Bad Gaslighting Epidemic Sweeps The Elite

Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter

Bad Gaslighting Epidemic Sweeps The Elite

There are three questions that our terrible, terrible ruling class raises whenever it opens its collective kale-hole to lecture us: 1) Does the elite think we are really, really stupid, or 2) Is the elite really, really stupid, or 3) Is the elite all of the above? The last week has been eventful, even by Age O’ Trump standards, and the one enduring takeaway is just how bad these people are at gaslighting us with inept lies that demand we disbelieve what’s happening right in front of us. But it should come as no surprise that our alleged betters are no good at gaslighting because they have proven themselves to be no good at anything.

Here’s a fun test: can you name something – anything – major in the last two decades that our best and brightest have not screwed up?

I’ll wait.

Gaslighting is their default move because gaslighting is all these losers have. It’s not like they can sit back and let you read their CV of achievements. Iraq, Obamacare, their annoying millennial kids…all disasters. The members of America’s current ruling class are King Midases of failure. Everything they touch turns to suck.

So, because they have no other way to deal with the damning evidence of their utter incompetence, our elite instead tries to convince us that we are crazy for noticing just how lame they are. That’s called “gaslighting,” the straight-faced denial of what’s happening right in front of you that tries to leverage your politeness and deference to convince you that it’s not the elite that’s rotten. You’re just crazy for noticing, you crazed crazy person of craziness.

Take the Northern Syrian crisis – please. I generally side with the non-commie Kurds over the Turks, but facts are facts and facts mean something. We keep hearing how we “betrayed our allies,” but who promised the Kurds that we would fight Turkey on their behalf? It’s a big jump from “Let’s both fight ISIS” to “Take that, NATO ally.” But our garbage media, and our garbage politicians, sort of hand wave away the fact that you can’t “betray” someone by not doing what you never promised to do, especially when no reasonable person could ever expect you to do it.

And then there’s the Kurdish monolith issue – all Kurds are not created equal. There are different Kurd factions and different Kurd groups, and some Kurds are communists. In fact, we’ve designated the very Kurds Turkey says it’s going after (the PKK) as terrorists based on their actual terrorism. Certainly, at the start of the story you probably couldn’t have expected our reporters and our politicians to tell Kurd X from Kurd Y without a program (in a better world, though, we’d expect them to zip it until they could), but when we’re a week-plus into what is allegedly the greatest atrocity ever was (because they think they can pin it on Trump) and they are still pretending that all Kurds are sweet n’ cuddly, they are lying to you.

How about the response on Capitol Hill? We’ve got a bunch of politicians posing and posturing and prancing about over this border incursion half-way around the world and we’re sitting here wishing they would devote some of that wailing and teeth-gnashing to the incursions over our border. But once again, they act like we can’t see the truth sitting right there. As for the Democrats, well, how long would their support have lasted if Trump had used force against…our NATO ally? You’re helping Putin!” they would shriek. Of course, they are currently shrieking, “You’re helping Putin!” when Trump doesn’t use force against Turkey.

And then there are the Republicans who holler and cry, raging over this terrible situation as if there wasn’t some way for our pols to influence events by, oh, I dunno, offering a resolution declaring war. That’s a thing in the Constitution, I hear.

But taking votes means taking stands, and virtue signaling is no fun if that signal is, “I want you to send your sons and daughters to maybe die to sort out this latest 2000-year-old brawl between this latest bunch of strangers,” and the voters you signal it to are sick of stupid wars that never seem to end.

And then there’s the phony outrage over some silly meme where fake Donald Trump fights fake logos of the fake news. They insist that this year-old YouTube clip is going to spark terrifying violence against…I guess, CNN and MSNBC logos. Of course, these trademarks have remained unassaulted since this silly, fakey vid was created, but never mind that – this is the worst thing ever! Also, you must ignore the fact that the original movie scene the meme was based upon featured the hero massacring a church full of conservative Christians in Kentucky.

Weird how that realistic cinematic bloodletting matched the seething hatred of traditional Americans we’ve come to expect from our poisonous popular culture, but the Blue Check Mafia has an explanation about why the Christian slaughter was A-OK. See, in the movie, Beanie and Cecil had a magic crystal and the mind control lasers made it so Zippy and Zoopy were actually good guys and shooting a bunch of Jesus people actually means we love Christians and stuff and don’t you see that when they shoot a church full of Christians it doesn’t mean they are shooting Christians, and that if you think it does you are craaaaaazzzzzyyyyyyy? Just don’t pay attention to the real violence outside Trump’s Minneapolis rally.

It’s bad enough that they lie to us, directly and by omission, all the time. But what makes it worse is how their lies are such glaringly obvious fabrications and/or dissimulations that the deepest insult is that they think we might believe them.

Sure, our elite is smoldering garbage, but what if it held unchallenged power? It would be a whole country that is Scat Francisco. See the nightmare play out in my action-packed yet hilarious novels of America torn apart by liberal malice, People’s Republic, Indian Country and Wildfire (plus Book Number IV comes out this November)! Those Bulwark weasels call my books “appalling,” so you’ll call them “awesome!”

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Vote Harder
Vote Harder

This whole existence from birth until death is based on deception, not truth. If you just take what you hear and think the exact opposite of what TPTB tell you, then you will know the truth. George Orwell’s 1984 should have been titled “Gaslighting Instruction Manual”. The globalist ruling classes are using 1984 as an instruction manual.
This is what our rulers are teaching us;

War is peace
Slavery is freedom
Ignorance is strength

Some additions I could add;
“Take away your freedom in order to protect your liberty.” (remember that one from Bush)
“Voting determines public policy” (Mine)

This is the part where the global capitalist ruling classes teach us all a lesson. The lesson they intend to teach us is the same old lesson that masters have been teaching slaves since the dawn of slavery. The lesson is, “abandon hope.” The lesson is, “resistance is futile.” The lesson is, “shut up, eat your GMO food, get back to work at your three gig jobs, service your school loans and your credit card debt, pay your taxes (oppression ain’t cheap), vote for who and what we tell you, and be grateful we don’t fucking kill you. Oh, yeah … and if you want to rebel against something, feel free to take up identity politics, or to march around town with posters of Saint Greta demanding that we stop destroying the planet. We’ll get right on that, don’t you worry.”

Anonymous
Anonymous

Don’t forget debt is wealth.

Vote Harder
Vote Harder

Good one!

Saxons Wrath
Saxons Wrath

And, Being Dumb is Smart….conversely, Being Smart is Dumb….and, We must pass the Bill to know what is in it…I did not inhale….I have never had sexual relations with (((whoever)))…it goes on and on….

robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr

“All men are created equal” so students supposedly with 70 IQs must be put in the same classes with kids of supposedly 100 IQs and the teacher must assure that the economically disadvantaged (unless they are White or Asian) have an equal outcome, equal grades, promotions, diplomas, jobs, pay, etc.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I have for decades viewed any mainstream media or Washington DC bi partisan babble or basically anything either party thinks the nation must believe and follow with patriotism and full consent of the will to be totally fabricated manufactured think tank nonsense !
Generally the exact 180 degree opposite is true !
Today in Maryland the death of a corrupt congress critter took place from a long illness as the leftist socialist asswipes mourn his passing we in reality land await the arrival of his piece of shit replacement !
One thing is certain it can and probably will be much worse .
In Maryland you have two major voting blocks , government employees and multiple generational welfare recipients all jockeying for wealth extraction from private sector working people and property owners . Also you have billionaire sports team owners that receive millions Of dollars for their investment schemes with the rouse of creating minimum wage jobs and what do you know those millions account for the exact same budget shortage so taxes on property owners must be raised to make that up !
It’s for the children and raises for teachers and other government related profiteers ?

Glock-N-Load

Dude, are you in Montgomery County MD? GTFO!!

Anonymous
Anonymous

No Northeast Baltimore County West Of 95 but my congressional district is part of the eastern shore WTF?

Ghost

How close to Colombia are you?

Anonymous
Anonymous

Far enough away that I have little reason to go near the MS13 community of Columbia

Articles of Confederation

He’s pretty far from Bogota or Cartagena, methinks.

GAZ
GAZ

“….Here’s a fun test: can you name something – anything – major in the last two decades that our best and brightest have not screwed up…” I would say that education is a “major” thing and is designed to teach what to think, instead of how to think, in order to purposely brainwash and dumb down the peasants. That is working out brilliantly.

22winmag - w/o tagline

The only thing I’d vote for is an “Ignore Author” button.

For shitty columns by Trump apologist, status-quo-tards such as Kurt.

Boobus Americanus (EC)
Boobus Americanus (EC)

That’s not the TBP way. Admin serves up the platter, we get to deal with it. LLPOH is so nice today, it’s hard to remember back when he made a hobby of carving up noobs, especially the blowhards, fakers, liars, cheaters, and assorted crumbs.

Boobus Americanus (EC)
Boobus Americanus (EC)

Just two days ago, I called Trump the Gaslighter in Chief for – as Admin puts it – pissing on your head and telling you it’s raining. I seriously think somebody is stealing my ideas. Of course, they may have been suggested to me in my sleep by Alexa.

Anywho, my long-term whole thesis is that D.C. is not much different from D.F. The crooks there are rich and enjoy a certain immunity from prosecution. They are the upper crust making side deals with drug smugglers. The lone presidential candidate who promised to do something for the poor, aside from token handouts, got whacked in Tijuana.

TampaRed

if yer gonna drag admin into this get it correct,it’s pissin on yer leg,not yer head–
be happy,elijah cummings is dead–

EC
EC

Imagine the cataclysmic event of Trump losing in 2020. Trumpeteers will retreat to their underground digs to await the end of the world.

Ghost

I’m only going underground for tornadoes.

I’m going to be trying to catch incoming missiles.

mark
mark

I do have an underground room…and as I was closing the lid (2016) as the tornado was touching down all around, I gave my wife a smug look and said:

“I told you this was worth the money.” Her eyes were as wide as silver dollars when I locked the lid.

Just up the road a family of three was killed in their home.

TampaRed

mark,
when my daughter was 9-10 she went w/my mom to visit relatives in arkansas,my mom’s home state–
one night they had one of those fronts coming thru that spawn one storm after another & they had to spend a night in a relative’s storm shelter–
she still talks about it,though the perspective has changed–years ago it was cooest thingl,now she remembers how cramped & hot it was —

TomMacGyver
TomMacGyver

Funny; when BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA pulled our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, wars that WE INITIATED, there was nary a PEEP from the likes of CNN. …’Just sayin’…

EC
EC

Your not just saying, asshole, you are trying to instigate some sort of umbrage. Obama is so last year. He’s gone underground like that other war criminal, whathisface.

robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr

Harpy?

EC
EC

I’m not harpy until your harpy.

TampaRed

sounds like you’re hungover from last night’s harpy–

One Flew Over America (EC)
One Flew Over America (EC)

Dude, she’s your sister.

TampaRed

i told you she’s bad news–
you might want to go have a blood test in a week or so–

Mygirl...maybe

Obama is sacrosanct, he is above the law and not to be noticed. Forget how most of the shit show today started with your hero, we must not look at that fact. Wonder how a man with a salary of $400,000 per annum ended up a multi-millionaire with several mansions? Shh, don’t ask that question, it’s soooo last year.

TampaRed

word is that durham is looking hard at obama,if the people just under him go down & he gets an unindicted co conspirator tag it would be a victory–
elijah cummings is dead,yell that 10x–

mark
mark

In a twisted way I must thank the Greatest Trojan Horse in the history of the world…because of his re-election I bought the farm, became a New Pioneer and my armory and ammo quadrupled.

https://new-pioneer.subscriptioncore.com/

One Flew Over America (EC)
One Flew Over America (EC)

You got me all wrong, Jessica. That’s not new, women always get men wrong.
comment image?downsize=700%3A%2A&output-quality=auto&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto&output-format=auto&downsize=360:*

robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr

I support Trump but he fucked our Ally the Kurds. What about the American Equitable Destruction Principle: If Kurds kill a Turk, Turks may kill a Kurd (not 1000 civilians with tanks and jets). Why didn’t Trump tell the Kurds we need to leave but we will leave most of our weapons wink wink; but ya’ll should get out of Turkey and Syria peacefully; we will help you move. That would have pleased the Turks too. Then the whole world wouldn’t be rightly saying it is safer to be Herod’s pig than America’s Ally. The only good that might come of this is that now we can hope Syria and Russia will kick Turkish asses to Hell that are in Syria.

EC
EC

They have always been between Iraq and a hard place, Saddam couldn’t gas them out of there and Turkey has wanted them out also. They won’t go for the ‘help you move’ deal. Palestinians won’t take that deal either.

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