Pic Of The Moment: Trump Regime Brings Orwell's 1984 To Life

[EarlG]

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Treasury secretary defends Greenland tariffs

[BumRushDaShow]

1. Rumsfeld reincarnated!

[ornotna]

2. War is Peace

An administration of professional trolls and provocateurs.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

3. "The term "cult" is traditionally used to reference...

...social groups defined by their extreme religious, philosophical or spiritual beliefs focused on a particular personality, object or goal."

[Dr. T]

4. Sure. And my laundry emergency is avoiding a laundry emergency.

Guess I'd better start doing preemptive bathroom breaks.

The Dimwit Administration is state-of-the-art when it comes to word salad. That's an award they can have, like being the dumbest kid in the classroom.

[Seinan Sensei]

5. Scott needs to go back to soybean farming

[OGBuzz]

6. Lets help the King.

If King Donald wants to "take" Greenland so badly that he would risk war with NATO, or worse, maybe we should help him. We could load the King, Eric, Jr., Barron, Jared, and the Kings entire sycophantic cabinet on a C-5M Super Galaxy and fly them to Greenland to finally realise the Kings dream of "taking Greenland". I don't believe booking a return flight will be necessary.

[Initech]

7. The national emergency is that we have a psychotic mad man who has steered the US into the iceberg!

He and his goons need to be thrown out on their ass now!

[Bengus81]

15. Then he backs up and rams the iceberg again,and again,and again....

[orangecrush]

8. Want to see the unvarnished worst case scenario?

Go watch "Civil War" (2024).

It doesn't make a political statement (directly) and is careful to avoid doing so, but depicts very well what it will look like if shit goes completely sideways.

[EarlG]

13. Seen it

Great movie. I took it as a lesson that while civil wars are going on all over the world, we don't give them much thought because they're always happening "over there." Staging the movie in America made it much easier to relate to what civil wars actually look like when they're happening around you.

Going off at a slight tangent, it reminded me a little of how the western actors' real regional accents are used for all the characters in "The Death of Stalin," instead of having them all do generic Russian accents. It's jarring at first, but ultimately made me feel as if I was not watching something taking place in a faraway foreign land, but rather, that "it could happen here."

[orangecrush]

16. Thanks, EarlG

Scenes like a crashed helicopter in front of the JC Penneys were a bit jarring.

It drove home the point that we have been mostly untouched by war in this country on our own soil since the 1st Civil War.

Also drove home the idea that no one on any side in their right mind wants this.

And the old guy saying that the woman had "lost her faith in the power of journalism".

Unfortunately too many of today's have forgotten the sacrifices made for truth by those who went before.

[infullview]

9. Newspeak.

[bronxiteforever]

10. He is entitled mollycoddled failure.

[Tasmanian Devil]

11. 1984 was not intended to be an instruction manual n/t

[MarcoZandrini]

23. Unfortunately....

…a trumpdork did read it.

Fukkkem

[dedl67]

12. What a pathetic excuse for a human being

[BidenRocks]

14. He actually believes we are so stupid as to buy

any of the bullshit he is peddling.

That also makes him a despicable asshole on top of being a Dandy!

Regime change! Every last one in the docks!

[yellow dahlia]

17. There was a hat available, that read - MAKE ORWELL FICTION AGAIN.

[LiberalArkie]

18. Silver

[mikelewis]

19. The national emergency is Trump not getting what he wants instantly.

They're all afraid of child.

[niyad]

20. Okay, it is after 12, so how much do I have to drink before any of that

crap makes sense???

[Aviation Pro]

21. Lumbergh, he looks like Lumbergh

From Office Space.

[2na fisherman]

22. And ICE Will Arrest People On...

suspicion of suspicion.

[spanone]

24. K&R

[Wounded Bear]

25. K&R...nt

[underpants]

26. That's some catch that Trump-22

That's some catch that Trump-22

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220948552

a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions.
"a catch-22 situation"

[nycbos]

27. Fun fact about 1984.

It was banned in Soviet Union for being anti-communist, and was targeted for bans in the USA by Christian conservatives for being pro-communist.

[pat_k]

28. Sounds akin to Cheney's insane 1% doctrine.

The asinine notion that even the most minimal risk of attack required a maximum response as if the threat were a certainty.