The GOP has become a rotting corpse, politically, infested with maggots & defended by wealthy vultures. It has only one true principle, greed, & is determined to reinvent America in greed's image.

Many Americans, looking at the GOP's position on the issues, find themselves confused.

Why would the party claiming to be the last bastion of reverence for "life" in America also be the party that supports 50,000 American gun deaths every year, the leading cause of death among children and more than every other developed country in the world combined? Why would they support anti-abortion laws that don't even contain exceptions for the life of the mother? Why do they fight so hard to keep healthcare out of the reach of so many Americans (12 GOP-controlled states still refuse to offer Medicaid — 90% paid for by the federal government — to their low-income working people)?

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "The Reagan Revolution Changed America's Values to "Greed Is Good" - Can We Take Them Back?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "To Edgar Newton Eisenhower, November 8, 1954" by Dwight David Eisenhower.

Book: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Republicans Learn to Promote Fascism at the Feet of a Master (Hint: It's Not Trump)" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Dwight D. Eisenhower: Campaigns and Elections" by Chester J. Pach, Jr.

Article: "Yes, Rick Scott Does Want to Destroy Social Security" by Jon "Bowzer" Bauman.

Tweet: "Welcome to DeSantisstan: "She was a waitress. She starts teaching 3rd grade next week & the only thing she had to do to get this teaching certification was to observe certified teachers…she had to ask me what I meant by phonetic spelling." #Floriduh #RemoveRon" by Lesley Abravanel.

Book: The Hidden History of American Oligarchy: Reclaiming Our Democracy from the Ruling Class by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Will y'all listen this time?" (Republican Vote Tracker) by BlackGrannyRising.

Article: "Hungary's Viktor Orbán denounces race mixing ahead of Dallas CPAC appearance" by Michael Williams.

Movie: "Wall Street".

Article: "On the Saying that "Extremism in Defense of Liberty is No Vice"" by Will Wilkinson.

Article: "Republican Party Platform of 1956".

Article: "Viktor Orbán sparks outrage with attack on ‘race mixing' in Europe" by Shaun Walker, Flora Garamvolgyi.

Article: "Oil firms knew decades ago fossil fuels posed grave health risks, files reveal" by Oliver Milman.

Article: "Temperatures could hit triple digits again in Northwest " by Claire Rus, Gillian Flaccus.

Article: "Energy and National Goals: Address to the Nation", July 15, 1979 speech by Jimmy Carter.

Article: "Kentucky: 16 dead in flash floods that followed heavy rain" by BBC.

Video: Ted Kennedy on Republicans and Minimum wage. "When does the greed stop?"

Article: "Signs of Deleted Texts Found on 10 Secret Service Staff Phones: Report" by Giulia Carbonaro.

Article: "Jan. 6 texts missing for Trump Homeland Security’s Wolf and Cuccinelli" by Carol D. Leonnig, Maria Sacchetti.

Article: "Hillary Clinton email controversy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What Is the Global Minimum Tax Deal and What Will It Mean? " by Reuters.

Article: "Debunking Some Internet Myths- Part 2" by SSA.

Article: "History of taxation in the United States" by Wikipedia.

Clip: "I like Ike" - Eisenhower cartoon with elephant, drum) (click on first Republican thumbnail).

Article: "“Our Lives Depend on Passing Climate Policy”: Meet Congressional Staffer Arrested in Senate Protest" by Democracy Now!

Video: Lawrence: Trump will likely be a defendant for the rest of his life.

Article: "Trump Club Uses Presidential Seal During Saudi-Backed Golf Tourney Despite Federal Law, Complaints to Justice Department" by Tommy Christopher.

Article: "Release of FBI Documents Resurrects Past Racial Controversies at Trump Housing" by Adam Howard.

Article: "Senator Rick Scott wants to "sunset" Social Security and Medicare" by Michael Meeropol.

Article: "Till Birth Do Us Part: Some States Won't Let You Divorce If You're Pregnant".

Article: "JD Vance suggested women in violent relationships should not get divorced for the sake of children" by Sravasti Dasgupta.

Article: "If you look like you have 'child-bearing potential,' it just got harder to fill some prescriptions" by Laura Clawson.

Book: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

Article: "Estimates of historical world population" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Demographic history of the United States" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Permian-Triassic extinction event" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Clathrate gun hypothesis" by Wikipedia.

Site/movie: Last Hours

Movie: "More than Honey".

Quote: "If the Bee Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth, Man Would Only Have Four Years Left To Live" - attributed to Albert Einstein.

Article: "Bees Not the Only Pollinators in Town" by Germination.

Article: "At 95 Years Old, Former President Jimmy Carter Is Still Building Homes For The Needy" by Katie Serena.

Article: "Trump Wants Concentration Camps and Presidential Control of Domestic Troops" by Kevin Baron.

Article: "Why Americans Are More Afraid Than They Used to Be" by Lily Rothman.

Article: "United We Stand (song)" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "A number of my friends who belong in these very high upper brackets have suggested to me, more in sorrow than in anger, that if I am reelected they will have to move to some other Nation because of high taxes here. I shall miss them very much." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Address at Worcester, Mass.," October 21, 1936.

Article: "Mueller Report (Redacted) Searchable Version (PDF)".

Site: Simply Solar.

Movie: "Colossus: The Forbin Project".

Article: "Eric Braeden" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Google fires engineer who contended its AI technology was sentient" by Ramishah Maruf.

Article: "Secret Service ‘Better Than Quantico’ at Retrieving Deleted Texts Says Ex-Prosecutor Who Wants ‘Criminal Investigation’" by David Badash.

Law: "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act" (HIPAA).

Article: "They lived quiet lives in Hawaii for years. The US alleges they were actually Russian spies" by Lynn Kawano.

Article: "At the heart of that 'Fake Electors' Plot -- may be Someone, No one had on their 1/6 Bingo Card" by jamess.

Site: Scientific American.

Article: "Rebekah Gee" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Torture Memos" by Wikipedia.

Video: "Herschel Walker agrees to debate Raphael Warnock -- but with stipulations".

Article: "Democrats Could Still Pass Some Of Their Agenda" by Julia Rock, Matthew Cunningham-Cook, Andrew Perez & Aditi Ramaswami.

Article: "Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz brutally slammed by Jon Stewart for 'celebrating' after killing veterans bill" by Tom Boggioni.

Article: "Viral Video Captures Ted Cruz Fist-Bumping Republicans After Blocking Bill to Help Vets Suffering from Toxic Burn Pits" by David Badash.

Article: "Jon Stewart Says Fox News ‘Refused’ Him Airtime During Media Blitz For Veterans; Fox Responds" by Michael Luciano.

Article: "Stand-your-ground law" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "The wealthiest three families now own more wealth than the bottom half of the country." - Bernie Sanders.

Article: "CPAP Shortage: What’s Behind It, When Will it End, and What Can You Do in The Meantime?" by Nate Devore.

Site: PharmStore.

Article: "U.S. Political Party Preferences Shifted Greatly During 2021" by Jeffrey M. Jones.

Article: "United States presidential primary" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A Review on Thermoelectric Generators: Progress and Applications" by Mohamed Amine Zoui, Saïd Bentouba, John G. Stocholm and Mahmoud Bourouis.

Article: "John Wesley Powell" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Utah's Great Salt Lake Drops to Lowest Levels After Years of Drought" by Jess Thomson.

Article: "Jerome Powell" by Wikipedia.

Article: ""Free Trade" Has Put America & Democracy At the Mercy of China" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "United States Consumer Confidence Index" by CEIC.

Article: "Recession" by Wikipedia.

Article: "U.S. GDP by Year, Compared to Recessions and Events" by Kimberly Amadeo.

Article: "Gross Domestic Product, Second Quarter 2022 (Advance Estimate)" by BEA.

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