From the transcript of that Dec 16 episode: "It's a tiny slice of the Trump base. But it's still an enormous problem, because you don't need that many fanatical and violent people to cause a giant problem in America." gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-trans…
Thread from Dec 9 on the inevitability of threats of violence aimed at elected officials during Trump's attempted coup, which people were denying existed...
Every person who denied that this was an attempted coup has blood on their hands. You've helped kill people for years, with covid, with guns, but most of all with DENIAL.
What can be predicted can be prevented. The media and officials chose death. That'll always be their legacy.
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Whoa. Sheldon Adelson was one of the biggest donors to Trump and the GOP. He was a one-issue donor and his issue was Israel. Two weeks ago he lent one of his private planes to fly convicted American spy for Israel Jonathan Pollard to Israel.
"Controversial" lawyer Alan Dershowitz, huh? That's the adjective? Dershowitz was accused of raping an underage girl procured by his client Jeffrey Epstein -- just like Trump, who was accused in court of raping a thirteen-year-old Epstein victim. But they won't talk about that.
You all understand the decades-long Epstein/Maxwell operation is a major factor in the Trump crisis and the government obfuscation and complicity surrounding it, right?
"We knew in 2016 that if Trump stayed in power, there would be mass death. We knew institutions would be further lost to organized crime. And we were like 'If we can figure this out, where are the people whose *job* it is to protect us?'" -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/traitors…
"In Nov 2016, the only thing we could see as worse than the coming humanitarian catastrophe Trump ensured was an *immediate* humanitarian catastrophe. So we've long wondered if control over hacked infrastructure was their real leverage." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/traitors…
"For years before the latest Russian cyberattack, we'd get admissions from officials that yes, hostile operatives permeated the grid. But it wasn't widely discussed. It's up there with Jeffrey Epstein as an topic officials tried to dodge." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/traitors…
"The reason little pundits are saying Trump 'acts like a mafioso' is because *he is one*. Trump is a career criminal. Trump has been immersed in transnational organized crime for his entire life." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/traitors…
"Over the years, anyone who tried to bring Trump's long criminal history to light and hold him accountable was threatened. Judges, juries, whistleblowers, journalists, representatives. These threats were successful: this is a mafia state." -- @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/traitors…
"Trump doesn't seem to have secured the support of the military for his coup; he acted too late. The next time someone like Trump gets in the WH they're going to pack the military and security services with their cult." -- @AndreaChalupa on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/traitors…
"When people want to govern, collegiality helps. But that's not what they're doing. Things have been antagonistic since Gingrich and what I call his 'contract on America'. MAGA is just the latest extension of what Gingrich did." - Jen Taub on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/all-pres…
"I hope that Biden's AG is independent and does not take his 'unity' message to mean not holding accountable those who should be held accountable. My concern is that there may not be many people left after the slew of pardons." -- Jen Taub on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/all-pres…
"There is nothing stopping the House or Senate from holding hearings [on Trump admin crimes] akin to the 9/11 commission hearings or the financial crisis inquiry commission. There are so many crimes to choose from." -- Jen Taub on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/all-pres…
"The US justice system caters to white-collar criminals, by which I mean people with high status and 'respectability' who commit crimes throughout the course of their occupation." -- Jennifer Taub on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/big-dirt…
"The most privileged can hire the best lawyers. Every step -- if you're caught, or investigated by a regulatory agency, or investigated by the DOJ; your plea bargain or trial or sentence -- is shaped by pre-existing status." -- Jen Taub on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/big-dirt…
"One of the things judges are supposed to consider is if the accused is a 'credit to the community'. So if you're cheating and know it, like Madoff, you give money to causes and charities so lawyers can use it when you get caught." -- Taub on @gaslitnationpatreon.com/posts/big-dirt…