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🗓️ 15 September 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Sarah Kendzior, author of the new book, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent, joins Danielle and Wajahat on this week's democracyish to discuss all the ways in which the powers that be--including the Democratic establishment--feign shock and outrage over issues THEY KNEW would arise. We cover everything from the rise of fascism to the Epstein coverup in this episode--Buckle up as Sarah brings us on an amazing ride!
Hosts: Danielle Moodie & Wajahat Ali
Executive Producer: Adell Coleman
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Democracy-ish. I am Danielle Moody. |
0:13.9 | And I'm Woodjahat-Lee. |
0:15.2 | And I am super excited that we are welcoming to Democracy-h for the first time. Sarah Kenzier, |
0:22.5 | who I've been following on Twitter for my God, probably since I went on Twitter. And I'm so |
0:29.2 | excited to get into a conversation with you about everything Trumpy, about everything |
0:33.9 | gaslit, about everything, democracy crumbling. It's not even ish anymore. |
0:39.5 | But Woj, give us a more brilliant and in-depth intro of our special guest this week. |
0:46.2 | Yes, Sarah, the Cassandra of Twitter, has published her latest book, The Excellent, |
0:52.2 | They Knew How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent. |
0:56.2 | It came out this week. |
0:57.2 | It's awesome. |
0:57.9 | I actually am saying that because I read it, and it is awesome. |
1:01.3 | She is the co-host of Gaslit Nation podcast. |
1:04.4 | And also, when you're picking up her new book, pick up her second book, hiding in plain sight, the invention of Donald Trump and the erosion of America, because everything that's happening right now, she called it two years ago. |
1:15.3 | And with that being said, Sarah, I'm going to give you a compliment. It's going to be a strange |
1:18.2 | compliment because I was reading, they knew. And it's a joke I had with some of my friends that, |
1:23.7 | like, if we were movie characters, especially black and brown folks, who called what's |
1:27.7 | happening in America, we'd be like, I don't know if you ever see those spy movies or born |
1:31.8 | movies. Like in the beginning of the born movies, there's like this hairy, like nervous |
1:36.2 | person who understands everything and they have the plot and they're trying to like, they're |
1:40.3 | trying to like give the floppy disc. I'm going old school, ladies and gentlemen, and they're trying to like give the floppy disk. I'm going old school, ladies and gentlemen. And they're trying to give the floppy disk to like the newspaper report. |
1:46.0 | And they're like, you're a crazy person. |
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