Let's Start a Coup! Ep 1 – A Basket Full of Fascists

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 March 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Nowadays, most people can agree that fascism is, well, a bad thing. But back in the 1930s, life absolutely sucked for most Americans, and fascism still had a sort of new car smell. Wall Street bankers were convinced they could take their country back from the clutches of ‘class traitors’ like Roosevelt, sink the New Deal and put the United States on a better – meaning more profitable – path.

They had the money. They had an army. Now all they needed was a leader.

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0:00.0	This is an eye-heart original.
0:07.0	Imagine a smoke-filled room.
0:10.0	Like, uh, just any smoke-filled room?
0:12.0	No, no. The smoke-filled room.
0:15.0	Ah, the smoke-filled room.
0:18.0	That mythical place where nefarious plans are
0:20.0	late in conspiracies are hatched.
0:22.0	It's 1933, and the smoke-filled room is occupied
0:26.0	by disgruntled masters of the universe.
0:28.0	We're talking really rich, really powerful, really white guys.
0:33.0	Historical dudes.
0:34.0	Yeah, and they all really dislike the president.
0:37.0	Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
0:39.0	They joke about getting rid of them all the time.
0:42.0	I can almost picture them now.
0:44.0	Yes, I hate that guy.
0:45.0	A traitor to his class.
0:47.0	Now, at some point, the conversation about getting rid of FDR gets real.
0:52.0	He must go.
0:53.0	I concur.
0:54.0	We must plan to the smoke-filled room.
0:57.0	Lucius, we're already here.
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