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Fever Dreams

General (Air)Strike!, Feat. Spencer Ackerman

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4767 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Over $8 trillion spent, and almost a million dead bodies. The U.S.-led war on terror absolutely devastating over the last two decades. The wars also led to Donald Trump’s rise to power, irreparably degraded our culture, and made our far-right conspiracy theorists somehow even dumber. On this episode of FEVER DREAMS, hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng bring on national-security reporter and ‘REIGN OF TERROR’ author Spencer Ackerman to break down how, thanks to the War on Terror, “[what’s] QAnon today,” is likely “going to be the Republican Party on Capitol Hill in however many years.”

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0:00.0

Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination.

0:11.1

Not a care in the world as you simply lean back, and before you know it, you're there.

0:16.7

London to Manchester from just 32 pounds each way.

0:20.5

Avanti West Coast.

0:22.2

Feel good travel.

0:23.8

Exclusions and limitations apply.

0:25.6

Full terms and conditions can be found at avantiwestcoastcoast.com.

0:28.0

UK forward slash plan. Hi, welcome to Fever Dreams. My name's Will Summer. I'm a political reporter at the Daily Beast and the author of an upcoming book on QAnon for Harper Collins. And I'm Aswin Tsubang, but please call me Swin. I'm a senior political reporter at The Daily Beast and co-author

0:54.5

of the book Sinking in the Swamp. All right, here on Fever Dreams, we're going to take you on

0:58.6

plunges into the sometimes hilarious and sometimes scary world of the American right as they

1:02.7

continue to influence our politics. Even in the aftermath of the Trump administration, the

1:06.8

energy of these conspiracy theorists, these grifters, and these influencers, is still pushing

1:11.7

our mainstream political landscape closer and closer to a breaking point. Well, look who came

1:16.8

crawling the fuck back. Yes, it's me, Will. Fever dreams listeners, do you remember the sound

1:24.8

of girls' voice? I'll let you finish, Will.

1:30.5

But does our audience even remember who this fucking guy is?

1:35.3

I was going to say, I went out to South Dakota from Mike Lindell's a cybersymposium.

1:38.6

I thought he had some very compelling information, and I've been digging through it ever since.

1:41.0

I've come up for breath now, and I'm back on the pod.

1:42.7

Where were you in South Dakota?

1:45.0

So I was not actually. But yeah, I mean, so I was on leave.

1:47.4

I think the pod did a great job in my absence.

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