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How the Supreme Court set up the authoritarian takeover of America
Jan. 4, 2021 5:20 pm
By Thom Hartmann A...
Donald Trump's phone call to Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is the latest illustration of his lifelong criminality. Over the last 40 years, career criminals like Trump have increasingly moved out of the business world and the streets and into politics, something for which we can thank the Supreme Court.
There are, among us, a small number of individuals who are career criminals. They have literally spent their entire lives skirting or outright breaking the law, and not only believe the law doesn't apply to them, but actually delight in getting away with their crimes.
Trump's indifference and racism kills 1 in 1,000 Americans
Jan. 3, 2021 2:44 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... Covid has now killed 1 in 1000 Americans in less than a year.
How is it that in Australia it's 3 out of every 100,000 people, and in New Zealand it's 1 out of every 200,000 people, but here in America we're dropping like flies?
Chalk it up to Republican racism and a libertarian indifference to the notion of society.
If the 25th Amendment isn't invoked, what will Trump do next?
Dec. 22, 2020 5:42 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... TS Eliot famously said that the world will end "not with a bang, but a whimper." It's also how strongman dictator reigns typically end, and Trump is no exception. He's having his "Downfall bunker moment," and it could be very dangerous.
The soulless, sellout GOP must either reform itself or die
Dec. 21, 2020 6:21 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... The Republican coronavirus relief negotiating position, over the past six months, tells you everything you need to know about why the modern GOP is so corrupt it needs to be rebuilt from the ground up or die.
First, Democrats in the House of Representatives passed the HEROES Act, with $3 trillion for unemployed Americans, small businesses, and state and local governments. Republicans said that was too much money for average Americans, and refused to even hold a vote in the Senate.
Americans Must Drive a Stake Through the Heart of the NeoCalvinist Republican Party
Dec. 17, 2020 4:31 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... Once again, negotiations over Covid relief show the stark differences between the Democratic and Republican Parties. That America isn't shocked and horrified by GOP behavior is a testimonial to how well corporate media obscures these differences.
Several Republican senators and their aides have gone so far as to suggest that giving working people even a single $600 check will cause them to "live high on the hog" or will bring "communism" to America.
Talk Radio: Democrats Can't Win if They Don't Play
Dec. 16, 2020 6:04 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... "Why Did So Many Americans Vote for Donald Trump?" asks the headline in The New York Times shortly after the election. Weirdly, that article - and hundreds like it purporting to explain the previous 2016 election - lacked even a single mention of the roughly 1,500 right-wing talk-radio stations that saturate every corner, no matter how remote or rural, of America.
As a 2008 Pew Research poll found, 16 percent of Americans got their general election-year information about presidential candidates from talk radio, a percentage that had held constant for eight years at that point, despite the explosive growth of the Internet over the same period.
Mitch McConnell wants to let corporations kill you without consequence
Dec. 15, 2020 4:30 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... Probably the most under-reported story of the year has been how Mitch McConnell is holding Americans hostage in exchange for letting big corporations kill Americans without any consequence.
Mitch took you and me hostage back in May, when the House of Representatives passed the HEROES act that would have funded state and local governments and provided unemployed workers with an ongoing weekly payment.
Democrats must get tough: here's why and how
Dec. 14, 2020 5:09 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... Rebuilding trust in democracy and our American government requires both holding seditious Republicans accountable and restoring the protective functions of government. Here's what Democrats must do and why.
The reason tens of millions of Americans don't believe Joe Biden won the election is a 40-year betrayal of the American public's trust by Republican politicians, grifters, and con artists exploiting the once-good name of Lincoln's Party.
It's time to defund the Republican Party
Dec. 10, 2020 4:57 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... In yesterday's rant, I laid out all the reasons why Democrats should put at the top of their priority list "defunding the Republican Party." Here's a little background, and how to do it.
How do we deal with a Republican Party that's become a traitor to humanity itself?
Dec. 9, 2020 4:44 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... Politicians in New York State are discussing making Covid vaccination mandatory, and, predictably, Republican cultists are freaking out. "Freedom!" they scream as they run around maskless, assaulting their fellow citizens with virus-laden breath.
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