The Gaslighting Is So Intense, It's Hard to Keep Up
The Gaslighting Is So Intense, It’s Hard to Keep Up
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Several years ago, the term gaslighting became a fixture in our popular vocabulary, it’s an older term which dates back to a 1938 stage play called Angel Street and a 1944 motion picture based upon the play named Gaslight. The play and film’s plot were a husband’s attempts to drive his wife crazy, to make her doubt herself, to thoroughly confuse her so he could put her in an insane asylum and steal her fortune.
Gaslight and gaslighting became popular terms in the mid 2000’s. “Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse where a person causes someone to question their sanity, memories, or perception of reality. People who experience gaslighting may feel confused, anxious, or unable to trust themselves…Gaslighting is a method of gaining control over someone else. It works by breaking down a person’s trust in themselves while increasing how much they trust or depend on the abusive person.” https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/...
We are being subjected to a massive gaslighting campaign on a daily basis, non-stop every day 24/7/365 by the media, the government, corporations and their flunkies; who lie to us, manipulate our perceptions, attempt to construct an alternative reality and constantly foist it upon us. It is a devious form of mind control. In mind control the perpetrators attempt to manipulate the targets’ perceptions, they want to influence our ideation so we think the ideas and images they bombard us with are our own and they want to redirect our thinking and behaviors in ways that benefit them to the detriment of the targets; which is us.
In 2026 the gaslighting campaign is rapid fire, it comes at us so thick and intensive it is hard to keep up; it’s a literal barrage a tsunami of BS all the time. We have not only been conditioned to tolerate and accept it, unfortunately we are actively engaged in facilitating our own craziness by consuming the BS, buying the gadgets and gizmos and becoming addicted to the content and programming the powers who shouldn’t be use to gaslight us!
For example, Israel is currently conducting a campaign of genocide in Gaza which they tell the world is “defense,” that they are responding to attacks upon them by Hamas on October 7, 2023. For decades prior to October 7, Israel claimed Hamas was a terrorist organization but the fact of the matter is Israel helped create and fund Hamas to serve as a counterweight to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)! https://www.analystnews.org/posts/how-isra...
The other fact we are programmed to ignore is Gaza is one of the most heavily surveilled, monitored and guarded locations on the planet. It is a virtual open-air panopticon environment! The Israeli spy apparatus can detect a rat pissing on cotton! Yet the Israelis gaslight us to believe Hamas launched a “surprise attack” on them on October 7, 2023!? In a Freudian slip they even said it was their 9-11.
The Israelis claim any criticism of their genocidal campaign against the Palestinians and Gaza is Anti-Semitism. This is gaslighting pure and simple! The repetitive gaslighting has many people questioning their interpretation of the images coming out of Gaza showing the obvious destruction and murder of countless innocent men, women and children who have nothing to do with Hamas. This is collective punishment which is a war crime!
Meanwhile here at home the Trump Administration is constantly gaslighting us. Trump tells us inflation is under control, that his tariffs and trade wars are benefitting America when in fact, they are clearly backfiring and causing major harm, stress and strain to American households. Plus, the US Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional!
Trump tells us he is winning the war in Iran a war he and Israel launched despite the irrefutable fact Iran posed no threat to either the US or Israel and the attacks were launched during active negotiations between the US and Iran designed to resolve long standing issues. Trump’s perfidy compounded the fact he launched an unprovoked attack on a nation which posed no threat to the US nor had not attacked America or its allies!
But that changed immediately after Israel and Trump attacked Iran. Iran retaliated immediately by hitting Israel and the Gulf States who hosted US military bases and installations hard with devastating accuracy, severely damaging or destroying the radar, communications structures, air fields and assorted infrastructural targets. Iran kept up the barrages even after suffering serve damage and attacks on its own facilities. For Iran this is an existential struggle, a fight to the death against The Great Satan and its lackies.
Yet the US Congress quibbles over the fact Trump didn’t consult them before he launched this unprovoked attack on Iran. There is no mention of the wrongfulness of the attacks nor the immorality of the assaults especially during active negotiations or the fact Trump is currently engaged in acts of piracy in international waters against Venezuela and now Iran! Where is the Congressional outrage, the moral indignation? Instead, we get more calls to resume the war, to obliterate Iran.
It is obvious the gaslighting will continue nonstop; we have to prepare ourselves for the onslaught. What can we do? Stop consuming media! Assert yourself, think for yourself, use best judgement, discernment and intuition to shape your opinions and worldview! We are not Zombies or mindless dolts, we have agency, the power to control our own thoughts and minds; don’t relinquish your power for the BS.
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Junious Ricardo Stanton
Several years ago, the term gaslighting became a fixture in our popular vocabulary, it’s an older term which dates back to a 1938 stage play called Angel Street and a 1944 motion picture based upon the play named Gaslight. The play and film’s plot were a husband’s attempts to drive his wife crazy, to make her doubt herself, to thoroughly confuse her so he could put her in an insane asylum and steal her fortune.
Gaslight and gaslighting became popular terms in the mid 2000’s. “Gaslighting is a form of psychological abuse where a person causes someone to question their sanity, memories, or perception of reality. People who experience gaslighting may feel confused, anxious, or unable to trust themselves…Gaslighting is a method of gaining control over someone else. It works by breaking down a person’s trust in themselves while increasing how much they trust or depend on the abusive person.” https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/...
We are being subjected to a massive gaslighting campaign on a daily basis, non-stop every day 24/7/365 by the media, the government, corporations and their flunkies; who lie to us, manipulate our perceptions, attempt to construct an alternative reality and constantly foist it upon us. It is a devious form of mind control. In mind control the perpetrators attempt to manipulate the targets’ perceptions, they want to influence our ideation so we think the ideas and images they bombard us with are our own and they want to redirect our thinking and behaviors in ways that benefit them to the detriment of the targets; which is us.
In 2026 the gaslighting campaign is rapid fire, it comes at us so thick and intensive it is hard to keep up; it’s a literal barrage a tsunami of BS all the time. We have not only been conditioned to tolerate and accept it, unfortunately we are actively engaged in facilitating our own craziness by consuming the BS, buying the gadgets and gizmos and becoming addicted to the content and programming the powers who shouldn’t be use to gaslight us!
For example, Israel is currently conducting a campaign of genocide in Gaza which they tell the world is “defense,” that they are responding to attacks upon them by Hamas on October 7, 2023. For decades prior to October 7, Israel claimed Hamas was a terrorist organization but the fact of the matter is Israel helped create and fund Hamas to serve as a counterweight to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)! https://www.analystnews.org/posts/how-isra...
The other fact we are programmed to ignore is Gaza is one of the most heavily surveilled, monitored and guarded locations on the planet. It is a virtual open-air panopticon environment! The Israeli spy apparatus can detect a rat pissing on cotton! Yet the Israelis gaslight us to believe Hamas launched a “surprise attack” on them on October 7, 2023!? In a Freudian slip they even said it was their 9-11.
The Israelis claim any criticism of their genocidal campaign against the Palestinians and Gaza is Anti-Semitism. This is gaslighting pure and simple! The repetitive gaslighting has many people questioning their interpretation of the images coming out of Gaza showing the obvious destruction and murder of countless innocent men, women and children who have nothing to do with Hamas. This is collective punishment which is a war crime!
Meanwhile here at home the Trump Administration is constantly gaslighting us. Trump tells us inflation is under control, that his tariffs and trade wars are benefitting America when in fact, they are clearly backfiring and causing major harm, stress and strain to American households. Plus, the US Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional!
Trump tells us he is winning the war in Iran a war he and Israel launched despite the irrefutable fact Iran posed no threat to either the US or Israel and the attacks were launched during active negotiations between the US and Iran designed to resolve long standing issues. Trump’s perfidy compounded the fact he launched an unprovoked attack on a nation which posed no threat to the US nor had not attacked America or its allies!
But that changed immediately after Israel and Trump attacked Iran. Iran retaliated immediately by hitting Israel and the Gulf States who hosted US military bases and installations hard with devastating accuracy, severely damaging or destroying the radar, communications structures, air fields and assorted infrastructural targets. Iran kept up the barrages even after suffering serve damage and attacks on its own facilities. For Iran this is an existential struggle, a fight to the death against The Great Satan and its lackies.
Yet the US Congress quibbles over the fact Trump didn’t consult them before he launched this unprovoked attack on Iran. There is no mention of the wrongfulness of the attacks nor the immorality of the assaults especially during active negotiations or the fact Trump is currently engaged in acts of piracy in international waters against Venezuela and now Iran! Where is the Congressional outrage, the moral indignation? Instead, we get more calls to resume the war, to obliterate Iran.
It is obvious the gaslighting will continue nonstop; we have to prepare ourselves for the onslaught. What can we do? Stop consuming media! Assert yourself, think for yourself, use best judgement, discernment and intuition to shape your opinions and worldview! We are not Zombies or mindless dolts, we have agency, the power to control our own thoughts and minds; don’t relinquish your power for the BS.
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