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Here's what the feud and reconciliation between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson can teach us about civility
 Donald Trump did not invent the art of the political insult but he's inflamed the level of vitriolic public discourse and incivility to a new low unmatched by other presidents. In a tainted tradition that has permeated our history, other presidents have not been immune to dishing out acerbic insults against one another. John Quincy Adams was livid that Harvard University planned to award President Andrew Jackson with an honorary degree. He wrote in his diary that Jackson was "a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name." Franklin Pierce was not as impressed with Abraham Lincoln as history has been, declaring the day after Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation that the president had "limited ability and narrow intelligence." The list of spicy presidential insults goes on and on. While such statements are often laugh-aloud funny, they are also shocking and sobering. How can these men who have reached the pinnacle of political power be so crude and demeaning? We can learn a valuable lesson from the friendship and feud between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, and their ultimate reconciliation. Read more here. -Thom |
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To Save 99% of Americans - We Have to Tax the Rich
The massive inequality we are now experiencing in the United States has a singular source. It started with the Reagan tax cut that took tax rates on the wealthiest Americans from 74%, where it had been for two generations, and lowered it to 25%. Immediately, instead of investing in their businesses or paying their employees well, wealthy CEOs begin to divert money from their companies into their own paychecks. Subsequent tax cuts by Bush and Trump made the situation even worse. Now we learn that the majority of billionaires and multimillionaires surveyed - fully 60% - actually support Elizabeth Warren's proposed tax on the ultra, ultra wealthy. This is the only thing that will re-balance our economy so that the middle-class can begin growing again. The middle-class had been steadily growing in income and wealth from the 1930s until the 1980s, when Reagan began killing the working class by cutting the top tax rate on their bosses. It's time to reverse the Reagan, Bush, and Trump tax cuts and restore sanity to our tax code so that working people can once again get a fair share of the American economy. -Thom |
Thursday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Why Democratic Socialism 'Only Way to Defeat Oligarchy and Authoritarianism'- the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)   
Sun, Jun 23: SEATTLE, WA 7:30pm - Town Hall, 1119 8th Ave (West Entrance) w/Elliott Bay Book Company.
Event: Tue, Jun 25: SAN FRANCISCO, CA 7:00pm - First Church, 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley w/ The Booksmith. Thom's The Hidden History of Guns and the 2nd Amendment Book Tour. Event: Fri, Jun 28: CHICAGO, IL 7:00pm - Frugal Muse, 7511 Lemont Rd. #146 (Chestnut Court Shopping Center), Darien. Thom's The Hidden History of Guns and the 2nd Amendment Book Tour. Event: Sat, Jun 29: MINNEAPOLIS, MN 7:00pm - Common Good Books, 38 S. Snelling Ave, St. Paul. Thom's The Hidden History of Guns and the 2nd Amendment Book Tour. Event: Fri, July 12: PHILADELPHIA, PA 4:15pm - Netroots Nation, PA Convention Center, 1101 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA. Thom's The Hidden History of Guns and the 2nd Amendment Book Tour. Article: " 52 U.S. Code § 30121 - Contributions and donations by foreign nationals" (a) Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for-
(1) a foreign national, directly or indirectly, to make—
(A) a contribution or donation of money or other thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State, or local election;
(B) a contribution or donation to a committee of a political party; or
(C) an expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication (within the meaning of section 30104(f)(3) of this title); or
(2) a person to solicit, accept, or receive a contribution or donation described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1) from a foreign national..
Hour Three: How then 'Circuit Court Judge' Brett Kavanaugh Created a Loophole in the Law that Paved the Way for Foreign Interference in Our Elections...
Quote: " If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows" - John Kenneth Galbraith (referring to "trickle down" economics). |
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Friday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Mueller Investigation Report, Part 26 : Papadopoulos' Plan
Border Crisis Confusion: Is the Republican Party a Cult? (w/ Mark Pocan)
Climate Change Concentration Camps
Will Democracy Survive Billionaires?
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On the Road Again
The Hidden History of Guns and the 2nd Amendment Book Tour Is Coming...
Sat, Jun 22: Los Angeles, CA 3:00pm - KPFK Speaker Series: Thom Hartmann (Stephanie Miller will be joining Thom) on The Hidden History of Guns. More details here.
Tue, Jun 25: SAN FRANCISCO, CA 7:00pm - First Church, 2345 Channing Way, Berkeley w/ The Booksmith.
Fri, Jun 28: CHICAGO, IL 7:00pm - Frugal Muse, 7511 Lemont Rd. #146 (Chestnut Court Shopping Center), Darien.
Sat, Jun 29: MINNEAPOLIS, MN 7:00pm - Common Good Books, 38 S. Snelling Ave, St. Paul.
Fri, Jul 12: PHILADELPHIA, PA 4:15pm - Netroots Nation, PA Convention Center, 1101 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA.
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