Letting Americans die to win elections. Is that how low today's GOP has sunk? What other possible explanation could there be?

Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a CNN Medical Analyst, said last week, "A surprising amount of death will occur soon..." But why, when the deadly Delta variant is sweeping the world, are Republicans and their media warning people not to get vaccinated?

There's always a reason. People don't do things — particularly things involving a lot of effort and a need for consistency — without a reason. It just doesn't happen. No matter how bizarre, twisted or dysfunctional the reason may be, there's always a reason.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Death is Their Election Strategy" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "A Theory of Human Motivation" by A.H.Maslow (1943).

Article: "MD Dr. Reiner, CNN Health Expert, "Surprising Amount of Death Will Soon Occur" (from COVID)" by Dem.

Article: "In 2018, Why Did 8-Republican U.S. Senators Spend July 4th In Moscow?" by Jake Thomas.

Article: "Biden introduces door-to-door vaccination effort" by David Marcus.

Article: "ABC News: Conservatives 'distort' President Biden's door-to-door vaccination plan as well as 'balk' at the idea" by Brett T.

Article: "Republicans push to ban "discrimination" against unvaccinated people" by Caitlin Owens.

Article: "Children receive first polio vaccine" (1954) by History.com.

Article: "Fauci Says It's 'Horrifying' To See CPAC Crowd Cheering Anti-Vaccine Remarks" by Josephine Harvey.

Article: "Trump Wears Glasses? Photog Snaps Rare Photo Of The Presidential Peepers." by Ed Mazza.

Article: "Only half of Republican lawmakers in Congress say they've been vaccinated" by Justin Vallejo.

Article: "After gaining weight, President Trump is now considered obese" by AP.

Article: "George Washington and the First Mass Military Inoculation" by Amy Lynn Filsinger, Raymond Dwek.

Article: "Does Donald Trump Have False Teeth? People Are Obsessed After Slurred Jerusalem Speech" by Harriet Sinclair.

Article: "When Ike Trusted a New Vaccine" by Jeffrey Frank.

Article: "In His Own Words, Trump on the Coronavirus and Masks" by Daniel Victor, Lew Serviss and Azi Paybarah.

Article: "Despite Outbreaks Among Unvaccinated, Fox News Hosts Smear Shots" by Tiffany Hsu.

Article: "Former Employee Says Trump Wears Adult Diapers Due to Incontinence from Repeated Stimulant Abuse" by Nicole James.

Article: "Gov. Kristi Noem Brags About Infecting The Great Plains And Midwest With COVID" by Jason Easley.

Article: "Newsmax host dangerously declares vaccines go 'against nature': Diseases are 'supposed to' wipe out people" by David Badash.

Article: "Trump Got Vaccinated Secretly, Because Otherwise He Might Have Helped the Country" by Ryan Bort.

Article: "Did Rep. Boebert Get Her GED Months Before Winning Election?" by Dan Evon.

Article: "Death rates from coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States as of July 13, 2021, by state (per 100,000 people)" by Statista.

Article: "Erectile dysfunction 'new symptom of long Covid' – as docs warn young Brits at high risk" by Vanessa Chalmers.

Article: "USDA To Implement President Trump's Executive Order On Meat and Poultry Processors" by USDA.

Article: "Tucker Carlson, Chief COVID Vaccine Skeptic, Still Won't Say If He Got One" by Caleb Ecarma.

Article: "An Illustrated History of Donald Trump's Hair. Warning! Don't Read Before Lunch!" by Bruce Handy.

Article: "Fauci Says 'It's Horrifying' to See CPAC Crowd Cheering Low Vaccination Rates" by Justin Baragona.

Article: "Are the Good Times Over for Biden?" by Patrick J. Buchanan.

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

Article: "Arizona Needs To Better Incorporate Spanish Into Its Vaccination Plan, Activists Say" by Angela Gervasi.

Article: "Ken Starr helped Jeffrey Epstein with 'scorched-earth' campaign, book claims" by Ed Pilkington.

Book: Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story by Julie K. Brown.

Article: "Starr Report" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Ken Starr" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jeffrey Epstein" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Alexander Acosta" by Wikipedia.

Article: "COVID Cases In Parts Of Missouri And Arkansas Surge To Levels Not Seen Since Winter" by Becky Sullivan.

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: "In debate, Kamala Harris says she won't take a COVID vaccine just on Trump's say-so" by -so Crystal Hill.

Article: "Ken Starr Leaves Baylor After Complaints It Mishandled Sex Assault Inquiry" by AP.

Article: "Luke the Evangelist" (physician) by Wikipedia.

Article: "What does the Bible say about medicine?" by openbible.info.

Article: "Manna" by Wikipedia.

Bible: "Exodus 16: Manna and Quail".

Bible: "The LORD said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live."" - Numbers 21:8.

Article: "Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count" by NY Times.

Article: "Fireside chats" by Wikipedia.

Article: "COVID-19: All health workers in France ordered to get jabbed as Macron announces coronavirus passes" by Sky News.

Article: "EU digital COVID certificate: how it works" by EU.

Article: "Excelsior Pass" by New York State.

Site: "Clear Health Pass".

Article: "List of Coronavirus-Related Restrictions in Every State" by Dena Bunis and Jenny Rough.

Article: "As COVID Vaccinations Slow, Parts Of The U.S. Remain Far Behind 70% Goal" by Martha Bebinger, Blake Farmer.

Article: "Texas Democrats Leave The State In An Effort To Block GOP Voting Restrictions" by Paul DeBenedetto.

Article: "Governor vows to arrest Democrats who fled Texas to block voting restrictions" by Guardian.

Article: "MLB All-Star Game Moved To Colorado Amid Uproar Over Georgia Voting Law" by Andrew Kenney.

Article: "Required Identification for Voting in Person" by Texas.

Article: "Texas upholds sentence for woman who didn't know she was ineligible to vote" by Sam Levine.

Article: "Texas man who waited 'over six hours' last Super Tuesday to vote now faces illegal voting charges" by Ed Lavandera, Chris Boyette and Veronica Stracqualursi.

Article: "She'd served her time. Why didn't Texas tell her she couldn't vote yet?" by Rebecca Beitsch.

Article: "Covid: England lockdown rules to end on 19 July, PM confirms" by Becky Morton.

Article: "5 Things To Know About the Delta Variant" by Kathy Katella.

Article: "Ken Paxton" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Texas' Restrictive Voter ID Law Stops A Former U.S. House Speaker From Getting A Voter ID Card" by Ashley Alman.

Article: "Texas Senate Passes One of the Nation's Strictest Voting Bills" by Nick Corasaniti.

Case: "Veasey v. Abbott (Texas Voter ID)".

Article: "National Catholicism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Falangism" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Conservatives Without Conscience" by John W. Dean.

Book: "The Authoritarians" by Robert Altemeyer.

Book: Authoritarian Nightmare: Trump and His Followers by John W. Dean, Bob Altemeyer.

Article: "Did LBJ Advocate: 'Convince the Lowest White Man He's Better Than the Best Colored Man'?" by David Emery.

Book: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison.

Quote: "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" - Dwight Eisenhower.

Show: "Legendary progressive radio host Thom Hartman, MSNBC political analyst Juanita Tolliver & activist Jamira Burley- July 12 show" by Dean Obeidallah.

Article: "Beer Hall Putsch" by Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Article: "Hitler sentenced for his role in Beer Hall Putsch" by History.com.

Article: "The Failed Coup That Led To Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'" by WBFO.

Hour Three: The Hidden Hand Of the U.S. Blockade Sparks Cuba Protests
- Leonardo Flores, Latin American Policy Analyst & Campaigner - Code Pink

Article: "The Hidden Hand of the US Blockade Sparks Cuba Protests" by Medea Benjamin, Leonardo Flores.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba" by Wikipedia.

Article: "As protests roil Cuba, Biden faces pressure to keep Trump policies despite campaign pledge" by Deirdre Shesgreen.

Article: "United States embargo against Cuba" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bob Menendez" by Wikipedia.

Article: "80 House Democrats Urge Biden to Repeal Trump's 'Cruel' Sanctions on Cuba, Reverse US Hostility" by Kenny Stancil.

Article: "2019 Cuban constitutional referendum" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cuba says second COVID-19 vaccine Soberana 2 boasts 91.2% efficacy" by Marc Frank.

Article: "Cuban drug regulator gives emergency approval to Abdala COVID-19 vaccine" by Reuters.

Article: "Cuba decided to make its own COVID-19 vaccines. Now it needs syringes" by Adriana Brasileiro.

Twitter: Jennifer Cohn.

Article: "Republican Judge Tomas 'Tommy' Ramirez III Arrested Over 2018 Election Fraud Allegations" by justicefortexas.

Article: "The Cruelty Is the Point" by Adam Serwer.

Video: A Sadist Walks Into Pandemic (w/Dr. Justin Frank).

Article: "Missouri Compromise" by Wikipedia.

Article: "McConnell says he's '100 percent' focused on 'stopping' Biden's administration" by Allan Smith.

Video: 2 maps that tell the story of Covid-19 in America.

Book: "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein.

Article: "Vulture capitalist" by Wikipedia.

Video: CPAC crowd cheers missing vaccination goal. Hear Fauci's response.

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

Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA, 7th District), Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus / Senior Whip-Democratic Caucus & serves on multiple committees including the House Budget Committee & the House Judiciary Committee will be here to talk about her Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act of 2021 bill.

Plus, Judd Legum, Journalist/Founder - Popular.info on the obscure foundation funding "Critical Race Theory" hysteria

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