Thread: Listening to the new episode of @GaslitNation, "The Breitbart Senate."

"What we've seen so far is the Trump administration attempting a coup and failing... There is still plenty left in the Trump Crime Cult playbook... Murphy has conceded, but Trump still hasn't."

"There are a number of ways Trump and his crime cult could continue their attempted coup..." Litigation, SCOTUS, violence, bureaucratic obstruction, creating a national emergency as a pretext to the military. @sarahkendzior @gaslitnation

"What would actually unite the U.S. is an end to elite criminal impunity. For 4 decades, we have not only seen the same crimes carried out but the same criminals committing or enabling them. Manafort, Stone, Barr, the Trump & Kushner families" etc - @sarahkendzior @gaslitnation

"What I'm worried about is that we're going to go back to how it was when we all felt such immense relief... in 2008... People went on autopilot and stopped paying attention." - @AndreaChalupa @gaslitnation

"Just because we don't have the benefit of a screaming Frankenstein's monster haunting our dreams at night... it doesn't mean that the threat is gone. We are not out of the woods... We need to dismantle the systems that allowed a Trump to flourish." - @AndreaChalupa @gaslitnation

"The Senate kept asking the doctor about hydroxychloroquine, a drug pushed by Breitbart, the Trump family... It's conspiracy theory at this point...

The Senate is supposed to be above the fray of U.S. politics... It's now a Breitbart disinformation echo chamber." #GaslitNation

"There's a massive gray area of people who don't fit into political boxes... Disillusionment is the main mood of this country, and [it] stems from... watching wealthy people get away with... brutal action that trickles down to us ordinary people." - @sarahkendzior @gaslitnation

"We need to have congressional hearings and very transparent, very open investigations into all of this corruption, into all of these networks." Ex: Deutsche Bank, Trump, Epstein, Russian Mafia, Kushner, Plutocrats

- @sarahkendzior @gaslitnation

"With the election of #Biden, we get a second chance. We would not have had [it] had Trump stayed in for a second term... It would have been the end of the American experiment. We're in for tough times, anyway, but we finally have a chance." - @sarahkendzior @gaslitnation

"We finally have a chance to... root out elite criminal impunity, kleptocracy, corruption in the tech industry, the use of surveillance by them... poverty, income inequality. Those are possibly things that even people who voted for #Trump would get on board with." #GaslitNation

. @AndreaChalupa talks about the longtime, pre-Trump problems in the U.S. that affect us all, finishes: "Stay grounded in empathy, because none of this is normal. America was already suffering with a normality crisis, and that's what gave us Trump to begin with." #GaslitNation

"Trump created a cult, and the cult is still with us, fueled by rampant disinformation, powered by consolidated far-right media, big tech, and American oligarchs like the Mercer family and Mark Zuckerberg." - @AndreaChalupa @gaslitnation

"The Republican party, a lot of them turned on Trump because he gave away the game. He was a crude version of themselves. You'll see a lot of these guys going back to more buttoned up versions of Trump." - @AndreaChalupa @gaslitnation

"There was never a 'normal' to begin with for POC in America. Understand that it's a fascist, mass-murdering ideology that's at the root of it. It mutates & it gaslights & it uses pretty language and pretty people to try to seem respectable. That threat is still with us."

A shortlist of crimes against humanity:

- abuse of migrant families on the border
- permanent separation of children & parents
- purposefully letting COVID spread
- blocking medical professionals from PPE
- threats to withhold COVID help from "blue" states
- 250k dead, esp. POC

"The COVID crisis was preventable, and they chose to exploit it and profit off of it. It is so essential that we have rigorous investigations and, where needed, indictments, prosecutions of those who were involved in these criminal offenses." - @sarahkendzior @gaslitnation

"If the GOP takes the House (in 2022)... They will immediately move to impeach and convict #Biden, doesn't matter what the charge is. They'll make something up. They'll do it again to go after #KamalaHarris." - @sarahkendzior #GaslitNation

"We need to establish a legal precedent for prosecuting these crimes against humanity so that they can not again separate children from their parents... and respond to a public health crisis in this way." - @sarahkendzior @gaslitnation #TrumpTerroism

"By the way, you should be keeping an eye on [Mike Pompeo] & his dealings in the Middle East. He's been hanging with Netanyahu and MBS and a whole bunch of criminals while they sell off our military equipment." - @sarahkendzior http://trumpfile.org/tag/mike-pompeo 

"One thing Putin has done with his successful installation of his asset, Trump, is he's initiated Americans into the club of experiencing firsthand the terror and the horror of Russian aggression... He opened up the eyes of so many Americans." - @AndreaChalupa @gaslitnation

"The Kremlin infiltrated the Dept. of the Treasury in 2015... The only person who was punished for this incredible act of infiltration was the whistleblower. To our knowledge, the Kremlin still has access to our Treasury." - @sarahkendzior @gaslitnation https://trumpfile.org/russia-infiltrates-the-u-s-department-of-the-treasury/

"Even if we get 12 years with strong administrations, it's too late for the climate... It's just bracing for impact now and what is left in that wreckage and how we learn to live with... rising sea levels, fires, refugee camps, displaced persons, all of it." @AndreaChalupa

That's all for my personal highlights from this week's "The Breitbart Senate" episode of the @GaslitNation podcast. Be sure to subscribe if you haven't already, and thank you @sarahkendzior and @AndreaChalupa for doing this every week!