Biden's Disinformation board canned and head Nina Jankowicz resigns.

 

The White House. Reuters. 

Joe Biden's extremely controversial Disinformation Governance Board has been paused with its head, Nina Jankowicz, resigning. Reuters. The creation of the board prompted fierce criticism with many comparing it to the Ministry of Truth from the novel, 1984. Jankowicz cited her family as a reason to resign as she is expecting a baby. It is unclear what, if any, capacity she will continue to serve in the Department of Homeland Security. 

My Comment:

Part of me wants to celebrate this as a major victory for free speech but I don't buy it for a second. I am guessing Jankowicz will be shuffled around to some other department that will be the Disinformation Governance Board in all but name. It will probably be a black project with little to no oversite and their efforts to censor free speech will continue. 

The Reuters piece seems to suggest that the story was all about Jankowicz but I strongly disagree. She was a pretty big embarrassment with her lying about the Hunter Biden laptop story, lying about Biden winning the election and her cringe inducing musical abilities, but the story was never about her. She was a big symbol of everything that is wrong with Washington DC at the moment, but that's not the big takeaway from this story. 

The real problem is that the government has no right to decide what is real or what is not real. They blasted Russian and Chinese propaganda but often those sources are more truthful than what we are getting from our own media. If I want to get my information from RT.com or the Global Times, that is nobodies business but my own. Trying to prevent Americans from getting those news sources or doing everything they can to discredit them is censorship, obviously. 

Does that mean people should trust those news outlets? Of course not. I view foreign news sites with the same skepticism I do domestic ones, they all lie all the time about all things. Indeed, the Reuters article said that Biden winning the election fair and square was a fact when it's not anywhere close to being so. That kind of opinion posing as news is just as common in western sources as it is in foreign ones but we don't have a board in the Defense Department countering their lies. And we obviously shouldn't even though I think our media is doing a terrible disservice to our country. 

I do think that the Biden administration didn't really understand the kind of visceral disgust people would have with this idea. Even under circumstances with a competent government that wasn't out to get their own people, such a board would raise eyebrows. But now, when the Biden White House is pretty much openly trying to destroy their opposition, why would anyone not see this as an obvious attempt at censorship?

Which is why I don't think we have heard the last of Jankowicz and her ilk. Like I said she will probably get some office somewhere in the basement of the Pentagon with no oversite and an unlimited budget to do exactly what she was going to do at the Disinformation Governance Board. 

The truth of the matter is that the Biden White House is desperate. Despite their constant spin, despite the media covering for them and despite big tech censoring everyone to the right of Biden, they can't keep control of the narrative. People aren't stupid and they know that they are paying way more for gas, rent and food. And they know that things like the baby formula shortage don't happen to competent governments. 

So Biden's only real option is to try and discredit the critics and censor them. They failed this time but they will continue to do so. Indeed, their insane attempt to link Tucker Carlson to the Buffalo shooter is a good example of this (I read the shooter's manifesto and there was no link there). They seem to only be able in imply that you are a bad person if you notice what they are doing. You are either a Russian disinformation agent or a racist if you access public information that shows their plans and agenda.

Will it work? I am guessing no. It's a desperate move and one that is counterproductive in the end. The Democrats will lose power and soon, failing a level of voter fraud that can hardly be comprehended in 2022 and 2024. Democrats should realize that all the weapons they have pointed at their enemies can be used against them if they lose power...