Accountability Theater
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
4.7 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In a classic American road trip tale, Sarah went on vacation hearing that indictments for Trump were imminent, turned off the news for a week, and came back to the very unindicted Trump holding a fascist rally in Waco. Why, it’s almost like the legal pundit class lying to the American people for eight years was lying yet again! This is accountability theater, nothing more. And it’s profoundly dangerous.
This week, we discuss the lack of indictments for Trump, the many crimes that he should be indicted for, the idiocy that the Stormy Daniels case of all things is where officials are focused, and the DOJ’s failure to combat domestic terrorism and transnational organized crime. Sarah gives a long history lesson about the Oklahoma City bombings and predecessor cases like the Fort Smith Sedition Trial of 1988, and Andrea discusses gun violence and the organized political oppression of LGBTQ communities that has been on the rise for the last few years. We also discuss Trump’s confessional flaunting about his relationship with the IRS, which backs up reporting Sarah did in HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT four years ago, and the Trump camp’s use of political violence to intimidate Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. And of course we detail Merrick Garland’s failure to address any of these ongoing crises.
In our bonus episode, available to subscribers at the Truth-teller level and higher, we answer questions submitted by our listeners at the Democracy Defender level and higher. This week’s Q&A includes the pressing question and its many implications: Does Putin have a body double? For more and to support the show, sign up on Patreon to join our community of listeners and support independent journalism.
We also have an exciting announcement – we co-wrote a book! And it’s a graphic novel! About dictators! Currently listed in the humor section of Amazon! DICTATORSHIP – IT’S EASIER THAN YOU THINK will be published on June 13 and it is available for preorder now. We take you on a world historical tour of dictators, how they got in power, how they stayed in power, and how to get them out. This is the first Gaslit Nation book and we will be giving more information on special signed copies for Patreon subscribers. Stay tuned!
Our featured song for March 2023 is “Nickel and Dime” by Sofia Echegaray. You can find more of Sofia's music on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/sofia-echegaray
If you would like your music featured on Gaslit Nation, submit a song here.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, if you need dough, you can get it in a mouth and a punch-up, and you never get it out. |
| 0:12.0 | It's like a hotel in California for your bank account. |
| 0:17.0 | You know the grocery store don't come around here. |
| 0:20.0 | It's a poor part, they only sell a beer. |
| 0:22.0 | You're paying through the nose and you're paying there, because you're just right here. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Sarah Kenzier, the author of The Best Sellers, The View from Flyover Country, and Hiding |
| 0:37.0 | in Cleanseight. |
| 0:38.0 | And of the book, they knew how a culture of conspiracy keeps America complacent. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker and the writer and producer of the Journalistic |
| 0:50.4 | Thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide family in Ukraine. |
| 0:55.4 | In the film, the Kremlin doesn't want you to see, so be sure to watch it. |
| 0:59.4 | And this is Gaslit Nation, a podcast covering corruption in the United States and rising |
| 1:04.2 | autocracy around the world. |
| 1:06.8 | The song you just heard was Nickel and Die by Sophia Ejagari. |
| 1:11.0 | Raised in the wild by a feral graduate students, Sophia has lived all over the country and |
| 1:15.8 | the world. |
| 1:16.8 | And as such, her musical influences cut a wide swath. |
| 1:20.2 | They include Pimento, Renaissance music, Texas singer songwriters, and of course, Tom Lair. |
| 1:26.7 | Her accolades include semi-finalist awards from the music to life and new song songwriting |
| 1:32.4 | competitions. |
| 1:34.0 | Sophia has been many things in life, a Harvard dropout, a software tester, a singer songwriter, |
| 1:41.2 | an essayist and even a muppet. |
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