The political storm ahead

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. George Orwell - 1984

John 9:4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work

Boy did Orwell nail it, or what...???!!!

the middle class unified against the deep state with Game Stop.

If the truth were told about child sex trafficking torture and murder that would clinch the deal.

too bad the MSM has brainwashed so many about pre-born genocide.

A genius.

Maybe they made his book into a playbook to be followed

In Davis, California the idiots even tore down a statue of Gandhi.

Gandhi.

Imagine that.

"Boy did Orwell nail it, or what...???!!!"

Yes, only 40 years off.

Well its emotionally unpleasant at the moment although examined closely it appears to be more sound and fury than substance.

First you have an Alzheimer’s patient signing 37-40 executive orders. I mean who does that? What does it even accomplish if its not codified? Why isn’t the triumphant majority congress churning out daily legislation for Biden’s signature? They should be giddy with it.

All those EOs and not one thing has changed at the border. Its because the military is controlling the border.

Yes some people lost pipeline jobs which in my opinion will be short lived.

The only thing really going on is an unconstitutional impeachment attempt on a guy everyone says is no longer president. It sounds to me like they are not sure at all about that.

So far what I see is a clown show that is mostly irritating. If you think the military is going to follow orders from this bunch get real.

1984 is a 1984 British dystopian science fiction film based upon George Orwell’s 1949 novel. Starring John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, and Cyril Cusack, the film follows the life of Winston Smith, a low-ranking civil servant in a war-torn London ruled by Oceania, a totalitarian superstate. Smith (Hurt) struggles to maintain his sanity and his grip on reality as the regime’s overwhelming power and influence persecutes individualism and individual thinking on both a political and personal level.

Plot
In a dystopian 1984, Winston Smith endures a squalid existence in the totalitarian superstate of Oceania under the constant surveillance of the Thought Police. Smith resides in London, the capital city of the territory of Airstrip One, formerly England. Winston works in a small office cubicle at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history in accordance with the dictates of the Party and its supreme leader, Big Brother. Haunted by painful memories and restless desires, Winston keeps a secret diary of his private thoughts, thus creating evidence of his thoughtcrime. However, he tries to do it undercover of the telescreens, to maintain his safety.

His life takes a major turn when he is accosted by fellow Outer Party worker Julia and they begin an illicit affair. Their first meeting takes place in the remote countryside where they exchange subversive ideas before having sex. Shortly after, Winston rents a room above a pawn shop in the less restrictive proletarian area where they continue their liaison. Julia procures contraband food and clothing on the black market, and for a brief few months they secretly meet and enjoy an idyllic life of relative freedom and contentment together.

Their affair comes to an end one evening, with the sudden raid of the Thought Police; they are both arrested. It is later revealed that their transgressions were recorded by a hidden telescreen in their room and that the proprietor of the pawn shop Mr. Charrington is a covert agent of the Thought Police. Winston and Julia are taken away to the Ministry of Love to be detained, questioned and “rehabilitated” separately. There O’Brien, a high-ranking member of the Inner Party, systematically tortures him.

O’Brien instructs Winston about the state’s true purpose and schools him in a kind of catechism on the principles of doublethink — the practice of holding two contradictory thoughts in the mind simultaneously. For his final rehabilitation, Winston is brought to Room 101, where O’Brien tells him he will be subjected to the “worst thing in the world”, designed specifically around Smith’s personal phobias. When confronted with this unbearable horror — which turns out to be a cage filled with wild rats — Winston’s psychological resistance finally and irretrievably breaks down, and he hysterically repudiates his allegiance to Julia. Now completely subjugated and purged of any rebellious thoughts, impulses, or personal attachments, Winston is restored to physical health and released.

Winston returns to the Chestnut Tree Café, where he had previously seen the rehabilitated thought criminals Jones, Aaronson and Rutherford (themselves once prominent but later disgraced members of the Inner Party) who have since been “vaporized” and rendered unpersons. While sitting at the chess table, Winston is approached by Julia, who was similarly “rehabilitated”. They share a bottle of Victory Gin and impassively exchange a few words about how they have betrayed each other. They act indifferently towards each other. After she leaves, Winston watches a broadcast of himself on the large telescreen confessing his “crimes” against the state and imploring forgiveness from the populace.

Upon hearing a news report declaring the Oceanian army’s utter rout of the enemy (Eurasia)’s forces in North Africa, Winston looks at the still image of Big Brother that appears on the telescreen, then turns away with tears in his eyes as the words “I love you” are heard whispered in his voice.

1984 Production
In winter 1983, the director Michael Radford asked his producer to try to obtain the rights to Orwell’s novel, with low expectations that they were available. It turned out that the rights were held by Marvin Rosenblum, a Chicago lawyer who had been trying on his own to get such a film produced.[7] Rosenblum agreed to become an executive producer, and while producer Simon Perry raised the production money from Richard Branson, Radford wrote the script, inspired by his idea to make a “science fiction film made in 1948.”[7] The script was finished in three weeks.[7]

For the role of O’Brien, Paul Scofield was originally contracted to play the part, but had to withdraw after sustaining a broken leg while filming The Shooting Party.[7][8] Anthony Hopkins, Sean Connery and Rod Steiger were all then considered.[7] Richard Burton, who was living in Haiti, joined the production six weeks into its shooting schedule[7] and insisted on his costume of a boiler suit being hand-made for him in Savile Row.[9][10]

Some internet sources claim that principal photography began on 19 March 1984 and ended in October 1984.[6] However the film was released that same month, and a title card at the end of the film explicitly states, it “was photographed in and around London during the period April–June 1984, the exact time and setting imagined by the author.”[11] The budget was originally £2.5 million but this rose during filming and additional funds were required.[12] The opening scenes of the film showing the Two Minutes Hate were filmed in a grass-covered hangar at RAF Hullavington near Chippenham in Wiltshire.[13] Some scenes set in Victory Square were also filmed at Alexandra Palace in London.[14] Senate House (University of London) was used for exterior shots of the Ministry of Truth.

The disused Battersea Power Station in Wandsworth served as the façade for the Victory Mansions, and the Beckton Gas Works in the Docklands of Newham was used as the setting for the proletarian zones. The pawnshop exterior, a pub scene and a scene with a prostitute were filmed in Cheshire Street, in London’s East End, an area Orwell had visited and commented on in his first book, Down and Out in Paris and London. The canteen interiors were filmed in a disused grain mill at Silvertown. In contrast, the idyllic, dreamlike “Golden Country”, where Winston and Julia repair for their first tryst and which recurs in Winston’s fantasies, was filmed in the southwest county of Wiltshire at a natural circle of hills called “Roundway”, near the town of Devizes. The scenes on the train were shot on the Kent and East Sussex Railway. The film shared a number of locations with Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, which was filmed the same year.[7]

Radford and cinematographer Roger Deakins originally wanted to shoot the film in black and white, but the financial backers of the production, Virgin Films, opposed this idea. Instead, Deakins used a film processing technique called bleach bypass (originally created by Technicolor and Deluxe, but recreated for this production by Key) to create the distinctive washed-out look of the film’s colour visuals. The film is a very rare example of the technique being applied to every release print, rather than the interpositive, that was struck from the original camera negative, or the internegative (struck from the interpositive); as the silver is retained in the print and cannot be reclaimed by the lab, the cost is higher, but the retained silver gives a “depth” to the projected image.[citation needed]

Release and reception
Nineteen Eighty-Four made its theatrical debut on 10 October in London and on 14 December in New York City.[15] It was released in the United States for one week in December 1984 at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles to qualify for the 1984 Academy Awards and grossed a house record $62,121, despite stormy weather.[16]

Vincent Canby of The New York Times said the film was “admirable, bleakly beautiful”, although “not an easy film to watch”.[2]

Roger Ebert awarded the film 3.5/4 stars, writing that it “penetrates much more deeply into the novel’s heart of darkness” than previous adaptations, and describing Hurt as “the perfect Winston Smith”.[17]

Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes has given the film a 74% approval rating, based on 27 reviews, with an average rating of 6.7/10. The site’s critical consensus states:

“1984 doesn’t fully emerge from the shadow of its source material, but still proves a solid, suitably discomfiting adaptation of a classic dystopian tale.”[18]

Metacritic has given the film a rating of 67 out of 100 based on 8 critics, indicating “generally favorable reviews”.[19]

1984 Cast
John Hurt as Winston Smith
Rupert Baderman as Young Winston Smith
Richard Burton as O’Brien
Suzanna Hamilton as Julia
Cyril Cusack as Mr. Charrington
Gregor Fisher as Parsons
James Walker as Syme
Andrew Wilde as Tillotson
Merelina Kendall as Mrs. Parsons
John Boswall as Emmanuel Goldstein
Phyllis Logan as Telescreen Announcer (voice)
Roger Lloyd-Pack as Waiter
Bob Flag as Big Brother (only as a still image)
Pam Gems as the Washerwoman
Pip Donaghy as Inner Party Speaker
Janet Key as the Instructress
Hugh Walters as Artsem Lecturer
Shirley Stelfox as the Prostitute
Corinna Seddon as Winston’s Mother
Martha Parsey as Winston’s Sister
Matthew Scurfield and Garry Cooper as Guards
Rolf Saxon as Patrolman
Annie Lennox-—cameo at the Two Minutes Hate rally.

Either Orwell nailed it, or the RATS read the book and thought,
“Hey ! We could do that !!!”

For the most part the opposition party, the GOP, is oddly quiet and mute.

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This is not “odd” at all. It’s Situation Normal for the GOP.

Yet many people still hope that the GOP will suddenly and miraculously grow a spine and start defending us. That is simply not going to ever happen.

The GOP is a fraud full of charlatans.

Vichy Republicans stand with Democrats demanding we unsee what we have seen.

So far they have obeyed every order. And every single general and admiral is anti-Trump. Mattis today said America had a birth defect at it’s creation. McCrystol the failure of Afghanistan just compared Trump voters to Al Qeida. Milley flipped last summer when he said he should not have walked with Trump to the park across from the White House where they tried to burn a Church. Air Force General John Hyten said he would possibly refuse Trump’s order to launch nukes. he said it in a foreign country.
The Navy brass fought Trump tooth and nail the entire presidency.
The Generals just allowed the entire National Guard in DC to be “vetted” by the FBI.
They resisted almost every order Trump gave. Leaving Syria, no trannies, “It’s over” for the persecution of Gallagher the SEAL (then they doubled down)
The Captain of a carrier was insubordinate in public. The head on the Coast Guard flipped him the finger on the tranny order.
Military resistance to Trump was pervasive.

The military is fully in the hands of the DC uniparty, they are globalist, and no longer loyal to America.
Many young enlisted soldiers are loyal, but they aren’t in charge. And ultimately, they’ll follow orders to avoid arrest.

So far they have obeyed every order. And every single general and admiral is anti-Trump. Mattis today said America had a birth defect at it’s creation. McCrystol the failure of Afghanistan just compared Trump voters to Al Qeida. Milley flipped last summer when he said he should not have walked with Trump to the park across from the White House where they tried to burn a Church. Air Force General John Hyten said he would possibly refuse Trump’s order to launch nukes. he said it in a foreign country.
The Navy brass fought Trump tooth and nail the entire presidency.
The Generals just allowed the entire National Guard in DC to be “vetted” by the FBI.
They resisted almost every order Trump gave. Leaving Syria, no trannies, “It’s over” for the persecution of Gallagher the SEAL (then they doubled down)
The Captain of a carrier was insubordinate in public. The head on the Coast Guard flipped him the finger on the tranny order.
Military resistance to Trump was pervasive.

The military is fully in the hands of the DC uniparty, they are globalist, and no longer loyal to America.
Many young enlisted soldiers are loyal, but they aren’t in charge. And ultimately, they’ll follow orders to avoid arrest.

A seer.

Many young enlisted soldiers are loyal, but they aren’t in charge. And ultimately, they’ll follow orders to avoid arrest.

Eventually, though, they're going to have to be given live ammo ... that should give the brass some qualms ...