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Bad Gaslighting Epidemic Sweeps The Elite
2019-10-17
[Townhall] There are three questions that our terrible, terrible ruling class raises whenever it opens its collective kale-hole to lecture us: 1) Does the elite think we are really, really stupid, or 2) Is the elite really, really stupid, or 3) Is the elite all of the above? The last week has been eventful, even by Age O’ Trump standards, and the one enduring takeaway is just how bad these people are at gaslighting us with inept lies that demand we disbelieve what’s happening right in front of us. But it should come as no surprise that our alleged betters are no good at gaslighting because they have proven themselves to be no good at anything.

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

I’ll wait.

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

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

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

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

#3  Dang! I had Bee.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-10-17 09:01  

#2  Common sense ("called 'common' for being so rare" - Chesteron).
Wonder how many Americans support the Shitshowmen on this issue?
Not that there are any trustworthy pollsters... maybe someone could survey Army or Marine recruiters and simply ask them to respond, yea or nay, to the Q, "As a recruiting tactic, would you find it effective to mention the prospect of fighting in Syria and against Turkey as per Congress's desired policy?"

Maybe a follow-up Q: "Can you even begin to describe with any clarity that desired policy?"
Posted by: Lex   2019-10-17 06:52  

#1  Next : " Damn, this new grass is causing all kind oh health and economic problems. " , I have an Idea, lets start growing coca in our own country and undercut the cartels and wean the kids off mamajuana." , Hey , we could start growing out own poppies also and Afghanistan could go Fark itself. "
Posted by: Clyde Dribble8052   2019-10-17 04:43  

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