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How much worse must things get before Americans wake up to the Republican scam?
Jul. 27, 2020 2:35 pm
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?
Jul. 23, 2020 3:22 pmBy 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?
Jul. 21, 2020 3:20 pmBy 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
Jul. 21, 2020 8:28 amBy 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
Jul. 20, 2020 4:04 pmBy 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.
If you can't stop them from voting, just help them die?
Jul. 16, 2020 4:27 pmBy 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?
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... 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?
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... 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.
Our Superspreader President Has Blood On His Hands & So Does the Republican Party
By Thom Hartmann A...
A new study from Columbia University lays the deaths of tens to hundreds of thousands of Americans at the feet of the Trump administration and the Republican party.Comparing the United States to other developed countries, they laid out how our lack of a systemic federal response to the coronavirus has endangered Americans.
Images of Thom
With His Holiness The Dalai Lama, at His home in Dharamsala, India (Synthesis Dialogues - made into a movie narrated by Harrison Ford)
At Mondragon - both the mountain and the cooperative city - in Spain (written about in "Threshold" book)
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