Eric GarlandVerified account

You see, standing up to the gaslighting of a narcissist takes an enormous amount of mental strength. It's psychological abuse, after all.

Lying over and over again without shame isn't being dumb, or insane. It's a tactic to make a victim question their own sanity.

And the thing is, until you develop the ability to drawn permanent boundaries, it works. Especially from authority figures or partners.

The constant, calm, shameless repetition of absurdities eventually wears away at the soul. It becomes easier just to play along. It's abuse.

This is common in a certain proportion of family relationships, usually with a malignant narcissist. Dictators do it to entire countries.

With gaslighters, there is no "pivot." There is no appeal to decency or reason. They are abusers, monsters to their very core.

Gaslighters will tell you your memory doesn't work. That you and your "objective reality" is just abusing them. They are the "real victims."

If you bend to them, then they can control affairs, warp situations to their unique benefit. Until you make them stop. NONE SHALL PASS!

There's a point that victims come to when - NOPE - actually, no the FBI director doesn't work "for the White House."

NOPE - actually it's not normal for half the f**king Republican leadership to give Sergey Kislyak foot rubs. NOPE. NO WAY. NOT TRUE.

And still, our national abuser lurches forward, ever forward, forever running from his monstrous nature. Pursuing us with lies.

(This was a gratuitous inclusion of Gillian Anderson as Scully, Patron Sainte of Chasing Down Weird Mysteries While Remaining Skeptical.)

Jefferson wrote: "We held these truths to be SELF-EVIDENT" As in, we're not f**king debating them with mad kings. Pound sand. This is TRUE.

It is TRUE that all men are created equal. It is TRUE that Nature's God wants us to have Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

No more excuses. No more spin. No more PR. No more divine-right-of-kings bullshit. Man is capable of scientific reason. We don't need kings.

The current crisis is about reclaiming truth. Mr. Trump, take your gaslighting and jam it. No. The FBI does not work "for you." At all.

No, we won't be happier with a "nice" relationship with your Russian spy handlers. No, there's no question that they own you.

No, the police weren't at risk under Obama. No, immigrants aren't threats, but our ECONOMIC ENGINE. No, NATO isn't obsolete.

This is about telling traitors and the authoritarians who abetted them during this Russian Op that NO. YOU CAN'T DO THIS. WE WON'T LET YOU.