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Media: Donald Trump Is Gaslighting Us
freebeacon.com ^ | 1/31/17 | Blake Seitz

Posted on 01/31/2017 12:35:50 PM PST by ColdOne

Concerned members of the media claim that President Donald Trump is abusing them psychologically in order to drive them insane, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

Pundits say that Trump and his henchman are "gaslighting" them, taking a cue from a Teen Vogue article that CNN's Don Lemon called "hard hitting." The term comes from the 1944 movie Gaslight, where a malevolent husband (Charles Boyer) tricks his wife (Ingrid Bergman) into believing she is nuts.

"[Gaslighting is] a form of psychological abuse where the victim is manipulated to doubt their own sanity," said Lauren Duca, author of the Teen Vogue article.

(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...


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KEYWORDS: first100days; gaslighting; media; msm; potus45; trump; trump45; trumpmedia; winning
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To: ColdOne

How can you gaslight them if they’re already there?


61 posted on 01/31/2017 1:02:32 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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62 posted on 01/31/2017 1:02:33 PM PST by eaglestar
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

This is headed toward civil war. Liberal States saying they will not enforce Federal law is the first domino. As they become more violent it gets worse. Then the states will say they will not pay federal taxes and not allow Federal agencies and troops in their state....it will escalate.

This could get very ugly.


63 posted on 01/31/2017 1:03:10 PM PST by IVAXMAN
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To: ColdOne
Psalm 55:9

Lord, confuse the wicked, confound their words, for I see violence and strife in the city.

64 posted on 01/31/2017 1:03:29 PM PST by Mannaggia l'America
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To: eaglestar

65 posted on 01/31/2017 1:05:09 PM PST by eaglestar
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To: ColdOne

That only works if the gaslight subject is already insane.


66 posted on 01/31/2017 1:05:12 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Still Thinking

Wait, how can you trick someone into thinking they’re insane if they’re ACTUALLY insane?
= = =

That’s actually very hard.

Easier to trick sane ones.


67 posted on 01/31/2017 1:08:09 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (Love Conquers All)
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To: ColdOne

68 posted on 01/31/2017 1:09:32 PM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: scottinoc

Nope, they got it BACKWARDS: The gaslighters forgot that they are full of cap and now believe all the lies they began telling 50 years ago. They began by stealing the language and getting in control of academia,the arts etc. and here we are.


69 posted on 01/31/2017 1:10:29 PM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: ColdOne

Dumb analogy - President Trump never married the MSM. There was no honeymoon - he never pretended to marry them and moreover, he has been totally honest about the relationship.

They hate him and he returns the favor. It’s sorta mutual;)


70 posted on 01/31/2017 1:10:47 PM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: ColdOne

form of psychological abuse where the victim is manipulated to doubt their own sanity,”

That is what the media has been doing to the American public for the last 40 years. So far it has worked on approximately 40% of the population.


71 posted on 01/31/2017 1:13:39 PM PST by BobinIL
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To: ColdOne

It is hard to be driven there when that is where they already are.


72 posted on 01/31/2017 1:13:46 PM PST by Parmy (II don't know how to past the images.)
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To: ColdOne

I can help the media morons if they have doubts about their sanity. They are all crazy as the proverbial outhouse rat and they are getting worse every day.


73 posted on 01/31/2017 1:17:07 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: ColdOne

But it was OK for the GOPe, mam, elites, etc to do it to Les Deplorables. (extreme sarcasm)

President Trump is giving them (GOPe, etc) a taste of their own medicine...


74 posted on 01/31/2017 1:17:22 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: eaglestar

75 posted on 01/31/2017 1:18:37 PM PST by eaglestar
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To: ColdOne

Sometimes, you think you are insane because you are, in fact, insane.

I don’t know how else to catogorize the media over the past month than completely crazy.

Forget all the easily provably false stories like the “MLK Bust”. I think most revealing is how 2 days before he left office, Obama issued an Executive order that shut down admission of refugees from one state, Cuba. Today 90+ cuban refugees who were held at the border in Mexico are being flown back to Cuba.

And not ONE word of outrage from the media, or the snowflakes. They could care LESS about these refugees, who were ON THERE WAY when the rules were changed by EO, who were refugees just like the ones now, who were following the rules just like the ones now, who were trapped at the border just like the ones now.

THe only difference being that Cuba was never listed as a state we couldn’t accept people from, in fact it was a favored state.

And yet when Trump did the same thing as Obama, the media went crazy.


76 posted on 01/31/2017 1:19:05 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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77 posted on 01/31/2017 1:20:08 PM PST by eaglestar
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To: scottinoc

The demokkkrats are truly mentally disturbed...


78 posted on 01/31/2017 1:23:10 PM PST by Hotlanta Mike ('You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: ColdOne
... members of the media claim that President Donald Trump is abusing them psychologically in order to drive them insane, ...

According to the link below, there are 78,694,222 people in the USA taking psychiatric drugs for mental illness.

The vast majority are commie zombies and commie psychotics, including the stark raving lunatics of the leftist media.

No further driving is necessary. Liberals are already insane.

Total Number of People Taking Psychiatric Drugs in the United States

79 posted on 01/31/2017 1:24:06 PM PST by meadsjn
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To: Scrambler Bob

Yeah, but if they’re insane, and you convince them of that, they haven’t been tricked.


80 posted on 01/31/2017 1:25:33 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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