Will the next few months become a "Great Awakening” for America or a "Great Dying” for Trump followers?

J. R. R. Tolkien wrote, "The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.” It’s a painful truth that people in red states, and red counties in blue and purple states, are about to learn.

Here comes Donald Trump’s Final Massacre.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Delta & Delta Plus Covid Variants...the "Greatest Threat" (as Dr. Fauci Says) To Ending the Pandemic?
- Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Epidemiologist & Health Economist / Adjunct Senior Fellow - Federation of American Scientists @DrEricDing @FAScientist

Tweet: "BREAKING—Dr. Anthony Fauci said Wednesday the #DeltaVariant now accounts for ~20% of newly diagnosed cases in U.S. and **will become dominant #COVID19 strain** within weeks. FT also estimated 31%, meaning it’s doubled/tripled in 1 week! Thread HT @Dawn_Kopecki [link]" by https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/23/delta-covid-variant-fauci-says-delta-accounts-for-20percent-of-new-cases-in-us.html.

Article: "US Coronavirus vaccine tracker" by USAFacts.

Article: "Delta Covid variant has a new mutation called ‘delta plus’: Here’s what you need to know" by Holly Ellyatt.

Article: "Explainer: What is the Delta variant of coronavirus with K417N mutation?" by Bhargav Acharya, Shilpa Jamkhandikar.

Article: "Mixing AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccine leads to better immune response, research shows" by Maïthé Chini.

Article: "Vaccines highly effective against hospitalisation from Delta variant " by Public Health England.

Article: "Nearly all COVID deaths in US are now among unvaccinated" by Carla K. Johnson, Mike Stobbe.

Article: "Unvaccinated Missourians fuel COVID: ‘We will be the canary’" by Heather Hollingsworth.

Article: "Union Health Ministry advises Maharashtra, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh on Delta Plus Variant, currently a Variant of Concern (VOC)" by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Article: "Excelsior Pass: Business owner scans resident’s digital health pass" by New York State.

Article: "America Must Never Forget what Trump & the GOP Did On April 7th, 2020" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Newsom insists COVID-19 vaccine verification system is not vaccine passport" by Bethany Blankley.

Article: "More than half of Americans support vaccine passports for flying, large crowds: poll" by Jordan Williams.

Tweet: "The Delta variant is in the Ozarks. We have been interviewed by NPR, CBS News, MSNBC, AP, Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, NYTimes but not @FoxNews
Fox is the most popular cable news in our area -you can help educate on Delta, vaccines and can save lives. @TuckerCarlson" by Steve Edwards (President and CEO of CoxHealth).

Article: "Delta plus: Scientists say too early to tell risk of Covid-19 variant" by Soutik Biswas.

Site: "CoxHealth".

Article: "Nearly 4,000 Breakthrough COVID Infections Have Now Been Reported in Mass" by Mary Markos.

Article: "Trump told Bob Woodward he knew in February that COVID-19 was 'deadly stuff' but wanted to 'play it down'" by Dareh Gregorian.

Article: "The "Delta plus” variant explained: what is the threat level?" by Ido Vock.

Article: "College vaccine mandates rile GOP states" by Ben Leonard.

Article: "U.S. COVID response could have avoided hundreds of thousands of deaths: research" by Howard Schneider.

Article: "Sydney enters ‘scariest’ phase of pandemic as delta variant spreads, leader says" by Rachel Pannett.

Article: "Vaccine Passports Could Save Us From Trump's Final Massacre" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Trump Vaccinated In January After Claiming He Was ‘Immune’ To Covid-19" by Jemima McEvoy.

Is There An Infrastructure Deal & Does It Work?
- Senator Bernie Sanders, U.S. Senator (I-VT) / 2 time U.S. Presidential Candidate / Chair of the Senate Budget Committee @SenatorSanders @BernieSanders

Article: "Here's What's In President Biden's $2 Trillion Infrastructure Proposal" by Scott Detrow, Tamara Keith.

Article: "A $6 Trillion Infrastructure Plan? Bernie Sanders Says Oh Heck Yes." by Rachel Bucchino.

Article: "Here’s what made it into the bipartisan infrastructure plan." by Glenn Thrush.

Article: "Byrd Rule" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Are Republicans Setting the Economy Up Next Month for Disaster to Harm Biden?
- 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

Article: "Yellen Warns Debt Ceiling Failure Would Be ‘Catastrophic'" by Michael Rainey.

Article: "United States debt ceiling" by Wikipedia.

Article: "History of United States debt ceiling" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Axios Markets Jun 22, 2021" (Share buybacks are back) by Aja Whitaker-Moore.

Article: "Pfizer aims to have COVID vaccine ready for children under 12 by September" by Kenneth Garger.

Article: "Moderna vaccine safe and highly effective in kids ages 12 to 17, company says" by Sara G. Miller and Erika Edwards.

Article: ""Mask up to keep it up": Preliminary evidence of the association between erectile dysfunction and COVID-19 " by Andrea Sansone et al.

Article: "Court Suspends Giuliani’s Law License, Citing Trump Election Lies" by Nicole Hong and Ben Protess.

Video: General Mark Milley BLASTS Matt Gaetz over Critical Race Theory.

Article: "COVID-19 outbreak at Multnomah County’s Inverness Jail sickens 25 inmates" by Jayati Ramakrishnan.

Tweet: "@Thom_Hartmann
Hi, great interview w/@DrEricDing
You asked Q how to vax non vaxers.
I've succeeded w/10 fully [vaccinated]
I don't consider myself very influential, so I believe most ppl can do this. I am honest, informed & trustworthy.
What I did: ..." by lady4liberty.

Article: "Share repurchase" (stock buyback) by Wikipedia.

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

Site: "Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Shareholder Letters".

Hour Three: How America Fractured Into Four Parts
- George Packer, journalist - The Atlantic / The New Yorker / New York Times / Author of numerous books, his latest Last Best Hope: An Essay On the Revival of America @TheAtlantic

Article: "The Four Americas" by George Packer.

Article: "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville.

Tweet: "I just tell anti vaxxers that the only people in hospitals now are unvaccinated people. That makes them think. @Thom_Hartmann" by Big Brother Trump.

Site: CDC COVID Data Tracker.

Site: Paradisos del Sol Winery and Organic Vineyard.

Article: "Nevada reports 448 new COVID cases, highest 1-day total in 6 weeks" by Katelyn Newberg.

Article: "New Las Vegas Casino Bets On Post-Covid Recovery" by AFP.

Article: "Vaccinated against COVID-19? 47% of Oregon lawmakers say they are but many Republicans won’t answer" by Aimee Green.

Article: "Bills receiver Cole Beasley says Covid-19 protocols may force him into retirement" By Jay Skurski.

Article: "1978 California Proposition 13" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fact Check-Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine does not contain aborted fetal cells" by Reuters.

Article: "Covid: Brazil hits 500,000 deaths amid 'critical' situation" by BBC.

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

It's Anything Goes Friday!

Plus, Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA, 17th District / Vice Chair-Congressional Progressive Caucus) will be here to talk issues of the day and take your calls.

And, Science Revolution: Dr. Michael Mann, Distinguished Professor of Meteorology & Director, Earth System Science Center-Penn State University / Member-National Academy of Sciences / author of several books including including his latest just out, The New Climate War / (previously, The Madhouse Effect: How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy) / Recipient of the Tyler Prize

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