Without Clean Elections There Is No America
By Thom Hartmann A...
The polls all show that Joe Biden is winning the presidential race in a landslide, but Americans are worried that Donald Trump will nonetheless steal this election.Americans have been told to tolerate the fact that a man who lost an election by 3 million votes sits in the White House.
What Will It Take To Get Trump To Change His Deadly Position On The Coronavirus?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Donald Trump is stuck.Back in March and early April, the Trump administration relied on science and epidemiologists and put together a plan for the coronavirus. The Post Office would send five high-quality masks to every American. The economy would be shut down for a month or two so we could assess the situation while aggressively testing and doing contact tracing to isolate outbreaks and control and confine the disease.
Will Republican voter suppression efforts be enough to block the tens of millions of Americans who have discovered that Trump and the Republicans don't give a damn about them?
By Thom Hartmann A...
In a stunning proof that he doesn't care about anybody's life except his own, a sick and infectious Donald Trump ordered two Secret Service agents to join him in "The Beast," the presidential limousine, which is "hermetically sealed against chemical attacks" so it has absolutely no fresh air.
If White America Doesn't Wake Up America May Become an Ungovernable Hellhole
By Thom Hartmann A...
We're now learning that the Department of Homeland Security officials were given talking points to share with the media the defended Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who traveled with his semiautomatic assault rifle from Illinois to Kenosha, Wisconsin to kill two people and blow the arm off a third.Here are 8 reasons COVID is so much worse than the skeptics think
By Thom Hartmann A...
America's first COVID death was on February 29 of this year, roughly 200 days ago. In that time, more than 200,000 Americans have died of the disease, the equivalent of 1,000 people a day.That's how many people would have died if between February 29 and today three fully-loaded jumbo jets had crashed every single day, even on weekends, for 200 days.
Trump Goes Full Authoritarian Dictator
By Thom Hartmann A...
What we saw last night was the dictator's playbook.Tell violent white supremacist racists to "stand by" and encourage them to show up at polling places to intimidate voters.
Bully, bluster and threaten like Mussolini did, promoting your brand as "tough guy" when in fact you're a lazy coward.
Is Every Single Part Of the Trump Presidency a Con?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Donald Trump swindled his father's estate for several hundred million dollars and turned himself into a phony billionaire. We now know it was all a con.The Trump administration, according to today's New York Times, was leaning on the CDC to provide any kind of evidence, no matter how thin or meaningless, that could be used to justify opening schools. We now know that was all a con.
Trump is Broke: Has He Already Sold Out America To Get the Money He Needs?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Back in the day, Donald Trump's niece alleges, he stole hundreds of millions of dollars from his father's estate, screwing his other family members and the IRS (you and me).He then went on a massive spending binge, pouring that money into airlines, steaks, vodka, Trump-branded games, casinos, a fake university, etc. Virtually all of them failed, and he experienced multiple bankruptcies.
The Republican Party's sordid history in Florida shows just how far they'll go to save Trump
By Thom Hartmann A...
Those who forget history, the old saying goes, are doomed to repeat it."Lawmakers on both sides indicated Tuesday that the Republican-dominated Legislature will call a special session by the end of the week to appoint its own slate of delegates to the electoral college," wrote Jeffrey Gettleman for The Los Angeles Times on November 29, 2000
Republicans ruthlessly reshaped America to hold onto power - can Dems do the same thing to save it?
By Thom Hartmann A...
In the power grab to fill the Supreme Court seat announced the same evening as the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mitch McConnell didn't do anything new. The GOP has a long history of playing hardball power politics.Can Trump get away with normalizing a coup?
By Thom Hartmann A...
One of the big lessons that Donald Trump has learned through his years at the center of the New York tabloid media is that he can normalize just about anything.When he was getting bad press because he was having an affair on his first wife, for example, he called newspapers pretending to be his own assistant to say that Marla Maples was astonished with "the best sex ever." It changed the entire newspaper narrative, and Trump proved to himself one more time that he can normalize just about anything.
Trump has told us how he and the Republicans plan to steal this election: can we stop him and save our republic?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Donald Trump became president by exploiting a loophole called the Electoral College. The majority of Americans did not want him or vote for him as president, but he's there anyway.Now he's planning on using a different loophole, the 12th Amendment, to hang onto power.
Trump "Never Noticed" A Modern-Day American Genocide
By Thom Hartmann A...
Donald Trump said in a rally last night that the coronavirus, "Affects virtually nobody."Apparently "virtually nobody" means 200,000 dead Americans, ranging in age from the elderly to infants.
A Hard-right Supreme Court Nominee Could Completely Alter Life As We Know It
By Thom Hartmann A...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died, and while everybody is focusing on abortion, the Supreme Court, if it falls into hard-core conservative hands, could do massive damage to the entire spectrum of life in America.Trump's Latest Failure Could Kill 6 million Americans
By Thom Hartmann A...
Although they haven't yet publicly acknowledged it in such stark terms, it's clear now that the Trump administration has decided pursue a herd immunity strategy to deal with the coronavirus.Trump's new White House advisor on coronavirus, Scott Atlas, has said it on numerous occasions in multiple venues, and now our Attorney General, Bill Barr, is trying to argue that lockdowns to prevent the spread of the virus are as bad as slavery. Trying to achieve herd immunity in the United States against the coronavirus, assuming it's even possible, would involve between two and 6 million Americans dying.
