Thom Hartmann

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Attachment 38541
Will Government Spending Take Us Into Hyperinflation?

Is there a limit to what percent of a country's GDP can be spent before the country suffers from hyperinflation?

Thom answers caller Dennis with what could happen if the US faces hyperinflation and compares that with the causes of hyperinflation in Germany and hyperinflation in Zimbabwe.

A commodity which becomes scarce due to inflation goes up in price and that affects other products, which also spiral up in cost, leading to the economic equivalent of a snowball effect

Do you think hyperinflation is coming to the US or that government spending will be the cause?

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38542
Why Has Interstate Crosscheck Been Forgotten?

Interstate crosscheck is a way for Republicans to take progressives off the voter rolls so that the Republicans can steal elections.

...But as the 2020 Presidential election gets closer, why has Interstate Crosscheck been forgotten?

Thom explains Interstate Crosscheck and why names could be taken off the voter roll, especially African Americans.

Why has Interstate Crosscheck been forgotten? Is it because Democrats are affected worse and the GOP is happy with that?

• Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38543
Mueller Investigation Report, Part 41

• The Full Set of Mueller Report Readings
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 38544
Why Climate Change Won't Be Solved Easily
[[w/ Dr. Michael Mann)

Solutions for climate change are going to have to be much more radical and much more powerful than the solutions we have on the table right now.

Should the government call a climate emergency?

There are truly climate change crisis impacts. We need to stop using fossil fuels – yet Trump supports fossil fuels. If we don’t stop using fossil fuels, we will never prevent the warming of our atmosphere and the greenhouse effect.

Re-forestation is only a partial answer, although it is important to help with CO₂ pollution. Methane is another potential problem with the melting of Arctic and Antarctic glaciers.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for the Environment, Dr. Michael Mann joined Thom to update us on the fate of our world and whether we can stop our own destruction.

The Madhouse Effect:
How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy

• MichaelMann.net
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38545
Can Impeaching Trump Win Billionaire Tom Steyer The 2020 Presidential Race?

Billionaire Tom Steyer has been campaigning for the impeachment of Donald Trump with advertisements calling for the impeachment of the 46th president and is now running for president with the impeachment on Donald Trump as his singular focus.

Can impeaching Donald Trump win a billionaire the presidency when Americans are the most progressive they've been since electing John F. Kennedy?

Would you support Tom Steyer for President?

• Measure Of Public Mood Is ‘Most Liberal Ever Recorded,’ Political Scientist Says
• James Stimson's Site
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38546
Could Your Healthcare Vanish If GOP Succeeds?

Republicans are working to dismantle Obamacare.

The Affordable Care Act is in court again as the GOP is working to take away your healthcare on constitutional grounds. Some have pointed out that the argument is a weak one but Donald Trump has been packing the court with right wing judges.

Will Obamacare survive the latest attack by the GOP and Republicans or will the insurance companies win?

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38547
Mueller Investigation Report, Part 42:
The Most Expensive Caviar You Ever Had

• The Full Set of Mueller Report Readings
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38550
Can You Forgive Your Republican Friends?

Would you be able to forgive your friends for voting Republican, when Trump leaves office?

Can you forgive your Republican friends? It will be hard for many to forgive, but we will all need to live together in the future, meaning effort will be needed from both sides of the political divide.

What will it take for them to wake up from the Trump fog? Your friends will need support when Trump loses the 2020 election.

• Will you be able to forgive?
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38551
Are We The First Country To Go Backwards?

Are we watching democracy move backwards?

Tucker Carlson's remarks about Rep Ilhan Omar definitely indicate that America could be the first developed country to move backwards away from democracy.

But into what? And how can we stop the Republicans, Trump and Tucker Carlson from dragging us away from the democracy so many have built over the years?

• Trump and GOP are blatantly encouraging foreign dictators to hack the 2020 election
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38553
What Ross Perot Got Right That The Corporate Media Won't Tell You!

Ross Perot will be remembered for so much more than we can comment on but one thing the mainstream corporate media won't discuss is his views on trade and NAFTA.

Do you think Ross Perot got trade right?

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38554
New Petition Aims To Regulate Guns Like We Regulate Cars

Could guns be regulated like cars?

Would you feel safer if gun owners would need to be licensed, guns would have to be insured, and a line of ownership kept?

David Swanson joins Thom Hartmann to find out what would happen should guns be regulated like we regulate cars.

Are you a gun owner?

Would you get gun insurance?

War Is a Lie

• The Governor of Virginia Wants Ideas About Guns: Send Him These
• DavidSwanson.org
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38556
Should Police Be Able To Use Facial Recognition Technology?

You are being tracked by video surveillance and by your cell phone. ‘They’ know where you are pretty much all the time.

Facial recognition surveillance from CCTV cameras can identify you as you walk from place to place. The technology is spreading very quickly and law enforcement agencies are buying equipment.

Currently, facial recognition software is unreliable and means that the wrong person is arrested by the authorities, because the algorithm made a mistake.

Evan Greer from ‘Fight for the Future’ talked with Thom about their recently launched campaign to stop all forms of facial recognition.

Facial Recognition Technology is being used by law enforcement, including ICE [[Immigration & Customs Enforcement) to find people and it's not always accurate, leading to false arrests as well as constitutional and privacy concerns. Fight for the Future is leading the fight against the use of facial recognition technology and other biometrics from being used by law enforcement.

Evan Greer, Activist and musician takes a break from her tour to talk about the dangerous implications of law enforcement using facial recognition technology.

Do you think law enforcement should be banned from using facial recognition technology?

• BanFacialRecognition.com
• FightForTheFuture.org
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38557
Trump Reducing Interest Rates To Be Re-elected
[[w/ Richard Wolff)

Is Donald Trump forcing the Fed to keep interest rates low to ensure he is re-elected in 2020?

The government in a capitalist system is the lender and spender of last resort. When things are going well, business will tell you how wonderful things are. In hard times they will run to government finance. The government will support the bad times, but do they have too much power when a leader has his or her hands close to the till?

The Federal Reserve is supposed to be independent, but governments always want to meddle.

Dr. Richard Wolff joined Thom to discuss printing money and why it is both good and bad.

Understanding Marxism

• DemocracyAtWork.info
• RDWolff.com
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38558
How Mass Surveillance Targets Muslim People

The age of mass surveillance is even worse for Muslim people who face additional worries in Trump's America.

Zahra Billoo, a civil rights attorney & Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, San Francisco Bay Area joins Thom to talk about mass surveillance of Muslim people, the Muslim ban and life under Trump.

• CAIR.com
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38559
Could Political Education Cure Trump Supporters?

Could Donald Trump supporters be cured by political education?

In response to Thom asking if listeners will forgive their Trump supporting friends, one caller brought up political education as the price for moving forward.

Could a better politically educated population stop Donald Trumps from rising?

• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38561
Lori Wallach Exposes How Trump Got Trade Wrong

Donald Trump got elected by promising to fight against neoliberal trade policies that stopped Americans from getting or keeping high paying skilled jobs.

But Donald Trump doesn't know what he is doing when it comes to trade and his policies don't address the real problems with things like NAFTA or the TPP.

Donald Trump's new NAFTA renegotiation plan does nothing to stop jobs leaving the United States and might even make it worse.

Lori Wallach director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch joins the program today to explain why Donald Trump's plans with trade are half baked and to answer an important question.

Where are Democrats on trade?

• NetrootsNation.org
• TradeWatch.org
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38562
Jeff Merkely Wants Every 2020 Candidate To Answer THIS Question!

Senator Jeff Merkely wants every American to get involved and get out there and he wants every 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to answer this one question.

What's your answer to Jeff's question and what do you imagine the responses from the Democratic presidential candidates will be?

• Merkley.Senate.gov
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38563
Lobster Men Unionize To Take On Corporate Greed

Lobster 207 is organizing to unionize against corporate greed and laws that hurt the lobster industry.

What are the role of unions today and can the lobster men help fulfil that role?

• Lobster207.com
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38580
Why Is Big Pharma Increasing Your Medicine Prices?

The US pays more for medical drugs that in any country in the world.

Health in the US is all about making a profit and drug prices have increased dramatically since Trump become president.

Drug makers can charge whatever they want in the US, which is not the same in the rest of the world. Medicare must use many drugs, whether they work or not – who knew this?

Author of Big Pharma, Big Greed, Stephen Sheller joined Thom to update what is going on in the pharmaceutical industry.

Big Pharma, Big Greed:
The inside story of one lawyer’s battle to stem the flood of dangerous medicines and protect public health

• [Link to infected sheller.com omitted [[Web Attack: Malicious Script Injection 7) - Jimaz]
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38581
Is America A "Melting Pot" Or A Racist Nation?

Why won't the GOP comment on Donald Trump's racist comments?

Conservatives are silent as Trump’s tweet telling women of color to go back to their ancestor’s country amplifies the sort of thing that people like David Duke and the Klan have been saying forever.

It’s just as explicitly racist and fascist as was his “very fine people on both sides” comment.

Now the leader of the Republican Party is not just saying things like this repeatedly, but doubling down on them. Has the GOP now moved so far to the right that this will get Trump re-elected?

Does this mean the end of the American experiment of the “great melting pot”?

• JimHightower.com
• ThomHartmann.com

[Zacha341]

I don't know about the iron-clad GOP folks but there are thinking conservatives, indies, liberals and libertarians talking about it alright. Stating that this tweet, et al was clearly a flub on Trumps part [[especially the doubling-down efforts going forth), but you have to step out of the bubble of one-sided media to know that.

Perhaps FoxSNEWS may say something - oh, but wait for the most part, they never critique the president even for the larger good of the nation.

Just like his opposition-the nation be darned as everyone doubles down. Too bad. Most of us just 'Stuck in the Middle' [[recall the song?)

Yes I'm stuck in the middle with you,
And I'm wondering what it is I should do,
It's so hard to keep this smile from my face,
Losing control, yeah, I'm all over the place,
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln7Vn_WKkWU

Attachment 38581
Is America A "Melting Pot" Or A Racist Nation?

• JimHightower.com
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38582
Can Trump Go Too Far Or Will Racism Get Him Reelected?

Will Donald Trump's racism get him elected again?

Is there anything Trump could do that would be too far for Republicans and the American voter to support?

• ThomHartmann.com

[Zacha341]

No, the absence of a candidate who can beat him will [[get Trump elected again). But then I say always 'expect' the unexpected!

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Attachment 38585
Mueller Investigation Report, Part 43

• The Full Set of Mueller Report Readings
• ThomHartmann.com

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Attachment 38587
Debate: Libertarian Economist Wants To Do Away With Minimum Wage?

The minimum wage is on the mind of workers everywhere as fast food workers, the service industry and others organize to raise the minimum and with prominent democratic front runners like Bernie Sanders behind them, the workers could succeed and get a $15 minimum wage....

But not everyone wants see workers earn a decent living, enough to survive or even buy groceries.

Charles Sauer a libertarian economist is actually opposed to raising the minimum wage and even wants to abolish the minimum wage all together.

Do you think the minimum wage should rise, stay the same or do you agree with Charles that it should be abolished?

• ThomHartmann.com