Bad Faith
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
4.7 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Every dictator or wannabe dictator relies on a base of support to stay in power. For Putin, Orban, and Trump, their base is Christian nationalism – claiming God wants white, straight "Christian" men to rule, even if this means violently stripping all others of their human rights. (Nevermind what Jesus actually taught in the Gospels about loving thy neighbor!)
The Republican Party has been taken over by Christian nationalists backed by American and Russian oligarchs, in a death cult commonly known as MAGA. Trump is the strongman they've been searching for over decades of laying the groundwork for turning America into a dictatorship. Here to break it down for us is veteran filmmaker Stephen Ujlaki, who delved into the terrifying game plan of Christian nationalists for his new film, Bad Faith, out April 26 and available for pre-order.
Gaslit Nation listeners who host viewing parties of Bad Faith with their friends and family can send us a photo or email to GaslitNation@gmail.com about the event for their chance to get Gaslit merch and other fun prizes, to help spread the word about this important and urgent film. This week's bonus episode, exclusively for our subscribers at the Truth-teller level and higher on Patreon, will cover Iran's attack on Israel, why Ukraine must receive the same protection as the U.S.-led coalition that defended Israel, especially as MAGA continues to block aid in the House, and reports of Paul Manafort's work for Trump in the 2024 election.
We're also launching today a NEW chat group, inspired by our recent Make Art Workshop: The Business Side of Things, to complement our current general chat group, called Victory. The Art is Survival chat group is for artists in our community to share their works in progress, discover resources, and join with a community of like-minded creatives envisioning a world beyond the dictatorships the fascists want us to believe are inevitable. Thank you to all the artists out there and those who support art for believing that another world is possible! The recording of the Make Art workshop will be published Saturday May 4th, along with the transcript and a list of resources.
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Show Notes:
Bad Faith documentary: https://www.badfaithdocumentary.com/
Meet Stephen Ujlaki, the filmmaker behind Bad Faith: https://sftv.lmu.edu/faculty/?expert=stephen.ujlaki
Putin Ally Declares Mike Johnson 'Our Johnson'
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-ally-declares-mike-johnson-our-johnson-1890071
Europe is already planning for what happens if Ukraine loses. It's ugly A newly energized Russia is already escalating grey-zone operations in Eastern Europe, says Estonia's defense minister.
Why Did U.S. Planes Defend Israel but Not Ukraine? There are lessons for other nations in the events of the past few days.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/ukraine-israel-war-comparison/678077/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3zBTrwyTVOGzmWK5yps1Kck&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
U.S., NOT ISRAEL, SHOT DOWN MOST IRAN DRONES AND MISSILES American forces did most of the heavy lifting responding to Iran's retaliation for the attack on its embassy in Damascus.
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/iran-attack-israel-drones-missiles/
How Israel and allied defenses intercepted more than 300 Iranian missiles and drones
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/04/14/middleeast/israel-air-missile-defense-iran-attack-intl-hnk-ml
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Gaslit Nation. I am your host, Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, |
| 0:15.4 | and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine, |
| 0:23.5 | a genocide that is continuing today under Putin backed by Iran and North Korea and China, |
| 0:31.9 | which is why we must ensure that Ukraine has everything it needs right now to push Russia out, liberate the |
| 0:39.2 | occupied territories from sadistic, Stalinist occupation, and win this global war of democracy |
| 0:46.7 | versus fascism for all of us. I mean, this should be, it cannot be clear. This is a black and |
| 0:52.4 | white battle between good versus evil. And it's non, it's |
| 0:56.6 | bipartisan. So if you want to help Ukraine win, please go to help ukraine win.com, an urgent SOS site |
| 1:04.3 | built by a Gaslit Nation listener where you can easily contact your reps directly through |
| 1:08.2 | help ukrainwin.com. Thank you very much. Thank you to everyone who |
| 1:12.7 | came to the Gaslit Nation, Make Art Workshop, the business side of things. That event ended up being |
| 1:17.8 | two hours long and finally ended when my kids crashed the party, refusing to go to bed. So we |
| 1:24.2 | had, we could have kept going. So look out for a recording of that workshop along with the transcript and links to the resources referenced throughout. |
| 1:35.0 | That will be publishing Saturday, May 4th to give us some time to prepare, given all the big breaking news. |
| 1:42.1 | In the meantime, we're launching a chat group called |
| 1:45.7 | Art is Survival for artists and people who love artists and want to cheer them on. That will be |
| 1:52.5 | exclusive to our Patreon community. This idea came out of our Q&A discussion as people shared |
| 1:58.3 | their projects, what they're working on, what they needed help with. |
| 2:02.1 | So to keep that conversation going and have a resource, a community for all of us artists out |
| 2:06.9 | there, trying to stay grounded in our work and find meaning in community, we're launching |
| 2:13.1 | this group chat. This idea came out of our Q&A discussion as people were sharing in their projects, |
| 2:18.6 | what they needed help with, what they're hoping to accomplish. So to keep that conversation going, |
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