Will Enough Americans Show Up to Stop Trump From Using the Dictator's Playbook?
By Thom Hartmann A...
The single most consistent defining characteristic of an emerging dictatorship in a country that started as a democracy is that the dictator regularly holds elections and always wins, because he uses the instruments of government to make sure he wins.Trump has now done this with the Justice Department, the Post Office, the Department of Homeland Security, The Department of Health and Human Services, the Federal Reserve, and our intelligence agencies.
America's Chief Grifter Strikes Again
By Thom Hartmann A...
Trump says he is going to boost unemployment payments by $400, stop evictions, cut payroll taxes, and extend student loan relief.In fact, these are all lies. As usual, it's a new con job, a grift from our grifter-in-chief.
Everything Trump Touches Dies - Including Trade & Bringing Jobs Home
By Thom Hartmann A...
This just in from Lori Wallach, Director Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch - In his speech now underway at Whirlpool in Ohio, Trump claimed to have met all of his trade promises from 2016. NOT!Will the coronavirus wake Americans up to the cancer that has infected our political system?
By Thom Hartmann A...
The Republican hostility to helping people who lost their jobs because of the coronavirus, to expanding healthcare to all the American people, and their hostility to doing anything about climate change all come from the same source: greed and the big money it produces.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.
