Newspeak

[Luigi]

“They still believe in the capacity and possibility and ability of solving problems as well as reforms and social stability that keep them away from painful experiences.”

Lessons from Ronald Rumsfeld.

[table42]

And they say public oratory is dead. But compared to Dan Quayle he waxes poetic. Observe:

"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century.
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I rest my case.

[frank lee bent]

that administration has some classics.
Rummy was better spoken than the oafish pres and vp

In announcing that the military would be sending Al Qaeda and Taliban detainees to the United States naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld described the base today as ''the least worst place we could have selected.''

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones

a poem:
MAKE THE PIE HIGHER
by George W. Bush

I think we all agree, the past is over.
This is still a dangerous world.
It's a world of madmen and uncertainty
and potential mental losses.

Rarely is the question asked
Is our children learning?
Will the highways of the Internet become more few?
How many hands have I shaked?

They misunderestimate me.
I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.
I know that the human being and the fish can coexist.
Families is where our nation finds hope, where our wings take dream.

Put food on your family!
Knock down the tollbooth!
Vulcanize society!
Make the pie higher! Make the pie higher!

[table42]

Really instead of newspeak they should call it spewspeak.

[Anchor Moy]

This is really profound. But it's so subtle that we don't even really know if he knows that he doesn't know, or if he doesn't know that he doesn't know, or who knows...

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones

I give up, I dunno .

[Luigi]

Yes, the unknown known nonsense was prolly best to date.

Spewspeak is the norm of the day.

[frank lee bent]

But that Regime had real talent. My Ma remarked she intended to vote for GWB and I laughed and said that crew was as dumb as a box of rocks. She replied that they had a lot of smart men around them!

Here are some gems from the former VP who seems to have now disappeared into the void:

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back. Dan Quayle

The future will be better tomorrow.
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The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
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Much much more at the link.
It is a very telling insight into leadership, and the justifiably low regard they have for the electorate.
Politics is just hilarious.

[ot mien kampf]

Vlad is basically a bipedal dictionary of newspeak.

The words "racist" and "-phobe" are already even more effective at crushing dissent than anything in 1984. Brand someone with these magic labels and you, apparently, don't need to argue anything factual with them, as demonstrated by most of his posts.