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11/12/2022 “Fake News”   Leave a comment

In recent months the term “Fake News” has become popular. I hate to burst anyone’s bubble, but “Fake News” has been around for a very long time. The younger generations think that they’ve discovered some outrageous political trick that never existed before they discovered it. As an example, many years ago my son (aged 13) came rushing to me all excited. He told me to sit down and listen to this great song. He told me it was being used on a TV commercial and it was the best song he ever heard. I sat down and he played it for me, and I just started grinning. The song he discovered was at that time already a golden oldie, it was the Righteous Brothers singing Unchained Melody. He was sure it was some group from his generation. “Fake News” is a new term, but it has always meant the same thing: lying, misrepresenting, and double speak. George Orwell has been proven right once again. Here are a few samples of so called “Fake News” from the past.

2003: President George W. Bush for his creative use of language in public statements regarding the reasons the United States needed to pursue war against Iraq.

2002: New York State Board of Regents for its politically correct and silent editing of state tests.

2000: The tobacco industry for its media blitz portraying tobacco companies as the benefactors of children, abused women and disaster victims. That is abusive language in pursuit of their right to sell a deadly drug.

1991: Department of Defense for obfuscation and jargon in euphemisms during the first Gulf War.

1990: President George Bush on wetlands, the Panama invasion, Tiananmen Square and the “No New Taxes” pledge.

1989: The Exxon Corporation for the “Exxon Valdez” oil spill obfuscation.

1985: The CIA for the Psychological Warfare Manual prepared for the Nicaraguan war.

1979: The nuclear power industry for its euphemisms and jargon during the 3-Mile Island accident.

1977: The Pentagon and the Energy Department for language cover-up of the neutron bomb development.

1975: Colonel David Opfer, USAF press officer in Cambodia for saying to reporters, after a raid, “You always write its bombing, bombing, bombing. It’s not bombing! It’s air support!

HERES MY FAKE NEWS ANNOUNCEMENT – “FAKE NEWS IS TRUE”

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Posted November 12, 2022 by Every Useless Thing in Bitch & Complain, Education, History, Just Saying, Kill Me, I'm Begging You, Looking Back, Political Correctness, Quotations, Stupidity, Useless Crap

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10/23/2022 “Voter Assistance”   2 comments

I’ve been around the planet just long enough to have allowed at least 10,000 politicians to tell me things that I knew were untrue and I was sure they knew it too. Not just Democrats and Republicans but Independents, Greenies, and Nut-bags. I’ve watched more than my share of debates, listen to the all-knowing Mainstream Media television pundits, and was assured that the polls they all quoted were legitimate. Am I stupid or what?

The following list was put together some time ago by a disgruntled voter who actually had the gall to ask politicians for their thoughts on these topics. The list hasn’t changed in 15 years and yet we still never get answers.

  • You can get arrested for expired tags on your car but not for being in the country illegally.
  • Your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more of our money.
  • Children are forcibly removed from parents who appropriately discipline them while children of “underprivileged” drug addicts are left to rot in filthy surroundings.
  • Hard work and success are rewarded with higher taxes and government intrusion, while slothful, lazy behavior is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid, and subsidized housing.
  • The government’s plan for getting people back to work is to provide endless weeks of unemployment checks (to not work).

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  • Some politicians think that stripping away the amendments to the Constitution is really protecting the rights of the people.
  • The rights of the government come before the rights of the individual.
  • Being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you “safe” (gun ownership).
  • You have to have your parent signature to go on a school field trip but not to get an abortion.
  • And 80-year-old woman can be strip-searched by the TSA but a Muslim woman wearing a burka is only subject to having her neck and head searched.

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Elections are coming. Question the government inequities and closely examine every word that comes out of the mouth of every candidate. Double speak is the tool of the untrustworthy.

INFLATION IS NOT OUR FRIEND MR. BIDEN

Posted October 23, 2022 by Every Useless Thing in Bitch & Complain, Education, History, Kill Me, I'm Begging You, Law, Politics, Stupidity

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