The Republican Party has gone from being a threat to the lives, health and wealth of working people to being a full-on threat to democracy and our republic itself.

Jamie Dimon is whining about Biden's upcoming tax increases on rich people like himself: screw him. But more about that in a minute.

Ever since the late 1970s and early 1980s, both the Republican and Democratic parties have been operating, in part, on delusion and fantasy.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

The roots and brutality of the hard-right grew in the soil of libertarianism and Ayn Rand's writings

Many Americans are baffled by the Republican Party's embrace of billionaire sociopath Trump and elected Republicans' willingness to overlook the death of seven Americans, including three police officers, in an attempted coup. (Particularly after they spent over 2 years and tens of millions of dollars obsessing on 4 dead Americans in Benghazi.)

They're also wondering why Kevin McCarthy would reject Liz Cheney to embrace someone like Elise Stefanik, an apologist for the January 6 treason attempt, or go along with Mitch McConnell's attempts to sabotage the American Rescue Plan, the American Jobs Plan, and the American Family Plan.

After all, people are hurting.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "US invokes emergency powers after cyber-attack on fuel pipeline".

Article: "The Cybersecurity 202: Trump took the nation in the wrong direction on cybersecurity, experts say" by Joseph Marks.

Article: "Germany revives Putin's pipeline dream" by Matthew Karnitschnig.

Article: "The cybersecurity attack is another Trump mess Biden will have to clean up" by Samantha Vinograd.

Article: "Lawmakers criticize Trump's slashed budget for key federal cyber agency" by Maggie Miller.

Article: "Under Trump, the Fight Against Cybercrime Has Waned" by Ishan Mehta.

Article: "Second Steele dossier references claims of the existence of more Trump "sex tapes": report" by Bob Brigham.

Article: "The rise and fall of Ford in Russia" by Nikolay Shevchenko.

Article: "Our History In Russia And Eurasia" by Caterpillar.

Article: "First Five-Year Plan" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "IBM during World War II" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Deep Delusions of The GOP Stripped Down" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Theory of Moral Sentiments" by Adam Smith, 1759.

Article: "How The Brutal Shaming of Jamie Dimon Exposes The Abhorrent Greed of Wall Street" by Ezinne Ukoha.

Article: "Summers Warns U.S. Risks Rising Inflation Amid Massive Stimulus" by Peggy Collins.

Article: "Jamie Dimon calls Biden's tax hike plan 'a little crazy'" by Paul R. La Monica.

Article: "AOC calls on Democrats to return to progressive, 'FDR roots' at Boulder fundraiser" by Ernest Luning.

Article: "Pinochet's Helicopter Pilot Academy Red Unisex T-Shirt".

Article: "Republicans Are Adopting the Proud Boys" by Kelly Weill, Will Sommer.

Article: "Biden attempts to consign trickle-down economics to the dustbin of history" by Larry Elliott.

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

Article: "Chilean army admits 120 thrown into sea" by Jonathan Franklin.

Article: "Stacey Abrams on writing herself into the story – and history" by CBS News.

Article: "Sheriff Goes Ballistic After Arizona Recounters Demand Access To County Passwords" by Mary Papenfuss.

Article: "Remember the Kalamazoo" by Brian Palmer.

Article: "Biden administration scrambles to respond to cyberattack on critical pipeline" by Kevin Liptak.

Article: "Korean War" by Wikipedia.

Article: "US warns Germany over Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline" by Oliver Towfigh Nia.

Article: "Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trump Abandons Iran Nuclear Deal He Long Scorned" by Mark Landler.

Article: "Did Trump Throw Kurds under the Bus for Turkey because of his Istanbul Revenue Stream?" by Juan Cole.

Article: "Biden's Tax Plan: What's Enacted, What's Proposed" by Michelle P. Scott.

Article: "New Deal" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bernie Sanders congratulates Joe Biden for shedding his moderate past" by Gustaf Kilander.

Article: "Jan Schakowsky" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Sherrod Brown" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Charles Manson" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Vincent Bugliosi" by Wikipedia.

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

Book: The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by Vincent Bugliosi.

Article: "5 people died in the Capitol insurrection. Experts say it could have been so much worse." by Kelly McLaughlin.

Article: "Second police officer died by suicide following Capitol attack" by Caitlin Emma, Sarah Ferris.

Hour Two: Trump's High Deductible Health Plans Are Killing Americans
- Wendell Potter, Center for Health and Democracy / Tarbell / author, Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It

Article: "Biden's Big Chance" (High deductible plans are killing Americans) by Wendell Potter.

Documentary: Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret .

Article: "Americans Must Repudiate the Connection Between a Child-Murderer, Reaganism and Trumpism" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: The Journals of Ayn Rand by Ayn Rand.

Book: Murder and Menace: Riveting True Crime Tales (Vol. 3) by R. Barri Flowers.

Article: "National Platform 1980" by Libertarian Party.

Article: "Wealthcare: Ayn Rand and the invincible cult of selfishness on the American right" by Jonathan Chait.

Article: "Slayer is taken from train while mobs are waiting".

Article: "President Trump Nominates Acting EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler, a Former Coal Lobbyist, to Lead Agency" by Bloomberg.

Article: "The True History of Libertarianism in America: A Phony Ideology to Promote a Corporate Agenda" by Mark Ames.

Article: "How Ayn Rand Became a Big Admirer of Serial Killer" by Mark Ames.

Article: "The rape scene in The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand and Sex 1.1)".

Article: "John Kelly: It's not 'cruel' to separate families at the border — children will be 'put into foster care or whatever'" by Devan Cole.

Article: "Only billionaires should rule the world" by Michelle Mark.

Article: "Trump: 'I just don't want a poor person' running the economy" by Jacob Pramuk.

Article: "A Former Oil Lobbyist Is Now Officially in Charge of America's Public Lands" by Olivia Rosane.

Video: "Donald Trump is a narcissist and sociopath says Sachs".

Article: "New Details About Wilbur Ross' Business Point To Pattern Of Grifting" by Dan Alexander.

Article: "Trump Administration Embraces Ayn Rand's Disdain for the Masses" by Firmin Debrabander.

Article: "Followers Of Ayn Rand Provide A Final Tribute" by Susan Chira.

Article: "The sanctification of Donald Trump" by Andrew Restuccia.

Article: "What would have happened to Howard Roark in a real court?p" by Hazen Hammel.

Article: "The new age of Ayn Rand: how she won over Trump and Silicon Valley" by Jonathan Freedland.

Article: "Have You Ever Seen Donald Trump Laugh?" by Leslie Savan.

Article: "Donald Trump's 'kinder, gentler' version" by Kirsten Powers.

Article: "A Path to Destruction" by Randi Weingarten.

Article: "Trump: "My whole life I've been greedy … Now I want to be greedy for the United States"" by Ezra Klein.

Article: "Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand" by Rachel Weiner.

Video: Mike Wallace interviews Ayn Rand (1959) (full interview).

Article: "Increasing penalties for damaging energy infrastructure" (Montana House Bill 481).

Site: MoveOn.org

Site: Progressive Democrats of America

Site: Indivisible

Article: "Paraguay in a spin about Bush's alleged 100,000 acre hideaway" by Tom Phillips.

Site: The White House.

Article: "Report: Trump Assets in Revocable, Not Blind, Trust" by VOA News.

Article: "Ford River Rouge Complex" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Biden says 'economic plan is working', despite disappointing April jobs report – live" by Joan E Greve.

Article: "Watch: Jen Psaki expertly explains to Fox News' Peter Doocy why Americans are scared to return to work" by David Badash.

Video: Sen. Josh Hawley: President Biden is 'the duly elected president of the United States'.

Article: "A photographer and a fist pump. The story behind the image that will haunt Josh Hawley" by Katie Bernard.

Book: The Tyranny of Big Tech by Josh Hawley.

Article: "Republicans tried to overturn the election. We can't just forget that" by Robert Reich.

Article: "Donald Trump says sexual assault accuser E Jean Carroll 'not my type'" by AP.

Article: "Ted Cruz" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Josh Hawley" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rick Scott" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Florida Democratic Party Says Rick Scott "oversaw the largest Medicare fraud in the nation's history."" by Amy Sherman.

Article: "Kevin McCarthy (California politician)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "New details about Trump-McCarthy shouting match show Trump refused to call off the rioters" by Jamie Gangel, Kevin Liptak, Michael Warren and Marshall Cohen.

Article: "Fears of White People Losing Out Permeate Capitol Rioters' Towns, Study Finds" by Alan Feuer.

Article: "Tucker Carlson sneers at critics as he doubles down on 'replacement theory' remarks" by Oliver Darcy.

Site: The Smirking Chimp.

Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.

Article: "What's Medicare Supplement Insurance (Medigap)" by Medicare.gov.

Article: "Medicare (United States)" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class" by Thom Hartmann. Get "Screwed" by Thom Hartmann!

Article: "Cagney & Lacey" by Wikipedia.

TV: "Nanny 911".

Article: "Kevin McCarthy is pushing Liz Cheney out for saying almost exactly what he said after January 6" by Chris Cillizza.

Article: "Kinzinger calls out GOP leadership for backing election 'lie' over Cheney" by Libby Cathey, Katherine Faulders, Mariam Khan, and Benjamin Siegel.

Article: "Homeless veterans in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mitt Romney booed and called 'traitor' at Utah Republican convention" by Martin Pengelly.

Article: "I've been thinking. What if Trump unexpectedly died? Would his movement collapse?" by machoneman.

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

Bill: "S.1 - For the People Act of 2021" by Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR].

Article: "Biden to go one-on-one with Manchin" by Morgan Chalfant.

Article: "Housing trust fund" by Wikipedia.

Site: People's Action.

Site: Community Change.

Article: "Republican Presidents' Impact on the Economy" by Kimberly Amadeo.

Article: "Stuxnet" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Israel appears to confirm it carried out cyberattack on Iran nuclear facility" by Martin Chulov.

Article: "2017 cyberattacks on Ukraine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Top 10 Most Powerful Countries in Cyberspace" by Bruce Sussman.

Article: "Electric cars 'will be cheaper to produce than fossil fuel vehicles by 2027'" by Joanna Partridge.

Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

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