Monday 28 June '21 show notes

  • Media: Why Are We Watching Disaster Porn Instead of Hearing About Climate Change?
  • Democrats: Defy Trust-Fund Baby Tucker Carlson & the GOP
  • Healthcare Insurance Has a New Way to Say No! to Healthcare - Andrew Perez, Journalist / Senior Editor - The Daily Poster
  • How Do Democrats Win? - Rachel Bitecofer, Founder - Strike Pac / Contributor - The Cycle - On Substack & Pod Host - The Election Whisperer
  • Has Trump Organized Anger & Rage? Is It a Trump Shared Psychotic Disorder? - 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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Democrats: Defy Trust-fund Baby Tucker Carlson & the GOP
Thom plus logo How do you fight white supremacist "conservatives" who are willing to use racism, lies and threats of violence to reach their goals?

Swanson Foods-fortune heir and trustfund-baby Tucker Carlson, who says he spent his college years "mostly drunk," is attacking Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley for saying that the military should understand the true history — including the racial history — of the country they’re willing to die to defend.

Milley, who holds a Masters Degree in International Relations (one of his two MAs) from Columbia University and has served his country for almost 40 years, is, Carlson said on his Fox "News" program, "not just a pig — he's stupid."

Milley is saying white people should understand America’s history of racism, and his boss, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, is Black. You can draw a straight line from those realities to conservative media’s newfound hatred for our military.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom
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The Saturday Report
Thom plus logo The best of the rest of the news this week.

The most under-reported big story of the week is a blockbuster in The New York Times about how Eric Prince and other wealthy rightwingers paid infiltrators to sabotage the Democratic Party in Wyoming and the region. Nobody knows how many other states’ Democratic parties have been similarly infiltrated or what other sabatoge efforts are underway as the GOP moves closer and closer to becoming a full-blown fascistic party. NY Times: They Seemed Like Democratic Activists. They Were Secretly Conservative Spies. "Operatives infiltrated progressive groups across the West to try to manipulate politics and reshape the national electoral map. They targeted moderate Republicans, too — anyone seen as threats to hard-line conservatives."

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom
Monday's Daily Stack Daily Stack
Hour One: Media: Why Are We Watching Disaster Porn Instead of Hearing About Climate Change?
Democrats: Defy Trust-Fund Baby Tucker Carlson & the GOP
Book: "The Last Hours Of Ancient Sunlight" by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "The mystery of Tucker Carlson" by Lyz Lenz.
Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954 (Segregation in public schools) (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson).
Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976
Article: "‘No Labels' Needs A Warning Label" by Rep. Mark Pocan.
Article: "Problem Solvers Caucus" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Heat Stroke: Symptoms and Treatment" by Carol DerSarkissian, MD.
Book: The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells.

Hour Two: Healthcare Insurance Has a New Way to Say No! to Healthcare
- Andrew Perez, Journalist / Senior Editor - The Daily Poster @andrewperezdc @dailyposter
Article: ""They've Been Doing It Forever"" by Andrew Perez.
Article: "Claims Denials and Appeals in ACA Marketplace Plans" by Karen Pollitz and Daniel McDermott.
Article: "An Inconvenient Truth" by Wikipedia.
How Do Democrats Win?
- Rachel Bitecofer, Founder - Strike Pac / Contributor - The Cycle - On Substack & Pod Host - The Election Whisperer @RachelBitecofer
Article: "James Carville" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: Has Trump Organized Anger & Rage? Is It a Trump Shared Psychotic Disorder?
- 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: "Shared Psychotic Disorder" by Feras Al Saif; Yasir Al Khalili.
Article: "Fireside chats" by Wikipedia.
Tweet: "I own a plug-in Prius hybrid that I've frequently praised on the air to our audience of 7 million; it's the last car I'm buying from @Toyota . Any company that supports people trying to overthrow our republic is a company that has lost my support..." by Thom Hartmann.
Article: "Roe v. Wade" by History Channel.
Article: "Climate has shifted the axis of the Earth, study finds" by American Geophysical Union.
Article: "Polar Drift in the 1990s Explained by Terrestrial Water Storage Changes" by S. Deng, S. Liu, X. Mo, L. Jiang, P. Bauer-Gottwein.
Article: "Pinellas County" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Fluorite" by Wikipedia.
Article: "UVC" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Soylent Green" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate" (James Hansen, June 23, 1988) by Philip Shabecoff.
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