The libertarians have had 40 years to make their project work, we're hitting peak libertarianism and it's tearing our country apart, pitting Americans against each other, and killing people every day. This weekend Senator Pat Toomey went on Jake Tapper's State of the Union to try to clean up Republican sabotage of a bill to provide healthcare to millions of veterans exposed to toxic burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. He didn't do himself or his party any favors as he tried to weasel out of responsibility; America knows that after the bill was defeated Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley fist-bumped in celebration of screwing our vets.

How is it that Republicans can casually embrace such cruelty? Why have 12 GOP-controlled states refused to this day to expand Medicaid for their 30 million minimum-wage working people when the federal government covers 90 percent of the cost?

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

In the absence of the controls recommended by the Founders and early state regulation, corporations have continued to grow in size and power without limit. But they haven't done it just by creating new wealth in the economy. Much of it, instead, has been accomplished by increasingly consolidating existing wealth, moving it out of the hands of the middle class and into the hands of the top few percent of Americans economically. Of course, some new wealth has been generated, but nowhere near enough to explain the observable facts.*

The past thirty years has, in fact, seen the largest transfer of wealth from working people to the rich and very rich in the history of both this nation and any nation on earth.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The Best of the Rest of the News.

— Thursday my daily take was about how our manufacturing dependence on China cripples our ability to stand up for Taiwan, one of the most vibrant and boisterous democracies on the planet. Now China has doubled-down.
— Republican Senators Pat Toomey and Mitch McConnell engineered a vote against funding for US veterans sick or dying from cancers and other diseases they got from open burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Josh Hawley (R-Chickencoop) and Ted Cruz fistbumped in celebration.
— In Ohio, multimillionaire hedge fund manager and GOP senatorial candidate JD Vance has said the quiet part out loud: women must, in his opinion, be subservient to their husbands "for the children," even when their husbands beat, rape, or otherwise subject them to violence.
— Ever since five corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court legalized political bribery with their Citizens United decision, Congress has been in a state of perpetual paralysis.
— Republicans hate gay and trans kids so much they want to deny them school lunches until the Biden administration stops requiring schools to report instances of hate and discrimination against LGBTQ children.
— A group of Texas Republicans are suing to block Obamacare's requirement that insurance companies provide preventative healthcare for STDs, including HIV and HPV.
— Crazy Alert! The Sperm Bros are touring the world, offering to help women who don't want to go through fertility clinics get pregnant.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "How a Child-Killer Set the Stage for Today's Republicans to Revel in Cruelty" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "The Journals of Ayn Rand" by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff.

Article: "Libertarian National Platform 1980".

Article: "FBI manhunt for Gaetz supporter who left terrifying voicemail threatening to kill Rebekah Jones" by GeoRebekah.

Article: "Wealthcare" by Jonathan Chait.

Article: "Slayer is taken from train while mobs are waiting" by Dan Campbell.

Article: "President Trump Nominates Acting EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler, a Former Coal Lobbyist, to Lead Agency" by Jennifer A. Dlouhy.

Article: "The True History of Libertarianism in America: A Phony Ideology to Promote a Corporate Agenda" by Mark Ames.

Article: "How Ayn Rand Became a Big Admirer of Serial Killer" by Mark Ames.

Article: "The rape scene in The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand and Sex 1.1)" by Ayn Rand is dead.

Article: "John Kelly: It's not 'cruel' to separate families at the border — children will be 'put into foster care or whatever'" by Michelle Mark.

Article: "Trump: ‘I just don't want a poor person' running the economy" by Jacob Pramuk.

Article: "Scaramucci says Trump will turn on everyone 'eventually,' then 'entire country'" by Devan Cole.

Article: "A Former Oil Lobbyist Is Now Officially in Charge of America's Public Lands" by Olivia Rosane.

Article: "Donald Trump is a narcissist and sociopath says Sachs" by BBC Radio 4.

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

Article: "Names Of Election Worker Witnesses Found On Oath Keeper Suspect's 'Death List': Court Filing" by Mary Papenfuss.

Article: "Trump Administration Embraces Ayn Rand's Disdain for the Masses" by Firmin DeBrabander.

Article: "Followers Of Ayn Rand Provide A Final Tribute" by Susan Chira.

Article: "The sanctification of Donald Trump" by Andrew Restuccia.

Article: "What would have happened to Howard Roark in a real court?" by Quora.

Article: "The new age of Ayn Rand: how she won over Trump and Silicon Valley" by Jonathan Freedland.

Article: "US faces new era of political violence as threats against lawmakers rise" by Joan E Greve and Lauren Gambino.

Article: "Have You Ever Seen Donald Trump Laugh?" by Leslie Savan.

Article: "Donald Trump's 'kinder, gentler' version: Kirsten Powers" by Kirsten Powers.

Article: "A Path to Destruction" by Randi Weingarten.

Article: "Trump: “My whole life I've been greedy … Now I want to be greedy for the United States”" by Ezra Klein.

Article: "Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand" by Rachel Weiner.

Video: Mike Wallace interviews Ayn Rand (1959) (full interview).

Article: "Jon Stewart shows Democrats how to respond to GOP cruelty" by Jennifer Rubin.

Article: "Ivana Trump was buried at her ex-husband's golf course, and he can grimly reap the tax benefits" by Aldous J Pennyfarthing.

Tweet: "Beautiful final resting place for your mom, @DonaldJTrumpJr. I especially love the inscription on her gravestone. Truly heartwarming. RIP Ivana." by Hamish Mitchell.

Article: "Milankovitch cycles" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2008 - 2016 United States ammunition shortage" by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: Gunfight: My Battle Against the Industry that Radicalized America by Ryan Busse.

Article: "Ed Schultz" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ousted Smith & Wesson CEO Ed Shultz reflects decades after deal with President Bill Clinton drove him from business" by Jim Kinney.

Article: "Antonin Scalia's 2008 Ruling Set Parameters for Today's Gun Control Reform Debate" by Matthew Cooper.

Article: "Anton LaVey" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.

Article: "Atlas Shrugged (film series)" by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand.

Movie: "Citizen Kane".

Article: "'He Raped Me': When Donald Trump Was Accused of Sexual Assault" by Sophie Weiner.

Article: "Donald Trump 'kept book of Adolf Hitler's speeches in his bedside cabinet'" by Benjamin Kentish.

Article: "Modern Jewish History: The Tribes Today - Kohens, Levis & Yisraels" by Jacqueline Shields .

Book: Old School by Tobias Wolff.

Article: "West Virginia Republican wants to ban child support because he thinks it'll incentivize abortions" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Ukraine war: First grain ship leaves under Russia deal" by James Waterhouse, Matt Murphy.

Article: "QAnon influencers pushing antisemitic conspiracies about Ukraine food supply " by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Trial begins for Minnesota woman who sued after being denied morning-after pill" by John Reinan.

Article: "Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jared Kushner and Steven Mnuchin Have Reportedly Secured Billions from Saudi Government" by Ken Meyer.

Article: "Amalgamated Bank CEO on why we can and should track gun purchases on cards" by Leah Collins.

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev.

Article: "What Is to Be Done? (novel)" by Nikolai Chernyshevsky.

Book: What Is to Be Done? by Nikolai Chernyshevsky.

Article: "What Is to Be Done?" by Vladimir Lenin.

Book: The Man from St. Petersburg by Ken Follett.

Article: "LIV Golf reportedly paid Phil Mickelson $200M to join league" by Larry Brown Sports.

Article: "Bob Casey joined the outrage as Democrats hammer Pat Toomey over a stalled bill to help veterans" by Jonathan Tamari.

Quote: "The wealthiest three families now own more wealth than the bottom half of the country." - Bernie Sanders.

Article: "Bernie’s Right: Three Billionaires Really Do Have More Wealth Than Half of America" by Chuck Collins.

Article: "Prescription monitoring program" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Prescription-Drug Policing: The Right To Health Information Privacy Pre- and Post-Carpenter" by Jennifer D. Oliva.

Article: "California militia helping Oak Fire evacuees creates furor in Mariposa" by Ethan Baron.

Article: "Oath Keeper planned with Proud Boys, Three Percenters before Capitol attack, prosecutors say" by Katie Wedell, Kevin Johnson.

Article: "America Is Occupied By a Dangerous Second Amendment Scam" by Thom Hartmann.

Tweet: "Happy weekend, @POTUS . Please replace all Inspectors General appointed by trump. Start with DoD, ICIG, HHS, DHS, DoT. Then assign someone to rebuild agency whistleblower protection offices that were decimated by trump.
And DeJoy. Tell the postal board of governors to fire him." by Mueller, She Wrote.

Book: Primal Mind, Primal Games: Why We Do What We Do by Hifzija Bajramovic; Paul H LeMay.

Quote: "A number of my friends who belong in these very high upper brackets have suggested to me, more in sorrow than in anger, that if I am reelected they will have to move to some other Nation because of high taxes here. I shall miss them very much." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Address at Worcester, Mass.," October 21, 1936.

Speech: "Madison Square Garden Speech", President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936. "They are unanimous in their hate for me-and I welcome their hatred"

Hour Three: Will the Fed Cause a Recession?
- Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director, Center for Economic & Policy Research / President-Just Foreign Policy / Author of several books including "FAILED: What the "Experts" Got Wrong about the Global Economy"

Article: "The Fed Will Be to Blame if the Economy Crashes Into a Recession" by Mark Weisbrot.

Article: "US Recession - No Thank you" by Rudi Dornbusch.

Article: "John Adams Explains Why People Without Property Should Not Be Able to Vote".

Site: Rivian.

Quote: "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers.

Article: "This heatwave is a reminder that grass lawns are terrible for the environment" by Akin Olla.

Article: "Victory garden" by Wikipedia.

Article: "August 2 primaries loom as Trump's biggest test of 2022 — Here's a preview of what's at stake " by Ray Hartmann.

Book: Byzantium Folio Society Books 3 vol. set/Early Centuries, Apogee, Decline and Fall by John Julius Norwich.

Book: "The Fourth Turning" by William Strauss, Neil Howe.

Article: "Great Depression (1929 - 1930s) by Wikipedia.

Article: "World War II" (1939 - 1945) by Wikipedia.

Article: "American Civil War" (1861 - 1865) by Wikipedia.

Article: "American Revolutionary War" (1775-1783) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Watch: RFK talks gun control in Roseburg, Oregon in 1968" by CBS News.

Article: "Energy prices: How will the £5bn windfall tax work?" by BBC.

Article: "Report: The ‘mind-blowingly enormous’ money Tiger Woods declined to join LIV Golf" by Luke Kerr-Dineen.

Article: "Golf legend Jack Nicklaus reveals he shunned $100 million offer from LIV Golf: 'I helped start the PGA Tour'" by Patrick McDonald.

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