How to Unblock Ukraine Aid in Congress [TEASER]
Gaslit Nation
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🗓️ 6 April 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Mike Johnson is Lucy playing football with Charlie Brown. The MAGA Ken doll delayed the vote for Ukraine aid by several more weeks, coming through for Donald Trump, his MAGA cult of violence, and their Kremlin backers. Call it what it is: treason. In this heated bonus show, Andrea is joined by Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman and Italy-based analyst Monique Camarra of the Kremlin File podcast, debating whether Mike Johnson will ever hold his long promised Ukraine aid vote, and ways to overcome his existential threat to civilians in Russia's ongoing genocide.
Our discussion was recorded on Tuesday, and includes a debate between Andrea and Olga on whether Mike Johnson will ever come through. We also discuss President Macron doubling down on sending NATO troops to Ukraine, and the long history of Russian terrorism and Western complacency. On Tuesday, Terrell Starr of the Black Diplomats Podcast and Substack joins Gaslit Nation to discuss the latest in the 2024 election and ways to overcome the threats to our democracy. Later in the month, Ari Berman of Mother Jones will be on the show to discuss his new book Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People--And the Fight to Resist It.
Want to help unblock Ukraine aid in Congress? Contact Joaquin Castro (D-TX) at (202) 225-3236 and Mark Pocan (D-WI) at (202) 225-2906 and demand that they sign the two bipartisan discharge petitions put forth by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), which would force a vote in the House to pass aid for Ukraine. For more on that effort, read this urgent statement from the humanitarian nonprofit Razom for Ukraine: https://www.razomforukraine.org/razom-for-ukraine-calls-on-house-democrats-to-sign-discharge-petition/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. Welcome to this special bonus episode of Gaslit Nation. I am your host, Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine, a genocide that is repeating today |
| 0:23.6 | under Putin. I am joined in this special bonus episode by Olga Lottman and Monique Kamara |
| 0:31.0 | of the Essential Kremlin File podcast. We debate whether Mike Johnson, the Kremlin bot speaker of the house, the little tiny doll |
| 0:42.3 | in the center of the Russian nesting doll of MAGA, whether he's serious about actually bringing |
| 0:47.8 | Ukraine aid to a vote when Congress is back at work, finally funded by our taxpayer dollars. |
| 0:56.3 | So is Mike Johnson really going to do it? Or is he just full of it? Because who he's really serving is serving the Kremlin. |
| 1:02.5 | And there's zero intention. And he's just dragging things out and playing Lucy's football |
| 1:07.7 | with Ukraine's Charlie Brown and the Democratic Party's Charlie Brown and the |
| 1:12.6 | majority of the American public that supports Ukraine, despite Elon Musk and the rest of the |
| 1:19.5 | Kremlin disinformation war. So let's see. Olga and I go back and forth. You definitely want to |
| 1:25.1 | stick to the very end of this episode where Olga shares some rousing remarks that need to be blasted on loudspeakers throughout the halls of |
| 1:34.3 | Congress. I have to choose my word carefully when saying blasted in reference to Congress |
| 1:38.6 | after there was a violent assault there where members of Congress were being hunted down by Trump's brown shirts. |
| 1:47.2 | All right. And just a reminder to the folks who support the show at the truth teller level or |
| 1:53.0 | higher on Patreon, we are doing a special workshop for you, which is a follow-up to our popular |
| 1:59.2 | make art workshop that came out last November, |
| 2:02.3 | where I shared all the secret hot sauce ingredients of writing a screenplay, |
| 2:08.0 | the first draft that reads like a third draft, |
| 2:09.9 | and that could be applied to novels, nonfiction work, and so on. |
| 2:13.6 | And so in this follow-up workshop that I promised back then, |
| 2:17.2 | it's now coming up for you now, |
| 2:19.2 | this month of April on Thursday, April 11 at 7 p.m. Eastern, it is on the business side of things. |
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