Is Division All Trump Knows?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, who is not only having to deal with a massive coronavirus outbreak but also with a right wing anti-quarantine revolt funded, according to the New York Times, in part by the DeVos family, pointed out that the enemy here is not each other, but is the virus.Will This Be a "Let Them Eat Coronavirus" Moment?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Once again, the Republican party and their members in Congress have screwed average Americans to give a huge benefit to America's super wealthy. You might've gotten $1200, but the truly rich got a fortune.
Is The 40 Year Republican Plan Disintegrating?
By Thom Hartmann A...
People are wondering why Donald Trump melted down yesterday in his press conference, but there's really a simple explanation.
America Has a Big Decision to Make - How Do We End Shelter In Place?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Dr. David Nabarro of the World Health Organization says that until a vaccine is developed, the coronavirus will likely "stalk the human race" for quite a while. Shelter in place and all the other efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus are designed to do, basically, only one thing: protect hospitals.
Where Will The Money Go?
By Thom Hartmann A...
The Federal Reserve said yesterday that they could pump over $2 trillion into the economy, while other reports suggested it could be over $4 trillion. All of this is done without oversight and regulation by Congress, based on decisions made exclusively by the Fed.Are We Going to Vote in November?
By Thom Hartmann A...
In two or three weeks we're going to start seeing people show up in hospitals in Wisconsin because of the stunt Republicans in the Wisconsin legislature, the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and the US Supreme Court pulled off this week. Many of those people will die, just so Republicans could suppress the vote in Wisconsin.How Many Americans are Republicans Willing to Let Die In Order to Win Elections?
By Thom Hartmann A...
The Republican war on voting rolls on. The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court, and the Republican-controlled US Supreme Court have both, over the loud objection of their own members, ruled that physical, in-person elections must happen in Wisconsin today.Red States Vs Blue States - Let the Experiment Begin?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Ever since the Reagan revolution, right wing billionaires have been pouring money into Red states to cement Republican control. Their big issue is how much they hate "socialism" including things like Medicaid, free college, and food and housing supports. Red states are heavily subsidized by federal tax money taken from Blue states.
Is Mad King Trump Deciding Which States Will Live and Which States Will Die?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Mad king Donald has gone full Joe Stalin in the last week or so. He is helping his friends and punishing his enemies, and using the lives of hundreds of millions of Americans to do it. People are dying and more will die because of it.'Epic of Gilgamesh': How Mad King Trump angered the gods
By Thom Hartmann A...
In the 4,000-year-old "Epic of Gilgamesh," the arrogant eponymous king killed Humbaba, the giant guardian of the forest so that he could cut down the cedar stands in what is now northern Iraq to build his great city of Uruk. Gilgamesh's people then diverted the Euphrates River to irrigate fields of barley.What Would a Normal President Do?
By Thom Hartmann A...
A normal person as president would anguish over telling his nation that a quarter million people were going to have to die because he listened to Fox News hosts and spent two months holding rallies and playing golf when he could have been ordering test kits, ventilators and personal protective equipment.We're All in Mourning For Our Way of Life. How Are You Working Around it?
By Thom Hartmann A...
While we're all experiencing shock and anger at how Trump has created a crisis in America by lying and procrastinating and grandstanding, there's a larger emotion that's reaching deep into the lives of many of us: Grief.If Only 100,000 Americans Die Trump Thinks He "Did a Great Job"
By Thom Hartmann A...
On January 20, the United States and South Korea both diagnosed their first patient with the coronavirus. South Korea immediately begin testing their population and started a nationwide program of social distancing.Coronavirus Crash: Worse Than Great Depression?
By Thom Hartmann A...
The coronavirus crash has turned the fact that we don't make anything in America anymore from a topic for philosophical and political debate into a crisis in our hospitals causing people to die and endangering our frontline health care workers.What Happens When Mobsters Run the Country?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Donald Trump spent years hanging out and doing business with mobsters and people associated with them. His lawyer, Roy Cohn, was the chief lawyer for the biggest mobster in New York City, and the Italian mob had infiltrated the New York construction and real estate business. Now Trump's mobster tendencies are bubbling to the surface.
