This is no small matter, and every time a TV host or reporter lets it slide, it digs the knife deeper into the side of our nation's body politic.

From time to time I'll see, mostly on message boards and social media, Democrats refer to the Republican Party as the "Rethugligans," "Republicons," "Repukes," or similar attempts to twist the name of the party Lincoln first led to victory in the election of 1860.

While outrage at Republican policies and the egregious lies of their elected officials — from election denialism to birtherism to trickle-down — is justified, society and American media generally agree that use of such language reflects more poorly on the person using it than it does the GOP.

It's seen as a somewhat childish sign of disrespect — a schoolyard taunt — and does nothing to advance honest discussion of politics or political parties.

Which is why it's so baffling that when a similar name-twisting slur is applied to the Democratic Party — frequently and casually on Sunday talk shows and in other media — the same standard of respect for the Democratic Party's name is ignored.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Wednesday's Daily Stack

Article: "Did Trump Say ‘If You're Innocent, Why Are You Taking the 5th Amendment?'" by Dan Evon.

Article: "Donald Trump Pleads the Fifth After Saying Only Guilty People Do" by Katherine Fung.

Article: "Trump Jr. accuses NY AG James of ‘persecution' in Trump Organization probe " by Samuel Chamberlain.

Article: "John Dillinger" by Wikipedia.

Article: "FBI searches Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home and seizes documents" by Hugo Lowell.

Article: "Mohammed bin Salman" (Saudi Arabia) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Donald Trump on LIV Golf: "It's been a great thing for Saudi Arabia"" by Andy Roberts.

Article: "Five years ago, Trump secretly celebrated firing FBI director and gave Russians classified intel inside the Oval Office" by David Badash.

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

Article: "Watch: Resurfaced Trump clip shows him asking why innocent people are 'taking the Fifth Amendment'" by Asher Notheis.

Site: LoopWorks Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) Project.

Site: "Nextdoor.com".

Article: "The GOP's Casual, Cynical, Disrespectful "Democrat Party" Slur" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Newt Gingrich: And His List of Words" by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés.

Book: Dying for Joe McCarthy's Sins: The Suicide of Wyoming Senator Lester Hunt by Rodger McDaniel.

Article: "The Shocking Death of Senator Lester Hunt" by Marc C. Johnson.

Article: "The ‘Democrat majority' is still the talk of the town" by Maura Reynolds.

Article: "Trump Mar-a-Lago home in Florida searched by FBI in probe into handling of classified documents" by Josh Meyer, David Jackson, Kevin Johnson, Francesca Chambers, Sergio Bustos.

Article: "GOP, long the law and order party, slams FBI, Justice Department over search of Trump's Mar-a-Lago" by Candy Woodall.

Article: "The FBI's 'investigation' of Kavanaugh was laughable" by Ruth Marcus.

Article: "Robert Hanssen: American Traitor" by Elizabeth Nix.

Article: "The FBI finds out one of its agents has been a Russian spy for 15+ years" by Trump File.

Article: "Paul Ryan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Paul Manafort" by Wikipedia.

Quote: "Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do." - Ronald Reagan.

Article: "Ronald Reagan was right about cow farts and greenhouse gases" by Dennis Byrne.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.

Article: "Powell Memo".

Book: "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson.

Book: "Unsafe at Any Speed" by Ralph Nader.

Article: "Can more sustainable agricultural practices be utilized?" by Steven Ceracche.

Article: "Regenerative agriculture" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Unequal Protection: The Battle to Save Democracy" by Thom Hartmann (read online).

Book: "Unequal Protection: How Corporations Became "People" - And How You Can Fight Back" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Reality Winner" by Wikipedia.

Article: ""I am not a traitor": Reality Winner explains why she leaked a classified document" by Scott Pelley.

Article: "Roy Cohn" by Wikipedia.

Case: "Lawrence v Texas" (2003) (made same-sex sexual activity legal).

Article: "Army–McCarthy hearings" by Wikipedia.

Article: "A brief history of the ‘Lock her up!' chant by Trump supporters against Clinton" by Peter W. Stevenson.

Article: "Milton Friedman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "How a Child-Killer Set the Stage for Today's Republicans to Revel in Cruelty" by Thom Hartmann.

Hour Two: Right-Wingers are threatening a 2nd Civil War - What Role Will Economics Play in an American Coup?
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book)

Article: "Panic of 1857" by Wikipedia.

Article: "American Civil War" (1861 - 1865) by Wikipedia.

Article: "British credit crisis of 1772-1773" by Wikipedia.

Article: "American Revolutionary War" (1775-1783) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Boston Tea Party" (1773) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Great Depression" by Wikipedia.

Article: "2020 stock market crash" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Inflation rose 9.1% in June, even more than expected, as consumer pressures intensify" by Jeff Cox.

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

Article: "Text of President Bush's Speech at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Shanghai, China, Oct. 20, 2001".

Article: "Historical GDP of China" by Wikipedia.

Article: "This chart shows how China will soar past the U.S. to become the world's largest economy by 2030" by Nicolas Rapp and Brian O'Keefe.

Article: "Germany: Board-level Representation" by ETUI.

Article: "Germany agrees to send heavy weapons to Ukraine after major policy U-turn" by Ivana Kottasová, Stephanie Halasz and Ulrike Heil.

Article: "NATO" by Wikipedia.

Site: Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff.

Book: They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency by Malcolm Nance.

Article: "Michigan Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative (2022)" by Ballotpedia.

Article: "Nessel's office seeks special prosecutor in election 'conspiracy' probe of DePerno, others" by Craig Mauger.

Site: "The Righting".

Article: "The Mar-a-Lago Raid is a Preview of a Rigged 2024 Election" by Daniel Greenfield.

Article: "Trump Raid: The FBI Should Change Its Name To WTF" by Wes Walker.

Article: "The FBI's Raid On Trump's Mar-A-Lago Home Has Put America On A Very Dangerous Path" by Brooke Rollins.

Article: "May the FBI Rest in Peace " by Michael Grimm.

Article: "The FBI's Dangerous Search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago" by WSJ.

Article: "The FBI and Deep State are at war with America" by Joseph Farah.

Article: "FBI raid of Trump's Mar-a-Lago home won't help Democrats in 2024" by Andrew McCarthy.

Article: "Merrick Garland Is A Petty, Vindictive, Little Man" by Larry O'Connor.

Article: "If Merrick Garland doesn't give a solid, fast reason for raiding Trump's home, he's probably just re-elected him" by NY Post.

Article: "Justice Department must justify Mar-a-Lago raid" by Washington Examiner.

Article: "Jeffrey Epstein's Ties to Judge Who Authorized the Raid on Trump" by Tomás Lugo.

Article: "Once to Every Man and Nation… The Left's Assault On Freedom At Mar-a-Lago Is Just The Beginning" by David Robb.

Article: ""Gestapo tactics": Greene, Boebert worry after FBI seizes phone of GOP congressman linked to Big Lie" by Igor Derysh.

Article: "1973 oil crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Oil Nations, Prodded by Trump, Reach Deal to Slash Production" by Clifford Krauss.

Article: "OPEC Plus minimally boosts production after Biden's Saudi visit" by Evan Halper.

Article: "Tulsi Gabbard" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Narendra Modi" (India) by Wikipedia.

Site: Randi Rhodes Show.

Article: "How to Fight the New GOP Scheme To Kill Social Security & Medicare " by Thom Hartmann.

Hour Three: Does the Ukraine Nuclear Plant Under fire Show Off the Dangers of Nuclear Power?
- Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist - Beyond Nuclear

Article: "Ukraine Plant Under Fire Showcases 'Dangerous' Nature of Nuclear Power, Experts Say" by Kenny Stancil.

Article: "Fighting around Ukraine nuclear plant risks lives of tens of millions" by Beyond Nuclear.

Article: "Zelensky implores the world to 'wake up' as Russia attacks Europe's largest nuclear plant, addressing 'everyone who knows the word Chernobyl'" by Weilun Soon.

Article: "Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Russian general threatens to bomb nuclear power plant" by Tiffany Terrell.

Book: Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment, Volume 1181 by Alexey V. Yablokov, Vassily B. Nesterenko, Alexey V. Nesterenko & Janette D. Sherman-Nevinger.

Article: "Forests Around Chernobyl Aren't Decaying Properly" by Rachel Nuwer.

Article: "2020 Chernobyl Exclusion Zone wildfires" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Japan regulator OKs water dump" by Julia Conley.

Article: "Media Statement by Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear, regarding the Palisades Atomic Reactor's Shutdown for Good".

Article: "The role of the ‘Inflation Reduction Act' in the nuclear power industry" by Gitanjali Poonia.

Site: End The Bribe System.

Article: "Medicare Program; Request for Information on Medicare" by CMS & HHS (comment by 08/31/2022).

Article: "Stop the Medicare "Advantage" Scam Before Medicare is Dead" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Sharia" by Wikipedia.

Bible: "Exodus 20 : Ten Commandments".

Article: "Golden Rule" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Marjorie Taylor Greene to GOP: 'We Should Be Christian Nationalists'" by Thomas Kika.

Article: "Do Spiders Dream of Eight-Legged Sheep?" by Carolyn Wilke.

Article: "What Einstein meant by ‘God does not play dice'" by Jim Baggott.

Article: "2,000 Mules: Belly Laughs, Belly Aches from Film's "Proof" that Trump Won" by Greg Palast and Zach D. Roberts.

Quote: "A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes" - various.

Article: "PACT Act to help veterans exposed to toxic burn pits signed into law" by Ella Lee and Amy Nakamura.

Article: "Agent Orange Korea Claims: the ultimate guide" by Chris Attig.

Article: "Biden signs ‘burn pits' help for vets; a personal win, too" by Chris Megerian.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Article: "Here's where US oil and gas supplies come from" by Saul Elbein.

Article: "The biggest threat to Medicare you've never even heard of" by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Susan Rogers, M.D.

Article: "Hungarian Prime Minister Orban at CPAC: The Democrats 'Hate' America" by Jack Montgomery.

Movie: "Blazing Saddles" (Cleavon Little aims his gun at his own head).

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