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War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength and Kamala Was Never Border Czar.
What will be thrown down the Memory Hole next?
I could not do better for an opening than to quote my son in describing how the media has done a 180-degree turn in favor of their suddenly proclaimed Joan of Arc as the “savior of Our Democracy” – he said he was simply in awe of the speed at which they have turned on a dime and have even started changing history. I am well aware of the fact that I am probably only about the one-millionth person to have observed the resemblance to Orwell’s dystopian world of 1984, but how else does one explain an institution that employs, right before our very eyes in 2024, the exact mechanism Orwell created for that fictional year 40 years ago— the memory hole? That handy device for assuring that whatever news is published is fully in line with “The Party” and its edicts, and all other troublesome facts are thrust down the memory hole by proles like Winston Smith. Read these two excerpts from the identical publication and tell me we are not living in the world Orwell thought was fictional:
Here is how Orwell described this fiendish process, a description I respectfully submit is most apt in discussing the current state of the corporate media (it is from my torn, tattered, and oft-referred-to copy of this classic novel):
How long will it take — now that we have officially dropped into the dystopian world of memory holes, Newspeak, thought police, telescreens, Room 101, and Two Minutes Hate — for us to be told that Kah-Mah-Lah is a descendant of dirt-poor African slaves; that her views are just as moderate as those of the 2020 version of Joe Biden in the basement? That it is a vicious lie to even suggest that she urged the mobs in Minneapolis to “continue” rioting; or that she was instrumental in setting up a fund for bail for all those fine, upstanding American citizens who burned down a large part of the city “in honor of” that other notable icon George Floyd? That it is a contemptible libel to even think, much less suggest, that she got her start “the old-fashioned way” by becoming Willie Brown’s eye candy? It could never happen here, you say? Perhaps it would be helpful to remember the three slogans of The Party:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
It might not be a bad idea to spend some time in the very near future brushing up on my old paperback. We might be seeing many more “real life” scenarios from 1984 springing into being in the next few months.
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It’s not just Axios. An outfit called GovTrack ranked Harris as the most liberal senator in 2019 based on her voting record. They’ve now erased that ranking after finding out that Republicans are using their ranking against Harris.
https://x.com/MZHemingway/status/1816185964773187895
Counting the hours until this disappears.
Sort of reminds me of that unnerving early episode of The Twilight Zone titled And When the Sky Was Opened. If you can remember the disappeared person, you’re the next one to go.
Some things are, however, likely forever.
Thanks! It is indeed reassuring to know that there are some permanent things left in our world which the Marxists are trying their damnedest to tear apart, piece by piece.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/253/text
All that infrastructure and they still don’t seem able to be able to be Ethical.
Already gone:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._executive_branch_czars#Border_czar
Well they aren’t news people
They’re also not interested in being an honest encyclopedia when it comes to anything that touches on current issues & politics in which they’re nothing more than Left-wing activists.
A g-g-g-grandfather had that problem in Moscow, maybe around 1825. He remembered the disappeared person, and for asking about him was told he was going to be next. He left immediately, leaving one infant child behind. I suspect a Russian grandmother took it in. His two-year old boy became my g-g-grandfather, and is buried in a cemetery in rural Minnesota.
I sometimes wonder what life would be like, if this greatest propaganda machine since Mao was turned towards Good. Could we end fatherlessness? End addiction? Become an educational super-power?
Gaslighting other people is bad enough. But it is a sign of Stage 4 TDS when you start gaslighting yourself.
Seems to be at that link.
There is an edit war going on
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_U.S._executive_branch_czars&action=history
Now that’s pretty cool. Didn’t know that had anyone on “our” side.
I don’t know why we have to call them czars.
But of the few things I DO know, if you are named the czar of something, you’re probably not going to do a very good job at it.
At least the “soup nazi” on Seinfeld made good soup.
Back in the day, one of our team was given responsibility for two areas. We called him the Bi-Czar.
Along the lines of the OP, long-time senator Barbara Boxer today described Kamala Harris as a “moderate.”
Cue the flying monkeys of the media…
This year marked the 75th anniversary of the publishing of Nineteen Eighty-Four. A momentous occasion … that was totally ignored. No surprise. Nineteen Eighty-Four is double-plus-ungood and chock full of wrongthink … and a little too on-the-nose!
Of course she’s a moderate. She hasn’t killed millions in genocidal concentration camps or killing fields, so that makes her double-plus moderate.
Does anyone other than I remember the great 1984 (year) debate of whether the world would be more like 1984 (novel) or Brave New World?
You probably think that we are not at war with EastAsia.
For a few years people on “the right” have been making jokes that “the right” treats the novel 1984 as a warning, and “the left” treats the novel as an operations manual.
The “memory holing” and active rewriting of history (even very recent history) has become so blatant that I’m not so sure it’s a joke anymore.
Looks like it was well coordinated with the dems and corporate media
REPORT: Leaked Democrat Memo Reveals Effort To Spin Kamala Harris’ Role As Border Czar | The Daily Caller
even former CNN hack sees the re-writing of history by corporate media and the dems
WHOA … Chris Cillizza (No, REALLY!) Calls Media Out for Pretending Biden CHOSE to Leave the Race – Twitchy
I do. The debate was whether our future would be more like Orwell’s “boot stamping on a human face – for ever” or Huxley’s kinder-gentler totalitarianism. I’ll bet that right now, in some Dem anarchist-kitchen, they’re devising a new “Third Way.” Only this time, it’s a combination of Orwell and Huxley.
Really, some enterprising AG in some state should use the Bragg rule to go after this as a Campaign Finance Violation of some sort.
London’s The Iron Heel is warming up. Just sayin’…
I didn’t realize it was ever a joke.