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Dec. 25, 2020 5:55 am

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If Conservatives Aren't Stupid...What Are They?
The Stimulus Isn't a Stimulus and the Pardons Aren't Pardons...They're Scams!! Thom Explains...
Anything Goes...What's On Your Mind? Thom Takes Your Calls...

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Hour One: If Conservatives Aren't Stupid...What Are They?

Event: Sun 27 Dec: 9:00 AM EST: "Thom Hartmann discusses the role of media in U.S. politics today on Washington Journal".

Article: "Christmas Star: Will the Star of Bethlehem appear on December 21, 2020?" by Sebastian Kettley.

Article: "Atlantic City To Auction Spot To Push Demolish Button To Blow Up Trump Plaza Casino" by CBS/AP.

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

Article: "Trump University" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Actual Laws Trump Has Broken, Just With The Ukraine And China Affairs, Could Land Him 10 Years In Prison" by Ryan Grim.

Article: "Trump Campaign Owes El Paso $570,000, And The City's Lawyering Up To Collect" by Jemima McEvoy.

Site: Trump Scandals.

Article: "Losing Could Expose Trump To Prosecution For Any Number Of Crimes" by Jon Schwarz.

Article: "Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Central Park jogger case" (Central Park Five) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donald Trump and the Central Park Five: the racially charged rise of a demagogue" by Oliver Laughland.

Article: "Trump's Revised 9/11 Claim" by D'Angelo Gore.

Article: "Donald Trump calls for protester's coat to be confiscated after being heckled during rally" by Maya Oppenheim.

Article: "130 Years After Hitler's Birth, He Continues to Live as a Symbol of Evil" by Jeffrey Kluger.

Article: "The Stimulus Deal: What's in It for You" by Tara Siegel Bernard and Ron Lieber.

Article: "'This Is a No-Brainer': House Democrats Announce Effort to Pass $2,000 Payments as Trump Demands Bigger Checks" by Jake Johnson.

Quote: "We have earned the hatred of entrenched greed" - Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Article: "The Federalist No. 51, [6 February 1788]" by James Madison or Alexander Hamilton. " If men were angels, no government would be necessary."

Article: "Viktor Orbán" (Hungary) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Andrzej Duda" (Poland) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rodrigo Duterte" (Philippines) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nicolle Wallace asks Chris Christie if he's trying to 'clean the Trump stink off' as he ponders 2024 run" by Stephen Proctor.

Article: "Chris Christie Suggests Beating 76-Year-Old Lady Legislator With Bat" by Ken Layne.

Article: "Silent majority" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nixon's Southern strategy" by James Boyd.

Hour Two: The Stimulus Isn't a Stimulus and the Pardons Aren't Pardons...They're Scams!! Thom Explains...

Quote: "I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality [in Europe] producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property,...[One] means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise." - Thomas Jefferson.

Article: "The fading light of liberal democracy" by Martin Wolf.

Article: "Medicare Fraudster Who Exploited the Elderly in $1.3 Billion Scheme Embodies 'Grotesque' Corruption of Trump Clemency Orders" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Erik Prince Now Owes the President a Favor. Think About That." by Charles P. Pierce.

Article: "Trump blasts Covid relief bill just passed by Congress, demands changes" by Dartunorro Clark.

Article: "BUSTED: Trump threatens to veto COVID bill over 'wasteful' spending - that his own budget requested" by Matthew Chapman.

Article: "Kathleen Rice beats out AOC for spot on coveted House committee" by Sarah Ferris And Heather Caygle.

Article: "Why Bernie Sanders is backing a $1.5 trillion military boondoggle" by Daniel Bukszpan.

Article: "Here's What Medicare For All Supporters In Congress Can Actually Do" by David Sirota.

Article: "Progressives have a bold agenda. Biden should act on their priorities in his first 100 days." by Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Quote: "I am I plus my surroundings, and if I do not preserve the latter I do not preserve myself." - José Ortega y Gasset.

Article: "Lyndon B. Johnson" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower" by Wikipedia.

Clip: Phone conversation between President Lyndon Johnson and Sen. Everett Dirksen (R) 968. "Here's the latest information we've got... This is treason. ... "

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

Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000. "The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States"

Article: "Fool Me Once, Shame On You..." by Know Your Phrase.

Article: "2020 California wildfires" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Thermohaline circulation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Great Pacific garbage patch" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Leaving Out Assange, Who Exposed US War Crimes, Trump Pardons Blackwater Guards Jailed for Massacring Iraqi Civilians" by Jake Johnson.

Article: "Rand Paul calls for Trump to pardon Edward Snowden" by Thomas Barrabi.

Article: "Edward Snowden applies for Russian citizenship for sake of future son" by Andrew Roth.

Article: "US officials scramble to deal with suspected Russian hack of government agencies" by Zachary Cohen, Vivian Salama and Brian Fung.

Article: "Trump's private bankers resign from Deutsche Bank" by Kara Scannell.

Article: "Trump's business career is more connected to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy than we ever knew" by Grace Panetta.

Article: "Trump's wealthy friends look to cash in during coronavirus crisis" by Peter Stone.

Hour Three: Anything Goes...What's On Your Mind? Thom Takes Your Calls...

Article: "Talk Radio: Democrats Can't Win if They Don't Play" by Thom Hartmann.

Geeky Science: "11 Minutes of Exercise a Day May Help Counter the Effects of Sitting" by Gretchen Reynolds.

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

Video: GOP Rep. to Obama: 'You Lie!'.

Article: "After Positive COVID-19 Diagnosis, GOP Lawmaker Deletes Post Mocking Precautions" by Amanda Terkel.

Article: "McConnell Urges Trump not to Veto Defense Bill, Sets Up Override Effort" by Brittany Bernstein.

Article: "Dem reveals Trump threatened to veto spending bill because it didn't include Ivanka's 'pet project'" by David Edwards.

Article: "Democrats probe Kushners' billion-dollar rescue deal for family-owned skyscraper" by Mark Vandevelde.

Article: "Timeline on Jared Kushner, Qatar, 666 Fifth Avenue, and White House Policy" by Ryan Goodman and Julia Brooks.

Article: "United States Central Command (USCENTCOM or CENTCOM) " by Wikipedia.

Article: "Newspaper. Office Tower. Marry Ivanka. Did PR Maven Give Jared A Checklist?" by Daniel J. Solomon.

Article: "Chris Christie: Jared Kushner's father committed 'one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes' I prosecuted" by Devan Cole.

Article: "National Popular Vote Interstate Compact" by Wikipedia.

Site: National Popular Vote.

Article: "Trump Administration Finalizes Plan to Open Arctic Refuge to Drilling" by Brad Plumer and Henry Fountain.

Article: "Alaska's ANWR oil exploration auction set for January 6th" by Jennifer A. Dlouhy.

Article: "Tim DeChristopher" (bid for parcels of land at oil auction) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Governor Gavin Newsom Selects Secretary of State Alex Padilla as California's Next United States Senator" by Gavin Newsom.

Article: "Talking Back To Talk Radio - Fairness, Democracy, and Profits" by Thom Hartmann, December 03, 2002.

Article: "Air America (radio network)" by Wikipedia.

Book: Road to Air America: Breaking the Right Wing Stranglehold on Our Nation's Airwaves by Sheldon Drobny.

Site: XRAY.FM.

Article: "Assassination of John F. Kennedy" by Wikipedia.

Law: "Telecommunications Act of 1996" by Wikipedia.

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