it hanged (figuratively speaking). Anything less will be an unconscionable failure.

    I can’t be the only one wondering if the GOP’s failure to do those things, would finally lose your support?

    KE, I don’t know how many different ways I can say this, or how often I have to say this to get people to understand.

    I will continue to support whatever party, organization, or faction I believe is the best hope for preserving and restoring the country.

    If the Republicans fail to eliminate this new agency, I will be harshly critical of that failure. However, if the Republicans remain the only viable bulwark against the Democrats, I will continue to support them, because the goal remains — must remain — the same: do whatever has the best chance of defending, preserving, and restoring the country.

    And you would NEVER believe that starting another party could EVER have the best chance of defending, preserving, and restoring the country?  There might be a lot of people on “the other side” who will be happy to know that.  To say nothing of those who are supposed to be on “our side.”

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  25. Tom Davis Member
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    Unsk (View Comment):

    Isn’t about time some Republican with clout in Congress declare that this assault on Free Speech and almost all of our inalienable rights has to stop. Immediately.

    Joe Biden and the rest of these Statlinist Clowns took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States, not rip it to shreds. Republicans need to start demanding prosecutions of these traitors in our midst. I don’t care if we don’t have the bodies in Congress to get it done this term. A line in the sand needs to be drawn and the People need to hear about it.

    Much of this problem goes back to the Supreme Court, which has allowed this disgusting attack on the Constitution.

    I suspect and hope that Sen. Paul will weigh in very shortly.

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  26. Tom Davis Member
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    She even looks like some Russian ideal of a Femme Fatale, doesn’t she?

    She’s a dead ringer for Natasha Fatale.

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  27. Skyler Coolidge
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    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    MarciN (View Comment):

    The Republicans should insist that any words that come from this new department be labeled as such. That way, we’ll know immediately that they are lies. :-)

    Nice thought.

    But, no, this experiment in state control of thought and expression has to be torn down, the ground salted, and everyone involved with it hanged (figuratively speaking). Anything less will be an unconscionable failure.

    Why “figuratively?”

    • #57
  28. Taras Coolidge
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Henry Racette (View Comment):

    MarciN (View Comment):

    The Republicans should insist that any words that come from this new department be labeled as such. That way, we’ll know immediately that they are lies. :-)

    Nice thought.

    But, no, this experiment in state control of thought and expression has to be torn down, the ground salted, and everyone involved with it hanged (figuratively speaking). Anything less will be an unconscionable failure.

    I can’t be the only one wondering if the GOP’s failure to do those things, would finally lose your support?

    KE, I don’t know how many different ways I can say this, or how often I have to say this to get people to understand.

    I will continue to support whatever party, organization, or faction I believe is the best hope for preserving and restoring the country.

    If the Republicans fail to eliminate this new agency, I will be harshly critical of that failure. However, if the Republicans remain the only viable bulwark against the Democrats, I will continue to support them, because the goal remains — must remain — the same: do whatever has the best chance of defending, preserving, and restoring the country.

    And you would NEVER believe that starting another party could EVER have the best chance of defending, preserving, and restoring the country? There might be a lot of people on “the other side” who will be happy to know that. To say nothing of those who are supposed to be on “our side.”

    It’s hard to see how splitting the Right does anything but elect the Left.

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  29. Instugator Thatcher
    Instugator
    @Instugator

    Taras (View Comment):
    It’s hard to see how splitting the Right does anything but elect the Left.

    But it does allow people to remain pure.

    Just kidding

    None of us are pure, no not one.

     

     

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  30. Taras Coolidge
    Taras
    @Taras

    Instugator (View Comment):

    Taras (View Comment):
    It’s hard to see how splitting the Right does anything but elect the Left.

    But it does allow people to remain pure.

    Just kidding

    None of us are pure, no not one.

     

     

    It allows people to remain pure — in their own minds.

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