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Our Mounting Orwellian Nightmare
American Thinker.com ^ | January 16, 2021 | Jeffrey Folks

Posted on 01/16/2021 4:43:47 AM PST by Kaslin

So we are to imagine that those who objected to Biden's having stolen the election are responsible for the violence at the Capitol? And that, going forward, any public official who questions Biden's win should be removed from office, and that any corporate leader who objects should be fired? All this when the truth is that Trump in all likelihood won the election.

It is the perfect example of Orwellian speech. In his classic essay "Politics and the English Language," Orwell spoke of the condition where "words and meaning have almost parted company." If that "almost" is a measure of Orwellian speech, then today's Democrat leaders are beyond Orwellian. Their words and meaning have parted company entirely.

As Orwell also stressed, the decline of language is both cause and effect of the decline of politics. When politicians and media begin speaking nonsense, it is the symptom of an underlying corruption of political thinking. The idea that the president should be removed from office for having defended the electoral process is truly bizarre, but it has been repeated throughout the liberal media and by most liberal politicians and even by some conservatives.

One might say progressives like Nancy Pelosi have become "unhinged," but that would let them off the hook. It would suggest that they don't quite realize what they are doing. But what they are doing is the result of crafty political calculation. They want to tie President Trump with the Capitol violence to the point that he can never run again. The same political deviousness lies behind suggestions that he should not be in control of the nation's nuclear arsenal because of his supposed mental instability.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: joebiden; nancypelousi
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Biden is not my president and will never be.
1 posted on 01/16/2021 4:43:47 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

I feel a bad moon arising. The progs will now move to phase II, whatever that may be.


2 posted on 01/16/2021 4:46:18 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (NuRulz)
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To: Kaslin

I do not recognize Biden as president. I believe I am not obligated morally to obey any new law he or his administration passes down. To put it in theological terms, it is not a sin to disobey any edicts from Mr. Biden or any of his cronies.


3 posted on 01/16/2021 4:47:00 AM PST by Dan in Wichita
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To: Kaslin

Just wait till he passes and the ho assumes power. You think it’s going to be bad with him? We “ain’t seen nothin yet!”


4 posted on 01/16/2021 4:48:37 AM PST by 9422WMR (Lie, cheat, steal. It’s how the democRATS operate. )
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To: 9422WMR

Its not about those two....its about obama and soros. Never forget that


5 posted on 01/16/2021 4:52:43 AM PST by V_TWIN (Where's Hunter???)
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To: VRW Conspirator

Glad I live in Texas.


6 posted on 01/16/2021 4:56:02 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: V_TWIN

“Its not about those two....its about obama and soros. Never forget that”

Bingo. This is really zero’s third term.


7 posted on 01/16/2021 4:59:24 AM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: 9422WMR

And the Ho will pick Moochelle for VP.


8 posted on 01/16/2021 4:59:41 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: All
This not the behavior of people who won 2020 fair and square. These are the furtive actions of the left's guilt.
<><> paranoia about stealing power;
<><> fear that power-mongering will be worthless when people know the truth;
<><> showing how monstrous and totalitarian the left really is;
<><> publicly calling for censuring and banning views they hate,
<><> the “insurrection” hoax,
<><> presidential impeachment without due process,
<><> not giving Trump the chance to defend himself,
<><> making it punishable to show the monstrous left's totalitarian nature;
<><> seeking to criminalize and penalize any talk of a stolen election,
<><> brutally shutting down any talk of election fraud.
9 posted on 01/16/2021 5:03:11 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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More than 400 Ex-intelligence Officers to Investigate Election Irregularities
Epoch Times ^ | January 2, 2021 | Terri Wu / FR Posted by grundle

The Intelligence Community Network organizer, Robert Caron, is a former CIA man, then later worked for the Special Situation Group,
(a task force established by Pres George H.W. Bush); included strategic planning, technologies, and foreign and domestic investigations.
Caron told The Epoch Times, many in the Obama-era US intel community saw an increase in improper operations.
Many IC officers withheld intel from their leaders, and leaders withheld information from the public.

Caron added that in 2014, Lt. Gen Michael Flynn called out then-Pres Obama for “not acting properly on intelligence.”

No doubt a key reason why the vengeful Obama sicced the FBI on Flynn......and also b/c Flynn would
replace Obama's NSA, the execrable Susan Rice, and would become privy to all of Obama's wrongdoing.

Bumheads Obama and Rice did not give a flying fig that the US intel apparat is there to protect the safety and security of Americans. Period.

10 posted on 01/16/2021 5:03:39 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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Americans demand to know WHY these tax-funded intel agencies are taking pains to NOT give
Pres Trump the information he needs to implement his National Emergency Executive Order.

Intelligence Community Member Agencies
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
National Security Agency/Central Security Service
Defense Intelligence Agency
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
National Reconnaissance Office
Department of State
Department of Defense
Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Drug Enforcement Administration
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Treasury
Department of Energy - Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence
Army Intelligence
Air Force Intelligence
U.S. Navy, Naval Intelligence
U.S. Marine Corps, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity


11 posted on 01/16/2021 5:04:20 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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Americans demand to know WHY these tax-funded intel agencies are taking pains to NOT give
Pres Trump the information he needs to implement his National Emergency Executive Order.

Intelligence Community Member Agencies
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
National Security Agency/Central Security Service
Defense Intelligence Agency
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
National Reconnaissance Office
Department of State
Department of Defense
Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Drug Enforcement Administration
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Treasury
Department of Energy - Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence
Army Intelligence
Air Force Intelligence
U.S. Navy, Naval Intelligence
U.S. Marine Corps, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity


12 posted on 01/16/2021 5:04:20 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: Dan in Wichita

Actually, the Bible does say we are to obey those who are in authority over us. Except where they are disobeying God’s law.


13 posted on 01/16/2021 5:27:43 AM PST by sauropod ("No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot." - Mark Twain)
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To: VRW Conspirator

“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible.” The progressive inversion of the truth is just that: an attempt to defend the indefensible.”

So begins the Fourth Reich...


14 posted on 01/16/2021 5:30:16 AM PST by Shady (WHO MURDERED ASHLI BABBITT? )
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To: sauropod

Yes, my point exactly.


15 posted on 01/16/2021 5:40:14 AM PST by Dan in Wichita
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To: Kaslin
Free trade and de industrialization was going to make the Chinese just like us.

The opposite happened...

16 posted on 01/16/2021 5:43:15 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

Actually, the Communist Party in China is acting in restraint of trade to curb the rampant capitalism growth. China capitalism in the Pearl River Delta and especially in Hong Kong is in direct conflict with the communists. The CCP has cracked down on businesses to end the relative freedom

Chicoms don’t want the prosperity brought by the Chicaps. Prosperity and new relative freedom are harmful to communist doctrine


17 posted on 01/16/2021 6:00:02 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) History: Pelosi was pitiful vindictive California crone)
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bump


18 posted on 01/16/2021 6:17:22 AM PST by foreverfree
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To: Kaslin

This is the same American Thinker that apologized to Dominion for saying that it was involved in stealing the election?


19 posted on 01/16/2021 7:03:43 AM PST by CottonBall (COVID -1984)
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To: Kaslin

What’s next? The persecution of every American conservative in the same way that Gen. Flynn was persecuted?


20 posted on 01/16/2021 7:24:36 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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