Hey, everybody. It's Monday, April 27th, 2026. I'm Alison Gill.

And I'm Dana Goldberg, and this is Beanstalk.

So, let's talk about what happens after nearly a decade of the erosion of truth, after years of the MAGA propaganda machine, flooding the zone with shit so much and so often that no one believes a single word or event or deed that comes out of this administration.

100%.

An administration that has been consolidating and dismantling the fourth estate, the free press,

calling the fourth estate the enemy of the people, kicking them out of press rooms,

firing ombudsman from, you know, the Pentagon from Stars and Stripes, putting

Carrie Lake in charge of the Voice of America.

Anything.

And putting her in charge of anything.

Dismantling SentCom and how they talk about what's going on in the Iran War, just completely

obliterating the public's ability

to distinguish fact from fiction.

Intentionally, by the way.

Intentionally.

Of course it's intentional.

Blurring the line between fact and fiction.

So it is no wonder that everybody I know in my sphere on Saturday night after this shooter came in and fired shots outside in the lobby a couple flights up from the ballroom at the White House Correspondence Dinner, it is no wonder that everybody was like, hmm, really?

Yeah.

But that's what's happening in the aftermath of what went down on Saturday night.

And I'm, you know, we're waiting for facts to come in.

But, you know, we've been talking about the breakdown of the truth and the faith in what our elected officials tell us for a very long time.

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