Surviving Gaslighting in the Age of the Internet
The Insane Ukraine Cocaine Train Story and Why It's True
On May 9, 2025, Emmanuel Macron, President of France, was in a private train car with Friedrich Merz, the Chancellor of Germany, and Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. These were big shots doing important business, like trying to stop a war. In the train, they were seated around a small table with two blue file folders and two water glasses. As is the practice when politicians talk turkey, there was a brief moment when the press was invited in, so that they could photograph these three overlords doing their regal overlord work.
Merz had what appeared to be a little stick in front of him that the gaslighting media has assured us was just an ordinary coffee stirrer. Apart from being made of metal, it had a little spoon-portion scoop at one end. As the press shuffled in to take some usual images, Merz palmed the alleged coffee stirrer to hide it. There are several reasons I do not think it was a coffee stirrer. First, nobody had coffee. There wasn’t even a coffee pot in the photo. Nobody had a coffee cup. Second, coffee stirrers are usually not metal. They are disposable items. Third, when a photographer comes in the room, my first instinct has never been to palm a coffee stirrer and try to conceal it. I have used coffee stirrers all of my life, and I am not ashamed for you to see one. And finally, since there were only two glasses of water on the table, the only reason Merz would have a metal coffee stirrer with a scoop at one end would be if he were stirring his water. I’m pretty sure we can rule that out.
At this moment, Macron notices a crumpled white thing in front of him and palms it. The lying media has assured us this was just a used Kleenex. The problem with this is its provenance. There was no box of Kleenex visible in the train compartment where these three coked-up criminals were seated. If it was a tissue, it had to have been brought in by Macron and I suspect that rich, elegant, and worldly men like Macron are more apt to carry cloth handkerchiefs around then single unused Kleenex—which he then apparently used and just tossed casually on the table in front of the other men. Most people put used tissues in the trash. The other possibility is even stupider. Macron maybe had a tissue from elsewhere, which he used to blow his nose, then carried the tissue around with him and plopped it on the table so the other two dignitaries could admire his mucus.
The other story is that the white thing is a rumpled paper carrier that is sometimes used to hold cocaine. These origami-like folded white papers are so common with cocaine, they even have a name. They’re called “bindles.” Here are some details on cocaine accoutrements that might shed some light on the story. I say it’s a bindle.
I read where somebody said Macron looked very high in the photograph, but I can’t tell. I’m not basing my conclusions on that concept; I can’t tell by the way he looks if he’s high or not. He always looks a little manic to me. But I am pretty sure that those men were doing cocaine and that the media is gaslighting us.
In my limited experience with drug users, they always overestimate their own skills. And in this case, Macron, Merz, and Starmer had a very complicit press who said crazy stuff. In fact, the media is so purged right now that the only story you can get online (without digging pretty deep) is the used Kleenex and metal coffee stirrer story.
The Associated Press declared the alleged bag of cocaine powder (what the druggies call “soft”) “was a tissue”
Some other expert from a university declared, without any evidence, that the image might have been digitally altered by AI. This leads me to want to ask, “Why?”
Politifact said that it is disinformation to suggest these men used cocaine that day
Politifact went on to add there have never been any credible reports that Zelenskyy uses drugs. I don’t know why they’re dragging Zelenskyy into this
Gizmodo said the photo is “fake”
Bing published a still shot from the video (the scene is all on a short video) and slapped a giant red banner on it, declaring “FALSE”
Even Al Jazeera, the Qatari news source, declares that the story is fake, it’s just a used tissue and a coffee stirrer that our world leaders had to hide from the cameras
You can’t believe your lying eyes.
Gaslighting
Tired of being gas-lit? How about four years of hearing that “this is the best Joe Biden ever!” and how Biden was sharp as a tack and Karine Jean-Pierre could not keep up with him. Yet what we saw was quite different: we saw a bedraggled, befuddled, confused, decrepit old man. We heard a guy who didn’t know what he was talking about. We watched Biden shake hands with the air and wander off into the rain forest. But mention that Biden was having mental struggles and you are a conspiracy theorist or a Russian agent. Maybe you are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg’s descendant come back to America to spread Russian propaganda!
How about when Kamala Harris went on TV to be interviewed by Lester Holt? He asked why she had not gone to the border as border czar (she, at some points in other interviews even disputed being the border czar). She claimed fiercely she had been to the border. Holt pushed back and Kamala, realizing she was caught, leaned back and said hotly, “And I haven’t been to Europe, either!” The she cackled and shook her head. “I don’t understand the question.” Really? First, she lies; then she makes up an excuse that doesn’t make sense; and finally she just says she doesn’t understand. I always wondered whether Kamala assumed that as border czar, she would not be able to any work until she had toured Europe. That sounds stupid, even for Kalamity Harris.
Yet we were to believe she was fit for the Vice Presidency. She couldn’t run a small-town public pool but the media told us she was an exciting and highly competent presidential candidate.
Or how about Ketanji Brown Jackson who, during her Supreme Court hearing before the Senate, could not say what a woman is and explained her ignorance by declaring, “I’m not a biologist.” Well, I’m not a rancher, either, but I know cow dung when I see it.
Are you tired of being gas lit?
How about learning just the other day that Biden has very advanced prostate cancer, which was just discovered Sunday because well, Biden was never checked for this common male cancer, and his health was otherwise so perfect. Do you buy that? I don’t buy that it was suddenly discovered. And why? What happened on last Sunday that suddenly made doctors consider examining Biden for cancer?
I am sick of being gas lit.
Here’s a honey. Representative LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) is shown on video physically assaulting law officers at a protest-turned-riot in front of the ICE detention center in Newark (link below). Despite the fact that McIver had previously advocated for violence (she declared “war” against this administration) and a statement that she would put her blankety-blank hands on anyone she wanted for any reason—she is now protesting her arrest. We have her on video pushing and otherwise assaulting ICE officers. Her response? It’s politically motivated and no doubt racist. She literally is telling us she didn’t assault anyone when we can see it. By the way, she’s up on felony charges but she says it’s a political attack.
So sick of this.
The other day a tall ship from Mexico crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge. It was a bizarre accident and one that left at least two people dead. Chuck Schumer said it is Trump’s fault.
No sale, Chuckles. And why can Schumer mock the deaths of people on that ship, but we cannot criticize Joe Biden any more for anything ever, because he has cancer.
Sick, sick, sick of this.
Remember how they found a baggie of cocaine in the White House during the Biden regime, but there were no fingerprints or DNA evidence on the bag? Yeah, well, except there were. Thanks, Freedom of Information Act requests (FOIA). The Secret Service knew all along but we, the longsuffering American people, had to file a FOIA suit to find this out. Of course, they know whose cocaine that was. The White House is a very secure building. We still don’t know whose coke it was, but we know now that the Secret Service knows.
They’re gaslighting us.
And Derek Chauvin? He is the cop who has been in prison for “killing” George Floyd. Ironically, the autopsy says Floyd died of respiratory failure induced by a fentanyl overdose. But, hey, the gaslighting press and Democrat party say Chauvin clearly did it. Don’t believe an autopsy report! Doctors lie. Instead, believe all Democrats!
They’ve lied to us about everything. Sometimes they have a reason, like trying to cover up an embarrassing illegality or wanting to spin a story. Sometimes they want to incarcerate an innocent man to promote their narrative, which is what happened to Derek Chauvin. Sometimes it’s just reflex; call out a Democrat and they’ll deny whatever it is you just caught them doing. And, sometimes it’s for no reason at all, it’s just sport.
It happens all day every day. Even when we can see something with our own eyes, even if there is proof positive, audio, video, witnesses, they lie to us. Why do they lie to us when it is so obvious they’re lying? As Russian dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn once said, “They lie. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. And still they lie.” It’s like asking a toddler who ate the cookies—and the kid will assure you he has no idea, all the while with cookie crumbs around his mouth.
So what is the answer? The answer is the truth. We tell the truth. And the first truth to tell is the truth about them.
Solzhenitsyn once said the antidote to this stuff is simple: “Do not live by lies.”
They’re Mentally Ill
Gaslighting is not normal. It’s a form of psychological abuse that is intended to make the victim start to doubt his or her own perceptions and feel inferior. Gaslight somebody long enough and that person will start to get so confused and wonder if he or she is not insane. In a relationship, gaslighting is textbook emotional abuse. But what happens when the whole Democrat Party and mainstream media is gaslighting you—the individual? What happens when all of the gaslighters are fighting MAGA?
First of all, those who gaslight typically do it over a long period of time, interspersed with period of more normal behaviors. The gaslighter is likely mentally ill, they just use these techniques to hide their own mental illness, to manipulate others, and to be sadistic. Some do it for sport, some do it for power, they all enjoy it.
Sounds Democrat all right.
Most of the time, when you’re gaslit, you pull back and double-check things. You doubt yourself first, before you suspect the dirty rat with an agenda who is gaslighting you. You wonder if you’re not imagining things or maybe being overly sensitive or hypercritical. You think perhaps you misunderstood something or maybe you’re not that bright. You can start to feel so insecure you clam up. You feel your own power and integrity draining away. You might even change your mind to conform with the opinion of your abuser or even apologize.
That’s what they want.
Recognize that gaslighters are mentally ill. The mainstream media are not just liars, they’re perpetrators. Criminally insane. Don’t think of them as misguided or misinformed. A more correct assessment is that they’re evil.
They are pathological liars, narcissists, and will never back down or change their story even when you can prove you’re right. This is why they can be so convincing, but remember that they are liars. Their main purpose is to discredit you, to label you a conspiracy theorist, a crackpot, or some crazy person. That’s why so many people say Trump is a dictator—they know if they speak in Trump’s defense the gaslighting armies will come out and massacre them. And some have been gaslit so long and so hard that they now believe the man who is bringing world peace and lowering their taxes is indeed Hitler.
Gaslighting works on some people. Gaslighters want to choreograph reality and rewrite history so it conforms with their ideas. And they try to sell their jury-rigged narratives to the gullible.
Don’t believe them. Don’t give them any bandwidth in your mind. Dismiss them. Assume anything and everything they say is wrong and they say these lies deliberately in order to hurt you. Know that before they open their mouths.
Survival Kit
So how do we survive living among the criminally insane? If you’re alive in America right now, you’ve got hundreds, maybe thousands of people trying to gaslight you every single day. Here is how to cope.
Recognize that these creeps are gaslighting you. They’re liars. Don’t buy in
If you feel the gaslighting getting to your emotions, pull back. Take a break. Get some exercise, meet a friend, read a book. Never let them hijack your emotions
Make friends with realists so that you can confirm your findings. Yes, Biden really did show signs of dementia in 2020. Yes, Kamala really is a cackling moron. Yes, California is a disaster. Yes, Liz Warren lies nonstop. No, boys should not be competing in girls’ sports. Yes, Macron really did take a ride on the Ukraine cocaine train
In personal relationships you set boundaries when dealing with toxic people. You do that here, too, but it works a bit differently. Limit your exposure to mainstream media. Block annoying social media liars. (Half of them are bots anyway!) If you have family or friends who are trying to gaslight you, be as gentle as you can (at first) and tell them to stop. If they persist, limit your exposure to them down to as close to zero as you can get
Read conservative media, conservative influencers, get a balanced diet of news. Don’t watch The View. Do watch Charlie Kirk, Mark Levin, Vince, Russell Brand, Tucker Carlson, The Daily Wire, Valuetainment. You don’t have to agree with everything these people say, just get a little truth in your information diet
Ignore the gaslighters and realize they want to destroy you. That should give you perspective. These are not our friends
Don’t try to convert a gaslighter. When Hitler took over Germany and waged war on Europe, nobody tried to convince him he was wrong. While I stop short of advocating for war or violence, I don’t think we should imagine that reason is going to have any effect on these clowns
Don’t give them any of your power. The most powerful thing on earth right now is attention. Don’t give them your attention. Don’t take them seriously. Don’t listen, but if by chance you can’t help it, don’t take it in. And if you do take it in, mock them
Be a voice. Say the truth. Write the truth. Be a digital warrior. Put in on social media, write a newsletter, start a news organization, or just tell people. Get informed and speak up
Don’t let them intimidate you. What we’re dealing with in these final days of the Democrat party are the last people on board the Titanic, which is the Democrat Party. The ship is already capsizing. The lifeboats have all been taken. The Carpathia (the boat that rescues some of the survivors) is still hours away. All that’s left is Rachel Maddow floating in the icy water, clinging to a floating door while Jake Tapper bobs alongside her and Bruce Springsteen remains on the ship, trying to balance himself upright as he sings Born in the USA
This is a good case-in-point. I don't see a skewer and a Kleenex, but the big tell for me is the furtive behavior. Why palm a skewer and try to sneak it out of view? Why not either toss it or move it off to the side or even leave it where it is? And the tissue story seems weird because people don't normally leave dirty Kleenex on a tiny table in a small space--they throw them away. I don't know if there was a trash receptacle available, but hiding the Kleenex seems weird.
Neither of us were there, and so we don't know. But we're to the point that we don't trust what we see. I did the story not because it's a big scandal that Macron et al might be doing coke, but because the story became so hyperbolic that they were NOT doing cocaine. I'll concede that it's ambiguous, but I still think it was cocaine and their furtive behaviors are a tell. But the rapid clamp-down on any divergent opinion was where I saw gaslighting. I guess we're living in a world where ambiguity is not permitted.
As for looking ridiculous, I don't think we have to worry about that. Democrats will always, always, always say we're nuts. Remember, these are the guys who said Biden was sharp as a tack, Kamala was competent, Tim Walz was manly, men can be women, and now they're saying LaMonica McIver didn't assault anyone at the Newark ICE detention center, even though we have her actions on video tape. We don't have to make Democrats look ridiculous, they do a good job of that without our assistance.
Funny you bring up Vince Foster, I'm working on that now. But it's a lot, and for the life of me, I don't know how the Clintons weaseled out of a murder rap.
Have you ever heard of a guy named Victor Thorn? I only just discovered him. He was a journalist who did big exposes on the Clintons and he "committed suicide" about 10 years ago. His books are out of print but you can still get them (I have not done so). I found out Victor Thorn was among other things a raging antisemite. This makes me not want to read his books, but I'd also like to see what he dug up on the Clintons.
Anyway, thanks for your comments.
Sorry, but I see a kleenix and cocktail skewer in the Getty pictures. And note that those aren’t water glasses but cocktail glasses. If you ask me, this looks like Alex Jones nonsense. Gaslighting is real but seriously aren’t there more important and more definitive concerns than this distraction, which by the way is actually only helping the other side by making us look ridiculous. This is akin to the people who came out with the Clinton death list. By doing that they so muddied the water that the legitimate accusations of foul play (like the deaths of Vince Foster and Ron Brown) were discredited in the publics’ eye. Better to have just focused on those two deaths than all the rest, since either one could have blown the whole house of cards built by the Clinton’s down had they been properly investigated. Don't we ever learn?