BRIAN KAREM

On Wednesday, the news was all about a big bag of wind destroying Florida and flooding the South, spreading destruction and threatening pestilence and death. Then there’s Hurricane Idalia.

Also on Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell froze and stood motionless in front of an assembly of reporters — for the second time this summer — so that’s encouraging.

But seriously, folks. Last Thursday, Donald Trump turned a 22-minute booking for a felony indictment in Georgia into a six-hour media special, complete with a larger motorcade than the actual president’s — with dozens of camera lights on the runway and a chopper-talk session….

https://www.salon.com/2023/08/31/how-did-we-get-here-the-dumbing-of-america-from-reagan-to-and-beyond/

George Orwell: Ignorance is Strength; Freedom is Slavery; War is Peace

George Orwell: Literature and Totalitarianism (1941)

George Orwell – Freedom of the Park (1945)

George Orwell’s Final Warning: “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever”

George Orwell Reviews Mein Kampf: “He Envisages a Horrible Brainless Empire” (1940)