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June 29, 2021, 11:23 am
Senator Ted Cruz confirmed himself to be irony-proof on Monday by retweeting a statement complaining about Press Secretary Jen Psaki turning around a Republican talking point on them and calling it “brazen gaslighting.” Cruz quote tweeted Curtis Houck, managing editor with NewsBusters, a right-wing organization that claims to be “Exposing and Combating Liberal Media Bias 24/7.”
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Houck was upset that Psaki called out Republicans for refusing to support Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan, which includes increased funding for police departments that want it. Democrats have for many decades now always supported more funding for police, with recent calls to defund and abolish these departments coming largely from the left of the party.
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However, since Republicans refuse to acknowledge that there is anything to the left of Joe Biden, they have to claim that he and all Democrats want to defund the police. To get back at them, Psaki turned this around to claim that it’s Republicans who are in favor of defunding the cops, which made them very mad.
“Absolutely shameless,” wrote Houck. “Under questioning from Fox’s Peter Doocy, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki argues it’s *Republicans* who have been defunding the police and not supporting law enforcement because they didn’t vote for Biden’s stimulus boondoggle the American Rescue Plan.”
In the video, Fox News’ Peter Doocy tries to claim that Republicans voted against the plan because Biden didn’t promote it directly as including funds for the police. This doesn’t exactly make Republicans look good, however, as most people would likely expect their representatives and senators to read the entirety of such an important piece of legislation or at least have an intern give them the gist.
Instead, Republicans are reduced to pretending that they don’t get Psaki’s joke, which is only made funnier by Ted Cruz responding by using a term that many on the right have refused to acknowledge is a real thing. You can tell they haven’t used it much by the way Cruz uses it wrong. Gaslighting refers to ongoing efforts to convince people that they are losing their minds by denying reality over and over, kind of like what Republicans are doing to all of us on the topic of climate change.
More accurate uses of the term would also be applicable to Cruz’s participation in the false 2020 election fraud conspiracy theories and his outright lying about his reasons for running to Cancun last March when his state was practically frozen solid. Or any of the other things his critics are bringing up again because he tweeted something ridiculous.
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*First Published: June 29, 2021, 11:23 am
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