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(CNN) Is Donald Trump really a "big fan" of the intelligence community, as he claimed on Twitter, or did he disparage intelligence professionals when he repeatedly referred to them and their work in sneer quotes about "Intelligence" briefings and the "so-called 'Russian hacking'"?
Did Trump mock a disabled reporter, or did your eyes, and the Hollywood elite make you think he did?
Did he convince Ford not to move a car plant to Mexico, saving American jobs, or was it all a fabrication for publicity?
Did he win the election with a historically narrow victory, or did he score a "landslide"?
The questions are endless, and the answers, unless you're paying very close attention -- all the time -- can require significant effort to ascertain. Reality is becoming hazy in the era of Trump. And that's no accident.
The fact is Trump has become America's gaslighter in chief.
If you've never heard the term, prepare to learn it and live with it every day. Unless Trump starts behaving in a radically different way after he becomes President, gaslighting will become one of the words of 2017.
The term comes from the 1930s play "Gas Light" and the 1940s Hollywood movie version (Gaslight) in which a manipulative husband tries to unmoor his wife, played by Ingrid Bergman, by tampering with her perception of reality. He dims the gaslights and then pretends it's only she who thinks they are flickering as the rooms grow darker.
That's only the beginning. He uses a variety of truth-blurring techniques. His goal is to exert power and control by creating doubts about what is real and what isn't, distracting her as he attempts to steal precious jewels.
Mental health professionals have made much of the practice, said to be a favorite of narcissists and abusive spouses. But more recently the tactical tampering with the truth has become a preferred method of strongmen around the world. Gaslighting by other means was always a common feature of dictatorships, but it has found new vogue as a more subtle form of domestic political control even in countries with varying degrees of democracy.
Now Trump has brought it to the United States. The techniques include saying and doing things and then denying it, blaming others for misunderstanding, disparaging their concerns as oversensitivity, claiming outrageous statements were jokes or misunderstandings, and other forms of twilighting the truth.
Recall the presidential campaign. By early summer, Trump had already accumulated a long list of statements he made and then denied making; enough that fact-checkers could hardly keep up. He told his supporters to "knock the crap out" of protesters at his rallies, adding "I will pay your legal fees." When confronted with the statement, he responded: "I didn't say that."
After mimicking a disabled reporter and seeing the video used as evidence against him, he repeatedly denied it, claiming his opponents should be embarrassed to say he did. "I would NEVER mock disabled. Shame!" The denials continued after Meryl Streep brought up the subject this week at the Golden Globes. With the video easily available, Trump's argument boiled down to "Who do you trust, me or your lying eyes?"
Rest here: Donald Trump is 'gaslighting' all of us(Opinion) - CNN.com
GREAT article. I've been looking for a word to describe what Trump has been doing, and now I finally have it. It's like sleight of mouth, and he's a natural, and boy did he dupe a bunch of stupid rubes. I guess conservatives like the abuse, eh? Maybe he reminds them of their big mean daddy who emotionally abused them as children.
He never made fun of a disabilty you moron. He did the exact same thing when he was making fun of Ted Cruz and another time about some general. He had no idea the reporter was handicapped, and the man in question doesn't flail his arms around any more than Ted Cruz. He was making fun of the reporter for changing his story in order to try and discredit Trump about the Muslims celebrating 9/11. He was making fun of him being a retarded libtard hack, like yourself.
^ More gaslighting bullshit. How stupid do you think people are dude? Yes, he goddamn did make fun of the disabled man, you disingenuous hack. The video is there for the WORLD to see, you revisionist twat. Take your conservative bullshit and and shove it up your fucking ass -- no one believes your crap. You'll be called on your fucking lies every time from here on out.
Honest to God, conservatives are the WORST fucking people on Earth. Absolute scumbags.
The only thing that's derailed is you.Feeling gassy, eh?
There's nothing more cringeworthy than when a conservative tries to be funny. Don't. You're only derailing the thread.
(CNN) Is Donald Trump really a "big fan" of the intelligence community, as he claimed on Twitter, or did he disparage intelligence professionals when he repeatedly referred to them and their work in sneer quotes about "Intelligence" briefings and the "so-called 'Russian hacking'"?
Did Trump mock a disabled reporter, or did your eyes, and the Hollywood elite make you think he did?
Did he convince Ford not to move a car plant to Mexico, saving American jobs, or was it all a fabrication for publicity?
Did he win the election with a historically narrow victory, or did he score a "landslide"?
The questions are endless, and the answers, unless you're paying very close attention -- all the time -- can require significant effort to ascertain. Reality is becoming hazy in the era of Trump. And that's no accident.
The fact is Trump has become America's gaslighter in chief.
If you've never heard the term, prepare to learn it and live with it every day. Unless Trump starts behaving in a radically different way after he becomes President, gaslighting will become one of the words of 2017.
The term comes from the 1930s play "Gas Light" and the 1940s Hollywood movie version (Gaslight) in which a manipulative husband tries to unmoor his wife, played by Ingrid Bergman, by tampering with her perception of reality. He dims the gaslights and then pretends it's only she who thinks they are flickering as the rooms grow darker.
That's only the beginning. He uses a variety of truth-blurring techniques. His goal is to exert power and control by creating doubts about what is real and what isn't, distracting her as he attempts to steal precious jewels.
Mental health professionals have made much of the practice, said to be a favorite of narcissists and abusive spouses. But more recently the tactical tampering with the truth has become a preferred method of strongmen around the world. Gaslighting by other means was always a common feature of dictatorships, but it has found new vogue as a more subtle form of domestic political control even in countries with varying degrees of democracy.
Now Trump has brought it to the United States. The techniques include saying and doing things and then denying it, blaming others for misunderstanding, disparaging their concerns as oversensitivity, claiming outrageous statements were jokes or misunderstandings, and other forms of twilighting the truth.
Recall the presidential campaign. By early summer, Trump had already accumulated a long list of statements he made and then denied making; enough that fact-checkers could hardly keep up. He told his supporters to "knock the crap out" of protesters at his rallies, adding "I will pay your legal fees." When confronted with the statement, he responded: "I didn't say that."
After mimicking a disabled reporter and seeing the video used as evidence against him, he repeatedly denied it, claiming his opponents should be embarrassed to say he did. "I would NEVER mock disabled. Shame!" The denials continued after Meryl Streep brought up the subject this week at the Golden Globes. With the video easily available, Trump's argument boiled down to "Who do you trust, me or your lying eyes?"
Rest here: Donald Trump is 'gaslighting' all of us(Opinion) - CNN.com
GREAT article. I've been looking for a word to describe what Trump has been doing, and now I finally have it. It's like sleight of mouth, and he's a natural, and boy did he dupe a bunch of stupid rubes. I guess conservatives like the abuse, eh? Maybe he reminds them of their big mean daddy who emotionally abused them as children.
He never made fun of a disabilty you moron. He did the exact same thing when he was making fun of Ted Cruz and another time about some general. He had no idea the reporter was handicapped, and the man in question doesn't flail his arms around any more than Ted Cruz. He was making fun of the reporter for changing his story in order to try and discredit Trump about the Muslims celebrating 9/11. He was making fun of him being a retarded libtard hack, like yourself.
^ More gaslighting bullshit. How stupid do you think people are dude? Yes, he goddamn did make fun of the disabled man, you disingenuous hack. The video is there for the WORLD to see, you revisionist twat. Take your conservative bullshit and and shove it up your fucking ass -- no one believes your crap. You'll be called on your fucking lies every time from here on out.
How did he make fun of a disabled man by flailing his arms about when that reporter's disability is that he CANNOT do what President-elect Trump did when mocking his flailing about looking for an excuse for his feckless reporting?
(CNN) Is Donald Trump really a "big fan" of the intelligence community, as he claimed on Twitter, or did he disparage intelligence professionals when he repeatedly referred to them and their work in sneer quotes about "Intelligence" briefings and the "so-called 'Russian hacking'"?
Did Trump mock a disabled reporter, or did your eyes, and the Hollywood elite make you think he did?
Did he convince Ford not to move a car plant to Mexico, saving American jobs, or was it all a fabrication for publicity?
Did he win the election with a historically narrow victory, or did he score a "landslide"?
The questions are endless, and the answers, unless you're paying very close attention -- all the time -- can require significant effort to ascertain. Reality is becoming hazy in the era of Trump. And that's no accident.
The fact is Trump has become America's gaslighter in chief.
If you've never heard the term, prepare to learn it and live with it every day. Unless Trump starts behaving in a radically different way after he becomes President, gaslighting will become one of the words of 2017.
The term comes from the 1930s play "Gas Light" and the 1940s Hollywood movie version (Gaslight) in which a manipulative husband tries to unmoor his wife, played by Ingrid Bergman, by tampering with her perception of reality. He dims the gaslights and then pretends it's only she who thinks they are flickering as the rooms grow darker.
That's only the beginning. He uses a variety of truth-blurring techniques. His goal is to exert power and control by creating doubts about what is real and what isn't, distracting her as he attempts to steal precious jewels.
Mental health professionals have made much of the practice, said to be a favorite of narcissists and abusive spouses. But more recently the tactical tampering with the truth has become a preferred method of strongmen around the world. Gaslighting by other means was always a common feature of dictatorships, but it has found new vogue as a more subtle form of domestic political control even in countries with varying degrees of democracy.
Now Trump has brought it to the United States. The techniques include saying and doing things and then denying it, blaming others for misunderstanding, disparaging their concerns as oversensitivity, claiming outrageous statements were jokes or misunderstandings, and other forms of twilighting the truth.
Recall the presidential campaign. By early summer, Trump had already accumulated a long list of statements he made and then denied making; enough that fact-checkers could hardly keep up. He told his supporters to "knock the crap out" of protesters at his rallies, adding "I will pay your legal fees." When confronted with the statement, he responded: "I didn't say that."
After mimicking a disabled reporter and seeing the video used as evidence against him, he repeatedly denied it, claiming his opponents should be embarrassed to say he did. "I would NEVER mock disabled. Shame!" The denials continued after Meryl Streep brought up the subject this week at the Golden Globes. With the video easily available, Trump's argument boiled down to "Who do you trust, me or your lying eyes?"
Rest here: Donald Trump is 'gaslighting' all of us(Opinion) - CNN.com
GREAT article. I've been looking for a word to describe what Trump has been doing, and now I finally have it. It's like sleight of mouth, and he's a natural, and boy did he dupe a bunch of stupid rubes. I guess conservatives like the abuse, eh? Maybe he reminds them of their big mean daddy who emotionally abused them as children.
He never made fun of a disabilty you moron. He did the exact same thing when he was making fun of Ted Cruz and another time about some general. He had no idea the reporter was handicapped, and the man in question doesn't flail his arms around any more than Ted Cruz. He was making fun of the reporter for changing his story in order to try and discredit Trump about the Muslims celebrating 9/11. He was making fun of him being a retarded libtard hack, like yourself.
^ More gaslighting bullshit. How stupid do you think people are dude? Yes, he goddamn did make fun of the disabled man, you disingenuous hack. The video is there for the WORLD to see, you revisionist twat. Take your conservative bullshit and and shove it up your fucking ass -- no one believes your crap. You'll be called on your fucking lies every time from here on out.
How did he make fun of a disabled man by flailing his arms about when that reporter's disability is that he CANNOT do what President-elect Trump did when mocking his flailing about looking for an excuse for his feckless reporting?
It's common knowledge to anyone who's been alive for the past 30 years that his flailing gesture is how people have been making fun of the disabled for decades. Stop pretending as if it's new to you. Your feigning ignorance only makes you look like a scumbag -- stop being so goddamn disingenuous.
The only thing that's derailed is you.Feeling gassy, eh?
There's nothing more cringeworthy than when a conservative tries to be funny. Don't. You're only derailing the thread.
This thread is a joke just like you so I can discuss you.The only thing that's derailed is you.Feeling gassy, eh?
There's nothing more cringeworthy than when a conservative tries to be funny. Don't. You're only derailing the thread.
I am not the topic of this thread. Want to discuss me as you always seem to want to do, creep? Then start a new thread, fanboy.
This thread is a joke just like you so I can discuss you.The only thing that's derailed is you.Feeling gassy, eh?
There's nothing more cringeworthy than when a conservative tries to be funny. Don't. You're only derailing the thread.
I am not the topic of this thread. Want to discuss me as you always seem to want to do, creep? Then start a new thread, fanboy.
(CNN) Is Donald Trump really a "big fan" of the intelligence community, as he claimed on Twitter, or did he disparage intelligence professionals when he repeatedly referred to them and their work in sneer quotes about "Intelligence" briefings and the "so-called 'Russian hacking'"?
Did Trump mock a disabled reporter, or did your eyes, and the Hollywood elite make you think he did?
Did he convince Ford not to move a car plant to Mexico, saving American jobs, or was it all a fabrication for publicity?
Did he win the election with a historically narrow victory, or did he score a "landslide"?
The questions are endless, and the answers, unless you're paying very close attention -- all the time -- can require significant effort to ascertain. Reality is becoming hazy in the era of Trump. And that's no accident.
The fact is Trump has become America's gaslighter in chief.
If you've never heard the term, prepare to learn it and live with it every day. Unless Trump starts behaving in a radically different way after he becomes President, gaslighting will become one of the words of 2017.
The term comes from the 1930s play "Gas Light" and the 1940s Hollywood movie version (Gaslight) in which a manipulative husband tries to unmoor his wife, played by Ingrid Bergman, by tampering with her perception of reality. He dims the gaslights and then pretends it's only she who thinks they are flickering as the rooms grow darker.
That's only the beginning. He uses a variety of truth-blurring techniques. His goal is to exert power and control by creating doubts about what is real and what isn't, distracting her as he attempts to steal precious jewels.
Mental health professionals have made much of the practice, said to be a favorite of narcissists and abusive spouses. But more recently the tactical tampering with the truth has become a preferred method of strongmen around the world. Gaslighting by other means was always a common feature of dictatorships, but it has found new vogue as a more subtle form of domestic political control even in countries with varying degrees of democracy.
Now Trump has brought it to the United States. The techniques include saying and doing things and then denying it, blaming others for misunderstanding, disparaging their concerns as oversensitivity, claiming outrageous statements were jokes or misunderstandings, and other forms of twilighting the truth.
Recall the presidential campaign. By early summer, Trump had already accumulated a long list of statements he made and then denied making; enough that fact-checkers could hardly keep up. He told his supporters to "knock the crap out" of protesters at his rallies, adding "I will pay your legal fees." When confronted with the statement, he responded: "I didn't say that."
After mimicking a disabled reporter and seeing the video used as evidence against him, he repeatedly denied it, claiming his opponents should be embarrassed to say he did. "I would NEVER mock disabled. Shame!" The denials continued after Meryl Streep brought up the subject this week at the Golden Globes. With the video easily available, Trump's argument boiled down to "Who do you trust, me or your lying eyes?"
Rest here: Donald Trump is 'gaslighting' all of us(Opinion) - CNN.com
GREAT article. I've been looking for a word to describe what Trump has been doing, and now I finally have it. It's like sleight of mouth, and he's a natural, and boy did he dupe a bunch of stupid rubes. I guess conservatives like the abuse, eh? Maybe he reminds them of their big mean daddy who emotionally abused them as children.
He never made fun of a disabilty you moron. He did the exact same thing when he was making fun of Ted Cruz and another time about some general. He had no idea the reporter was handicapped, and the man in question doesn't flail his arms around any more than Ted Cruz. He was making fun of the reporter for changing his story in order to try and discredit Trump about the Muslims celebrating 9/11. He was making fun of him being a retarded libtard hack, like yourself.
^ More gaslighting bullshit. How stupid do you think people are dude? Yes, he goddamn did make fun of the disabled man, you disingenuous hack. The video is there for the WORLD to see, you revisionist twat. Take your conservative bullshit and and shove it up your fucking ass -- no one believes your crap. You'll be called on your fucking lies every time from here on out.
How did he make fun of a disabled man by flailing his arms about when that reporter's disability is that he CANNOT do what President-elect Trump did when mocking his flailing about looking for an excuse for his feckless reporting?
It's common knowledge to anyone who's been alive for the past 30 years that his flailing gesture is how people have been making fun of the disabled for decades. Stop pretending as if it's new to you. Your feigning ignorance only makes you look like a scumbag -- stop being so goddamn disingenuous.
So Cruz and the other guy are disabled then?
To be perfectly honest, I don't think ANYTHING on this planet is about you EXCEPT for the fact that your misery is giving me pleasure.This thread is a joke just like you so I can discuss you.The only thing that's derailed is you.Feeling gassy, eh?
There's nothing more cringeworthy than when a conservative tries to be funny. Don't. You're only derailing the thread.
I am not the topic of this thread. Want to discuss me as you always seem to want to do, creep? Then start a new thread, fanboy.
Dude, seriously -- dick lover, back off. Sick and tired of your creepy behavior and your incessant attempts at making every thread about me.
Did he win the election with a historically narrow victory, or did he score a "landslide"?
304 - 227 Pretty big ass whooping.
Let me show you with a picture so you can understand better
So what is the goal here?(CNN) Is Donald Trump really a "big fan" of the intelligence community, as he claimed on Twitter, or did he disparage intelligence professionals when he repeatedly referred to them and their work in sneer quotes about "Intelligence" briefings and the "so-called 'Russian hacking'"?
Did Trump mock a disabled reporter, or did your eyes, and the Hollywood elite make you think he did?
Did he convince Ford not to move a car plant to Mexico, saving American jobs, or was it all a fabrication for publicity?
Did he win the election with a historically narrow victory, or did he score a "landslide"?
The questions are endless, and the answers, unless you're paying very close attention -- all the time -- can require significant effort to ascertain. Reality is becoming hazy in the era of Trump. And that's no accident.
The fact is Trump has become America's gaslighter in chief.
If you've never heard the term, prepare to learn it and live with it every day. Unless Trump starts behaving in a radically different way after he becomes President, gaslighting will become one of the words of 2017.
The term comes from the 1930s play "Gas Light" and the 1940s Hollywood movie version (Gaslight) in which a manipulative husband tries to unmoor his wife, played by Ingrid Bergman, by tampering with her perception of reality. He dims the gaslights and then pretends it's only she who thinks they are flickering as the rooms grow darker.
That's only the beginning. He uses a variety of truth-blurring techniques. His goal is to exert power and control by creating doubts about what is real and what isn't, distracting her as he attempts to steal precious jewels.
Mental health professionals have made much of the practice, said to be a favorite of narcissists and abusive spouses. But more recently the tactical tampering with the truth has become a preferred method of strongmen around the world. Gaslighting by other means was always a common feature of dictatorships, but it has found new vogue as a more subtle form of domestic political control even in countries with varying degrees of democracy.
Now Trump has brought it to the United States. The techniques include saying and doing things and then denying it, blaming others for misunderstanding, disparaging their concerns as oversensitivity, claiming outrageous statements were jokes or misunderstandings, and other forms of twilighting the truth.
Recall the presidential campaign. By early summer, Trump had already accumulated a long list of statements he made and then denied making; enough that fact-checkers could hardly keep up. He told his supporters to "knock the crap out" of protesters at his rallies, adding "I will pay your legal fees." When confronted with the statement, he responded: "I didn't say that."
After mimicking a disabled reporter and seeing the video used as evidence against him, he repeatedly denied it, claiming his opponents should be embarrassed to say he did. "I would NEVER mock disabled. Shame!" The denials continued after Meryl Streep brought up the subject this week at the Golden Globes. With the video easily available, Trump's argument boiled down to "Who do you trust, me or your lying eyes?"
Rest here: Donald Trump is 'gaslighting' all of us(Opinion) - CNN.com
GREAT article. I've been looking for a word to describe what Trump has been doing, and now I finally have it. It's like sleight of mouth, and he's a natural, and boy did he dupe a bunch of stupid rubes. I guess conservatives like the abuse, eh? Maybe he reminds them of their big mean daddy who emotionally abused them as children.
Would you like USMB members to demand that he step down?
.
(CNN) Is Donald Trump really a "big fan" of the intelligence community, as he claimed on Twitter, or did he disparage intelligence professionals when he repeatedly referred to them and their work in sneer quotes about "Intelligence" briefings and the "so-called 'Russian hacking'"?
Did Trump mock a disabled reporter, or did your eyes, and the Hollywood elite make you think he did?
Did he convince Ford not to move a car plant to Mexico, saving American jobs, or was it all a fabrication for publicity?
Did he win the election with a historically narrow victory, or did he score a "landslide"?
The questions are endless, and the answers, unless you're paying very close attention -- all the time -- can require significant effort to ascertain. Reality is becoming hazy in the era of Trump. And that's no accident.
The fact is Trump has become America's gaslighter in chief.
If you've never heard the term, prepare to learn it and live with it every day. Unless Trump starts behaving in a radically different way after he becomes President, gaslighting will become one of the words of 2017.
The term comes from the 1930s play "Gas Light" and the 1940s Hollywood movie version (Gaslight) in which a manipulative husband tries to unmoor his wife, played by Ingrid Bergman, by tampering with her perception of reality. He dims the gaslights and then pretends it's only she who thinks they are flickering as the rooms grow darker.
That's only the beginning. He uses a variety of truth-blurring techniques. His goal is to exert power and control by creating doubts about what is real and what isn't, distracting her as he attempts to steal precious jewels.
Mental health professionals have made much of the practice, said to be a favorite of narcissists and abusive spouses. But more recently the tactical tampering with the truth has become a preferred method of strongmen around the world. Gaslighting by other means was always a common feature of dictatorships, but it has found new vogue as a more subtle form of domestic political control even in countries with varying degrees of democracy.
Now Trump has brought it to the United States. The techniques include saying and doing things and then denying it, blaming others for misunderstanding, disparaging their concerns as oversensitivity, claiming outrageous statements were jokes or misunderstandings, and other forms of twilighting the truth.
Recall the presidential campaign. By early summer, Trump had already accumulated a long list of statements he made and then denied making; enough that fact-checkers could hardly keep up. He told his supporters to "knock the crap out" of protesters at his rallies, adding "I will pay your legal fees." When confronted with the statement, he responded: "I didn't say that."
After mimicking a disabled reporter and seeing the video used as evidence against him, he repeatedly denied it, claiming his opponents should be embarrassed to say he did. "I would NEVER mock disabled. Shame!" The denials continued after Meryl Streep brought up the subject this week at the Golden Globes. With the video easily available, Trump's argument boiled down to "Who do you trust, me or your lying eyes?"
Rest here: Donald Trump is 'gaslighting' all of us(Opinion) - CNN.com
GREAT article. I've been looking for a word to describe what Trump has been doing, and now I finally have it. It's like sleight of mouth, and he's a natural, and boy did he dupe a bunch of stupid rubes. I guess conservatives like the abuse, eh? Maybe he reminds them of their big mean daddy who emotionally abused them as children.
He never made fun of a disabilty you moron. He did the exact same thing when he was making fun of Ted Cruz and another time about some general. He had no idea the reporter was handicapped, and the man in question doesn't flail his arms around any more than Ted Cruz. He was making fun of the reporter for changing his story in order to try and discredit Trump about the Muslims celebrating 9/11. He was making fun of him being a retarded libtard hack, like yourself.
^ More gaslighting bullshit. How stupid do you think people are dude? Yes, he goddamn did make fun of the disabled man, you disingenuous hack. The video is there for the WORLD to see, you revisionist twat. Take your conservative bullshit and and shove it up your fucking ass -- no one believes your crap. You'll be called on your fucking lies every time from here on out.
How did he make fun of a disabled man by flailing his arms about when that reporter's disability is that he CANNOT do what President-elect Trump did when mocking his flailing about looking for an excuse for his feckless reporting?
It's common knowledge to anyone who's been alive for the past 30 years that his flailing gesture is how people have been making fun of the disabled for decades. Stop pretending as if it's new to you. Your feigning ignorance only makes you look like a scumbag -- stop being so goddamn disingenuous.
Apparently the slums that live off of our taxes will NOT dictate the leadership of the US.Did he win the election with a historically narrow victory, or did he score a "landslide"?
304 - 227 Pretty big ass whooping.
Let me show you with a picture so you can understand better
This stupid map that the righties keep throwing up on the screen does not reflect population density. Most people live in urban areas. So you're stupid map is just like you, stupid and meaningless
Did he win the election with a historically narrow victory, or did he score a "landslide"?
304 - 227 Pretty big ass whooping.
Let me show you with a picture so you can understand better
This stupid map that the righties keep throwing up on the screen does not reflect population density. Most people live in urban areas. So you're stupid map is just like you, stupid and meaningless
So what is the goal here?(CNN) Is Donald Trump really a "big fan" of the intelligence community, as he claimed on Twitter, or did he disparage intelligence professionals when he repeatedly referred to them and their work in sneer quotes about "Intelligence" briefings and the "so-called 'Russian hacking'"?
Did Trump mock a disabled reporter, or did your eyes, and the Hollywood elite make you think he did?
Did he convince Ford not to move a car plant to Mexico, saving American jobs, or was it all a fabrication for publicity?
Did he win the election with a historically narrow victory, or did he score a "landslide"?
The questions are endless, and the answers, unless you're paying very close attention -- all the time -- can require significant effort to ascertain. Reality is becoming hazy in the era of Trump. And that's no accident.
The fact is Trump has become America's gaslighter in chief.
If you've never heard the term, prepare to learn it and live with it every day. Unless Trump starts behaving in a radically different way after he becomes President, gaslighting will become one of the words of 2017.
The term comes from the 1930s play "Gas Light" and the 1940s Hollywood movie version (Gaslight) in which a manipulative husband tries to unmoor his wife, played by Ingrid Bergman, by tampering with her perception of reality. He dims the gaslights and then pretends it's only she who thinks they are flickering as the rooms grow darker.
That's only the beginning. He uses a variety of truth-blurring techniques. His goal is to exert power and control by creating doubts about what is real and what isn't, distracting her as he attempts to steal precious jewels.
Mental health professionals have made much of the practice, said to be a favorite of narcissists and abusive spouses. But more recently the tactical tampering with the truth has become a preferred method of strongmen around the world. Gaslighting by other means was always a common feature of dictatorships, but it has found new vogue as a more subtle form of domestic political control even in countries with varying degrees of democracy.
Now Trump has brought it to the United States. The techniques include saying and doing things and then denying it, blaming others for misunderstanding, disparaging their concerns as oversensitivity, claiming outrageous statements were jokes or misunderstandings, and other forms of twilighting the truth.
Recall the presidential campaign. By early summer, Trump had already accumulated a long list of statements he made and then denied making; enough that fact-checkers could hardly keep up. He told his supporters to "knock the crap out" of protesters at his rallies, adding "I will pay your legal fees." When confronted with the statement, he responded: "I didn't say that."
After mimicking a disabled reporter and seeing the video used as evidence against him, he repeatedly denied it, claiming his opponents should be embarrassed to say he did. "I would NEVER mock disabled. Shame!" The denials continued after Meryl Streep brought up the subject this week at the Golden Globes. With the video easily available, Trump's argument boiled down to "Who do you trust, me or your lying eyes?"
Rest here: Donald Trump is 'gaslighting' all of us(Opinion) - CNN.com
GREAT article. I've been looking for a word to describe what Trump has been doing, and now I finally have it. It's like sleight of mouth, and he's a natural, and boy did he dupe a bunch of stupid rubes. I guess conservatives like the abuse, eh? Maybe he reminds them of their big mean daddy who emotionally abused them as children.
Would you like USMB members to demand that he step down?
.
I would be very grateful if someone would just put a pillow over his face for five minutes.
He never made fun of a disabilty you moron. He did the exact same thing when he was making fun of Ted Cruz and another time about some general. He had no idea the reporter was handicapped, and the man in question doesn't flail his arms around any more than Ted Cruz. He was making fun of the reporter for changing his story in order to try and discredit Trump about the Muslims celebrating 9/11. He was making fun of him being a retarded libtard hack, like yourself.
^ More gaslighting bullshit. How stupid do you think people are dude? Yes, he goddamn did make fun of the disabled man, you disingenuous hack. The video is there for the WORLD to see, you revisionist twat. Take your conservative bullshit and and shove it up your fucking ass -- no one believes your crap. You'll be called on your fucking lies every time from here on out.
How did he make fun of a disabled man by flailing his arms about when that reporter's disability is that he CANNOT do what President-elect Trump did when mocking his flailing about looking for an excuse for his feckless reporting?
It's common knowledge to anyone who's been alive for the past 30 years that his flailing gesture is how people have been making fun of the disabled for decades. Stop pretending as if it's new to you. Your feigning ignorance only makes you look like a scumbag -- stop being so goddamn disingenuous.
So Cruz and the other guy are disabled then?
What other guy? What are you babbling about?
When some of you start posting something other than partisan idiocy you will get that continue posting partisan idiocy and you will continue to get mocked choose wisely.Some of you really need to stop sitting in the garage with the door closed and the car motor running.
Some of you need to actually post something ON-TOPIC.
