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I wonder whether Chomsky (the world really is upside down) will pass the Truth Ministry? Just saw this!

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/01/noam-chomsky-trump-one-western-statesman-stature-pushing-peace-ukraine/

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Yes, these old fashioned lib civil libertarians are a dying breed and find themselves in strange company.

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Kristof’s an idiot for also implying that Russians aren’t able to criticize Putin.

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Yes, indeed, who will speak the truth? Our elected representatives appear to be more concerned with more important things like using the correct pronouns and working across the aisle so as not to appear “mean”, not to mention being certain that those vicious Jan. 6 revolutionary insurrectionist get persecuted to the full extent of the “rules”, did I say that right?

Hey, Lindsay, are you listening?

I think it was Spiro Agnew who once described some group as “so fascicle as to be beneath contempt”, seems apt.

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So we're told. Nothing has changed on the twit as far as I can tell. Responses to this tweet (link below) are a shining example. I had to scroll thru 30+ totally nasty attack responses to reach the two constructive ones, which were buried under this warning: "Show additional replies, including those that may contain offensive content." https://mobile.twitter.com/VA_GOP/status/1520457981355253764

Up is down, down is up, grass is purple and the sky is orange if declared so....

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It take time to create a new agency, so the ministry of truth was in the works for a while.

The midterms polling drove the creation.

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Yep, no doubt about that! Waay back when they realized how well it was working online, “Guys, we have got to create a new agency to make all of this repression and censorship seem legitimate. More importantly, it can create new “rules” that we can enforce and penalize people for not adhering to and maybe even make them turn in their non-compliant neighbors!”

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And Ukraine provided the justification.

I’m SURE the timing of the Ukraine War is just coincidental, except there are no coincidences with this administration.

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"Fascists gonna Commie…."

That's so creative and funny my natural instinct is to laugh like hell. As painfully true as it is, though, I feel like I'm closer to crying.

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Absolutely what's going on.

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