Instead of cleaning up their act, Republicans are embracing international crooks

Liz Cheney is wrong. The GOP is now so deeply embedded with the international criminal class that it's not worth saving.

For 40 years the GOP has been a peripheral but important part of the international criminal class; Donald Trump pushed the Party fully into its embrace while trying to drag the entire country with him.

Now that Liz Cheney's rebellion has spilled it all out in the open, and their lies, deceptions and criminality are irrefutable, some people, particularly in the media, seem shocked. They shouldn't be.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Hour One: How Does the "Free Market" Supply Infrastructure? Thom v. Charles Sauer
- Charles Sauer, Libertarian / Economist & President - The Market Institute / author of Profit Motive: What Drives the Things We Do @CharlesSauer @MarketInstitute

Article: "Here's what's in Biden's infrastructure proposal" by Tami Luhby, Katie Lobosco and Kate Sullivan.

Article: "Biden's $4 Trillion Economic Plan, in One Chart" by Alicia Parlapiano.

Article: "Fact Sheet: The American Jobs Plan" by White House.

Article: "Fact Sheet: The American Families Plan" by White House.

Article: "Rural Utilities Service" (Rural Electrification Administration, Rural Telecommunications) by Wikipedia.

Article: "The TRIPS Waiver as a recognition of public health concerns in the WTO" by Andrew D. Mitchell, Tania Voon.

Article: "The US and EU must waive the patents" by Lori Wallach.

Site: Global Trade Watch.

Article: "Is the "International Criminal Class" GOP Worth Saving?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "A Watergate lesson: Secret money means payoffs, bribes and extortion" by Barry Sussman.

Book: "Russia, America and the Islamic World" by Mr Mike Bowker.

Article: "How the Supreme Court and the Morbidly Rich Are Ruining Democracy in America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Bailouts: $7 trillion and rising" by David Goldman.

Article: "Use of EPA 'superfund' linked to Reagan aide" by AP.

Article: "Tax Dodgers Owe US Over $7 Trillion, Says Janet Yellen" by Sharon Zhang.

Article: "The Hidden History of American Oligarchy" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'" by David Taylor.

Article: "Back to the future with Reich" by Chicago Tribune.

Article: "The Trump Regime Allegedly Has a New Grift King" by Charles P. Pierce.

Article: "Surely It's a Coincidence That a Firm Tied to a Russian Oligarch Is Pouring Millions Into Kentucky" by Charles P. Pierce.

Article: "New Details About Wilbur Ross' Business Point To Pattern Of Grifting" by Dan Alexander.

Article: "Kamala Harris Has To Answer For Not Prosecuting Steve Mnuchin" by Jesse Mechanic.

Article: "CIA turned a deliberate blind eye to Contras' drug smuggling" by Andrew Marshall.

Article: "Contras Got $3.5 Million: Secord : Administration Supported Him, He Tells Panel" by AP.

Article: "Cheney defiant as Republicans oust her from leadership for rebuking Trump" by Sahil Kapur, Haley Talbot, Kasie Hunt and Leigh Ann Caldwell.

Article: "Trump, Challenged About Putin, Says 'Our Country's So Innocent?'" by Phil Helsel and Phil McCausland.

Article: "Dick Cheney's Biggest Lie" by Kurt Eichenwald.

Article: "Senate, 78 To 21, Overrides Reagan's Veto And Imposes Sanctions On South Africa" by Steven V. Roberts.

Article: "H.U.D. Grants Under Reagan: A Case Study in Connections" by David Johnston.

Article: "Bani-Sadr, in U.S., Renews Charges of 1980 Deal" by Neil A. Lewis.

Article: "The Case for a Conspiracy" by Joseph E. Persico.

Article: "McCain: The Most Reprehensible of the Keating Five" by Tom Fitzpatrick.

Article: "In a lesser-known scandal, President Nixon helped illegally raise the price of McDonald's Quarter-Pounder cheeseburger." by LockeProposal.

Article: "Ronald Reagan's shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness" by Dr. E. Fuller Torrey.

Article: "Exxon's climate lie: 'No corporation has ever done anything this big or bad'" by Bill McKibben.

Article: "Frankenstein the CIA created" by Jason Burke.

Article: "America's First Anti-Globalization Protest" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Wealthy bankers and businessmen plotted to overthrow FDR. A retired general foiled it" by Gillian Brockell.

Article: "In Central America, Reagan Remains A Polarizing Figure" by Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan.

Article: "Anne Gorsuch Burford, 62, Dies; Reagan EPA Director" by Patricia Sullivan.

Article: "Smedley Butler" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Business Plot" (1933, Smedley Butler) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pipeline hack 'a warning shot' for electrical grid, other infrastructure" by Cullen Browder.

Article: "Biden's very popular proposals are meeting resistance as some Democrats fret over raising taxes" by Kerry Eleveld.

Article: "State and Local Tax (SALT) Deduction" by Tax Foundation.

Article: "Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs" by Brown University.

Article: "William J. Casey" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Iran Hostage Crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Did LBJ Advocate: 'Convince the Lowest White Man He's Better Than the Best Colored Man'?" by David Emery.

Tweet: "First it was Kamala is "really in charge." Then it was Biden is the "third term of Obama." Now it's Susan Rice, a Black woman, in "control."
Why do these white conservatives keep freaking out about Black people being in power or close to power?
Oh, yeah. They're racists." by Thom Hartmann.

Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

Hour Two: The GOP's Extraordinarily Dark Plot to Win Elections
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book) @profwolff @democracyatwrk

Article: "The GOP's Dark Death Plot to Win Elections" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Māori history" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sumer" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Colonial Pipeline: US fuel firm resumes service after cyber-attack" by BBC.

Article: "Colonial Pipeline paid European hackers $5M ransom last week: report" by Will Feuer.

Article: "Trump Told Christopher Miller: Do 'Whatever Is Necessary' to Protect Demonstrators Ahead of Capitol Riot" by Jenni Fink.

Article: "Trump's acting attorney general refuses to say if he discussed overturning election results" by Alex Woodward.

Article: "China's population grows at slowest rate in decades" by Sun Yu, Tom Mitchell and Thomas Hale.

Article: "Operation Desert Storm: 25 Years Since the First Gulf War" by Alan Taylor.

Law: "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act" (HIPAA).

Article: "At least 15 Republican-led states ending increased unemployment benefits as President Biden says people must take "suitable work"" by Sarah Ewall-Wice.

Article: "Republicans have a simple story about unemployment: Blaming workers. The reality is more complicated" by Laura Clawson.

Book: "The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot" by Russell Kirk.

Article: "America Must Never Forget what Trump & the GOP Did On April 7th, 2020" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "CDC says fully vaccinated Americans no longer need masks indoors or outdoors in most cases" by Yasmeen Abutaleb and Laurie McGinley.

Article: "FTSE 100 plunges as US inflation shock batters global markets" by Jim Armitage.

Article: "United States Inflation Rate" by Trading Economics.

Article: "Consumer Price Index CPI" by Trading Economics.

Article: "US millionaire CEOs saw 29% pay raise while workers' pay fell, report finds" by Lauren Aratani.

Article: "Joseph Goebbels" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann (read online)

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life" by Steven Johnson.

Article: "Smallpox" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Smallpox vaccine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Just a weird coincidence': Vaccines play a starring role in new PBS series 'Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer'" by Christine Sismondo.

Video: Watch President Biden's Full Conversation With Lawrence O'Donnell.

Video: Biden on Covid vaccine hesitancy: 'They're showing up'.

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