Monday 20 April '20 show notes

Apr. 21, 2020 8:59 am

By SueN

Can the Grifters Be Stopped?
Issues of the Day - Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District)
10 Year Anniversary - Deepwater Horizon: BP's SECOND Blowout...Secret History Revealed! - Greg Palast, The Guardian / Investigative Journalist/Author/Filmmaker, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy / His new book, How Trump Stole 2020 will be out on June 2
Boris Johnson's "Trump" Moment - Victoria Jones, Executive Director - DC Radio Company LLC

Thom's blog

Can The Grifters Be Stopped?

Trump, Fox News and America's right wing billionaires, who are all working together to stoke an "Open the country!" movement, are making a huge bet.

When Mike Pence was telling people in 2000 that cigarettes don't cause cancer, while many people no doubt died because of his advice, he was never held accountable for it.

When Donald Trump and the coal lobbyist who runs his EPA allowed a poisonous pesticide to go back into production and be used on our food crops, there will be an explosion in cancer and neurological disease, but he almost certainly will not be held responsible for it.

When Steve Mnuchin illegally "Robo signed" thousands of mortgage documents, throwing thousands of Californians out of their homes, he escaped any responsibility for the suffering and destroyed families he caused.

When Fox News promoted the Tea Party campaign to stop Obamacare and the expansion of Medicaid, Harvard University says tens of thousands of Americans died unnecessarily, but Fox News was never held responsible for that.

The same guys are now betting that they can successfully politicize the coronavirus and use it to get themselves reelected and lay their hands on as much of the stimulus money as possible, and they will not be held responsible for that, either.

Trump made a bet like this three months ago when he chose to ignore the coronavirus, and now over 40,000 Americans are dead, but by and large he is not being held responsible for that; instead of the networks put him on TV every night.

These grifters and political criminals are all doubling down on their bet that they can simply bullshit their way through this and succeed: do you think they'll win that bet?

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Can the Grifters Be Stopped?

Article: "420 (cannabis culture)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Deepwater Horizon oil spill" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Across America, Frustrated Protesters Rally To Reopen The Economy" by Kirk Siegler.

Article: ""Smoking Doesn't Kill" And Other Great Old Op-Eds From Mike Pence" by Andrew Kaczynski.

Article: "This 32-Year-Old Florida Woman Is Dead Because Her State Refused To Expand Medicaid" by Tara Culp-Ressler.

Article: "'A Total Disgrace': Outrage as Trump EPA Says It Won't Ban Pesticide Linked to Brain Damage in Children" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Mnuchin Lied About His Bank's History Of Robo-signing Foreclosure Documents" by David Dayen.

Article: ""Kill the bill" : Fox's year-long open activism against health care reform" by Eric Hananoki.

Article: "New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage" by David Cecere, September 17, 2009.

Article: "Larry Kudlow Claims America Has 'Contained' Coronavirus: 'Pretty Close to Airtight'" by Justin Baragona.

Article: "Reporter vs. Trump: Why Didn't You Warn People Virus Was Spreading Like Wildfire Instead Of Holding Rallies?" by Ian Schwartz.

Article: "Great Depression" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Wilbur Ross" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Spiro Agnew" by Wikipedia.

Article: "New York Attorney General Warns Trump That She Can Prosecute Him" by Jason Easley.

Article: "Trump Organization Looks To Deutsche Bank And Florida County For Financial Relief" by Shivdeep Dhaliwal.

Article: "Trump Organization Asks Deutsche Bank for Loan Payment Delay" by Matthew Leising and Steven Arons.

Site: BuzzFlash

Article: "Thom Hartmann: How Billionaires' Short-Term Greed Could Upend America And Destroy Their Own Wealth" by Thom Hartman.

Article: "Thom Hartmann for BuzzFlash: Trump, Fox News and Billionaires Double Down on Holding on to Power and Profiting Off of Death" by Thom Hartman.

Site: CBC News: Breaking, Local & World News.

Site: Free Speech TV

Article: "We came together in the greatest act of human kindness in history. Of course Trump had to destroy it" by CleverNickName.

Article: "The Huge Cost of Waiting to Contain the Pandemic" by Britta L. Jewell and Nicholas P. Jewell.

Article: "Medical staff praised for silent counter-protest in Colorado as anti-lockdown demonstrations erupt across US" by Imogen Braddick.

Article: "Maryland anti-stay-at-home protest flops hard as only three people show up" by Brad Reed

Article: "A slew of hotels are heeding cities' pleas for help. Trump's aren't." by Anita Kumar.

Article: "Pritzker arranging secret flights from China to bring millions of masks and gloves to Illinois" by Frank Main.

Article: "WH Counters Pritzker's Claim of Stinginess With Covid Aid" by Philip Wegmann.

Article: ""Either be in or out": Feds swooped in on Colorado's ventilator order, Polis says" by Sam Tabachnik.

Article: "Feds sending 100 ventilators to Colorado, Trump says" by Justin Wingerter.

Article: "Government promises 4 million coronavirus tests by next week. What comes next?" by Audrey McNamara.

Article: "Trump says, 'Anybody who wants a test gets a test' after Pence says US can't meet coronavirus testing demand" by Lauren Hirsch.

Article: "New York coronavirus death toll slows as Gov. touts other signs of flattening curve of infections" by Ciara Linnane.

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "Reconstruction Finance Corporation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Emergency Relief and Construction Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nova Scotia shooting death toll rises as Trudeau calls on Canadians to stand united" by Leyland Cecco.

Article: "Pregnant women still waiting for CERB during COVID-19 pandemic" by Canadian Press.

Article: "Grim numbers emerge at Montreal nursing home as military prepares to step in" by Canadian Press.

Article: "Death panel" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The coronavirus is infecting and killing black Americans at an alarmingly high rate" by Reis Thebault, Andrew Ba Tran and Vanessa Williams.

Article: "An anti-lockdown protest in Austin, Texas, drew anti-vaxxers and Trump supporters chanting 'Fire Fauci'" by Eliza Relman.

Article: "Nuremberg trials" by Wikipedia.

Article: "High rate of coronavirus illness and death among black residents alarms US cities" by Kathleen Foody.

Hour Two: Issues of the Day
- Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District)

Article: "Defense Production Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Promised To Bring Jobs Back To America. It's Not Happening." by Doug Mataconis.

Book: Entrepreneurial Nation: Why Manufacturing is Still Key to America's Future by Ro Khanna.

Article: "House Democrats propose $2,000 monthly payments to Americans" by Cristina Marcos.

Tweet: "LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!" by Donald J. Trump.

Tweet: "LIBERATE MICHIGAN!" by Donald J. Trump.

Tweet: "LIBERATE MINNESOTA!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Meet the doctor who ordered the Bay Area's coronavirus lockdown, the first in the U.S." by Julia Prodis Sulek.

Article: "Why Silicon Valley got coronavirus response right" by Ro Khanna.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 2 section 7. "All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills."

Article: "White House, GOP face heat after hotel and restaurant chains helped run small business program dry" by Jonathan O'Connell.

Article: "As Alaska fishing season set to begin, fearful communities and seafood industry try to prevent spread of coronavirus" by Hal Bernton.

Article: "US alerted Israel, NATO to disease outbreak in China in November - TV report" by Times of Israel.

Article: "SF to rent over 8,000 hotel rooms for homeless, vulnerable" by Adam Brinklow.

Article: "E-Verify" by Wikipedia.

Article: "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020" (NDAA) by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: 10 Year Anniversary - Deepwater Horizon: BP's SECOND Blowout...Secret History Revealed!
- Greg Palast, The Guardian / Investigative Journalist/Author/Filmmaker, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy / His new book, How Trump Stole 2020 will be out on June 2.

Article: "Deepwater Horizon: BP's SECOND Blowout The Secret History - 10 Year Anniversary" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Big Oil to US Congress: expand offshore drilling" by Tom Doggett.

Article: "Chelsea Manning" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Exxon Valdez oil spill" by Wikipedia.

Event: Wednesday, 22 April 2020: Earth Day.

Article: "President Trump Nominates Acting EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler, a Former Coal Lobbyist, to Lead Agency" by Jennifer A. Dlouhy.

Article: "Trump Nominates Former Oil Lobbyist David Bernhardt to Run Department of Interior" by Hallie Detrick.

Video: How Trump Stole 2020: A Facebook LIVE Event. Part 1.

Video: How Trump Stole 2020: A Facebook LIVE Event. Part 2.

Event: Monday, 6pm Pacific (9pm Eastern) "Facebook Live discussion of the Deepwater Horizon and the untold truths".

Article: "Death toll and coronavirus cases continue to rise in Wisconsin as more push back against stay-at-home order" by Meg Jones.

Article: "Liberal judge Jill Karofsky defeats conservative justice Daniel Kelly in closely watched Wisconsin Supreme Court race" by Patrick Marley.

Article: "Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Signals He'll Participate In Voting Case After Losing Election" by Kate Riga.

Site: FairVote

Article: "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A raw deal" by Judd Legum.

Law: "Glass-Steagall Act", 1933.

Law: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (1999) (Financial Services Modernization Act Of 1999).

Article: "USPS warns it might have to shutter by June as $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package provides no funding" by Nicole Goodkind.

Article: "'A disastrous situation': mountains of food wasted as coronavirus scrambles supply chain" by Susie Cagle.

Article: "Food Banks Are Overwhelmed and It's Congress' Fault" by Peter Wade.

Article: "The US could face shortages of crucial medicines like antibiotics and a heart drug because of the coronavirus. Here's what you need to know." by Lydia Ramsey and Rachel Premack.

Article: "Ford lost $2 billion in 1st quarter of 2020" by Eric D. Lawrence.

Article: "Ford to pay nearly 10% on new debt to plug losses" by Robert Smith.

Article: "Trump's Company Seeks to Ease Financial Crunch as Coronavirus Takes Toll" by David Enrich, Ben Protess and Eric Lipton.

Boris Johnson's "Trump" Moment
- Victoria Jones, Executive Director - DC Radio Company LLC

Article: "Coronavirus: 38 days when Britain sleepwalked into disaster" by Jonathan Calvert, George Arbuthnott and Jonathan Leake.

Article: "A novel coronavirus outbreak of global health concern" by Chen Wang, Peter W Horby, Frederick G Hayden, George F Gao.

Article: "Emerging understandings of 2019-nCoV" by The Lancet.

Article: "Matt Hancock on coronavirus: Risk to the public remains low" by ITN.

Article: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Herd immunity: will the UK's coronavirus strategy work?" by Sarah Boseley.

Article: "'Grotesque' to criticise Boris Johnson over missing emergency coronavirus meetings, says Cabinet minister Michael Gove" by ITV.

Article: "'Missing in action': UK's Johnson under fire for early handling of Covid-19" by AFP.

Article: "Coronavirus: Government rejects Sunday Times claims in unusual 2,000-word rebuttal" by Connor Sephton.

Article: "Response to Sunday Times Insight article" by dhscpressoffice.

Article: "Response to FT article and Twitter thread by Peter Foster" by Cabinet Office.

Article: "Muddled thinking punctures plan for British ventilator" by Peter Foster.

Tweet: "NEW: The inside story of the Ventilator Challenge - the muddled thinking, the wasted time the political egoism. It's a mad tale. Stay with me. Me with my superb @ft colleague @Michael_Pooler 1/Thread " by Peter Foster.

Article: "At least 100 British health care workers die of coronavirus" by Martin Williams.

Article: "NHS staff told 'wear aprons' as protective gowns run out" by Denis Campbell.

Article: "What Do the Koch Brothers Want?" (1980 Libertarian Party platform) by Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Spanish flu" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Here's how Trump delaying the 2020 election could make a Vermont Democrat president of the United States" by Bob Brigham.

Video: "Reagan: Government is not the solution to our problem government IS the problem".

Article: "Starve the beast" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cars to be banned from Stanley Park to encourage physical distancing" by Rhianna Schmunk.

Article: "Dr. Bonnie Henry: Pandemic modelling is a useful tool, but not a crystal ball" by Dr. Bonnie Henry.

Site: COVID-19: Trudeau's daily briefing.

Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

I'll be speaking with Professor Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, Ethnographer of contemporary radical nationalism in Europe / Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and International Affairs-University of Colorado, Boulder / Performer of Scandinavian folk music / His latest book is War for Eternity

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