Tulsi Would Cause George Orwell To Blush— Ministry Of Truth, MAGA Edition

The Memory Hole Is Back—And It Has a Security Clearance

Did you know that MAGA psychopath Joe Kent was Tulsi's chief of staff?

How about this for a disgusting AI-generated video? Trump re-posted it on his absurd social media platform Sunday night, likely commissioned by crackpot Tulsi Gabbard, desperate to worm her way back into Señor TACO’s good graces. In fact, yesterday the NY Times reported that “Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, said last week that the latest report released by her offices showed a ‘treasonous conspiracy in 2016’ by top Obama administration officials to harm Trump. She said she would make a criminal referral to the F.B.I. based on recently released documents... Trump has been trying to change the conversation among his supporters, after the Justice Department walked back its promise to release the full collection of files about Jeffrey Epstein, a multimillionaire financier and convicted sex offender who died in prison in 2019.”

Reporting for NBC News yesterday, Dan De Luce, looked at the Trump regime’s full-scale assault on truth, memory and the public’s grasp of reality. Sometimes I think I make the mistake that everyone has read George Orwell’s 1984 and that I can refer to it without imagining that not everyone has. I’m not planning a book review but want everyone to know that in the book, history isn’t just rewritten as much as obliterated and replaced by whatever version of events Big Brother needs in the current moment. The past doesn’t exist “objectively,” only as a set of mutable stories continually revised to serve power. Today, Trump’s intelligence officials— John Ratcliffe and especially Tulsi Gabbard— are doing just that: torching the record, rewriting the 2016 election into a new fable where Trump is the victim of a “treasonous conspiracy,” and the villain is not Vladimir Putin, but Barack Obama.

This is more than “spin.” This is about regime memory control—a purge of collective recollection, particularly for less well-read MAGA types who may never have heard of George Orwell. We know what happened in 2016. The CIA knew. The FBI knew. The bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee knew. Hell, even Trump’s own secretary of state Marco Rubio admitted it: Russia launched a full-spectrum disinformation war to help Trump and harm Hillary Clinton. That’s not opinion. That’s the historical record. And now Trump and his sick regime is literally trying to airbrush it away.

Orwell called it “reality control.” Today we call it “a criminal referral to the Justice Department.”

Normal people understand that what Ratcliffe and Gabbard are doing isn’t exposing a conspiracy; they’re fabricating one, from fragments of outdated documents and vague innuendo. It’s the old “deep state” narrative, just dressed up in new intelligence drag. But the logic is pure 1984: discredit the institutions that told the truth, accuse the accusers and leave the public so confused and demoralized they no longer trust anything but the Party line.

"Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.”

“Russia never helped Trump.”

“The 2016 election was free, fair, and a historic triumph over the elites."

Say it enough times, and who’s to say otherwise? The people who remember? They're being discredited or smeared. The reports? They're being dismissed as biased. The facts? They’re becoming unfacts.

And if you're wondering why now, look no further than the Jeffrey Epstein black box of secrets that didn’t get buried with him after Trump had him murdered in his jail cell. The timing here is tactical, not coincidental. Big Brother’s regime knew the best way to bury one scandal was to unleash another. In classic authoritarian style, Trump’s loyalists are throwing raw meat at the conspiracy-hungry base and offering up a fresh enemy: the intelligence agencies themselves. Yesterday's patriots are today’s traitors. Former CIA officers, DOJ officials, respected analysts— they're being dragged before the Two Minutes Hate as enemies of the state.

The goal? Obviously not justice or clarity: Obedience. Confusion. Submission.

Tulsi Gabbard calls it a coup. But Orwell would have recognized it for what it is: “doublethink”— the ability to hold two contradictory beliefs in your mind and believe them both. Russia interfered and Russia didn’t. Trump is the victim and the savior. Intelligence agencies are both credible and totally corrupt. The terrifying part isn’t that they lie. It’s that they expect your MAGA neighbor to believe them anyway.

What do you think the chances are that some of those MAGA neighbors who never got around to reading much Orwell, are David Bowie fans? Some? Bowie didn’t need to read them the whole book to make them feel the dystopia. His 1974 album Diamond Dogs was born out of a failed attempt to adapt 1984 into a stage musical (He couldn’t secure the rights from Orwell’s estate)— but what emerged may have been even more potent: a glam-noir nightmare of collapsing civilization, state control, and desperate human longing. Songs like “1984” and “Big Brother” didn’t just reference Orwell’s novel—they channeled it, through a lens of decadence and dread that felt eerily predictive. When Bowie snarls “We’ll talk by wire / We’ll all be changed,” he’s not just imagining a future— he’s indicting one. The surveillance state isn’t sterile in Diamond Dogs; it’s seductive. Orwell warned of power maintained by fear and punishment. Bowie added spectacle, turning Big Brother into a charismatic overlord and the end of truth into a showbiz apocalypse. It’s fitting today, as Trump’s operatives flood social media with disinformation and AI-generated videos, that Bowie’s dystopia feels more accurate than Orwell’s in some ways. It’s not just authoritarian— it’s theatrical. The Ministry of Truth doesn’t just erase the past— it performs a new one. As Gabbard and Ratcliffe do their best “Reality Tour” impressions, trying to convince Americans that 2016 didn’t happen the way we all remember, it’s worth revisiting Diamond Dogs— a glitter-covered scream from the ruins, warning us that the future would be a fascist cabaret. And here we are.

It’s worth mentioning that conservative Democrat Mark Warner (VA) is vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and he reminded NBC about the committee’s unanimous, bipartisan conclusion in 2020 was that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to benefit Trump. “This is just another example of the DNI trying to cook the books, rewrite history, and erode trust in the intelligence agencies she’s supposed to be leading” he said in a statement, referring to Gabbard. I would love to get the committee to put together a 1984 playlist but I have been unable to reach any of the senators so… aside from Bowie’s Diamond Dogs, any of this tickle your fancy?

Eurythmics – “Sexcrime (1984)”

Radiohead – “2 + 2 = 5”

Muse – “Resistance”

Rage Against the Machine – “Sleep Now in the Fire”

The Police – “Every Breath You Take” (no, not a love song)

Nine Inch Nails – “The Hand That Feeds”

Pink Floyd – “Welcome to the Machine”

The Clash – “Know Your Rights”

Frank Zappa – “I Am the Slime”

Dead Kennedys- “Holiday In Cambodia”