aviculor:

bogleech:

“He said: “There’s an Orwellian concept going on here, where what’s happening to me and my wife, and they plan to do this with other governors.“They’re doing this to the business community. Is they’re purging any dissent on this issue. It’s almost like the George Orwell book 1984, where if you disagree with big brother, or you go against the thought police, if you remember that book, you will be purged and you will disappear.                                                                                                        “They purge you. And my wife, for example, in Charlotte, she primarily stays in Charlotte. She’s been disinvited to charity events, and basically, they call her up and they say, ‘you know, you better not come. You better not come’.”

North Carolina Governor thinks people getting mad at him for being an asshole qualifies as an “Orwellian purge.”

skittycatz said: “I stripped people of their rights and now they’re mad at me and I’m facing some consequences? This is EXACTLY LIKE 1984, which if I remember correctly was a book where mean citizens bullied the poor meek innocent government. I think that’s how it went.”