Thom Hartmann
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Views Tuesday, August 11, 2020 Will Enough Americans Show Up to stop Trump From Using the Dictator's Playbook? 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... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 04, 2020 Trump's Big Lie About Covid-19 vs. Grieving Families and a Dying Democracy It’s showing up in the obituaries . People in the throes of agony from losing someone close to them are writing things like, "Instead of flowers, donate to a Democrat," or "Instead of flowers, tell everyone to vote against Trump and the GOP this fall." It's become a national trend. But not everyone... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 28, 2020 Not the 'Heals Act' But the 'Heels Act': GOP Covid-19 Plan Puts Corporate Greed Before Human Need It should be called the HEELS Act , not the HEALS Act . Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Republicans' price for supporting unemployment checks and other benefits for average working people has been several trillion dollars shoveled directly into corporate coffers, both through tax... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 21, 2020 Will Trump’s Secret Police Succeed in Provoking Riots in Your City? The Republican Trump administration has gone full authoritarian . Portland is a test, but only a test. Donald Trump signaled his election strategy a few days ago when he talked about ending legislation passed back in the 1960s to support fair housing that he said had sent "people" out into "the... Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 16, 2020 If You Can’t Stop People From Voting, Just Help Them Die? First, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, when formerly serving of Secretary of State, did everything he could to keep hundreds of thousands of Black and Hispanic voters in Georgia from having their votes counted or even being able to vote at all. In the months running up to his own race for governor, he... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 14, 2020 Will Americans Reject Trump and the GOP Death Cult This Fall? The Trump administration is a death cult. They revel in their efforts to end Obamacare and cut millions of Americans off healthcare. They celebrate last night's resumption of federal executions. They enthusiastically authorize the use of formerly banned pesticides that cause cancer and neurological... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 08, 2020 To Keep Americans Safe, We Have to Get Billionaires Out of Politics Jim Jones, who only killed 900+ people, was a piker, perhaps because he just wasn't rich enough to be truly effective. Billionaire Donald Trump has beat him more than 130 times over—with far more death and destruction to come. Canada, a country run by competent leaders and actual civil servants at... Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 25, 2020 Why Is Trump So Enthusiastic About Americans Dying? Two weeks after America diagnosed its first case of COVID-19, Republicans in the United States Senate (with the single exception of Mitt Romney) refuse to vote to impeach Donald Trump. They decided he couldn’t do much more damage than he already has, and, as Senator Susan Collins suggested, he... Read more |
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Views Friday, June 19, 2020 Treasonous Trump Rejects Bringing US Jobs Home to Get Himself Reelected Donald Trump‘s trade guy, Peter Navarro, proposed that America should spend roughly $2 trillion to bring manufacturing back to the United States from China. Doing this would both strengthen American national and domestic security, and create an explosion in what could be very good-paying jobs for... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, June 16, 2020 What Should the Punishment Be for the Crime of Weaponizing a Virus for Political Purposes? Trump’s scheduled 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. A new book by Trump’s niece tells the... Read more |