In George Carlin’s 1990 HBO standup concert “Doin’ It Again,” the comedy mastermind opined, “We do think in language. And so, the quality of our thoughts and ideas could only be as good as the quality of our language.”
It’s a theory I’ve heard elsewhere — and it’s a common trope in dystopian sci-fi flicks that dipped their hoofs in Orwellian waters: The Baddies brainwashed the plebes by banning books, redefining words, rewriting the English language, and subjugating the masses via an unrelenting, government-orchestrated propaganda campaign. But somehow, our plucky, handsome hero (or heroine, if she uses arrows) learned the truth — and now s/he’s determined to break free!
I suppose it’s at least partially true, because totalitarian regimes and/or ideologies do ban books, deplatform critics, and censor media outlets. It’s their go-to SOP, and one of the telltale sign of fascism.
But humans don’t actually think in language. We think in images and emotions.
Quick, right now, think of your mom. (Or your dad.) Do it for a full three seconds.
I’ll betcha a flash of words didn’t form in your brain. Instead, your mind was awash with images, feelings, and emotions.
The myth that we all think in language was perpetuated, I assume, by my fellow writers — because writers have a vested interest in overstating their impact and importance. (As does every other profession.)
Plus, language is controllable. When it’s printed on a page, it’s right there in literal black-and-white. You can burn it, ban it, cross it out — or even rip it apart after President Trump’s State of the Union address.
Totalitarian regimes crave control. They’ll seize whatever they can get away with. And if all they can control is language, that’s what they’ll do.
Images and emotions, however, are infinitely more abstract. Banning a word wouldn’t do a damn thing to change how we actually feel about our mom or dad, because our thoughts exist on a different plane.
Our thoughts cannot be directly controlled by outsiders. Not by governments, speech codes, or anything else.
But still, they try. And it leads to all kinds of mangled phrases and oxymoronic non sequiturs: We live on a planet where nobody considers “holy war” to be contradictory or “war crime” to be redundant.
And over the last few years, we’ve even changed the meaning of genocide.
Genocide is a new word and a new concept. Linguistically, it didn’t (and couldn’t) exist until 1909, when Danish botanist Wilhelm Johannsen invented the word “gene.” But it took the horrors of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust to popularize its meaning.
Six million Jews died. Two out of every three European Jews was murdered. The Nazi’s stated intent — its Final Solution — was the extermination of every Jew on Earth.
Yet today, genocide was redefined to mean something else: It’s code for “I support Palestine” and/or hate Jews.
Historically, almost every war has involved one group of people fighting another group of people. And historically, wars led to death, destruction, chaos, agony, and innocent civilians getting caught in the crossfire.
That’s what war is!
It’s why General William Tecumseh Sherman famously declared, “War is hell.”
But obviously, not every war was genocide. What happened in Nazi Germany — with death camps, starvation campaigns, and mass exterminations — was historically unique.
Thus, it deserved a unique name.
By contrast, what happened in Gaza was dreadful and horrible. Like Sherman said, “War is hell.”
Your heart breaks for the children.
But it’s absolutely NOT genocide.
In 2020, the population of Gaza was roughly 2.1 million. By 2025, after years of this brutal, unforgivable, multiyear “genocide,” the population of Gaza is roughly… 2.1 million.
According to Hamas, about 65,000 Palestinians have died (Hamas makes no distinction between military deaths and civilian deaths, which is kinda/sorta important). All loss of life is tragic, but context matters — especially if you’re going to weaponize a loaded word like “genocide.” Because, at any given time, there are about 60,000 pregnant women in Gaza!
So every nine months, another 60,000 Gazans.
[…]
[T]his was the first “genocide” in world history where the birth rate was greater than the death rate!
Not only is there absolutely no genocide, but Israel keeps trying to feed the Gazan people — they’ve provided over 100 million(!) free meals — but 9 out of 10 food trucks are “intercepted” by Palestinians. The looters, killers, and hijackers include Hamas thugs and other armed gangs.
What a weird “genocide,” eh?
But leftwing agitators — and “Woke Right” conservatives — kept insisting that Israel was perpetuating a genocide: The Palestinian people are starving! Those Nazi-like Israelis are inflicting collective punishment on the poor, peaceful Gazans!
AIPAC is sending fundraising emails attacking me for saying, “the most truthful and easiest thing to say that Oct 7th in Israel was horrific and all hostages must be returned, but so is the genocide, humanitarian crisis, and starvation happening in Gaza.”
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) August 7, 2025
Well this is the sign… pic.twitter.com/AF3RUrAWAY
After being forcibly deported on an Israeli plane, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has arrived in Paris, where she condemned the detention of her fellow crew members from the Madleen humanitarian ship. She stated that she has no information about their whereabouts and called for… pic.twitter.com/8BuqBtYJ4x
— Middle East Monitor (@MiddleEastMnt) June 10, 2025
Israel is continuing to use starvation as a method of warfare, a war crime, and as a tool to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
— Amnesty International (@amnesty) July 22, 2025
The harrowing suffering of starving Palestinians in Gaza, including our own colleagues, on an hourly basis, is… pic.twitter.com/AfUlgb8jc6
Weirdly, after President Trump brokered a landmark ceasefire between the Israelis and Palestinians, we haven’t heard too much about the starving Gazans. And that’s awfully strange, because the war is over: For the first time in years, media members could walk around Gaza, documenting the brutal extent of the Israeli starvation campaign.
So where are all the pics and videos of starving kids?!
Turns out, Palestinian kids are a bunch of blubbery fat-arses. Instead of starving, they’ve been stuffing their fat little faces and eating too much candy.
And if Palestine was a country, it’d be the 27th fattest in the world.
🚨 AFTER 2 YEARS OF “GENOCIDE,” UNICEF REPORTS GAZANS FATTER THAN ISRAELIS
— Mossad Commentary (@MOSSADil) November 15, 2025
A new @UNICEF report quietly confirms what Hamas propaganda tried to hide:
There was never a famine in Gaza.
In fact, obesity rates in the “Palestinian” territories are higher than in Israel:
🔹 Ages… pic.twitter.com/j8UuFxIFeY
Naturally, the fact that the Gazans are big, bloated butterballs is all (you guess it) Israel’s fault… and further PROOF that the “genocide” was real.
From Israel National News, based on Front Page’s original reporting:
After two years of barraging social media with lies about a famine in Gaza, Hamas propaganda channels are now trying to cover up their obesity by claiming that Israel is making them fat.
One recent Hamas media story clamored that “they’re forcing us to gain weight”, and objected that supermarkets have “shelves overflowing with chocolate, soft drinks, and cigarettes”, along with unhealthy “flour and various types of cheese used in sweets and pizza, in addition to sugar and flour derivatives used in confectionery production.”
An Arab Muslim settler in Gaza who had previously justified the Hamas massacres complained, “I am compelled to consume carbohydrates, processed cheese, and manufactured meat.”What some are calling the ‘Fatocide’ reflects the reality that there was never a famine in Gaza, but there was a very real obesity problem.
Which means, of course, the Israelis are now attempting to kill all the poor, innocent Palestinians… with TOO MUCH food.
(Probably because they plan on eating ‘em.)
PRedictions: That’ll be the new conspiracy theory: Those bloodthirsty, genocidal Jews are fattening-up the innocent, peace-loving Palestinian children, because they’re gonna slaughter ‘em for their Passover matzo.
Tucker Carlson will learn about it from that Demon who keeps sneaking into his bedroom and tickling him. It’ll come to Candace Owens in a dream.
As for the hardcore leftists, they’ll simply turn the page, memory-hole all that “starvation” talk, and take Swiftian satire as serious as a heart attack. A “modest proposal” indeed.
Here’s a sneak peek at tomorrow’s headline: Jews Turn ‘Hansel and Gretel’: Inside the Secret Zionist Plot to Eat Chubby Gazans.
‘Cause even if they can’t control our thoughts via language, they’ll still try to control our thoughts via narrative. That’s what they do best.
Don’t just focus on words; focus on how they’re being constructed.
PRojections: The MAGA exorcism of Marjorie Taylor Greene is less about her and more about what’s coming next. We talked about her yesterday, but this X post offers a pithy summary:
How to lose a presidential campaign endorsement in less than 6 months:
— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) November 15, 2025
- lie and freak out about war in Iran that never happened.
- stand in front of a bunch of psychotic boomer leftists carrying signs calling Trump a sex trafficking pedophile.
- go on CNN and The Young Turks…
Too many stars and not enough sky. Too many chiefs and not enough Indians. Too many cooks spoil the broth. However you wanna phrase it, the MAGA movement isn’t holding open auditions for a new leader.
That’ll happen in 2028, with JD Vance the odds-on favorite.
With all due respect to MTG, she’s nowhere near the top of the list. (Sorry, babe.)
But 2028 is a long way away. And over the last few months, there’s been a strong push from the Tucker Carlson-Marjorie Taylor Greene-Candace Owens-Nick Fuentes wing of the MAGAverse to redefine what “America First” means.
To them, it’s open hostility to Israel, isolationism, realigning America within the orbit of Russia, Qatar, and Iran, a hodgepodge of conspiracy theories, and playing footsies with neo-Nazis (which is now inexplicably tied to Christian nationalism).
It’s a great strategy for an influencer seeking clicks. Being outrageous gets you noticed: That’s the secret to success in an attention-driven economy.
But it’s political suicide for a major party.
Let’s crack the whip and police our crazies BEFORE the 2026 midterms. Because, if we wait too long, we’ll lose everything.
Brand ambassadors matter, boys and girls. Embracing the wrong one will kill your brand in a nanosecond.
PRaise: Last week, the longest, stupidest government shutdown in U.S. history FINALLY came to a close. The GOP held tough — and eventually, the Democrats caved.
Of course, it wasn’t ‘til after they won the 2025 elections, but still.
Too early to know the long-term ramifications. (Who’ll outlast whom — Sen. Chuck Schumer or Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene — remains a coin flip.)
All we know for sure is, the final shoe still hasn’t dropped.
The pre-Trump GOP would’ve surely caved. That Republican Party was hair-trigger-sensitive to the mainstream media; the elephants would shake and tremble at the first sight of trouble.
Perhaps the longest-lasting result of Donald Trump and the MAGA revolution is that the Republican Party no longer gives a damn what the media thinks.
Screw ‘em. Between social media, alternative media, and conservative media, we don’t need ‘em anymore.
And thus, one of the Dem’s favorite pressure points was taken away.
Thank goodness we didn’t back down. Had GOP resolve collapsed, the Dems would’ve taken it as their cue to shutdown the government every time they lose an election.
We’re still not out of the woods: Lots of Democrats are still tickled pink over the shutdown. The way they see it, the Schumer Shutdown was the lynchpin of their 2025 electoral successes.
And so, they’d love to do it again.
It’s absolutely imperative for the GOP to exact a higher price for the shutdown: For 40 days and 40 nights, our people suffered. For 40 days and 40 nights, air travelers were imperiled. For 40 days and 40 nights, our citizens were deprived of food, salaries, and vital services.
The buck can’t stop with just Schumer. The radical left is totally fine with him being their sacrificial lamb, so heaping all the blame atop Schumer won’t do anything to dissuade the Democrats from shutting down the government again.
Victory alone isn’t enough. We’ve gotta win the post-event narrative. We need to accentuate how stupid, costly, and pointless the shutdown was!
And so far, I haven’t heard much.
All I’ve heard is Epstein, Epstein, Epstein.
PRedators: Imagine you’re managing the career of the lovely and talented actress, Sydney Sweeney. She’s 28, gorgeous, and has (ahem) “qualities” that superficial men find appealing.
Why the heck would you have her pack on the weight to play an unattractive lesbian prizefighter?!
I’m a boxing fan, so I’m very familiar with Christy Martin, the female fighter Sweeney portrayed in Christy, her new movie. (Back in the 1990s, every Don King pay-per-view had Christy Martin on the undercard. And every Bob Arum pay-per-view had Butterbean on the undercard. Those were the rules.)
Christy Martin was fun to watch. Some of her bouts were ridiculously bloody — the woman was an absolute beast. (In a good way.)
But she wasn’t a beauty. And that’s what Sweeney is.
We don’t wanna see her as a beefy, burly lesbian brawler, which is probably why Christy had one of the worse opening weekends of all time.
From Men’s Journal: “Sydney Sweeney’s ‘Christy’ Lands Among Top 10 Worst Box Office Openings.”
According to Box Office Mojo, Christy lands in the top 10 for worst box office openings among films released in at least 2000 theaters. The film was released at 2,011 theaters nationwide. Grossing $1.3 million during its opening weekend, the Sweeney-led film averaged just $649 per theater.
Gee, I dunno, guys: Maybe Sweeney’s audience would rather see her play someone hot and sexy?
It’s probably worth a thought.
