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Republicans Are Planning A Hatefest For Next Week. Who Will Join the Missouri Couple Who Brandished Guns at Black Lives Matters Protesters on Speakers' List?
Aug. 19, 2020 1:57 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...Next week, the Republican Party is holding their convention to crown Donald Trump as their candidate for a second term in office.
They've invited a few people who are noted mostly for their threats of violence or extreme bad manners, including the two multimillionaires who pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters in front of their St. Louis mansion and the smirking MAGA kid who stared down a Native American elder.
Even if Biden Wins, We Need to Protect Democracy From the Next Fascist President
Aug. 18, 2020 1:59 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...The major theme that emerged from last night's Democratic convention was that Joe Biden is a decent man while Donald Trump is corrupt, incompetent and mentally ill.
Which raises three questions : How did we end up with a corrupt, incompetent and mentally ill president; how did he get enough power to be able to twist the levers of government toward his own reelection; and why do Republicans in the US Senate continue to support him?
Republicans struggle to reboot their "small government, personal responsibility" scam: will Americans buy it again?
Aug. 17, 2020 2:26 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...Joe Scarborough, on his morning TV show, had a roundtable with George Will and David Frum in which these three old conservative war horses discussed the possibility of the Republican Party returning to its "conservative values."
Those values they identified included balanced budgets, personal responsibility and small government. It's important for Americans to understand what conservatives mean when they use these words.
If Biden Wins, Get Ready for Trump to Punish America
Aug. 14, 2020 3:46 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...What could happen to America if Trump were to further, severely crash the U.S. economy the day after Joe Biden is announced as the winner of the 2020 presidential race?
As Trump tweeted on June 15, 2019, "if anyone but me takes over... there will be a Market Crash the likes of which has not been seen before!"
Trump is willing to let more people die to steal an election. Will he get away with it?
Aug. 13, 2020 2:46 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...Last year the US Postal Service delivered over 1 billion prescriptions to Americans. It's the main way that veterans get their medications, and increasingly all across America people are getting their pharmaceuticals that way.
Donald Trump doesn't care. He doesn't care how many people die because their medications are late and they go into diabetic shock or their blood pressure explodes. He just doesn't care.
Is America Witnessing the Collapse of the GOP?
Aug. 12, 2020 3:58 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...Will Enough Americans Show Up to Stop Trump From Using the Dictator's Playbook?
Aug. 11, 2020 3:25 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...The single most consistent defining characteristic of an emerging dictatorship in a country that started as a democracy is that the dictator regularly holds elections and always wins, because he uses the instruments of government to make sure he wins.
Trump has now done this with the Justice Department, the Post Office, the Department of Homeland Security, The Department of Health and Human Services, the Federal Reserve, and our intelligence agencies.
America's Chief Grifter Strikes Again
Aug. 10, 2020 2:43 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...Everything Trump Touches Dies - Including Trade & Bringing Jobs Home
Aug. 7, 2020 1:34 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...Will the coronavirus wake Americans up to the cancer that has infected our political system?
Aug. 6, 2020 2:11 pmBy Thom Hartmann A...