This. Gaslighting involves the intent of making its target doubt their own senses and memories. It involves the creation of an alternate reality.

Yeah. I take “gaslighting” as lying about something I saw with my own eyes, or something that plainly obvious, like putting up Trump/Obama inauguration pictures, and saying there’s more people in the Trump picture.

This 100% (get outta my head, Tippi!) The media needs to use “lie” more, if only because they look for every reason to not call the goddamn liar and liar and “gaslighting” just gives them another softer euphemism. However, gaslighting is a much more notorious form of lying, and in the proper context—which doesn’t…

Generally agreed, and it would be nice if people in the media actually used word like lie and liar about Trump. But I think gaslighting works well here because it’s a more specific, more elaborate thing. When my wife asks me if I actually ate sixteen oreos for breakfast and I deny it, that’s a lie. But if I were to…

This is something that should have become clear during the 2016 election, when the phrase “fake news” meant “untrue articles on Facebook” for all of five seconds before Trump popularized it as an insult used to discredit any critical coverage of him. By using a previously undefined term like “fake news” instead of…

Then let those clowns act like that, hold them in contempt, and put it all on TV. I cannot see the logic in just not even making a principled move in the face of this crisis.

The alternative is simply that she’s a craven, spineless weasel entirely unworthy of her position.*operating at the behest of corporate forces that would strongly appreciate her not upsetting a predictable system that rewards all of them handsomely.

At this point, I genuinely wonder if Trump has dirt on Pelosi, or if there are skeletons in her closet that are so heinous that she’s terrified of them coming to light if she were to push too hard against Trump. The alternative is simply that she’s a craven, spineless weasel entirely unworthy of her position.

Can anyone explain how refusing to impeach Trump because of fears of a political backlash isn’t functionally just as corrupt, complicit and ethically bankrupt as Congressional Repubs who protect Trump?

Again, the established democrats in power are more or less fine with the things that Trump is doing and/or supporting. They like their kickbacks and their bribes. They like their freedoms to pilfer the public coffers. They like a complete lack of accountability. They like their corporate welfare handouts. They LIKE…

The people call guards on you if you talk to them!

Yeah it'd be so hilarious to try to elect senators who actually represent their constituents interests instead of just being mealy-mouthed cuck losers like you, a real knee-slapper!

In the rest of the civilized world, people like Sanders and Warren are the center. Our politics are so poisoned by the minority rule of the Electoral College, the Senate and gerrymandering and the lobbying bribes and toxic right wing propaganda (Fox et. al.) of evil billionaires that we are skewing far right.

what, a caucus lead by Chuck “for every blue-collar voter we lose, we’ll pick up two suburban republicans” Schumer would really prefer to not have to pass legislation? knock me over with a feather

I’m not sure what Beto should've known better. I don't think he was under the delusion the Republicans would leave this alone or consider his proposal with logic and reason. 

They keep telling us who they are, and no one believes them. 

Normal country. Very normal country.

And now we have reason to confiscate ALL this motherfucker’s weapons.

Ten gallon hat for a hundred and twenty pounds of shit.

Look at that baby-child with the hat! Few people make Beto look like the elder statesman but when viewed side to side like that...