Headline: Mayorkas testifies DHS is creating 'Disinformation Governance Board’ … Bradford Betz … And Fox News goes on to tell us that … Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security is creating a "Disinformation Governance Board" to combat misinformation ahead of the 2022 midterms.
This news comes right on the heels of hearing that Elon Musk has successfully acquired Twitter and he plans to return it to the public square where it is supposed to be. This more than any issue in recent memory has upset the political left in this country. They will no longer have the dominant voice or the ability to censor and delete the speech they do not like as has been the norm at Twitter. We have seen and heard some of the most startling outcries from the left about how Twitter can be abused --- and as always, we can take heart since what they are decrying is EXACTLY what they have been doing to conservatives on the site.
So, now we find that the Secretary of Homeland Security has taken it upon himself to create a Disinformation Governance Board … it seems that, once again, it is 1984 in Washington DC --- and George Orwell has already given us the necessary insight to understand what the government is doing. You see in Orwell’s novel “1984” that we are introduced to the Ministry of Truth …
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
The world of doublethink and newspeak … To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible, and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forge whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory at the moment it was needed and then to promptly forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself …
The man who told us just yesterday in Congressional testimony that “we are effectively managing the border” … to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies … this is exactly how Mayorkas testified to Congress. Now, just before the ’22 election cycle, the man who cannot tell the American people the truth about the border situation is going to be in charge of deciding what is and is not disinformation. To assist with this task, it has been reported by Politico that Nina Jankowicz, who previously served as a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center, will head the board as executive director.
Nina Jankowitcz has been one of the voices of officialdom that has said the Hunter Laptop story was disinformation and has derided the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk. Can the American public depend on her to accurately and fairly call balls and strikes in this supercharged political atmosphere? --- I, for one, do not think so.
Now, we are told that this Disinformation Governance Board has as its primary mission the task to ensure that the information received by the Latino community during the election season is correct. Just what does that mean? We have well over 40 million illegal aliens in this country. What possible misinformation can they receive about our election? The rules seem patently clear --- If you are a citizen, then you are eligible to vote AND if you are NOT a citizen, then you are NOT ELIGABLE TO VOTE and if you do vote, then you have violated US election law.
Or … are we to … use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it … to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies.
As the months pass on this Administration’s term, it feels as though they keep dragging us further down into the depths of despair. It will be critical in November that Republicans, Conservatives, Independents and Democrats who have had enough unite to bring this Administration to its knees before it does damage that is irreversible. If we do not do that, we will have no one else to blame but ourselves.