Hint: It's all about the money

Some very wealthy people helped put Donald Trump in office, and have continued to subsidize the Trump presidency and those Republicans who enable it.

Why would they do this? Why would they play such a horrible game of Russian Roulette with the United States of America and its citizens?

Why would they take such a chance on destroying democracy all around the world by helping flip it's most iconic Founder, the international role model for democracy in a republic of laws, into oligarchy and strongman rule?

Read more here.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump falsely claims 'millions of people who voted illegally' cost him popular vote" by Tom LoBianco (2016).

Article: "US Capitol building invaded for first time since War of 1812" by Jackie Salo.

Article: "How senators voted on Trump's impeachment" by Politico.

Quote: "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" - Voltaire.

Article: "Ayanna Pressley's Husband Tests Positive For COVID After Being Locked Down Inside Capitol" by CBS Boston..

Article: "Adriano Espaillat Becomes 6th Member Of Congress To Contract COVID After Capitol Attack" by Khaleda Rahman.

Article: "Pelosi proposes fines of up to $10,000 for House members who fail to abide by security protocols" by AP.

Article: "The inescapable truth about rightwing billionaires and Trump" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "'We have the receipts': Analysis reveals $170 million in corporate gifts to GOP lawmakers who voted to overturn Biden win" by Andrea Germanos.

Article: "Billionaire Bonanza 2018: Inherited Wealth Dynasties in the 21st-Century U.S." by Chuck Collins and Josh Hoxie.

Article: "Number of billionaires in the United States from 1987 to 2012" by Statista.

Article: "Trump Is Promising the "Biggest Tax Cut Ever" Once He's Reelected" by Brandon Morse.

Article: "How Many Homeowners Are There in the United States?" by Reference.

Article: "Vox's guide to where 2020 Democrats stand on policy" by Vox.

Article: "Koch Funding of Universities Topped $100 million in 2019" by David Armiak.

Article: "The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%-And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure" by Nick Hanauer and David M. Rolf.

Article: "U.S. billionaires gained almost $1 trillion in wealth during the pandemic" by Aimee Picchi.

Article: "Do people become more RACIST during a recession? Perceptions of faces are distorted when we feel poorer, claims study" by Daily Mail.

Tweet: "WORRISOME-Australia suddenly saw 5 infections of the UK Flag of United Kingdom B117 variant among 4 quarantined travelers & a cleaner on the same floor-but get this-none of the 5 people occupied the same room!
(Whisper)-it's airborne, & #B117 40-80% more contagious. #COVID19" by Eric Feigl-Ding.

Article: "China locks down city of 11 million people close to Beijing in bid to contain coronavirus flare-up" by Nectar Gan.

Article: "Trump Shut Programs to Counter Violent Extremism" by Peter Beinart.

Article: "Trump team failed to follow NSC's pandemic playbook" by Dan Diamond, Nahal Toosi.

Article: "'They didn't run the plays': Ex-officials say Trump administration didn't use pandemic 'playbooks'" by Lucien Bruggeman, Josh Margolin, Matthew Mosk.

Article: "Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations" by Wikipedia.

Article: "McConnell: Senate can't take up impeachment until Jan. 19" by Danielle Haynes.

Article: "Mitch McConnell Said to be Pleased About Trump Impeachment Efforts" by Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman.

Article: "McConnell says he has 'not made a final decision' on how he will vote on Trump impeachment" by Brooke Singman.

Hour Two: How does white rage connect to economics?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System

Article: "Great Depression" by Wikipedia.

Article: "New Deal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sorry, try Obama's house: Secret Service barred from using Ivanka Trump's bathrooms" by Guardian .

Article: "What Happened With Merrick Garland In 2016 And Why It Matters Now" by Ron Elving.

Article: "Capitol siege was planned online. Trump supporters now planning the next one." by Craig Timberg, Drew Harwell and Marissa J. Lang.

Article: "Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Republican lawmakers are accused of giving Capitol tours to insurrectionists before the riot as new inquiries are opened." by Luke Broadwater.

Article: "Official confirms it was a Republican Congressman giving a Capitol tour to insurrectionists ahead of attack" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Dems demand details of 'suspicious' Capitol visitors day before attack" by Kyle Cheney, Sarah Ferris.

Article: "Electoral College vote certificates were secured by staff as rioters stormed the Capitol" by Nicholas Wu.

Article: "Mob chants 'Hang Mike Pence' in video from Capitol riots" by Mikael Thalen.

Article: "Rioters Were Hunting For Pence, Pelosi ... Threats Of Violence, Hanging" by TMZ.

Article: "Trump Weighed Naming Election Conspiracy Theorist as Special Counsel" by Maggie Haberman and Zolan Kanno-Youngs.

Article: "197 House Republicans Reject Impeachment Of Trump, Blaming Democrats For The Chaos" by Paul Blumenthal.

Video: Friedman: 'This rotten Republican Party needs to fracture'.

Article: "Republican Party Platform of 1956", August 20, 1956.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964".

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "Nixon's Southern strategy" by James Boyd.

Book: The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization by Thomas L. Friedman.

Article: "Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill says Congress members gave 'reconnaissance' tours day before Capitol raid" by Nicholas Katzban.

Article: "Reps. Paul Gosar, Andy Biggs credited in video with organizing Trump crowd in DC on day of riot" by Robert Anglen, Ronald J. Hansen.

Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse flashed hate symbols, posed with Proud Boys in a Wisconsin bar, prosecutors say" by Katie Shepherd.

Article: "Silent majority" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The racism at the heart of the Reagan presidency" by Ian Haney-Lopez.

Article: "2011 Wisconsin protests" by Wikipedia.

Article: "WATCH: Eric Swalwell exposes Devin Nunes' shady ties to Giuliani's indicted henchman during impeachment hearing" by Sky Palma.

Article: "United States presidential line of succession" by Wikipedia.

Article: "President pro tempore of the United States Senate" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: A new discovery about the GOP
- Greg Palast, The Guardian / Investigative Journalist/Author/Filmmaker, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy / His new book, How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt For America's Vanished Voters

Article: "Why did the Georgia GOP team up with a Riot Instigator? "WE'LL LIGHT THE WHOLE SH*T ON FIRE!"" by Greg Palast.

Site: Infowars.

Article: "Proud Boys" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ali Alexander" by Wikipedia.

Article: "House Votes 232-197 to Impeach Trump for Incitement of Insurrection" by Rudy Takala.

Tweet: "Today is 1776." by Lauren Boebert.

Tweet: "The Speaker has been removed from the chambers." by Lauren Boebert.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

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

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

Article: "QAnon Congresswoman says she'll impeach Joe Biden less than 24 hours after he takes office" by Sarah K. Burris.

Science revolution: Finally...charges on the Flint water crisis!
- Latricea Adams, Founder/CEO & President of Black Millenials 4 Flint

Article: "After Flint Water Crisis, Number Of Students With Special Education Needs Spikes" by Tonya Mosley.

Article: "Ex-Governor of Michigan Charged With Neglect in Flint Water Crisis" by Julie Bosman.

Article: "5 Things to Know About Communities of Color and Environmental Justice" by Jasmine Bell.

Article: "Flint's Water Crisis Started 5 Years Ago. It's Not Over." by Mitch Smith, Julie Bosman and Monica Davey.

Article: "Water expert: McLaren Flint's Legionnaires' disease problem made worse by Flint water crisis" by Ann Pierret.

Article: "Flint's history of emergency management and how it got to financial freedom" by Oona Goodin-Smith.

Article: "Proof:
1a: the cogency of evidence that compels acceptance by the mind of a truth or a fact
b: the process or an instance of establishing the validity of a statement especially by derivation from other statements in accordance with principles of reasoning" by Merriam-Webster.

Article: "Adversarial and Inquisitorial Systems of Justice" by LawTeacher.

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