Is Agent Margaritaville On MySpace For Fascists?

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🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Digital soldiers. Agenta Margaritaville. Laura Ingraham. What do all these things have in common? They’re all part of the world of QAnon, where up is down, down is right and the end goal is seeing anyone who Tweets negatively about Trump get shipped off to Guantanamo Bay. In Episode 20 of The New Abnormal, Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast talk to Daily Beast reporter Will Sommer about the craziest Q conspiracies (“The first level of Q Anon is sort of a step beyond Sean Hannity.”) Then the two chat with #Resistance superstar Congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA) about Trump’s racist “Kung Flu” comment, Devin Nunes’ reading level and why Congress won’t just impeach Bill Barr. (“What he's done ranges from the unethical to the potentially criminal.”) Plus! Rick and Molly discuss the MySpace for fascists, Louie Gohmert and how Florida is “killing it,” literally. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.0	Hi folks, it's Rick Wilson, and welcome to the Daily Beasts, the new abnormal.
0:47.0	Hi, I'm Molly Zhangfast, a left-wing pendant and editor at large at the Daily Beast.
0:52.0	I'm also an editor at the Daily Beast, a former Republican political strategist,
0:56.0	best-selling author and full-time troublemaker.
0:58.0	We're here to have fun, sharp conversations with some of the smartest people in media,
1:02.0	politics, business and science that help make what's happening in the country and the world clear.
1:08.0	I'll try to keep Rick to the minimum number of F-bombs and try to keep our kids, pets,
1:14.0	and other wildlife sounds from invading our respective bunkers.
1:17.0	So, Rick, what did you do to bribe our scale?
1:20.0	This time? Yeah.
1:22.0	I've been pointing out the fact that he's burned through a quarter of a billion dollars of Donald Trump's campaign money,
1:26.0	and his numbers are slipping desperately.
1:28.0	I was not the one who infected him with the vid.
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