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Thread: Listening to the new episode of @gaslitnation, "Investigations Now!" w/ @AndreaChalupa and @sarahkendzior. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. I'm listening ad-free on Patreon.

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"The Trump administration is no longer a transnational crime syndicate masquerading as a government, but... there is still a transnational crime syndicate." - @sarahkendzior

This is the first Gaslit Nation without Trump in office, & I am stoked! I'm making a drink to celebrate.

"Putin and his cronies love to scare Russians into submission by saying 'If you overthrow us, you're going to go back to the chaos and poverty and instability of the 1990s.'" - Andrea

Does anyone else think that sounds like the GOP? "We protect you from communist horrors!" 🙃

"We narrowly dodged a very dire fate with the election of Biden. If we had continued with Trump, we would have had a government increasingly resembling that of Putin... with further attacks on freedom of assembly, freedom of speech." - Sarah trumpfile.org/former-dhs-chi…

Sarah talks about how different it would be living in the U.S. a few years from now if Trump stayed in office, comparing it to the psychological and historical toll of Islam Karimov ruling Uzbekistan for 20+ years. trumpfile.org/islam-karimov-…

"Like Trump, Putin will burn [Russia] down to stay in power. He mass murders in Ukraine... He deliberately slaughters civilians in Syria... For Putin, pro-democracy revolutions cannot succeed because the biggest thing Putin fears is the Russian people." - @AndreaChalupa

"For the last four years, the United States has been part of an axis of autocrats... between Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Hungary, Israel, at times even North Korea. That was the Trump administration policy. That was the policy of the United States" and it must end. - Sarah

Sarah points out that even though we had sanctions on Russia during the Trump administration, those sanctions were only on paper. They were never (or almost never) put into practice. trumpfile.org/trump-refuses-…

"All of these dark transnational alliances need to be brought into the limelight and investigated and talked about as part of mainstream discussion." - Sarah

I've said this before but I think many of our GOP lawmakers are puppets for these dark money transnational figures.

Sarah is rightfully PISSED that the GOP looks like it will succeed in avoiding accountability despite our own representatives nearly being murdered. We should ALL be pissed.

"They went in there with the INTENTION of murdering representatives... The fact that it FAILED is not an excuse. Had it succeeded we would not be having this discussion because we would be living in an entrenched autocracy led by violent insurrectionists!" - @sarahkendzior

There may not be a better example of a Trump crime "Hiding In Plain Sight," as Sarah would say, than the Capitol terrorist attack, given all of the evidence we have right in front of our eyes.

Riley Williams (stole Pelosi's laptop, wanted to sell it to Russia) was sent home and given internet access, so she started deleting evidence of the crime.

"When someone is trying to overthrow your country... DON'T GIVE THEM INTERNET ACCESS. Hot tip from @gaslitnation!" - Sarah

Note from me: It's difficult to feel optimistic about the next four years when #QCongress is trending and showing on my screen while I listen to this. WTF America.

People like Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Lauren Boebert, etc. "are not like random Joes off the street... They are backed up by billionaires... You are dealing with a very well-financed, very violent movement." - Sarah

"Let's expose all of the individuals that get hidden by Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz and their court jester antics... They are at war with us." - @AndreaChalupa

One of the largest if not the largest contributor to Josh Hawley's 2018 campaign was the NRA, at the same time that the Russian mafia was funneling money into the NRA. Mueller was looking into the Russia / NRA story and it was dropped.

Hawley has one donor in particular that no one knows who it is that dumped tons of money into his campaign. "He is a malleable actor. He can be moved and shaped in whatever direction [they] push him. That's what makes him dangerous."

Which brings up the question: WHO PAID OFF BRETT KAVANAUGH'S DEBT?

I don't know much about this story yet personally but I've seen/heard it brought up so many times. Let me google that... Here we go. gq.com/story/scotus-k…

A big theme of this episode is that we need to dig in to GOP figures' pasts to try and uncover who is really at the wheel, who directs them. Shoutout to @Real_QL who does a great job researching the criminals in the GOP.

We're moving on to the topic of Charles Flynn, Michael Flynn's brother, who was somewhat involved in the military's response to the Capitol attack. The reason this is suspicious is because the Pentagon LIED about him being there.

Michael Flynn refresher:
- tried to have someone assassinated on US soil
- tried to sell nuclear material to the Saudies
- is a confirmed unregistered foreign agent for Russia and Turkey
- his son pushed Pizzagate, both are Q figures
- tried giving Russia access to our military

Both Sarah and Andrea are shocked that they didn't know Charles Flynn was an active general in the U.S. military until his brother played a role in events leading up to the Capitol terrorist attack. (Same.)

"If we didn't know about it... what else don't we know about Charles Flynn, and what has he been doing all this time?"

Was he involved with the Pentagon refusing to cooperate with the Biden transition team? How would we know?

Something that @sarahkendzior and @AndreaChalupa don't specifically call out but I'm thinking about:

Michael Flynn belonged to the U.S. military AND to Russia. He has always known that Q is a big lie. If he's pushing it and pretending to believe in it, that's FOR Russia.

Trump Crimes that need to be investigated, Coronavirus edition:

1. lying about the nature and prevalence of COVID
2. stealing and selling medical equipment
3. threatening governors and public officials
4. purposefully infecting 100s of thousands for selective genocide

"They literally said 'let them be infected.' That was the goal. The goal was to kill the American public... The fact that that policy was formed in malice became particularly clear when people realized that COVID-19 was far more likely to kill [minorities]." - Sarah

For more on the Trump administration's criminal handling of COVID, I give you: trumpfile.org/category/covid…

About 10 seconds into this clip of @sarahkendzior talking about investigating Trump's crimes, her voice starts to sound like one of those automatic responses you get when you call customer support.

I don't know why I thought it was funny enough to upload, but here you go.

Trump's family separation at the border "is a crime against humanity worthy of a Nuremberg-style trial... They purposefully separated families... Over 1,000 missing children. The children and the adults were tortured in the camps... Reports of forced hysterectomies..." - Sarah

Stephen Miller, like others in the Trump administration:

1. violated security clearances
2. lied on his clearance forms
3. has ties to malicious actors in foreign countries

"Why is he so valuable? Who is protecting him?" - Sarah

"The Supreme Court ended lawsuits (this week) over whether Trump illegally profited off the presidency, which is something he did basically everyday. That is why Trump packed the Supreme Court." - Sarah

I have not seen this story yet, but here it is: usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

That's all! This week's bonus episode "We Need a New WPA" where Sarah and Andrea answer questions from listeners is available with a Patreon subscription at the link below. Show notes for "Investigations Now" are available on Patreon w/out a subscription. patreon.com/gaslit

Disclaimer: My live-tweets of Gaslit Nation do not cover the full episodes, just my favorite highlights as I listen. Full transcripts of each episode can be found at GaslitNationPod.com.

(I will probably put the disclaimer at the top of the thread next week.)