We've Been Through This Such a Long, Long Time

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🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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It's November – the beginning of the end, the end of the beginning. We at Gaslit Nation have been through this such a long long time, just trying to kill the pain, and we have mitigated it somewhat together. And now we enter a new phase, where the key digital platform that allowed documentation of the crimes of the powerful and literally made our show possible – Twitter – is being steamrolled by a billionaire shitposter. (We are refusing to cede our ground and will remain on Twitter despite Musk; for more on that, listen to our Patreon bonus episode.)

The attempted destruction of Twitter arrives in the midst of waves of political violence: the bludgeoning of Paul Pelosi, violent threats nationwide to poll workers and election officials, and the continuation of the election day "bloodbath" promises that criminal elites have been making for years – and the DOJ is letting it happen. We are dreading the midterms and the violence that will very likely follow; we mourn the violence that is here and the corrupt enablers in government who refused to take action when it really mattered, years ago, when we still stood a chance. Never forget that this all could have been prevented: what's predictable is preventable. They made their choice, and we made ours. We discuss the landscape of streamlined political violence and then provide some last minute updates to our midterms coverage. Vote early, if you can.

Gaslit Nation needs support! If you like our show, spread the word, because we are on our own and may be impacted by the Twitter takeover. Gaslit Nation is entirely funded by our audience. If you appreciate the work we've been doing these past six years, consider joining at the Truth-Teller level and getting bonus episodes every week. You can also join at the Democracy Defender level to ask us a question and get it answered in a weekly Q & A. (We are working through your questions now, if you've submitted one, and we'll have a new Q & A next week.)

Also stay tuned for special election episodes that we will run next week depending on the condition of the proto-fascist hellscape! And please be good to each other in this dark November – everybody needs somebody, no you're not the only one…

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, when the Republican Party of Georgia moved Herschel Walker from Texas to Georgia
0:07.0	so that he could run for Senate, it's because change was taking too fast in the post antebellum South.
0:16.0	The state had been flipped blue, and there are some principalities
0:20.8	that were not prepared for a black man
0:23.0	and a Jewish man to go to Senate
0:25.1	at the exact same time.
0:27.5	So they figured that they would delude us
0:31.2	by picking somebody who they thought
0:34.3	would in fact represent us better
0:37.3	with a football than with a degree in philosophy.
0:41.3	They thought we were so slow that we were so stupid that we would elect the lowest caricature
0:49.0	of a stereotypical broken black man as opposed to somebody who is educated and erudite and focus.
0:58.5	Y'all ain't ready for me today.
1:00.3	Since Hershey Walker was 16 years old, white men been telling him what to do,
1:06.6	telling him what school to go to, where to live, where to eat, where to buy a house, where to run,
1:13.0	where to sit down, where to sleep, where to pay for abortions, where to buy a gun.
1:18.4	And you think they're not going to tell him how to vote?
1:22.2	In 2022, we don't need a walker, we need a runner.
1:47.0	We need somebody who's going to run and tell the truth about January 6th. We need somebody who's going to run and push for the cancellation of student loan debts. We need somebody who going to run and make the former president respond to a subpoena. We don't need a walker.
1:49.0	We need somebody who will be steadfast, unmovable, always abounded, knowing that your labor is not in vain.
1:59.0	Georgia, I need you to know the slave Negroes y'all are used to
2:03.6	don't live here no more.
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