The sheer scope and power of the managerial apparatus inherited by our current rulers can incline one to despair. But ever so often, our elites demonstrate just how inept and deranged they are.
These demonstrations are occurring with rising frequency. From Twitter’s blatant use of bot accounts to our would-be First Minister of Truth getting fired before her first day on the job, our elites increasingly display a basic inability to function.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has placed a “pause” on the newly-minted Disinformation Governance Board; its first executive director, Nina Jankowicz, has resigned.
The board’s existence, which was announced just three weeks ago, prompted serious concerns from many civil libertarians and inspired Ministry of Truth comparisons. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas tried—and largely failed—to address these concerns by noting that the board would serve in merely an advisory capacity and not have any actual power to police speech. That the Disinformation Governance Board did a bad job of communicating information about itself did not exactly instill confidence, and evidently DHS has now realized that the entire project is a bad idea.
Remember, this is the professional scold who gave crazy-eyed renditions of Mary Poppins songs on TikTok and wrote a book claiming that women have it rough online.
And whose plan for improving Twitter included letting blue checks edit other people’s tweets.
That should give you some idea of how huge a bullet we dodged when this glorified hall monitor resigned. And let’s not mince words. When someone tenders a resignation at that level, it’s because she was told to.
Jankowitz blames pressure from online right-wing mobs for her ouster. Absent contrary evidence, it looks like that is in fact what happened. Think of it as a testament to what dissidents can accomplish when we cut the infighting and focus on winning.
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The drawback of her departure is that the UK’s electrical power output declined by 6.2% due to the slowing of George Orwell’s spin in his grave.
On a serious note, prepare for lockdowns this fall – maybe predicated on COVID, but really to hide an energy crisis.
I hear that Fortress Niemeier is stocked with the finest coconut oil and all of the popcorn that Brian’s family can stomach. If the states will allow shipping companies to pickup from residential addresses, we can establish Catholic trade routes!
This oil is super good, though.
Since when has the Biden administration cared about what right-wingers online thought about them? I find it hard to believe that Jack Posobiec, whatever his merits, really drove this glorified theatre kid out of the DHS.
Posobiec has deep ties to US intelligence, so his involvement does make the official story suspect. It’s looking more and more like DHS actually bowed to pressure from the Left. If even they think the Ministry of Truth is a bad idea, you know it would have been a total disaster.