Damage Control: White House Changes Definition Of Recession

[mark40sw]

The White House is jumping out in front of terrible economic news coming out and trying to tell you....
"who are you going to trust, me or your lying eyes?"

Damage Control: White House Changes Definition Of Recession | ZeroHedge

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[BigRed]

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”




These ***holes are pure scum.

 

[wtburnette]

Yep, that's all the Left does lately is change definitions to support their narrative. Changed the definition of racism so that blacks can't be racist...

Now changing the definition we've always used for recession so that they can claim we aren't in one. What a bunch of morons.

 

[wtburnette]

Economist Dismantles Biden Admin’s Attempt To Redefine Recession With One Chart

One economist instantly took the air out of the administration's argument about what constitutes a recession.

dailycaller.com

 

[Magyars]

Double speak at its finest....Orwell couldn't have done a better job!

 

[tsm]

Too bad Brandon doesn’t like it, but you’ll be going into the midterms with a recession as another one of senile Joe’s “accomplishments.”

 

[Keith_Indy]

 

[phylodog]

This doesn't even raise an eyebrow with the lying lefties out there. Just more "feelings matter more than facts" garbage the window lickers can't seem to get enough of.

 

[Ark]

Having killed the definition of "vaccine" and "woman", they move on to "recession".

 

[wtburnette]

Don't forget racism...

 

[actaeon277]

Funny. He was okay with the definition when he was using the term himself to go after someone.

 

[Hatin Since 87]

 

[Hatin Since 87]

 

[Magyars]

 

[Expat]

Having killed the definition of "vaccine" and "woman", they move on to "recession".

and marriage, gender, mother...

 

[gregr]

Yep, that's all the Left does lately is change definitions to support their narrative. Changed the definition of racism so that blacks can't be racist...

Now changing the definition we've always used for recession so that they can claim we aren't in one. What a bunch of morons.

It should be clear to everyone that there is a concerted, organized effort to take America down. Our southern border isn`t a border, and frankly, we are being invaded. No nation can survive that. Then socialists are trying to take over our government and infatuate the non-thinking citizenry with all the "free stuff" government can offer them. And then, there is the deception by the media and government, again, to further an anti-America, liberal, globalist agenda. The changing of the meaning of words, phrases and inferences. Words are powerful, and changing the meanings can be subtle and seemingly innocuous, but it`s all planned and with a preset intended outcome. Illegal alien became illegal immigrant, and shortly thereafter was just called immigrant. It completely convolutes the conversation. Another tactic the left uses is projecting; they will accuse everyone else of doing exactly what they are doing. Then to add to the confusion, they`ll spew so much garbage that it is literally impossible to bullet point and address every issue. They are masterful at emotional rhetoric and propaganda. Joseph Goebbels would be proud.

 

[printcraft]

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Joe bidet changed the definition of “sale”.

 

[smokingman]

and marriage, gender, mother...

We can not forget lasts weeks new one. Girl.

 

[Magyars]

 

[chipbennett]

The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought -- that is, a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc -- should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words. Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods. This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and by stripping such words as remained of unorthodox meanings, and so far as possible of all secondary meanings whatever. To give a single example. The word free still existed in Newspeak, but it could only be used in such statements as 'This dog is free from lice' or 'This field is free from weeds'. It could not be used in its old sense of 'politically free' or 'intellectually free' since political and intellectual freedom no longer existed even as concepts, and were therefore of necessity nameless. Quite apart from the suppression of definitely heretical words, reduction of vocabulary was regarded as an end in itself, and no word that could be dispensed with was allowed to survive. Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the choice of words down to a minimum. Newspeak was founded on the English language as we now know it, though many Newspeak sentences, even when not containing newly-created words, would be barely intelligible to an English-speaker of our own day. Newspeak words were divided into three distinct classes, known as the A vocabulary, the B vocabulary (also called compound words), and the C vocabulary. It will be simpler to discuss each class separately, but the grammatical peculiarities of the language can be dealt with in the section devoted to the A vocabulary, since the same rules held good for all three categories...

As we have already seen in the case of the word free, words which had once borne a heretical meaning were sometimes retained for the sake of convenience, but only with the undesirable meanings purged out of them. Countless other words such as honour, justice, morality, internationalism, democracy, science, and religion had simply ceased to exist. A few blanket words covered them, and, in covering them, abolished them. All words grouping themselves round the concepts of liberty and equality, for instance, were contained in the single word crimethink, while all words grouping themselves round the concepts of objectivity and rationalism were contained in the single word oldthink. Greater precision would have been dangerous. What was required in a Party member was an outlook similar to that of the ancient Hebrew who knew, without knowing much else, that all nations other than his own worshiped 'false gods'. He did not need to know that these gods were called Baal, Osiris, Moloch, Ashtaroth, and the like: probably the less he knew about them the better for his orthodoxy. He knew Jehovah and the commandments of Jehovah: he knew, therefore, that all gods with other names or other attributes were false gods. In somewhat the same way, the party member knew what constituted right conduct, and in exceedingly vague, generalized terms he knew what kinds of departure from it were possible. His sexual life, for example, was entirely regulated by the two Newspeak words sexcrime (sexual immorality) and goodsex (chastity). Sexcrime covered all sexual misdeeds whatever. It covered fornication, adultery, homosexuality, and other perversions, and, in addition, normal intercourse practised for its own sake. There was no need to enumerate them separately, since they were all equally culpable, and, in principle, all punishable by death. In the C vocabulary, which consisted of scientific and technical words, it might be necessary to give specialized names to certain sexual aberrations, but the ordinary citizen had no need of them. He knew what was meant by goodsex -- that is to say, normal intercourse between man and wife, for the sole purpose of begetting children, and without physical pleasure on the part of the woman -- all else was sexcrime. In Newspeak it was seldom possible to follow a heretical thought further than the perception that it was heretical: beyond that point the necessary words were nonexistent.

No word in the B vocabulary was ideologically neutral. A great many were euphemisms. Such words, for instance, as joycamp (forced-labour camp) or Minipax (Ministry of Peace, i.e. Ministry of War) meant almost the exact opposite of what they appeared to mean. Some words, on the other hand, displayed a frank and contemptuous understanding of the real nature of Oceanic society. An example was prolefeed, meaning the rubbishy entertainment and spurious news which the Party handed out to the masses. Other words, again, were ambivalent, having the connotation 'good' when applied to the Party and 'bad' when applied to its enemies. But in addition there were great numbers of words which at first sight appeared to be mere abbreviations and which derived their ideological colour not from their meaning, but from their structure.

So far as it could be contrived, everything that had or might have political significance of any kind was fitted into the B vocabulary. The name of every organization, or body of people, or doctrine, or country, or institution, or public building, was invariably cut down into the familiar shape; that is, a single easily pronounced word with the smallest number of syllables that would preserve the original derivation. In the Ministry of Truth, for example, the Records Department, in which Winston Smith worked, was called Recdep, the Fiction Department was called Ficdep, the Teleprogrammes Department was called Teledep, and so on. This was not done solely with the object of saving time. Even in the early decades of the twentieth century, telescoped words and phrases had been one of the characteristic features of political language; and it had been noticed that the tendency to use abbreviations of this kind was most marked in totalitarian countries and totalitarian organizations. Examples were such words as Nazi, Gestapo, Comintern, Inprecorr, Agitprop. In the beginning the practice had been adopted as it were instinctively, but in Newspeak it was used with a conscious purpose. It was perceived that in thus abbreviating a name one narrowed and subtly altered its meaning, by cutting out most of the associations that would otherwise cling to it.

- George Orwell, 1984, Appendix