Tuesday 18 May '21 show notes

  • GOP Is Raising the Next Racist Generation of Right Wing Crackpots
  • Will the Jan 6th Commission Be a Joke Just Like the 9/11 Commission?
  • Trump's Paramilitaries Have Turned GOPers Into Bullies or Left Them "Scared Sh**less" - But Democrats have some big sticks, if they choose to use them...
  • Should the CDC Revoke Their New Mask Rule?
  • New Study Says - Trump Supporters May Share the Same Narcissistic Traits That Trump Exhibits...Surprised?
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Trump's Paramilitaries Have Turned GOPers Into Bullies or Left Them "Scared Sh**less"
Thom plus logo But Democrats have some big sticks, if they choose to use them.

In the minds of the authoritarian base of the GOP, there are only two kinds of people: those who bully, and those who get bullied. Republicans in Congress have decided which side they're on. Or at least which side they're cowed by.

Liz Cheney recently said that a number of Republicans in the House of Representatives believed Donald Trump had committed crimes for which he should be impeached, but were afraid to vote for impeachment. They were, Cheney said, "Afraid for their own security and … afraid for their lives."

The events of January 6, where a few thousand Trump-aligned traitors brought a gallows to the Capitol building to hang the Vice President of the United States, and another group went in search of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to "put a bullet in her forehead," make it clear their fears were not misplaced.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom
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GOP Is Raising the Next Racist Generation of Right Wing Crackpots
Thom plus logo Control of our schools is essential to the GOP undoing the "wokeness" of the Millennial Generation and returning the US to a "1950s Beaver Cleaver" kind of racial order.

Imagine if hard-core crazies like Marjorie Taylor Greene ran most of the school boards all across America. They could raise up an entire new generation of civics-clueless right-wing racist kids, and probably keep much of it well below the nation's radar screen.

That's the GOP's current plan, and they're gaining real traction in getting there. They've found their new 2021 "bigoted wedge issue" — crushing teachers and schools that want to teach the horrors of genocide and racism — and it's cranking up their base just like gay marriage or "radical Islam" did a decade or two ago.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom
Tuesday's Daily Stack Daily Stack
Hour One: GOP Is Raising the Next Racist Generation of Right Wing Crackpots
Article: "Massive Resistance" by Matthew L. Downs.
Article: "Indivisible".
Article: "Busing's Boston Massacre" by Matthew Richer.
Article: "Cornyn Is Mistaken on Civics Bill" by Stanley Kurtz.
Article: "Achievement-Level Results" by NAEP.
Article: "Why the Right Loves Public School Culture Wars" by Michelle Goldberg.
Article: "Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs" by SourceWatch.
Article: "The Plight of Being a Gay Teacher" by Amanda Machado.
Will the Jan 6th Commission Be a Joke Just Like the 9/11 Commission?
Article: "Southern strategy" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Dixiecrat" by Wikipedia.
Article: "9/11 Commission" by Wikipedia.
Quote: "As a matter of fact, in interviews in 1999 with respected journalist, and long time Bush family friend, David Herskowitz, then Governor George Bush stated: 'One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I have a chance to invade... if I had that much capital, I'm not going to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency." - My Testimony for the Downing Street Memo Hearings" by Cindy Sheehan, June 16 2005.
Article: "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US" 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.
Everything You Know Is Wrong: "Unvaccinated TikTok Users Believe They Will Be 'Lone Survivors'" by Anna Merlan.
Article: "Manifest destiny" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Archibald Cox" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Henry B. González" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Earl Warren" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Douglas Macgregor" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Michael Flynn" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Trump's Paramilitaries Have Turned GOPers Into Bullies or Left Them "Scared Sh**less" - But Democrats have some big sticks, if they choose to use them...
Article: "Federalist 78" by Alexander Hamilton.
Article: "Ku Klux Klan" (KKK) by Wikipedia.
Article: "Alan Berg" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Rush Limbaugh" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Timothy McVeigh" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Oklahoma City bombing" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Massachusetts health care reform" (Romneycare) by Wikipedia.
Article: "How FBI says Michigan gov kidnapping plot went from texts, small gatherings to raid" by John Kapetaneas, Neil Giardino, Stephanie Fasano, Mack Muldofsky, and Allie Yang.
Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954 (Segregation in public schools) (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson).
Article: "Roe v. Wade" by History Channel.
Article: "Jurisdiction stripping" by Wikipedia.
Should the CDC Revoke Their New Mask Rule?
Article: "Matt Gaetz Is Said to Face Justice Dept. Inquiry Over Sex With an Underage Girl" by Michael S. Schmidt, Katie Benner and Nicholas Fandos.
Article: "Peekskill riots" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Cotton gin" by Wikipedia.

Hour Three: New Study Says - Trump Supporters May Share the Same Narcissistic Traits That Trump Exhibits...Surprised?
Article: "Warren G. Harding," by White House.
Article: "Goldwater's 1964 Acceptance Speech", 1964. "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice... moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
Article: "Joe Manchin" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Kyrsten Sinema" by Open Secrets.
Article: "Joe Lieberman" by Wikipedia.
Article: "John McCain" by Wikipedia.
Tweet: "This is my Twitter account as Representative for the People of Florida's 10th District. For my campaign Twitter, see @val_demings." by Rep. Val Demings.
Article: "Tuskegee syphilis experiment" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Joseph McCarthy" by Wikipedia.
Book: "None Dare Call It Treason" by John A. Stormer.
Article: "10 Things You Didn't Know About Robert F. Kennedy" by Barbara Maranzani.
Article: "Julius and Ethel Rosenberg" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Roy Cohn" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Smedley Butler" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Business Plot" (1933, Smedley Butler) by Wikipedia.
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].
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