Donald Trump has told us that only 9000 people have died of the coronavirus in the United States, that shooting an unarmed man in the back seven times is like a bad putt at golf, that protests are being led by an airplane full of black-jacketed "thugs," and refused to condemn a vicious murderer who killed two people and blew the arm off a third. Now, he is threatening the Mayor of Portland with federal troops again.

Which raises the question, is this the America the majority of voters want to live in?

A country where the police act as an occupying force and are immune to oversight or discipline? A president who pits people against each other based on their religion or the color of their skin? An administration that lies about science as over 200,000 people die? Corrupt former lobbyists in charge of virtually every federal agency? Cutting the Social Security tax so the entire program collapses by 2023?

Read more here.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "'The 180,000 COVID-19 deaths are real': Dr Fauci says US coronavirus fatalities are NOT exaggerated after CDC data suggested only 9,000 people have died of the virus alone - and insists he and Trump are 'on the same team'" by Mary Kekatos.

Article: "Twitter removes Trump retweet sharing false information on COVID-19 deaths" by Nathan Bomey.

Article: "Trump Compares Jacob Blake Shooting To Golf Blunder: 'They Miss A Three-Foot Putt'" by Cristina Cabrera.

Article: "10 Racist, Outlandish, Downright False Statements From Donald Trump's Fox News Interview" by Tanya A. Christian.

Article: "Trump Doubles Down on 'Plane of Uniformed Thugs' Conspiracy Theory" by Jamie Ross.

Article: "Trump Refuses to Condemn Kyle Rittenhouse Over Alleged Murders, Implies Shootings Were Justified: 'He Probably Would Have Been Killed'" by Reed Richardson.

Tweet: "Portland is a mess, and it has been for many years. If this joke of a mayor doesn't clean it up, we will go in and do it for them!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "Trump payroll plan would deplete Social Security by 2023: Administrator" by Niv Elis.

Article: "Southern strategy" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Civil Rights Act of 1964" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "The long goodbye" by The Economist.

Article: "Iowa 2020 Presidential Election Polls" by CNN.

Article: "Texas 2020 Presidential Election Polls" by CNN.

Article: "It's official: The U.S. entered a recession in February" by Martha C. White.

Article: "Poll: 43 Percent Of Republicans Support Military Overthrow Of U.S. Government (Video)" by Michael Allen.

Article: "An Analysis of Trump Supporters Has Identified 5 Key Traits" by Bobby Azarian Ph.D.

Site: "Ralph Nader Radio Hour".

Article: "On Point" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Civil war is here, right now': 'Patriots' urge Trump to empower militias to fight antifa in streets" by David Neiwert.

Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse, junior patriot, brought a gun to a skateboard fight, and Mom helped" by annieli.

Article: "Kyle Rittenhouse has a Team Trump lawyer with a plan to distract from the people Rittenhouse killed" by Laura Clawson.

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

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 Doubles Down on 'Plane of Uniformed Thugs' Conspiracy Theory" by Jamie Ross.

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

Article: "Kentucky Man Accused Of Breaking Canada's COVID-19 Rules Faces $569,000 Fine" by Samantha Raphelson.

Article: "Dylann Roof" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cops Bought Dylann Roof Burger King Hours After Charleston Shooting" by Simon McCormack.

Site: OpEdNews: Rohn Kenyatta.

Article: "Rodney King" by Wikipedia.

Video: Willie Horton 1988 Attack Ad.

Article: "Preteen girl beaten unconscious after telling racist bully that 'Black is beautiful'" by Travis Gettys.

Article: "Shooting of Trayvon Martin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Article: "Study: Guns in home increase suicide, homicide risk" by CBS News.

Hour Two: Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers...
- John W. Dean, Author/Lecturer/Columnist-Justia/Contributor-MSNBC/former Nixon White House Counsel/Author of the new book, Authoritarian Nightmare

Article: "Robert Brown on Nixon, Obama and Race in the United States" by Tori Richards.

Article: "Edward Brooke" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Has Been Comparing Himself to Nixon. That's Hooey." by John W. Dean.

Article: "Why Authoritarians Now Control The Republican Party The Rise Of Authoritarian Conservatism" by John W. Dean.

Article: "John Dean helped bring down Nixon. He says Trump is unleashing a nightmare that is far worse" by Amy Goodman.

Article: "Monmouth Poll Research on Authoritarianism" by Patrick Murray.

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

Book: HATEMONGER: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump and the White Nationalist Agenda by Jean Guerrero.

Article: "Biden condemns violence on all sides after deadly Portland shooting" by Rashaan Ayesh.

Article: "Joe Biden Condemns Violence At Protests: 'Rioting Is Not Protesting'" by Igor Bobic.

Article: "US agents to pull back in Portland but will stay on standby" by AP.

Article: "Washington Examiner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "New York Post" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Site: Sirius XM - Progress

Site: Free Speech TV

Article: "Willie Horton" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pence told to be on standby to assume powers during Trump's abrupt Walter Reed visit: book" by Justine Coleman.

Tweet: "It never ends! Now they are trying to say that your favorite President, me, went to Walter Reed Medical Center, having suffered a series of mini-strokes. Never happened to THIS candidate - FAKE NEWS. Perhaps they are referring to another candidate from another Party!" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "The Lincoln Project" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Erik Prince" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A Senate Intelligence Committee Report Reveals Damning New Information About Trump's Russia Ties" by David Corn, Dan Friedman.

Article: "Personal Data Of Over 7 Million Swing State Voters Found On Russian Hacker's Server" by Mystic54.

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

Article: "Trump Is Lying More Than Ever: Just Look At The Data" by David Markowitz.

Book: Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell.

Article: "Spanish Civil War" by Wikipedia.

Article: "George Orwell" by Wikipedia.

Book: "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" by William L. Shirer.

Hour Three: Science Revolution: How Trump & Big Pharma Let America Down
- Eli Zupnik, Spokesperson - Accountable Pharma

Article: "Another Broken Promise: Trump's Empty Drug Pricing Bluff Called By Pharma As August 24th Deadline Comes and Goes With No Action" by Accountable.US.

Article: "Remarks by President Trump at Signing of Executive Orders on Lowering Drug Prices".

Article: "Drugmakers refuse to attend White House meeting after Trump issues executive orders on costs" by Sarah Owermohle.

Article: "Pharma CEOs privately scoff at Trump's drug pricing orders: "Not expecting any impact”" by Igor Derysh.

Article: "Trump gets no special protections because he's president and must release financial records, Supreme Court rules" by Stanley M. Brand.

Article: "Trump made up injury to dodge Vietnam service, his former lawyer testifies" by Leo Shane III.

Article: "What are the symptoms of heel spurs?" by WebMD.

Article: "Protesters who camp on Tennessee state property could lose right to vote under new law" by Kerri Bartlett.

Article: "First Amendment to the United States Constitution" "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Article: "foment" by Merriam-Webster.

Article: "fulminate" by Merriam-Webster.

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

Article: "Hyde Amendment" by Wikipedia.

Article: "White 'vigilante' couple shoots at Black men who were simply returning a U-Haul truck" by Sky Palma.

Book: "October Surprise" by Barbara Honegger.

Article: "Understanding the Iran-Contra Affairs" by Brown University.

Article: "'Argo' helps Iran's dictatorship, harms democracy" by Abolhassan Bani-Sadr.

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

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

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