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Why Isn't PG&E Getting the Death Penalty?
Jun. 17, 2020 3:14 pm
By Thom Hartmann A...
Pacific Gas and Electric, known as PG&E, just pled guilty to killing 84 American citizens.
When they want to buy politicians' favors and votes, they claim that they are a "person," but when they admit to killing real human persons, they claim that they are just a corporation and therefore nobody can or should go to jail.
How Should the Crime of Weaponizing a Virus for Political Purposes be Punished?
Jun. 16, 2020 11:33 amBy Thom Hartmann A... Trump's rally in Tulsa this weekend and his moving the Republican convention to Florida both demonstrate that he is more than willing to take actions that will kill Americans in order to get his ego stroked and increase his chances of reelection.
There's Still a Shark in the Water & Trump Wants you to Dive In & Swim a Few Laps...
Jun. 15, 2020 7:48 amBy Thom Hartmann A... While Steve Mnuchin and Donald Trump are passing out hundreds of billions of dollars to each other and their good buddies while refusing to let the American people know who got what, the coronavirus continues its deadly spread. It's now killing over 1000 Americans a day.
Will America Go Forward or Backward?
Jun. 11, 2020 3:37 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... On the same day Donald Trump announced that on Juneteenth he's going to go to Tulsa, Oklahoma, the home of one of America's most brutal and deadly riots where white people burned, looted and murdered African Americans in an iconic, historic and prosperous black community, to give a speech written by Stephen Miller, Trump supporters wearing Klan robes and hoods showed up in Nevada.
What Will It Take to Stop Republicans from Maintaining Structural Racism in Our Voting?
Jun. 10, 2020 2:42 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... Yesterday we saw the Republican's number one voter suppression strategy on display, as black areas in Georgia were absolutely deprived of enough voting machines and polling places to accommodate their citizens, producing lines as long as six hours to vote.
Fox, Tucker and Trump: Get Your Knees off Their Necks
Jun. 9, 2020 4:21 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... Following the lead of Donald Trump, it's increasingly appearing that the principal Republican electoral strategy this year is to try to frighten white people with threats of angry black people coming to get them. It's as if Roger stone is still advising Trump, the way he advised Nixon back in the day.
Americans Need to Reinvent our Police Departments: How Do We Do It?
Jun. 8, 2020 3:58 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... Our Founders had it right: control the guys with guns.
At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, our nation's Founders put our military in a box, which has prevented a military coup for over 240 years.
We have to do the same today with our police.
Will Trump Stop Us From Voting in November?
Jun. 4, 2020 3:26 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... Today is the anniversary of the Chinese government crushing popular dissent at Tiananmen Square.
This anniversary is happening in the midst of a week in which the President of the United States has militarized Washington DC and is calling for the crushing of dissent here in the United States.
What New Hell Will Trump Rain Down on America Next?
Jun. 3, 2020 4:00 pmBy Thom Hartmann A... Trump campaigned on nostalgia for the past, with a slogan calling to make America great "again."
And, indeed, he has re-created many of the most notable moments in past American history.
He's brought back the pandemic of 1918, and the widespread death associated with it.
How immunity for cops and Facebook kills Americans
Jun. 3, 2020 7:05 amBy Thom Hartmann A... When you tell people they won't be held accountable for their actions, it almost always ends badly. That's what's happened with our police and our social media, two institutional pillars of personal and political society in America today.
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