…we have to ask if the bullies have won, after all? Or is the Biden administration going to finally start setting limits and imposing logical consequences?

Certain types of behavior can be contagious. Seriously; adolescent suicide is probably the most well-known example of this. It's like they reach into us and draw out of us that part which may have a slight tendency toward that particular behavior and then, by drawing it out, fill us with it.

A great example of this is bullying. We've watched this happen right in front of the entire nation over the previous four years.

Trump has no compassion or empathy whatsoever for anybody except himself, and ruthlessly bullied anybody he thought was in his way or was even moderately critical of him.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "The Rightwingers are Surfing on Trump's Bullying & Getting Away With It" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: “President Trump is bringing new meaning to the phrase 'Bully Pulpit'“ by Glenn C. Altschuler.

Article: “Charles (Joe) Joseph Scarborough“ by The Hill.

Article: “61 things Donald Trump has said about women“ by Jeva Lange.

Article: “There Is No National Emergency on the Border, Mr. President“ by Alex Nowrasteh.

Article: “This may be Donald Trump's most damaging legacy“ by Chris Cillizza.

Article: “6 Smarter Ways to Deal With a Bully“ by F. Diane Barth.

Article: “School bullying has risen in areas that supported Trump“ by Kathiann Kowalski.

Article: “Did Trump Retweet a Video Saying ‘The Only Good Democrat is a Dead Democrat'?“ by Bethania Palma.

Article: “The Day Shithole Entered the Presidential Lexicon“ by Ibram X. Kendi.

Article: “Trump tells congresswomen to 'go back' to the 'crime infested places from which they came'“ by William Cummings.

Article: “The baseless Joe Scarborough conspiracy theory that Trump keeps pushing, explained“ by Katelyn Burns.

Article: “‘They're rapists.' President Trump's campaign launch speech two years later, annotated“ by Amber Phillips.

Article: “Justice Department says it can ‘vigorously' defend religious schools' exemption from anti-LGBTQ discrimination laws“ by Michelle Boorstein.

Article: "'She's not my type,' Trump says of E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of sexual assault" by AP.

Article: "Justice Department: Arizona Senate Audit, Recount May Violate Federal Law" by Ben Giles.

Article: "Biden-GOP Infrastructure Talks Dead" by Tara Golshan, Igor Bobic, Kevin Robillard.

Article: "The Dark Money Influencing Senator Manchin's Right-Wing Agenda" by Sharon Zhang.

Article: "Ten Commandments" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kim Jong-un" (North Korea) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Arizona ballot audit backed by secretive donors linked to Trump's inner circle" by Sam Levine and Anna Massoglia.

Article: "Fox News Blocks the Blue, Refuses to Air Ad Featuring Police Officers Condemning Capitol Riot" by Joe Jurado.

Article: "COVID crisis should have brought us together, but it drove us further apart" by Leonard Pitts Jr.

Article: "Maternal Mortality and Maternity Care in the United States Compared to 10 Other Developed Countries" by Roosa Tikkanen, Munira Z. Gunja, Molly FitzGerald, Laurie Zephyrin.

Article: "Hookworm, a disease of extreme poverty, is thriving in the US south. Why?" by Ed Pilkington.

Speech: "Great Society" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Watchman's Rattle: A Radical New Theory of Collapse by Rebecca D. Costa.

Video: Trump Corruption of DOJ Lingers Under Garland, Risks Precedent (Rachel Maddow).

Bible: "And one of them struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. But Jesus answered, 'No more of this!' And he touched the man's ear and healed him." Luke 22:50-51.

Book: Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress by Christopher Ryan.

Article: "Discovery doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Guy McPherson" by Wikipedia.

Hour Two: Hiding the Union Busters
- Julia Rock, Journalist - The Daily Poster @jul1arock @dailyposter

Article: "Hiding The Union Busters" by Julia Rock.

Bill: "H.R.2474 - Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2019" (PRO Act) by Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3].

Article: "Democrat Opposed to the PRO Act Was Showered With Cash From Amazon Executives" by Sam Knight.

Article: "Amazon defeats historic Alabama union effort" by BBC.

Article: "The Grassroots Battle To Change America's Labor Laws" by Sam Mellins.

Site: Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

Article: "Dominion theology" by Wikipedia.

Bible: "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, 'Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.' - Genesis 1:28.

Site: "The Righting.com".

Quote: "Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee." - Kevin McCarthy.

Article: "Kamala Is in Way Over Her Head and Everyone Can See It" by Becket Adams.

Article: "Tucker Carlson: Mainstream media thinks Kamala Harris is a god, Latin America disagrees" by Tucker Carlson.

Article: "Kamala Cackles Again Over the Border, in Yet Another Confused Mess of an Answer" by Nick Arama.

Crazy Alert: "Anti-vaxxer tells Ohio lawmakers that the COVID-19 vaccine magnetizes people: 'Put a key on their forehead -- it sticks'" by David Badash.

Article: "More People Hospitalized in U.S. Areas With Low Vaccine Rates" by Jesus Jiménez.

Article: "There's A Stark Red-Blue Divide When It Comes To States' Vaccination Rates" by Domenico Montanaro.

Article: "Oregon COVID-19 Update" by Oregon Health Authority COVID-19.

Article: "Highly Contagious Delta Variant of COVID That Ravaged India Is Spreading in the U.S." by Julie Mazziotta.

Article: "'We're being marginalized!' Fox News hosts explode at Black people 'trying to take down the white culture'" by David Edwards.

Article: "About Last Night: Elections Across the Country Show High Democratic Enthusiasm Ahead of Midterms" by DNC.

Article: "Terry McAuliffe wins Democratic gubernatorial primary in Virginia, CNN projects" by Dan Merica.

Hour Three: Fix SSI and fire the Trump appointees who are sabotaging Social Security!
- Alex Lawson, Executive Director - Social Security Works / Strengthen Social Security @alaw202 @ssworks

Article: "Social Security is still in the hands of a Trumper, and Biden needs to fix that" by Joan McCarter.

Article: "Louis DeJoy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau".

Article: "What You Need to Know About 'Chained CPI'" by Sho Chandra.

Twitter: "#FireSaulandBlack".

Book: "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.

Book: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer.

Article: "Donald Trump Stands By 'Central Park 5' Ad Calling for Death Penalty: 'They Admitted Their Guilt'" by Tim Baysinger.

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

Article: "Trump demands China pay $10 trillion of 'reparations' to US for damage caused by COVID-19" by Joshua Zitser.

Article: "Trump congratulates Nigeria for Twitter ban, says more countries should do the same" by Tage Kene-Okafor.

Article: "Exclusive: New audio of 2019 phone call reveals how Giuliani pressured Ukraine to investigate baseless Biden conspiracies" by Matthew Chance and Marshall Cohen.

Twitter: "Ronald Klain".

Event: June 12: 10:30 am: Arlington, VA: "Rally for the PRO Act".

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010)

Case: "McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission", 2014

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

I'll be talking with Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an eBook)

Plus, Progressive Town Hall: Rep. Andy Levin, U.S. Representative (D-MI, 9th District) / Member of the House Committee on Education & Labor and also the House Foreign Affairs Committee, joins us for a full hour and will take your calls on issues of the day

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