"We've been warning about the Trump Crime Family building a dynastic kleptocracy for four years. A lot of people called us called us 'alarmist' and 'hysterical' and other words reserved for women who are right too early." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/dynasty-…
"It was confirmed that Don and Ivanka are being groomed for 2024, as the GOP expects Trump to be reinstalled -- I don't want to say re-elected -- in 2020.
"Dynastic kleptocracies traffic in money-laundering. The inner circle of these types of governments gets smaller over time, increasingly relying on family. The image of the next gen is meant to offset the ruler -- but they are as brutal." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/dynasty-…
"These are crime families struggling to become criminal political dynasties. So they need guaranteed pardons for their members down the road. They need their circle spread out into the government." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/dynasty-…
"Trump never sought to 'deconstruct the administrative state' in an ideological sense, like Bannon said. The Trump Crime Family wants to destroy it and then rebuild it in their own image for their own profit and their own nefarious ends." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/dynasty-…
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"When it comes to Putin's objectives, do not think in rational terms. We're on Putin's time, Putin's dime, and Putin's mindset. None of it can be trusted." -- @MalcolmNance on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/dispatch…
"If Russia invades western Ukraine, it will be a bloodbath. Ukraine has been rebuilt since 1945 and here the Kremlin is talking about destroying it all. The only way to fight is going to be total war." -- @MalcolmNance on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/dispatch…
"This whole concept of Putin honoring 'Kievan Rus' is a mirage. Putin is a racist and hates Ukrainians. The way he uses ahistorical analyses of Ukrainians is similar to how white Americans described Black Americans during Jim Crow." -- @Russian_Starrpatreon.com/posts/dispatch…
"Imperialists and dictators will always use the lie of 'this ethnic group naturally has a slave mentality' to justify their own horrific actions. If you hear this phrase, dismiss it. There is no such thing as an innate 'slave mentality.'" -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/nato-is-…
"There is also no such thing as a 'natural inclination toward authoritarianism.' Westerners will say this about long-standing dictatorships, that this is the natural order of things, instead of grasping that people living in a dictatorship cannot discuss it and must navigate it."
"When people don't protest, it does not mean that they are in favor of their leader. It means they are avoiding state force. Once the dictator finally leaves, you often see a heated rejection of decades-long personality cults. Look at Kazakhstan now." patreon.com/posts/nato-is-…
THREAD compiling notable Gaslit Nation episodes on Ukraine:
At @gaslitnation, we have been covering Ukraine, Russia and the US -- and the global kleptocracy tying them together -- since our first episode in 2018. This thread links to the transcripts of episodes that provide more context for the current crisis.
"Manafort, Wikileaks, and Trump's Long Bromance with Putin" Our very first episode on the global nexus of kleptocratic actors and how Ukraine is used as a playing ground for their criminal schemes gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-trans…
An article I wrote in April 2018 about how Trump would use the pardon power as a lure for his crime cult to be protected. Then he did it, repeatedly, and is threatening to do it again.
"We need an overarching democracy strategy from the top to the bottom. At the top is preventing the people who tried to overthrow the election from ever doing it again. But I don't see urgency from Dems to prevent this from happening." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/insurrec…
"What happens in 2022 will determine whether there will even be a fair election in 2024. Because if all these insurrectionists take over county election boards and secretary of state races, it will be nearly impossible to have a fair election." patreon.com/posts/insurrec…