“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable,” Orwell wrote
The lack of transparency depicted in “1984” has an uncanny echo in our current political moment, despite Leavitt’s repeated assertions that Donald Trump is the “most transparent president in history.”
Leavitt has made that claim countless times, including in her public defense of Trump’s “Quiet, Piggy!” dismissal of Bloomberg News journalist Catherine Lucey last month.
In Leavitt’s usage, “transparency” has become a form of Orwellian “doublespeak,” a word or phrase which through the process of “doublethink” had come to encompass its exact opposite meaning.
"Doublethink," in Orwell’s writing, was the mechanism of thought manipulation that allowed someone “to know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them.”
Yeah, these assholes keep repeating things like “most transparent!” and “Biden gave us the most worstest economy ever, and poor lil’ Taco has to work so hard to fix it for the American people” and “waste, fraud, and abuse” like good little parrots.
It’s not just his SpokesBarbie, either, it’s virtually all of these assholes. I’ve seen little Mikey Johnson talk about “waste, fraud and abuse” enough times to vomit.
I’ve seen that little shithead Kevin Hassett stand there with his goofy chipmunk face grinning like a maniac and claiming Biden handed them a failing economy, too. It’s sickening.