Are Drug Companies Exploiting People For Profit?
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Caller believes that the unfair rises in the cost of life saving medicine by drug and pharmaceutical companies is the result of capitalist profit motive over human rights and well being. Are pharmaceutical companies exploiting the people? How can we stop them?
Contempt — Thom Takes Down GOP's Falling Starr
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Ken Starr is still after the Clintons for “lack of moral character” but refuses to go after Kavanaugh, Donald Trump or conservatives and instead, decides to come out with a new book:Contempt: a Memoir of the Clinton Investigation, which retells the story of the prosecution led by Ken Starr acting as Independent Counsel. What would happen if Kavanaugh was forced to give up personal details and stories?
How The Last Fifty Years Treated Women Who Spoke Out Against Assault
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As accusations of assault come forward against Donald Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh by Professor Christine Blasey Ford and now at least one other woman, a caller joins the program to discuss how the last fifty years treated women and girls who spoke out against their assaulters. Kavanaugh's nomination could swing our response as a society all the way back to the 1950s and erase the work of the MeToo Movement.
The Progressive Hippocratic Oath: On Not Working With Trump To Do Harm
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Some Democrats are suggesting working with Republicans to get things done. One poster from Democratic Underground posted what we at the Thom Hartmann Program are calling the "Progressive Hippocratic Oath" which lists out where progressives are not working with Republicans, the Trump administration or anyone else. These include working to lessen the rights of African Americans, the LGBT population, to give banks more profit at the expense of the people. In short, progressives are not willing to work with anyone to do any harm. In the age where our political divide is often talked about needing to be bridged, do you agree with this list or do you want to walk across the aisle?
Why Tax Cuts For The Rich Cuts The Wages Of The Working And Poor
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A caller challenges Thom Hartmann on the merit of tax cuts for corporations and the rich, and gets a lesson in economics detailing how tax cuts for the rich always come at the cost of the wages of working and poor Americans.
Has America Reached Fascist Tipping Point Under Trump Administration?
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Given the increasingly dystopian policies of the Trump administration, like the separating of children from families, the revocation of passports of legal citizens, continued support for law enforcement's treatment of people of color, and much more... many are wondering if America has reached a fascist tipping point. Here to answer these questions is the author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us vs Them Professor Jason Stanley.
Could Human Extinction Be Part Of Universal Cycle Of Consciousness?
Why Trump Must Go! (w/Guest Bill Press)
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Host of the Bill Press Show, joins Thom Hartmann to discuss his new book, Trump Must Go detailing why the sexist, racist, self proclaimed sexual predator, and pathological liar Donald Trump cannot remain in charge of the United States government. Did we leave anything out? What else makes you think Donald Trump must Go?
Three Quarters Of A Million Voters Purged By Brian Kemp
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Brian Kemp, Georgia's current Secretary of State and gubernatorial hopeful under the Republican party for Georgia is working hard to guarantee his nomination by purging thousands of voters, mostly Democrats and people of color, off the voter rolls.
Courage And Sacrifice In The Age Of Donald Trump (w/Mark Pocan)
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Caller asks Congressman Mark Pocan to help understand the apparent contradictions between doing what is right to stop Donald Trump, like Corey Booker did when he released sealed documents on Brett Kavanaugh which could have ejected him from the Senate, and playing by the rules we are trying to preserve that make our democracy so wonderful.
Can We Create Safety Beyond The Need for Policing (w/Guest DeRay McKesson)
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Civil rights activist and author DeRay McKesson joins the Thom Hartmann Program in studio to talk about his new book On The Other Side of Freedom, "A meditation on resistance, justice, and freedom" as well as an intimate portrait of the Black Lives Matter movement from the front lines. McKesson asks if we can create safety without arresting, locking people up, and without police, without prisons and without unarmed black people dying every week. Do you think police abolition can work in the United States?
Will Our Daughters Pay The Ultimate Price For Criminalizing Abortions?
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As the Republicans move to approve Donald Trump Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, people who may need to seek out abortion are scared because Kavanaugh will remove the protections of Roe vs Wade should he ever get the power. One caller fears that just as our mothers and grandmothers paid the ultimate price for the criminalization of abortion, the nomination of Kavanaugh or any other Donald Trump Supreme Court pick will have our daughters paying that same price too.
Will Kavanaugh be a member of the Supreme Court? Will Roe v. Wade be overturned? And will we one day see the return of women, girls, trans men and all seeking abortion care, paying the ultimate price for the medical procedure's criminalization?
Are Recreational Drug Users Just Self Medicating (w/Angela Bacca)
Will Marijuana See Federal Legalization (w/Guest Angela Bacca)
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What is the difference between medicinal and recreational drug use?
Factory Farming Hogwash Biggest Threat To Envirorment
Is Donald Trump's Stupidity A National Security Threat?
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Donald Trump in response to the devastating impact of hurricane Florence amounts to “water is wet” and hurricanes are bad. Is Donald Trump’s stupidity a national security threat or is focusing on Donald Trump’s intelligence leading us away from actual material criticism of the administration and what it reveals about our country?
The Cost Of Speaking Out (w/Jodi Jacobson)
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President/Editor in Chief of Rewire.News Jodi Jacobson joins the Thom Hartmann Program to talk about the cost of speaking out, why survivors and victims sometimes take years to come forward with their stories, the accusations of Kavanaugh and other powerful men and how we can help end the culture that allows this kind of assault to happen.
How Do People Who Harmed Hold Themselves Accountable And Do Better?
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Jefferson Smith continues his conversation on Kavanaugh and accountability, speaking with Jodi Jacobson. What questions do we want to hear from the Senate investigation? How can men who've harmed others step up, be accountable and do better in the future?
Mobilizing For The Midterms Karthik Garapathy
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With official talk about invoking the 25th amendment, the upcoming midterm election is about to be even more contested. To discuss how progressives can mobilize to win, MoveOn.org's Karthik Ganapathy joins the Thom Hartmann Program.
Why Survivor's Don't Come Forward (w/Guest Maya Raghu)
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In the wake of Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's sexual assault allegations by multiple women, Republicans are asking "Why didn't Dr. Christine Blasey Ford and others come forward earlier?" in an effort to discredit the stories of survivors of sexual violence by powerful men. To answer why survivors and victims of sexual assault don't often come forward, we speak with Maya Raghu the Director of Workplace Equality and Senior Council for the National Women's Law Center who sheds a light on how pervasive and powerful rape culture and patriarchy are and how those intersect with the enforcement of law and vulnerable populations like women, African Americans, the LGBT+ and immigrants, resulting often in silence of abused and victimized populations.
Maya Raghu is participating a national walk out in solidarity with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.
Can Democracy Co-exist With Billionaires?
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Can democracy exist alongside billionaires or should the question be rephrased to "Can democracy survive the existence of billionaires?" The problem of oligarchy is not being discussed, could this be because the billionaires own or are increasingly interested in owning the "free" press? Is the problem not to say that billionaires should not be able buy media but that billionaires should not exist?
How The Hostile Racism & Sexism Of Donald Trump Define A Decades-Long ...
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Are we in the middle of a constitutional crisis?
With new data showing that Donald Trump sits in a long history of illegitimately elected Republican presidents, we ask Chauncey DeVega on what we can do to fight the decades-long constitutional crisis exemplified by the hostile racism and sexism of Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh, the Republican Party, and the morbidly rich.
Why Democrats Need To Run On Raising Taxes On The Rich (w/Guest President Franklin...
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Although Progressive Democrats are cautioned against going too hard against the Morbidly Rich, one Democrat was able to get elected multiple times by doing just that, Franklin Roosevelt. Can Democrats openly call for higher taxes on the wealthy and get elected?
Will Rosenstein Resignation Spark Constitutional Crisis (w/ Guest Stephen Spaulding)
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What does Rosenstein's resignation mean to the state of our democracy? Will Donald Trump be able to thwart the Mueller investigation after Russian interference was proven to be a key reason he sits in The White House?
Donald Trump Attacks Socialism To Cut Your Social Safety Net
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President Donald Trump spoke at the United Nations against the dangers of socialism, which he believes will lead to increased and unjustified policing, power centralized into the hands of a few people and poverty for the many.