No, you’re not losing your mind.

It’s called gaslighting. And Republicans Fucking love it.

Here’s just a sampling of some of the things I think on a daily basis: Republicans call themselves pro-life but they’ll force a woman to carry a fetus that can kill her… Gym Jordan is talking about not complying with a Congressional subpoena, but he didn’t comply with one… did trump just say that the stock market he bragged about every 14.7 seconds breaking the record for an all-time high under Biden is bad because it’s making the “rich — richer”, and he’s just “a politician now”, wasn’t he standing in front of a NYC courtroom like the other day saying that he was much richer than the judge said… wait — he held thousands of rallies where the cult screamed “MEXICO” when asked who was “gonna pay for the wall” and now he’s saying he never said that?!??

Republicans tried to overturn a legitimate Presidential election, they plotted a coup and incited an insurrection. They tried to invalidate 81 million votes. To essentially throw them out. But when the state of Colorado disqualifies Yam-Tits McDictator because he engaged in said insurrection they scream “LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE!!”

The people decided. They didn’t like our decision. So they told us our decision wasn’t real. And then they broke a bunch of laws to make it so our decision didn’t matter. And now they’re screaming about Biden being a “threat to democracy?!?!”

But that doesn’t make sense, that’s crazy, everyone knows it’s crazy, but no one seems to be talking about it, or at least not like it’s totally crazy, so maybe… maybe it’s me… am I…

Holy shit — am I losing my mind?!?

*(Don’t ask my kids this question when I have just found a half eaten container of guacamole under my couch pillow a day after it was left there because they’re likely to answer in the affirmative, and they’re known liars, which means they are not to be trusted, and besides which, who the Fuck would be like, ‘Oh, isn’t that sweet, Johnny left his guac from yesterday here for me to find under my pillow, a day later’, literally no one that’s who, but I digress).

I’m not actually losing my mind. And chances are that you aren’t either.

We’re being gaslit.

It’s a gaslighter’s paradise around these parts these days, and gaslightingpalooza is the name of the game.

By design.

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.

The term “gaslighting” comes from the 1938 play Angel Street, which Alfred Hitchock later adapted into the film Gaslight, in which a man tries to convince his wife that she is going insane so he can steal from her. When he turns on the lights in the attic to search for her jewelry collection, and the gas lights dim downstairs, he tells her it’s all in her imagination. Gradually she begins to question her own memories and perceptions.

Republicans are all over the place screaming about Joe Biden “weaponizing the government”, when Trump literally fucking ran on “locking up” Hillary Clinton.

They’re screaming about election fraud when they’re the ones indicted for, yep — election fraud.

They talk about being “America First”, while promising to take away your healthcare and social security.

They ban books with gay characters while engaging in threesomes. They accuse teachers of “grooming”, while groping male staffers. They’ll cry about the Libs cancelling their appliances (yes really), while they cancel entire retail chains over some fucking rainbows.

They’ll look you straight in the face and say simultaneously, that January 6th was a peaceful protest of patriots AND the deep state AND Antifa, that no crimes were committed, but that they’re gonna blur the faces of the folks who were there so that no one sees the crimes they committed.

It’s maddening, but it’s that Left-in-a-hot-car-cup-of-tainted-Orange-Julius at the top that really does a doozy on our ol’ brains.