MyPillow Presents Woodstock ’21 w/Steven Monacelli

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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As Trump tried to subvert American democracy, he told DOJ officials that they were not “following the internet the way I do.” He was referring in part to ultra-rightwing conspiracy site Gateway Pundit—run by the so-called “dumbest man on the internet.” This week’s episode of Fever Dreams goes inside how the habitually wrong website so influenced the president that he carried print-outs of its articles around the West Wing as he pushed the Justice Department to declare a fraudulent election. (One official says he threw the printouts in the trash. Or maybe recycled them.) Hosts Will Sommer and Asawin Suebsaeng also break down how new restrictions on anti-vaxxers are convincing some of them to finally get the jab, and how ISIS militants have infiltrated the alt-right’s new social media network Gettr. Elsewhere on the episode, Daily Beast reporter Kelly Weill talks about how all those conspiracies about Trump retaking power in August are now imploding, and reporter Steven Monacelli breaks down how a flyer purportedly from Black Lives Matter groups making the rounds in Texas—which asked white parents to pledge to not send their kids to Ivy League schools—was in fact the work of a conservative PR firm and was amplified by the right-wing media ecosystem..

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0:00.0	Picture this. Static cars, idling engines, angry horns.
0:08.6	Now, picture you, zooming past it all.
0:13.8	Light and breezy.
0:16.2	Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic.
0:20.8	Book your train journey via avantiwestcoastcoast.coast.com.
0:25.1	Avanti West Coast.
0:27.1	Feel good travel. 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. Okay, Will, it's been a couple
1:17.4	or a few weeks now. Have you finally gotten an account on Jason Miller's getter? I always had
1:22.8	a getter account. I was an original getter guy at OG. What's your getter handle? Well, I can't
1:27.1	reveal that because then my getter will be trolled.
1:29.1	So, Will, since you are nowadays a habitual user on the pro-Trump social media network,
1:34.2	getter, have you encountered any ISIS militants on the social network yet?
1:39.1	Yeah, I mean, Getter has been overrun by ISIS.
1:42.0	As a member of Getter, I'm about to make my Bayat to the Islamic State.
1:46.0	Basically, what's happening is Getter, which long-time listeners may remember, is the social
1:50.3	media network, sort of a Twitter slash parlor knockoff created by Trump advisor Jason
1:54.5	Miller.
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