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Why Democracy's Most Relentless Enemies Always Try to Destroy Trust First
 When Donald Trump, Paul Manafort & Vladimir Putin set out to destroy the government of America, they aimed their largest weapons at this single most important element of any society: trust. The crisis with the Supreme Court; the racist mass shooter in Buffalo; Republican primary candidates trying to one-up each other on how they will refuse to count all the ballots in the 2024 election; and our hitting 1 million deaths from Covid all derive from the same thing: the destruction of trust.Donald Trump destroyed our trust in our public health institutions for his own political gain, so we have massively more Covid deaths than, for example, Australia. As the New York Times noted this weekend:
"If the United States had the same Covid death rate as Australia, about 900,000 lives would have been saved."
The single factor their investigation identified that most accounted for the difference between American and Australian deaths was the trust people have in their government, society, and each other.
Read more at HartmannReport.com.
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Sunday Excerpt: Unequal Protection - Corporations Go Global
People, at the time, generally weren't all that concerned about the fate of the world's dolphins. It was the last week of June 1944, and the war wasn't going well for Adolf Hitler. The killing machines of his death camps were running full out, straining his resources and creating consternation as word leaked out across Europe. His forces were falling back before the Soviets, and his generals openly worried about an Allied invasion on the French coast. On Thursday, June 29, almost all of the eighteen hundred Jews of Corfu were murdered upon their arrival at Auschwitz, while twenty thousand Jewish women were relocated to the concentration camp at Stutthof. On Friday, June 30, more than a thousand Parisian Jews arrived at Auschwitz. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
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Saturday Report 5/14/22 — An Abortion Rights Day of Action
The Best of the Rest of the News. - We're in danger of losing our democracy and most Americans are in denial. - Today is a nationwide day of action for abortion rights, and to protest the loss of privacy rights embodied in Alito's draft opinion that will affect us all. - The baby formula shortage proves we have a monopoly problem in America. - Republicans don't care about "freedom," unless we're talking about the freedom to avoid paying taxes or the freedom to pollute. - Congressman Hakeem Jeffries has a question for Justice Clarence Thomas and it's really worth taking 2 minutes to watch - Why is inflation being blamed on Biden? - Crazy Alert! President Trump thought the increased severity of hurricanes and other terrible weather in America wasn't caused by global warming but, instead, that China had a "hurricane gun" they were shooting at us. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
Monday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: The Myth of the 'Lone Wolf' Shooter
Tweet: " you didn't have to tell me that the Buffalo shooter was white. I figured that out for myself when you said he was taken alive" by Jeff Tiedrich. 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..
GOP Caucus chairwoman Elise Stefanik's & Many Other Republicans Pushed 'Replacement Theory' that Inspired the Buffalo shooter
Tweet: " These are some of her "replacement theory" ads" [Elise Stefanik's ads] by Parker Molloy.
Hour Two: Why Democracy's Relentless Enemies Always Try to Destroy Trust First
Article: " News Conference, August 12, 1986" by Ronald Reagan. " The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help"
Quote: " The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away." - Ronald Reagan.
Was Trump Stealing Top Secret Documents For Profit?
Geeky Science! Is Long Haul Covid Caused By Coronivirus "Ghosts" in the Gut?
Hour Three: On This Day in History - Segregationist George Wallace Won MI Democratic Prez Primary
Book: " They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer. " First they came for the ... What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise..."
Russia/Ukraine Crisis Update
Quote: " A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment." - B.F Skinner. Tweet: " The House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism, white supremacy, and anti-semitism. History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse. @GOP leaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold them" by Liz Cheney. 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. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability." |
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White Replacement Theory That Inspired Buffalo Shooter Lives Inside The GOP
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