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Teaser - Bad Actors Hijacking Legitimate Causes

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Gaslit Nation

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.74.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Our Gaslit Nation Q&A is back! This week we answer questions from listeners at the Democracy Defender level and higher about the Norfolk Southern train derailment and explosion in East Palestine, Ohio; what stood out to us in the State of the Union address in terms of what comes next; the GOP's ongoing scapegoating of LGBTQ people and what can be done about the far-right's law-warfare, and more. You won't get every episode of Gaslit Nation unless you subscribe to our show on Patreon. To sign up and get access to our bonus episodes, join our community at Patreon.com/gaslit

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0:00.0

The feature side is the truth. The feature side is historical accuracy because what we do

0:12.0

here at Gaslight Nation is not look at these events and isolation, but look at them in a

0:17.9

broader framework of how these institutions and certain individuals who've been in various

0:24.2

offices for a long time like Mayor Garland have operated over decades and you find not just a

0:31.4

pattern in some sort of abstract sense but direct ties between complicit individuals and the

0:38.9

agencies of accountability that are supposed to protect us and that are refusing to do so. So when

0:45.0

I dig into Garland's past and I find out he was mentored by Jamie Grayleek, the lawyer of Jared

0:53.0

and Ivanka, a woman who's implicated in, you know, honestly the majority of major state crimes

1:01.1

and scandals of the last 25 years including 9-11, the 2008 financial collapse, the opioid crisis,

1:07.8

you know, a lot of oil spill-related climate change disasters and I'll be here all day. We've

1:13.2

gone through this. When I find something like that that gives me an indication of what kind of

1:17.8

person Mayor Garland is and what kind of people he works for. When you look at the DOJ as a whole

1:24.9

and you see people like Bill Barr recurring as Attorney Generals in order to cover up state crimes,

1:31.5

then you know that there is something wrong at the DOJ on a structural level and we know of course

1:37.5

that when Trump got into office, one of the first things he did was purge the FBI of the few people

1:43.7

who were actually looking into the Russian mafia. I'm honestly skeptical of those people because,

1:49.8

you know, this problem has been there for so long and they clearly did not do enough to,

1:55.1

you know, stop Russian mafia infiltration of US governmental institutions or Trump wouldn't have

2:01.0

gotten in there. But, you know, these were the most well-informed people. They're the most likely

2:05.4

people to take this apparatus apart and he made sure to get rid of them. So this is just common

2:12.2

sense and historical literacy. These are not like our opinions. This is not us taking a side.

2:19.4

This is us simply clarifying to you what has happened and if you understand precedent,

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