1984 is the Bestselling Book on Amazon

It is 1984 and if Big Brother Trump can't Tweet, his bowels might explode:

United States is Leaderless while Trump feuds With Twitter and Professional Golfers’ Association

Not since Washington's farewell address has an American leader ended his term in such a fitting way.

Amid still-spiking coronavirus numbers and a violent insurrection crisis he helped create, Donald Trump is laser-focused on using his last hours as president to complain that he was removed from a social media app that originally came to prominence as a means by which teenagers could stay abreast of Justin Bieber’s daily schedule, reports say.

Since conceding in a video issued under duress last Thursday that Joe Biden is the certified winner of the presidential election and that a new administration will take over the government on Jan. 20, the chief executive has not appeared in public or released any statements. CNBC’s Eamon Javers reports, however, that administration officials are considering “the idea of President Trump making remarks on camera today about big tech,” while the Washington Post says he “plans to spend the final days of his term in office railing against the industry.”

Twitter and Facebook both suspended Trump’s account when he released a video praising the individuals who were occupying the Capitol. When the president returned from his suspension Thursday to make remarks that could be interpreted as calls to continue violently disputing the election result, Twitter announced a permanent ban—a removal that marked a stunning fall from grace for a man who was once thought of alongside Ashton Kutcher and Snooki as one of the service’s signature personalities. (Trump is also reportedly furious at PGA of America for canceling a scheduled 2022 event at his golf course in New Jersey.)

The business of governing the United States, meanwhile, is being done by people besides the president on an ad hoc basis. Vice President Mike Pence—who reportedly hasn’t spoken to Trump since the president denounced him during the Capitol riot—is scheduled to lead a coronavirus task force meeting at the White House on Monday afternoon and, according to Politico, is being treated as the head of the executive branch in a “wink, wink, nod, nod” way by lawmakers and other officials. Pence, and not Trump, will attend Biden’s swearing-in; Pence also spoke to the family of the Capitol Police officer who was killed in the riot to offer condolences, which the president has not done.

For the last four years, the president’s most well-credentialed and nominally respectable allies argued that he would be more appreciated for his accomplishments in governance if he were able to suppress his impulse to make inflammatory comments online. Given a chance to prove that, though, when Twitter pulled the plug, he’s shown that his only governing priority is getting back to posting again. To Trump and to the supporters who understood him best, being in a position to air talk-radio grievances from the presidential pulpit always was his most important accomplishment.

More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/trump-planning-twitter-feu
d-for-final-days-in-office.html

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You'll be citing 1984 soon enough, Marcos.

Don't let the fact that it happened to Trump this time make you forget that this is something that should concern you.

Censorship and privacy rights have always been important to me and have been an unwavering stance of mine since before 2005 when I joined this site. It doesn't matter who was president, or who controlled the Senate or the House.

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You've never read it, and you certainly don't know what it was about.

You need to STFU, or I'll laugh at you some more.

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I have read it.

I read a book called "Amusing Ourselves To Death" by Neil Postman in my early 20's which would have been somewhere during the first few years of GWB's Presidency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death

This is the cover variant that I read, and it happens to be my favorite:



It was in my grandma's basement while I was living there for a few years before I got my shit together. There were a ton of books down there that were my uncle's, my dad's, my grandma's and a few that were over 100 years old that I've still got tucked away in a safe place today.

On a side note, I probably never would have read it if the copy in the basement was one of the other boring versions...

Amusing Ourselves to Death was scary, and fairly accurate to what I had experienced up to that point, and it was already nearly 20 years old itself.


It made frequent references to both 1984 and Brave New World.

I've always been glad that I read Brave New World after reading 1984 (It's possible that Neil Postman recommended reading them in that order, but I couldn't say without reading his book again). Both were really sad stories for sure, but at least everyone was so high out of their brains on a drug with no side effects to notice it in Brave New World, and only those who made the choice to stop taking the drugs questioned anything. I've lived nearly 20 years now believing that we're headed toward one of those two worlds. I'm really rooting for Brave New World.



I've made tons of references to both books over the years here.



You should read Amusing Ourselves to Death if you haven't already.


Not sure how it holds up today, since I read it half a lifetime ago and it's 36 years old now. I'm also not sure at all what political slant it comes from either, as I read it during much simpler times where I wasn't at all politically affiliated except for on the most superficial level. But after reading all three of those books I was fiercely against GWB, neverending conflict in the Middle East and the Patriot Act.



Oh... and I also went through about a 5 year period where I was beyond paranoid about our Government, and it took maturing to the point to realize that I'm not the bright shiny center of the universe and I'm not really all that interesting to finally get over that. That being said, I think once is enough, reading 1984. I'm actually kind of afraid to read it again.

As it turns out, thanks to whistleblowers like Snowden, most of that paranoid stuff I was telling my friends and family the government had the capability to do was actually happening IRL. And when everybody just kind of let it go down the memory hole after a few weeks I thought to myself "why the hell am I driving myself nuts about this anymore when everybody else knows what I've been saying for years is true and nobody else seems to give a shit?"

To this day, I've never watched a TV show or movie based off of either book and I refuse to. I don't want my own memories of those stories tainted by somebody else's vision of them.



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1984 is the Bestselling Book on Amazon

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Don't worry, the globalibs will censor that, too.



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