We have now reached the peak of Reaganism stupidity. Reagan said the government wouldn't solve our problems, but that it was the cause of our problems and Republicans took that to heart. Therefore, Trump's government did not plan for the pandemic, because government can't solve problems.

Trump's government didn't plan for testing, because republicans believe government can't solve problems. A half dozen cases of coronavirus in Wuhan, China have led the Chinese government to, this week, test 11 million people in seven days, but we can't test an entire American city because the Republicans know that government can't solve problems.

We have healthcare workers and hospital workers dying and spreading infection among their families because their hospitals are overwhelmed and they don't have PPE, because Trump's government never planned to help them out because Republicans know that American government can't solve problems.

While the unemployment rates in northern Europe have not gone above 6% as their governments' provide direct relief to employers and working people, we are looking at Great Depression levels of unemployment that will devastate the lives of a generation of Americans because Donald Trump and Republicans know that the American government can't solve problems.

We have pulled out of an international program to develop vaccines because Trump and Republicans know our government can't solve problems. With 5% of the world's population we have about a third of the worlds coronavirus cases and deaths:

Apparently Reagan was at least half right. America can't solve problems, when Republicans are in charge.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Fauci tells Congress U.S. coronavirus outbreak not yet under control" by Makini Brice and Richard Cowan.

Article: "Divided U.S. Supreme Court wraps up arguments on Trump financial records" by Lawrence Hurley, Andrew Chung.

Article: "Paula Jones" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Trump team failed to follow NSC's pandemic playbook" by Dan Diamond, Nahal Toosi.

Tweet: "OBAMAGATE makes Watergate look small time!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Mitch McConnell claims Obama did not leave Trump a pandemic 'game plan' when he actually did".

Article: "Wuhan Plans To Test All 11 Million Residents After Six New Coronavirus Cases Were Reported" by Picture of Megha Rajagopalan.

Article: "List of countries by unemployment rate" by Wikipedia.

Article: "US stays away as world leaders agree action on Covid-19 vaccine" by Patrick Wintour.

Article: "The U.S. has a quarter of the world's confirmed coronavirus deaths despite having less than 5 percent of its population" by Kathryn Krawczyk.

Article: "List of countries by external debt" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump lawyer: Trump can't be prosecuted for shooting someone" by Erin Durkin, Darren Samuelsohn.

Article: "Marshall Plan" by Wikipedia.

Book: Das Kapital by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels.

Law: "Taft-Hartley Labor Act", 1947.

Article: "Coronavirus Has Now Killed More Americans Than Vietnam War" by David Welna.

Site: Tracking COVID-19 - Johns Hopkins University.

Article: "Australia's proposed 'coronavirus travel bubble' with New Zealand could be expanded to take in three very surprising countries - including CHINA" by Stephen Johnson, Alisha Rouse.

Article: "Study finds no benefit, higher death rate in patients taking hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19" by Elizabeth Cohen and Dr. Minali Nigam.

Article: "Trump tells police not to worry about injuring suspects during arrests" by Mark Berman.

Tweet: "LIBERATE MICHIGAN!" by Donald J. Trump.

Tweet: "LIBERATE VIRGINIA, and save your great 2nd Amendment. It is under siege!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Trump tweets support for Michigan protesters, some of whom were armed, as 2020 stress mounts" by Kevin Liptak.

Article: "General counsel busts Brett Kavanaugh for tossing out 'odd hypotheticals' to divert attention from Trump's taxes" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "The 8 richest Americans just made $6.2 billion in a single day" by Kristin Toussaint.

Book: "The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger" by Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett.

Site: "The Equality Trust".

Article: "Why Inequality Matters" by My Fair London in association with The Equality Trust.

Article: "History of Federal Income Tax Rates: 1913 - 2019" by Bradford Tax Institute.

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Article: "Canada Offers Bridge Loans to Big Firms in Widening Rescue" by Kait Bolongaro, Doug Alexander, and Kevin Orland.

Article: "Ayn Rand" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.

Article: "Elon Musk becomes champion of defying virus stay-home orders" by Tom Krisher.

Article: "Donald Trump's ex-wife once said Trump kept a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed" by Business Insider.

Quote: "We took over an empty shelf. We took over a very depleted place, in a lot of ways. As you know, the testing is going very, very well. And that was obsolete and broken, and we fixed it and it's been going really good. And I think, very importantly, the stockpile - we're really filling it up" - Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Fact check: Trump falsely claims Obama left him 'nothing' in the national stockpile" by Jane C. Timm.

Tweet: "An AI bot digested more than 11 million words from Trump since 1976.
She can assess when Trump is stressed and mimic what Trump might say in public before he does.
Among her conclusions: Trump is *more* comfortable talking through falsehoods than truth." by Sudeep Reddy.

Article: "Hoarding disorder" by Mayo Clinic.

Book: Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze.

Book: The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann.

Article: "Wisconsin Democrats Won More Votes in the Midterms. In the Legislature, It Didn't Matter." by Alys Brooks.

Article: "Mitch McConnell hints he could block the next stimulus package" by Li Zhou.

Article: "Second stimulus check: what is the Cares 2 Act and when will it go to the Congress and Senate?" by AS English.

Article: "Elaine Chao" by Wikipedia.

Video: Argument.

Hour Two: Heat, Sea Levels and the Amazon... Oh My!
- Dr. Michael Mann, Professor of Meteorology & Director, Earth System Science Center-Penn State University AND recipient of 2019's 'Nobel Prize for the Environment', the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement / author of several books including The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy

Book: Dire Predictions: Understanding Climate Change by Michael E. Mann, Lee R. Kump.

Book: The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines by Michael E. Mann.

Article: "Hockey stick graph" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Tantrum That Saved The World by Megan Herbert and Dr. Michael E. Mann.

Article: "Mann elected to National Academy of Sciences" by EurekAlert.

Article: "National Academy of Sciences" by Wikipedia.

Article: "We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN" (2018) by Jonathan Watts.

Article: "Carbon Emissions Are Falling, But Still Not Enough, Scientists Say" by Lauren Sommer.

Article: "Lobbyists Are Feasting in Trump's Swamp" by Emily Atkin.

Article: "A Life of Heat 'Near Unlivable' for More Than 3 Billion People in Just Decades, Climate Report Warns" by Julia Conley.

Article: "Potentially fatal combinations of humidity and heat are emerging across the globe" by Earth Institute at Columbia University.

Article: "Trump favorite One America News has been called 'paid Russian propaganda' - this is what happened when I watched it for a week" by Ellen Cranley.

Article: "HHS announces shipments of donated remdesivir for hospitalized patients with COVID-19" by HHS.

Article: "Gilead's Virus Drug Seen in Short Supply for Americans" by Cristin Flanagan.

Article: "Coronavirus: Drive-thru testing sites promised by Trump administration nowhere to be seen" by Elizabeth Dwoskin, Abha Bhattarai, Juliet Eilperin, Ashley Parker.

Article: "Dallas County May Lose Crucial Federal COVID-19 Testing This Month" by Frank Heinz.

Article: "Civilian Conservation Corps" (CCC) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Michael Moore's 'Planet Of The Humans' Skewers Renewables, Delivers Anti-Human Malthusianism" by Robert Bryce.

Article: "Climate experts call for 'dangerous' Michael Moore film to be taken down" by Oliver Milman.

Article: "Climate change: Electrical industry's 'dirty secret' boosts warming" by Matt McGrath.

Article: "Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biomass" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Wisconsin coronavirus testing ramps up, with two free sites opening in Milwaukee on Monday" by Meg Jones and Jordyn Noennig.

Article: "Facing fraud, U.S. FDA resets coronavirus antibody test market rules" by Caroline Humer.

Article: "Ayn Rand personally profited from FDR's New Deal" by Matt Novak.

Quote: "A NATION, without a NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, is, in my view, an awful spectacle. " - Alexander Hamilton.

Quote: "POWERFUL INDIVIDUALS, in this and in other States, are enemies to a general national government in every possible shape." - Alexander Hamilton.

Hour Three: What's Going On w/Our Prescription Drug Supply? Plus, COVID/Nafta, Trade w/the U.K. & What's Up w/Trump's Weird Relationship With China...?!
- Lori Wallach, Public Citizen's Trade Watch

Article: "The state steps in to save global economies" by Lori M Wallach.

Article: "Rethinking Trade - Season 1 Episode 4: The Looming COVID-19 Medicine Shortage" by Eyes on Trade.

Article: "China Is the Top Source of U.S. Pharmaceutical Imports, With India and Mexico Also Major Sources" by Public Citizen.

Article: "Webinar: COVID-19 & the New NAFTA: Workers' Rights vs. Corporate Greed" by Public Citizen.

Article: "U.S. Pharmaceutical Giants Move to Puerto Rico for Tax Breaks" by A. Lin Neumann, 1981.

Article: "Here's how an obscure tax change sank Puerto Rico's economy" by John W. Schoen.

Article: "How Trump's Corporate-Tax Plan Could Send American Jobs Overseas" by Gene B. Sperling.

Article: "Donald Trump May Want to Increase China Tariffs, Yet These Trump Products are 'Made in China'" by Raka Mukherjee.

Article: "Trump administration weighs legal action over alleged Chinese hoarding of PPE" by Ebony Bowden and Bruce Golding.

Article: "U.S. encouraged face masks shipments to China as pandemic threat grew" by Mark Reilly.

Article: "Trump Commerce Department Pushes for America Last in Coronavirus Medical Supplies" by Rep. Lloyd Doggett.

Article: "COVID-19 Response Undermined by Hyperglobalization" by Public Citizen.

Article: "Here's an agonizing illustration of what we could be doing instead of watching America disintegrate amid the coronavirus crisis" by Matt Robison.

Site: Amy McGrath for Senate.

Article: "Mitch McConnell Says Senate Won't Pass Further Coronavirus Relief Unless Businesses Protected From Lawsuits" by James Walker.

Article: "President Trump Says Next Stimulus Package Must Have Payroll Tax Cut" by Jim Wang.

Article: "Medical Expert: Federal Jail Intentionally Destroying Medical Records And Hiding Extent Of Coronavirus Behind Bars" by Nick Pinto.

Book: Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty.

Book: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer

Article: "Haiti: From Slavery to Debt" by Jérôme Duval.

Book: Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty.

Article: "Opium Wars" by Wikipedia.

Article: "pleonexia" by Your Dictionary.

Article: "Mortality Analyses" by JHU.

Article: "Florida medical examiners were releasing coronavirus death data. The state made them stop" by Kethleen McGrory And Rebecca Woolington.

Article: "Nebraska Governor Defends Decision To Hide COVID-19 Stats At Specific Meatpacking Plants" by Mary Papenfuss.

Article: "US Navy Blue Angels fly over Chicago as part of the 'America Strong' campaign" by Chicago Tribune.

Book: The Population Bomb by Paul R Ehrlich.

Article: "Chinese Exclusion Act", 1882 by Wikipedia.

Article: "Immigration Act of 1924" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965" by Wikipedia.

Article: "OSU set to embark on 'groundbreaking' coronavirus testing project in Corvallis" by Kale Williams.

Site: Corvallis Gazette-Times.

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, Science Revolution: I'll be discussing Michael Moore's 'Planet of the Humans' documentary with Dana Nuccitelli Environmental Scientist/Writer & author of 'Climatology versus Pseudoscience / Regular contributor to the Yale Center for Environmental Communication, The Guardian & Skeptical Science (plus, he has a masters degree in physics from UC Davis.)

And, Pass the Pandemic Anti-Monopoly Act! with Sarah Miller Executive Director - American Economic Liberties Project & Co-Chair, Freedom From Facebook

Also, I'll be talking with Paul S. Ryan, Vice President, Policy & Litigation - Common Cause about Attorney General William Barr's Unprecedented Decision to Drop the Michael Flynn Prosecution & Further Grounds for Impeachment for his Impeachment

And, the best of the rest of the news along with your calls right here on...

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