Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer, who is not only having to deal with a massive coronavirus outbreak but also with a right wing anti-quarantine revolt funded, according to the New York Times, in part by the DeVos family, pointed out that the enemy here is not each other, but is the virus.

Donald Trump and the Republican party don't see it that way. Because solving the virus problem will require government and institutional help, something Republicans haven't believed in since 1981. instead, all they have left is finding somebody else to blame, and new ways to divide the American people against each other. Blame the World Health Organization, blame the governors, blame the Chinese, blame anybody and everybody you can in order to avoid taking responsibility, because that would mean that you would have to work with scientists and mobilize government to do something positive and useful, which may end up raising taxes on billionaires.

The big question now is how far the fire of the right wing revolt against public health will spread, and how much gasoline "conservative" billionaires will continue to pour onto it.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "'Destroying our health by killing our livelihoods': Gretchen Whitmer orders spark GOP backlash" by David Eggert.

Tweet: "The enemy isn't each other, it's COVID-19. We will get through this together." by Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

Article: "'We Alerted The World' To Coronavirus On Jan. 5, WHO Says In Response To U.S." by Bill Chappell.

Tweet: "I love Michigan, one of the reasons we are doing such a GREAT job for them during this horrible Pandemic. Yet your Governor, Gretchen "Half" Whitmer is way in over her head, she doesn't have a clue. Likes blaming everyone for her own ineptitude! #MAGA" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Greg McNeilly" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Protesters in MAGA hats and flying Confederate flags swarm Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Utah, Wyoming and Virginia to demonstrate 'tyrannical' and 'unconstitutional' lockdown orders that are 'worse than the virus'" by Lauren Fruen, Marlene Lenthang.

Tweet: "The Confederate flags are a nice touch because they were also a bunch of losers who died fighting for something stupid. #michiganshutdown" by Jefferson Ornithopter.

Article: "Trump Set to Lay Out Plan for Reopening America" by Fred Lucas. "If we're not happy, we'll take very strong action against a state or a governor... If we're not happy with the job a governor is doing, we'll let them know about it. As you know, we have very strong action we can take, including a close-down. But we don't want to do that. We're working with the governors."

Article: "What Does Quarantine Life Look Like In Your Home? We Want To Hear From You." by Erin E. Evans.

Article: "As U.S. discouraged mask use for public, White House team raced to secure face coverings from Taiwan for senior staff" by Carol D. Leonnig, Elizabeth Dwoskin and John Hudson.

Book: The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Hidden History of the War on Voting: Who Stole Your Vote and How to Get It Back by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Merkel Moves Ahead With Gradual Return to Normality in Germany" by Patrick Donahue and Arne Delfs.

Article: "Angela Merkel draws on science background in Covid-19 explainer" by Philip Oltermann.

Article: "Chinese researchers reveal draft genome of virus implicated in Wuhan pneumonia outbreak" by Jon Cohen.

Article: "A Berlin Biotech Company Got a Head Start on Coronavirus Tests" by Stefan Nicola.

Article: "The Huge Cost of Waiting to Contain the Pandemic" by Britta L. Jewell and Nicholas P. Jewell.

Article: "South Dakota's governor resisted ordering people to stay home. Now it has one of the nation's largest coronavirus hot spots." by Griff Witte.

Article: "An Army of Coronavirus Tracers Takes Shape in Massachusetts" by Ellen Barry.

Article: "San Francisco Launches System To Trace All Coronavirus Patients' Contacts" by Lydia O'Connor.

Article: "Senate Democrats push Trump for $30 billion to fund a comprehensive national coronavirus testing plan" by Rick Pearson.

Article: "Massachusetts governor chokes up while describing death of his best friend's mother from coronavirus" by Sky Palma.

Article: "Paycheck Protection Program out of money: Thousands of small businesses shut out" by Stephen Gandel.

Site: Paycheck Protection Program.

Article: "California creates fund for undocumented immigrants" by Madeline Holcombe and Catherine E. Shoichet.

Article: "Protesters air shutdown grievances outside Kentucky capitol as governor gives coronavirus briefing" by Andrew O'Reilly.

Article: "'Isn't this silly?': Beshear blasts bill allowing Kentuckians to sue over COVID-19 orders" by Joe Sonka.

Article: "Elizabeth Warren says she would be Joe Biden's running mate against Trump if asked" by William Cummings.

Video: "Reagan: Government is not the solution to our problem government IS the problem".

Article: "Today, we are ending welfare as we know it" - "Clinton Signs Welfare Bill Amid Division" by Barbara Vobejda.

Quote: "When the last man who remembers the horrors of the last great war dies, the next great war becomes inevitable." - attributed to Arnold Toynbee.

Article: "Great Depression" by Wikipedia.

Article: "American Civil War" by Wikipedia.

Article: "American Revolution" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Glitches prevent $1,200 stimulus checks from reaching millions of Americans" by Heather Long and Michelle Singletary.

Documentary: Where to Invade Next - Michael Moore.

Article: "UnitedHealth beats quarterly profit on strength across its businesses" by Reuters.

Site: Fox GBH Suit.

Article: "Washington State Group Is 1st to Sue Fox News for Calling Coronavirus a 'Hoax'" by Ken Stone.

Article: "Fox News Defends Its COVID Lies, Saying First Amendment Protects "False" Speech" by Igor Derysh.

Article: "Self-Quarantine Orders Meet the Right-Wing Militia Movement" by Stephanie Mencimer.

Article: "Trump Defends Decision to Sign Stimulus Checks: "I Want My Name to Be Synonymous With the Coronavirus"" by Andy Borowitz.

Article: "Relying on Science and Politics, Merkel Offers a Cautious Virus Re-entry Plan" by Katrin Bennhold.

Article: "ER doctor who criticized Bellingham hospital's coronavirus protections has been fired" by Ron Judd.

Tweet: "Staffing companies backed by private equity are
x cutting physician pay,
x lying about doing it, and
x retaliating against clinicians who speak up.
@SenWarren and I are calling out those who put profit margins ahead of our frontline healthcare workers." by Rep. Katie Porter.

Article: "Private equity-owned firms bled Americans dry in hospital rooms; now they, too, want bailouts" by Hunter.

Article: "Dr. Oz says reopening schools is an 'appetizing opportunity' because only 2%-3% will die" by Walter Einenkel.

Article: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Herd immunity: will the UK's coronavirus strategy work?" by Sarah Boseley.

Article: "Jared Polis, Colorado's first Jewish governor, tearfully responds to GOP leader comparing stay-at-home orders to Nazism" by Alex Burness.

Quote: "It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it's just an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery being at the essence of getting the nominations for president or elected president. And the same thing applies to governors and U.S. senators and Congress members. So now we've just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the election's over'." - President Jimmy Carter on unlimited money in politics on the Thom Hartmann Program, 28 July 2015.

Article: "America is an oligarchy, not a democracy or republic, university study finds" by Cheryl K. Chumley.

Article: "Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens" by Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page.

Hour Three: The Changing Earth: Indigenous Voices From Turtle Island - Dahr Jamail on insights learned while working on his forthcoming book (w/co-author Professor Stan Rushworth)
- Dahr Jamail, Independent Journalist & Staff Reporter-Truthout; author, The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption and his forthcoming book, The Changing Earth

Article: "Greenland Ice Sheet Lost A Record Level Of Ice In 2019, Study Finds" by Rosie McCall.

Article: "Scientists shocked by Arctic permafrost thawing 70 years sooner than predicted" by Reuters.

Article: "The Tornadoes That Rocked the South Show How Much More Dangerous Natural Disasters Will Be in the Coronavirus Era" by Tara Law.

Article: "Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Native Solutions to Big Fires" by Thomas Fuller.

Article: "Coronavirus patients are testing positive after recovery" by Joseph Guzman.

Article: "Antibodies From Covid-19 Survivors Could Be Used To Treat Patients, Protect Those At Risk" by Katie Pearce.

Article: "How blood from coronavirus survivors might save lives" by Amy Maxmen.

Article: "Treatment of 5 Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19 With Convalescent Plasma" by Chenguang Shen, Zhaoqin Wang, Fang Zhao et al.

Article: "The feasibility of convalescent plasma therapy in severe COVID-19 patients: a pilot study" by Kai Duan et al.

Article: "ROUNDUP: Senator Murray Releases White Paper Outlining Democrats' Proposal to Ramp Up COVID-19 Testing".

Article: "I Was Exposed To Coronavirus In Singapore. Here's What Their Rapid Response Looks Like." by Dominique Mosbergen.

Article: "SF to Expand Contact-Tracing, Add New Drive-Thru and Walk-Up COVID Testing Site" by Jay Barmann.

Article: "Zarif lauds China COVID19 aid to Iran" by IRNA.

Article: "Coronavirus: China completes emergency hospital build in eight days - video timelapse" by Reuters.

Article: "Intelligence report warned of coronavirus crisis as early as November: Sources" by Josh Margolin and James Gordon Meek.

Article: "Democrats Propose $30B Nationwide Coronavirus Testing And Tracking Program" by Jacob Weindling.

Article: "On 31 December 2019, the WHO China Country Office was informed of cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology (unknown cause) detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China." by WHO.

Article: "A Timeline of the Coronavirus Pandemic" by Derrick Bryson Taylor.

Article: "Transcript: Bin Laden determined to strike in US, August 6, 2001.

Article: "The Out-of-Towner: While Bush vacationed, 9/11 warnings went unheard" by Fred Kaplan.

Article: "Wall Street Crash of 1929" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Savings and loan crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Financial crisis of 2007-08" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Executive Order 2020-21 (COVID-19)" by Governor Gretchen Whitmer (Michigan).

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