Turn up the gaslights to full blast and beyond, friends! Let me explain that term because you’re going to be hearing it every day now. Gaslight is the name of a play, then made into two movie versions. The theme of the story is lying and psychological manipulation. The husband dims the gaslights and then denies to his wife that they have changed at all, his agenda being to convince her that she’s gone mad — or, as George Orwell explained the concept, that she should “reject the evidence of her own eyes and ears,” and let Big Brother tell you what you really saw and heard. Fast forward to today and we have both Trump and J.D. Vance telling us everything is swell. There is a “ceasefire.”
Donald J. Trump Truth Social 06.23.25 06:02 PM EST pic.twitter.com/hEz0w4FUC9
— Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) June 23, 2025
Now let’s narrow the focus here. Nobody knows where the freaking uranium went to. And J.D. Vance is saying, it’s no biggy. It is very much a biggy. To deny that it’s a biggy and to say that everything is just fine is gaslighting the United States.
The gaslighting is OFF THE CHARTS. pic.twitter.com/7cQgfJtpsh
— Butter Emails 🌻🇺🇦🌻 (@NicoleL333) June 23, 2025
You’ve heard J.D. Gaslight (a far better name for him than Vance.) Now listen to an expert in these matters explain that Iran could have already taken the uranium, fed it back into centrifuges, and used it to build a bomb already. Or ten bombs.
Ponder that. Trump is singing Joy To The World on Truth Social and it’s Christmas in June for Trump and MAGA — but there could already be bombs built or in the process of being built, because we.don’t.know what happened to the uranium. And the administration wants to shine that fact on, or lash out and scream at the “fake news” that he “obliterated” everything, okay, so stop bugging him. Nothing like having someone with the emotional maturity of a 10-year-old leading the nation.
Now you just heard that the Iranian parliament agreed to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, which seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy. And you heard the expert say, “Well, that could be seen as a step towards their withdrawal from the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. They are a member of the Non-Proliferation Treaty.It bans them from having nuclear weapons. This is the kind of step they would take if they were, in fact, intending to move towards the construction of a nuclear bomb.”
And if Iran pulls out of the treaty, other countries might as well. And then you’re in an arms race like back in the 1950’s and Cold War madness. Which I grew up in, I don’t need to spend my final years in that kind of a world. But as the French say, “Plus ca change, plus c’est pareil,” which means “the more things change, the more they are the same.”
well it’s one two three…what’re fighting for?
don’t ask I don’t give a damn…next stop is Iran.
well it’s five six seven…open up the pearly gates
ain’t no time to wonder why…whoopee we’re all gunna die…Paraphrase of Country Joe and the Fish Vietnam Rag…at Woodstock
But as the French say, “Plus ca change, plus c’est pareil,” which means “the more things change, the more they are the same.”
Actually, the more well-known phrase is “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” That’s the phrase that Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr wrote in “Les Guêpes.”