Will Republican extremism and hate for the New Deal — programs that have become absolutely essential to our even having a robust middle class — become grist for the media mill?

Sometimes a little socialism is a very good thing. But don't tell Mike Pence or the billionaires who bankroll him and his GOP colleagues.

Or, for that matter, the 109 Democrats who were suckered into joining every single Republican in the House of Representatives to vote for a resolution saying that:

"Congress denounces socialism in all its forms, and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States of America."

The resolution leads up to that conclusion by quoting President Thomas Jefferson wildly out of context.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

—Susan B. Anthony

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

—Timothy Leary

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

— A young man with a UnitedHealthcare health insurance policy who had ulcerative colitis in a bad way. The company worked very, very hard to deny him care.
— Rep. Ilhan Omar was booted off her committee while pro-Hitler GOPers go on committees - what?
— How Biden owned Kevin McCarthy.
— The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that courts can't take guns away from men who are under restraining orders for beating and threatening to kill their wives.
— You can get away with voting fraud if you're a Republican.
— republicans in the House of Representatives vote to end Covid precautions as a study finds Covid is the third leading cause of death among children.
— Crazy Alert! Tucker is claiming NBC is pushing for the genocide of white people.
— Geeky Science! Coffee doesn't "give" you energy: it just borrows it from the future.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "The GOP's "Better Deal" Is All About Privatizing Our Safety Net & Ending the Middle Class" by Thom Hartmann.

Tweet: "Mike Pence calls for privatizing Social Security for young people as a way to cut spending on public benefits. "We could replace the New Deal with a better deal," he told a conference of business executives. [video]" by More Perfect Union.

Article: "Libertarian Party National Platform 1980".

Article: "Pence calls for Social Security reform, private savings accounts" by Tom LoBianco.

Book: A Treatise on Political Economy by Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy.

Bill: "H. CON. RES. 9: Denouncing the horrors of socialism.".

Article: "Thomas Jefferson's Addition to Note for Destutt de Tracy's Treatise on Political Economy, [ca. 18 May 1816]" by Thomas Jefferson.

Article: "Suspects arrested in plot to attack power stations, destroy Baltimore: Prosecutors" by Alexander Mallin and Bill Hutchinson.

Article: "Koch network plans to back a Republican – other than Donald Trump – in the 2024 presidential primary" by Fredreka Schouten.

Article: "It's just now dawning on Republicans that Donald Trump holds their entire future hostage" by Dartagnan.

Article: "Buying into conspiracy theories can be exciting – that's what makes them dangerous" by PsyPost.

Article: "David Cicilline" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Matt Gaetz's Pledge Of Allegiance Proposal Gets A Reality Check From House Democrats" by Ben Blanchet.

Article: "Chiquita Brooks-LaSure" by CMS.

Article: "Xavier Becerra" by Wikipedia.

Bill: "H.R.9187 - Save Medicare Act" by Rep. Pocan, Mark [D-WI-2].

Article: "Family found dead in Pennsylvania made a 'joint decision' to kill themselves, police say" by Daniella Silva.

Article: "Colin Kaepernick's New True Crime Series 'Killing County' Takes a Look Inside a Calif. Police Department" by Tristan Balagtas.

Hour Two: Stopping An Article V Convention of States
- Viki Harrison, Director of Constitutional Convention and Protecting Dissent Programs, Common Cause

Article: "Stopping A Dangerous Article V Convention of States" by Common Cause.

Site: "Convention of States".

Article: "Balanced budget amendment" by Wikipedia.

Article: "American Legislative Exchange Council" (ALEC) by SourceWatch.

Article: "Mark Meckler" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rick Santorum" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Balanced Budget Amendment Task Force" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Montana resolution seeking Article V Convention tabled in split Senate vote" by Blair Miller.

Article: "Rick Scott ‘disgusted' by antisemitism and ‘anti-Israel attitude'" by Eric Daugherty.

Article: "Rick Scott 'oversaw the largest Medicare fraud' in U.S. history, Florida Democratic Party says" by PolitiFact.

Article: "Marco Rubio" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Norman Braman" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Constitution of the United States", article 3 section 2. "... In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make...."

Article: "How a Texas judge could disrupt access to medication abortion" by Aaron Rupar, Kelsey Rhodes.

Article: "Colin Kaepernick launches new initiative to offer autopsies for police-related deaths" by Jonathan Franklin.

Article: "Killing of Tyre Nichols" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fraternal Order of Police" by Wikipedia.

Article: ""Smoking Doesn't Kill" And Other Great Old Op-Eds From Mike Pence" by Andrew Kaczynski.

Quote: "Never Interfere With an Enemy While He's in the Process of Destroying Himself" - attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte.

Case: "Brown v Board of Education".

Hour Three: Long Covid and more....
- Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, Epidemiologist & Senior Fellow - Federation of American Scientists / (per Dr. Feigl-Ding) "first whistleblower on the Covid pandemic" / former faculty member & researcher-Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Tweet: "NEW ONSET AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE-New study in 640k patients shows that #SARSCoV2 infection leads to +43% increased risk of developing **new-onset autoimmune diseases** after acute #COVID19 over. Another autoimmune disorder also exacerbated +23%. Not good!" by Eric Feigl-Ding.

Article: "Incident autoimmune diseases in association with a SARS-CoV-2 infection: A matched cohort study" by Falko Tesch et al.

Article: "An Even Deadlier Pandemic Could Soon Be Here" by Zeynep Tufekci.

Article: "White-tailed deer harbouring COVID-19 variants thought to be nearly extinct in humans: study" by Megan DeLaire.

Article: "COVID-19 pill from Merck gives rise to mutations of virus in some patients" by Bloomberg News.

Article: "Meet XBB.1.5, the new COVID subvariant that defies immunity, infects more efficiently" by Cristina Eloisa Baclig.

Article: "The mRNA Vaccines Are Extraordinary, but Novavax Is Even Better" by Hilda Bastian.

Article: "‘We're all vulnerable': One in 10 people will end up with long COVID, new study says" by Ashleigh McMillan.

Article: "The missing workers who are never coming back" by Emily Peck.

Article: "How to watch Biden's 2023 State of the Union address" by Caroline Linton.

Article: "Watch 'Mulan' with your kid, wind up in prison? What will Arizona lawmakers think of next?" by Laurie Roberts.

Article: "Video of Rudy Giuliani Dressed in Drag and Being Seduced by Donald Trump Resurfaces" by Inside Edition.

Article: "50 Movies With Men in Drag" by moviebb.

Article: "'Demoralization syndrome: Doctor blasts 'lucrative system of for-profit medicine' in scathing NYT op-ed" by Jake Johnson.

Book: The Hidden History of American Healthcare: Why Sickness Bankrupts You and Makes Others Insanely Rich by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Fox News host says sickness shouldn't stop you from working: 'We just come in and cough all over each other'" by Taiyler Simone Mitchell.

Article: "Fox News' Neil Cavuto Credits Vaccine for Saving His Life During COVID Battle" by Sharon Knolle.

Article: "The GOP's ‘horrors of socialism' resolution was bait. Dems took it." by Zeeshan Aleem.

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum.

Article: "‘Fox News in Spanish': Inside an upstart media company's big plans to impact the 2024 election" by Natalie Allison.

Article: "Medicare Advantage" (Medicare Part C) by Wikipedia.

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

Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

I'll be debating Charles Sauer, Libertarian / Economist & President - The Market Institute / author of Profit Motive: What Drives the Things We Do / podcast Pardon My Parsing

Plus, Honoring Black History Month - Kat Calvin, Founder & Executive Director of Spread The Vote + Project ID / Co-Founder & CEO of the Project ID Action Fund / Author of the forthcoming book American Identity Crisis (September 2023) available for pre-sale now

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