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Author: OrmontUS ✭  😊 😞
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Subject: OT: 1984
Date: 02/20/26 5:29 AM
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/19/tr...

Today workers hung a banner with a giant portrait of Trump on the Department of Justice building.
"Make America Safe Again"

Jeff
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Author: UpNorthJoe ✭  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: OT: 1984
Date: 02/20/26 7:53 AM
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It is uncanny how accurately that book is paralleling some of the things going on present day.
Huge macro economic ramifications,too.
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Author: PucksFool ⎊🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: OT: 1984
Date: 02/20/26 8:51 AM
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You're not the only one noticing the Orwellian similarities.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/citing-orwells...

U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe ruled Monday that all materials must be restored in their original condition while a lawsuit challenging the removal's legality plays out. She prohibited Trump officials from installing replacements that explain the history differently.

Rufe, an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush, began her written order with a quote from George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984" and compared the Trump administration to the book's totalitarian regime called the Ministry of Truth, which revised historical records to align with its own narrative.

"As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984 now existed, with its motto 'Ignorance is Strength,' this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims — to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts," Rufe wrote. "It does not."

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Author: Steve203 ⎊🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: OT: 1984
Date: 02/20/26 10:08 AM
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Second verse, same as the first.

Sep 17, 2025

Banners of Trump's face on D.C. buildings

https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/09/...

Steve
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Author: PucksFool ⎊🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: OT: 1984
Date: 02/20/26 10:26 AM
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"Make America Safe Again"

Reminds me of the Ben Franklin quote on safety and liberty.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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Author: jerryab   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: OT: 1984
Date: 02/20/26 11:10 AM
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Hang a picture of the MAGA gallows directly next to/below it.
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Author: Timer321   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: OT: 1984
Date: 02/20/26 11:52 PM
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He is criminally bull shitting.
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