The GOP's lies should land them in the dustbin of history

Two weeks ago Jerry Schneiderman, my best friend for 50 years, didn't answer my call when I phoned his home to say hi. Instead, his stepson told me he'd been taken by ambulance to the hospital with Covid pneumonia.

When I finally got through to him at the hospital ER, he told me between gasps for breath that the doctors "aren't optimistic," that he missed his beloved wife, and his final words to me that day were, "I don't want to die here all alone."

It's hard to describe the pain and fear you feel when your best friend, a person you've shared most of your life with, tells you he may be dead within a day or two. Louise and I were shell-shocked. Jerry survived, at least so far, but many more have not.

A half-million Americans are dead from Covid.

Read more here.

-Thom

Of course Ted Cruz left for Cancun: when government fails, it's party time for libertarian Republicans!

Here's the one question that always stops libertarians dead in their tracks when they come on or call into my radio/TV program to proclaim the wonders of their political ideology:

"Please name one country, anywhere in the world, any time in the last 7000 years, where libertarianism has succeeded and produced general peace and prosperity?"

There literally is none. Nowhere. Not a single one. It has never happened. Ever.

If it had, that country would be on the tip of every Libertarian's tongue, the way Democratic Socialists talk about Scandinavia where the full-on Social Democracy and regulated capitalism experiment has succeeded for generations.

Read more here.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: The U.S. Supreme Court setting the stage for the release of Trump tax returns
- Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr., U.S. Congressman (D-NJ, 9th District) / Chairman-House Ways & Means Subcommittee on Oversight

Article: "Supreme Court won't stop grand jury from getting Trump's tax returns" by Pete Williams.

Article: "Tax returns of Donald Trump" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump once figured he'd be the first person to make money running for president. He didn't." by Philip Bump.

Law: "26 U.S. Code § 6103 - Confidentiality and disclosure of returns and return information".

Article: "Teapot Dome scandal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "House Committee sues Treasury for Trump tax returns" by Kevin Breuninger.

Article: ""Know Nothing" Republicans Must Be Held Responsible for the Death and Suffering They've Caused" by Thom Hartmann.

Video: Joint Oversight Hearing on Security Failures During Attack on U.S. Capitol, February 23, 2021.

Article: "Ron Johnson Promotes Conspiracy Theory During Senate Hearing Blaming 'Fake Trump Protesters': They 'Probably Planned This'" by Leia Idliby.

Case: "District of Columbia v. Heller", 2008 (2nd Amendment).

Article: "Figures Show Stark Difference Between Arrests At D.C. Black Lives Matter Protest And Arrests At Capitol Hill" by Robert Hart.

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