Does it scare you to hear these clowns redefine the simple meaning of words

[malaise]

as if it becomes not what it means but what they say it means.
It’s unbearable.

[Solly Mack]

1. It alarms me how easy they get away with it.

[mcar]

3. This!

[Kid Berwyn]

2. "Insurrection."

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

[Justice matters.]

4. Agreed.

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

[The Blue Flower]

5. George Orwell was a prophet

Unfortunately.

[cksmithy]

18. My daughters who graduated high school in 1989 and 1999, both in

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.

[GB_RN]

24. Damn!

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.

[cksmithy]

27. I read The Scarlet Letter, 1984, Dickens, Lord of the Flies, Shakespeare and so much more during high school.

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..

[mcar]

6. What is making me crazy - and I knew it would happen

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.

[Initech]

10. The Fox News idiot in charge of transportation was lying yesterday.

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

[mcar]

11. And others bragging about credit card debt increasing

[BigMin28]

12. They are

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

[malaise]

34. Agree

Rec

[sop]

7. What scares me are the millions of incredibly ignorant and credulous Americans who believe their BS.

[bluestarone]

36. WOW! i've said this so many times!!

How could they be so fucking dumb?

[Wicked Blue]

8. Word meanings

“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

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Oh, yeah. It makes communication impossible. Like living in Babylon.

[Swede]

13. I wonder how many died in Trump's "love tap"?

[relayerbob]

14. They've been doing since 2016

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

[rustbeltvoice]

15. Definition of terms is half the battle in argument.

[Evolve Dammit]

16. They want it all back. A return to at least 1890. Fuck 'em. And yes, it's Orwellian with the terminology projection. nt

[BeneteauBum]

17. This will be appealed

Interpretation of vocabulary is not interpretation of the law.

Peace ☮️

[SergeStorms]

20. Aren't laws....

constructed from vocabulary?

[BeneteauBum]

25. Obviously

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 ☮️

[SergeStorms]

26. Like our Constitution.

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

[BeneteauBum]

32. Hi SS

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 ☮️

[SergeStorms]

37. Talking points.

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."

[malthaussen]

19. Not that they make the attempt, but that it prospers.

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

-- Mal

[spanone]

21. Everything this maladministration does scares me...

THEY.
ARE.
EVIL.

[malaise]

22. And that is

mild😀

[paleotn]

23. Republicans have been doing that since as long as I can remember.

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.

[multigraincracker]

28. Words are only symbols, not the thing.

Don’t tell me, show me.

[Skittles]

29. yup

they assume everyone is as stupid as Trump voters

[B.See]

30. It is what they've always done, particularly

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.

[0rganism]

31. Humpty Dumpty working for the fascists, as usual

[malaise]

33. The truth

It’s crazy

[mr715]

35. Yes, with a but.

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