Kremlin Convention
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
4.7 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
You're telling us to be civil and tone down the rhetoric? Well, excuse us, but we're not the ones who attempted to violently overthrow our democracy! Ignoring a crisis won't solve it. Yet that's exactly what the mainstream media is doing by "both-sidesing" America's political violence crisis driven by the far-right.
Much of the mainstream media continues to fall in line, pumping out propaganda to normalize Trump. They claim he'll change this time. But you already know that he won't, because you listen to our show!
Meanwhile, these same media outlets continue to fawn over the MAGA fascist rally known as the Republican National Convention, featuring a who's who of Kremlin disinformation agents like Trump's VP pick JD Vance. It's like watching a very dark comedy where the punchline is always at the expense of democracy.
Now, for those who crave staying grounded and self-care with facts, this week's bonus show will analyze the GOP's Kremlin Convention and prepare us for the week ahead! We'll dive deep into questions from our Democracy Defender-level supporters ($10/month) and higher, including whether there's a Russian version of AIPAC. To access bonus shows, get all episodes ad-free, enjoy exclusive invites, and more, subscribe at the Truth-teller level ($5/month) or higher! Annual discounts are available so subscribe today!
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Show Notes:
Bernie Sanders: Joe Biden for President https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/opinion/joe-biden-president.html
Merrick Garland Both-Sides the Coup
https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2022/1/12/merrick-garland-both-sides
Thomas Matthew Crooks: What we know about the Trump attacker
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3gw58wv4e9o
Southern Poverty Law Center quoted on Thomas Matthew Crooks shooting https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/us/trump-shooting-thomas-matthew-crooks-intl-hnk/index.html
Trump Shooter Once Donated Money to a Democratic Cause? Some social media users claimed a 69-year-old man with the same name as Trump's would-be assassin actually made the donation.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-shooter-donation/
"Of the 444 people killed at the hands of extremists over the past 10 years, 335 (or 75%) were killed by right-wing extremists." https://www.adl.org/resources/report/murder-and-extremism-united-states-2022
Report: Domestic Terrorism Is Still a Greater Threat Than Islamic Extremism
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/03/domestic-terror-still-greater-threat-than-islamic-extremism.html
White and far-right extremists kill more cops, but FBI tracks black extremists more closely, many worry Read more at: https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article196423174.html#storylink=cpy
Is white extremism the biggest domestic terror threat in the US? For years US terror warnings have focused on groups like Al Qaeda or Daesh, but the latest warnings from US law enforcement agencies point to homegrown terrorists as the most immediate danger.
https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/is-white-extremism-the-biggest-domestic-terror-threat-in-the-us-27940
The Inside Story of Sean Patrick Maloney's Face Plant in New York
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/11/sean-patrick-maloney-new-york-red-wave-dccc-house.html
FEC Document Concludes Trump Paid Actors to Attend Event at Which He Launched 2016 Campaign
Mehdi Hasan on Twitter: "Don't know whether to laugh or cry: apparently one of the reasons Vance radicalized and went from moderate Never Trumper to insane MAGA Trumper is because the Netflix movie of his book got panned by liberal movie critics. It was the "last straw", according to a friend. Amazing." https://x.com/mehdirhasan/status/1813048609035751843
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller Mr. Jones about Stalin's genocide famine Ukraine. |
| 0:20.0 | The film, the GOP backers and the Kremlin don't want you to see, |
| 0:23.0 | so be sure to watch it. And this is Gaslit Nation, a show that is going to punch the fascist in |
| 0:29.5 | the face on November 5th, just do you watch, want to get alcohol poisoning this week, who doesn't, |
| 0:35.3 | take a shot at tequila every time someone at the Republican |
| 0:38.3 | Convention this week in Milwaukee incites violence from the stage or at some other event |
| 0:43.3 | affiliated with the convention. The media is playing into Trump's game, as they always do. |
| 0:49.2 | MSNBC even kept Mika and Joe off the air Monday morning, afraid they might say something inflammatory |
| 0:56.6 | during this time of forced national unity. When Mika and Joe are deemed too radical for you, |
| 1:03.5 | then you may be on the wrong side of history. Our opening clip was the floor of the MAGA rally |
| 1:08.9 | in Wisconsin, also known as the Republican National Convention, yelling fight, repeating Trump's call to action to his call to supporters after nearly being shot in the face at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania by a young registered Republican. We're going to get into all of that on today's show. I would like to say |
| 1:29.1 | upfront to the ridiculous drone of bleeding sheep from animal farm on mainstream media, calling on |
| 1:37.1 | both sides to turn the temperature down. You, as always, continue to fail the American public. You are some of the most |
| 1:46.1 | dangerous people in America who continue to normalize Trump, who swear, finally, finally, |
| 1:52.5 | Trump is going to see the light of Christ or something. Like, Black Jesus is going to descend upon |
| 1:57.4 | him and suddenly he's going to be a normal human being, a human being who actually feels things. Even when he was nearly shot in the face, the guy didn't have a normal |
| 2:04.6 | reaction to that. We're going to get into that in a minute. I just want to say, to all of you, |
| 2:09.9 | both sides sing this, just like Merrick Garland, both sided the coup and that atrocious press |
| 2:16.1 | conference he gave to mark the one-year anniversary |
| 2:18.8 | of Trump trying to violently overthrow a democracy in January 6th. Merrick Garland came out |
| 2:22.7 | and just gave a both sides bullshit saying that both sides commit political violence, |
| 2:27.2 | which is it was just simply statistically not true. |
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