Americans Must Focus on 2024 & The Rise of Authoritarianism
By Thom Hartmann A...
America needs to talk about Trump-proofing democracy for 2024 and beyond.The billionaires with strong fascistic tendencies are carefully watching Trump and his administration to see what works and what doesn't as he pushes to tear apart our institutions of governance and divide America as a political strategy.
The Big Lie versus grieving families and a dying democracy
By Thom Hartmann A...
It's showing up in the obituaries.People in the throes of agony from losing someone close to them are writing things like, "Instead of flowers, donate to a Democrat," or "instead of flowers, tell everyone to vote against Trump and the GOP this fall." It's become a national trend.
Trump and the Republicans are Willing to Damage America to Hang Onto Power - What Will Happen in November?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Donald Trump just tweeted his outrage that the State of Nevada is going to make it easy for all their registered citizens to vote by mail.He knows, as Republicans have known for 40 years since Americans first started rejecting Reaganomics in widespread numbers, that when everybody can vote in America, Republicans lose elections.
Will America let Trump get away with it?
By Thom Hartmann A...
As an American dies every minute from coronavirus because Donald Trump and the Republican Party refused to do anything about it, they are now trying to use the coronavirus to mess with the election this November.Americans Still Want to Know Why Donald Trump Is Letting Us Die
By Thom Hartmann A...
Back on March 24, when Americans were just beginning to start dying from Covid in substantial numbers, I asked the question, "Why?"Why did Trump initially procrastinate for two months?
Was he trying to squeeze a few months extra revenue out of his hotels?
Coronavirus relief: it's time to put Americans first
By Thom Hartmann A...
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Republicans' price for supporting unemployment checks and other benefits for average working people has been several trillion dollars shoveled directly into corporate coffers, both through tax breaks, grants, and the Fed buying trillions worth of corporate stocks and bonds.Now Republicans are saying they want to cut people's unemployment benefits, and they'll only go along with giving unemployed people a measly $200 a week if they can also give immunity to corporate CEOs and managers when their stupid decisions cause people to die.
How much worse must things get before Americans wake up to the Republican scam?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Republicans in Congress right now are fighting each other over how severely they should cut back on unemployment benefits to people out of work because of this administration's incompetence in handling the coronavirus.How much longer will Americans allow themselves to be abused by Republicans?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Ever since the 1920s, when big business took over the GOP leading directly to the Republican great depression, Republicans have fought to give taxpayer dollars to billionaires and giant corporations while they actively try to screw working people and the poor.Will Trump's Secret Police Succeed in Provoking Riots in Your City?
By Thom Hartmann A...
The Republican Trump administration has gone full authoritarian. Portland is a test, but only a test.Donald Trump signaled his election strategy a few days ago when he talked about ending legislation passed back in the 1960s to support fair housing that he said had sent "people" out into "the suburbs."
We have now reached peak Libertarianism - and it is literally killing us
By Thom Hartmann A...
We have now reached peak Libertarianism, and this bizarre experiment that has been promoted by the billionaire class for over 40 years is literally killing us.Because Bush Got Away with Torture, Trump Thinks He Can Get Away With Secret Police: It’s Got to Stop
By Thom Hartmann A...
Axios is reporting that Donald Trump was inspired to create his secret police force, which he has now deployed to Portland, Oregon, because George W. Bush issued an executive order authorizing the military and CIA to illegally torture and kill innocent people and got away with it.If you can't stop them from voting, just help them die?
By Thom Hartmann A...
First, Georgia's governor Brian Kemp, as Secretary of State, did everything he could to keep hundreds of thousands of Black and Hispanic voters in Georgia from having their votes counted or even being able to vote at all.Will Americans Continue to Let Libertarianism Destroy our Country and Kill Us?
By Thom Hartmann A...
We have now reached peak Libertarianism, and this bizarre experiment that has been promoted by the billionaire class for over 40 years is literally killing us.Back in the years before Reagan, a real estate lobbying group came up with the idea of creating a political party to justify deregulating the real estate and finance industries so they could make more money. The party would give them ideological and political cover, and they developed an elaborate theology around it.
The Trump administration is a death cult
By Thom Hartmann A...
They revel in their efforts to end Obamacare and cut millions of Americans off healthcare.They celebrate last night's resumption of federal executions.
They enthusiastically authorize the use of formerly banned pesticides that cause cancer and neurological damage to children.
Trump Has Only Had One Job In His Entire Life: Celebrity. Will It Work For Him in November?
By Thom Hartmann A...
With one simple understanding, everything about Trump's life and presidency comes into focus.Why would it be that Trump refuses to do his job, including reading intelligence reports? Why would Trump revel in lies and outrageous statements? Why would he retweet a game show hosts conspiracy theories about the coronavirus while trashing his own scientists? Why is Trump, every day, waking up and asking how he can capture the news cycle regardless of its impact on public health or democracy?
