It turns out sedition and treason are pretty profitable as the coup rolls on…

Even though the number of dying Trump followers increases daily, his coup rolls on.

Now, in the Trump shadow-universe he's created a shadow-government for his shadow-fans. It's not as wacky an idea as it seems and suggests Trump's solidifying his control over the GOP going toward 2022 and 2024.

Last November, on election day, I suggested on my radio program that if the Biden ticket were to lose (something we did not expect, but after 2016 who knows what can happen) they should set up a "shadow government" to be a visible and ongoing opposition and alternative to Trump's second term.

Apparently, somebody on Team Trump was listening. Or they copped the idea from the same place I did — the UK, Canada and Australia, all countries where the party out of power assembles a "shadow government" with a "shadow cabinet" that regularly informs voters of how and why they'd run the government differently were they in power.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The best of the rest of the news.

— Almost two weeks before January 6th, apparently in anticipation of that attempt to hang Mike Pence and assassinate Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump told the top official in the Justice Department to declare that the 2020 election was marred by corrupt voter fraud, which he and his Republican allies were alleging happened in largely-Black parts of Detroit, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Atlanta and Phoenix. If they'd done that publicly, then he and his Republican buddies — he named Congressman Jim Jordan and Senator Ron Johnson — could overturn Joe Biden's electoral college win in Congress. "Just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me & the R congressmen" is what a senior Justice Department official wrote that Trump said, in his notes of one of Trump's daily calls to the Justice Department trying to get them to make the proclamation.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Hour One: When Does a Pandemic Become An Endemic...?
- Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Epidemiologist & Health Economist / Adjunct Senior Fellow - Federation of American Scientists

Article: "Pandemic" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Endemism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Over half the deer tested in Michigan have been exposed to SARS-CoV-2" by John Timmer.

Article: "'Double mutant': What are the risks of India's new Covid-19 variant" by Soutik Biswas.

Article: "For many, the belated realization that Covid will be 'a long war' sparks anger and denial" by Megan Molteni.

Article: "MA Outbreak of 900 COVID Cases Leads to Only 7 Hospitalizations: 'The Vaccines Are Working'" by Glenn Garner.

Article: "Will things ever return to normal? It doesn't look that way right now " by Lucian K. Truscott IV.

Article: "Pets can catch Covid from owners, study suggests" by Jim Reed.

Article: "Virus Variants Can Infect Mice, Scientists Report" by Apoorva Mandavilli.

Article: "COVID variants Lambda and Delta Plus: All you need to know about the emerging strains" by Sunil Lal.

Article: "Ebola virus disease" by WHO.

Article: "Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)" by WHO.

Article: "Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccines against the B.1.617.2 (Delta) Variant" by Jamie Lopez Bernal et al.

Article: "How much protection COVID-19 vaccines give you against the Delta variant, according to the best available data" by Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce.

Article: "Bubonic plague" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'The war has changed': Internal CDC document urges new messaging, warns delta infections likely more severe" by Yasmeen Abutaleb, Carolyn Y. Johnson and Joel Achenbach.

Article: "La Marque couple hospitalized with COVID wishes they got vaccinated, family says" by Courtney Carpenter.

Article: "Tuskegee syphilis experiment" by Wikipedia.

Article: "97% Of People Entering Hospitals For COVID-19 Are Unvaccinated" by Allison Aubrey.

Article: "Millions face eviction as Congress' last-minute effort to extend moratorium falls short" by Brett Bachman.

Article: "Federal Housing Administration Extends Single Family Eviction Moratorium" by HUD.

Article: "Trump's Shadow Cabinet is Part of his Ongoing Coup" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Donald Trump builds war chest of $102 million entering 2nd half of 2021" by Mark Osborne and Soo Rin Kim.

Article: "Trump Devotees Still "Drinking the Kool Aid" in Obedience to His Orangeness" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Our Shadow Cabinet" by UK Labour Party.

Article: "DeSantis Issues Executive Order Banning Mandatory Masks In Schools" by Lynn Hatter.

Article: "DeSantis for governor, Scott for Senate now in Florida books" by Brendan Farrington.

Site: "Save America 2021 Trump Founding Member" donation site.

Article: "Florida, Georgia, North Carolina Still Purging Voters at High Rates" by Kevin Morris, Myrna Perez.

Article: "Study Finds States Purging Millions of Voters in Secret, Often Erroneously" by Brennan Center.

Article: "Trump urged Justice Dept. officials to declare election results corrupt and 'leave the rest to me,' notes show" by Eric Tucker.

Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene raises $3.2 million in first 3 months in office" by Alex Rogers.

Video: "Nurse: Some Covid-19 patients think I'm lying about diagnosis".

Article: "Canadian Conservative Shadow Cabinet".

Article: "Voltaire Was Right: 'he Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities'" by David B.

Article: "Trump, DeSantis lead CPAC straw poll" by Mychael Schnell.

Article: "Verify: Who controls the National Guard and how are they deployed?" by Eliana Block.

Article: "Press Ignores Blockbuster Study Of Trump Policies That Cost 400K Lives" by Eric Boehlert.

Article: "Oregon school board politics have never been so polarized, partisan and hostile to racial equity" by Eder Campuzano.

Article: "Trump rallies his base to treat coronavirus as a 'hoax'" by Nancy Cook, Matthew Choi.

Article: "'You will not wear masks in this church!' Tennessee pastor screams at congregation to 'not get vaccinated' " by David Edwards.

Article: "'They Stop Yelling At You When They Get Intubated': South Dakota Nurse Says Patients Are Denying COVID-19 to Their Dying Breath" by Ishena Robinson.

Article: "Thom Hartmann Program Tuesday 03 November '20 show notes" by SueN.

Article: "Show on the road: In Utah, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis rails against 'Faucian dystopia'" by James Call.

Article: "Almost half of Republicans admit they're ready to ditch democracy" by Catherine Rampell.

Article: "Florida Coronavirus Cases, Deaths" by Worldometers.

Video: "Mark Meadows shares intel from latest Trump meeting".

Article: "Australian Current Shadow Ministry List".

Article: "Jim Jones" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "US could have avoided almost 400,000 Covid deaths with better response, report claims" by Gino Spocchia.

Article: "Viral Posts Misrepresent CDC Announcement on COVID-19 PCR Test" by Angelo Fichera.

Article: "What Animals Can Get and Spread COVID-19?" by Adam Townsend.

Article: "Angiotensin II receptor" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Angiotensin II receptors: Impact for COVID-19 severity " by Hasan Aksoy, Ayse Serap Karadag, Uwe Wollina.

Article: "Terrorism expert Sara Kamali on Jan. 6, white nationalism and the rise of "Vanilla ISIS"" by Chauncey DeVega.

Article: ""They Sought to Convert Us": Officers' January 6 Testimony Reveals the Riot's Dark Righteousness" by Jeff Sharlet.

Article: "Meeting of Minds" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Generation resignation: Why millennials are refusing to return to the office " by Clare Thorp.

Article: "Covid Delta variant is 'in the air you breathe': what you need to know about Sydney outbreak strain" by Donna Lu.

Article: "5-year-old dies of stroke after contracting multiple infections including COVID-19, family says" by Katie Kindelan and Henderson Hewes.

Article: "The Symptoms of the Delta Variant Differ From Traditional COVID-19 – Here's What To Look Out For " by Lara Herrero.

Article: "Polio" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Vaccination value evident through visit to old cemeteries" by Daily Journal.

Article: "Paralytic illness of Franklin D. Roosevelt" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Apprentice (American TV series)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Delta a new challenge for herd immunity" by James Cook University.

Article: "President Biden Announces American Rescue Plan" by White House.

Article: "Redlining" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Plessy v. Ferguson", 1896 (separate but equal).

Article: "A Brief History Of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways" by Noel King.

Article: "Map: See which states have passed critical race theory bills" by Char Adams, Allan Smith and Aadit Tambe.

Article: "Critical race theory ban proposal pits Michigan lawmakers against educators" by Jennifer Chambers.

Article: "Republicans Hate Voting Rights Because They Threaten White Power" by Elie Mystal.

Article: "Comedian Kathy Griffin has surgery for lung cancer, but says she has never smoked" by David K. Li.

Geeky Science: "Adding color to your plate may lower risk of cognitive decline" by American Academy of Neurology.

Article: "Life under the Taliban shadow government" by Ashley Jackson.

Article: "Mitch McConnell Draws on Childhood Battle with Polio in Ad Urging People to Get Vaccinated: 'Modern Medical Miracle'" by Virginia Chamlee.

Article: "Republic" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Vaccines Do Not Cause Erectile Dysfunction and Male Infertility – But COVID-19 Could " by Ranjith Ramasamy.

Article: "COVID found in penile tissue, may even lead to erectile dysfunction" by John Anderer.

Article: "CDC says 28 blood clot cases, 3 deaths may be linked to J&J Covid vaccine" by Dawn Kopecki, Rich Mendez.

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