We're witnessing the symptoms of a culture going through the early stages of transition from democracy to oligarchy - it quite literally starts with "average people" randomly behaving like asses.

I'm sitting in my home office working on the next morning's Daily Rant when I hear what sounded like a man in my driveway yelling, at the top of his voice, "You f*cking c*nt!" and other female-specific obscenities. Walking to the window, I saw a guy in his 40s, redfaced, giving my wife the finger with both hands and cursing her out as he climbed into his car and squealed out of the driveway.

Louise, it turns out, had invited a local contractor to give us a bid on some repairs and she'd (very nicely) asked him, before letting him into the house, if he was vaccinated. He exploded and marched back to his car screaming curses at her. In all her years on this planet, including as CEO of three different companies, that was the first time in her life a man had behaved like such an ass toward her.

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-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Why Threats of Violence are Epidemic in America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Sturmabteilung: Hitler's Unofficial Army Of Thugs" by Gina Dimuro.

Article: "Our School Boards Are Under Attack by the Right Wing" by Ron Williams.

Article: "The GOP's Shameless Plot Against Democracy" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: ""This Is the Violence of Which I Approve" A short history of the political violence that helped Mussolini attain power" by Michael R. Ebner.

Article: "WATCH: Russia's Anti-Gay Vigilantes Exposed in Their Own Shocking Videos" by Dan Kedmey.

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

Article: "Philippines President Duterte on vigilante drug war: "You can't stop me"" by CBS/AP.

Article: "Proud Boys' violence spirals in Olympia as street hunt for 'antifa' culminates with Toese shooting" by David Neiwert.

Article: "Pro-mask student mocked at school board meeting after describing how his grandmother died of Covid".

Article: "Officials face 'a sustained campaign of intimidation' from the far-right" by Steve Benen.

Article: "Man Confronts Bikini-Clad Girls at the Beach Saying Kids Shouldn't See 'Pornography'" by Rebecca Flood.

Article: "'Drunk' irate man shoves JetBlue flight attendant after getting booted for not wearing his mask properly" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Kyrgyz vigilantes battle looters in capital city" by Maria Golovnina.

Article: "Frightening ways Trump's America mirrors Hitler's Germany" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Bolsonaro says he's fighting corruption. So why is he surrounded by scandal?" by David Miranda.

Article: "Biden announces COVID-19 vaccine mandates that will affect 100 million Americans" by Kathryn Watson, Nancy Cordes, Ed O'Keefe, Weijia Jiang and Fin Gómez.

Article: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer.

Quote: "If I- and my countrymen- ever succumbed to that concatenation of conditions, no Constitution, no laws, no police, and certainly no army would be able to protect us from harm" - Milton Mayer.

Video: Building weakened by WTC attack collapses.

Video: Larry Silverstein admits to having demolished wtc building 7.

Video: In Plane Sight - Sept 11 - 911 Conspiracy 5 of 6.

Video: As It Happened - The 9/11 Pentagon Attack.

Article: "A suburban Chicago woman's home-raised monarch butterfly makes it to central Mexico, 2,000 miles away: 'What are the chances?'" by Chicago Tribune.

"On September 10, 2001, I went to sleep a White guy. On September 11, I woke up an Arab."
- Dean Obeidallah, Host of Dean Obeidallah show weekdays 6-9PMET @SXMProgress Radio Ch127/Columnist-The Daily Beast

Article: "On 9/11, my 'White card' was revoked" by Dean Obeidallah.

Article: "September 11 attacks" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden says Texas' anti-abortion law is 'almost un-American' and 'sort of creates a vigilante system'" by Kate Sullivan.

Article: "Rodrigo Duterte" (Philippines) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jair Bolsonaro" (Brazil) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Flávio Bolsonaro" by Wikipedia.

Bible: "Genesis 2:4-3:24 - Adam and Eve".

Article: "Catholic Health Care in the United States" by CHA.

Bible: "Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ." - Ephesians 6:5.

Article: "Number of Catholic hospitals in US has grown 22% since 2001" by Paige Minemyer.

Article: "He needed a gender-affirming procedure. The hospital said no." by s.e. smith.

Article: "'Cruel' Ron DeSantis blasted for 'playing politics with hungry children'" by John Wright.

Article: "12 states still refuse to expand Medicaid. Why that's a problem for all of us" by Andrea Riquier.

Bill: "H.R.6201 - Families First Coronavirus Response Act" by Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-17].

Article: "Rick Scott 'oversaw the largest Medicare fraud' in U.S. history, Florida Democratic Party says" by Amy Sherman.

Article: "This 32-Year-Old Florida Woman Is Dead Because Her State Refused To Expand Medicaid" by Tara Culp-Ressler.

Site: "The Righting".

Article: "Joe Biden's incoherent, fear-mongering COVID vaccine speech" by John Podhoretz.

Article: "Biden's vaccine mandate speech!" by Patricia McCarthy.

Article: "The Morning Briefing: Biden Takes His COVID Tyranny to a Disturbing New Level" by Stephen Kruiser.

Article: "Biden's vaccine mandate is a legal mess and a logistical disaster" by Tiana Lowe.

Article: "GOP Governors Take Aim At Angry Joe Biden's Unconstitutional Vaccine Mandate" by Warner Todd Huston And Jeff Dunetz.

Article: "Biden's Rush to Bring Disease and Extremism to America" by Brian Lonergan.

Article: "Biden Regime Orders All Employers With Over 100 Workers to Mandate CV Shots or Weekly Tests" by Chris Menahan.

Article: "Hold Biden Accountable Before It's Too Late" by Will Alexander.

Article: "Trudeau accuses far-right website of spreading vaccine misinformation" by Leyland Cecco.

Article: "'Anti-riot' law backed by Florida Gov. DeSantis blocked by federal judge" by John Kennedy.

Article: "Ten Commandments" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Apartheid" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before" - Frank Rizzo.

Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954 (Segregation in public schools) (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson).

Article: "Polydactyl cat" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Total number of forcible rape cases reported in the United States in 2019, by state" by Statista.

Article: "Thousands of Rape Kits Sit Untested for Decades, but Change Would Be Costly" (Texas, 2011) by Brandi Grissom.

Article: "Texas has the tools to end the rape kit backlog. Let's use them" (2021) by John Cornyn.

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "Chemtrail conspiracy theory" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Redlining" by Wikipedia.

Site: Heritage Foundation

Site: The Hartmann Report

Site: Democrats of Oro Valley (DOV).

Site: The Arizona Ground Game (TAGG).

Article: "Texas Gov. Abbott signs law against tech firms banning users for content" by Darryl Coote.

Article: "N.Y. Prosecutors Weigh Charges Against Another Trump Executive" by Ben Protess, William K. Rashbaum and Kate Christobek.

Article: "FBI Seizes Oath Keeper Lawyer's Phone in "Seditious Conspiracy" Investigation" by Dan Friedman.

Article: "Seditious conspiracy" by Wikipedia.

Law: "18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy".

Article: "January 6 committee receives "thousands" of documents before deadline " by Kathryn Watson.

Article: "Politics of Egypt" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Extraordinary rendition" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Another conservative anti-vaccine radio talk show host succumbs to COVID, third in a month" by Theresa Braine.

Article: "Unvaccinated people were 11 times more likely to die of covid-19, CDC report finds" by Lena H. Sun and Joel Achenbach.

Article: "Humidity" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "No one in this world... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people" - H. L. Mencken.

Article: "Stadiums across the Southeastern Conference return to full capacity even though vaccination rate is low" by Shruti Wilson.

Article: "Saturday gamedays are back! Incredible scenes as fans flock back to college football stadiums across America with no masks or social distancing despite surge in COVID cases and hospitalizations" by Ariel Zilber.

Article: "Abort all black babies and cut crime, says Republican" by Dan Glaister.

Article: "The Borking of Bill Bennett" by Larry Elder.

Article: "Larry Elder Says Descendants of Slave Owners Should Get Reparations [WATCH]" by Ny MaGee.

Article: "Ivermectin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Basic income" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ex-FBI official says law enforcement needs to take upcoming right-wing rally in DC 'very seriously" by Paul LeBlanc (September 18).

Article: "United States Declaration of Independence" (1776) by Wikipedia.

Article: "'No Friends But the Mountains.' What Life Looks Like for the Kurds of Syria, Now That the U.S. Has Pulled Back" by Karl Vick.

Article: "Videos show desperation at Kabul airport as Afghans crowd planes, cling to jets to escape" by NBC News.

Article: "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan" (Turkey) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Did Trump Throw Kurds under the Bus for Turkey because of his Istanbul Revenue Stream?" by Juan Cole.

Coming up Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

I'll be talking with Meagan Hatcher-Mays, Lawyer & Director of Democracy Policy - Indivisible about how Roe v. Wade can be saved...

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