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Because Bush Got Away with Torture, Trump Thinks He Can Get Away With Secret Police: It’s Got to Stop
Jul. 20, 2020 4:04 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...If you can't stop them from voting, just help them die?
Jul. 16, 2020 4:27 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...Will Americans Continue to Let Libertarianism Destroy our Country and Kill Us?
Jul. 15, 2020 5:04 pmBy 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
Jul. 14, 2020 4:01 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...Trump Has Only Had One Job In His Entire Life: Celebrity. Will It Work For Him in November?
Jul. 13, 2020 3:46 pmBy 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?
Jul. 9, 2020 1:58 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...To Keep Americans Safe, We Have To Get Billionaires and Money Out Of Politics
Jul. 9, 2020 8:42 amBy 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
Jul. 8, 2020 3:28 pmBy 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!
Jul. 7, 2020 2:40 pmBy 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?
Jul. 6, 2020 2:44 pmBy 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.