October 16, 2025

If attempted gaslighting was a crime equal to attempted murder, people from Trump to Vance to Karoline Leavitt to Mike Johnson could face life in prison.

 


Would Trump and his henchpeople lie? Should we believe them even if what they say is crazy? I wonder what would happen if we asked Trump. Would he even think about it?

You can read Mike Johnson’s words aout the planned No Kings protests here: 

“I encourage you to watch — we call it the ‘Hate America Rally’ — that’ll happen Saturday,” Johnson said. “Let’s see who shows up for that. I bet ya see pro-Hamas supporters, I bet you you see Antifa-types, I bet ya see the Marxists in full display. The people who don’t want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic.”

It is much better to watch how facile and smarmy sounds as he is spewing his lies from his self-righteous religous mouth here:

You might even think he believes what he is saying.

He wants us to believe will buy that No Kings protesters are supporting Hamas. Listen to how he says the word “Marxists” like he’s uttering the word “Satan.” I’m surprised he didn’t add that Devil worshippers will be proselytizing in the group. 

As if this isn’t enough he wants you to believe they are fundeded by George Soros who most people couldn’t identify in a line-up;

He ends with saying “the American people are not stupid.” 

Holy shit, those who think people attending this rally support Hamas or, in any significant numbers, are followers of Karl Marx (not that this would be horrible) are, to use a term Sabrina Haake uses here, eejits.

Johnson is equally a dumbass if he believes this. You can’t have it both ways. Either Johnson is an immoral unethical manipulator of he is as dunb as a bucket of nails.

If we need a refresher course in what Marx believed:

Karl Marx believed that history is driven by class struggle, particularly between the working class (proletariat) and the owning class (bourgeoisie). He argued that capitalism exploits workers and creates inequality, ultimately predicting that it would lead to a revolution and the establishment of a classless, communist society. 

I wasn’t going to bother taking the big American flag, which I have on a long pole, to the No Kings protest we’re going to. Now I think I will. I will turn it back to right-side-up having previously changed it fly it as the distress signal upside down --- this is to send the message that everything Johnson says is an outright lie. We are the patriots. We are proud to be against fascism. As I wrote yesterday (here) being anti-fascist doesn’t make us terrorists. Quite the oposite. We oppose the terrorists.

Being anti-fascist makes us patriotic.

Because we know that Trump is far worse that George III ever was, we had No Hitler signs (shown with me holding them below) custom made for the rally. 

I explain why here:

Now watch this video from Occupy Democrats which shows lying liar Karoline Leavitt in addtion to the clip of Mike Johnson.

Murdering someone is a crime. It is sometimes punished by death and at other times by life in prison. Attempted murder is also a crime, though usually with a lesser punsihment. 

Driving someone crazy isn’t a crime. Trying to drive someone crazy is called gaslighting. This is a form of psychological abuse. The intent it to lead someone to question their sanity, memories, or perception of reality. When it works, the victim may initially feel confused, then anxious, as the gaslighting continues this will make them unable to trust themselves. Their ability to think logically disappears and think they are insane. 

The term originated in the 1938 play and 1944 film, “Gaslight,” where a husband manipulated his wife into thinking she had a mental illness. Here’s my version of the poster:

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In her inimitable style JoJo from Jerz shows why she has the well deserved thousands of followers as she write about my city in “No Kings, No Pants, No Problem” here.

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October 15, 2025

Feds again show us who the real fascists are. "I am Anti-fascist" should be our rallying cry.

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This is what residents of Chicago are reading today. The headline ought to be “Fascist Feds…” 

Sabrina Haake, who writes the Haake Take Substack, and works in Chicago, has been posting links to stories about ICE brutality on her Facebook page.

She hadn’t posted this one so I did. Here’s what I wrote:

Here’s the latest from YOUR city. Consider that they want to call people in MY city of Portland wearing chicken and frog suits terrorists and people playing the theme from Ghostbusters dangerous. Fact is that they will become dangerous if and hopefully when peaceful and even mocking resistence work to turn enough people against this Hitlerian regime. Our D-Day can’t come soon enough.

In referencing this Chicago story I wanted to put a link to Sabrina’s Substack here and saw she’d just posted this new one:

The word “eejits”didn’t register with me as a way to pronounce idiots at first… hey it’s 6:00 AM here and I am still on my first cup of coffee. This pronunciation comes from Ireland where it is usually meant as a friendly retort but no doubt Sabrina uses it much more harshly with the third defintion below: 

This is a crucial point Sabrina makes in her subtitle, “Has MAGA really forgotten what WWII was about? and here:

She concludes:

‘Antifa’ is Trump’s rallying cry. When he calls Democrat-run cities a “war zone” before he invades them with occupying forces, understand that he is planning to turn them into one.

I have a suggestion. It isn’t enough to try to educate the eejits about what Antifa means. We have to stop using the abbreviation. We should always spell it out and proudly call ourselves

Addendum 1:

You can buy Aunt Tifa t-shirts.

They are good but, like Sabrina and I have said, we are dealing with eejits. Perhaps we should forgo trying to be clever since this doesn’t register with imbeciles and we should spell it out. We are Anti-fascists. 

You can order “I AM ANTI-FASCIST” t-shirts by desgining them yourself on lots of “make you own” company websites like this.

Of course you can get the simple statement on signs too. Perhaps the next Indivisible protest will be called “Anti-fascist” instead of the more benign sounding “No Kings.” I’d suggested called it “No Hitler in America” (here), and even ordered signs for the Oct. 16 protest, but I think “Anti-fascist” is better.

Addendum 2:

RawStory summarized this story (here) where it led (at this writing) to 139 comments, some with illustrations like this:

If attempted gaslighting was a crime equal to attempted murder, people from Trump to Vance to Karoline Leavitt to Mike Johnson could face life in prison.

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