Cosa Nostra Grover Cleveland

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🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Important call to action: Contact your rep in the U.S. House and your two Senators in Congress to demand that they urgently pass financial support for Ukraine before the end of the year. Here are more details on the big budget showdown in Congress, and here's how to contact your reps in Congress. Simply say: "Make sure you pass all the funding before the end of the year that Ukraine needs to defend itself. Don't let the new Republican House hold aid to Ukraine hostage." Thank you!

We're back! After a two-week break in which several decades of horrific breaking news occurred, Gaslit Nation is back with the rundown on all the developments that happened in our wake. The GOP took the House, Trump announced he was running again and called to terminate the constitution, neo-Nazis and white supremacists carried out terrorist attacks and public sphere takeovers, workers were screwed over yet again by the Biden administration, and mafia state enabler Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to do the work that he is too cowardly and complicit to do himself. Wow!

We start the episode by reviewing the career of new special counsel Jack Smith, who is already being heralded as a savior by the same group of ding-dongs who worshiped Comey, Mueller, Vance, Garland and other failures. We feel somewhat sorry for Smith for attracting a following of freaks who embellish his resume in order to create yet another cult of bureaucracy. We debunk some of their propaganda claims and take a closer look at Smith's last place of work – the "ghost court" of the Kosovo Specialist Chambers. We hope Smith learned from the "ghost court" that justice delayed is justice denied, and we wish him luck as he works within an institution, the DOJ, that hired him to run out the clock. Gaslit Nation endorses Jack Smith going rogue and actually serving his country!

We then move on to the drip-drip-drip of Matt Taibbi's "Twitter Files", which could be called the poor man's Wikileaks if it weren't being done in partnership with the richest man in the world on the social network owned by the richest man in the world. There are serious issues raised in Taibbi's work that should be investigated – state control over social media, nepotism and national security – but this is an inane way to go about it. We also discuss the broad attempt to recreate the social media landscape of 2014-2016 in anticipation of Trump's attempt to become Cosa Nostra Grover Cleveland, what's changed since then, and what's in store for the future.

Our bonus episode, available to Patreon subscribers at the Truth Teller level or higher, will run later this week, since it is our reaction to the Georgia runoff election, which is happening as I type. Hopefully we will be ruminating on what a Warnock win means. We also plan to discuss the new Congress in general, and answer some of your Q & A questions as well. Gaslit Nation is 100% independent and survives only through Patreon support, so please consider joining so that we can keep reporting and you can get bonus features and more!

Show Notes:

Pass a Law: The Tanya Chalupa Interview (Andrea's Mom!) https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2019/4/5/gaslit-nation-featurette-pass-a-law?rq=Tanya%20Chalupa

The US government is considering a national security review of Elon Musk's $44 billion Twitter acquisition, report says. If it happens, Biden could ultimately kill the deal. https://www.businessinsider.com/biden-elon-musk-twitter-deal-government-national-security-review-report-2022-10

Netanyahu touts friendship with Putin in new billboard https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-another-league-netanyahu-touts-friendship-with-putin-in-new-billboard/

Stormy Daniels says Trump told her 'you remind me of my daughter' after she spanked him with a magazine https://www.businessinsider.com/stormy-daniels-trump-ivanka-daughter-2018-3

At least 6 killed at July 4 parade in Highland Park, heavily Jewish suburb of Chicago https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/national_news/at-least-6-killed-at-july-4-parade-in-highland-park-heavily-jewish-suburb-of/article_200e05ba-fbcd-11ec-b187-df061eecec19.html

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0:00.0	I'm Sarah Kensier, the author of the bestsellers, the view from flyover country, and hiding in plain sight, and of the book, they knew how a culture of conspiracy America complacent. Out now. I'm Andrea Chalupa,
0:23.8	a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones,
0:29.7	about Stalin's genocide, famine, and Ukraine. The film The Kremlin does not want you to see,
0:34.5	so make sure to watch it. And this is Gaslit Nation, a podcast covering corruption in the United States and rising
0:40.8	autocracy around the world.
0:42.7	We are recording on my mom's birthday, December 6th.
0:47.9	Happy birthday, Mom.
0:49.7	She's Ubiko 2 on Twitter, so feel free to say happy birthday to her. We did an interview with her
0:55.6	early when the show launched about her lessons for the rest of us on how to be a grassroots
1:01.3	champion and get bills passed laws, past near state. She championed the child car seat law and
1:07.9	the seatbelt law in California, including when she was pregnant with me.
1:11.7	So that's where I get it from in case you're wondering.
1:14.3	We want to thank everyone who came out to our three phone banks for Reverend Warnock in Georgia
1:20.3	with Indivisible.
1:21.8	They were so much fun, incredibly energizing.
1:25.6	And now we all wait to see if our efforts combined with all the
1:31.1	incredible volunteers on the ground can overcome GOP voter suppression. Republicans in Georgia
1:37.3	deliberately moved up the date of a runoff, giving less time to get the word out about the
1:44.1	runoff for the very reason one would
1:46.5	expect. So there's less time so people are aware of a runoff and less time to reach voters
1:51.8	and all sort of shenanigans and chaos can ensue. For instance, in our phone bank last night for
1:58.2	Warnock, we had to change plans last minute where half of our
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