Republicans are starting to behave as if they have figured out that Donald Trump is an incompetent, malicious, lying, white supremacist, dictator-loving racist whose stupidity and spite have led to the death of over 100,000 Americans, a number that will hit a quarter million by the time of the election.

Fact is, they've known this all along. They were shouting it during the primary back in 2016.

But they are cowards and panderers, and put politics ahead of the public interest, so for three years while Trump was popular with the Republican base, they sucked it up and turned into Trump lovers. The conversion was breathtaking.

Read more here.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Trump Shares Video That Includes Supporter Shouting 'White Power' At Protesters" by Hayley Miller.

Article: "Unlike Trump, Pence Encourages Wearing Masks To Prevent Coronavirus Spread - NBC News" by Global News Archive.

Article: "CDC Says Singers Could Be Virus Superspreaders -But 100 Sang Unmasked With Pence" by Anastasia Tsioulcas.

Article: "Jacksonville, new site of the Republican National Convention, adopts mandatory mask policy" by Tim O'Donnell.

Article: "Trump Auctions Off 150,000 Acres of Public Lands for Fracking Near Utah National Parks" by Center for Biological Diversity.

Article: "The Trump Administration Is Reversing 100 Environmental Rules. Here's the Full List" by Nadja Popovich, Livia Albeck-Ripka And Kendra Pierre-Louis.

Article: "Dump Coal Mining Waste Into Streams?" by Alex Kasprak.

Article: "Trump administration asks Supreme Court to axe Obamacare amid pandemic" by Metro US.

Article: "All the assault allegations against Donald Trump, recapped" by Lisa Desjardins.

Site: Tracking COVID-19 - Johns Hopkins University.

Article: "From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE… "He's #1! He's #1!"" by Bill in Portland Maine.

Article: "These countries tamed COVID-19, and they're not about to stop social distancing" by Tribune Content Agency.

Article: "Vanquish the Virus? Australia and New Zealand Aim to Show the Way" by Damien Cave.

Article: "Lufthansa to link Covid-19 tests with tickets in effort to avoid quarantine" by Joe Miller.

Article: "CDC expert says US has 'way too much virus' to contain as other countries have" by Joseph Guzman.

Quote: "When you do testing to that extent, you are gonna find more people, you're gonna find more cases. So I said to my people slow the testing down please. They test and they test. We have tests that people don't know what's going on" - Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Coronavirus impact: Nearly 50% of global workforce at risk of losing jobs, says ILO" by PTI.

Article: "Trump National Security Advisor Claims President Never Briefed About Russian Bounties Because of Media 'Allegations'" by David Badash.

Article: "Coronavirus: EU to allow in visitors from 15 'safe' countries" by BBC.

Article: "South Dakota governor: "We will not be social distancing" at July 3 event with Trump" by Rashaan Ayesh.

Article: "White House staff couldn't reach Trump to take down racist 'white power' retweet for hours as he was golfing" by Namrata Tripathi.

Article: "Gatherings now limited to 10 as new COVID-19 restrictions come into effect" (Canada, March 30) by CBC News.

Article: "Rand Paul again rips Dr. Anthony Fauci over coronavirus: 'We just need more optimism'" by Ben Tobin.

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

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

Article: "Santa Clara County Closes All Schools, Limits Gatherings Amid More Virus Cases" by NBC Bay Area.

Article: "Meet the doctor who ordered the Bay Area's coronavirus lockdown, the first in the U.S." by Julia Prodis Sulek.

Article: "25th Amendment Section 4" "Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President..."

Article: "Dunning-Kruger effect" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Chicago Coronavirus Response Center" by City of Chicago.

Article: "FreedomWorks" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tea Party movement" by Wikipedia.

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

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

Article: "Seat belt laws in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Container deposit legislation in the United States" (bottle bills) by Wikipedia.

Site: The Righting.

Article: "States Ordered to Fraudulently Inflate Covid-19 Cases 15 Times the Actual Rate" by Infowars.com.

Article: "The Coronavirus Lockdowns Were a Mistake" by Matt Margolis.

Article: "The Dumbest Generation Grows Even Dumber" by Former Rep. Bob Barr.

Article: "Rioters Will Eventually Turn Their Rage on Christianity If Not Stopped" by Nathan Stone.

Article: "Young New York Conservatives Are Not Putting Up with Political Correctness" by Jose Nino.

Article: "The Russian-Taliban Story Is Fake News" by Rush Limbaugh.

Article: "Media Misleads About "Peaceful" BLM Mob Harassing Armed St. Louis Couple" by Kristine Marsh.

Article: "Trump's Goose Isn't Cooked Yet" by Conrad Black.

Article: "House passes ACA expansion bill largely as symbolic gesture" by Darryl Coote.

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

Article: "There's Only One Reason Trump and the GOP Don't Want Mail-in Voting" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "How Trump's promotion of mask stupidity could lose him the election" by Thom Hartmann.

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

Article: "Seventh Circuit Rules on Bevy of Wisconsin Election Laws, Limits Early Voting Period" by Joe Kelly.

Article: "'Green Light to Suppress Votes': Federal Court Reinstates Wisconsin GOP's Early Voting Restrictions Amid Pandemic" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Georgia Approves Hate Crimes Law, But Critics Say it Could Be Tainted By Pending Bill that Adds Protections for Police" by Sanya Mansoor.

Article: "'Today is the finest' | Georgia Legislature approves hate-crimes bill" by Maya T. Prabhu.

Article: "Potential Coronavirus Drugs May Cost as Little as $1, Study Says" by Jason Gale.

Article: "Remdesivir, the First Coronavirus Drug, Gets a Price Tag" by Gina Kolata.

Article: "How The Senate Paved The Way For Coronavirus Profiteering, And How Congress Could Undo It" by Ryan Grim, Aída Chávez.

Article: "Supreme Court boosts religious schools seeking public aid" by Devin Dwyer.

Article: "Biden: No pardon for Trump if he's indicted after 2020" by Steve Benen.

Article: "The Lincoln Project" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump personal valet tests positive for coronavirus, but White House says president is negative" by Dan Mangan, Yelena Dzhanova, Christina Wilkie.

Article: "Trump administration approved nuclear energy transfers to Saudis after Khashoggi killing" by Tom DiChristopher.

Article: "Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Otto Warmbier" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump arrives in Saudi Arabia in first foreign trip".

Article: "Soviet invasion of Afghanistan - Summary & Facts" by Britannica.

Article: "Allegations of CIA assistance to Osama bin Laden" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Qasem Soleimani: Iran seeks Trump's arrest over killing of general" by BBC.

Article: "Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump that Interpol rejects" by Nasser Karimi.

Article: "Qasem Soleimani" by Wikipedia.

Article: "President Trump's Campaign Sues To Force Changes To How Pennsylvania Collects, Counts Mail-In Ballots" by AP.

Article: "1964 United States presidential election" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Extremism in the Defense of Liberty Is No Vice... moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue" - Barry Goldwater.

Speech: "Crisis of Confidence" by Jimmy Carter, July 15, 1979.

Hour Three: Even More Nuclear Waste Could Be Buried Beneath New Mexico's Desert
- Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist - Beyond Nuclear

Article: "Watchdog files appeal over planned nuclear storage complex" (state to protect public health and safety) by AP.

Article: "ANA Letter to Congress, Re: Preventing FY2021 Funding to More Quickly Detonate a Nuclear Test" by Alliance for Nuclear Accountability.

Article: "Holtec under 'criminal investigation,' EDA says in since-redacted court filing" by Matt Friedman, Katherine Landergan.

Article: "The Holtec Partnership, Probed" by Nick Maxwell.

Article: "Ogallala Aquifer" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Energy Secretary Rick Perry says he, and Andrews County, Texas, are fine with "interim storage" becoming permanent!".

Book: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer. "First they came for the ... What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise..."

Article: "Trump threatens to re-start nuclear weapons tests, undoing 50 years of agreements" by Conn Hallinan.

Book: The Trump Coloring Book by M. G. Anthony.

Tweet: "[Image of Trump's head on Rocky's body]" by Donald J. Trump.

Book: The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Article: "Caligula" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Firecracker Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement by Dan ONeill.

Case: "Jacobson v. Massachusetts" (1905).

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.

Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Intercepted bank transfers show Russia poured money into Taliban-linked accounts after bounties revealed" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "John Bolton briefed Trump on Russian bounty plot -and it happened a year earlier than previous reports: AP" by Bob Brigham.

Quote: "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron" - H.L. Mencken.

Article: "Trump Constitutionally Could Remain President Even if He Loses 2020 Popular and Electoral Votes, and He Knows It. Thom Hartmann Explains." by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "12th Amendment"

Article: "Operation Warp Speed" by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Florida retirement community descends into civil war as Trump supporters plot sabotage of opponents' golf carts" by Brad Reed.

Site: Otto Scharmer.

Book: Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges by Otto Scharmer.

Article: "For survivors of severe COVID-19, beating the virus is just the beginning" by Kelly Servick.

Article: "The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection (Continued)" (Federalist 10) by James Madison.

Article: "Ranked Choice Voting / Instant Runoff" (RCV) by FairVote.

Article: "Dan Coats" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Susan M. Gordon" by Wikipedia.

Article: "South Dakota reports 48 new COVID-19 cases, no new deaths" (Mount Rushmore is in Pennington County) by Trevor J. Mitchell.

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