What could happen to America if Trump were to further, severely crash the U.S. economy the day after Joe Biden is announced as the winner of the 2020 presidential race?

As Trump tweeted on June 15, 2019, "if anyone but me takes over... there will be a Market Crash the likes of which has not been seen before!"

On July 6, 2020, he tweeted, "If you want your 401k's and Stocks, which are getting close to an all time high (NASDAQ is already there), to disintegrate and disappear, vote for the Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats and Corrupt Joe Biden."

And on July 27, 2020, he further tweeted that "if Sleepy Joe Biden, the puppet of the Left, ever won. Markets would crash and cities would burn. Our Country would suffer like never before."

Meanwhile, the meme is spreading.

Read more here.

-Thom

Last year the US Postal Service delivered over 1 billion prescriptions to Americans. It's the main way that veterans get their medications, and increasingly all across America people are getting their pharmaceuticals that way.

Donald Trump doesn't care. He doesn't care how many people die because their medications are late and they go into diabetic shock or their blood pressure explodes. He just doesn't care.

In fact, he's enthusiastic about this.

Read more here.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "Trump says he's BLOCKING new covid relief package because he doesn't want to fund Dems' push for mail-in voting - as IRS warns Americans may not get their stimulus check until September if deal can't be reached by Friday" by Emily Goodin.

Article: "Trump accuses Democrats of blocking COVID-19 stimulus over mail-in ballot funds" by Mark Moore.

Article: "Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose OKs one voting drop box per county" by Rick Rouan.

Article: "Postal Service collapse could devastate seniors, small businesses and rural areas" by Bryan Lowry.

Article: "Freedom Caucus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mark Meadows (North Carolina politician)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "If Biden wins, get ready for Trump to punish America" by Thom Hartmann.

Tweet: "... if Sleepy Joe Biden, the puppet of the Left, ever won. Markets would crash and cities would burn. Our Country would suffer like never before. We will beat the Virus, soon, and go on to the Golden Age - better than ever before!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress). "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States... To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"

Article: "Belarus" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006" by Wikipedia.

Article: "". . . All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic": An Open Letter to Gen. Milley" by John Nagl and Paul Yingling.

Article: "Supreme Court keeps hold on Rhode Island witness requirement for voting by mail" by Pete Williams.

Article: "Israel and United Arab Emirates Strike Major Diplomatic Agreement" by Peter Baker, Isabel Kershner and David D. Kirkpatrick.

Article: "Eugene V. Debs" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pullman Strike" by Wikipedia.

Article: "In 2014 Fox News Video, Trump Touts 'Disaster' As A Way To Make America Great Again" by Mary Papenfuss.

Article: "American Civil War" (1861 - 1865) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ro Khanna Announces 'No' Vote on DNC Platform Over Exclusion of 'Moral Issue of Our Time'-Medicare for All" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Message to the Army Force regarding its continued support to civil authorities" by U.S. Army Public Affairs.

Article: "Milley Apologizes for Role in Trump Photo Op: 'I Should Not Have Been There'" by Helene Cooper.

Site: TheRighting (Top News Headlines from the Far Right for the Rest of Us).

Article: "Kamala Harris Lies Repeatedly in First Speech as Biden's Running Mate" by Kyle Smith.

Article: "Flashback: Kamala Harris Laughs About Murdering Trump" by Steve Watson.

Article: "Why Kamala Harris's Stealth Radicalism Is Worse Than Bernie Democrats' Open Radicalism" by Sumantra Maitra.

Article: "The Real Kamala Harris" by Daniel John Sobieski.

Article: "Kamala Harris: A Jamaican chameleon entering the race for 2024" by Jacquie Kubin.

Article: "How Do I Tell My Friend She's Not 'African-American'?" by Ann Coulter ("why are all the antifa girls fatties?").

Article: "Under the NBA's Selective Activism, Only Some Lives Matter" by Erin Elmore, Esq.Erin Elmore, Esq.

Book: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder.

Hour Two: How Can We Store America's Manufacturing Jobs?
- Economist Robert E. "Rob" Scott, PhD, Director of Trade & Manufacturing Policy Research, Economic Policy Institute

Article: "We can reshore manufacturing jobs, but Trump hasn't done it" by Robert E. Scott.

Article: "Currency intervention" (currency manipulation) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Does the Republican tax law encourage outsourcing?" by Jeff Stein.

Article: "U.S. Senators Josh Hawley and Tammy Baldwin Lead Bipartisan Effort to Restore Competitiveness to U.S. Exports, Boost American Manufacturers and Farmers" by Josh Hawley.

Article: "Foreign ownership of U.S. corporations" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Report on the Subject of Manufactures" by Alexander Hamilton.

Law: "Buy American Act", 1933.

Article: "Donald Trump was a nightmare landlord in the 1980s" by Jose Pagliery.

Book: Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump Ph.D..

Article: "USPS tightens rules on stamped parcels and letters" by Bill McAllister.

Article: "Financial disclosures reveal postmaster general's business entanglements and likely conflicts of interest, experts say" by Marshall Cohen.

Article: "Companies are talking about turning 'furloughs' into permanent layoffs" by Bob Pisani.

Article: "Fact check: President Pelosi? No, House speaker wouldn't assume role amid election delay" by Ella Lee.

Article: "Laurence Tribe explains the constitutional 'fail-safe' - that could result in President Nancy Pelosi" by Bob Brigham.

Britain's Economic Deep Dive...
- Victoria Jones, Executive Director - DC Radio Company LLC

Article: "Britain plunges into deep recession, with steep job losses and Europe's highest virus death toll" by Karla Adam and William Booth.

Article: "Watch what happens when a fake government agency threatens an essential worker with a lawsuit" by Aysha Qamar.

Article: "Sunak warned he has 24 hours to avoid 'historic mistake' on furlough scheme" by Lewis McKenzie.

Article: "The Guardian view of Boris Johnson's crisis: blunder after blunder".

Hour Three: How the Radical Right Used Abortion as a Trojan Horse To Push Their Own Extremist Agenda
- Ilyse Hogue, President - NARAL Pro-Choice America & Author - "The Lie That Binds"

Article: "Roe v. Wade" by History Channel.

Article: "Equal Rights Amendment" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Equal Rights Amendment" - "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex".

Article: "Republican Party Platform of 1980" by RNC.

Article: "FDA approves "the pill"" by History.com.

Article: "American Legislative Exchange Council" (ALEC) by SourceWatch.

Article: "Americans United for Life" by Wikipedia.

Site: Heritage Foundation

Article: "Federalist society" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Eisenstadt v. Baird" (birth control for unmarried women) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Abdel Fattah el-Sisi" (Egypt) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Recep Tayyip Erdoğan" (Turkey) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Protesters met with jeers by crowd with guns in Nevada city" by AP.

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

Quote: "The occupation of an hairdresser, or of a working tallow-chandler, cannot be a matter of honour to any person - to say nothing of a number of other more servile employments. Such descriptions of men ought not to suffer oppression from the state; but the state suffers oppression, if such as they, either individually or collectively, are permitted to rule. In this you think you are combating prejudice, but you are at war with nature" - Edmund Burke.

Book: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, Russell Kirk.

Book: Rights of Man by Thomas Paine.

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Article: "Trump involved in 3,500 lawsuits: report" by Jesse Byrnes.

Article: "Donald Trump's Tab For MAGA Rallies Jumps to $1.8 Million as 14 Cities Say President Hasn't Paid Police Bills, Report Finds" by Alexandra Hutzler.

Article: "Trump who? Senate GOP candidates in tight races avoid any mention of the president in campaign ads." by Seung Min Kim.

Article: "The History of Russian Involvement in America's Race Wars" by Julia Ioffe.

Article: "First Red Scare" (1919-1920) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Right-Wingers Are America's Deadliest Terrorists" by Daniel Byman.

Article: "Lawrence Wilkerson Walks Bill Maher Through Worst Case Scenarios if Trump Loses This Fall" by Ross A. Lincoln and Phil Owen.

Article: "'A Conspiracy to Steal the Election, Folks': Alarms Sound After Postal Worker Reports Removal of Sorting Machines" by Jake Johnson.

Law: "18 U.S. Code § 1703. Delay or destruction of mail or newspapers" "(a) Whoever, being a Postal Service officer or employee, unlawfully secretes, destroys, detains, delays, or opens any letter, postal card, package, bag, or mail entrusted to him or which shall come into his possession, and which was intended to be conveyed by mail, or carried or delivered by any carrier or other employee of the Postal Service, or forwarded through or delivered from any post office or station thereof established by authority of the Postmaster General or the Postal Service, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both..."

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