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Attachment 37425
If Workers Get Organized, Shutdown Could End In Twenty Minutes

The Trump shutdown could end in less than twenty minutes.

The trump shutdown is costing workers a lot. Many are going without pay, and the industries they support, ride share services, resturant workers, etc, are starting to feel it too.

But workers have power they do not often realize. If workers organize together into a general strike, as suggested by one caller, could the Trump shutdown be a memory?

Would a solidarity strike from all the people affected by Trump's shutdown force them to reopen government?

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 37426
Why Do Our TV Channels Make Us Hate Each Other?

Fox News and other TV channels' propaganda make us hate each other.

Why do these media outlets talk more about Muslim terrorists, eight times more than if the person is white?

Dean Obeidallah joined Thom to try and answer the question. Should Fox News keep breaking its rules?

• A MAGA Gang Plots to Murder Muslims in Islamberg After Fox Fans Fear Flames
• DeanOfRadio.com
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 37427
Is It Time For A Revolution?

After the Trump shutdown has gone on to a point where people are missing multiple paychecks, is it finally time to take Bernie Sanders advice and start the political revolution?

Members of the new Democratic Party that just took power in the House of representatives are leading the charge but one caller suggests it might take more than voting to get the change we need.

Can we help the house democrats get rid of Trump and end the government shutdown through protests and sit ins and marches?

• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37429 La Guardia Closes Due To Shutdown: Do You Feel Safe To Fly?

The FAA orders a short term close down of LaGuardia Airport New York due to lack of air traffic controllers because of the government shutdown. With the lack of controllers, do you feel safe to fly?

• Trump Furious That F.B.I. Not Stopped by Shutdown [[satire)
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 37431
Bernie Sanders Challenges The Government Shutdown

Watch what Bernie Sanders has to say about the 800,000 federal employees and contract workers not being paid.

Senator Bernie Sanders challenges the government shutdown and what Trump is doing with the government shutdown. He talks about security and the air traffic controllers, all of which will become worse the longer the shutdown continues.

Check what Bernie has to say about the motive for the shutdown.

• OurRevolution.com
• Sanders.Senate.gov
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 37432
Annul Trump: How A Democrat Could Take Power Before 2020

There is no question that Donald Trump's administration has taken power through fraud.

In criminal fraud investigations, the fruit of fraudulent actions is returned to its rightful owner. If someone uses fraud to take a laptop, the courts would return the laptop to the original owner.

The question Americans are asking is, can criminal fraud cases be applied to the presidency, can we annul a presidency?

And what would presidential annulment look like?

Would annulling Donald Trump's fraudulent presidency mean that a democratic administration would then take the place of Donald Trump, Mike Pence and the rest of his administration?

Do you think the American people need do more than impeach Donald Trump and annul the Trump presidency?

• Progressive Caucus of the MDP
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 37433
"Let Them Get Loans" The Growing Dangers Of Economic Inequality

Wilbur Ross had a very Marie Antoinette moment this week, telling furloughed federal employees to get loans to pay bills while the government is shutdown, a comment many have compared to Marie Antoinette's insensitive reply to the cries of French peasants without bread to eat. "Let them eat cake" she said.

A little over 200 years latter, enter United States Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross telling workers to get a loan instead of getting a paycheck.

Is the economic divide in America so wide that people like Donald Trump and Wilbur Ross cannot imagine what life is like for federal workers now without their second paycheck?

Has America reached levels of inequality not seen since the times of the French Revolution?

And how are we going to solve the growing dangers of economic inequality?

• ThomHartmann.com

"How much soup can you make out of 26 billionaires?"

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Attachment 37434
The Surprising Truth About Trade & Tariffs You Need To Know

How Donald Trump is right about trade.... almost.

Many progressives were shocked to hear Donald Trump in the lead up to the 2016 election talk about protectionist trade policies, the importance of tariffs.

No progressive was surprised to see Donald Trump take important and complicated policies like these and enact them in a frighting and ridiculous and fumbling manner.

Is Donald Trump right on trade? Only in the way that a broken clock is right about the time twice a day.

Thom Hartmann explains the history of trade, tariffs, protectionist policies and why and how they are important.

So just where does Trump get it right and what does he get wrong about tariffs?

What position should progressives and democratic socialists take on trade?

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 37438
When Will The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Happen Again?

Those who worked at Chernobyl loved radiation. It was a nuclear disaster waiting to happen. When will it happen again?

Thom reads an excerpt from the book "Midnight in Chernobyl" by Adam Higginbotham.

Midnight in Chernobyl:
The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 37440
How To Be Less Stupid About Race

Are we surrounded by stupidity? What can we do about it?

Thom reads an excerpt from the book "How to Less Stupid About Race" by Crystal M. Fleming.

How to Be Less Stupid About Race:
On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 37446
Are The Billionaires Destroying The Middle Class?

The billionaire class is trying to destroy the middle class and they are succeeding. Are the billionaires the modern day Mafia?

Three callers talk to Thom about tax rates, billionaires, high crime, paying workers better and the differences between them and the rest of us.

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 37448
Will There Be A Coup In Venezuela Led By The U.S.?
[[w/ Medea Benjamin)

As the crisis in Venezuela continues, will there be a coup and will that coup in Venezuela be led by the U.S.?

Medea Benjamin joined Thom to teach more about the crisis in Venezuela.

Kingdom of the Unjust:
Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection

• CodePink.org
• GlobalExchange.org
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 37449
Three Year Old Boy Hung Out With A Bear And Lived

Lost in the woods, a three year old boy hung out with a bear, who protected him from freezing temperatures.

In something out the Jungle Book, three year old Casey Hathaway claims that during his missing days in the woods, a friendly black bear looked after him, keeping him warm from the bitter cold.

Crazy alert?

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 37450
The Real Crisis In America Is Toxic Masculinity And Patriarchy

Donald Trump and the right would have you believe that immigration is an uncontrollable crisis in America.

But the real crisis is toxic masculinity and patriarchy.

In the past week, it was toxic masculinity that took the lives of people in this country, not immigrants and refugees.

What is it about toxic masculinity and patriarchy that compels men to take the lives of women and girls?

• Axios: 3. One week in America
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 37451
Universal Healthcare Isn't Left - It's A Middle Ground. Why?

Universal Healthcare is portrayed on the news as a far left position of socialists and communists... but in reality it's actually the position of most Americans.

Universal Healthcare is a middle ground policy position.

But debates on healthcare often leave out just how popular this position is, instead they focus on the cost.

So why do conservatives and the media paint universal healthcare as a radical position?

• How radical Republicans and the Trump Administration are killing American workers
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 37452
Are Progressives The Real Champions Of Capitalism?
[[w/ Ro Khanna)

The media would have many believe that the Republicans are the party of business. But years of cutting wages, social safety net programs and neoliberal trade policies have done nothing but hurt small businesses.

How did the Republicans get the reputation of being good for business...?

• Congressional Progressive Caucus
• Khanna.House.gov
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 37453
Bankers Are Scared Of A Progressive Running In 2020

Donald Trump is so toxic that even the bankers want him out of office.

And yet those same people worried about Donald Trump's dangerous effect on the American economy are worried about [progressives].

Bankers are trying to decide between their patriotism and their wallet.

• Wall Street freaks out about 2020
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 37454
Homeless Are The First Hurt By Climate Change And Deregulation

Climate change, deregulation and privatization of mental health and medical care are already claiming their first victims in homeless people.

These Americans without the protection of homes are the first to face the extreme freezing temperatures of a winter created by climate change.

Republican led efforts to deregulate medical care, privatize everything in sight, and take away the rights of renters, puts the homeless population at even more risk by denying them access to the care they need and even the ability to take the first steps out of homelessness.

And if Republicans and Donald Trump have their way, these problems, both homelessness and deregulation, will only get worse.

What are we going to do?

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 37455
Why Is Donald Trump's Presidency A National Crisis?

Donald Trump's presidency didn't just cause a national crisis, the Donald Trump presidency IS the national crisis . . . and this might be a good thing.

Americans are so fed up with Donald Trump that we are seeing a resurgence in progressive and democratic socialists activity across the nation.

After the Great Depression we got FDR and the New Deal. What will we get after Donald Trump?

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 37456
Jet Stream Breakdown Puts 66 Million Americans At Risk – Tomorrow

Changes in the jet stream is putting American lives at risk.

Thom examines the weakened jet stream, the polar vortex and why this has the ability to destroy us.

Donald Trump continues to ignore climate change as real cold hits life threatening temperatures.

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 37457
The Impact Trump Had On Uninsured May Surprise You?
[[w/ Wendell Potter)

An increasing number of people are now uninsured, the most in five years. Surprisingly this may have a positive effect on the push for universal healthcare.

Now that a growing number of formerly loyal Trump supporters are without healthcare coverage, is it possible that they will turn and support universal healthcare?

Thom talks to Wendell Potter about his new article The Uninsured Rate Is The Highest It’s Been In 5 Years.

Are you a Trump supporter who lost their healthcare coverage because of Donald Trump? Are you now supporting universal healthcare?

Deadly Spin:
An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans

• The Uninsured Rate Is The Highest It’s Been In 5 Years
• Tarbell.org
• WendellPotter.com
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 37458
Venezuela Coup 2019 – Elliott Abrams, The War Criminal In Charge

How much of a criminal is Elliott Abrams, the man in change of Venezuelan policy, and what was Elliot Abrams's role in the human rights violations that occurred in El Salvador and Nicaragua in the 1980s?

Is the U.S. about to send 5,000 troops to Columbia, right next to Venezuela?

A caller puts Thom’s history right on Elliott Abrams.

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 37465
Has This Right Wing Extremist Plot Already Succeeded?

Years ago caller Kurt reported that right wing extremists were planning to take the highest roles in government. Years later some are wondering if Kurt had a premonition about right-wing extremist plots?

Does Donald Trump owe his election in part to the rise of these right wing extremists who were trying to join police forces and positions of power in the government?

Is his view too far from the truth or is it reality?

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 37466
Will Trump Start A War To Stay President?

Is Donald Trump planning to start a war so he can win the 2020 election on the same "War time President" slogan George W Bush used in 2004?

At 2:00 into this clip, a caller questions whether Trump has his sights set on a military conflict in Venezuela and the evidence looks frightening.

What do you think?

Does Trump need a war to be re-elected in 2020?

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 37467
We Have To Choose Between Billionaires Or Democracy

Billionaires will tell you they don’t want a wealth tax. But they are happy for you to have one. Are democracy and billionaires compatible?

Do democracy and the billionaire mentality sit together?

Thom rants on taxes and billionaires.

• ThomHartmann.com