We can't solve our very real & serious issues if we don't confront them, and it's tragic that the GOP would use this national platform to once again deny America's most tragic reality.

President Joe Biden, last night, gave one of the best presidential speeches and policy proposals of my lifetime. It rivals Jack Kennedy in 1961, and, if passed, will undo much of the damage of the Reagan Revolution of the past 40 years.

In the Republican Party's rebuttal, without seriously addressing even one single specific proposal of President Biden, Senator Tim Scott, the sole Black Republican in that body, instead went out of his way to promote the GOP idea that, in his words, "America is not a racist nation."

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Video: Watch Joe Biden's full speech to Congress (28 April 2020).

Article: "Dear Sen. Tim Scott - If America Is Not a Racist Nation..." by Thom Hartmann.

Video: Sen. Tim Scott's Full Republican Response | WSJ (28 April 2020).

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "Shelby County v. Holder" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The supreme court guts the Voter Rights Act … since racism is over" by Ana Marie Cox.

Article: "Minorities Who 'Whiten' Job Resumes Get More Interviews" by Dina Gerdeman.

Law: "Immigration Act of 1924" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Racial pay gap in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'It is serious and intense': white supremacist domestic terror threat looms large in US" by Ed Pilkington.

Article: "'Jews will not replace us': Vice film lays bare horror of neo-Nazis in America" by Adam Gabbatt.

Article: "Charlottesville car attack" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump's "Very Fine People" Full Speech and Transcript" by Jack Smith.

Article: "Less Than Equal: Racial Disparities in Wealth Accumulation" by Signe-Mary McKernan, Caroline Ratcliffe, Eugene Steuerle, and Sisi Zh.

Article: "Mass racial violence in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden's $4 Trillion Economic Plan, in One Chart" by Alicia Parlapiano.

Article: "Biden seeks increases in income and capital gains taxes for wealthy to pay for $1.8 trillion 'families plan'" by Michael Collins.

Article: "Capital gains tax" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Capital gains tax in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "America's wealthiest earners appear to be hiding billions of dollars from the IRS, study finds" by Kate Duffy and Natasha Dailey.

Article: "Happy 88th Birthday, Willie Nelson!".

Book: Point to Point Navigation by Gore Vidal.

Book: Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings from the Road by Willie Nelson.

Article: "85% of viewers approve of Biden's address to Congress, CBS News polling says" by CBS.

Article: "Biden to Toughen Tax Enforcement to Help Pay for His Economic Agenda".

Article: "How the IRS Was Gutted" by Paul Kiel and Jesse Eisinger.

Article: "Credit Suisse Pleads Guilty, Pays $2.6 Billion To Settle U.S. Tax Evasion Charges" by Trefis Team.

Article: "Belgium Launches Tax Evasion, Money Laundering Probe into Credit Suisse " by Alan Hope.

Article: "Almost half a trillion dollars — first report of its kind calculates the true global cost of wealthy and corporate tax avoidance" by Dominic-Madori Davis.

Article: "Apple is Ireland's largest company".

Article: "Tim Scott: Republican senator who gave rebuttal speech to Biden" by BBC.

Article: "Manchin Balks at Biden's Corporate Tax Increase, Favors 25% Rate" by Erik Wasson, Steven T. Dennis.

Site: Indivisible

Hour Two: What Would be the Impact of Biden's "Buy American Plan?"
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book) @profwolff @democracyatwrk

Law: "Buy American Act", 1933.

Site: World Trade Organization (WTO)

Article: "World Trade Organization" by Kym Anderson.

Article: "Oregonians can renew driver's licenses online starting next week; Real ID pushed to 2023" by Andrew Theen.

Article: "Fashion statements fizzle out at Biden's joint address" by Jim Saksa and Katherine Tully-McManus.

Article: "Three Georgia men charged with hate crimes in Ahmaud Arbery death" by Sarah Lynch.

Article: "Boogaloo movement" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Camp of the Saints" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Turner Diaries" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kamala Harris agrees with Tim Scott that the US is not racist, but says racism must not be ignored" by Betsy Klein.

Article: "Modi is attacking India's Muslims again – this time with the 'love jihad' law" by Peony Hirwani.

Article: "Rohingya genocide" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Uighurs: 'Credible case' China carrying out genocide" by James Landale.

Movie: "The Birth of a Nation (1915)".

Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene's Caucus Promoting 'Anglo-Saxon' Values Didn't Last Long" by Matt Stieb.

Book: Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry.

Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.

Book: Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman.

Article: "Ludwig von Mises" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Friedrich Hayek" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Maynard Keynes" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Milton Friedman did not save Chile" by Naomi Klein.

Book: Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson.

Article: "Biden at 100 days: Hottest stock market since JFK" by Matt Egan.

Article: "Cuba opens door to most small business initiatives" by Marc Frank.

Article: "Biden to transgender Americans: 'Your president has your back.'" by Brooke Sopelsa and Jo Yurcaba.

Article: "Watch: Father arrested for going over allotted time while testifying against Arkansas ban on trans healthcare" by Meaghan Ellis.

Article: "'Owning the libs': how Donald Trump Jr became the unlikely political heir apparent" by David Smith.

Video: Some Truck Owners Intentionally Blast Black Smoke (coal rollers).

Article: "Vehicles flying Trump flags try to force a Biden-Harris campaign bus off a highway in Texas" by David Montgomery and Maggie Haberman.

Article: "President Trump Appears To Embrace Actions Of Caravan That Surrounded Biden-Harris Campaign Bus In Texas" by CBSDFW.COM/CNN.

Video: Trump Encourages Cops To Rough Up Suspects-They Applaud.

Article: "Napoleonic Code" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Tells Crowd to 'Knock the Crap Out' of Protesters, Offers to Pay Legal Fees" by Sam Reisman.

Article: "Republican candidate charged with assault after 'body-slamming' Guardian reporter" by Julia Carrie Wong and Sam Levin.

Article: "Greg Gianforte" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Registration for Vermont BIPOC vaccination clinic fills within 24 hours" by Ethan Bakuli.

Article: "One Big Difference About George Floyd Protests: Many White Faces" by Amy Harmon and Sabrina Tavernise.

Article: "Senate panel advances Biden's Postal Service nominees" by Mychael Schnell.

Article: "Biden said America's survival depends on proving to China that democracy can outpace autocracy" by John Haltiwanger.

Article: "Vladimir Putin" (Russia) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Xi Jinping" (China) by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Jair Bolsonaro" (Brazil) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Narendra Modi" (India) by Wikipedia.

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

Article: "Biden Declares 'America Is Back' on International Stage" by David E. Sanger.

Article: "Jane Elliott" by Wikipedia.

Bill: "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3].

Article: "Now OANN is involved in Arizona's Senate election audit? Can this thing get any more absurd?" by Laurie Roberts.

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