Thom Hartmann
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Views Monday, October 19, 2020 How Does a Nation Best Deal With a Leader Who Intentionally Kills Its Citizens? Covid-19 infections now represent the third leading cause of death in America. This is an extremely contagious, crippling, and deadly disease. On top of that, there's a growing legion of people who call themselves "long haulers," who have been seriously disabled by Covid and are unable to live a... Read more |
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Views Monday, October 12, 2020 It's Time to Unpack the Court Donald Trump was bragging a week or so ago that Obama had “left me 128 judges to fill” as if Obama was just sloppy. The actual number was 105, but Obama didn’t “leave” them; he’d appointed genuinely qualified people, many women and minorities, to fill every single one of those judicial slots, and... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 30, 2020 Trump Goes Full Authoritarian Dictator What we saw last night was the dictator's playbook. Tell violent white supremacist racists to "stand by" and encourage them to show up at polling places to intimidate voters. Bully, bluster and threaten like Mussolini did, promoting your brand as "tough guy" when in fact you’re a lazy coward. Claim... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, September 23, 2020 Trump Keeps Telling Us How He and Republicans Plan to Steal This Election Donald Trump became president by exploiting a loophole called the Electoral College. The majority of Americans did not want him or vote for him as president, but he’s there anyway. Now he’s planning on using a different loophole, the 12th Amendment, to hang onto power. "It's come down to us. We are... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 22, 2020 Trump "Never Noticed" a Modern-Day American Genocide Donald Trump said in a rally last night that the coronavirus, “Affects virtually nobody.“ Apparently “virtually nobody” means 200,000 dead Americans, ranging in age from the elderly to infants. Apparently he hasn’t noticed the damage his lack of coronavirus response policy has done to our economy,... Read more |
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Views Monday, September 14, 2020 How Should America Respond When Its President Commits Negligent Homicide? Bob Woodward interviewed Donald Trump back in January and February and now tells us that, way back then, Trump realized that the coronavirus was not only quite deadly and would infect even children, but also was airborne and highly contagious. Right now it's fashionable to attack Bob Woodward for... Read more |
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Views Thursday, September 10, 2020 Nobody Expected We Would Pay Such a Steep Price for Electing a Mentally Ill Criminal as President—Can We Recover? Our country, at the beginning of this year, faced four major threats: Climate change, Covid-19, Russian election meddling, and a worldwide nuclear arms race. Donald Trump lied to us about all four of them. As a result, each, today, represents a larger threat than it did before he became president... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, September 01, 2020 Why Are So Many Americans Willing to Support Hate and Division? Donald Trump has falslely told us that only 9,000 people have died of the coronavirus in the United States, that shooting an unarmed man in the back seven times is like a bad putt at golf, that protests are being led by an airplane full of black-jacketed "thugs," and refused to condemn a vicious... Read more |
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Views Thursday, August 27, 2020 Is the Trump Death Cult Growing or Shrinking? Donald Trump just guaranteed more Americans will die. Trump has been saying for some time that he wishes there was less testing for coronavirus in America, because that would reduce the number of cases that we find, which would improve, in his mind, his numbers compared to other countries. So... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 18, 2020 Republicans Struggle to Reboot Their “Small Government, Personal Responsibility” Scam 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... Read more |