Used to mean an armed mob intent on overthrowing the government. Now adds, "...except when Trump does it, then it's not."

No matter how stoopid they shamelessly humiliate themselves, they think millions will believe the hubris they spew is true, and they are not wrong with that (like Goebbels thought) and it's really scary.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221227271

Unfortunately.

honor classes/advanced classes, 1984 was not taught in their English classes. My youngest daughter read it after the 2016 election and was stunned by its accuracy of our time. She was actually mad she was never exposed to it, she also has a BA from UCSB. She and our son in law are very progressive. Our oldest daughter, we do not talk politics.

I graduated from HS in 1990, honors/AP English. My senior year English teacher had us read “1984”and “Brave New World” - among quite a few other books. Had to read “Animal Farm” in English at some point earlier in school.

Sidebar: Also had to read Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” in US history class. If you haven’t read that, you absolutely NEED to do so. Given what Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent (and Vought) is doing to government agencies, including the FDA, I really cannot emphasize it enough.

“The Jungle” was the impetus behind the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and set the foundation for the FDA (created by the Food, Drug & Cosmetics Act of 1936). Ironically, a Roosevelt was responsible for each of those laws.

Because there is no such thing as corporate social responsibility without it being forced upon them, no corporation is going to do the right thing if it costs money - or means less profit. Corporate America has shown time and time again that shareholders or the owner’s profit margins take precedence over the people who actually make the money for the company. This is why government regulations, regulators and inspections are so important.

But I grew up in Monterey County, CA, my poor daughters grew up in the CA Central Valley. Which is so conservative, it is disgusting.
My history classes made it to the early 1900's, muck rakers, and child labor laws. I don't think my daughters ever went beyond the civil war in high school.

Also, I live in an over hundred years old house and about 25 years ago, we would go on house tours for fun, the tours were always to raise money for charities. Once at a grand old house, we got stopped on an upstairs landing before we could continue, and there where 3 photos of people in their kkk costumes from the 1960's. I laughed, pointed them out to my husband, "oh, god" he said. We moved on, I turned to look back and other people were looking and shaking their heads at the pictures.

I graduated in 1969. It was a very different time. There was still corporal punishment, the threat of juvenile hall and expulsion. Every student behaved, no talking back, complete obedience. The Vietnam was was was going strong, teachers (on the west coast at least) were motivated to give you a good education..

is that they'd just lie about reality vis a vis the war. Now telling us that gas prices are coming down, the war is over, etc.

And MSM is reporting this shite.

Folks, our problem is not just Trump and Republicans - it's a complicit media.

Saying high gas prices are good for the economy. No they are not.

The mouthpiece for the GOP. Like them, most of the media isn't pretending with the niceties any longer.

Rec

How could they be so fucking dumb?

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’

’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”

― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

It's classic 1984 crap - and 1984 was highlighting the practice, it didn't invent the idea.

Interpretation of vocabulary is not interpretation of the law.

Peace ☮️

constructed from vocabulary?

However, putting a biased slant on semantics should be difficult if the law is written without ambiguity. Creating clear, straightforward laws is incumbent on our elected officials. Otherwise, there is chaos.

Peace ☮️

The rabid-right has been parsing that document to death. I understand what you mean, BeneteauBum, but do they?

There will always be a discontented faction that tries to work around the obvious. I look at our current administration that continues to say ‘Don’t believe what you see, believe what we say’. That works for so many morons.

I’m active in my community and I enjoy debating people who have no basis for their arguments. They really hate being confronted with reality. I just hope that some of these people realize that they are just parroting this administrations propaganda. I would never BS anyone to try to convince them of a point.

Things will change!

Peace ☮️

Republicans have been using focus groups and talking points as "policy" for decades. It's all they have, because, like you said, "they have no basis for argument."

I really hope there's something left to save and that"things will change."

The abysmal stupidity/complicity of those whom should be society's watchdogs in this matter depresses me.

-- Mal

THEY.
ARE.
EVIL.

mild😀

And when you tell them it's kind of Orwellian. You know, from his book 1984, they ask.... "Huh? Who's that? Never heard of him or his book." They've never heard of a lot of things.

Don’t tell me, show me.

they assume everyone is as stupid as Trump voters

with their penchant for naming things for the opposite of what they truly are/do, as I've mentioned numerous times.

Further evidence of how deceitfully evil and malignant they are. But no, it doesn't scare me. Nor am I 'chilled.'

Don't get scared. Get MAD.
Vote, and GET EVEN.

It’s crazy

As a teenager I remember a very prominent Democrat dissemble on a particularly important verb in the English language.