Posted on 05/12/2022 10:08:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dictator Mary Poppins and head of the “Disinformation Governance Board,” Nina Jankowicz, has proven herself to be something of a nutcase and the more that comes out about her, the worse she looks.
As posted by the Post Millennial, a clip of Jankowicz was released where she spoke about her power as a verified person on Twitter and how she should be able to use that as a way to edit the tweets of the non-verified peasantry.
Jancowikz starts off by telling her fellows in a Zoom call she’s in that she’s verified and while others are verified they shouldn’t be, not because they’re not real people, but effectively because they have different opinions than her and are not “trustworthy.”
She then expresses the idea that verified people like herself should be able to “edit Twitter” in the same way people can edit Wikipedia, and be able to “add context to certain tweets.” She, of course, gives an example that involves Trump.
“If President Trump were still on Twitter and tweeted a claim about voter fraud, someone could add context from one of the 60 lawsuits that went through the court or something that an election official in one of the states said,” said Jankowicz. “Perhaps your own secretary of state and his news conferences. Something like that.”
“Adding context so that people have a fuller picture rather than just an individual claim on a tweet,” said added.
Biden's "Ministry of Truth" director says she wants "verified people" like her to be able to edit people's tweets so they can "add context to certain tweets" pic.twitter.com/KgMxUn3Hs6
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) May 11, 2022
Of course, this is just pure narrative manipulation. As Rand Paul previously pointed out, the federal government doesn’t even know what the truth is or what is and isn’t disinformation half the time. Jankowicz, and people like her, being able to swoop in and add their own commentary to a tweet you created would be narrative reinforcement strictly based on her opinion.
Case in point, we were told that this Ministry of Truth would only get involved with foreign actors spreading disinformation from outside the country and that the people wouldn’t be interfered with by Department of Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. It would appear that his underling didn’t get that message as she’s busy dreaming up ways to turn your account into another mouthpiece for her.
This is supposed to be a department that supposedly seeks the truth yet the leaders can’t even get their story straight on who and what they are. As Paul suggested, one of the biggest spreaders of disinformation is the U.S. government, and here we see that in action.
At this rate it’ll be golden because it’ll be in flames.
Another example of Communism being pushed down the throats of the American people.
We know when this tweet was posted but we don’t know when the video was created. No, I don’t think Nina’s ideology has changed, but would like to know if she is being a little more careful what comes out of her mouth now.
As long as we have The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress (Heinlein) We the People have something like our own blueprint for turning it around.
Scary Poppins has a golden umbrella.
She’s needed at Wikipedia...
“Nina Jankowicz is EVIL”
Less so, than “Morning Joe’s”,
Mika (Brzezinski) Scarborough???
Who famously is heard in the audio montage, [Telling Americans what to think] “...is OUR job...”
“Twitter? Isn’t that the media that Musk paid for but now may not be allowed to own?”
The overpriced purchase is on hold.
Musk found too many fake entities on board. The price has thereby been suppressed, and Musk may save Billions in the eventual purchase.
I believe thugs/commies/totalitarians on the left realize they have to be careful to hide who they really are... The confidence they had when they thought no one could stop them seems to have weakened.
She is something of a nutcase? She IS a nutcase!!
I was looking at Wikipedia the other day, that thing is utterly out of control, the left has their bias in almost every subject.
Look at the Trump page for example, the bias is completely through the roof.......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
Compare that to the Hillary page......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton
We are thinking along the same lines. Maybe one of the boss demons told her to cool it for a while. I think she will go back to her public demonstrations of lunacy eventually.
That is an awesome post...thank you. Put a grin on my face...:)
The communist left cannot stand FREE speech. It is their worst nightmare that we can actually say what we want. It is okay for them to rant their crap out of their Aholes, but we are not allowed to speak it through our mouths. TOTAL DESTRUCTION of the Bill of RIGHTS and the US Constitution is their MAIN GOAL!!! It is the goal of the entire One World Government Kriminal Kartel.
Damn. Sex change!!!
Just When You Thought It Couldn’t Get Worse. . .
By Greg Ganske
May 15, 2022
Before I retired from reconstructive surgery, I cared for toddlers who bit into electrical cords and burned their lips. Maybe that is why I feel like I am bound in a chair, gagged, arms and legs tied, watching a two-year-old chewing through a plugged-in electrical cord when I watch the nightly news.
I see one Biden disaster after another on TV and feel as if I am helplessly waiting for the next to occur. Just when it seems it can’t get worse, something even more worrisome, and in some cases more absurd, happens on the national and international stage.
It starts with the failing mental acuity of President Biden. A year ago, I wrote a column for the Des Moines Register on Biden’s failing cognition. Sadly, his gibberish has gotten worse.
Recently President Biden spoke about his administration’s request to Congress for additional Ukrainian aid. The president’s inability to even read his teleprompter causes the White House to alter the official transcripts of his word mishmashes.
Biden said the plan would “enhance our underlying effort to accommodate the Russian oligarchs. . .” Accommodate! Then a weird laugh, “We’re gonna accommodate them.” Then he couldn’t pronounce kleptocrats, “Klep–the guys who are in the kleptocracies. Ha, ha, ha,” accenting the laughs.
The White House official version substituted “hold accountable” for “accommodate.” Correcting these gaffes is a full-time job at the White House. Last month in talking about lower gas prices, Biden said solar, or heat pumps could “save you $500 per month.” This, too, had to be cleaned up in the official transcripts as it is false.
We watch President Biden with trepidation wondering when he’s next going to bite into the electrical cord.
It got even scarier recently when his Department of Homeland Security announced that its new Disinformation Governance Board, jokingly referred to in DC as the Ministry of Truth, would be led by Nina Jankowicz. It turns out that Ms. Jankowicz, besides being the “Mary Poppins of Disinformation” for her impersonation of Julie Andrews singing about “Information laundering” to the tune of “supercallifragilisticexpialidotious,” is partisan herself.
DHS Secretary Mayorkas described Jankowicz as as “very qualified” because she testified at a Congressional hearing once! He also said she was nonpartisan– which is itself disinformation.
She made false claims about Hunter Biden’s laptop being a Russian plot and that Christopher Steele’s “dossier” started as a Republican opposition-research project. Townhall.com has reported that Jankowicz is the author of the book, “How to be a Woman Online”, in which she argues the internet should be censored to protect women from mean tweets. She shared the story of a friend who had to take a trip to Thailand to recover from “online abuse,” as if conservative women like Trump’s press secretary Sarah Huckaby Sanders haven’t been hounded on the internet.
There is a much bigger issue here, though, than its director. Homeland Security’s new disinformation board is a bad idea.
The idea is tied to the Left’s meltdown with Elon Musk buying Twitter and reopening it to conservative thought and contributors like President Donald Trump. Musk just doesn’t think it’s fair to allow the Iranian ayatollahs access to Twitter while denying it to an American president.
As a retired physician and former Congressman, I am concerned about the implications of this Ministry of Truth for public health and politics. In the health area we have seen pronouncements of truth, “science.” come down from the government about the pandemic multiple times and then change them. Remember Dr. Fauci changing his mind on facemasks? Or the CDC finally admitting that the vaccinated could get Covid and pass it on? Remember Gov Cuomo sending infected elderly back to nursing homes to infect others? Not all experts around the world agreed with the degree of lockdowns.
When I and others suggested we look at Sweden we were almost labeled heretics. California even now is considering a bill in its legislature to take away licenses from doctors if they deviate from Dr. Fauci’s nostrums. Long and short, science is an evolving process not amenable to Ms. Jankowicz’s pronouncements of scientific “truth’ from her Ministry of Disinformation.
The potential for abuse in the political arena is huge. We do not need a McCarthyesque government disinformation agency determining what is acceptable or not in politics. I am old enough to remember the lies our government made about the Gulf of Tonkin and Vietnam, that the government called Watergate was a “third-rate burglary,” how the government tried to cover up a secret war in Nicaragua, Bill Clinton lying about sex in the Oval Office, Obama saying time and again that “you can keep your doctor.” PolitiFact reported that 25% of Obama’s statements were “pants on fire” false.
Remember how 50 intelligence experts were sure that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation? Ms. Jankowicz agreed with them that the Hunter laptop saga was Russian disinformation. But that wasn’t true. And, of course, some of Trump’s statements were not strictly factual, either.
Would a Disinformation Governance Board have suppressed social media about these news stories? Is that what Americans want?
Disinformation from other countries has been a problem for a long time. Russians sent fake defectors out in the 1930s, the Soviets covertly funded newspaper and radio stations around the world. AIDS was supposedly the product of American biological research. China today is constantly influencing our news, social media, and businesses. The NBA and Disney kowtow to the CCP. Yes, we need to be aware and fight these pernicious actors, but the focus should be on them, not our own citizens.
One other thought–what goes around, comes around.
There will be a Republican Administration in the future. Do Democrats really want a Donald Trump in charge of a DHS Ministry of Truth? The government has enough to do with lowering, inflation, controlling the border, fighting crime, and getting antiviral medication to the public without limiting our free speech.
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Greg Ganske
Greg Ganske, MD, MC (ret) is a retired surgeon and Member of Congress from Iowa’s fourth district from 1995-2002. Congressional Quarterly named him one of the 50 Most Effective Members of Congress. He received Iowa’s GOP nomination for the Senate in 2002. He returned to plastic surgery practice and has participated in many overseas surgical missions operating on children with birth defects. A retired Lt. Col. in the Army Reserves, Ganske has written op-eds for the Des Moines Register and Townhall.
And just WHO 'verifies' a person to monitor and 'correct' the speech of free citizens? When Trump's President can he 'verify' a new head of the Ministry of Truth?
Anyone notice she’s got the same crazy in her eyes as AOC?
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