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Thom's blog
Don't Despair: You Can Be a "Trim Tab" & Help Save the World
 Just like a tiny trim tab alters the direction of an airplane or ship, it's small groups and even single individuals who are always at the core of societal change. You can help save democracy in America. Seriously. You. You may think that being part of a small group of activists can't possibly really produce large social changes, but in reality the opposite is true. Throughout history, it's almost always been small groups who trigger larger social and political changes. Because we live in what we call a democratic republic (Republicans prefer to call it a "constitutional republic") many potential activists believe it's necessary to get more than half of Americans on-board for any sort of real or substantial social, economic or political change. They couldn't be more wrong, and the belief about that very steep 50% hill to climb keeps a lot of people from becoming change agents. Instead, just like a tiny trim tab alters the direction of an airplane or ship, it's small groups and even single individuals who are always at the core of societal change. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
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Saturday Report 8/7/21
The best of the rest of the news. The Big Story — It was like a magic trick where the magician distracts you with his right hand doing something flashy while his left hand is flipping the lever that releases the rabbit into the hat. Trump threw Rudy Giuliani out into the media world as a total circus (he's not even paying him, now that his service as Trump's "clown" has ended) to distract us from the plot he, Mark Meadows and Jeffrey Clark were hatching to end American democracy. Clark, a third-level functionary in the Justice Department, wrote letters to all the swing states whose legislatures were controlled by Republicans but whose citizens voted for Biden, telling them that (under one widely-accepted interpretation of the Constitution) they could call their legislatures into special session, simply ignore that their voters had chosen Biden, and instead designate Trump electors to the Electoral College. If a few of them had done it Trump would be our president right now, despite having lost the election by more than 7 million votes. Seriously; not kidding. And he offered to make Clark the attorney general if they pulled it off. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Don't Despair: You Can Be a "Trim Tab" & Help Save the World!
Quote: " Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has" - Margaret Mead.
Worst Crime EVER - This Makes Benedict Arnold Look Like a Piker...
Tweet: " Why do people who choose not to get vaccinated go to the hospital when they get sick? It's literally filled with people they don't trust" by Tris. Tweet: " Agree! I told my husband they should set up tent hospitals for the unvaxxed but instead of drs and nurses there to treat them, they have ppl who did google searches on how to care for them. Seems only fair since they trust a google search more than professionals' med training." by Audra Lewis.
Rand Paul Is Trying to Start An Anti-Mask Movement...
Quote: " I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves." - attributed to Harriet Tubman.
Hour Two: A Good Way to Die... the AR-15 Worshipping Moonies Sect is Recruiting the Far Right To It's Apocalyptic Vision...- Dr. Steven Hassan PhD, Cult Expert, Author and Former Moonie, Licensed Mental Health Professional, Cult Expert & Author of several books including The Cult of Trump / Founding Director Freedom of Mind Resource Center 
Tweet: " For more on the Moonie sect that STORMED the Capitol on Jan. 6th, this is a fantastic thread: [link]" by Steven Hassan.
Will the IPCC 'Code Red For Humanity' Report Make a Difference?
Article: " Constitution of the United States", article 4 section 4. "The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence." Article: " Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 4 " The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators." |
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Does Trump Make Benedict Arnold Look Like a Piker?
Does Any Republican Practice "True Morality?"
Has the GOP Hit a Turning Point for Bullies?
Banning Critical Race Theory Isn't Working
Why YOU Will Pay for America's Infrastructure (w/ Charles Sauer)
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