Wednesday 16 June '21 show notes

  • National Progressive Townhall Meeting - Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)
  • One of Them Has To Go...the GOP or America As We Know It...
  • Trump Attempted a Coup and Now We Have Proof! And, It's Still Going On...
  • As a Purely Political Move, is Making, Hate, Racism and Misogyny Acceptable Again...
  • 20% of Asymptomatic Covid Develop Long Covid...
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One of them has to go: The GOP or America as we know it
Thom plus logo The GOP has become, as Eisenhower warned, "merely a conspiracy to seize power" and the tragic result is a weakened, potholed, polluted and impoverished America.

Texas is showing us all how the corruption that has overwhelmed the GOP has reached a crisis point, and it's killing people.

President Dwight Eisenhower said, "If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power."

Sadly, Eisenhower's Republican Party is now there: they haven't governed to protect or help the people at the federal or state level since the Reagan Revolution. Today, instead, they simply engage in a corrupt form of political performance art while stuffing their pockets with corporate money.

Today's example: Greg Abbott.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom
Wednesday's Daily Stack Daily Stack
Hour One: National Progressive Townhall Meeting
- Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) @MarkPocan @repmarkpocan
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].
Tweet: "Trump has been telling a number of people he's in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August (no that isn't how it works but simply sharing the information)." by Maggie Haberman.
Article: "PPP loans went to Trump companies, report says" by Stephanie Guerilus.
Tweet: "Wisconsin voters cast *54%* of their ballots for Democratic state assembly candidates...and won 36% of the seats. This is not what democracy looks like." by Steve Kantrowitz.
Article: "Filibuster" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Securities turnover excise tax" (STET tax) by Wikipedia.
Article: "United States Space Force" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Ashish Jha" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Claims Denials and Appeals in ACA Marketplace Plans" by Karen Pollitz and Daniel McDermott.
Tweet: "2/ McFarlane was at a VIP cocktail hour in April 2016 with Russia's ambassador, Trump, Manafort, Kushner, Sessions and other Trump brass—and thereafter sat for a Trump speech co-written by another advocate of freeing up Russian oil/gas. His movements during 2016 should be traced." by Seth Abramson.
Article: "COVID-19 Vaccines" by FDA.

Hour Two: One of Them Has To Go...the GOP or America As We Know It...
Article: "The Texas Winter Storm And Power Outages Killed Hundreds More People Than The State Says" by Peter Aldhous, Stephanie M. Lee, Zahra Hirji.
Article: "Firearm Mortality by State" by CDC.
Article: "Severe weather this summer could cause another Texas power crisis" by Erin Douglas, Mitchell Ferman.
Article: "Texas Electric Bills Were $28 Billion Higher Under Deregulation" by Tom McGinty and Scott Patterson.
Article: "Gun violence in the United States" by Wikipedia.
Trump Attempted a Coup and Now We Have Proof! And, It's Still Going On...
Article: "14th Amendment Section 3, July 9, 1868. "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof..."
Article: "The Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission" by James Monroe.

Hour Three: As a Purely Political Move, is Making, Hate, Racism and Misogyny Acceptable Again...
Article: "Putin got exactly what he wanted from Biden in Geneva" by Matthew Chance and Luke McGee,.
Article: "61 Forms of Voter Suppression" by The Voting Rights Alliance.
Article: "Critical race theory" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Article: "Election Officials Under Attack" by Brennan Center.
Article: "Operation Eagle Eye (United States)" by Wikipedia.
Case: "Bush v. Gore".
20% of Asymptomatic Covid Develop Long Covid...
Site: DuckDuckGo.
Article: "Critical race theory" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Critical Race Theory" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Article: "Propaganda in Nazi Germany" by Wikipedia.
Article: "Joseph Goebbels" by Wikipedia.
Speech: "Campaign dinner address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (the Fala speech)", 9/23/1944 "Remember, a number of years ago, there was a book, Mein Kampf, written by Hitler himself. The technique was all set out in Hitler's book - and it was copied by the aggressors of Italy and Japan. According to that technique, you should never use a small falsehood; always a big one, for its very fantastic nature would make it more credible - if only you keep repeating it over and over and over again.".
Article: "Salk and Sabin: poliomyelitis immunisation" by J M S Pearce.
Article: "George Washington and the First Mass Military Inoculation" by Amy Lynn Filsinger, Raymond Dwek.
Thursday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET
I'll be talking with Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Epidemiologist & Health Economist / Adjunct Senior Fellow - Federation of American Scientists about various aspects of Covid
Plus, 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) will join us
And, Karl Frisch, Senior Adviser - AccountableUS, and I will be discussing voter rights
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