Thread by @TrumpFile

THREAD: Listening to the new episode of @GaslitNation, "Why Does the GOP Vote to Hurt Their Own Base?" with @sarahkendzior and @AndreaChalupa!

The GOP "has refashioned itself as an apocalyptic cult seeking one-party rule."

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"The American political & economic system is designed to make you feel like you are worthless. But you are worth more than they tell you, & part of the struggle the next few years is resisting the cult mentality... that tells you to not ask for what you deserve." - @sarahkendzior

"Demand better. Always push for better, because that's how you get progress...The federal minimum wage hasn't been raised since something like 2009, and it's one of the contributing factors to why we have crisis levels of income inequality." - @AndreaChalupa

I'm posting the above tweets now & live-tweeting as I listen from here. This ep. of Gaslit Nation will be available where you get your podcasts soon, or listen early and get bonus episodes on Patreon.

New followers, we do this thread every week. Enjoy!

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"Poverty gets inherited generation after generation... We live in a growing, corporate, oligarch-driven power structure... We shouldn't have an economy and democracy that is dependent on oligarchs being benevolent. That's the danger here." - @AndreaChalupa

Who do we rely on for space exploration?
Elon Musk, Oligarch

What kind of people keep journalism alive?
Jeff Bezos, Washington Post Oligarch
Mike Bloomberg, Bloomberg News Oligarch

Feel free to add your own examples under this tweet.

The Reagan administration "sold everybody on the gaslighting of trickle down economics," which was and has always been a lie. The rich only got richer while we got poorer.

The Reagan era ended the Fairness Doctrine, which is why Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, etc. can spread far-right propaganda without consequence.

Speaking of Reagan, have you heard of the Council for National Policy? They wanted Reagan 2.0 and got MAGA. trumpfile.org/cnp-list

"All things considered, the American Rescue Plan is historic. Don't take that from me. Take that from America's favorite 'curmudgeon,' Bernie Sanders." - @AndreaChalupa

Curmudgeon is sarcasm.

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1368256311549435911?s=20

"Obama came in, and he carried his big olive branch of bipartisanship, and Mitch McConnell and the Republicans took it and BEAT HIM WITH IT."

@AndreaChalupa I try to keep these threads relatively short, but your quotes are so good 😋

Democrats -- specifically Democrat voters -- work so hard every election cycle to get out there, educate other voters, phone bank, go door to door. And we did this. We got Joe Biden and Ossoff and "Radical Liberal Raphael Warnock." But we have to keep working.

If Dems don't tackle systemic issues, broken institutions, transnational crime, & figures who want to destroy democracy, then the Biden administration is just an interlude between autocrats.

"Any progress that they make... has the potential of being destroyed." - @sarahkendzior

"Manchin recently said he's reconsidering his position [on the filibuster]. Then Biden came out and was like 'nah, I'm good man, I like the filibuster.' And I don't know what the hell to make of that!" - @sarahkendzior

"@AOC absolutely must primary Chuck Schumer." - @AndreaChalupa

RT if you agree.

We're shitting on Kristen Sinema now, which I am 100% here for.

"Kristen Senema has outed herself to us as not being very clever and not being the right person, morally, for this time of crises that we're getting hit with... She's overstayed her welcome." - @AndreaChalupa

"Given that little buddy tap with McConnell. Granted, we've seen that before. We saw Kamala Harris and Lindsey Graham doing a little fist bump. We saw Pelosi and Barr joking about the prospect of Barr actually facing justice for his crimes." - @sarahkendzior

We saw Nancy WHAT?!

"The amount of millionaires in the government is absolutely outrageous. There are very few I think in the Senate who aren't, who haven't met that threshold. And that's disturbing." - @sarahkendzior

And they don't want you to touch $15/hour, America.

This Joe Biden union speech is hot stuff.

Just imagine the shit we'd be hearing right now if Trump was still in office. trumpfile.org/former-dhs-chi…

"In Missouri, we voted for progressive policies... A GOP state legislature and governor shut them down, making it impossible for us to move forward... They just overrule us. I feel like that is the model of what would happen nationally [with GOP back in power]." - @sarahkendzior

"In states like mine... we need HELP. We need financial support for our candidates. We need people to have our backs instead of dismissing us as 'this is red, this is blue'... Because what we have is the tyranny of the minority, and it's BRUTAL to live under." -@sarahkendzior

I'm going to try and slow down the quotes to stop this thread from being as long as the Bible. If you're new here and would like to know more about me or my website, this thread is for you ⬇️🙂

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"We have a Washington Post journalist massacred by a foreign country. The previous administration cheers it on. The current administration does nothing. Our freedom of media is tenuous, but also--this is a human being. This is a life lost." - @sarahkendzior #Khashoggi #MBS

Andrea: If I sound really optimistic in today's episode it's because there's--

Sarah: It's the microchip in your vaccine.

Both:

Israel is in its 38th straight week of protests against Benjamin Netanyahu -- prime minister, criminal, and man who sleeps in Jared Kushner's bed. trumpfile.org/benjamin-netan…

Biden nominee and former Biden official Colin Kahl has been threatened by Israeli mercenary intelligence agency Black Cube, and the story is nowhere.

"The real horror story surrounding Kahl... is being almost completely ignored." - Sarah

"In 2017, somebody in Donald Trump's orbit hired the Israeli intelligence firm Black Cube to go after former Obama officials--in particular, Kahl and Ben Rhodes, who were both instrumental in negotiating the administration's Iran deal." - Sarah

In 2018, Kahl wrote "a long and horrifying thread" about Trump asking Black Cube to dig up dirt on him. Republicans are currently combing through his tweets to find reason not to confirm his new position. They're ignoring that thread, of course.

Here is the thread Sarah reads in the episode. A quick search shows Colin wrote more threads on this in the months following this one.

https://twitter.com/ColinKahl/status/993000884169666561?s=20

Elijah Cummings opened an investigation into Black Cube. When we lost him, the investigation disappeared.

"This is the kind of investigation that the Biden administration should pick up, but I don't see any sign that they will do that." - Sarah

"If @POTUS @JoeBiden wants to honor the black voters and organizers that got him into power, he needs to continue the investigations of Elijah Cummings and also insure that we get a $15 minimum wage." - @AndreaChalupa

Sarah compares how the U.K. press drove Meghan Markle to considering suicide while blatantly ignoring Prince Andrew's ties to Epstein and rape allegations until Epstein's alleged death.

#Megxit #meganandharry

For those who don't know, Epstein's co-conspirator, Ghislaine Maxwell, was the daughter of Robert Maxwell. He was basically a less successful Rupert Murdoch, except he was also a Mossad agent, did favors for the largest mafia boss in the world, and served in the U.K. Parliament.

While we're on the subject, I'd like to put to rest this MSM PR stunt that Trump knew Ghislaine Maxwell through Jeffrey Epstein. All records indicate that Trump met Ghislaine years before Epstein. trumpfile.org/donald-trump-p…

The connections run even deeper. Princess Diana's boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, was Jamal Khashoggi's cousin. The Khashoggis sold yachts to Trump & Robert Maxwell. Trump, Maxwell, and Jamal's uncle had the same publicist, too. Howard Rubenstein. Just search "Khashoggi" on Trump File.

"It's an incredibly small world. It's an incredibly dark and contaminated world. I can't blame Meghan at all -- or Harry for that matter -- for wanting to flee it... They ran the other way. They got the Hell out of there." - @sarahkendzior #meganandharry #Megxit

That's all for this week! For more discussion than I've provided here, make sure to listen to the full episode. This week's bonus episode is "Megxit, Andrew Cuomo, and the Criminal Elite." Get that and more on Patreon at the Truth-Teller level or higher. patreon.com/gaslit

For more on the filibuster and why it's time to kill it, here's my thread from last week's episode. Be sure to follow @AndreaChalupa & @sarahkendzior!

If you're interested in the Council for National Policy which I mentioned earlier, follow @anelsona.

https://twitter.com/TrumpFile/status/1366950423316205574?s=20