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?
Will Forcing Kids and Teachers Back to School Be Trump's Waterloo?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Trump's first major policy change on his first full day as president was to gut implementation of the "Waters of America" Act.His change allowed coal mines and factories to increase their profits by dumping massive amounts of poison in our rivers and waterways.
To Keep Americans Safe, We Have To Get Billionaires and Money Out Of Politics
By Thom Hartmann A...
Jim Jones, who only killed 900+ people, was a piker, perhaps because he just wasn't rich enough to be truly effective. Billionaire Donald Trump has beat him more than 130 times over, with far more to come.Canada, a country run by competent leaders and actual civil servants at the provincial and federal level, largely has the coronavirus under control and have largely closed their border to Americans.
The Guardian is reporting how Mexican border towns are asking Americans not to come, for fear of further spread of the virus there.
Blowing the lid off the billionaires' big con - and its deadly link to the coronavirus pandemic
By Thom Hartmann A...
About 75 percent of Americans trusted the federal government to "do what is right" when polled during most of the last years of the Eisenhower administration and early years of Lyndon B. Johnson's presidency.In 2019, when the Pew Research Center released its most recent poll of public trust in the government, only 17 percent of Americans trusted their government. It's so bad that armed protesters have shown up nationwide to protest the "tyranny" of having to wear masks during a pandemic… and have been cheered on by the president of the United States and Fox News.
It's Time To Tax Money Bins!
By Thom Hartmann A...
England is debating a wealth tax. America, as tax revenues crash and the need for government services explodes, needs to consider one, too.If you own a home, every year you must pay a wealth tax.
The majority of the wealth held by middle and working class Americans is in their homes. And every year, every homeowner must pay a tax on their wealth in the form of a state and local property tax.
Can Americans Stop the Republican Party and Their Billionaire Lifeline Before Another Hundred Thousand Americans Die?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Can Americans Stop the Republican Party and Their Billionaire Lifeline Before Another Hundred Thousand Americans Die?If a group of international billionaires who don't like democracy, business regulation, or the idea of a functioning multiracial culture wanted to hire somebody to destroy America, they couldn't have done better than Donald Trump.
The blowback over masks is just the latest faux conservative outrage
By Thom Hartmann A...
The bizarre "conservative" idea of "freedom" has struck again.Will America Recover from the Rightwing Billionaire's War Against Us?
By Thom Hartmann A...
This morning on CNN a physician in Texas talked about having 10 young people with COVID-19 who needed immediate hospitalization and only having three beds left. He had to decide who is going to get treatment and who was going to be turned away from the hospital.How Do We Pry the Confederate Monuments Out Of Trump's Tiny Hands?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Every time in American history there was the possibility of serious movement forward in civil and human rights, there has been a backlash by white racists resulting in new monuments to the Confederacy.The Confederacy, of course, was the police state oligarchy that took over the American South in the 1820s and committed treason against the United States of America, killing hundreds of thousands of American soldiers and civilians in the process.
How Do We Prevent Trump Loving Republicans From Reinventing Themselves?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Republicans are starting to behave as if they have figured out that Donald Trump is an incompetent, malicious, lying, white supremacist, dictator-loving racist whose stupidity and spite have led to the death of over 100,000 Americans, a number that will hit a quarter million by the time of the election.Fact is, they've known this all along. They were shouting it during the primary back in 2016.
The Russia bounty scandal shows how close Trump is to destroying America altogether
By Thom Hartmann A...
It appears there is at least one branch of the federal government that Donald Trump has been unable to corrupt. So far.He put loyal toadies who would lie and cheat for him over at the Department of Justice with William Barr, at EPA and Interior with a couple of fossil fuel lobbyists, at the FCC with a Verizon lawyer, at the Department of Education with a billionaire hack who hates public schools, and he even a former defense lobbyist in charge of the Pentagon.
Why Is Trump So Enthusiastic About Americans Dying?
By Thom Hartmann A...
Two weeks after America diagnosed its first case of COVID-19, Republicans in the United States Senate (with the single exception of Mitt Romney) refuse to vote to impeach Donald Trump.
