The Trump administration takes a very Orwellian turn | CNN Politics
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Back in March, President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeted at the Smithsonian Institution that began as follows: “Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.”
  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    140·
    5 months ago

    “Turn”?

    This is more like “full speed ahead on the course that anyone with a couple of brain cells to rub together could have predicted”.

  • tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works
    75·
    5 months ago

    The scariest thing is not the pressure the White House put on the museum, it’s the fact that they caved in.

    I’m way more scared about all the people in public institutions bending the knee to the bully than the bully himself. The us population need examples of resistance to rise up as a people, and so far there are almost none.

  • don@lemmy.ca
    69·
    5 months ago

    Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska both worried that Trump’s move would make it so people can’t trust the data the administration is putting out.

    lol the only ones who trust what the trump crime regime puts out are the ones who’d happily eat the rotten feces directly from his ass given the slightest of chances.

  • wuffah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    5 months ago

    I would roll my eyes at this, but if I were to do so it would be so hard as to pop them out of my head. We flew off the “Orwellian” cliff months ago, and we are free falling into a canyon of insanity deeper than the Mariana’s trench.

    To call the trump administration “Orwellian” is an understatement almost as insane as Trump itself. Does language even exist anymore?

  • ansiz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    5 months ago

    This has been the full steam ahead plan since Reagan at least. You can see the social programs and reforms done by LBJ in the late 60s and some of the things Nixon did like the EPA. If I’m not mistaken Nixon then flirted with a government healthcare Medicare for all plan but it didn’t get far.

    Since then it’s just been naked class warfare, capitalist pillaging, and wealth accumulation for the 0.1%.

    • overthere@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      11·
      5 months ago

      This was before my time, so it’s always interesting to read about Nixon and see that he was way to the left of the current Democrats and saw a lot of positive things happen under his terms. He’s remembered as a crook and a boogeyman, but by modern day standards, the Watergate scandal would barely even raise an eyebrow.

      How times have changed.

  • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    5 months ago

    Is this one of those things where a 1700s courier just delivered the news to CNN from the west and it just kind of takes 10 years to make it that far? Because where I’ve been sitting it looks slightly different.