Me or your lying pols and press?
We’ve all seen Abortion Barbie explaining how she didn’t really mean the filibuster that made her famous.
The thing is, she said that because she knew her supporters would know it’s a lie and hoped them people against A Wymyn’s Choice (the only choice lefties want you to have) would believe her. That’s what lefties do in every election, watch a Virginia election for the most blatant examples of that I’ve seen.
The GOP, fresh off cutting the cost of living increases to veterans, are saying they didn’t mean that!
he House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to restore full cost of living increases to pension benefits for younger military retirees, responding eagerly to election-year pressure from veterans groups.
Which the Senate will not take up.
In other words, just like repealing Obamacare, they’re not serious. It’s all just theater to shut us up and try to get us to give them money because they’re FIGHTING THE DEMOCRATS!!!!!!!
I do like this one. We’ve all seen the IRS forcing businesses to say they aren’t firing people because of Obamacare, Samizdata figures out the reason. Spoiler alert, it has nothing to do with keeping businesses from firing people because of Obamacare, it has everything to do with making people lie.
“Company officials will be trapped in a catch-22. They can lay off as many people as they want because of Obamacare. But because they’ll have to swear to the IRS that their decisions had nothing to do with Obamacare, they can’t speak publicly about what’s happening. What a great way to silence the people who are on the front lines of dealing with Obamacare’s horrific effects.”
So perfectly Obamawellian.
Obama and the UN are serious about helping Syria!
The UN presence in Homs has not prevented the regime and its fighters from opening fire at the people crossing over from the besieged area onto the Waar road. One elderly man, for instance, was hit in the abdomen and taken to the hospital. The regime also targeted a humanitarian aid convoy, killing two of its passengers.
Poor bastards. In the first year or so it was Teh Peepul trying to fight the chinless ophthalmologist and Obama could have helped them, now it’s just jihadi V jihadi and they’re all boned.
Speaking of poor bastards, EuroMaiden is what they’re calling the protests/budding revolution in Ukraine that have been going on for a few months.
Hospitals have become another EuroMaidan frontline from where injured activists have been kidnapped, one of whom ended up dead on Jan. 23. To mitigate the danger of abduction, the Center for Society Research, a local think tank, has mobilized a group of volunteers to provide security at area hospitals.
Sonomabatch. And Obama stays silent. Because he always sides against the democracy folks.
Update: I took out my rant at Thompsons Cigars.
I’ll just say, never use them. They stink and their idea of customer service is laughable and rude.
JR Cigars ships that day and you get it 2-3 days later, as they promise. Or at least, it worked that way when I lived in VA.
Important Update!!!!
Who you gonna believe, Ted Cruz or Politifact?
doubleplusundead 
Forcing people to lie to protect a regime is one of the PRIMARY weapons of the left. Because it destroys, once and for all, any pretensions you might have had to being a courageous or honest person. You’ve sold out…and you know it. Theodore Dalrymple says it best in regards to propaganda, but when you can’t speak out against Obamacare and its effects, you become the propaganda:
“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is…in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
― Theodore Dalrymple
Exactly, add in the Newspeak dictionaries we’re supposed to internalize or head to room 101. Like the people currently freaking out over not knowing the proper form of address for people who feel that biology is far too restrictive when talking about gender.
You have to know the difference between ‘trans’ and ‘cis’. . Notice the URL on that stupidity, “basic rights’. Cuz it’s a basic right for them to demand I understand their changing terminology as it’s changed.
Orwell certainly knew the goals and tactics of leftists.
That’s related to the whole purpose of
Newspeak
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The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of IngSoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought — that is, a thought diverging from the principles of IngSoc — should be literally unthinkable,
I like that book but I haven’t re-read it in over a decade as it was just too depressingly obviously a How-To for the Democratic party and, especially, their Minitrue outlet.
And that’s why I stopped using Newspeak at “Black”, “American Indian” and “Oriental”.
I think it’s stupid, but trying to use “Negro” is far more problem than it’s worth, I never liked “colored” but I’m not using “African-American”, “Native American” or “Asian” for oriental.
The last because when I say ‘oriental’ I don’t mean the various people in the sub-continent, Kazakhs, Russians from east of the Urals or people from eastern Turkey, I mean, ‘people with an epicanthic fold’.
The Brits use “asian” for “Pakistani” because of Newspeak, soon “asian” will be racist and they’ll figure out another term to jerk me around and make themselves feel superior.