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Will America See a 2nd Major Renewal of the Middle Class?
 Like in 1933, a Democratic President is calling out fatcats and fascists in the GOP while uniting Americans in a great project to rebuild our nation... It’s easy to get lost in despair and outrage over the state of affairs in America. Women and queer people are being forced back into the kitchen and closet, climate change is killing scores of Americans every week, our schools and public areas are under constant assault by armed Republican gangs and GOP-sanctioned mass shooters. Over the past decade more than a million American lives have been lost to "deaths of despair" as a result of our 40-year experiment with Reagan’s neoliberalism. And it’s not just domestic bad news coming out of the GOP’s open opposition to democracy. After Trump betrayed Ukraine, Russia attacked them; China is openly threatening a similar sort of war against Taiwan. There’s lots to be concerned about. Nonetheless, I’m hopeful right now. I believe we’re on the cusp of a new "great turning" of American history, a replay of the crisis into which President Franklin D. Roosevelt stepped four generations ago, while revisiting many of the same solutions. And, ironically, it’s all coming about for for many of the same reasons.Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
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Unequal Influence: There Are Politicians Who Work on Behalf of Corporations and Those Who Work on Behalf of Humans
The people have got to know if their president is a crook," U.S. President Richard Nixon told a national television audience on November 11, 1973, when asked at a press conference if donations from the dairy industry had caused him to reverse his position on dairy price supports. He added, "Well, I am not a crook." A bit over two years earlier, however, Nixon had a meeting at the White House with representatives of the dairy industry, who had apparently just given him a $2 million campaign pledge. With the tape running on March 23, 1971, Nixon said, "Uh, I know…that, uh, you are a group that are politically very conscious…And you're willing to do something about it. And, I must say a lot of businessmen and others…don't do anything about it. And you do, and I appreciate that. And I don't have to spell it out." Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
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Saturday Report 9/3/22 - Is the new coarseness and brutality in American politics the result of Trump or social media? Or both?
The Best of the Rest of the News. — The MAGAts are squealing, even though most didn't hear Biden's speech because none of America's major TV networks chose to carry it. — What did Trump steal, and who did he give it to? — Is the new coarseness and brutality in American politics the result of Trump or social media? Or both? — You could soon lose your right to government benefits, if rightwingers on the Supreme Court go the way observers fear. — The case of Ginny Thomas' efforts to overthrow our democracy got even more alarming this week. — The destruction of the Amazon is reaching crisis proportions as Brazilian President Jail Bolsonaro has largely refused to enforce laws against illegal logging.. — Geeky Science: Ultra-processed foods, which make up 57% of the American diet right now, are positively tied to bowel cancer. Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
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Is Something Called "Narcissistic Collapse" Coming To America?
Trump is a classic extroverted, grandiose narcissist of such severity that numerous professionals in the psychology field have pointed out how he could easily be diagnosed as suffering severe Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Narcissists of this type are often at the top of their fields, driven to over-achievement by a deep underlying sense of inferiority and shame. In Trump's case, this probably came from his having a criminal psychopath as a father and a mother who so disliked him that she sent him off to military school at a young age and went, alone, to Scotland during the summers when he was home from school in New York.Read more at HartmannReport.com. -Thom |
Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Hour One: Will America See a 2nd Major Renewal of the Middle Class?
Tweet: " You won't hear about it in the corporate media, but this is what a rigged economy is all about.
Three people now own more wealth than the bottom half of American society.
45% of all new income is going to the top 1%.
CEOs are paid 350x MORE than their average worker." by Bernie Sanders. Speech: " First Inaugural Address", Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 4 March 1933. " Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
When Is the last Time You've heard a Democratic Prez Sound Like This?
Tweet: " Biden: For decades big pharma won year in, year out, because they own chunks of the congress, because they had help, like your senior senator, Ron Johnson who said he opposed lowering drug costs because it would result in punishing the pharmaceutical industry. Come on Man [video]" by Acyn.
This Special Master Opinion Is So Bad - It's Hard to Know Where to Begin
Speech: " Madison Square Garden Speech", President Franklin D. Roosevelt, October 31, 1936. " They are unanimous in their hate for me-and I welcome their hatred" Quote: " I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision" - Carl Sandburg.
Tweet: " TODAY'S PHRASE: NARCISSISTIC COLLAPSE. Narcissistic collapse happens when someone with narcissistic personality disorder can no longer uphold their grandiose self-image and feels threatened, belittled, made fun of, targeted, and enraged, along with a total absence of validation." by Duty To Warn.
Is Something Called "Narcissistic Collapse" Coming To America?
Hour Three: Who Is the New UK PM Liz Truss?- Victoria Jones, Chief Washington Analyst-The DC Radio Company 
Tweet: " Congratulations to Prime Minister Liz Truss.
I look forward to deepening the special relationship between our countries and working in close cooperation on global challenges, including continued support for Ukraine as it defends itself against Russian aggression." by President Biden. Tweet: " "President Macron, friend or foe?"
Truss: "The jury is out."
France is a NATO ally. To peddle the notion that a NATO ally may be a "foe" is stupidity in the extreme. Truss is showing herself to be a vacant kettle, happy to be filled with easy applause. [video]" by Mike Galsworthy.
Crazy Alert! GOP Rep. Tom Emmer: Giving women rights is like 'Chinese genocide'
Geeky Science! Bowel Cancer Linked to Uber-Processed Food
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