<THREAD> Things are about to get rocky here in America. Constitutional crises are like that. I want to talk about reclaiming TRUTH. pic.twitter.com/aYBrXTcnfp

The Gandalf image was suggested by a friend who said that exposing Trump is like NOPE. GO NO FURTHER. NOPE. No more lies. NONE SHALL PASS!

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.