"ReTruths?" (Orwell Wept, One.)

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. ~Ronald Reagan

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You will find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view ~Obi Wan Kenobi, from Return Of The Jedi.

I just saw this. Matt Gaetz trying to say "We've killed the Ministry of Truth" because Republicans managed to temporarily derail Biden's efforts to combat disinformation.

So yeah, these fucks have a lot of nerve quoting George Orwell for...anything. I don't give a damn. Why do I say that? Funny you should ask;

Then, not two minutes later, I saw this.

Less for Trump's comments about the PA Senate primaries or Dr. Ooze than about what's on the bottom of the clip.

"ReTruths?"

What the hell kind of jacked up Orwellian bullshit even is that?

What Trump is saying...with his bullshit fake Potemkin Village Twitter, no less...is that what's actually true is less important than who says it is. Who says something, in his view, is what makes it true or not.

I can't think of anything less conservative...or for that matter more Unamerican than that. 

Such a statement is basically straight out religion, rather than politics...or more specifically, it's out of the Authoritarian Cult playbook. Trump doesn't want to be President again, so much as he wants to be David Koresh or Sun Myung Moon. Think about that for a second. That shit is creepy. Anti-Democracy ain't even the half of it. Orwell fucking Wept.

And all this shit is deliberate.

Republicans have effectively decided they don't need the rest of us, instead doubling down infinitely on, brainwashing and radicalizing their followers.

And whether we're talking about the 1/6 insurrection or small-scale primary elections, Republicans have wholesale adopted Trump's formula of sinking hooks into the jaws of a certain type of people and riding them around like a mount in World Of Warcraft. Whether it's conspiracy nuts, fascists, racists, religious fanatics or all of the above...these fucking people have decided that's their formula for breaking America if they can't win all the elections.

And they can't, and let me tell you why. These fucking people are losing society itself due to the simple inertia of change. I just got a new job, hell, I had two appointments today...both of them scheduled before I got my new job. One was this morning with my counselor (and my advocate, it was the only time we could get before he has to go on a trip) at the Department Of Veterans Affairs office down the street. The other was at the local Michigan Works (Unemployment office) also down the street, but the other way. In talking to these people...and going through all the H.R. Training stuff at work...it amazes me that the conservatives don't know how badly they've already lost this one to the Woke People. Or at least, lost it to the H.R. people and the lawyers. If you wonder why "Conservatives" seem to have so much against capitalism lately, there's your answer. Capitalism has figured out that it needs to appeal to all and get everybody to participate, not just a certain kind of white person.

The lady that's helping me get a cover letter and a resume together (Because yes, I'm still going to keep looking for a better job even though I'm Okay with the one I have) spent a good ten minutes telling me about the importance of using Gender-neutral terminology in such things in a professional environment.

And I'm going to be honest, the world has changed a hell of a lot since the last time I was seriously doing all this kind of stuff in 2003. I'm fine with that, too, as confusing as I find it sometimes. Life is change, and again...as confusing as I find all this they/them/their stuff on occasion I find it less confusing than what's become of the supposed "unchanging truths" of conservatism...which seem to be based on anything but revealed truth and the wisdom of our ancestors nowadays.

If it's based on anything at all, this shit is based on hate, narcissism and power.

More often than not these people's alleged "beliefs" be they Christianity or "Conservatism" are nothing more than leering Tikis at the edge of the camp. Their message is less "Come to Me all ye who are heavy-laden and I will give you rest" or talking about the government being beholden to the People than it's about finding the right combination of Magic Words And Phrases or doing the right tribal war dance or coming up with the perfect tautology justifying slaughtering nearly every other human being on the face of the Earth.

If you're a Christian who believes in Christ or the Word more than you believe in Putin or Trump...or simply a person who believes in a religion or truth of any kind besides fear and hate, you're a heretic in these fucking people's Brave New World. 

We'd best plan accordingly, and expect to have to defend ourselves and our freedoms.

These Fucking People's idea of religion is far more the Turner Diaries than the Holy Bible.

They don't care anymore if we know it, either. They think not caring makes them powerful, but the incessant radicalization compounds itself daily because they simply cannot get enough of it. The Two-Minute Hate stretches on into eternity. The end result of this bullshit will be fanaticism and murder, if it's not stopped now.

And it will get worse.

If you want a better country, you have to be a better citizen. Freedom is not free. This is what's true, and without Truth, people have nothing to stand on so that they can push back against Power. That's what all the conspiracy theories and shit are really about.

This is the truth, and it's true because it can be verified, you can look at history and see what happens. That's why we have to stop it now.

There was a direct intimate connection between chastity and political orthodoxy. For how could the fear, the hatred, and the lunatic credulity which the Party needed in its members be kept at the right pitch, except by bottling down some powerful instinct and using it as a driving force? The sex impulse was dangerous to the Party, and the Party had turned it to account. They had played a similar trick with the instinct of parenthood. The family could not actually be abolished, and, indeed, people were encouraged to be fond of their children, in almost the old-fashioned way. The children, on the other hand, were systematically turned against their parents and taught to spy on them and report their deviations. The family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police. It was a device by means of which everyone could be surrounded night and day by informers who knew him intimately. ~George Orwell, 1984.

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For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ~Matthew 24:27