Inflation is not Biden's fault and I'd argue what my wife threatens to put on my tombstone: that "it all started with Reagan." America is experiencing inflation, and Republicans are saying it's because Democrats want to help out average Americans instead of just attending to the wants and desires of billionaires and the fossil fuel industry, as we've been doing since 1981.

In fact, most of today's inflation was set up by Ronald Reagan when he kicked off the turn of our government from Keynesian to neoliberal economic policies in 1981. Without his neoliberal "free trade" and "monopoly-is-okay" policies we wouldn't be experiencing most of it.

First off, inflation is typically caused by one of two things (or a combination of both): demand exceeding supply of goods/services or a devaluation of a nation's currency by "printing money."

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-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "PowerPoint to overthrow democracy tracks Trump's public statements" by Judd Legum.

Tweet: "The "plan" was for the National Guard to be enlisted in helping to obstruct Congress, delay the electoral vote count, and prevent the peaceful transition of power.
this is called a coup" by Asha Rangappa.

Memo: "Employment Guidance for the District of Columbia National Guard" by Christopher C Miller, 4 January 2021.

Article: "Mark Meadows could take Fifth Amendment to avoid treason charges, House member suggests" by Andrew Feinberg.

Video: Capitol and D.C. Police Testify on January 6 Attack.

Article: "Bob Dole Was a 'Linchpin' in Passing the Americans With Disabilities Act" by Amanda Morris.

Tweet: "Liz Cheney reads texts from Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Brian Kilmeade, and Donald Trump Jr. urging former President Trump to act while he sat around and did nothing for hours during the insurrection" [video] by Acyn.

Article: "Rep. Liz Cheney read text messages she said Mark Meadows got during the Jan. 6 siege" by NPR.

Article: "House Jan. 6 committee votes to hold Meadows in contempt, details texts from Trump allies who wanted him to call off rioters" by Jacqueline Alemany and Mariana Alfaro.

Article: "Charles A. Flynn" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Law enforcement response to the 2021 United States Capitol attack" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" - attributed to Henry II of England.

Article: "Michael Cohen says Trump used 'code' language to coach him to lie to Congress" by Tom McCarthy.

Article: "Chris Murphy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Christopher A. Wray" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2021 United States Capitol attack" by Wikipedia.

Article: "140 Officers were Injured in Capitol Riot, Officials Say" by POL.

Article: "How Many Died as a Result of Capitol Riot?" by Robert Farley.

Tweet: "Breaking: The DC Attorney General just announced a lawsuit being brought against extremist groups Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers for their role in January 6th." by BrooklynDad_Defiant!.

Article: "Are "Free Trade" & "Monopoly-Is-Okay" the Cause of Our Current Inflation?" by Thom Hartmann.

Site: Trump Death Toll.

Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "How the West invited China to eat its lunch" by Faisal Islam.

Article: "China Partly Shuts World's Third-Busiest Port, Risking Trade" by Bloomberg News.

Article: "Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply Effects of COVID-19: A Real-time Analysis" by Geert Bekaert, Eric Engstrom, Andrey Ermolov.

Article: "Leaked hospital records show routine 675% markups for basic items, like stitches" by David Lazarus.

Article: "China: Coronavirus Cases, Deaths, Recovered" by Worldometer.

Article: "Whip Inflation Now (WIN)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade" (GATT) by Wikipedia.

Site: World Trade Organization (WTO).

Article: "Permanent normal trade relations: U.S. and China" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mergers and acquisitions" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Shooting of Ashli Babbitt" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Risk of giant quake off American west coast goes up" by Richard A. Lovett.

Article: "Worker Protection Bill Blocked Before Tornado Disaster" by David Sirota, Julia Rock, Andrew Perez.

Article: "Steve Bannon melts down because Elon Musk is putting chips in people's brains before the 2022 midterms" by David Edwards.

Article: "A federal court has ruled that obstructing the electoral vote count is illegal. Trump should panic." by Jennifer Rubin.

Article: "Apple on cusp of becoming first U.S. company worth $3 trillion" by Alain Sherter.

Article: "President Trump Joins Call Urging State Legislators to Review Evidence and Consider Decertifying 'Unlawful' Election Results" by Michael Patrick Leahy.

Article: "Trump's Acting Defense Secretary Says He 'Cannot Wait' to Leave the Job" by Gina Harkins.

Article: "Claus von Stauffenberg" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed..

Article: "An anti-vaxx Republican official who refused to certify Biden's election win died after being hospitalized with COVID-19" by Sinéad Baker.

Quote: "Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee." - John Donne.

Article: "Fact check: Obama left Trump a pandemic response playbook " by Daniel Dale.

Article: "Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS, MERS-CoV)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Severe acute respiratory syndrome" (SARS, SARS-CoV-1) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Glenn Kirschner" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire" by Cornell University.

Article: "Occupational Safety and Health Administration" (OSHA) by Wikipedia.

Article: "FEMA Chief: Magnitude Of Recent Tornadoes 'New Normal' Due To Climate Crisis" by Sanjana Karanth.

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann (read online).

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann.

Site: "USITC Tariff Database".

Article: "List of tariffs in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Pressure is growing on Biden to lift Trump's tariffs as supply chain problems worsen" by Katie Lobosco.

Hour Three: How the Supremes Are Destroying Marriage Equality
- Michelangelo Signorile, Journalist / Commentator & Host - Michelangelo Signorile Show - SXMProgress ch. 127 3-6 ET M-F (immediately following The Thom Hartmann Program)

Article: "Sotomayor's warning on marriage equality: They will destroy it" by Michelangelo Signorile.

Article: "Gorsuch cites anti-gay Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling in dissent over vaccine mandate religious exemption request" by Texas Tribune.

Article: "14th Amendment, July 9, 1868 (citizenship, representatives, public debt, Equal Protection Clause)

Law: "Equal Protection Clause" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Roe v. Wade" (1973).

Case: "Lawrence v. Texas" (2003).

Case: "Obergefell v. Hodges" (2015).

Case: "Griswold v. Connecticut", 1965.

Article: "Special counsel" (Special prosecutor) by Wikipedia.

Article: "William Barr" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Whirlpool Corp. v. Marshall" (1980).

Article: "Workers' Right to Refuse Dangerous Work" by OSHA.

Article: "About OSHA" by OSHA.

Article: "Workers Can Refuse Unsafe Conditions" by Kathy Wilkes.

Article: "OSHA probes Amazon warehouse where workers died with no tornado shelter" by Tim De Chant.

Article: "Three Republican Residents of The Villages Arrested for Casting Multiple 2020 Votes" by Jamie Ross.

Article: "Nevada Republican who claimed someone stole dead wife's ballot is charged with voter fraud" by Amy B Wang.

Article: "Delco man gets probation for casting dead mother's vote for Donald Trump" by Michael Tanenbaum.

Podcast: "Episode 152: EMERGENCY PODCAST SYSTEM – "We Were Sitting Ducks" (featuring Congressman Dan Kildee, D-Flint)" by Michael Moore.

Article: "Senate Democrats raise debt ceiling after filibuster deal".

Article: "Acclaimed Talk Show Host and Human Rights Activist, Joe Madison, "Starving for Voting Rights"" by Joe Madison.

Law: "18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy". "If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both."

Article: "In the ancient Greek play 'Lysistrata,' women stop having sex with men to end a bloody war" by Nina Renata Aron.

Article: "Oliver North" by Wikipedia.

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

Representative Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District) will be calling in to talk about the issues of the day and take your calls.

Plus, I'll be talking with Joe Madison, The Black Eagle, Host-The Joe Madison Show (weekdays 6-10am on SiriusXM ch. 126 Urban View), who's on hunger strike for voting rights.

And, Lee McIntyre, Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and an Instructor in Ethics at Harvard Extension School / Formerly Executive Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University / Author of 11 books including his latest, How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason

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