“This is a consent form to stick a wire into your brain. It’s important for hospitals to get these signed for procedures that are completely unnecessary.” – House, M.D.
Anyone else see a pattern here?
The Mrs. and I were both leaders (once upon a time) in that Paramilitary Organization, Boy Scouts of America®. We were leaders before the lifting on gay membership was removed.
During that time period, we were asked to participate in a (rather) lengthy survey of leaders. One night over a bottle of wine we started and finished the survey, working together. There was question after question, and there was scenario after scenario presented, as well as spots for written answers. In the end, we were firmly against inclusion of LGBTQXYZ children into Scouting™. We were also against LGBTQXYZ leadership.
And, we really, really thought about it, and tried to see the situation from different perspectives other than our own. Regardless, in the end, our feeling was shared and simple: Boy Scouts™ had been doing fine for a hundred years holding the same membership standards, and changing them for 1-2% of the population (that probably wouldn’t join anyway) didn’t make any sense.
One thing that I notice while taking the survey, was that it was quite biased. In question after question, it presented “edge” cases. “A boy, having completed everything required for his Eagle® rank, admits he is gay. Should he become an Eagle™ Scout®?”
Well, how many cases like that would there be? In reality, nearly zero. But scenario after scenario was presented, showing gay Scouts in the most flattering light possible in carefully crafted questions that were designed to evoke positive emotions for poor gay kids who just wanted to hike and have fun, darn it. We didn’t come down against gay Scouts® because we hated gay people. We came down against gay Scouts™ because it violated a basic principle of the program.
Simple as.
Hmmm, another pattern?
It came out that the national Scouting® decision had already been made before the survey. The entire survey was just an attempt to change the opinions of leaders and parents. The purpose of the survey was not to legitimately understand what the adults involved in Scouting® wanted, it was to get them to consent to the preordained change.
The BSA™ was engaged in Manufacturing Consent. The response from the Left after every retreat from principle by the Boy Scouts©? “It’s not enough.” It will never be enough.
Manufacturing Consent is a book by a communist named Edward Herman and the much more famous communist Noam Chomsky. Their primary idea was that the news media was beholden to special interest groups, and would gang up with capitalists to make sure that True Communism© would never be tried.
Those poor communists couldn’t get an even break! I mean, Chomsky and Herman had to get by working in coal mines in cushy professorships, while scoring book deal after book deal and getting fawning reviews from an admiring press. Chomsky and Herman argued that “the man is keeping me down” while, indeed, they were pampered pets continually sucking blood like a parasite from the civilization they were intent on destroying.
That doesn’t mean that they were wrong – the media was quite busy Manufacturing Consent, but the consent they were manufacturing for was Global Leftist State Control, the same people who bribed the Boy Scouts™ into giving up long held positions based on morality in exchange for big bux from corporate sponsors.
We see that today, as well. News is elevated when it serves the purpose of the Global Leftist State Capitalism. News is depressed when it doesn’t. Even news of a sensational nature becomes muted outside of local boundaries when it doesn’t serve the purpose of Global Leftist State Control.
The Mrs. did that. The Mrs. used to be in radio. She got to put together the news, sports, and weather for a regional network. She had fun at the job, but one thing she did that made me laugh was that she wouldn’t cover NBA® scores. Football? Sure. Baseball? Of course. But no the NBA™. When it was winter, she only provided . . . hockey scores. It wasn’t (particularly) a hockey region, but she didn’t like the NBA™.
So, for her news segments, the NBA© didn’t exist.
The news media does that on a national basis. Sensational stories are elevated to cover news stories. There was a missing toddler who apparently lived with wolves during the weekend in Houston and then was found alive and well. Sure, that’s wonderful, but why on Earth was this a national story on the news? A local story, sure.
But national? What story did that take the space of?
It’s not just in news, although certainly you’ve noticed that in “mass shooting” events that the story is very, very quickly covered up if the shooter isn’t a white guy. It has to be both – the reason is that is the group that the Left wants to disarm. If there’s a problem with the shooter, the case quickly disappears from the narrative.
Beyond the news, it’s also on social media. Twitter® and Facebook™ are used on a regular basis to amplify Leftist views. The recent “whistleblower” to Facebook’s© free speech “problem”? She was apparently involved in the decision to censor information from Hunter Biden’s laptop before the election. Her complaint is that Facebook™ doesn’t censor enough viewpoints of the Right.
Bots and/or paid users are used to put up comments that are supportive of whatever narrative is being sold. Of course, the jab is the big one, and the first one to attract those sorts of shills to this blog. Again, the concept is to create a situation where any idea opposed to the narrative is ridiculed.
Where do you think the phrase “conspiracy theorist” came from? It was created in the 1960s to discredit anyone who had a narrative that was counter to the mainstream narrative. It has become especially apparent in the COVID era, since any opinion counter to the narrative as it is known on that day is ridiculed by politicians on the Left and the full might of the news media.
Likewise, Google™ actively suppresses opinions it doesn’t agree with. Google™ used to give this blog about ten times the traffic of DuckDuckGo®. Now? They’re about the same. That was about 10% of my traffic, and when it dropped, I noticed it, since it all happened at once. I’ve since recovered (and then some!) from that suppression.
Additional narrative suppression comes from, surprise, academia. MIT just canceled a speech by a pro-climate change geophysicist because (drumroll) he was against race-based affirmative action. Now, he wasn’t going to talk about affirmative action, he was going to talk about climate change, and follow the Leftist line there. But to allow people who challenged another part of the narrative to talk?
Nope. To be on the Left, understand you’re all in, or you’re out. Will that shut up the next academic with politically unpopular views?
This brings us back to the Scouts®. They had made a choice, and agree or disagree, that was where they were going. The collapse in membership from around 2.9 million when the decision was made to 760,000 or so today (despite adding kindergarteners and girls) is nothing short of catastrophic.
That, in the end, is the problem with manufacturing consent. It isn’t real consent, and it ends up destroying the thing it was trying to influence. The parents and kids voted with their absence – regardless of the attempt to influence them.
The first step in not being manipulated by Manufactured Consent?
Be aware.
I imagine I will receive some pushback here. First off, I love reading your work. I often agree. In fact I agree with the story here. The issue I have is that we talk about the left being disingenuous and then you post memes that do the same thing.
I have no issue making fun of the over zealous lefties. Point out their absurdities. Use memes to do it … but try to remember that at least some of the memes you used are not real or are altered. Satire is a very useful tool. I get it, and satire can show the hypocrisy of the left very effectively. But the audience has to know it is satire and I wonder how many do not do their own research/verification and just take the humor at its word? And if it is not obvious? Then the narrative is following the same practices as the left. We have to be above them.
But I do look forward to your writing!!!!
Regular John Wilder readers know it is satire.
I figured they would… I get it too. I am not saying Mr Wilder does not know the difference.. its the other people out there who don’t and then go spouting as if it were the whole truth.. and gives people who lean to the right a bad reputation. (hell some folks on the right bug me as bad as the ones on the left when they become zealots.)
Like the one about the police Lt. and the university guy… or the one where the woman’s face is manipulated to give it a cartoonish look…. (yes sometimes people can have facial expressions that are cartoonish). and the one about Gabby Petito? Does not exist from what I can find. I give it 95% it is photo shopped.
Like I said, I knew I was going to hear pushback…. I just felt the need to point out that just because the left engages in over the top made up news, does not mean the right needs to do the same thing… just in case some folks out there did not see it as satire or a joke.
and yes, there are plenty of instances where the left does something so extraordinarily stupid and it needs to be pointed out…
Hello, Terrence, and ‘no’. One of the most irritating things that folks.’on the right’ do; is continue to think shit is ‘beneath us” – ‘we can’t stoop to their level’ b.s. The traditional Americans must stop with the expectation that the left will somehow return to Marquis of Queensbury rules. It isn’t going to happen, ever.
It may not be a kinetic hot war yet, Terrence – but trust this – the war started some time ago. During war, absolutely nothing is off the table, beneath us, etc. Your enemy is not playing nice and they’re not going to. This isn’t necessarily pushback, as much as it is a wake up call for you, and those who want us to ‘rise above’ and not ‘sink to their level’. Son, we are at war, and the sooner you grok that, the higher your chance for survival. I will not fight the war they seem so eager to have, on their terms; that is the height of foolishness and will end in defeat. There will be a time soon when the fight will be joined, and it will hopefully be at a time and place of our choosing.
But please, stop thinking that we need to somehow get them to see sense, change their evil ways, and repent, and that will happen if we “play nice.”
Violence is the only thing that will make them see sense. That said – here’s your expected pushback… “wake the fuck up and harden your heart.”
Never shoot Right.
TerrenceM *and* Brooks,
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Could a meme be both real *and* satire?
Simultaneously?
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Could a corpse be both a dead cop *and* a dead indoctrinater at some high-falutin’ Eww?
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Taken to its illogical conclusion, did anybody ever see that rascally LargeMarge in a room together with either/both TerrenceM/Brooks!
Ah, yes… the thot plickens…
Which memes? C’mon man, be helpful.
We made a comic for you, though. And none of the TiaT Comic Manufacting plant employees have manipulated our since that intern hid bunnyboy’s mutilated ear to make me look bad*
https://tempestinateardrop.com/archives/the-churchians-season-2-03-the-supplicant/
(*Yeah…That’s the ticket)
OMG I never realized this before. Hold on a moment while I report this blog to the Bureau of Truth in Memes. This is a threat to Our Democracy. It’s not Who We Are as a people.
Terrence, thanks! I expect the average IQ here is one to two standard deviations above the norm. Probably closer to two. They’re cleared for the tall boy rides . . .
The Mrs. and I were both leaders (once upon a time) in that Paramilitary Organization, Boy Scouts of America®.
Your wife was involved in the Boy Scouts? Well, that was the original problem that led to the homos. First you let in the chicks and then it’s a steady downward crapfest.
Den mothers, dude. For the cubbies. My grandma was one.
If you want to go First Causes, they were doomed the minute wider society joined them and erased Christ when they founded the Scouts in 1908. By accident or interent? At a time when “God” meant the Trinity, to any Englush-speaker: who knows?
The institutional trajectory is universal, human nature being what it is. Onl a miracle can prevent it.
Yup. Den Mom.
Nah. She was a den mom for tiny boys (which are nearly useless), and when it came to Boy Scouts she had (nearly) zero boy contact. She ran the books on advancements.
Women Scoutmasters are a problem.
Adam Piggott is Exactamundo correct. There ain’t nothin’ in this world that men begin that women are unable to screw up, once you let them in the door. Case in point, NFL. Case in point, US Armed Forces. Case in point, Congress. Don’t get me wrong, women are capable of millions of things, to one degree or another. But one thing they CAN’T DO is leave anything alone. I watched as they infiltrated and wrecked the Boy Scouts, over a 20 odd year period. There’s a very good reason most men grow up and leave their mother and go out into the world to make their way. There’s a lot more to this world than being “nice” like your Mom would want you to be. When K. Harris takes the reins, look for the word “shitshow” to pop up, often.
Life is so much easier when you have the “others” do your thinking for you. Can’t wait to hear and read the BS about Columbus tomorrow.
Columbus had more courage than 99.9999% of the people protesting him.
According to research, the reviled despised ‘Columbus’ character is far worse than we were taught.
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Columbus was a real captain of merchant ships, successful yet little-known beyond ports across the southern Iberian Peninsula.
One day, while visiting a Sephardic port, Captain Columbus was murdered, his identity stolen.
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For years, the identity-thief roamed through Spain, appealing to wealthy benefactors for financial backing to fund trips to foreign shores… boasting of uncountable riches for the taking.
The humble ‘captain’ would only take a small percentage as a reward for the risk.
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Inbred and slightly dumb but quite greedy, those rich folks handed over vast amounts of cash for ships and crew.
None of the promised voyages materialized.
The ‘captain’ was a scammer!, the cash going for hookers and blow!
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Eventually, partly to save some shards of their remaining dignity, the royals in Portugal gave him some ships and a crew for each, provisioned them, and, with great pomp, forcibly sent him away.
As you can imagine, by that point, any ‘away’ was the right direction.
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Royals cannot be seen as gullible.
That just would not do.
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By some accounts, that was the first time the identity thief was aboard a vessel.
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This episode of ‘Lies Our Government Told Us!’ is brought to you by our sponsors, Genocide Everybody Except Nine-Year Old Girls.
A saint he was not. But I also think that some folks who weren’t fond of him helped write history . . . .
Fifty years ago, I could choose between the Boy Scouts, and 4-H. I chose 4-H (or, I suppose, my parents chose for me) and I’m really glad that they did. 4-H taught skills that I still use today in suburban adulthood, like Robert’s Rules of Order (for running meetings), public speaking, gardening, nutrition, cooking, wood-working, and basic electrical wiring. There was always a safe, healthy mix of leaders, boys, and girls. Come to think of it, the structured tasks with both sexes might have been the BEST part! We didn’t need uniforms, and we didn’t get into mischief while camping in the woods.
Back in those days, I suppose that Scout leaders were often military veterans who imagined themselves helping to prepare a new generation of soldiers… a more serious business than whatever they’re up to today.
You’re right. When I was a Boy Scout, circa the early 1960’s, most of the leaders were WW2 vets.They were virtually all good & dedicated. Ward Cleaver types! The organization was well run & cheap to join. For about $25 a year, you could have a uniform, pay dues, get the famous BSA handbook & even spend a week in the summer at the local Scout campgrounds. Our council had one of the best! By the late 1960’s the organization was beginning to change & as we see today, not for the better. I’m sure someone has written or will write a book about what happened. I will agree with you about 4H. As you stated, it was more practical & well suited, especially for rural youth. The same for FFA which back then, had an affiliated relationship with the BSA in rural areas of the country.
And, speaking of the famous BSA handbook: that excellent book introduced me to, among other good and useful things, the concept of recursion. The cover (in my time, anyway) depicted a Boy Scout, walking along and carrying his handbook, which had the same cover as the one I was looking at. And the cover of that handbook depicted, therefore, a Boy Scout, walking along and carrying his handbook. The limitations of the printed artwork being what they were, that’s as far as you could see … but it was obvious that there was an infinite series of Boy Scouts walking along, each carrying his successor. Cool!
Ha! I love it. And I think I have a copy of that book . . .
James: I still have my BSA handbook from the late 1950’s. It still has a tremendous amount of good tips in it for SHTF times. I won’t waste it on one of these clueless Millennials I run into when I substitute teach. It resides in my grab-and-go bag along with other needful things. Bleib ubrig.
Dweez,
I was a Cub Scout in San Diego and then a Boy Scout in Cd’A, somewhere you can find a pic of me in the Cd’A fishwrap in 1965 getting an award.
That was the beginning of a military progression, Naval Sea Cadets/USNR in Bremerton, WA and then the USMC. Like most everything, it’s a subtle brainwashing program.
I wasn’t in 4H but I was in FFA and the skills I learned in the Future Farmers, having never been a farmer, were the most valuable skills for the work world and adult life I learned as a yoof. Far more so than anything else I learned in high school or college.
Well said. The Mrs. ran (as a youth) her chapter of 4H. I brought Scouting into the mix. What a great program it was.
Once upon a time.
I was thinking (while it’s still legal) about the proliferation of LGBTQ(RSTUVWXYZ) propaganda. Remember playing cops and robbers, army, cowboys and Indians? I think the LGBTQ(RSTUVWXYZ) “community” is doing in large part the same thing. Adults playing something they’re not. If that’s a bigoted view, so be it.
Gender confusion is an actual disorder, likely caused by hormone imbalances. Many suddenly realize they are chicks
in middle age, which is likely brought on by an extreme drop in testosterone, especially those that used steroids in their youth. Bruce Jenner was very likely using steroids when he was competing. It is a disorder that should be treated, not encouraged. If someone started acting like he truly believed he was a dog, I wouldn’t petition the state to surgically attach a tail. I’d get him to a psychiatrist. Or train him to retrieve, since a dog that fully understands English would probably work pretty good.
There has been research showing that much of the rise in trannyism is likely people jumping on the bandwagon to fit in and feel special. Of course that research gets suppressed.
https://thefederalist.com/2018/08/31/explosive-ivy-league-study-repressed-for-finding-transgender-kids-may-be-a-social-contagion/
That is (one of) the problems with the world today. What challenge do they face?
Nothing. So they obsess about the meaningless and the purely hedonistic.
“What challenges do they face?”
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The prophet in me predicts that number may increase… and will include:
* foraging for food, and
* avoiding cannibal-slavers.
Yup. And hopefully they cannibalize after the slaving part.
When you start to understand that everything important is propaganda, from the news to the entertainment world to sports and even the way we shop, it frees you up and helps eliminate the cognitive dissonance that makes so many people crazy.
As for the Scouts? They are learning what most mainline denominations should have learned but never did: compromising with the Left doesn’t make them leave you alone, it just encourages them to keep pushing.
Yup. Never apologize. Ever.
Today’s example? Southwest airlines..
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D5XmSstbo_Vg&ved=2ahUKEwixp-rwsMLzAhWic98KHcbNDgcQFnoECDwQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2RjUl6Odcp6OKfvJPg9sO6
Followup (strange, this isn’t on CNN…)
https://twitter.com/JillRTeamXRP/status/1447400838071263235/photo/1
And THIS. Looks like Lexington Bridge is a jet bridge in 21st Century America…
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1447533987770023941
Er, AKA Concord Bridge or North Bridge….
https://www.nationalguard.mil/Resources/Image-Gallery/Historical-Paintings/Heritage-Series/Concord-Bridge/
Ha! Thank you!
Love it!
Good for them. I’m on board. Well, not on board.
If someone wasn’t aware when they started reading this post, they certainly are now. Very powerful. Well done, sir!
Thank you! Wait until you see Wednesday’s post!
Fantastic article as always
Thank you! This one was . . . harder to write, and I was unsure how people would react. Thank you.
That, in the end, is the problem with manufacturing consent. It isn’t real consent, and it ends up destroying the thing it was trying to influence.
Making it a win-win for the Laptop Caste, nu?
I know. A bit of a downer. Have something beautiful (Great post as ever)
https://youtu.be/v2ZEEfl8F5g
The problem is the manufacturing of consent works just enough to keep the scam going.
Global cooling -> global warming -> global climate change -> OMFG hurricanes volcanos tornados dogs and cats raining from the sky mass hysteria!
Most people know it is BS, but the people in power find it convenient to believe it is true. It’s like a domestic cassis belli, you don’t need everyone to believe it, just enough to get away with the scam.
Thank you!!! Jeg likker det!
Codex,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eGvzFiqhe6A
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80-year old Norwegian, Sven builds tiny ‘canoe-yawl’ yachts.
Although tiny, it carries provisions for a year at-sea.
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I believe his surname — Yrvind — translates as ‘whirlwind’.
My family stayed in the Scouts until my youngest got his Eagle in 2008. It was going bad by then, but we had a good troop leader and several dedicated dads (me included) to keep it going. Today the troop is still there, and the Scoutmaster has by now produced almost 100 Eagle Scouts. He is the driving force, and when he retires from that the troop will probably fade away.
My boys were in Scouting for 25 years all told, and we had a lot of good experiences together. It’s sad to see it fade away. We do have FFA and 4H around here, so that’s to the good.
Thanks for a good article.
Yes – several Troops are still hanging on. But the clock is ticking. When morality is inverted? There is not much time left.
Thank you!
And when the consent fails, it fails spectacularly, yet those who suffer from the failure of consent are always “shocked” by the fact it happened.
Exactly. And it’s failing now. #Let’sGoBrandon.
I followed one of the links above, which led to a thread which wound up with “They’re cancelling Christmas!” (with “their” supply chain disruptions, etc.) If you thought that Christmas came to America every autumn on a container ship from China, you haven’t celebrated Christmas at all. Christmas is Christmas is Christmas even if it’s just three elderly political prisoners in a Communist work camp reciting together as much of the prayers and Bible as they can remember. (If anything, they’re cancelling “Atheist Children Get Presents Day”, which is fine with me.)
The pilots union denies that it has authorized a “job action” regarding the vaccination mandate. According to one source, the union leadership said “that would be illegal”, so of course they can’t admit to it, and the union actually has little reason to be involved. As another source put it, if they know that they’ll lose their jobs, they might as well burn off their accrued vacation time and sick leave before the deadline. Individual pilots can make their own decisions, and, like Atlas, “shrug” if they want to.
Perfect commentary, on both points. I believe that we could hold Christmas in our house with nothing more than prayer and be fully content.
Of course they don’t. And the Left? They are accusing the pilots of (really) terrorism.
“…the same people who bribed the Boy Scouts™ into giving up long held positions based on morality in exchange for big bux from corporate sponsors.”
“MIT just canceled a speech by a pro-climate change geophysicist because (drumroll) he was against race-based affirmative action.”
These 2 sentences are related, and explain each other. The reason the Boy Scouts could be subverted was because it’s leaders were chosen (presumably) by merit, rather than loyalty to an ideal. The Left knows that the key to political power isn’t merit, it is loyalty, and those with merit can often afford to be disloyal as they have other options. Meritocracy only works when it is reinforced by other things like culture, as it is not a natural state of being like nepotism or favoritism is. As long as the Right virtuously proclaims they don’t care what people believe as long as they do a good job, they’ll be outmaneuvered by those who hire according to loyalty.
They are related. I think you’ll like tomorrow’s post.
Speaking of manufactured consent, did you ever wonder where the factory is? I know, as I’m a frequent visitor: it’s right here. CJ Hopkins claims to be a lefty, and I suppose he is, but he’s one of those honest lefties whose stuff is worth reading, which to me underlines the vanishing usefulness of “left – right” as a tool for understanding what goes on in this sorry world. Anyway, it’s well worth a visit. Don’t wait too long, as he’s in Germany, where the covid police really might be loading him into his boxcar soon.
Thanks for the link. I worry much more about here than there, though.
How long before the NRA sends out their survey?
If it has one question: “Do you have enough guns and ammuntion?” and the only answer to check is “No” then it might be a good survey.
I stopped watching network news the moment I realized it was entertainment.
It always starts with a bang, a grab-you-by-the-lapels story conveyed with dread and concern. This is how the main theme is introduced.
That is followed by less dramatic but still on-theme stories, with a few red herrings thrown in to hide the manipulation.
Finally, the show wraps up with a heartwarming human interest story, sometimes on theme as well, but less in-your-face and more subtle. It’s a story to make you feel good, to make you feel hopeful and less inclined to see the rug being pulled over your eyes.
Local news is similar, but less sophisticated. Especially in the smaller markets, it’s easy to spot the manipulation because it’s so ham-handed; they’re still learning their craft.
I quit the first time I saw reporters interviewing reporters about reports from other reporters.
The Frankfurt School and the Long March to burn it all down by any means necessary.
“We must organize the intellectuals and use them to make Western civilization stink. Only then, after they have corrupted all its values and made life impossible, can we impose the dictatorship of the proletariat.”
Willi Münzenberg
In June 1940, on Stalin’s orders, Münzenberg was hunted down to the south of France by a NKVD assassination squad and hanged from a tree.
So, I agreed with Stalin once?
Dangit.
But helicopters make good commies, too.
Words have value.
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Homosexuals misappropriated the word ‘gay’.
Those people are homosexual.
‘Gay’ is something else.
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I see this as a trend among BOLCHEVICS.
Those people misappropriated the words ‘left’, ‘blue states’, progressive’, and dozens of others.
2021, those falsely-defined words appear in common-use in TheMainStreamMedia… as though they are important.
Nope.
On the opposite end of the ‘importance’ spectrum, misappropriated words are worse than useless because their definition is altered dujour.
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I visit elderly shut-ins.
One old gal, a BOLCHEVIC from Berkeley, California (she worked at the Eww), watches noham chumpski(sp?) mumbling incoherent on YouTube.
I go for walks with the dogs during that incomprehensible nonsense.
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After I get back, I always ask her for a synopsis of the lecture.
Invariably, she cannot remember anything… she went into a trance.
Defensively, she proclaims “It doesn’t matter what he said! It’s important that I support him!
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To really frost her patootee, I casually mention “I am naming all my children ‘chumpski’… and all my dogs ‘noham’…”
That usually gets her going pretty good.
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Is it just me… or do BOLCHEVICS utterly completely lack the chromosome for a sense of humor?
They can’t have humor, because *every* word they say is important . . . .