Who Turned Off the Gaslight?

Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

“Things were bad, and they knew things were bad, and they knew others must also know things were bad, and yet they would need to pretend, outwardly, that things were fine. The president was fine. The election would be fine.” —Olivia Nuzzi, NY Magazine

There’s a reason that the fable of The Emperor’s New Clothes is so potent: it describes a mentally ill society that retreats into abject unreality, to avoid contending with truth. Alas, this archetypal human quandary shoves such a society towards nemesis: downfall and punishment. And that is exactly the consequence of our news media’s craven, dishonorable, degenerate behavior the past decade.

They have disordered our nation’s consensus about reality with peremptory lying about everything, in service to a political party that lies to its citizens about everything. The big question is: who or what recruited them into serving the Party of Chaos, and why did they go along?

You can explain the media’s initial repugnance to Donald Trump going back to his 2015 debut in politics. Much about him had a low-class odor, despite all the gold-plating — his origins in tawdry Queens, his career as a builder in Manhattan where the trades are mob-controlled, the Atlantic City casino debacle, bankruptcy, ditching Ivana and his mid-life playboy reputation, the tacky TV show, the increasingly mystifying hair-doo, his rough, jumbly manner of speech. Everything about him repelled the Ivy Leaguers who increasingly filled the ranks of national-level journalism.

Despite all that, Mr. Trump raised five kids successfully. The grown ones had careers and they all visibly loved him. With that and his overt masculinity, he assumed the lineaments of the archetypal Daddy, which enflamed the enormous cohort of feminists who had taken over the Democratic Party behind their avatar Hillary Clinton. And when he squeaked out an electoral victory over her in 2016, they were sure it was cheat. The menace of Daddy in da (White) house pushed them over the edge psychologically.

Daddy was all about setting boundaries, which was the antithesis to the “progressive” (and transgressive) agenda of the Dems, and was probably the reason that his talk of “building the wall” along the Mexican border drove them nuts. It signaled patriarchal control of a whole lot of other things, too. Boundaries galore!

Now, it happened that the Democratic Party was also the favored party of the DC permanent bureaucracy, which had been growing and growing for decades and had become overtly politicized during the eight years of Barack Obama. Mr. Trump threatened to downsize this leviathan government, meaning many patronage jobs might be lost. (Boundaries would be imposed!) The warrior branch of this Deep State was the Intel community. The FBI, the DOJ, the CIA, the State Dept, and elements of the military were commissioned by the Democratic Party to destroy Mr. Trump.

They used the machinery of the law to lay one trip after another on the president and effectively hog-tied him — RussiaGate, the Ukraine phone call impeachment, the George Floyd anarchy — and when those operations failed to oust him, they ran the Covid-19 caper (with enormous collateral damage to the people and their economy), which enabled rigging the 2020 election with mail-in ballots. Once Mr. Trump was squeezed out-of-office, the FBI turn the J-6 protest at the Capitol into a riot, which Nancy Pelosi then converted into an “insurrection” using the House J-6 committee. The J-6 incident, they dearly hoped, would rid them of Mr. Trump once and for all.

The news media went along with every bit of that, year after year, converting each mendacious act of the party and the bureaucracy into consumable narrative, and lying either overtly about all the ops, or just omitting to report on the dark truth behind it all. Any reality-based thread that happened to leak into public view from independent alt-news reporters was branded by CNN, The New York Times, the WashPo, and many others as “misinformation” — a newish concept produced by a cadre of language Stasi skilled at inverting the meaning of anything to bamboozle the public. It appears that the news media became so invested psychologically in its own dishonest product that it began to believe its own bullshit.

Or, at least, they wanted to pretend to believe it. One of the big problems was that absolutely everything they labeled “misinformation” or “conspiracy theory” turned out to be truthful, and that was becoming an inescapable embarrassment. And then the biggest blunder they made was going along with the Deep State’s selection of “Joe Biden” in the very sketchy Super Tuesday primary of 2020. The old grifter had next-to-zero support in all the preceding preliminaries and somehow (abracadabra !) he swept the field.

By then, the Democratic Party, and its public relations arm in the mainstream media, had descended into florid mental illness. Everything they stood for post-World War Two flipped to its opposite. Suddenly, they were against free speech. They weren’t coy about it. They just made-up some new bullshit about free speech being “hate speech.” Similarly, they were against a free press. They went along with all the misinfo / disinfo bullshit the government cooked up and supported its role in suppressing the news. They were no longer anti-war, the party-of-peace. They were now pro-segregation and pro-discrimination (white people need not apply) according to Critical Race Theory (a childishly sketchy doctrine). Most of all, they were no longer skeptical of anything that the leviathan establishment wanted to do, including abridging the liberties of American citizens.

Then there was the campaign to use the most powerful human instinct, sexuality, as a weapon to disorder the minds of American children, leading even to the mutilation of their bodies — a program that unmistakably tipped toward genuine evil, suggesting that actual psychosis lay behind the Cluster-B crypto-Marxism used to justify it.

“Joe Biden” was fine with all of that, and the news media was fine with “Joe Biden” and whoever was using him as a front. Of course, it was evident during the 2020 campaign that “Joe Biden” was not up to a job as demanding as Chief Executive of the US government — and that was even apart from the dense criminal web of influence peddling discovered around him and his family, which the news media ignominiously ignored. But now the years have gone by and there’s no hiding “Joe Biden’s” rather gravely diminished mental abilities.

Last week’s debate gave away the game. It has the effect of finally turning off the gaslight that the news media has been shining over the republic lo these many years. They can no longer pretend that this president is anything close to okay in body and mind. They can’t annul the gaslighted public’s delayed realization that they’ve been subject to a concerted program of deliberate lying for a long long time.

So now, inveterate pretenders and liars, such as Jake Tapper of CNN and Maggie Haberman of The New York Times — and many others — have to pretend that they were innocently duped into supporting all the turpitudes of the Democratic Party / Deep State axis-of-evil. It is really hard to imagine that they can successfully rehabilitate their reputations. They have done immense harm to our country. It’s hard to see how the Democratic Party might survive, too, no matter who they finally put up for election this year. Of course, there’s still plenty of time left for them to destroy the country altogether. Just keep giving American missiles to Ukraine to fire into Russia and see what happens.

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Htos1av
Htos1av
July 5, 2024 9:47 am

Most have forgotten that THE MEDIA also swung at Nuremberg…..
Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Stephanie Shepard
Stephanie Shepard
  Htos1av
July 5, 2024 9:59 am

That’s not true. Julius Streicher was the only Nazi propagandist executed.

Peter Horry
Peter Horry
  Stephanie Shepard
July 5, 2024 11:37 am

What about Lord Haw Haw, also known as William Joyce?

Stephanie Shepard
Stephanie Shepard
  Peter Horry
July 5, 2024 3:06 pm

Lord Haw Haw was British and he was executed for treason. He was tried under British law and hanged by the infamous Albert Pierrepoint. He wasn’t tried at Nuremberg or any of the other Allied post war Nazi trials. I don’t know why the above comment has so many upvotes. It’s not true. The media is rarely held accountable for their reporting and when they are it’s usually a slap on the wrist.

august
august
  Stephanie Shepard
July 6, 2024 9:00 am

FWIW William Joyce renounced his UK citizenship (or fealty, or whatever one owes to the Crown) prior to beginning his public radio broadcasts, and thus was an opponent, or enemy, of the UK rather than a traitor.

Still, the UK government found someone who felt certain they remembered a Lord Haw Haw broadcast prior to the date of Joyce’s renunciation, and thus he was executed for treason.

Memory, and governments, are funny things, aren’t they?

zappalives
zappalives
  Htos1av
July 5, 2024 1:54 pm

Young man.
You might know a thing or two about pepperidge farms bookeeping but you dont know squat about Hillshire Farms smoked kielbasa !

A9racer
A9racer
  zappalives
July 5, 2024 2:10 pm

Obama does

Ed
Ed
  zappalives
July 7, 2024 7:44 pm

Kielbasa, AKA a Polish dildo.

k31
k31
  Htos1av
July 5, 2024 2:54 pm

Ah yes, Nuremberg where Jews tortured Germans to confessions and then murdered them.

John Willoughby
John Willoughby
  k31
July 5, 2024 3:12 pm

Yes. Tortured them brutally. Thank you for saying so.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  k31
July 5, 2024 4:37 pm

And then, via the holoco$t fable that they wove, they enslaved the entire Western World …

Yahsure
Yahsure
  Anthony Aaron
July 6, 2024 12:49 am

My folks lived through it and I can guarantee that Jews were marched off to the trains and never came back. My dad walked along with the German soldiers as they marched his Jewish neighbors to the train. He was confused about people after that. That part about enslaving the Western world. They sure have their hands in many cookie jars. Give them A.I. and a Digital CBDC. Bad idea.
I tire of the Jews and the Palestinians, As long as I can remember this crap has gone on. we send both sides tax dollars as foreign aid and military weapons.

VOWG
VOWG
  k31
July 6, 2024 3:49 am

Here come the Jew haters again.

Ed
Ed
  VOWG
July 7, 2024 7:46 pm

Well, don’t worry, Sparky. The Scrotumizer will come and fuck them up as usual.

It's one Farm. Singular.
It's one Farm. Singular.
  Htos1av
July 5, 2024 7:34 pm

Always struggle. To remember.

I ❤ Claudia Cardinale
I ❤ Claudia Cardinale
  Htos1av
July 6, 2024 11:58 am

What’s the eighth wonder of the world?

A Galilean paying his bar tab.

Jill Biden is a Yeast Infection
Jill Biden is a Yeast Infection
July 5, 2024 9:57 am

The problem is the deindustriation of the country, combined with massive immigration and a permanent class of welfare whores.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Jill Biden is a Yeast Infection
July 5, 2024 10:37 am

Demented Weimar Joe is the front man for continuation behind the scenes of that conspiracy to destroy the country. Obama’s third term and all that. He runs virtually nothing and who knows what he thinks he’s doing if anything. Watching the various shitheads react to this “revelation” that the guy is completely incapable is hilarious and absolutely not credible.
Some of you likely have seen the Lisa Simpson cartoon meme with a whiteboard that says “If you were shocked by the President’s condition at the debate now is a good time to reflect on whether you are consuming honest media. The rest of us knew.” And, we have known for a very long time.
One candidate among the press for decorating a lamp post must surely be Jake Tapper. Bannon uses a clip of Tapper in the intro to Warroom in which he says about you and I, “I wish in my soul that any of these people had a conscience….” Yeah right Jake, you lying propagandist asshole.

Me
Me
  Harrington Richardson
July 5, 2024 11:51 am

All the left does is project themselves on others.

Framius Ridiculousus
Framius Ridiculousus
  Me
July 6, 2024 12:53 am

and tell us its raining ….its not rain .

Ed
Ed
  Harrington Richardson
July 7, 2024 7:48 pm

Correction; Obama’s 4th term. You forgot to count Trump.

Mark Sivad
Mark Sivad
  Jill Biden is a Yeast Infection
July 5, 2024 10:42 am

and an army of people injected with a deadly toxin….

GNL
GNL
  Jill Biden is a Yeast Infection
July 5, 2024 10:54 am

There are lots of problems. I’ll add a BIG one…

Everyone who is doing well in America, will continue to support the system.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  GNL
July 5, 2024 12:03 pm

There are folks doing well while fully aware everything is leading to disaster. You can have your preps and a stash of hard money yet still realize if the fiat goes pfffft with no sensible replacement, an overwhelming percent of your fellows will be screwed, blued and tattooed as the saying goes. People who are still doing well preaching for change whether to a Gold Standard, burning the GD Federal Reserve to the ground, radically curtailing all the three letters, are the very people with credibility to urge reform.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
  GNL
July 5, 2024 12:51 pm

WTH do think it’s dragged on for this long already? It’s called “competing interests”.

Jake Legg
Jake Legg
  GNL
July 5, 2024 2:09 pm

That is no joke and even the chosen one ain’t about to downsize a damned thing currently yuuge. Look for more chaos, more trampling of the 4th amendment, more national debt in order to prop up the yuuger ones, more inflation, more fags mingling with the little children etc. etc.

Framius Ridiculousus
Framius Ridiculousus
  GNL
July 6, 2024 12:55 am

I’m doing well and yet I don’t support, nor will I support in the future ,this rotten corrupt system . Who knows maybe they’ll take all my shit , I’ll still be doing well .

'The System'?
'The System'?
  GNL
July 6, 2024 7:32 am

Supports them.

The ‘Rich’ in China?

Oil sheiks?

Party Cogs.

Same.

a9racer
a9racer
  GNL
July 6, 2024 9:39 am

That is not true, GNL. I am doing well and I would burn the whole fucker down so my grandkids will do well AND have the same freedoms I had growing up in the 70’s and 80’s.

Jake Legg
Jake Legg
  Jill Biden is a Yeast Infection
July 5, 2024 10:26 pm

Would corporate welfare shysters count as welfare whores? Seems both sides of the circus naturally has a hand sticking out there. Think “bailouts” and other goodies.

Framius Ridiculousus
Framius Ridiculousus
  Jill Biden is a Yeast Infection
July 6, 2024 12:51 am

And don’t leave out the fake ass central bank fiat currency . ” well that worked out well ” ( irony/ sarcasm )
Q=How many lampposts are there in DC ? A= no where near even close to enough .

Yahsure
Yahsure
  Jill Biden is a Yeast Infection
July 6, 2024 12:52 am

When they offer a Fed CBDC with UBI many will voluntarily enslave themselves. I think parts and materials will get harder to find and more expensive in the future.

zappalives
zappalives
July 5, 2024 10:15 am

Who…….who…JHK asks controls the narrative ?
Its the same parasitic bunch controlling the federal government………..KIKES !
He has a good handle on current events but refuses to single out his kiketribe as a major cause of our collapse !
He is a KIKE first and an American second is the only conclusion.
Funny……….just like his federal government dual passport kinsmen.

Jake Legg
Jake Legg
  zappalives
July 5, 2024 2:17 pm

You got the ethnic slurs going on and I’ll add I bet those kikes on BOTH sides of the congressional aisle along with both sides of whichever POTUS administration don’t consume smoked kielbasa. Of course there are likely some cheaters among kikes.

zappalives
zappalives
  Jake Legg
July 5, 2024 3:47 pm

And your point ?

Jake Legg
Jake Legg
  zappalives
July 5, 2024 10:27 pm

As written.

Framius Ridiculousus
Framius Ridiculousus
  zappalives
July 6, 2024 12:58 am

Its not kosher ? lol

Jake Legg
Jake Legg
  Framius Ridiculousus
July 6, 2024 10:06 am

Eggs Ackley

Diogenes' Dung
Diogenes' Dung
July 5, 2024 10:22 am

“The big question is: who or what…”

1. …turned every media outlet into a ‘same page’ chorus of gaslighting liars?

2. …rebranded RNA biowarfare on every biome as a life-saving vaccine that only retards would reject?

3. …convinced liberals all over the world that CRT, DEI, LGBTQTranny story hour, nigger reparations, Antifa chaos and invading hordes of “gimme dats” would save everybody from whitey’s predatory racism?

4. …turned courtrooms into kangaroo corrals where conservative political opponents are kept running in circles?

5. … slow-walked a naked numbskull to the POTUS podium and praised the elegantly dressed statesman?

The ‘who’ and ‘what’ are easily identified. Which small hat nation, surrounded by self-created enemies that we fight for free, has managed to elect 98% of their blackmailed puppets to our Congress and implement 1 through 5?

https://www.aipacpac.org/winning-candidates-2024

Israel’s ‘boundary-setting’ Daddy will be visiting Congress on July 24th to remind the USA that his ilk have destroyed our country’s moral fabric. He will smile while reminding stupid Americans how Israel has staffed our Ship of State with dual citizens who keep us very busy slurping invading nigger cock from countries that hate us.

zappalives
zappalives
  Diogenes' Dung
July 5, 2024 12:18 pm

Well said DD well said !

Diogenes' Dung
Diogenes' Dung
  zappalives
July 5, 2024 8:03 pm

Colonel Macgregor thinks (Judging Freedom interview, July 3) Israel will go ‘all-in’ against Hezbollah in Lebanon, and possibly Iran, while NuttyYahoo is in DC twisting arms for US air support.

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/judging-freedom/col-douglas-macgregor-can-rPLtNGsFo5V/

Jake Legg
Jake Legg
  Diogenes' Dung
July 5, 2024 2:22 pm

“Israel’s ‘boundary-setting’ Daddy will be visiting Congress on July 24th to remind the USA that his ilk have destroyed our country’s moral fabric.”

I read on Truth Media he actually has a room reserved at Mar-a-Lago. It’s a quick flight on secret jet in order to rub elbows with Mike Johnson and his ilk.

Diogenes' Dung
Diogenes' Dung
  Jake Legg
July 5, 2024 8:29 pm

Pablo Escobar is truth.media’s President, Woody Harrelson is Head of Production, Jonny Cash, Patty Hearst and Al Capone are its Producers; John Dillinger its Associate Producer and Frank Sinatra is the Composer/Sound Mixer.

Are they all flying Mossad 1 to Mar-a-Lago with NuttyYahoo?

https://truth.media/aboutus

Jake Legg
Jake Legg
  Diogenes' Dung
July 5, 2024 10:44 pm

If you can talk to the dead just don’t tell anyone. My mistake, TRUTH SOCIAL , TMTG.

Anonymous
Anonymous
July 5, 2024 10:35 am

Stupid Republicans will go along with the 25 th Amendment. Instead of insisting on Impeachment for Treason for illegal invasion on the southern boarder. Not that he couldn’t be impeached for foreign influence peddling but those other issue are too complicated for the addled brained Americans who aren’t far from the Corn Puppet himself. As evidence that they think Trump should be jailed for a crime they can’t name. It will be an act of treason itself if Treason for illegal invasion isn’t on trial FIRST.

Mark Sivad
Mark Sivad
  Anonymous
July 5, 2024 10:46 am

that impeachment thing is another fraud

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
  Anonymous
July 5, 2024 12:58 pm

It’s the path of least resistance, so of course they’ll take it.

Framius Ridiculousus
Framius Ridiculousus
  The Central Scrutinizer
July 6, 2024 1:03 am

Well said Mr Scrut , “goin with the flow “is the path of least resistance and its also how you end up in the sewer or the cesspool where the turds float to the top , oh wait that’s DC , my bad .

Jake Legg
Jake Legg
  Anonymous
July 5, 2024 2:23 pm

FJB, FDT

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Jake Legg
July 6, 2024 2:34 am

FUS

Jake Legg
Jake Legg
  Anonymous
July 6, 2024 10:04 am

Definitely are with those two clowns. Can “they” get someone else?

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  Anonymous
July 5, 2024 4:41 pm

Folks toss around the term ‘treason’ like they know what it means …

Article III, Section 3, Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.’

Framius Ridiculousus
Framius Ridiculousus
  Anthony Aaron
July 6, 2024 1:06 am

Well there it is then ” giving aid and comfort to ones enemies ” , guess ” folks ” weren’t as stupid as you thought they were .The whole damn town ( DC )is chock full of traitors .

I ❤ Claudia Cardinale
I ❤ Claudia Cardinale
  Anthony Aaron
July 6, 2024 1:21 pm

giving them Aid and Comfort

Does putting illegal immis on buses and then into hotels with free money to live on count as giving aid and comfort?

Mark Sivad
Mark Sivad
July 5, 2024 10:41 am

Leftist Chosen control the media, that’s why they carried the water for dementia.

Framius Ridiculousus
Framius Ridiculousus
  Mark Sivad
July 6, 2024 1:09 am

“Katsenberg , Ratsenberg , and Shmatsenberg ” as The good Dr Savage would say , and he’s a Jew !!!!

Anonymous
Anonymous
July 5, 2024 10:52 am

It’s all so tiresome.

Rifles are the Cure
Rifles are the Cure
July 5, 2024 11:00 am

“Oh, how could we know the killjab would be harmful to mankind?!”

“Oh, how could we know idiot joe the pants-shitter was rotten?!”

”Please believe we tried our best, and forgive us for lying to your faces for the past several years!”

Same lame play from the same lame playbook is all they have left.

Next up, George Floyd 2.0.

Bob
Bob
July 5, 2024 11:29 am

Rolling Biden’s brain down the edge of a razor blade is like rolling a BB down a four lane highway. He is senile now but was always stupid back in the day.

Yahsure
Yahsure
  Bob
July 6, 2024 12:55 am

He will be the scapegoat for many problems from terrible policies from his administration. He is a tool. A useful idiot.

k31
k31
  Yahsure
July 6, 2024 12:59 am

Most people know about the Jewish admin, they don’t know that 100% of the White House decision making staff is Jewish.

Framius Ridiculousus
Framius Ridiculousus
  Bob
July 6, 2024 1:11 am

Stupid, venal , arrogant and corrupt , and that was Joe at his best ……

Me
Me
July 5, 2024 11:47 am

Not laying it all at the Kenyan’s feet, but a bipartisan push by two congressional critters inserted an amendment in the 2012 NDAA bill that legalizes the use of propaganda on American audiences that the imposter in chief ultimately signed.

Maybe that helps explain all the gas lighting we have seen in the past few years. 

beau
beau
  Me
July 5, 2024 12:07 pm

it should all be laid at the feet of the kenyan impostor on anything American, or human. that POS has been ruling this nation since that demented grifter began posing as POTUS. the kenyan imposter has continued his ‘fundamental changing of America’.

Me
Me
  beau
July 5, 2024 12:32 pm

Well, two congressmen put the amendment in the bill in the first place; it passed both houses before getting to the preezy and going back to GW Bush with the Patriot Act, which is now being used today as a tool against the citizens. I believe it is the government that is the problem, no matter who is the preezy.

They are not working for the people anymore, only for themselves, lobbyists, and foreign interests. 

Pelosi's Hammer
Pelosi's Hammer
  Me
July 5, 2024 2:59 pm

Beat me to it.

Jake Legg
Jake Legg
  Me
July 5, 2024 10:53 pm

Did Trump ever authorize NDAA?

Framius Ridiculousus
Framius Ridiculousus
  Me
July 6, 2024 1:17 am

” The Kenyan ” lol, actually I am of the opinion that da real baby daddy was the card carrying commie, pederast and all around freak and friend of of the Dunham family Frank Marshall Davis . Obunghole Sr is merely the patsy in my scenario ……. ” Dreams from My Father ” all right , your father the commie fag pedo lol , fits with where we are headed socially doesn’t it ?

Anonymous
Anonymous
July 5, 2024 12:02 pm

Fireworks are still stupid expensive. The local sounds of July 4th were noticeably less than last year. Gaslighting or not , it’s still the economy stupid. Folks not buying fireworks or towns scaling back shows is an economic warning light the swamp and media just cannot hide.

Liberty & Inflation For All: Even Fireworks Shows Scaled Down This Year | ZeroHedge

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Anonymous
July 5, 2024 12:26 pm

Unemployment numbers today edged up while the previous two months were new jobs were “revised” down 100,000. Government employment was supposedly up 70,000.
About the time we get Trump back in charge, all the various branches of state and city governments, school districts, will have been totally bankrupted and banjaxed by all the foreign fuques Weimar Joe has stuck us with.
Sorry Jamal, we don’t have any money to teach your kids to read because the Feds will fine us if we don’t use that money to hire Urdu and Baluchi translators for illegals. Sorry your kids have no place to play because we built an illegal homeless shelter in the park. Sorry your car insurance is unaffordable because we gave licenses to illegals or just let them buy cars with no license that are uninsured. Sorry……..

Anonymous
Anonymous
July 5, 2024 12:35 pm

The big narrative pivot. Noticing intensifies.

Gaslight media now admits a shadow government runs the show.

NY Magazine – H/T @Matt_Bracken

The fact that a secret camarilla of donors (read: billionaire oligarchs) is meeting behind closed doors to decide on the presidential candidacy of the United States tells you everything you need to know about how the country actually functions, who holds the real power, and whose interests are really at the center of all political decisions.
https://open.substack.com/pub/simplicius76/p/regime-media-utters-the-un-utterable?utm_source=email&redirect=app-store

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Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  Anonymous
July 5, 2024 4:45 pm

Remember …

The Deep State is Israeli Billionaires

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
July 5, 2024 12:48 pm
Phil Zepain
Phil Zepain
  The Central Scrutinizer
July 5, 2024 2:03 pm

Brian “Liar” Williams of NBC was unable to rehabilitate his reputation and regain his former lofty perch, so, there is some hope that a few of these presstitutes (hat tip to PCR for inventing this concise term) will suffer lifelong humiliation and be used as examples by any slowly awakening sheep that lies make a poor foundation to build a country on. Finding positives wherever they may be secreted is a helpful exercise in combating Treason Fatigue.

Anonymouse
Anonymouse
July 5, 2024 1:55 pm

“Cluster-B crypto-Marxism”…

A perfectly good justification to hang the Mockingbird Bolsheviks and their American Stasi handlers in the intelligence community cabal…the blackmailed and compromised Congress needs a good flush too.

A9racer
A9racer
July 5, 2024 2:09 pm

“Hard to see how the Democratic Party will survive”
Bullshit. These people are blinded by hate.
It will survive to mutate into something even more abhorrent.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  A9racer
July 6, 2024 6:22 pm

Exactly. Don’t ever underestimate how much they hate the orangeman and in November will vote for a golden retriever if that’s their other choice.

Anonymous
Anonymous
July 5, 2024 2:20 pm

Whomever the deep state/communist/democrat/antiAmerican shitlib scumbag perverted… but I repeat myself… determine will be preezy, that individual will in fact be preezy. Trump was the first preezy not chosen by the aforementioned deep state folk in my lifetime. Please review how they freaked, holistically including media, the bullshit academy, the perverted, pedophilic entertainment ‘hindustry’ and every virtue signaling anti ‘Merican shitlib scumbag… see above… they flipped their wigs.

Until and unless we have a revolution and remove the rotten… see above… people we will never again have a freely chosen and elected president. It would be best to accept this fact and move toward creating a circumstance where we may be able to restore the Republic.

poordude
poordude
July 5, 2024 2:20 pm

I am forced to admit I have no idea what is going to happen – LOL. There is nothing but lies in the legacy media. Everything seems to be a lie. What happens when maybe half the country (that might be generous) is totally misguided and fed a stream of constant lies about practically everything ? I have no idea. There is no history to base it on.

Phil Zepain
Phil Zepain
  poordude
July 5, 2024 3:07 pm

There is definitely history to base it on. The entire public in the Soviet Union was fed a steady diet of lies and meaningless, distracting trivia in order to keep them ignorant, confused, and feeling powerless. Look no further than the Soviet Union if you want to see what an empire of lies creates for it’s citizens. Lies are illusions; illusions have power as long as they are believed. One can start by confronting the lies that we tell ourselves in our personal lives. If we exercise the courage and fortitude to face the things that we KNOW to be lies in our personal lives, then we will begin to build a foundation of truth that will enable us to see the broader, societal lies more easily and clearly. When a Critical Mass is reached the illusion will be shattered and recovery can begin. Victory over The Powers That Shouldn’t Be starts at the personal level.

Framius Ridiculousus
Framius Ridiculousus
  Phil Zepain
July 6, 2024 1:35 am

Well said Phil , reminds me of ” The Academy Of Ideas ” podcasts I used to listen to . I found them and you to be distilling truth, in my opinion . Psychology , philosophy and economics , fascinating ,each in and of themselves, but even more so when combined .

Phil Zepain
Phil Zepain
  Framius Ridiculousus
July 6, 2024 2:25 pm

Thanks, Framius! I have also watched many of the “Academy of Ideas” podcasts. Many of the thinkers here at TBP would find them worthy of their attention. Although these podcasts are located on YouTube (owned by Alphabet/Google–the enemy of free thought and, therefore, free speech) I find it encouraging that such goodness can yet be found deep within the enemies’ camp, so to speak.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
  poordude
July 6, 2024 7:08 am

“…such a time as has NEVER been seen by Man, nor ever will be again.”

That’s either the scariest or most exhilarating thought ever to be uttered…depending upon your personal situation with Jesus.

We’re in the vortex now.

Anonymous
Anonymous
July 5, 2024 3:22 pm

Who turned off the gaslight?
No one.
This was always in the script and it is simply more gaslighting, the purpose of which is as a squirrel to keep you all from completely freaking out over the border like you should be…to the point of action…not this silly distraction.

Framius Ridiculousus
Framius Ridiculousus
  Anonymous
July 6, 2024 1:55 am

It has been off of the headline recently ( the border / the invasion ) , but it could also be that they are trying to create the illusion that they are how do I say ” putting the genie back in the bottle ” so we’ll be placated into thinking we have vanquished them and everything will go back to normal when of course it wont, because they will still be there ,laying dormant , latent malignancy that they are , but with the spotlight back off of them . Like a disappearing act . Or , as history and mythology would suggest they are simply in endstage ” hubris ” where their arrogance has come back to bite them in the ass in the form of “nemesis” , which in part drives the whole cyclical nature of human civilization, “fourth turnings” business cycles , Mayan long counts , crop harvests and a lot of other shit that I cant think of right now ( kidding about the Mayan long count, though it does suggest cyclicality ) . “To whom the Gods would destroy they would first make crazy “( not gonna type it in Latin this time ) or Three Dog Night ” what goes up must come down , spinnin wheel got ta go round ” , oh wait that was Blood Sweat And Tears, my bad ? Every once in a while ya just gotta put on some Blood Sweat And Tears for yourself, Its essential dontcha know ? See you in the funny papers ” Person Who shall Not Be named “

Phil Zepain
Phil Zepain
  Framius Ridiculousus
July 6, 2024 3:12 pm

Yes, the border invasion has been out of the headlines recently. One could say that it happened shortly after the 25 state governors (i.e. satraps, if we want to be more judicious in using truthful, concise language) formed their Coalition Of The Gaslighting and proceeded to tell us that they were going to take action to defend the border. Not a peep has been heard from them since and not a thing has been done to stanch the flow.
The idea of hubris that was mentioned is another tiny ray of light amidst this gloom. Many an ancient Greek tragedian brought their seemingly all-powerful protagonists to a grisly end through their hubris. Will these time-tested lessons play out again in real life by bringing down the multitude of hubristic (Gavin Newsome, Bill Gates, Dr. Fauci I’m looking at you!) high and mighty?

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
July 5, 2024 4:35 pm

Personally … I don’t think the gaslight has been turned off … rather, its fuel has been changed from natural gas to propane … some folks will understand the meaning of that …

layman
layman
  Anthony Aaron
July 5, 2024 8:02 pm

Why is propane used as the primary generator output rating?
Propane is used as a generator power rating because of its high energy density. In other words, per unit volume, propane packs more energy than natural gas. This leads to efficient fuel consumption, with generators requiring less propane to produce the same amount of electricity compared to natural gas.

Jake Legg
Jake Legg
  layman
July 5, 2024 11:16 pm

🙂

Framius Ridiculousus
Framius Ridiculousus
  layman
July 6, 2024 2:06 am

But which is more expensive and by how much ?

Anonymous
Anonymous
July 5, 2024 4:51 pm

Nobody died at sandy hook

I ❤ Claudia Cardinale
I ❤ Claudia Cardinale
  Anonymous
July 6, 2024 1:14 pm

Journalist and government integrity died.

"the past decade" ?
"the past decade" ?
July 5, 2024 7:30 pm

 “And that is exactly the consequence of our news media’s craven, dishonorable, degenerate behavior…”

🤣

How ‘The New York Times’ Helped Hide Stalin’s Mass …

The Ukraine crisis revives doubts over the NYT’s 1932 …

In the Midst of History: The Holodomor was denied once, but never …

On March 31, 1933, the New York Times published an article by journalist Walter Duranty titled, “Russians Hungry, But Not Starving.” It was a brazen denial of the Holodomor, a 1932–33 famine in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic that caused the deaths of 3.5 to 5 million people. Duranty actually won the Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence in 1932 for a series of reports he wrote about the Soviet Union in 1931.

Springs to mind…

Gog n Magog fuggoff
Gog n Magog fuggoff
July 5, 2024 9:44 pm

“Turn On Your Gaslight”

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Wasn’t that a Neil Diamond song in the movie ET?

Anonymous
Anonymous
July 6, 2024 12:26 am

DID ANYONE HERE WATCH THAT “RIDICULOUS” HELLENISTIC MOVIE “LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND”???
RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OF THAT MOVIE …A “WHITE WOMAN” PROCLAIMS TO “HATE PEOPLE”!!!
I GUESS SHE FORGOT TO “RE-MEM-BER” WHERE SHE CAME FROM…HUH FOLKS???
IT WAS “VERY INTERESTING” WATCHING THAT MOVIE…FULL OF “PROPAGANDA” ABOUT “REALITY”…DID ANYONE HERE “NOTICE” WHAT IT WAS REALLY ABOUT???
WHAT “KIND OF PEOPLE” WOULD HATE “HUMANITY” FOLKS???
GREAT MOVIE FOR “THINKER’S”…INFORMED THINKER’S, THAT IS!
HIGHLIGHTS WHY “KNOWLEDGE-IS-POWERFUL”!!!

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
  Anonymous
July 6, 2024 7:11 am

I think you know more about self hatred than you’d ever be willing to admit.

Channeling kamala?
Channeling kamala?
July 6, 2024 2:49 am

“Things were bad, and they knew things were bad, and they knew others must also know things were bad, and yet they would need to pretend, outwardly, that things were fine. The president was fine. The election would be fine.” —Olivia Nuzzi, NY Magazine

Defector
Defector
July 6, 2024 9:05 am

It is not a measure of mental health to be well adapted in a profoundly sick society ( Jiddu Krishnamurti).

I ❤ Claudia Cardinale
I ❤ Claudia Cardinale
July 6, 2024 1:10 pm

German dentist to Galilean patient: “Would you like to try the gas?”

Shekelstein
Shekelstein
July 6, 2024 4:03 pm

I’m done reading articles about Trump being a good guy, and “democratic party…”.
If you don’t know by now that nobody is getting on a ballot if they don’t kiss the self-chosen bankster tribe’s ass…. There’s not a wit of difference between the 2 parties, the president FOLLOWS ORDERS.

Too dumb to look at who got the dim bulb Trump all his money and groomed him for Pres…… smell ya later…

Anonymous
Anonymous
July 6, 2024 8:08 pm

Scripted media theater that has been planned for at least a year or more. One minute the media is all for Biden (irrelevant puppet like Trump and the rest) then they set the stage for making him look like a fool. Same old story.