"Biden's new anti-corruption plan looks a lot like Mueller's 2011 'Iron Triangles' speech, which described how organized crime had infiltrated corporations, law firms, and governments. (Mueller then, of course, did nothing about that.)" -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/time-to-…
"Mueller described how the mafia of the 21st century is financial sophistication. It's real estate. It's accounting. The big difference in the Biden anti-corruption plan is that they won't discuss the existence of organized crime at all." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/time-to-…
"Trump Tower was a dorm for the Russian mafia. Trump is a paragon of laundering money through real estate. He was under investigation by the Treasury until he became president. This is one of the reasons career criminals run for office." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/time-to-…
"Biden's anti-corruption report outlines how critical fighting global corruption is to our national security, our sovereignty, the integrity of our elections. Whether the Biden admin actually *implements* the plan remains the question." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/time-to-…
"Bob Dole, who Biden will be praising this week in eulogies, embodied 'respectable corruption' in his later years. He was a foreign agent. Manafort was his campaign advisor. Dole worked for Oleg Deripaksa and was on the board of one of the most corrupt banks in Kyrgyzstan."
"Follow Bob Dole's career and you will see the rise of kleptocracy, especially after the end of the Soviet Union when both USSR-born oligarchs and Western enablers made a killing -- literally and figuratively -- alongside organized crime." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/time-to-…
"Everyone wants a clear-cut hero or a clear-cut villain. That's not the case in real life. A lot of people serve their country honorably at one point and then take a dark turn. They're lured by greed and lust for power, then contained by blackmail and bribes." -- @gaslitnation
"People would rather examine a cartoon villain than deal with someone like Dole -- or any of the compromised representatives who at one point served with integrity before moving in another direction. They don't want to admit that this corruption is possible." -- @gaslitnation

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8 Dec
Russian oligarch partner Len Blavatnik, who gave the biggest donation to the DCCC in its history in 2019, has ramped up his donations to the Dems again -- particularly Pelosi. We discuss on this week's @gaslitnation
"Blavatnik is a business associate of sanctioned oligarchs Deripaska and Vekselberg. He is also a very close friend of Netanyahu. Blavatnik is part of the circle of oligarchs and corrupt international officials deeply tied to Trump and his crime cult." patreon.com/posts/time-to-…
"Blavatnik was born in the Soviet Union but has US citizenship, which makes it legal for him to give enormous campaign donations to US officials when sanctioned foreign oligarchs cannot." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/time-to-…
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8 Dec
In this week's @gaslitnation, we discuss threats toward House reps like AOC by violent GOP extremists like Paul Gosar and how the refusal of House leadership to swiftly and strongly take action has streamlined political violence patreon.com/posts/time-to-…
"GOP reps who applauded the 1/6 attacks and interacted with the attackers faced minimal consequences. Instead, Pelosi let them stay in office and continue attacks on congresswomen like AOC and Ilhan Omar, whom they stalk in the halls and threaten online." patreon.com/posts/time-to-…
"The threats that AOC and other female representatives of color get were always serious. The threats date back years and have increased in severity along with govt inaction. We are dealing with the prospect of assassination and we have a political climate which facilitates it."
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1 Dec
"South Africa is being punished for their honesty and expertise. That's been the theme of the last five years, whether you're an epidemiologist, a climate scientist, a scholar of authoritarian states. People punish you for being right." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/tyranny-…
"Many people are locked in a cult mentality, a deferential mode of supplication, where they only want to hear fairy tales and false reassurances based on nothing. When experts come forward with evidence of a crisis that can be mitigated, they are attacked for speaking out."
"We're going to go through hard times, but things don't have to be as hard as they have been. That's true for the pandemic, climate change, corruption. The future depends on what people choose to do, particularly those who hold power." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/tyranny-…
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1 Dec
"It wouldn't be 2021 without a new plague variant, and of course we get a variant that sounds like the title of a William Gibson novel or a B-side by the Blue Oyster Cult." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/tyranny-…
"Omicron emerged largely due to the refusal of Big Pharma to make the covid vaccine free and accessible outside wealthy and Western states. Variants are much more likely to form when there is a low rate of vaccination." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/tyranny-…
"Unlike when Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine and gave it away, the monstrous men running Big Pharma today do not want to make the vaccine free. They make huge profits when a variant emerges. When omicron emerged, Pfizer’s shares hit a record high." patreon.com/posts/tyranny-…
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1 Dec
"Janet Yellen won't release Trump's tax returns to Congress. She won't update Congress on the hijacking of the Treasury by Russian in 2015, which was exposed in 2018, and seemingly never remedied. All they did was jail the whistleblower." -- @gaslitnation patreon.com/posts/tyranny-…
"Like Garland, Yellen abets corruption through inaction and by treating criminal elites as above the law. This inaction furthers public perception that criminal elites are innocent. They start to think, 'If these guys were REALLY that dangerous, surely the government would act!"
"Jared Kushner is making dirty Middle East deals after profiting off a plague and committing an enormous number of illegal offenses while in office. He has no problem using classified information for personal profit. He is a national security threat, and our agencies do nothing."
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24 Nov
"It appears that someone in the Biden administration finally realized that you cannot sell yourself as 'the infrastructure president' when you are allowing the destruction of a vital piece of infrastructure like the US postal service." patreon.com/posts/dejoy-of…
"Biden is finally removing USPS Chairman of the Board of Governors Ron Bloom, the man responsible for protecting postal service wrecking ball Louis DeJoy. That's good news, but Biden could have done this months ago. Bloom was a holdover who could have been removed at any time."
Our June @gaslitnation episode "Why Are the Democrats Keeping Louis Dejoy?" details Ron Bloom's shady ties. Vet your officials, folks! And ask why they are allowed to linger in place when they are helping to destroy the country.
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