Can Americans Stop the Republican Party and Their Billionaire Lifeline Before Another Hundred Thousand Americans Die?

If a group of international billionaires who don't like democracy, business regulation, or the idea of a functioning multiracial culture wanted to hire somebody to destroy America, they couldn't have done better than Donald Trump.

Americans are dying from a pandemic disease at rates we haven't seen in 100 years. A handful of Trump-connected lobbyists have pulled in over $10 billion for their clients in a stunning example of how he has completely corrupted our federal agencies. And white racists are on the rise, killing protesters and tearing down a statue of Frederick Douglass.

As most Americans watch this unfolding disaster with horror, a small group of billionaires are cheering it on.

Read more here.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Tweet: "it's looking more and more like it was a bad idea to hand the reins of power to a demented racist asshole" by Jeff Tiedrich.

Article: "Thom Hartmann for BuzzFlash: Americans Must Stop the Republican Party and Their Billionaire Lifeline Before Another Hundred Thousand Americans Die" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Frederick Douglass statue torn down in Rochester, N.Y., on anniversary of his famous July Fourth speech" by DeNeen L. Brown.

Book: Proof of Conspiracy: How Trump's International Collusion is Threatening American Democracy by Seth Abramson.

Article: "Rupert Murdoch" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bolsonaro vetoes law requiring masks in public spaces" by MENAFN - IANS.

Article: "The coronavirus is infecting and killing black Americans at an alarmingly high rate" by Reis Thebault, Andrew Ba Tran and Vanessa Williams.

Article: "With "Midnight" Executive Order, Meatpacking Slaughterhouses Become Trump's Forced-Labor Camps of Human Sacrifice" by Mark Karlin.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Case: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014

Article: "Steven Mnuchin, Foreclosure King Of America" by Nomi Prins.

Article: "Kamala Harris Fails To Explain Why She Didn't Prosecute Steven Mnuchin's Bank" by David Dayen.

Book: "Walking Your Blues Away: How to Heal the Mind and Create Emotional Well-Being" by Thom Hartmann

Article: "Pet store worker threatened by customer over face covering" by Matthew Reisen.

Article: "Trumpie Tantrum Shopping Spree" by SmartVoter22.

Article: "Billionaires Have Trump to Thank: How the Mega-Rich Raked In $500 Billion in 2019" by Joseph Young.

Site: Bailout Tracker.

Documentary: '1968': The Year That Changed America.

Article: "Trump: Children are taught in school to 'hate their own country'" by Brooke Seipel.

Article: "Biden Tells Teachers Their Profession Is 'The Most Important' On Same Day Trump Trashes Public Schools" by TheInvestor.

Article: "'Antifa buses!' Panicked armed men hit small-town streets across America to fend off imagined hordes" by David Neiwert.

Article: "Spokane family harassed, then trapped in forest campsite in Western Washington, sheriff's office says" by Chad Sokol.

Article: "Trump's Tucker mind-meld" by Jonathan Swan.

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Missouri Compromise", May 8, 1820.

Video: Woody Allen on Nazis.

Article: "China approves contentious Hong Kong national security law" by Zen Soo and Ken Moritsugu.

Article: "Hong Kong: hundreds arrested as security law comes into effect" by Verna Yu, Helen Davidson, Lily Kuo.

Article: "USS Maine (ACR-1)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Propaganda of the Spanish-American War" by Wikipedia.

Article: "China has wide selection of anti-aircraft carrier weapons at South China Sea: experts" by Liu Xuanzun.

Article: "U.S. sends carriers to South China Sea during Chinese military drills" by Reuters.

Article: "Police: 7 men arrested after yelling racial slurs at Black family in Lincoln City" by AP.

Tweet: "Has @BubbaWallace apologized to all of those great NASCAR drivers & officials who came to his aid, stood by his side, & were willing to sacrifice everything for him, only to find out that the whole thing was just another HOAX? That & Flag decision has caused lowest ratings EVER!" by Donald J. Trump.

Tweet: "Seriously if Trump had given up on re-election and was mainly interested in cultivating a small but fanatical group of marks to make money off of in the future...how would he be acting differently?" by Jonathan Bernstein.

Tweet: "NEW: NASCAR driver Tyler Reddick fires back at Pres. Trump's call for an apology from Bubba Wallace: "We don't need an apology. We did what was right and we will do just fine without your support." http://abcn.ws/2ZGy5dj" by ABC News.

Article: "Trump once figured he'd be the first person to make money running for president. He didn't." by Philip Bump.

Site: Trump Golf Count.

Article: "Trump Allies Eye Buyout of One America News Network: WSJ" by Allison Quinn.

Bible: "And masters, treat your slaves in the same way. Do not threaten them, since you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him." - Ephesians 6:9.

Article: "N Korea says no US talks plan as Bolton hints 'October surprise'" by Al Jazeera.

Article: "US envoy calls for Iran arms embargo renewal" by Jon Gambrell.

Article: ""I'm Done": Right-Wing Personalities Ditching Twitter for Parler Over Claims of Censorship" by Abid Rahman.

Article: "Fahrenheit 451" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Evictions are likely to skyrocket this summer as jobs remain scarce. Black renters will be hard hit." by Renae Merle.

Article: "10 People Who Made a Fortune During the Depression" by Greg Sabin.

Article: "Trump will accept a 'steady' few hundred coronavirus deaths a day as the cost of his reelection" by Philip Bump.

Article: "Trump and Biden campaigns shift focus to coronavirus as pandemic surges" by Yasmeen Abutaleb and Josh Dawsey.

Article: "Florida teen dies after conspiracy theorist mom takes her to church 'COVID party' and tries to treat her with Trump-approved drug: report" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Trump erodes America's foundation. This Fourth of July, I pledge to rebuild it." by Joe Biden.

Article: "RNC spokesperson denounces 'all people are created equal' on Fox News" by David Edwards.

Article: "WATCH: Black Man in Bloomington, Indiana, Says He Was Threatened With a Noose" by Jessica McBride.

Article: "Kanye West Says He's Running For President, But Is It Too Late Already?" by Gil Kaufman.

Article: "Kanye West" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Moving Personal Protective Equipment Into the Community: Face Shields and Containment of COVID-19" by Eli N. Perencevich, et al.

Article: "David Frum" by Wikipedia.

Book: Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy by David Frum.

Article: "The RNC Is Paying a Former Apprentice Hand Accused of Having Trump Dirt" by Lachlan Markay, Sam Stein.

Book: The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore.

Article: "Tim Scott" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump: Black Lives Matter is a 'symbol of hate'" by Max Cohen.

Quote: "For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do you hate me?' The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate! " - Malcolm X.

Article: "Governor Extends Hawai'i's 14-Day Quarantine for International and Out-of-State Arrivals to July 31" by Wendy Osher.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in Hawaii" by Wikipedia.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in Alaska" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Washington Redskins are reviewing their name. These other teams could be next" by CNN.

Article: "Trump rips Redskins, Indians for eyeing name changes to be 'politically correct'" by Bob Fredericks.

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