Turns out this is about more than the GOP just embracing policies that lead to disease and death - those same policies also win elections while making their morbidly rich campaign donors even richer.

Senator Marco Rubio says he won't attend the State of the Union address because it requires a Covid test and he's too busy to swab his nose. Rubio's bizarre behavior is right in line with the GOP's embrace of poverty, disease, and death.

According to a popular meme, comedian Noel Casler (the guy who outed Trump's drug abuse and diaper wearing) asks, "How come everything the Republican Party stands for involves other people dying?"

He then goes on to note GOP support for assault weapons, opposition to masks and vaccines, opposition to saving the environment, and their all-out war on Obamacare and Medicare-for-All.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Tuesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Why Does Everything the GOP Touches Cause Poverty, Disease & Death?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "8 Economic Indicators — Are Red or Blue States Better?" by Paul Chiariello.

Article: "Timeline: The Religious Right and the Republican Platform" by Lauren Feeney.

Article: "How the Republicans Became the Anti-Abortion Party, and What it Means for the GOP Today" by Donne Levy.

Article: "Covid Deaths Skew Higher Than Ever In Red States" by KHN.

Article: "Red States See Highest Rates of Covid Deaths" by Taegan Goddard.

Article: "The politics of abortion: a historical perspective" by M McKeegan.

Article: "Red States Have Higher Crime Rates Than Blue States" by Dr. Eric Ostermeier.

Article: "There's a fascinating difference between income inequality in red states and blue states" by Barbara Tasch.

Article: "Red States Are Welfare Queens" by Benzinga.

Article: "America's 10 Most Polluted States" by Jen Alic.

Article: "Decades of Republican Mismanagement Have Left Red States Mired in the Past & at the Bottom" by Quaid.

Article: "How the 'Party of Lincoln' Won Over the Once Democratic South" by History.com.

Article: "SCOTUS 101: Prayer in Public Schools" by Nancy Tappan.

Article: "The States Where Women Are Most Likely To Be Murdered By Men" by Melissa Jeltsen.

Article: "Pence's decades-old 'smoking doesn't kill' statement resurfaces after coronavirus appointment" by Vic Ryckaert.

Article: "Red States, Blue States, and Divorce: Understanding the Impact of Conservative Protestantism on Regional Variation in Divorce Rates" by Jennifer Glass and Philip Levchak.

Article: "Red states have higher traffic death rates than blue states" by Jerry Hirsch.

Law: "The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom".

Article: "Teen Pregnancy Is Higher in Red States Than in Blue States" by Kevin Drum.

Article: "Moochers Against Welfare" by Paul Krugman.

Article: "How a Worm Gave the South a Bad Name" by Rachel Nuwer.

Article: "diseases" by .

Article: "Marco Rubio to boycott State of the Union because it requires a Covid test: 'I don't have time' to take one" by Matthew Chapman.

Article: "Violence and Abuse in Rural America" by Rural Health Information Hub.

Article: "The States With the Highest Poverty Rates" by Elliott Davis Jr.

Event: March 8 @ 5pm (PT)" Powell's Books webinar: 'The Hidden History of Big Brother in America'".

Article: "Trump Donor John Malone Could Soon Be Calling Shots at CNN" by Karl Grossman.

Article: "Chris Licht introduces himself to CNN as its next CEO" by Brian Stelter.

Article: "Don Lemon" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "The European Parliament has approved Ukraine's application to join the European Union.
A special admission procedure has been launched.
Voting will take place at 16:30" by KyivPost.

Video: "UNHRC diplomats walk out during Lavrov speech".

Tweet: "Just leaving classified briefing on Ukraine crisis. A few takeaways that I can share:
1/ Confirmation that the Russians have fallen behind their timeline. Ukrainian resistance has been fierce and there have been multiple Russian equipment and logistics failures." by Chris Murphy.

Video: 'God Is Getting Ready to Do Something Amazing': CBN Founder Pat Robertson on Russia and Prophecy.

Site: "The Righting".

Article: "Send Trump to Moscow to make a peace deal with Putin" by Frank Friday.

Article: "Trump Issues Bizarre Statement: If We Kept His Energy Policy, There Would Be No War" by Cathy Biank.

Article: "The Right 'Loves Putin' And Other Lies The Media Tell About Trump And Russia" by Eddie Scarry.

Article: "Putin Hopes to Expose Biden's Crime Wave in Ukraine" by Wayne Allyn Root.

Article: "Ukraine Conflict Fueled by False "Green" Promises" by Vijay Jayaraj.

Article: "Environmental jihadists spark invasion of Ukraine" by Charles Hurt.

Article: "Europe needs more American oil and gas, not windmills and rainbows" by Washington Examiner.

Article: "Eschatology" (end times) by Wikipedia.

Article: "WATCH: Frequent Putin Admirer Tucker Carlson Says He Doesn't Understand Why People Are Saying He's Pro-Putin" by Todd Neikirk.

Article: "Ruble plummets as sanctions bite, sending Russians to banks" by Vladimir Isachenkov, David Mchugh And Dasha Litvinova.

Article: "Russian Ruble to USD Chart" by xe.com (click on 'chart' if necessary.

Article: "State of the Union 2022 LIVE – Biden to give first SOTU address TONIGHT after Putin's nuke threat over Ukraine invasion" by Josie Rhodes Cook, Jennifer Korn.

Quote: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." - Abraham Lincoln .

Hour Two: Russian Police Go After a Pregnant Woman Who Posted On Facebook...

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