Congress To Compromise:
Admit DC Into Union As Slave State

found online by Raymond

 
From The Onion:

WASHINGTON—Calling the measure “a solution that satisfies both the Democrats’ desire for representation and the and Republicans’ job-creation strategy,” Congress announced Wednesday they had reached a bipartisan compromise and will admit the District of Columbia into the Union as a slave state.

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2 thoughts on “Congress To Compromise:
Admit DC Into Union As Slave State”

  1. I have to admit this actually made me laugh out loud.

    Thank you. It almost made me forget that the Senate Majority Leader equates granting D.C. Statehood to Socialism.

    Almost.

    Words have lost all meaning. Forget about post-truth and alternative facts. We live in a world where we can’t even have concensus on the definitions of words.

    1. ” …we can’t even have consensus on the definitions of words.”

      This is all part of the Right’s war on reality, language, and democracy.

      In Orwell’s 1984, O’Brien explains to Winston Smith, between torture sessions, “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words…Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Orthodoxy means not thinking – not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”

      And, voila! Through a massive campaign of lies, half-truths, and unilateral definitions of terms intended to demonize opposition, the Right can sway the unwitting and low-information voters.

      That’s how Trumpism, the Republican Party, and FOX(R) have done it. Frank Luntz and Newt Gingrich, and more recently Prager, are the new breed of authoritarian destroyers of language that the Right needed to ramp up their propaganda methods.

      “Estate tax” magically transformed into “death tax”. The Bush/Cheney war criminals simply called torture “enhanced interrogation”.

      O’Brien the torturer would have liked that.

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