First, the ruling party is just “the Party” (why give it distinctive name when there can be only one?). Ingsoc — English Socialism — is the underlying philosophy. From The Book:In Oceania the prevailing philosophy is called Ingsoc, in Eurasia it is called Neo-Bolshevism, and in Eastasia it is called by a Chinese name usually translated as Death-Worship, but perhaps better rendered as Obliteration of the Self. The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually the three philosophies are barely distinguishable, and the social systems which they support are not distinguishable at all.Second (and even nitipckier), it’s MiniTrue. One of the objectives of Newspeak is to compress every possible letter out of the language, on the principle that every little bit cut makes thoughtcrime less possible.
The new standard for dealing with Trump was highlighted in a tweet by David Frum, in which he quoted an excerpt from a FoxNews interview by Chris Wallace with the Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif:
It’s 6:19am where I live and Dotard, the Firstest of All Individuals, has retweeted over 60 tweets (some from Trump haters) in a 20 minute period, nearly all pertaining to Biden getting some firefighters union endorsement.
Trump, who apparently sees the mission of the Federal Reserve as: Make Me Look Good, said this:
On NPR’s Marketplace, host Kai Ryssdal said (paraphrase - can’t find a transcript): Things go crazy when the Fed makes a quarter-point rate change. If they lowered rates by a full point, it would be very very interesting, and also contra-indicated.
Which is NPR-speak for: mass-steria, biblical proportions, dogs and cats living together.
Well, he also found time on his busy schedule to crap out a bunch of what read like reruns. Wall, check. No collusion, check. Russian hacking was Obama’s fault, check. I’m being treated so unfairly, poor poor pitiful me. Investigate the investigators, check.