TEASER - Trump Ushers in the Chinese Century
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
4.8 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
What’s the easiest way for dictator Xi Jinping of China to invade Taiwan? Bribe the President of the United States! Trump’s loyalty lies in enriching himself and his family, all thanks to the highest bidder – including China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and others. As China shows more signs of preparing to invade Taiwan, Musk’s Twitter is normalizing this very idea. Andrea and Russian mafia expert Olga Lautman discuss this and more, including Trump and Melania’s meme coin cash grab, in this week’s Gaslit Nation bonus show. We also cover ways to fight back, even if things seem to spiral out of control.
Olga Lautman will join the Gaslit Nation Salon on February 10 at 4pm ET! And don’t miss our Gaslit Nation Game Night on Friday, February 7 at 8:30pm ET—we’ll be playing Codenames! For game night, make sure to create a free account on BoardGameArena.com. Zoom links will be shared the morning of the events on Patreon.com/Gaslit, so be sure to subscribe and help support the show!
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Show Notes:
Check out Olga Lautman’s Substack! https://substack.com/@olgalautman?utm_source=profile-page
Opening Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xvJYrSsXPA
Excellent thread on Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan’s lawsuits holding corporate giants accountable: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1880370418932150623.html
Trump’s Crypto Meme Coin Is His Most Lucrative Get-Rich Scheme Yet https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/what-just-happened-with-usdtrump-and-usdmelania-meme-coins.html
China Suddenly Building Fleet Of Special Barges Suitable For Taiwan Landings https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/01/china-suddenly-building-fleet-of-special-barges-suitable-for-taiwan-landings/
Man says his binned Bitcoin fortune now worth £500m https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgr0dyy152jo
ICYMI: Here are previous documents the Security Committee has shared:
• Tech Travel Tips : https://web.tresorit.com/l/hmKP6#FFHiLuu45pSJtMo_Z9Zp9Q
• Why defending your right to privacy is important: https://web.tresorit.com/l/73FHq#ip5_zE6hhWkuaDMBAAhpYw
• Introduction to VPN https://web.tresorit.com/l/WHdqz#-zI5O7Q2zHznO_NG7aZWPQ
• Three Security Steps to Take Today: https://web.tresorit.com/l/417K9#CaDJOcOrEOta4T5oDlNsYw
• Practice Safe Data Security: https://web.tresorit.com/l/hiw9s#wOykkL6Lh_Hz_TbRsiCiEQ
Read all the details in the PDF here: https://web.tresorit.com/l/W6ots#IydZ2pnTmE1MLPJLkLZ73A
For the Gaslit Nation Book Club – First Meeting at the Gaslit Nation Salon on February 24 at 4pm ET:
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl https://bookshop.org/p/books/man-s-search-for-meaning-viktor-e-frankl/8996943?ean=9780807014271
The Stranger: Introduction by Keith Gore Albert Camus (Author) Matthew Ward (Translator) https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-stranger-introduction-by-keith-gore-albert-camus/18890716?ean=9780679420262
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| 0:00.0 | How do you survive whole in a world where we're all victims of something? |
| 0:05.0 | It's to both of you. |
| 0:10.0 | How do you survive whole? |
| 0:12.0 | I can't do this quickly, Juan. |
| 0:14.0 | Okay. |
| 0:15.0 | How can you survive whole and we're victims of something? |
| 0:19.0 | You know, that's a nice, big, fat, Eastern, Western philosophical |
| 0:23.6 | question about how do you get through? Sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive |
| 0:31.6 | in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt. |
| 0:38.3 | It's not about that solution. |
| 0:41.3 | It is about, you know, being as fearless as one can |
| 0:48.3 | and behaving as beautifully as one can |
| 0:51.3 | under completely impossible circumstances. |
| 0:56.7 | It's that that makes it elegant. |
| 1:00.0 | Good is just more interesting, more complex, more demanding. |
| 1:09.3 | Evil is silly. It may be horrible, but at the same time it's not a compelling idea. |
| 1:17.6 | It's predictable. It needs a tuxedo. It needs a headline. It needs blood. It needs fingernails. |
| 1:24.6 | It needs all that costume in order to get anybody's attention. |
| 1:30.3 | But the opposite, which is survival, blossoming, endurance, those things are just more |
| 1:38.3 | compelling intellectually, if not spiritually, and they certainly are spiritually. |
| 1:44.3 | This is more fascinating job. |
| 1:47.4 | We are already born. |
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