I have finished a rereading of Nineteen Eighty Four, and whilst I still find it a tedious slog, it contains some imaginative, but morally corrupt, concepts for destroying democracy that the White House have adopted. When thinking about doublespeak in the time of Trump, it occurred to me that triple gestures would make a good game for children or the White House advisers. Instead of Rock (fist), Paper (flat hand), Scissors (two fingers) it could be renamed War, Peace, Trump. Obviously, two fingers would be Trump, a fist would be War, and a flat hand would be Peace.
The rules are: Trump beats Peace, War beats Trump, and Peace beats War.
Even the obsequious advisers in the White House might be able to explain this to Trump, although whether he could convince Netanyahu might be a stretch. And the game could be sponsored by those clever Norwegians who decide the Nobel Peace Prize.
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