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Trump Goes Full Authoritarian Dictator
![Thom plus logo](https://cdn3.thomhartmann.com/sites/default/files/thom%20and%20logo_13.jpg) What we saw last night was the dictator's playbook. Tell violent white supremacist racists to "stand by" and encourage them to show up at polling places to intimidate voters. Bully, bluster and threaten like Mussolini did, promoting your brand as "tough guy" when in fact you're a lazy coward. Claim that the other side is evil, like Hitler did, setting up excuses for state-run police violence and vigilante brutality. Trash-talk democratic institutions, including the vote, like Hungary's Victor Orban and and Saudi Arabia's dictator Mohammed bin Salman do. While millions of Americans are struggling with loss of jobs, lack of healthcare during a pandemic, and an absolutely gutted social safety net after 40 years of Reaganomics, all Trump did was brag, yell, and threaten. This is classic dictator's playbook. The only winner of last night's "debate" was dictatorship and oligarchy. Russia, China and authoritarianism around the world were the big winners last night. America was the loser. -Thom
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Here are 8 reasons COVID is so much worse than the skeptics think
![Thom plus logo](https://cdn3.thomhartmann.com/sites/default/files/thom%20and%20logo_13.jpg) America's first COVID death was on February 29 of this year, roughly 200 days ago. In that time, more than 200,000 Americans have died of the disease, the equivalent of 1,000 people a day. That's how many people would have died if between February 29 and today three fully-loaded jumbo jets had crashed every single day, even on weekends, for 200 days. Now that we've passed this grim milestone and are still losing around 1,000 people a day, and Donald Trump acknowledged-bragged-to Bob Woodward last winter that he knew COVID is both deadly and airborne, many Trump-lovers are starting to look for factual information about the virus. With this handy list, you can help them out. Read more here. -Thom
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Hour One: How should the Moderator... and the Media... Handle the Next Debate?
Case: " Bush v. Gore", 2000. " The counting of votes that are of questionable legality does in my view threaten irreparable harm to petitioner Bush"
Trump goes full authoritarian dictator
Tweet: " @BarackObama will attack Iran in the not too distant future because it will help him win the election. If the... (cont) http://deck.ly/~RSKCl" by Donald J. Trump, Nov 14, 2011.
Tweet: " @BarackObama will attack Iran in order to get re-elected." by Donald J. Trump, 17 Jan 2012.
Tweet: " Just as I predicted, @BarackObama is preparing a possible attack on Iran right before November." by Donald J. Trump, 3 Jul 2012.
Tweet: " I always said @BarackObama will attack Iran, in some form, prior to the election." by Donald J. Trump, 16 Aug 2012.
Tweet: " Now that Obama's poll numbers are in tailspin - watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate." by Donald J. Trump, 9 Oct 2012.
Hour Three: Science Revolution: How the NEXT Pandemic Could Arrive in America and How We Can Stop It- Tanya Sanerib, International Legal Director & Senior Attorney - Center for Biological Diversity (& lead author on the report) ![Twitter](https://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs028/1102605880949/img/128.jpg)
Tweet: " Had enough? [video w/ crying baby]" by Joe Biden.
Quote: " The Commission on Presidential Debates sponsors televised debates for the benefit of the American electorate. Last night's debate made clear that additional structure should be added to the format of the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues. The CPD will be carefully considering the changes that it will adopt and will announce those measures shortly. The Commission is grateful to Chris Wallace for the professionalism and skill he brought to last night's debate and intends to ensure that additional tools to maintain order are in place for the remaining debates." - The Commission on Presidential Debates.
Quote: " We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes" - Leona Helmsley.
Quote: " Anderson : These people are crawling out of the SEWER, MR. WARD! Maybe the gutter's where we outta be!" - Mississippi Burning .
Tweet: " In tonight's presidential debate the President said the "Portland Sheriff" supports him. As the Multnomah County Sheriff I have never supported Donald Trump and will never support him." by Mike Reese.
Tweet: " Donald Trump has made my job a hell of a lot harder since he started talking about Portland, but I never thought he'd try to turn my wife against me! #PortlandSheriff #Debates2020 #DebateNight" by Mike Reese.
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