Has Language Been Weaponized?

By Marilyn M Barnewall 

October 25th, 2020

Some questions and answers about how to define words are made in good humor – like:  Define a liar.  Answer:  A Democrat whose lips are moving.

Most Democrats don’t see the humor in that.  The interesting thing is, Democrats say the same about Republicans with no hint of humor.  They say it in all seriousness and think nothing of it.

Arrogance is blind (theirs and ours).  We can only see that which our minds conceive and believe.  I learned that many years ago while working for W. Clement Stone’s Combined Insurance Company.

Too many of us talk but are not understood.  We say a word with total assurance that listeners understand because we know what we’re saying.  But the NEW NOW and the abbreviations so popular in text messages have, with no one’s permission or acceptance, changed the interpretation of many words.  Too, the media has had a very negative impact as they seek to sell narratives (many of them fake) rather than report news.

The following are my personal definitions of some oft used statements and are based on fact and logic, not emotion.  Whenever I use these words, you know precisely what I mean.  That, by the way, is one basic meaning of the word “transparency” – a word we hear so often during political speeches that means access to a clear vision of things.

QUESTION:    What is a mistake?  How do you know if something is a plan rather than a coincidence or a mistake?

ANSWER:        Consistency (which is defined as being in agreement, in harmony, regularity, etc.).

When someone says or does something consistently, it’s because what was said or done is part of a belief or part of a plan.  Consistency or lack of it is rarely “coincidence.”   When Joe Biden says he’s for fracking (in front of an audience dependent on oil for their jobs) and then says he opposes fracking (in front of a pro-Green crowd), one of the two statements is untrue.  It’s an inconsistency and prevents a clear vision of his meaning.  When a person consistently says the same thing, it is because they have a plan or a belief.  It may be a good plan, it may be a bad plan – but it’s not a lie.

An example of a consistent bad plan is when all members of the media use the same terminology in their reporting.  It is not coincidence and it is not a mistake; it is a plan.  It is fulfilling their commitment to a Hate Trump narrative.  How many times do we hear everyone from Don Lemon at CNN to Joe Scarborough at MSNBC and everyone in-between at CBS, ABC, NBC, and other broadcasters use the same word when describing an anti-Trump activity about which they report?

Words like “Trump made racist comments at Charlottesville” (which is untrue) or “he supports white supremacists” (which is untrue) or  “horrifying” or “fearful” or “hate” and other terms are used over and over again in conjunction with Trump's name.

The same adjectives and nouns all come out of all of their mouths within the same 24-hour “news” cycle.  That is an example of a narrative… a story they want you to believe and so they coordinate their words very carefully.  Saying the same words over and over again equates to brainwashing.  They want you to absorb the word racist or hatred with the word Trump.  I call it the Charlie McCarthy effect.  For those who do not know, Charlie McCarthy was a dummy that sat on the lap of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, a popular radio show host in the 1940s.

QUESTION:    How do you know if you are a white supremacist?  How can you tell when someone else is a white supremacist?

ANSWER:        There are two answers to this question.  Possibly three.

FIRST, there are a handful of idiots who believe white people are smarter than people of color.  The Asians in American colleges have put a damper on that concept by rising to the top academically.  But that doesn’t stop stupid people from their narrative.  Donald Trump has, on numerous occasions, denied being a white supremacist.  He lifelong behavior patterns support his denial.

You can tell how accurate this concept is by remembering who killed 6 million Jews (few of whom were dark skinned) because he believed in Aryan supremacy.  The concept of an Aryan race did not originate with Adolph Hitler.  It was in the 1500s and it is a very interesting story and you can find it here.

The media uses “white supremacist” almost as a synonym with “racist”.  It is not.

SECOND:  If you live in a country where the population is dominantly white, you are a white supremacist.  There are more of you than any other skin color.  If you are black and live in Africa, you are a black supremacist because there are more blacks than whites or browns or yellows in Africa.  If you are Chinese and live in China, you are a yellow supremacist for the same reason.  If you are Mexican and live in Mexico, you are a brown supremacist – same reason.  A white person in America is a supremacist because there are more of you than people of color.

Blacks make up about 18 percent of the 2020 population; Hispanics (legal/voters) 15 percent. Whites outnumber blacks and browns and yellows in America and thus control who gets elected to office.  That means whites control who makes our laws and set (or try to set) our social standards.  The superior number of whites in America makes all white people supremacists.

Is that something to be ashamed of?  Is it something over which to destroy American cities?  The next time you are called a white supremacist, just pity the person for their ignorance.

QUESTION:  What is a racist?  Is being a supremacist different from being a racist?

ANSWER:  A man named Obama would never have been President of this country if white Americans were racists or supremacists because we make up 65 percent of all voters.   If there was ever evidence that America is not a racist nation, the election of Barack Hussein Obama provides it.  There are more whites than blacks and if whites were racists he would not have been elected.  Since he was elected twice (consistency), it was no “coincidence.”

What is a racist?

A racist or anti-Semite is a bit of a psychopath… a person who lacks the empathy to walk in another’s shoes.  Psychopaths have a narrative by which they live that is quite different from that of mentally healthy people.  All narratives, including those of mentally healthy people, are made up of numerous chapters or stories.  Racists have a narrative.  Their dominant story is that people must think, look and behave in a manner they, the racists, approve of or they are inferior people. Racism is a form of mental illness.

However, real honest-to-God racism is not what we hear described by our media or our politicians.

If you are white, it is okay to dislike someone if they are black.  If you have that dislike just because they are black, however, it is racist.  AND, it is racist for a black person to dislike someone just because they are white.

You either like someone or you don’t but race or skin color should have nothing to do with your likes or dislikes.  If it does, you are probably a racist (and racist attitudes come in all sizes, from tiny to XXX).

To radical blacks who shout at the top of their lungs that only whites can be racists because we are the dominant race in America, I refer them to my comments about white supremacists.  You are talking about supremacy, not racism!  But racism has a much nastier connotation and so you use it to achieve your ends.  The end justifies the means to all progressives/Marxists.

Poverty has more to do with what is sold to the American public as racism than racism does.  People tend to overlook the large number of white people who live in poverty.  They often behave as if the status of poverty belongs exclusively to non-whites.  It does not.

The last two generations of black and white poor children have been taught to believe they are victims, not people with the potential to turn a loser life into success.

Who is teaching these kids such things?  The teachers who are specially trained to work in minority schools – especially in elementary schools.  The teachers are brainwashed to believe the lie that all black people are victims.  The narrative they have been taught makes teachers think they are being kind to educate the children to the realities of life… and this alternative is one choice any person of any color can make in life:  Be a victim.

They can equally choose not to be victims.  The number of uninformed white faces who are involved in rioting – not protesting but rioting – and the number of teachers who have been identified on video and join them, validate and verify who is responsible.  It is largely not the black community.

The system that not only allows but encourages this kind of indoctrination is at fault for the victimhood mentality that exists in America.  It is a huge problem and a horribly racist mentality supports it.  It happens to a lot of poor white and black children who attend inferior schools.

If they are shown love and are well-educated, there is not a black child with the same IQ and physical health who does not have the same potential to be as productively successful and happy as any white or brown or yellow child.  They may have to learn to show people respect and begin wearing their pants above their butts, but that too is their choice.  It is the choice of everyone, regardless of color.  It is the choice of those who decide to succeed.

People who think white parents don’t have conversations like:  “…if you are stopped by the police, put your hands on the steering wheel where they can be seen, act respectfully, and do what you’re told” are living in dream land.  It is not an exclusively black family conservation.

QUESTION:  What is black lives matter?  Who founded it and who runs it?  Is its purpose to promote a better life for black people?

In 2017, the co-founders of Black Lives Matter produced a report stating that the three co-founders of Black Lives Matter are avowed Marxists.  More easily said:  communists.  The founders names are Alicia Garza, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, and Opal Tometi.  If you take time to read that article, you will clearly see how uneducated Americans are in matters of race.

This is not a here today, gone tomorrow group (which will disappoint a lot of people who wait for the violence to stop so we can go back to yesterday’s woke zone).  It is very well financed and is heavily associated with and supports the Democrat Party – which is why blue state Democrat politicians allow their cities to burn and say nothing.

BLM’s primary objective is to promote communism/socialism.  It raises huge amounts of money each year from capitalist-hating socialists in Hollywood, New York City, and the usual places committed to tearing down America.

They have no respect for the Constitution, the laws of the nation, law enforcement, are behind the De-fund the Police campaign… but don’t yet appear to have yet figured out that without the police to protect them, they probably wouldn’t last long among well-armed conservatives.

When you hear people talking about controversial issues, make sure you understand the language being used and what is really being said.

Our language – along with everything else – has been weaponized.  When those who use words as a weapon succeed, reality becomes a parody of itself.

© 2020 Marilyn Barnewall – All Rights Reserved

 

Prepare And Be Calm

By Marilyn M Barnewall

October 18th, 2020

By Marilyn M. Barnewall

 

If the indicators are accurate, what is coming is not going to be pleasant.

 

What you do about it and whether you will come through it will be largely dependent on two things:  your attitude and knowledge of what is happening, why it is happening and what to do about it.

 

There is a reality the middle class needs to deal with:  You are the target of all of the attacks that have occurred since the Kennedy assassination.  The reason you are the target is that an oligarchy like communism, socialism or a monarchy requires a social order made up of two classes:  The elite and the workers.  These forms of government cannot function with a middle class that has upward mobility.  Thus, as long as there is a middle class, there can be no world government.

 

You can blame anyone you want for what has, is, and will be happening to American citizens in the near future… what is yet to come will be a first for all of us.  The truth is, the problems we now face have been brewing for over 100 years.  It is like a pimple that, when filled with pus, finally bursts.  The question is, who do you want as President of the United States to clean up the poison?

 

In many ways, we the people allowed what’s going to happen, but when we elected Donald Trump to clean the swamp we had no idea that corruption could be so deep and infectious.  We didn’t know it would permeate the entire government (including the Department of Justice and our intelligence agencies).  We didn’t know that a political party would literally risk the safety and welfare of the entire nation to fulfill its power needs.

 

Power needs?  Indeed!  They need enough power to prevent the swamp from being cleaned.  They are part of the manure to be removed.  There are elected officials from both political parties who are part of that muck.

 

If you’re still voting for those who have been in Washington, D.C. for many years you are totally out of touch with reality.  If it’s because you’re on drugs or have a mental disorder, you have my sympathy and prayers.  Anyone who has been in Washington D.C. more than 12 years needs to go home.  These are the people who have caused the problems.  Anyone who thinks re-electing politicians who created the problems so they can become millionaires will solve those problems is out of touch with reality.

 

Did you think cleaning the swamp would be easy – or popular?  Did you really believe that when you took time for football games, bowling, television, and a hundred other privileges that it would have a positive effect on a government that kept growing and getting deeper and deeper in debt?

 

Have you been involved in government?  Or did you sit back and let others take care of things?  Most people have done the latter and it’s gotten us knee-deep in bad stuff.

 

Anyone with a conscience knows we bear responsibility for today’s problems.  We re-elected to office the same fools who wanted more and more debt and who used debt to create a welfare class dependent on government for survival. Re-electing fools to office is largely what caused people to withdraw from the entire process.  We ignored it.  We enjoyed all of the free time we got by ignoring our over-spending government.

 

Besides, what can one person do?  Your primary job as a citizen of this country is to find and help good people get elected to public office.  How much of that have you been doing?

 

We are now about to pay the price for that and you will likely blame everyone but yourself.

 

While I don’t agree with everything Donald Trump has done, while I dislike some of his self-aggrandizing mannerisms, we could not have a better President to lead us at this particular moment in time.

 

Donald Trump is tougher than Ronald Reagan and has better insight into how to run government like a business.  He had a sharp learning curve at first on the differences between running a business and running a government, but he learned.  It would have been helpful had he been able to trust White House staff… but the FBI made sure General Flynn was removed from White House access early in the game.

 

Though Trump seems self-aggrandizing, he has personally and secretly helped too many people about whom we have never heard for that to be true.  It is far easier to hear and see Donald Trump as an arrogant jerk and let the mainstream media win its stupid little game.  They tell you nothing called “news” or “truth.”  They lie.  It is their mission to discredit Donald Trump.

 

Anyone who watched the differences between the Biden “Town Hall” and the attacks against Trump by what was supposed to be a mediator at his “Town Hall” knows that.

 

Trump has access to the media so he talks about achievements – and it sounds self-aggrandizing.  It isn’t.  It’s a Trump newscast.  He only gets about one in five things he’s achieved made public, but it’s better than none.  You’d hear nothing about it if the media had its way.  He tells you what his administration is doing.  By acting like a braggart, he ensures the media will cover it.  It’s an opportunity for them to portray the President in a negative way… as a braggart.  He knows they won’t resist that!

 

We’ve had tough times in 2020 and I believe they are going to get worse.

 

People who have lived in poverty will deal with what’s coming better than those who think not having a meal because there isn’t enough food can’t happen in America.  There is no faster way to learn humility than hunger.  Well, perhaps when your life is truly threatened and you realize you are human you become humble pretty quickly.

So how do you prep to survive?

 

First, there is no way to prepare for everything.  Too many men I know think because they have numerous weapons and a garage full of ammo they will be able to defend their homes and families.  In many cases they will.  If a group of 15 or 20 attack, however, you might want to re-think that.  Or, if Antifa plays its usual game, they will throw bottles with kerosene and a lit cloth wick in them through your windows.  They’ve done it to others.

 

Let’s say you’re lucky and don’t get physically attacked.  Let’s say the seditionists who have been attacking our cities for so long decide to knock off an electric grid.  How prepared to live without electricity are you?

 

Electricity provides more than light… it is access to water (if the water department doesn’t have electricity, how can they purify water and get it to you?).  How do you cook without water?  How do you flush your toilets without water?  How do you stay hydrated without water?  How much extra water do you have at your house?

 

When I speak here about the need for a good water filter, I’m not talking about a filtration system for your house – no electricity means no water in house pipes.  I am talking about survival filtrationso you can go to a local lake or stream and get a bucket or two.

 

What about light?  How well prepared are you to deal with darkness?  I personally got three very bright lights and each runs on AA batteries for more hours than I will need them.

 

Why AA?  I bought rechargeable AA batteries.  With no electricity how can I charge them?  Each battery has a USB connector.  I can remove one end of each battery and plug the USB connector into a charger or a computer — or a special appliance that comes with the batteries to charge them.  Anything with a USB port will serve as a charger.  Best of all, I got a solar-powered chargerthat charges not just my AA batteries, but my cell phone and computer as well.  Yes, I said solar-powered charger… it doesn’t need electricity.  It just needs the sun.  So my lights, my cell phone and my laptop can be kept charged in an emergency.  The batteries can be charged 500 times.

The truth is, with the uncertainties of today’s world, we should all be more prepared for an emergency than any of us are.  To get the very basics is not that costly — at least not if you shop at the right places.  The links above are all to a place called 4 Patriots in Nashville, TN.  That’s where I bought my things.  I am not making a recommendation, I’m just telling you what I found after doing a great deal of research.  I like their products and once when I got something that didn’t work for me I returned it.  They immediately provided a refund to my credit card.  No questions asked.  So I like them.

 

The point is, you need to find a good supply base — or use mine if you choose.

 

This could be a book – and if you’ve done no prepping you may need a book.  The point I’m making is that by asking yourself a few easy questions you can quickly and inexpensively be prepared and stop worrying about what may or may not happen.  Ask yourself the same questions I asked you above.  Do an inventory:  Do you have paper plates?  Paper towels?  Sanitizer?  Clorox?  If store shelves are any indication, most people have enough toilet paper.  Make a list of necessities and stock up.

 

·      What happens if you don’t have electricity? (Without electricity your credit/debit cards won’t work so have cash on hand.)

·      How will you get water?

·      How will you stay warm?

·      How will you cook food?

·      How much Spam or other canned meat do you have?

·      What will happen to your freezer full of food if there is no electricity?

·      What is your security plan during daytime and at night?

·      If you have trouble, how can you let your neighbors know so they can prepare and possibly help?

 

The fact is, if you live in hurricane or earthquake country, these are questions you already should have asked and answered for yourself.  Many people, however, expect someone will always be around to make sure they are safe and fed.  In the good old days that may have been true.  It no longer is.

 

The whole point of this article is to point out that we are living in the NEW NOW of Black Lives Matter, Antifa and other hate or terrorist groups and politicians too weak or committed to a narrative to deal with them.

 

Use your common sense.  None but the richest of us can afford all we want, but we can put sub-categories under the questions I posed above and have access to the things we need.  Electricity, for example, is very important to me because I’m on oxygen at night.  I need to buy a battery-powered generator — or learn to sleep sitting up.

 

Be ready… as ready as you can be.  Then understand that God has His own plans.  If you are a believer the Lord no matter the outcome will care for you.

 

© 2020 Marilyn Barnewall – All Rights Reserved