TS Eliot famously said that the world will end "not with a bang, but a whimper." It's also how strongman dictator reigns typically end, and Trump is no exception. He's having his "Downfall bunker moment," and it could be very dangerous.

Meanwhile, the nation is discovering that large swaths of the Republican Party, from senior elected officials to media figures to working class people, are filled with neoNazi fascists, psychopaths, and gullible but well-armed conspiracy nuts, all egged-on by social media.

Read more here.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Quote: "This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper" - T S Eliot.

Book: "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" by William L. Shirer.

Article: "Trump personally pressured more than 150 Republicans to overthrow election for him, report says" by Graig Graziosi.

Article: "25th Amendment Section 4" "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President..."

Article: "Armin D. Lehmann" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Schlesinger worried Nixon might call out Marines -- report" by UPI.

Article: "Mitt Romney just did something that literally no senator has ever done before" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Adam Schiff Closing Argument Transcript: Thursday Impeachment Trial".

Article: "'It's sad and pathetic': Trump insiders say the president's plans with Sidney Powell leave them baffled and scared" by Andrew Feinberg.

Article: "Vichy France" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Quisling" by Wikipedia.

Movie: "Downfall (2004 film)".

Article: "'Sedition Summits' taking place in the Trump White House" by John Wojcik.

Article: "Trump discussed 'bringing military in to overturn election result' and calls for 'wild' protest on 6 January" by Matt Mathers.

Article: "Coronavirus: Total US COVID-19 cases top 18M as death toll approaches 320K" by Kelli Dugan.

Article: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'We want them infected': Trump appointee demanded 'herd immunity' strategy, emails reveal" by Dan Diamond.

Article: "How the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally may have spread coronavirus across the Upper Midwest" by Brittany Shammas and Lena H. Sun.

Article: "Scientists say Donald Trump's 'superspreader' rallies led to 700 additional COVID deaths" by The New Daily.

Article: "Trump Adviser Scott Atlas Pushing For 'Herd Immunity' Strategy For COVID-19" by uPolitics.com.

Article: "Sedition" by Wikipedia.

Article: "William Bennett" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donald Trump Speech Transcript September 17: White House History Conference" by Rev.

Article: "The Crisis Continues In My Covid CCU, No End In Sight" by Portland True Blue.

Article: "Black Americans Face Alarming Rates of Coronavirus Infection in Some States" by John Eligon, Audra D. S. Burch, Dionne Searcey and Richard A. Oppel Jr.

Article: "White House abandoned plan to send 650 million face masks across the U.S. in April, report says" by Hannah Miao.

Article: "How Jared Kushner's Secret Testing Plan "Went Poof Into Thin Air"" by Katherine Eban.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic death rates by country" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Congress clears omnibus spending package with coronavirus relief" by David Lerman, Jennifer Shutt, and Evan Campbell.

Article: "McConnell: Senate to return Dec. 29 for potential Trump veto override vote" by Jordain Carney.

Tweet: "THE DEMOCRATS DUMPED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF BALLOTS IN THE SWING STATES LATE IN THE EVENING. IT WAS A RIGGED ELECTION!!!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Depraved-heart murder" (depraved-indifference murder) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Murder (United States law)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 2 section 1. "The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them." (domestic emoluments clause).

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 9. "No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state." (foreign emoluments clause).

Video: Gen. Barry McCaffrey on shakeup at the Pentagon: 'Mark me down as alarmed'.

Article: "Ready for Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago shadow presidency? That's where all this is heading" by Bob Cesca.

Article: "Trump administration weighing legal immunity for Saudi crown prince in alleged assassination plot" by Spencer S. Hsu and Kareem Fahim.

Hour Two: Conversations With Great Minds: Ralph Nader
- Ralph Nader, Consumer Advocate/Lawyer & Author of numerous books...his latest book w/ Mark Green, Wrecking America: How Trump's Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All / Founder of numerous organizations including the Center for Study of Responsive Law & also the Public Interest Research Group (P.I.R.G.)...host of the Ralph Nader Radio Hour podcast

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Book: "Unsafe at Any Speed" by Ralph Nader.

Book: "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson.

Book: The Ralph Nader and Family Cookbook: Classic Recipes from Lebanon and Beyond by Ralph Nader.

Site: "Ralph Nader Radio Hour".

Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Final 30 Days of the Trump Presidency Will Be Its Most Terrifying" by Michael Tomasky.

Article: "Donald Trump Is Ramming Through 'midnight' Rollbacks That Benefit Corporate Polluters" by Climate Power 2020.

Article: "Bill Barr Quit. What Finally Spooked Him?" by Noah Feldman.

Video: Barr sees 'no reason' to appoint special counsel for Hunter Biden investigation by Craig Melvin.

Article: "Impeachment process against Richard Nixon" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Actual Laws Trump Has Broken, Just With The Ukraine And China Affairs, Could Land Him 10 Years In Prison" by Ryan Grim.

Article: "Senate passes measure giving $500 million in aid to Israel; sanctions Iran and Assad" by JNS.

Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Airline Development in the United States of America" by Yesterday's Airlines.

Article: "List of airline mergers and acquisitions" by Wikipedia.

Article: "4th Amendment". "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Article: "September 11 attacks" (2,996 died) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Right to Privacy" by Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren.

Book: "Unsafe at Any Speed" by Ralph Nader.

Article: "G.M. Settles Nader Suit On Privacy for $425,000" by Craig R. Whitney.

Article: "G.M. & Ralph Nader" by Jack Doyle.

Article: "'Alexa, are you invading my privacy?' – the dark side of our voice assistants" by Dorian Lynskey.

Book: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff.

Law: "Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935" by Wikipedia.

Book: Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-right Alliance To Dismantle The Corporate State by Ralph Nader.

Article: "Officials finally found a case of a dead person voting, accusing a Republican of pretending to be his dead mom to vote for Trump" by Jacob Shamsian.

Article: "Governor Gavin Newsom Selects Secretary of State Alex Padilla as California's Next United States Senator" by Gavin Newsom.

Quote: "Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men" - John Adams.

Article: "Preamble to the Constitution of the United States".
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Article: "President Trump's Post-Election Conduct and 'Threats' Violated the Ku Klux Klan Act, Civil Rights Groups Allege" by Adam Klasfeld.

Article: "An armed Pokemon and a man with a doll in a noose were among the anti-lockdown protestors outside the Michigan Capitol" by K. Thor Jensen.

Article: "2020 set to be deadliest year in American history" by AP.

Article: "McConnell lost on corporate COVID-19 liability, so he found another way to punish workers" by Joan McCarter.

Article: "Young Homebuyers Vanish Amid High Prices, Big Student Debt" by Bloomberg News.

Article: "Highlights From the Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers" by National Association of Realtors.

Article: "Don't let Mitch McConnell get away with his vile rewriting of history" by Greg Sargent.

Article: "Mitch McConnell budges on COVID relief -- thanks to the only thing he cares about: power" by Ray Hartmann.

Video: Libertarians in Iceland - Gunnar Hrafn Jonsson.

Article: "Icelandic PM Given Assurance of Vaccine Delivery" by Vala Hafstað.

Article: "Pirate Party" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Release of jailed bankers: Ólafsson returns to his office".

Article: "Iceland to hold October 28 election after government collapses".

Article: "Healthcare in Iceland" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Defense Production Act" by Wikipedia.

Article: "1952 steel strike" by Wikipedia.

Article: "General Motors Bailout Cost Taxpayers $11.2 Billion" by Sam Frizell.

Article: "The U.S. Spends More on Its Military Than the Next 10 Countries Combined" by Ashik Siddique.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Article: "Herd immunity and measles" by J P Fox.

Article: "Mitch McConnell, an Emperor Without Clothes?" (role of vice president in Senate) by Nicolas Carteron.

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