Showing posts with label New Newspeak. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Newspeak. Show all posts

Monday, August 24, 2020

New Newspeak



Sometimes I, like George Orwell, believe that liberal brains are mis-wired and they are “unable to process.” It seems that they have an uncanny way of offering up arguments that, by their mystical quality, sound possible ... but fall apart upon closer inspection. The following is a comment on a recent blog post here that has Swiss cheese holes all through it:

People yearn for simple ways to describe complex issues. In the political realm, unlike science, the simplest solution is too often a short term fix, which fails in the long run due to those pesky unintended consequences.

This is Trump's appeal: He offers simple solutions. A Wall to stem illegal immigration, Tariffs to punish China, Hydroxychloriquine, cancelling Treaties, on and on. The ramifications of his actions are beyond his ability to process. It will take a long tome to fix the mess he has created.”

 A few observations:

- William of Ocean did not say the his “razor” only applied to science. He obviously meant that the simpler solution applied across the board.

- How does this commenter know that Trump’s solutions will fail in the long run ...  does he have a Magic 8 Ball? And does his observation imply that they are working at least in the short term? The wall and Trump’s standing up to China are seminal events that, I predict, will make the history books.

- Trump’s jettisoning of the Paris Climate Accord and the Iran Nuclear Deal was legit because they were NOT treaties since they had never been ratified by Congress. The remake of NAFTA WAS ratified by Congress.

- Are these Biden solutions also short-term: the Green New Deal, huge tax increases, open borders, eliminate cash bail, defund the police, no fracking, Medicaid for All (including illegals), more regulations, gut our armed forces, eliminate prisons, rewrite our history, more regulations, voting from prison, scuttle tariffs, Socialism, etc.?


Bottom line: With many of these cockamamie Democrat proposals, there is no long-term ...


STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Thursday, March 31, 2016

New Newspeak


Politicians and government bureaucrats are oblivious as to what their intended functions are. Like in George Orwell's "1984," they think that, by manipulating language, they can control our thoughts.  Now the Library of Congress has decreed (I suspect with some direction from above) that the terms "illegal alien" and "alien" are now verboten ... see: Breitbart Article. As a lover of words, I can't say how offensive it is to see our servants again trying to be our masters by suborning our language.

Are you listening Obummer?

Thursday, March 26, 2015

New Newspeak


This blogger, along with many other commentators, have noticed how we have slipped into a "1984" type attempt by our Orwellian government to control our thoughts and lives ... in particular its increasing onerous conscription of permissible language. (Have you heard anyone from the Obama administration use the term "radical Islam" or use ISIS instead of ISIL?)

Now we are treated to what we are in for if Queen Hillary becomes the next POTUS. Just yesterday her posse released a list of words that are verboten for reporters to use in her possible upcoming campaign ... see: Daily Caller Story. Whereas, under Obama, such dog-whistle words were racist, now they are sexist. So you have been warned!

Rather than just list these words, I will herein use them in defiance of these Clinton conscriptions. If anyone sees me being gagged and put in a car trunk by James Carville, you will see first-hand the results of my defiance. (Hillary's taboo words are in italics in the following.)

Hillary Clinton certainly has been secretive about her stint at the State Department. By setting up her own e-mail server she clearly felt entitled to circumvent the rules by which the rest of the world lives. Her disingenuous and calculating U.N. press-conference explanation of this scandal has been very polarizing in the media ... with even many liberal talking heads saying that she was insincere and clearly over confident. Ever since she glommed onto Bill Clinton in Yale law school, she has been extremely ambitious for them both ... but more and more she represents the past and has grown increasingly out of touch with middle America. And it is so blatantly obvious that she will do anything to win.