Gaslight Nation

Guest Post by Slugdaddy

Sometime around 2016, I began to call America ‘Gaslight Nation’ – I think it’s the simplest way of describing where we are in this American experience. We see a ruling class and its media regularly portraying, not just lies, but a whole false reality to the people, all the time. The gaslighting didn’t start with COVID, but it sure accelerated during COVID. There appears to be an escalating effect; with each successful gaslighting episode, the elite grow bolder and more reckless. If we, the people (the masses) don’t push back, their lies will soon collapse our society and our nation.

Gaslighting: The term may be used to describe a person (a “gaslighter”) who presents a false narrative to another group or person which leads them to doubt their perceptions and become misled (generally for the gaslighter’s own benefit), disoriented or distressed. Generally, this dynamic is possible only when the audience is vulnerable, such as in unequal power relationships, or when the audience is fearful of the losses associated with challenging the false narrative.

Wikipedia

In Gaslight Nation, there is the idea of Dangerous Misinformation that Could Cause Harm; an idea predicated on an always-unspoken understanding that because some people are too stupid to understand 21st century life, content for them must be censored (or curated.) And, that “some people,” who are too stupid, is meant to include you and me by default. The elite decide, we comply. Nevermind your lying eyes.

9/11

The road to full gaslight probably started in November 1963, but I wasn’t alive then and haven’t spent enough time studying that era to really say for sure. From my perspective, the gas lights started flickering around 9/11/2001. Everyone knows where they were when they heard the fateful news. In the days after, airlines were grounded, travel stopped. The 9/11 event was a spectacle.

The photo of the “falling man” on 9/11 is iconic in more ways than one… Nonetheless, apart from any inferred occult significance, the mechanics of how things played out on 9/11 were suspicious as hell. No matter what else did or did not happen that day, the collapse of WTC 7 was not caused by burning office materials. If one part of the “official” story is false, then none of it can be assumed to be true.

When a 47-story steel building, that was not struck by a plane, collapses upon itself in under 6 seconds, it raises some questions. Not at all surprisingly, thousands of architects and engineers raised substantive questions, or maybe 10,000. (Kind of like the 16,000 doctors and scientists questioning the vaccines today.) No matter. More than 20 years later, the official narrative still stands. And those of us who asked questions were marginalized and pejoratively dubbed “truthers.”

WMD

Building on the successes of 9/11, the ruling class decided to make up some bullshit as pretext for war with Iraq. Talk of “Weapons of Mass Destruction” was all the rage, especially Yellow Cake Uranium.

I’ve been anti-war since I read 1984 in 9th grade. (Apart from morally justified defensive war.) Orwell’s view of war as a means of keeping the populace impoverished always made sense to me.

“[War] eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that the hierarchical society needs… The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact.”

George Orwell, 1984

Were we to divide the $6.4 trillion we lost in the middle east amongst the people instead, each household would have gotten about $50,000. In Gaslight Nation we are told “our democratic values” motivate and inform our foreign policy. Though had the government let the people vote democratically on how to spend $6.4T, there would have been no wars in the middle-east.

AMERICA IS THE RICHEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD

Our ruling class loves to boast endlessly about how America is supposedly the richest country in the world. This idea plays especially heavily in political speeches from both parties, and whenever the ruling class is trying to talk us into war. If “richest” is defined as being completely indebted yet still able to borrow endlessly, then I guess we are. Debt is wealth in Gaslight Nation.

Meanwhile in China, three times as many new Mercedes cars were sold in 2021 than in America. Sales of new Audi vehicles were 257% higher. Porsche sales in China were nearly double ours. Even Cadillac, the iconic American luxury brand, sold twice as many cars in China last year (233,117 vs 117,825.)

In 1969, when America really was “rich,” a record 278,000 new Cadillacs were sold here. While I can’t find an official reference, it appears Cadillac sales that year in China were zero.

By every metric, except the official ruling class “narrative,” China has been far wealthier than America for several years; with larger markets in all luxury goods, and an “upper middle class” roughly the same size as our entire population.

RUSSIAGATE

I loved Donald Trump’s policies. The man himself I found annoying, for decades. He literally said the same shit, year after year, pretty much my entire life: The Japanese and/or Chinese are stealing our jobs (self-evidently true), our leaders are idiots that make bad deals, and the “American Dream” is dead and/or in danger. Whatever else you may think of the man, he has rhetorical themes and he sticks to them. The idea that Donald Trump was secretly acting as some orange form of Russian agent was laughably absurd from the start. And yet… about 1/2 the country believed it at some point in the past 6 years, and many undoubtedly still do. It was, prior to 2020, one of the biggest gaslightings of all time.

I often think that Russiagate was the beta test for COVID-19 propaganda. Could the ruling class and its media apparatchiks convince people to believe an entirely-false narrative, absent any evidence? Could that narrative be spun out over years and still be believed? Would Americans believe official propaganda over their own lying eyes?

For more than two years Americans had to endure endless Russiagate investigations, breaking news stories, intrigue and speculation – all over a narrative that was, to the less credulous among us, absurd on its face. A very few in the media, notably the excellent Matt Taibbi, pointed this out. Most played along, most politicians in both parties played along. Valuable time and resources were wasted, and American society was further divided against itself.

Years later the truth dribbles out. No one cares.

ANTHONY FAUCI

If Gaslight Nation had a mascot it would be Dr. Anthony Fauci, an evil man most of us had never heard of before 2020. (aka The American Mengele) As the mysterious Wuhan Coronavirus made headlines in China, and as our politicians were preoccupied with the impeachment of Donald Trump (another gaslighting event itself), Dr. Fauci made his appearance center stage as the “voice of reason” in the Trump administration’s pandemic team. If you were someone who fell for Russiagate, you fell even harder for Fauci. His calm manner, his reasonable tone; God forbid anyone bother to Google the man before deciding to blindly trust him (including President Trump.)

Fauci decries politicization of COVID-19 vaccines, urges people to get their shots to fight their common enemy, the deadly virus - The Boston Globe

Something about Fauci rubbed me the wrong way from the start, so I did Google him. Before long I stumbled across the now infamous A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence paper, then Peter Daszak, and it became clear that Fauci was deeply involved in the manipulation of coronaviruses in the Wuhan lab. Even more troubling, it was obvious Fauci had an agenda and it wasn’t the one we wanted.

Fauci had cut his bureaucratic teeth on the HIV/AIDS crisis, and most of the manipulations he used during the COVID pandemic were ones that he learned during the AIDS crisis nearly 40 years earlier. The book Why We Will Never Win the War on AIDS offers an excellent history of that period, as does a paper on the NIH website titled Questioning the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis: 30 Years of Dissent. (Interestingly, this paper was retracted in October 2019, just months before the coronavirus pandemic would “officially” start.) Chief among the obfuscations Fauci used then and now was the PCR test, which, when used on asymptomatic individuals at a high cycle threshold, will give you the appearance of a pandemic whether there is one or not.

Pretty much everything that comes out of Fauci’s mouth is a lie or manipulation of some kind: In February 2020, the same week he told USA Today Americans shouldn’t worry about the “minuscule” risk of coronavirus, the NIH received the first shipment of Moderna’s mRNA-1273 for use in their Phase 1 clinical study. (Fauci’s NIAID had disclosed their intent to run a study using Moderna’s vaccine a month earlier, on January 13, 2020, five days before the first U.S. coronavirus case.)

“If you look at the masks that you buy in a drug store, the leakage around that doesn’t really do much to protect you. People start saying, ‘Should I start wearing a mask?’ Now, in the United States, there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to wear a mask.”

Anthony Fauci, in a Rare Moment of Honesty, February 17, 2020

By April 2020 even Newsweek was calling Fauci out for his risky coronavirus research in China, but this made no difference to the public; most of whom continued to blindly trust Fauci and observantly follow his orders for the next 18 months.

The sheer fuckery inherent in trotting out Dr. Fauci to issue diktats and generally bullshit and torment us for the past two years, all to solve a problem he had a role in creating, perpetuating, and exaggerating, boggles the mind. To add insult to gaslit injury, In Gaslight Nation questioning any of “the science” as dispensed by Fauci was and sometimes still is punished by prompt “cancellation” by social media companies, and maybe your job and friends.

SAFE AND EFFECTIVE

Many still think they are, and you can hardly blame them. Certainly the ruling class has done its best to delete, hide, or censor all evidence to the contrary. The government has been gaslighting us for at least 20 years though, so I expect them to lie to me. When they said “Safe and Effective,” I knew they wouldn’t be. (Just like “Pandemic of the Unvaccinated,” which they only started saying once the exact opposite was true.) The truth about the vaccines will come out soon enough.

WAR IN UKRAINE?

The worst aspect of the emergence of Gaslight Nation is the complete breakdown of social trust that comes included (plus tax.) Is there a war in Ukraine? Something is surely happening there, and people appear to be suffering. Whatever is happening, our ruling class can’t be expected not to lie about it. (Two weeks to slow the spread anyone?) And, if they’re lying, then no doubt a friendly “fact check” site will be willing to back them up. Fairy-tales like the Ghost of Kiev are floating around. How would we even know if the war was only as real as the pee tape?

Russia accused of 'fake attack' on Ukraine to justify invasion | 7NEWS - YouTube

Even if this time our ruling class is not lying, any discussion of American funded war in Ukraine can’t be had without addressing the salient fact that our country is dead broke, with a liability of $505k per citizen at the time of writing. We produce nearly nothing of value. We can’t help Ukraine. You might loan a friend money if you have it, but you don’t loan him your credit card.

MAKING IT STOP

Gaslighters are gonna gaslight until it stops working. To “make it stop” we have to make sure it stops working. That means never going along with it again. Call a duck a duck, whenever and wherever the gaslights burn. Speak up, feelings be damned.

In the 1944 film Gaslight, from which Gaslighting as a concept originated, the protagonist Paula is being gaslit by her husband who has ulterior motives. She is suspicious, but the gaslighting has caused her to doubt herself. The cycle is finally ended when an objective third party, Inspector Brian Cameron, gets involved and helps her to see the painful truth. A true hero.

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tony
tony

No, it did not start on November 22, 1963 though that is surely a seminal event in gaslighting as when the vile lying sack of shit Dan Rather told Americans that Kennedy’s head went forward when it really went backward. It even goes back much further, but I will start with the Spanish American War when Americans detonated the USS Maine to blame it on the Spanish. On and on it goes. The Titanic Sinking Hoax, The Holohoax, Moon Landing Hoax, Gulf of Tonkin False Flag, 1970s energy crisis hoax, and that is just the tip of the iceberg.

Jews control Hollywood, the press, government, and business for a reason. Talmudavision is the black magic to bring the goyim to dance the pied piper’s tune.

People have no capacity for the truth. Now run along and take your 60hz dose of hypnosis.

Colorado Artist
Colorado Artist

Once you accept you live in ClownWorld, everything becomes hilarious.
Just prepare for it, then sit back and laugh.
It is truly risible.

Captain_Obviuos
Captain_Obviuos

It’s like watching footage of the troops landing at Omaha Beach*; has no one ever considered the fact that the very footage exists because someone was already there, and had time to do a white check and set up the tripods and such, while the troops were supposedly being fired upon by Krauts in pillboxes? From multiple angles?

Nothing happened, or is happening, the way we are being told it was. History is being literally whitewashed in front of us, and we’re being told it isn’t. Heroes are villains; the good guys always win.

Can we at least entertain the idea that unless we are there (and even sometimes then), we have no clue what’s going on, really? That just about everything we’ve been taught to believe isn’t true? And that there are no “good” guys running the show, and never have been?

* I am in no way saying many of our troops didn’t die at Omaha — they have to have bodies for the War Cause, you know — only that it’s curious that the enemy wouldn’t shoot the fucking camera crew too; I mean, if it was me in one of those pillboxes, they’d be the first ones I smoked.

Colorado Artist
Colorado Artist

We landed on the moon.
We all saw the Hi def TV transmissions in the 60’s.
We even sent a car up there when people got bored.
Stop asking questions and take another blue pill.
Everything you see and read is real.
Stop with all the conspiracy theory shit and get with the program.

ken31
ken31

Well said, tony.

Infectious
Infectious

Who is going to be our Inspector Brian Cameron? He can’t arrive on the scene soon enough.

Infectious
Infectious

At this point though, I would happily settle for a bona fide John Galt instead of Inspector Brian Cameron.

Anonymous
Anonymous

It ‘Started’, when King George III pissed off some group. Wonder who would comprise THAT group?
Clearly, not all the founding fathers’ motivations were pure as the driven snow.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Thank You for the post, hadn’t got that far down your archives list.

Still, IMHO, need to get away from the THC. Baby steps are fine, my rationalization, anyhow.

Anonymous
Anonymous

The problem isn’t the lying sociopaths — that’s what they do. The problem is that the good people of the USA haven’t reached the point where they see that it’s necessary to hang these pieces of crap from the nearest bridge.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Yep

Anonymous
Anonymous

Not sure, what constitutes ‘good’. Not even gonna mention Stoopid. Insert euphemism of Your choice. Here.

Even if ya set the ‘standard’ pretty high for ‘hangable’, VERY subjective to say the least.

Not enough rope, not my place to judge. “Thou Shalt Not Kill”.

Hoping no one will be simple enough to bring up self/Loved Ones defense.

2 of 5
2 of 5

Try, ‘Thou Shalt Not Murder’. Give them a fair trial first.

tony
tony

it’s not murder. trials are not held in warfare.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

Right you are 2of 5. Either mis or mal translated to sew confusion. Thou shalt not Murder.

Coalclinker
Coalclinker

The Gaslighters are probably going to have their work cut out for them, if what I’m reading in the foreign news services are true.

I’m reading that Poland is going to move into Western Ukraine soon to reclaim lost territories. Belarus is saying the second they do they will go to war against Poland. And, the Russians are saying they know all about it, and aren’t happy about it.

Supposedly as early as July 15, Russia will formally declare war on Ukraine. They have said they will shoot down U.S. spy satellites, and will attack places in other countries that store the munitions sent to Zelensky. They have also said they will no longer recognize the Lithuanian border.

They may not do it this week, but sooner or later that place is going red hot. I can only imagine the bullshit we’re going to read, hear, and see over here. It’s gonna be a doozy!

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

https://henrymakow.com/

Deadly NATO Weaponry is Forcing Russia to Annex Ukraine.

Putin called a special meeting for Friday.

Anonymous
Anonymous

“FOREIGN News Services” 😂 Definitely. Not Of This World.

“Believe nothing you hear, half of what you read, and some of what you see. This sage advice will allow you to weigh various inputs weeding out hearsay, mistruths in writing with bias or not supported facts or misinterpretation, and putting what you SEE in context to make sure what you think you are seeing is REAL.”

Ephesians 6:12-20 KJV
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

mark
mark

Outstanding carpet truth bombs!

If Joe Six Pack and Jane Amazon would read these two books they would understand exactly how and who has stolen their country, made them debt serfs, and to date is successfully stealing their children’s and grandchildren’s future…while poisoning them in many ways outlined in both books.

I have tried to get everyone I know to read them multiple times…these two books will seal the deal as far as historically exposing TLPTB (L=Luciferian).

(It never ceases to depress me how many smart people I know who don’t read non-fiction books???)

Pride, greed, and power have driven men to do the unthinkable–including selling out their nations and unsuspected citizens to the most corrupt and destructive “invisible” global leaders on Earth. But how did this happen on American soil? How did the downfall begin and who were the predators that the “land of the free and home of the brave” fell victim to? And is all hope lost?

This book captures details of the last 200 years of American history that mainstream media does not want you to know. It dissects the “legalized” system of the private central banks that has gone unchecked, and delivers gut-wrenching truths about the real domestic and foreign enemies of the United States. With over 1000 footnotes and quotes from former presidents, prime ministers, and state officials, it will equip you with the facts that the elites have covered up for centuries and empower you to stand up for the truth.

In Killing the Planet: How A Financial Cartel Doomed Mankind, best-selling authors Rodney Howard-Browne and Paul L. Williams investigate the true motives and consequences of the Pilgrim Society. Early members of the Society included J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, Andrew Mellon, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Paul Warburg, Mortimer I. Schiff, Otto Kahn, and John D. Rockefeller.

Although the Pilgrim Society and the powerful men involved are often praised for their philanthropic actions, Howard-Browne and Williams show that the Society was self-serving and subjected the American people to a brutal system of economic tyranny, one which is still in place today.

As a sequel to The Killing of Uncle Sam, Killing the Planet is a thoroughly documented and impeccably researched book, with over 1,500 footnotes. It shows how mankind has become enslaved within the Luciferian world system that is managed and controlled by the world’s wealthiest families. The book is not full of conspiracy theories but instead, unfortunately for all of humanity, full of gut-wrenching facts.

Leah
Leah

Part of the choir here…Killing the Planet is excellent. Trying to get people to read it, too, but their blinders are still on.

mark
mark

Leah,

Yea many (not just the kids) are just consumed with constant information/entertainment blurb bites on their phones/I pads…they have developed bumper sticker attention spans, and many are too lazy to read a book or when they do read one it is fiction mind candy.

I love a novel now and then…but the two books above are the US big picture…the Planet’s big picture, and all the major puzzle pieces laid out in chronological order…while naming names.

This trilogy’s final book will be out soon.

I will buy a copy the day it is available!

If you want to follow the EVIL…it is all explained in these two books.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Reading? OMG! No.

Herd (not That Bed Bomber) that ether won of those 2 books is like longer than Wharf and Piece.

Rather sit on the couch and Watch sports. I deserve it. Reely hard day at the office.

And the pay? Pleeze!

piearesquared
piearesquared

Excellent post, but I don’t agree with “I often think that Russiagate was the beta test for COVID-19 propaganda.”

The COVID-19 scamdemic was planned long before Russiagate. 9/11 was the beta test for COVID-19. The NWO realized (or confirmed) that they could get the majority of the public to believe any absurdity after most of them bought the official narrative of 9/11. Russiagate, and the entire Trump presidency, was actually a preliminary part of the COVID-19 scamdemic. The divisiveness of the Trump presidency, including Russiagate and impeachment, was necessary to cement the intense hatred of Trump in the Left that seamlessly transitioned into a remarkable willingness to believe the official narrative of the scamdemic. I’m not sure why that is, since Trump himself was and still is pushing much of the scamdemic official narrative (especially regarding the vaccines), but for some reason the Left thinks they are rebuking Trump by promoting the official narrative of the scamdemic.

Stucky

Chinks don’t actually drive Caddys. They can’t see over the steering wheel. They live in them. One Caddy can house 10 Chinks. Fact.

10% of Chinks have cadilac. The other 90% have glaucoma.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Say what you want about the Chinks, but at least they are not keen on fucking each other in the asses and doing gay parades in front of children.

Stucky

The author sure gets mad at gas-lighters. I think that’s misplaced. There have always been lying fuks among us.

Quick Poll.

Q: Who deserves the greater scorn, the gas-lighter or, the people who believe the bullshit?

—UP = gas-lighter
—DOWN = the people who believe

If someone could register my vote — DOWN — I would appreciate it.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I know you like upvotes, so I gave you one.

Anonymous
Anonymous

😂 “so I gave you one.”

Ongoing. Reformation.

Anonymous
Anonymous

You may awake someday and realize some of your beliefs are bullshit. But it’s fine to hate your old self.

Anonymous
Anonymous

#2. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.

Don’t be so hard on yourself. SURE ‘this’ has been posted here. Many times.

Desiderata: Original Text
This is the original text from the book where Desiderata was first published.

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

by Max Ehrmann ©1927

Stucky

Trump lays a trap for Hunter …

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