December 2020

  • Tuesday 15 December '20 show notes

    • Mitch McConnell Wants to Let Corporations Kill You Without Consequence...
    • Conversations With Great Minds: How Should We Deal With Strongmen? - Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History & Italian Studies-New York University (NYU) / Historian & cultural critic / scholar on fascism & authoritarian leaders / Author of seven books including her latest, From Mussolini to the Present
    • Conversations With Great Minds: The Invisible Hand - Melissa Troutman and Joshua Boaz Pribanic, Directors or the new documentary, INVISIBLE HAND (Executive Producer, Mark Ruffalo) & Co-Founders Public Herald Studios
  • Mitch McConnell wants to let corporations kill you without consequence

    Thom plus logo Probably the most under-reported story of the year has been how Mitch McConnell is holding Americans hostage in exchange for letting big corporations kill Americans without any consequence.

    Mitch took you and me hostage back in May, when the House of Representatives passed the HEROES act that would have funded state and local governments and provided unemployed workers with an ongoing weekly payment.
  • Monday 14 December '20 show notes

    • Why Trust Is Essential To the Survival of Our Democracy...
    • "Take Off Your Mask So I Know How Much To Tip You..." - Saru Jayaraman, President - One Fair Wage / Director- Food Labor Research Center, University of California, Berkeley
    • Trump's Last Minute Attack on Social Security - Alex Lawson, Executive Director - Social Security Works
    • The Future of Politics - Meagan Hatcher-Mays, Lawyer & Director of Democracy Policy - Indivisible
  • Democrats must get tough: here's why and how

    Thom plus logo Rebuilding trust in democracy and our American government requires both holding seditious Republicans accountable and restoring the protective functions of government. Here's what Democrats must do and why.

    The reason tens of millions of Americans don't believe Joe Biden won the election is a 40-year betrayal of the American public's trust by Republican politicians, grifters, and con artists exploiting the once-good name of Lincoln's Party.
  • Friday 11 December '20 show notes

    • Anything Goes Seditious Friday...! Why Shouldn't the Republicans, Who Signed the Texas Attempt to Overturn the Election, Be Expelled From Congress Like Many of the Southern Legislatures Were in 1862?
    • Issues of the Day - Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District)
    • Anything Goes Friday...Which Republicans Are Guilty of Sedition?

  • Thursday 10 December '20 show notes

    • It's time to defund the Republican Party
    • How Do We Best Deal With Billionaires and the Damage They Do To Our Economy and Politics? - Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System
    • Conversations With Great Minds: How Do We Recover From Trump? - 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)
  • It's time to defund the Republican Party

    Thom plus logo In yesterday's rant, I laid out all the reasons why Democrats should put at the top of their priority list "defunding the Republican Party." Here's a little background, and how to do it.
  • Wednesday 09 December '20 show notes

    • Mid-day with Mark - Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)
    • How do we deal with a Republican Party that's become a traitor to humanity itself?
    • Conversations With Great Minds: Democracy vs. Plutocracy - Stacy Mitchell, Co-Director Institute for Local Self Reliance & Author, Big Box Swindle, Home Town Advantage
  • How do we deal with a Republican Party that's become a traitor to humanity itself?

    Thom plus logo Politicians in New York State are discussing making Covid vaccination mandatory, and, predictably, Republican cultists are freaking out. "Freedom!" they scream as they run around maskless, assaulting their fellow citizens with virus-laden breath.
  • Tuesday 08 December '20 show notes

    • When Will America Wake Up to the Evil That Has Seized the Republican Party?
    • "Get Covered America" Day is December 10th... ACA Open Enrollment - Laura Packard, Health care advocate & founder - Health Care Voices (a non-profit grassroots organization for adults with serious medical conditions) / co-chair-Health Care Voter & runs the pharma accountability campaign for Hero Action Fund - Laura is a cancer survivor
    • Gained a Few Covid Pounds? How Not to Diet - Dr. Michael Greger, Physician, author, and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, & public health issues. / Author-How Not to Die, How Not to Diet, and The How Not to Die Cookbook / Dr. Greger also runs NutritionFacts.org, the first science-based, non-commercial website providing free daily videos & articles on latest nutrition discoveries.

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