Can the anti-grift Democrats pick up enough energy & votes to save America from a total descent into Trump's GOP-corporate-funded Hungary-style grift?

We've reached "maximum grift" in America, both in business and politics. We're on the edge of a tipping point.

When Louise and I moved to Washington, DC we bought a Chris Craft Constellation 46-foot motorboat to live aboard (in the same marina where Joe Manchin keeps his much, much larger yacht) for the following seven years. It was built in 1986 and all the appliances were original and still worked, including the washer and dryer, stove, and refrigerator.

Try buying appliances today that will last 35 years: they don't exist. Since we've moved back to Portland, we've gone through four toasters in the past five years, although one of my brothers still has my mom's from the 1950s. And don't get me started on dishwashers.

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-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Americans are Fed Up with Both Corporate & Political Grift: Can the Democrats & Biden Reverse that Trend?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Chris Craft Constellation".

Article: "Supreme Court allows Ohio, other state voter purges" by Mark Sherman.

Article: "Tucker Carlson & Victor Orbán Together are a Bad Omen for America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Violent COVID-deniers force Missouri hospital staff to wear panic buttons" by Rebekah Sager.

Article: "Selina Vickers on How West Virginia Democrats Voted for Bernie But Ended Up with Hillary" by Morgan County USA.

Article: "Arizona Democratic Party passes resolution criticizing Sinema on filibuster, reconciliation" by Mychael Schnell.

Tweet: "CPAC is going to Budapest. Mike Pence was just in Budapest talking about his hopes for the Supreme Court outlawing abortion. Tucker Carlson embraced Orban and his anti Semitic fascist state on Fox prime time. Why are they all going to Hungary? What magnetic force is drawing" by Steve Schmidt.

Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Lifespan Of Major Appliances Not What It Used to Be" by .

Article: "PG&E pleads guilty to 84 counts of manslaughter in devastating Camp Fire" by Phil Helsel.

Article: "PG&E Charged With 4 More Homicides, This Time for 2020 Zogg Wildfire" by Brian Wang.

Article: "Here's How Many Bernie Sanders Supporters Ultimately Voted For Trump" by Danielle Kurtzleben.

Article: "Big Business Is Overcharging You $5,000 a Year" by David Leonhardt.

Article: "Readers respond: Schrader snubs Oregonians" by Jean Lofy.

Article: "Rep. Kurt Schrader of Oregon helps kill drug pricing bill, endangering Biden infrastructure plan" by Alan Fram, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar.

Article: "The Republican Party Is Literally Shrinking And Dying Right Before Our Eyes" by Jason Easley.

Article: "Why is Washington so dysfunctional?" by Amber Phillips.

Law: "Sherman Antitrust Act", 1890.

Tweet: "I'm yelling at my TV:
Why hasn't a single reporter or media commentator in the last week asked a single Republican politician, "Why are you opposing free community college, stopping climate change, and giving seniors vision and dental?"
Why are they only asking Sinema/Manchin?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Angela Merkel to step down as German chancellor in 2021" by BBC.

Article: "New Deal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Francis Townsend" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Frances Perkins" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Roosevelt I Knew by Frances Perkins.

Site: The Hartmann Report

Article: "McConnell's Wife Gave Him a Special Reelection Present: $78 Million in Federal Funding" by Bess Levin.

Article: "Elaine Chao" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A 'Bridge' to China, and Her Family's Business, in the Trump Cabinet" (Elaine Chao) by Michael Forsythe, Eric Lipton, Keith Bradsher and Sui-Lee Wee.

Site: DoJ contact page.

Event: October 2, 2021: Women's March.

Article: "School boards association asks for federal help dealing with threats" by Caroline Vakil.

Article: "COVID-related attacks prompt hospital to issue panic buttons" by Jim Salter.

Book: The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote and How to Get It Back by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Red Shift: Anomalies In Electronic Voting Trend Overwhelmingly In One Direction" by National Election Defense Coalition.

Article: "Ballot Drive: Join Michigan With National Popular Vote Pact" by David Eggert.

Site: National Popular Vote.

Article: "Planned obsolescence" by Wikipedia.

Article: "131 federal judges failed to recuse themselves from cases in which they had financial interest: report" by Monique Beals.

Site: California Solar Initiative's Single-family Affordable Solar Homes (SASH) Program.

Hour Two: Progressive Town Hall
- Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District)

Article: "Biden arrives on Capitol Hill to try and break deadlock over infrastructure bill – live" by Joan E Greve.

Tweet: ""The President keeps begging her, tell us what you want. Put a proposal forward," says Rep. Ro Khanna of Senator Kyrsten Sinema.
"One Senator, Kyrsten Sinema, is holding up the will of the entire Democratic Party." [video]" by Anderson Cooper 360°.

Article: "Joe Manchin proposed a $1.5 trillion spending deal to Chuck Schumer in July" by Brigid Kennedy.

Article: "How the Democrats Can Pass the Entire Reconciliation Bill" by Harold Meyerson.

Video: Ro Khanna on Cuomo Prime Time discussing infrastructure and the Build Back Better Agenda.

Article: "Exxon and BP called to testify on climate after 'troubling' new documents" (October 28) by Chris McGreal.

Article: "Texas largely relies on natural gas for power. It wasn't ready for the extreme cold." by Erin Douglas.

Article: "Cyberattack forces major US fuel pipeline to shut down" by Veronica Stracqualursi, Geneva Sands and Arlette Saenz.

Article: "Quantitative easing" (QE) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Democrats like Manchin want poor Americans to waste more time" by Hayes Brown.

Article: "Sinema in Arizona as Democrats try to get spending-infrastructure deal" by Jordain Carney.

Article: "John Lewis Voting Rights Bill Passes House With Zero Republican Votes" by Sharon Zhang.

Bill: "S.4263 - John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act" by Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT].

Article: "Supplemental Security Income(SSI) " by Wikipedia.

Article: "The 3 Richest Americans Have as Much Money as the Bottom 50%" by Tara John.

Article: "Jamaal Bowman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rep. Bowman and Sens. Brown, Sanders, and Warren Lead Colleagues in Calling for Desperately-Needed Expansions and Improvements to SSI Program" by Rep. Jamaal Bowman.

Bill: "H.R.3824 - Supplemental Security Income Restoration Act of 2021" by Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-3].

Article: "Will Banks Have To Report All Transactions Over $600 to IRS Under Biden Plan?" by Nur Ibrahim.

Article: "A 'Two-by-Four Between the Eyes': Judge Sentences Anti-Chevron Crusader to Jail Time — Just Days After U.N. Group Called for His Release" by Adam Klasfeld.

Article: "Mike Lindell" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: EXPOSED: Chevron-Backed Judge Jails Human Rights Lawyer... Greg Palast reports from outside the Federal Courthouse in NYC - #FreeDonziger
- Greg Palast, The Guardian / Investigative Journalist/Author/Filmmaker & Puffin Writing Fellow, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy / His new book, How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt For America's Vanished Voters

Article: "Steven Donziger sentenced to six months in prison" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Steven Donziger: Why I Smile: Palast interviews human rights lawyer ahead of sentencing" by Greg Palast and Zach D. Roberts.

Article: "Donziger: Facing Prison for Fighting Chevron" by Greg Palast.

Article: "Fact Injection: Donziger v. Chevron" by Cary Harrison and Greg Palast.

Article: "House Dems Ask AG Garland to Review Chevron's 'Unjust Legal Assault' on Steven Donziger" by Kenny Stancil.

Site: Free Donziger.

Article: "'Appalled' UN Human Rights Experts Urge Immediate Release, Compensation for Steven Donziger" by Jessica Corbett.

Article: "Lawyer who sued Chevron over Ecuador pollution found guilty of contempt" by Sebastien Malo.

Article: "Mueller report" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Video: Ted Kennedy on Republicans and Minimum wage. "When does the greed stop?"

Article: "Did Glenn Beck Evacuate 5,100 Christians from Afghanistan?" by Bethania Palma.

Article: "New York 2021 ballot measures" by Ballotpedia.

1. Makes changes to the redistricting process in New York
2. Creates a state constitutional right to clean air, clean water, and a healthful environment
3. Authorizes the legislature to pass a law for same-day voter registration
4. Authorizes the legislature to pass a law for no-excuse absentee voting
5. Increases the NYC Civil Court's jurisdiction from civil cases involving $25,000 to $50,000

Article: "Problem Solvers Caucus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "No Labels" by Wikipedia.

Article: "These Republicans voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial" by Clare Foran, Ted Barrett and Kristin Wilson.

Article: "The pace of Boomer retirements has accelerated in the past year" by Richard Fry.

Article: "Amazon crushed the Alabama union drive – can the Teamsters do better?" by Steven Greenhouse.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy by Stephanie Kelton.

Article: "Sovereign immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Friedrich Hayek" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ludwig von Mises" by Wikipedia.

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