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calumny

noun, plural cal·um·nies.


1. a false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something:
The speech was considered a calumny of the administration.

2. the act of uttering calumnies; slander; defamation.

a person who betrays his or her own country by aiding an invading enemy, often serving later in a puppet government; fifth columnist.

RELATED WORDS:
sympathizer, deserter, double-crosser, turncoat, betrayer, defector, collaborator, Judas, two-timer, colluder

Origin of quisling:
1940; after Vidkun Quisling (1887–1945), pro-Nazi Norwegian leader

Deplatforming, also known as no-platforming, is a form of political activism or prior restraint by an individual, group, or organization with the goal of shutting down controversial speakers or speech, or denying them access to a venue in which to express their opinion.
Tactics used to achieve this goal among community groups include direct action, and Internet activism.

It is also a method used by social media and other technology companies to selectively suspend, ban, or otherwise restrict access to their platform by users who have allegedly violated the platform's terms of service, particularly terms regarding hate speech.

Banking and financial service providers, among other companies, have also denied services to controversial activists or organizations, a practice known as financial deplatforming.
The term deplatforming also refers generally to tactics, often organized using social media, for preventing controversial speakers or speech from being heard. Deplatforming tactics have included disruption of speeches, attempts to have speakers disinvited to a venue or event, and various forms of personal harassment including efforts to have an individual fired or blacklisted.

"Liberal Orthodoxy"


As often as this term is used, I was surprised to see it did not have a listing, either in Wikipedia or in Dictionary.com

The best I saw was this listing:

https://haciendapublishing.com/articles/...uel-faria-jr-md

Which consistent with the Orwell/1984 example he uses, has been Deleted from the liberal media real-world version of the Newspeak dictionary, in an attempt to remove it from the list of acceptable terms, a term that gives focus to understanding the ideology of Political Correctness/Cultural Marxism, and a vocabulary term to oppose it.

congenital

1. of or relating to a condition present at birth, whether inherited or caused by the environment, especially the uterine environment.

2. having by nature a specified character:
a congenital fool.

categorical


1. without exceptions or conditions; absolute; unqualified and unconditional:
a categorical denial.

2. Logic. a (of a proposition) analyzable into a subject and an attribute related by a copula, as in the proposition “All humans are mortal.”
b (of a syllogism) having categorical propositions as premises.

3. of, relating to, or in a category.

At his daily press conference around 5:45PM today, President Trump was asked a question about "Quanan", and asked if he supports it. Trump said he is unaware of what it is.

A few pundits of the 93% anti-Trump liberal media have said: "How can Trump not know what QAnon is?"
To which I respond: I follow the news pretty closely and never heard of it till now. At least not by that name.

I vaguely recall Pariah giving reference to it a year or two ago in a topic he started, people on 4Chan claiming to be a secret group of insiders talking about making a pushback in the intelligence community against Democrat/Deep State conspiracy against Trump, and against the Deep State's Orwellian conspiracy against American society and freedom as a whole.

Two links:

https://www.conservapedia.com/QAnon

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

Note how (like the Russia Hoax) that likewise in this case no matter how proven by exposed conspirators working together (James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, "vive le resistance!" Kevin Clinesmith just pleading guilty today, Bruce and Nellie Ohr, FISA judge Rudolf Contreras, Bill Priestap, James Baker, Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton, the Jan 5 2017 white house meeting of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Susan Rice, Sally Yates, James Comey, John Brennan and James Clapper, where Sally Yates in her notes says Obama personally orchestrated the framing of Michael Flynn, where Yates says "I was so busy trying to process what I just heard that I couldn't pay attention to the rest of the meeting"... On and on. That's pretty concrete to be dismissed by Newspeak Wikipedia as just a "conspiracy theory".

But y'know, the pedophiles and other stuff.
Although the whole Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell thing seems to largely confirm even that part as much more than just a "conspiracy theory".

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/kulak

kulak [ koo-lahk, -lak; koo-lahk, -lak ]

noun (in Russia)
1. a comparatively wealthy peasant who employed hired labor or possessed farm machinery and who was viewed and treated by the Communists during the drive to collectivize agriculture in the 1920s and 1930s as an oppressor and class enemy.
2. (before the revolution of 1917) a prosperous, ruthless, and stingy merchant or village usurer.

ORIGIN OF KULAK
First recorded in 1875–80, kulak is from the Russian word kulák, literally, fist.

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

Hi @TaylorLorenz! Which of my relatives did you enjoy harassing the most at their homes yesterday?

@JackPosobiec
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Apr 18, 2022
BREAKING: I am told Taylor Lorenz even showed up at the homes of family members of @libsoftiktok today

@ChristinaPushaw (FL Governor Ron DeSantis' press secretary)

This is restraining order level crazy

Interesting how this is somehow more newsworthy than reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop and “10% for the Big Guy” in the weeks before the 2020 Election, eh?

@JerryDunleavy

The WaPo article by Taylor Lorenz originally linked to the real estate license for the person behind the Libs of TikTok account— the link listed the person’s name, real estate license number, possible physical address, etc. WaPo only removed the link after being called out on it.
10:16 AM · Apr 19, 2022

Ill Mac

A Schedule F Executive Order was a job classification in the United States federal civil service that included policy-making posts. It was established by President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 13957 on October 21, 2020, less than two weeks before the 2020 elections. President Joe Biden canceled it by presidential decree on January 22, 2021.

Employees classified as Schedule F would not have been subject to the Civil Service Rules and Regulations, including due process and possibly collective bargaining rights.

Appointees, on the other hand, cannot be discharged based on protected statuses such as whistleblower status, partisan affiliation, or claiming discrimination or harassment.

The directive aims to increase recruiting and firing freedom to improve performance management and accountability.

Schedule F posts are “positions of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating nature that are not generally subject to change due to a Presidential transition.” The Executive Order specifies many characteristics of jobs that may be classified as Schedule F:

* Meaningful involvement in policy advocacy, development, or formulation, particularly in the formation or drafting of rules and advice
* Significant policy-related job at an agency or component that primarily focuses on policy
* the supervision of lawyers
* Significant latitude in determining how the agency performs responsibilities delegated to it by law
* Engaging with non-public policy proposals or deliberations that are under the purview of deliberative process privilege, and either:
* Directly reporting to or routinely working with an individual chosen by the President or an agency head paid at the GS-13 level or higher, or working in the agency or component’s executive secretariat conducting specific collective bargaining negotiations on the agency’s behalf.

According to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), these requirements are guidelines since not all posts covered by them must be transferred to Schedule F, and positions not covered by them may be converted.

These are broad enough to include many leading scientists, lawyers, regulators, public health professionals, and others. According to estimates, they cover tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of employees.

The Executive Order also establishes transition processes for transferring covered positions from competitive service to Schedule F, requiring executive agency heads to submit a list of positions to be converted along with a written justification to the OPM director. The OPM Director has exclusive authority to grant or deny the petition.



ORIGINS OF THE SCHEDULE F ORDER :

Schedule F was conceived in January 2019 by a little-known official working within the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, a magnificent Second Empire-style structure across the street from the White House.

For months, James Sherk, an entrepreneurial conservative ideologue on Trump’s Domestic Policy Council, had been raging about career employees across several agencies he claimed were purposefully obstructing Trump’s program.

He’d heard accounts from his coworkers and had firsthand experience with elements of the opposition. Within the State Department, there was a revolt against Trump’s draconian refugee policies.

The uprising was so strong that The Washington Post published an article 11 days after Trump took office detailing “a swelling surge of dissent from federal workers” tasked with carrying out Trump’s objectives.

Sherk began researching federal statutes on Cornell Law School’s website from his standing desk within the EEOB. He read Title 5, the section of the United States Code that governs government personnel and agency operations. He was looking for gaps in the legislation that may allow a president to terminate career government officials with protections that made firing them difficult and time-consuming.

Sherk investigated the history of federal labor laws. In 1883, Congress passed the Pendleton Act to improve the government. The purpose of this statute was to replace the patronage system with a neutral civil service that would work throughout administrations, regardless of which political party was in power. The goal was to establish a professional civil service. The notion was that these government employees would amass essential institutional knowledge and experience throughout their careers, which would help both Republican and Democratic presidents.

However, Sherk revealed that the Pendleton Act did not include the numerous removal safeguards that have made it difficult for modern presidents to fire federal workers. Through his study, Sherk discovered that such appeals rights were added considerably later, in a succession of legislation and presidential orders passed between the 1940s and the 1970s.

Sherk agreed with many conservatives that the “nonpartisan” system aided Democratic presidents while impeding Republicans.

He could use campaign donations — which trend Democratic among federal government employees — to argue that the federal bureaucracy, far from being apolitical, had too many embedded Democrats attempting to undermine Republican governments.

In his capacity at AFPI, Sherk has issued a lengthy study called “Tales from the Swamp” since leaving government, documenting how federal bureaucrats across numerous departments, including Labor and Justice, fought [against adoption of] Trump policies.



DURING AN ARIZONA RALLY, TRUMP PROMOTED "SCHEDULE F" EXECUTIVE ORDER

According to excerpts by Axios, former President Trump wants to praise his “Schedule F” executive order — and call on Congress to grant the President broader power to fire federal employees — in speeches set to be delivered in Florida on Saturday evening.

former President’s fresh campaign against federal employees comes after Jonathan Swan’s two-part Axios investigative series, “Inside Trump ’25,” revealed his aides’ plans to make the problem a focal point if he wins a second term.

Why it matters: By directly elevating Schedule F, Trump is ratcheting up efforts from well-funded outside allies to oust career public servants if he retakes power.

According to the extracts, Trump planned to address a Turning Point rally in Tampa, “To empty the swamp, we need to fire the swamp.”

Trump will remark in his address that he wants expanded presidential powers so that “any bureaucracy which is corrupt, stupid, or superfluous may be told: ‘You’re fired!'”

Schedule F Executive Order, which President Biden revoked on his second day in office, was largely unknown to the general public. Trump is now attempting to turn it into a prominent applause line as speculation grows that he may announce a presidential run in 2024.

.Nearly five hundred year old words are difficult for me and remind me that I'm a pervert. This must be the fault of trendy and hip millennials and communists Hell, who are we kidding? Millennials are communists! Grumble. Ramble. Yell at cloud!

Ok, Crazy Uncle Dave.

Awww...poor little fella doesn't have daddy G-man and Pariah-san to feed his insanity anymore. I've explained enough that the whole reason I am here is to set you off because one good reply to a screed of yours and...you...can't...help...but...reply.

"But, Ron Paul?!?" And, his family is acting similarly dynastic in politics even as Rand drifts further from a lot of his dad's ideas. I do give Rand credit where it is due, however, and say as an example that he did expose the hell out of the false calls for policing reform on the left and extremism of "defund the police." Hell, they even abandoned McKesson for a reasonble "Eight Can't Wait" agenda because it wasn't abolishing the policing and prison systems.

But, no, I'm not an independent that can smell bullshit from either side from a mile away and generally observed the 2020 election as a sad moment in our country when we had to cart out a dementia patient that probably still thinks he's beholden to MBNA to beat a want-to-be petty tyrant that couldn't respond sanely to the pandemic and blew riding an economic wave unseen in decades to reelection. That's your jackass. I can, at least, say that they put Harris in a political death slot, so long as Biden remains conscious and breathing, by putting her into the VP slot so her word salads and unelectability stay front and center. That's something, I guess.

The Meaning Behind Mitt Romney's Secret Twitter Name "Pierre Delecto"


When Mitt Romney was asked if he had a secret Twitter account under the name Pierre Delecto, the former presidential candidate simply responded, "C’est Moi."

As expected, it didn't take long for political junkies to begin speculating the meaning behind Mitt's choice of "Pierre Delecto" as his lurker Twitter handle — and some of these predictions are pretty convincing.

SO WHAT DOES PIERRE DELECTO MEAN ?

Many took to the social media platform to come up with the reasoning behind the name choice, and for some, it was Mitt's fluency (and response) in French that made them believe the handle was inspired by the foreign language.

[ from Twitter Posts : ]

"Total speculation: it's a pun based on 'in pari delicto.' 'In pari' is replaced by 'Pierre' because Romney did his mission in France and speaks French, and 'delicto' (offense) is replaced with 'delecto' (delight)," one user wrote. "This explanation is also super dorky, and thus likely correct."
We can definitely see it.

Another user believes the name is actually referring to the Latin phrase, "In flagrante delicto (Latin: 'in blazing offense') or sometimes simply in flagrante (Latin: 'in blazing') is a legal term used to indicate that a criminal has been caught in the act of committing an offense."

For most, the name was too funny to pass tweeting a joke or two. "Pierre Delecto??? Sounds like Mitt Romney's porn name or something," one follower quipped before another added, "What’s the French for 'pathetic loser?'"
Ouch.

Mitt Romney wouldn't be the first to hide behind a pseudonym on the internet.
As news analyst Ana Navarro pointed out, Romney would hardly be the first politician to hide his identity on the world wide web.
case you need a quick refresher, Anthony Weiner went under the name Carlos Danger when he was chatting online with Sydney Leathers, and David Dennison is just one of Donald Trump's alter egos — and the named he used when paying off his mistress Stormy Daniels.

So, in comparison, Romney's secret Twitter habit is not too scandalous.


WHY DID MITT ROMNEY CREATE A FAKE TWITTER ACCOUNT IN THE FIRST PLACE ?

The 72-year-old told McCay Coppins of The Atlantic that he created "Pierre Delecto" — which is now set to private — to lurk. And basically defend himself against trolls.

"Jennifer, you need to take a breath. Maybe you can then acknowledge the people who agree with you in large measure even if not in every measure,” Romney tweeted earlier this year under the handle in response to Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin.

In another tweet, Romney also called out President Trump, writing, "John, agree on Trump's awful decision, but what could the Senate do to stop it?"

A third read, "Loyal to principle trumps loyalty to party or person, right Brit?"

We can't wait to see what Trump tweets about this.

During a press conference on Thursday (March 25th), President Biden was asked his opinions on new Republican voting legislation.
The legislation proposes to tighten voting restrictions on mail-balloting and more in future elections in order to curb voting access, which could, in turn, hinder the Democrat’s control of Congress during the 2022 midterm elections.

In response to the new legislation, Biden said:
“I’m convinced that we’ll be able to stop this, because it is the most pernicious thing, this makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle.”
Biden’s bizarre quote has confused a lot of people who assumed that Jim Crow and Jim Eagle were two people. However, this isn’t the case.

Jim Eagle isn’t actually a real person. Joe Biden made up the name as a play on words, using different bird species to get his point across.
A crow is a small bird, whereas an eagle is far bigger and more dangerous.

What Biden was trying to say is that what the Republicans are trying to do with their voting legislation is huge, and far worse than that of the pre-Civil Rights Jim Crow era.

The Brits are weird.

The historical foundations of the African Union originated in the First Congress of Independence African States, held in Accra, Ghana, from 15 to 22 April 1958. The conference aimed at forming the Africa Day, to mark the liberation movement each year concerning the willingness of the African people to free themselves from foreign dictatorship, as well as subsequent attempts to unite Africa, including the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was established on 25 May 1963, and the African Economic Community in 1981.[12] Critics argued that the OAU in particular did little to protect the rights and liberties of African citizens from their own political leaders, often dubbing it the "Dictators' Club".[13]

The term middlebrow describes middlebrow art, which is easily accessible art, usually popular literature, and middlebrow people who use the arts to acquire the social capital of "culture and class" and thus a good reputation. First used in the British satire magazine Punch in 1925, the term middlebrow is the intellectual, intermediary brow between the highbrow and the lowbrow forms of culture; the terms highbrow and lowbrow are borrowed from the pseudoscience of phrenology.

CONTEMPORARY MIDDLEBROW

Slate Magazine suggests that the late 2000s and early 2010s could potentially be considered the "golden age of middlebrow art"—pointing to television shows Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Sopranos and The Wire and novels Freedom, The Marriage Plot and A Visit from the Goon Squad. Slate also defines the films of Aaron Sorkin as middlebrow.[20] Some argue that Slate itself is middlebrow journalism.[21]

In a March 2012 article for Jewish Ideas Daily, Peodair Leihy described the work of poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen as "a kind of pop—upper-middle-brow to lower-high-brow, to be sure, but pop nonetheless."[22] This aesthetic was further theorized in an essay from November that year for The American Scholar that saw William Deresiewicz propose the addition of "upper middle brow," a culture falling between masscult and midcult. He defined it as, "infinitely subtler than Midcult. It is post- rather than pre-ironic, its sentimentality hidden by a veil of cool. It is edgy, clever, knowing, stylish, and formally inventive."[23]

In The New Yorker, Macy Halford characterizes Harper's Magazine and The New Yorker itself as "often [being] viewed as prime examples of the middlebrow: both magazines are devoted to the high but also to making it accessible to many; to bringing ideas that might remain trapped in ivory towers and academic books, or in high-art (or film or theatre) scenes, into the pages of a relatively inexpensive periodical that can be bought at bookstores and newsstands across the country (and now on the Internet)." She also notes the internet's effect on the middlebrow debate: "Internet is forcing us to rethink (again) what "middlebrow" means: in an era when the highest is as accessible as the lowest—accessible in the sense that both are only a click away ... —we actually have to think anew about how to walk that middle line." Halford describes Wikipedia: "...Wiki is itself a kind of middlebrow product" and links to this middlebrow entry "because it actually provides a smart summary."[24]