If Trump gets reelected and Republicans stay in power in the majority of our states and in the United States Senate, what could be the worst outcome? Would it be the further transfer of wealth from the middle-class to the very rich? Would it be greater and greater student debt burdens on working people? Would it be the acceleration of the destruction of our environment? Will he launch a final assault on the media and try to turn the entire American media landscape into something resembling Fox News? Will McConnell's corrupt judges with lifetime appointments kneecap enforcement against white-collar crime?

How much damage will be done by their war on science? Will religious fundamentalists step up their efforts to burrow deeply into our political parties and subvert the separation of church and state? Will the world be plunged into a war starting in Iran or Venezuela? Will the government begin rounding up liberals the way they are undocumented immigrants right now? How might Trump's privatized prisons and concentration camps be expanded and who might he be putting in them to generate more profit for his billionaire buddies? Will Trump's expansion of the use of poisonous pesticides and deregulation around pollution cause a larger explosion of cancer and other diseases?

How bad could it get?

-Thom

To save our republic, some of Trump's enablers and political appointees may have to go to jail, just like happened with Nixon's people.

Trump's policies are inflicting massive damage on the working class, the environment, minorities, and our economy. And the damage he's doing to our body politic will certainly alter our form of government if there aren't legal consequences.

Trump and his cronies have shown present and future politicians how much corruption the Republican Party and the public will tolerate, and it's a very bad sign for the future of the American experiment.

Trump has put the interests of foreign governments with whom he and his family have or hope to have business relationships above the interests of America; flagrantly violated the Constitution's emoluments clause; welcomed foreign interference in our elections; lied to the American public and the world on a daily basis; committed campaign finance violations that landed his lawyer in prison; repeatedly broke obstruction of justice laws; and put children in cages, causing lifelong PTSD.

Read more here.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "John Bolton: Trump claims he fired security adviser - who insists he resigned" by Chris Riotta.

Article: "Trump organisation releases army-style product range, despite president repeatedly avoiding military duty" by Zamira Rahim.

Article: "Line Crossed? Trump Encourages New 'Activist' AT&T Investor to Stop 'Fake News Emanating' From CNN" by Joe DePaolo.

Article: "With Unrest Next Door in Venezuela, Air Force Hopes to Make Strides in Guyana" by Oriana Pawlyk.

Article: "International sanctions during the Venezuelan crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sanctions against Iran" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Israel PM Netanyahu vows to annex occupied Jordan Valley" by BBC.

Article: "Trump administration won't ban pesticide tied to childhood brain damage" by Sam Levin.

Article: "Analysis: How Trump's rollback of vehicle fuel standards would increase US emissions" by Zeke Hausfather.

Article: "Trying To Make Sense Of Trump's Rollback Of Vehicle Standards" by Dan Sperling & Nic Lutsey.

Quote: "We understand that a President is not elected to do what he pleases. A President is elected to do what the people please, and then only if the law allows." - Walter Mondale.

Article: "AOC: I Want To See Every Republican On Record Voting Against Impeachment" by Tim Hains.

Article: "Republicans get turned off by Trump's scandals - they're just not hearing about them: study" by Matthew Chapman .

Article: "Fox News, GOP media now warn of bloodshed if Democrats win in 2020" by Eric Boehlert.

Article: "Trump speaks out after Bahamas hurricane survivors were kicked off ferry over U.S. visa demands" by Katie Shepherd and Herman Wong.

Ice on Fire (special screening tonight in L.A.)
- Leila Conners, President - Tree Media / Director of the new HBO film Ice on Fire (Produced/narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio)

Documentary: Ice on Fire.

Event: Los Angeles, 10 Sept "Ice On Fire: Coming Together To Put Out The Climate Crisis".

Article: "Privatization is really a plan to dismantle Social Security" by Max Richtman.

Article: "Biodegradation of chlorpyrifos by lactic acid bacteria during kimchi fermentation." by Cho KM, Math RK, Islam SM, Lim WJ, Hong SY, Kim JM, Yun MG, Cho JJ, Yun HD.

Article: "The potency of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Lactobacillus plantarum to dissipate organophosphorus pesticides in wheat during fermentation" by Tijana M. Đorđević and Rada D. Đurović-Pejčev.

Video: Lincoln didn't fight the civil war to free the corporations: Thom Hartmann at TEDxConcordiaUPortland.

Article: "Some of Trump's allies and officials must face federal prosecution - to save the republic" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "10 Crimes of the Nixon Administration" by Larry Holzwarth.

Article: "Reagan administration scandals" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Birthright citizenship in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump renews threat to end 'ridiculous' birthright citizenship" by Gregg Re.

TV: "First Civilizations" by PBS.

Article: "The 'We the People Amendment' Aims to Fix the Crisis of Corporate Rule" by Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, Greg Coleridge.

Article: "The Supreme Court has become just another arm of the GOP" by Sheldon Whitehouse.

Article: "Trump and John Bolton have an 'I fired you/no I quit' Twitter fight" by Nicole Gallucci.

Article: "As a matter of fact, in interviews in 1999 with respected journalist, and long time Bush family friend, David Herskowitz, then Governor George Bush stated: 'One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade... if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency." - My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings" by Cindy Sheehan, June 16 2005.

Article: "John Bolton: Trump's national security adviser is out" by BBC.

Article: "No, Trump isn't Teflon. Scandals lower his approval among Republicans - if they see the news." by Joshua P. Darr, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Kathleen Searles, Mingxiao Sui, Raymond J. Pingree, Brian K. Watson, Kirill Bryanov and Martina Santia.

Article: "House Democrats launch probe into whether Trump, Giuliani pressured Ukraine to target Biden" by Olivia Beavers.

Article: "Corpses Strewn, People Missing a Week After Dorian Hit the Bahamas" by Kirk Semple.

Tweet: "In case you missed it, Trump banned Muslim women and children refugees but invited the Taliban to Camp David." by George Takei.

Article: "Trump Claims Those Fleeing Bahamas Could Be 'Very Bad People'" by Amy Russo.

Article: "Haitians in hurricane-devastated Bahamas face uncertain future" by AFP.

Article: "Confusion over immigration requirements for Bahamian evacuees" by Danielle Waugh.

Article: "Experts worry Trump revealed US secrets when he tweeted a photo of an Iranian launch site" by Anya van Wagtendonk.

Article: "CIA reportedly removed top spy from Russia over fear of retaliation - and maybe Trump" by Alex Ward.

Article: "Oh no! It's moron vs. moron!!!" by Guy Whitey Corngood.

Article: "Succession (TV series)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Someone's Gotta Tell the Freakin' Truth': Jerry Falwell's Aides Break Their Silence" by Brandon Ambrosino.

Article: "Now Metal Particles From Tattoo Needles Have Been Found in Human Lymph Nodes" by Michelle Starr.

Article: "Sex lives of app users 'shared with Facebook'" by Jane Wakefield.

Article: "The North Carolina 9th Is Holding A Do-Over Election. Here's How To Watch It Like A Pro." by Nathaniel Rakich.

Article: "Mike Pence's infrastructure mess: What went wrong with I-69?" by Mark Alesia and Kaitlin L Lange.

Article: "Flint water crisis" by Wikipedia.

Video: "They'll Have to Die of Something" | Flint's Deadly Water | FRONTLINE.

TV: Flint's Deadly Water.

Article: "Here's What We Know About The Mysterious Outbreak of Vaping-Linked Illnesses And Deaths" by Hannah Knowles.

Article: "Regulation of electronic cigarettes" by Wikipedia.

Site: Daily Kos

Site: Alternet

Site: Common Dreams

Site: Raw Story

Site: New York Times

Site: Washington Post

Site: Guardian

Site: Financial Times

Site: Democratic Underground

Article: "These USDA employees face a stark choice: Move to Kansas City or be fired" by Joe Davidson.

Book: "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" by William L. Shirer.

Article: "Leading Civil Rights Lawyer Shows 20 Ways Trump Is Copying Hitler's Early Rhetoric and Policies" by Steven Rosenfeld.

Book: In Hitler's Bunker: A Boy Soldier's Eyewitness Account of the Fuhrer's Last Days by Armin D. Lehmann.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Douglas Christian

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Book: Loving What You Do: The Elements of a Great Working Life by Ellen Ratner.

Article: "White House offers several narratives on National Security Adviser John Bolton's exit" by Douglas Christian.

Article: "Something is fishy about Trump's John Bolton announcement" by Aaron Blake.

Article: "Full Replay: Mnuchin And Pompeo Announce New Sanctions On Terror Groups And Financiers; Comment On Bolton Firing" by Tim Hains.

Article: "Trump says he canceled secret meeting with Afghan president, Taliban at Camp David" by Seung Min Kim and Anne Gearan.

Article: "Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. are in a 'cold war' for their father's favor and reportedly suspect each other of planting damaging stories" by Sinéad Baker.

Hour Three: The $49 BILLION - and counting - Millstone That is Nuclear Power
- Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist - Beyond Nuclear

Article: "The decline and fall of nuclear power" by Linda Pentz Gunter.

Article: "Japan wants to dump Fukushima radioactive water into ocean" by AFP.

Article: "Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fukushima: Japan will have to dump radioactive water into Pacific, minister says" by Justin McCurry.

Article: "Tepco Adviser Promoted Fukushima Water Dump to Ocean in Op-Ed" by Jacob Adelman.

Article: "Fixing Fukushima's water problem" by Lake H. Barrett.

Article: "Tepco adviser says treated Fukushima water safe for release into Pacific" by Bloomberg.

Article: "Price Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act".

Article: "Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ohio Gov. DeWine signs bill to bail out nuclear plants, slash renewable energy" by Jessie Balmert.

Article: "Three Mile Island accident" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant To Close, Latest Symbol Of Struggling Industry" by Jeff Brady.

Article: "With U.S. Nuclear Plants Under Scrutiny, Too, a Report Raises Safety Concerns" by Tom Zeller Jr.

Article: "The NRC and Nuclear Power Plant Safety in 2010" by Union of Concerned Scientists.

Article: "Costs of Nuclear Bailouts in New York, Illinois, Connecticut & New Jersey" by TMIA.

Article: "Yucca Mountain cost estimate rises to $96 billion" by WNN (2008).

Article: "Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tritium" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Iodine-129" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Estimated Exposures and Thyroid Doses Received by the American People from Iodine-131 in Fallout Following Nevada Atmospheric Nuclear Bomb Tests" by NCI.

Article: "Iodine-131" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chernobyl disaster", 26 April 1986 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Caesium-137" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Strontium-90" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Smedley Butler" by Wikipedia.

Book: War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier by Smedley D. Butler.

Article: "The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'" by David Taylor.

Article: "William Rehnquist" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Antonin Scalia" by Wikipedia.

Bill: "H.R.1384 - Medicare for All Act of 2019" by Rep. Jayapal, Pramila [D-WA-7].

Bill: "S.1129 - Medicare for All Act of 2019" by Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT].

Article: "Texas mass shooting averted: Police able to find man after background checks delayed his plans" by Hunter.

Topic: "Kashmir" by Democracy Now!.

Site: California Clean Money Campaign.

Wednesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) will be calling in to talk about the issues of the day and take your calls.

Plus, I'll be joined by Valerie Plame, Former CIA covert ops Officer / Author-Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House / Running for Congress (D-NM, 3rd District) (married to former Ambassador Joe Wilson, who served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq during the 1991 Iraq war

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