Why the Georgia Protests Matter to U.S. Voters [TEASER]
Gaslit Nation
Gaslit Nation
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🗓️ 18 May 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Mark your calendar! We're having a live taping of Gaslit Nation on June 25 (Orwell's birthday!) at 12pm ET for subscribers at the Truth-teller level or higher on Patreon.com/Gaslit!
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Are you tired of the nonstop coverage of the Trump trials? The mainstream media is setting Americans up for disappointment again, like they did with the nonstop "justice porn" coverage of the Mueller investigation. The only thing that will stop Trump in November is us. (It should not be that way, but it is). Progress in America has always come from the grassroots, and as MAGA's Russian-backed coup against our democracy continues, grassroots power is the most reliable power we have left. To join the movement to strengthen American democracy from the ground up, be sure to check out the Gaslit Nation 2024 Survival Guide on the homepage of GaslitNationPod.com. As for the trial, Gaslit Nation predicts a hung jury: you just need one juror, likely a man, who wants to make a name for himself and cash-in with rewards from the Trump machine. What are your predictions of what will come from the Trump trial? Let us know in an email to GaslitNation@gmail.com and we may read your comment on the show!
In this week's bonus show, Andrea answers questions from our subscribers at the Democracy Defender level ($10/month) and higher! The discussion includes the hypocrisy of Congress's TikTok ban, the importance of stating one's values and goals in the fight for our democracy, how the Israel-Palestine War impacts Ukraine coverage and why that matters, the boring ratings grab of nonstop Trump trial coverage, and more! Terrell Starr of the essential Black Diplomats Podcast and Substack joins the show to explain why the average American voter should care about the growing protests in Georgia against Russian-state capture. Is it a preview of the U.S. should Trump win?
Ready to see the President of the United States share the same stage as an unpunished coup-plotter and serial rapist who idolizes Hitler and Putin? To our Patreon community at the Truth-teller level and higher, we're having a debate watch party on June 27th in our Victory Chat, to help us get through the media's normalization of Trump and fact check the gaslighting. Hold on tight!
Subscribe to Gaslit Nation on Patreon at the Truth-teller level or higher, and for $5/month, get all shows ad-free, bonus shows, invites to exclusive events, join a like-minded community of listeners, and more! This excerpt is from this week's bonus show. To hear the full discussion, make sure to subscribe at the Truth-teller level or higher at Patreon.com/Gaslit. Discounts are available when you sign up for an annual subscription!
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Show Notes:
Pre-Order Andrea's Graphic Novel: In the Shadow of Stalin: The Story of Mr. Jones https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/In-the-Shadow-of-Stalin-The-Story-of-Mr-Jones/Andrea-Chalupa/9781637152775
Putin's brutal war on Ukraine vanishes from news coverage amid raging conflict in Gaza
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/17/media/gaza-ukraine-war-news-coverage/index.html
Polling data expert Tom Bonier https://twitter.com/tbonier
Shaun Walker of The Guardian on Russia's Stalinist prisons https://twitter.com/shaunwalker7/status/1789751355252396394
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. Welcome to this week's bonus episode. I am your host, Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker, and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine. And guess what, everyone? There's going to be, |
| 0:26.0 | you know this already because I'm talking about it on the show, but there's going to be a |
| 0:30.7 | Mr. Jones graphic novel coming out from Oni Press, which is under Simon & Schuster. |
| 0:39.8 | It is a book I've been working on for one million years as a backup plan in case I could not get my film made, that at least |
| 0:46.5 | I would have a graphic novel and the story, the script would get out into the world that way. |
| 0:51.3 | And ironically, the graphic novel took a lot longer and it was to an extent even harder |
| 0:57.5 | than the film itself. And the film was shot during a historic snowfall in Ukraine where our teeth |
| 1:07.0 | were freezing and cell phones stopped working. It was so cold. And yet this graphic novel, |
| 1:11.4 | a labor of love for so many years was just so much harder. I don't know why. I don't know why. |
| 1:17.7 | It was just harder. I love making graphic novels. I love working with illustrators. |
| 1:23.5 | I don't know why. Maybe, you know, when the book launches, we're all the book party this fall, |
| 1:29.5 | get me a couple of ciders and I'll figure it out with you, okay? But until then, the book's coming |
| 1:35.1 | out, the baby's being born. It's a beautiful book. I'm so incredibly proud of it. It was worth the |
| 1:40.0 | wait. It'll be available to you September 4th, but you can pre-order it now. And we are working on |
| 1:47.0 | some sort of events to do around it to raise awareness of what's going on in Ukraine, obviously |
| 1:51.7 | tied to the election where Ukraine is on the ballot, where our very democracy is on the ballot. |
| 1:56.7 | I'm very proud of this book. It's called In the Shadow of Stalin. It is the adaptation of the |
| 2:02.9 | screenplay for Mr. Jones, including some of the deleted scenes that we couldn't include in the |
| 2:08.3 | final cut of the film because otherwise the film would have been three hours long. So if you want to |
| 2:13.2 | see essentially the shooting script of Mr. Jones, the film. Get your hands on a copy of the graphic |
| 2:19.8 | novel in the shadow of Stalin with gorgeous art by a Brazilian artist named Ivan Rodriguez. |
| 2:26.3 | I'm very honored and thrilled to bring you that. So now we are going to, in this bonus episode, |
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