"Oh, God, it's my ex..."

[$tevie]

[steve...]

miley-laughing001:

[samintx]

Let’s hope the rats leave the sinking ship.

[Fritz]

I think they will both be ex's before the election.

[Ted King]

This may be a reference that only makes sense to me:

[pdq]

Bergman? And a Nazi?

Notorious, perhaps?

(Never seen it, but reluctantly passed on a chance the other night.)

[Ted King]

pdq wrote:
Bergman? And a Nazi?

Notorious, perhaps?

(Never seen it, but reluctantly passed on a chance the other night.)

"Gaslight"

[pdq]

Ted King wrote:
[quote=pdq]
Bergman? And a Nazi?

Notorious, perhaps?

(Never seen it, but reluctantly passed on a chance the other night.)

"Gaslight"
Another glaring hole in my education, to be rectified some day.

[Ted King]

pdq wrote:
[quote=Ted King]
[quote=pdq]
Bergman? And a Nazi?

Notorious, perhaps?

(Never seen it, but reluctantly passed on a chance the other night.)

"Gaslight"
Another glaring hole in my education, to be rectified some day.
I didn't even know the movie existed until I read an article about how the term "gaslighting" came into our lexicon. Seems that the movie's central theme of a person being convinced that things aren't true that are true has become wrapped up in the term "gaslighting".

As to the picture of Ingrid Bergman with a knife - I'll have to give a spoiler to explain that silly bit of reference to what is happening with Trump and Republicans now:

[spoiler=The silly reference:]
Bergman’s character in the movie is gaslighted by her husband - a husband who only married her so that he could find some valuable jewels hidden in her house. He makes her believe she is going crazy by convincing her that things that are true aren’t true. Sounds dry the way I put it, but the movie portrays it with effective drama. In the end, a police detective helps her figure out what her husband is up to and in one of the final scenes Bergman is holding the knife to her tied up husband and basically telling him that she is free of his gaslighting. I know most Republican in federal political office who are finally finding their voices (so brave) to call Trump out on his gaslighting (that a lot of them participated in earlier) knew he was gaslighting all along. In that sense the reference to the picture from the movie isn’t quite right - a lot of Republican politicians never believed the gaslighting themselves - just went along with it or used it to their advantage. But I think there are more and more of the people who were gaslighted by Trump that are beginning to see that they were gaslighted. He isn’t the real savior sent by God to save us from the devil Democrats. (In comes DeSantis basically claiming he is the savior sent by God.)
[/spoiler]

So my apologies for the obscure and a little off kilter reference in the Bergman picture above. I seemed to have been in the mood for obscure and off kilter references yesterday. I think I'm feeling better today. :-)

[$tevie]

Is "Gaslight" obscure? I feel that I've heard about it all my life - although I only finally got around to seeing it recently -- and the term itself was in use by folks I know long before Trump got elected.