Monday 26 April '21 show notes

  • New Red State Evil Plot: Going Authoritarian & Ditching Democracy - Republicans in state after state are loading cannons as you're reading this, and the very concept of democracy is the target. Will their scheme be completed by 2024?
  • It's Time To Blow Up the Maskholes' Sick and Twisted Plan - For businesses wanting a competitive edge, a "let's all live" marketing strategy is the opportunity of the decade!
  • On being an immigrant, hate crimes against Asian Americans and her brilliant new book, Heart of Fire - Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI), author of "Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter's Story"
  • Covid: Trauma Recovery & Fear of Returning to Normal.... - Psychoanalyst Dr. Justin Frank MD, Psychoanalyst & Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - George Washington University / Author - Trump on the Couch (Previous books include Bush on the Couch & Obama on the Couch)
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New Red State Evil Plot: Going Authoritarian & Ditching Democracy
Thom plus logo Republicans in state after state are loading cannons as you're reading this, and the very concept of democracy is the target. Will their scheme be completed by 2024?

Americans thought January 6 was the peak of the effort to end democracy in America and replace it with strongman authoritarian rule. But January 6 was merely the tip of the iceberg.

And it's not just about Donald Trump. This "iceberg" monster that threatens to sink the United States is about ending democracy altogether here and replacing it with a wealthy, white aristocratic oligarchy.

The less visible but largest part of that iceberg is in the states, and it's huge.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom
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It's Time To Blow Up the Maskhole's Sick and Twisted Plan
Thom plus logo For businesses wanting a competitive edge, a "let's all live" marketing strategy is the opportunity of the decade! Well, it's started. The United States has reached the point, in many parts of the country, where there are more vaccines available than there are people willing to take them.

Most of this so-called "vaccine reluctance" is driven by pure politics.

Donald Trump's visceral hatred of Joe Biden, who beat him like a drum in the last election, and the Republican party's commitment to raw power over anything that may help Americans, have brought us this crisis.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom
Monday's Daily Stack Daily Stack
Hour One: New Red State Evil Plot: Going Authoritarian & Ditching Democracy - Republicans in state after state are loading cannons as you're reading this, and the very concept of democracy is the target. Will their scheme be completed by 2024?
Article: "Charlottesville car attack" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Stand-your-ground law" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Shooting of Trayvon Martin" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Derek Chauvin(ist): No Piece of Just-Us" by Rohn Kenyatta.
Article: "Bernie Madoff" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Stacey Abrams" by Wikipedia.
Site: Fair Fight.
Article: "Boogaloo movement" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.
Article: "The Turner Diaries" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Blood libel" by Wikipedia.
Article: "McMartin preschool trial" by Wikipedia.
Article: "QAnon" by Wikipedia.
Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Hour Two: It's Time To Blow Up the Maskholes' Sick and Twisted Plan - For businesses wanting a competitive edge, a "let's all live" marketing strategy is the opportunity of the decade!
Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Delano grape strike" by Wikipedia.
On being an immigrant, hate crimes against Asian Americans and her brilliant new book, Heart of Fire
- Senator Mazie Hirono (D-HI), author of "Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter's Story" @maziehirono
Article: "Chinese Exclusion Act", 1882 by Wikipedia.
Article: "Japanese Internment Camps" by History.com.
Tweet: "Gollum has lost his precious." by Senator Mazie Hirono.
Article: "World leaders brace for historic Trump Facebook ban decision" by Sara Fischer, Jonathan Swan.
Book: The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan.
Article: "Merrick Garland" by Wikipedia.
Case: "California v. Texas" (Affordable Care Act).
Article: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Spanish flu" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Fox News pulled off the air in Britain" by Charles Riley.

Hour Three: Covid: Trauma Recovery & Fear of Returning to Normal....
- Psychoanalyst Dr. Justin Frank MD, Psychoanalyst & Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - George Washington University / Author - Trump on the Couch (Previous books include Bush on the Couch & Obama on the Couch) @JustinFrankMD
Article: "Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Decision fatigue" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Trump to veterans: Don't believe what you're reading or seeing" by Rob Tornoe. "Just remember, what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what's happening"
Quote: "In every adult there lurks a child— an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education. That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole" - Carl Jung.
Song: "We Can Be Together" by Jefferson Airplane.
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