{"id":641,"date":"2024-07-28T12:54:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T12:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/28\/past-directed-gaslighting\/"},"modified":"2024-07-28T12:54:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T12:54:35","slug":"past-directed-gaslighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/28\/past-directed-gaslighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Past-Directed Gaslighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">An egregious example of <em>present-directed<\/em> gaslighting of the American people by the regime and the regime media is their dismissal of the numerous videos depicting Joe Biden&#39;s physical decrepitude as &#39;cheap\/deep fakes.&#39;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">What then are we to call the lie being currently spread by the regime and its shills that Kamala Harris was never the &#39;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/opinion\/op-ed\/philboas\/2024\/07\/25\/kamala-harris-border-czar-immigration-record\/74544006007\/\">border czar<\/a>&#39;?&#0160; I call it <em>past-directed<\/em> gaslighting.&#0160; This form of gaslighting is promoted by &#39;scrubbing&#39; the historical record, a tried-and-true totalitarian tactic. Totalitarians&#0160; want total control, and thus they want control over the past. They cannot erase the past, which <em>is<\/em> what it <em>was<\/em>, no matter what anyone says or writes. But they can bury the past in oblivion by altering the historical record.&#0160; The burial in oblivion, the destruction of collective memory, suffices for their nefarious purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Now the meaning of Christopher Wray&#39;s ludicrous &#39;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-bQp8Bq7e4Q\">shrapnel speculation<\/a>&#39; falls into place.&#0160; Its purpose was to prepare the way for a future denial that the Trump assassination attempt ever happened.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">How do I know that? Well, I don&#39;t <em>know<\/em> that, but what I do know about these deep-staters makes my speculation reasonable. Or do you have a better explanation for Wray&#39;s remark?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An egregious example of present-directed gaslighting of the American people by the regime and the regime media is their dismissal of the numerous videos depicting Joe Biden&#39;s physical decrepitude as &#39;cheap\/deep fakes.&#39;&#0160; What then are we to call the lie being currently spread by the regime and its shills that Kamala Harris was never the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/28\/past-directed-gaslighting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Past-Directed Gaslighting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,344,117,43,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bullshit","category-mendacity-and-its-modes","category-political-dissimulation","category-political-language","category-political-ponerology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}