Thom Hartmann

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40020
Is There A Silver Lining After Bernie Sanders' Suspended Campaign?
[[w/ Congressman Mark Pocan)

Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign amid fears that voting without a vote by mail system would expose more people to the pandemic.

Congressman Mark Pocan joins the Thom Hartmann Program to discuss what this means for progressives and for 2020 in general.

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

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40022
Racism & Sexism Increase COVID-19 Deaths!

African Americans are dying of COVID-19 more than they statistically should due to systemic racism. A possible cure is being denied because of sexist anti-abortion positions from the Trump administration.

Can we stop African Americans from dying from racism during a pandemic?

Will we ever cure COVID-19 if we can't do research?

• Trial drug can significantly block early stages of COVID-19 in engineered human tissues
• Trump ban on fetal tissue research blocks coronavirus treatment effort
• ThomHartmann.com

[Zacha341]

^^^ I'm certain Trump is the sole entity questioning this option.

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40026
How NOT To Save An Economy
[[w/ Richard Wolff)

Two trillion dollars. $2t. How real is this money? It is all done at the click of a mouse, creating “money.” The Federal Reserve creates the “money,” not the government.

Dr. Richard Wolff joined Thom to discuss what the Fed is doing and makes some sense of it all.

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

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40027
Trump's Sinophobia Fueling Violent Attacks Against Asian People
[[w/ Congressmember Jayapal)

Trump's anti-Chinese sentiment is fueling violent attacks against Asian people in America, over fears of COVID-19.

Sinophobia is strengthened by anti-communist rhetoric expressed by the Trump administration against democratic socialists like the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and Bernie Sanders.

But the violence of this has spread to any person assumed to be Chinese. How can progressives mobilize to stop Donald Trump, his supporters and other sinophobes from causing more attacks against Chinese people?

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

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40047
Is The Next Pandemic Already On Your Plate?
[[w/ Zach Corrigan)

As America becomes the world's epicenter for covid-19 Zach Corrigan explores how zoonodic diseases are a product of capitalist production.

Food & Warer Watch's Zach Corrigan joins Thom Hartmann to discuss the frightening process that creates zoonodic diseases in our food industry.

Can we put this all on Chinese wet markets or is the constant ecological destruction inherent to capitalism the real culprit?

• FoodAndWaterWatch.org
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40050
Are Republicans Trying To Scare YOU Away From Voting In November?

Social distancing could make an American tradition deadly. Voting requires us to gather in large groups and go out in public but with the COVID-19 pandemic, doing so could be deadly and this could be just what the Republicans want!

Will voters be able to stop the fight against vote by mail, the only safe option we have for voting during a pandemic, or will Americans be forced to choose between giving up the election to the Republicans or risking their lives and the lives of their friends and family to stop Donald Trump?

Vote by mail or COVID-19?

• Thom Hartmann for BuzzFlash: Wisconsin Is Latest Unconscionable Example of GOP War on the Right to Vote, Dangerously Exploiting the Coronavirus
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40051
Is It Too Late To Lockdown New York?

New York has too many cases of COVID-19 for lockdown to be effective anymore... and this can happen all over the United States if we don't stop COVID-19.

What can we do to save New York from COVID-19?

• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40052
The Option To End Quarantine That No One Is Discussing!

How will quarantine come to an end? With major changes to our system or millions of dead Americans?

Thom Hartmann goes over three ways to end quarantine that are not being discussed.

• Report: Trump Privately Asks Why Government Can’t Just Let COVID ‘Wash Over’ The Country
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40053
Exposing Trump's New Eugenics!

Are we seeing the start of a new kind of eugenics from the Trump administration?

Trump's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic is making some, like our caller, compare it to eugenics!

• Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40058
Is Trump's Response To COVID-19 An Attack Against The Poor?

Donald Trump's response to COVID-19 is such an attack on the poor that one caller is calling it a genocide!

Is Donald Trump's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic so extreme to become a kind of genocide against the poor? What about the medical industry in the United States? Can this ever be corrected?

• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40063
Seeing Through Trump’s Lies
[[w/ Dr. Bandy Lee)

Is Donald Trump and his lies going downhill, or uphill? Seeing through it depends on your perspective. It seems he is blaming the governors while his mental state seems to be very questionable.

Dr. Bandy Lee, Yale School of Medicine, joined Thom to discuss the current mental health of Donald Trump.

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump:
27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President

• DangerousCase.org
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40066
Trump Set To Punish States For Not Reopening?

Trump aims his anger at Democratic governors who have banded together to save their people on their own. If Trump can't take credit for it, he will stop it.

Believing that the state compact is an affront to his power to govern, Donald Trump is setting out to punish states that are not listening to him about reopening the country. The governors want ...

• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40067
Have We Already Lost Our Democracy?

Donald Trump controls the courts, and the courts might decide that democracy is a thing of the past if Trump uses this opportunity to steal the 2020 election.

One caller fears that Democracy is a thing of the past with Donald Trump in charge of the courts. Will Donald Trump stop you from voting, install himself as president and dictator?

• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40068
How Half A Century Of Republican Planning Led Us To Trump

Is Donald Trump the culmination of over 40 years of Republican plans to deregulate and privatize the economy?

Thom Hartmann unravels the billionaires' plan to destroy American government, going all the way back to David Koch's presidential run, but is Donald Trump's incompetence unraveling that plan now?

• What Do the Koch Brothers Want?
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40069
If Trump Was In Charge During WWII...

What would the world be like today if Donald Trump was in charge during WWII? One caller's thought experiment shows just how bad Donald Trump is ...

Would we all be speaking German right now if Donald Trump was in charge during the second Great War?

• ThomHartmann.com

[Zacha341]

^^^ That's interesting. I'd have thought that outcome from other presidents, if not in distinction from, similarly so!

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40071
Mayor's Vision For America Brings You Up & Trump Down
[[w/ Mark Gamba)

Mayor Mark Gamba of Milwaukee, OR, [[D-OR) joined Thom to share how his campaign is organizing during this historic time, why tax breaks for billionaires don't work, and why a rent freeze and the Green New Deal are the ways to start an economy!

Topics included the co-operate sell-out, climate change, the red/blue divide and healthcare.

• MarkGamba.com
• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40072
How Many Americans Will Trump Sacrifice For His Economy?

Donald Trump wants to reopen the country to get his economy back up. He is willing to sacrfice American lives for a higher GDP?

Will Donald Trump force Americans to risk their lives?

• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40079
What Is Capitalism's New “Normal”?
[[w/ Richard Wolff)

Can the US come up with a sensible strategy to re-build the country? Are we badly prepared? Is Capitalism able to come up with a new normal? Richard Wolff Says no!

There are so many uncertainties that it is impossible to tell what will come next.

Professor Richard Wolff joined Thom to talk about economic crises we have seen this century and what may happen after the current disaster.

Understanding Socialism

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

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40080
Donald Trump Set To Blame Everyone But Himself
[[w/ Cong. Mark Pocan)

Donald Trump is blaming everyone but himself, and Congressman Mark Pocan is not happy about it.

Mark Pocan joins Thom Hartmann to discuss what congress is doing to protect American people and who Trump is planning to blame next.

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

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40081
Why Are Billionaires Funding Go Back To Work Protests?

The big question that the media is asking is, “Why?“ Why is it that right wing billionaires are funding protests of shelter in place orders in the states?

Why is it that Fox News is pushing so hard to reopen the economy? Why are TV doctor pundits on Fox saying that having 2% or 3% of our population die is an acceptable price to pay? Why are these people willing to sacrifice our elders and vulnerable Americans of all ages to get the economy back in shape? Is it possible that one of the reasons these billionaires are pushing these efforts is because any more stimulus packages will require an increase in taxes on billionaires to pay for them? Could it be that simple and that crass?

• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40082
Are Republicans Trying To Kill The Poor?

Are Republicans and the oligarchs who control them trying to kill poor people and people of color?

How can they call themselves pro life when they are asking Americans to die for their country so they can.... get haircuts?

• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40084
Will Trump Get Away With It Again?

Trump, Fox News and the nation's billionaires are working together on something nasty and they just might get away with it.

Open the country? Reopen...

Trump, Fox News and America’s right wing billionaires, who are all working together to stoke an “Open the country!“ movement, are making a huge bet. When Mike Pence was telling people in 2000 that cigarettes don’t cause cancer, while many people no doubt died because of his advice, he was never held accountable for it.

When Donald Trump and the coal lobbyist who runs his EPA allowed a poisonous pesticide to go back into production and be used on our food crops, there will be an explosion in cancer and neurological disease, but he almost certainly will not be held responsible for it. When Steve Mnuchin illegally “Robo signed“ thousands of mortgage documents, throwing thousands of Californians out of their homes, he escaped any responsibility for the suffering and destroyed families he caused. When Fox News promoted the Tea Party campaign to stop Obamacare and the expansion of Medicaid, Harvard University says tens of thousands of Americans died unnecessarily, but Fox News was never held responsible for that. The same guys are now betting that they can successfully politicize the coronavirus and use it to get themselves reelected and lay their hands on as much of the stimulus money as possible, and they will not be held responsible for that, either.

Trump made a bet like this three months ago when he chose to ignore the coronavirus, and now over 40,000 Americans are dead, but by and large he is not being held responsible for that. Instead the networks put him on TV every night. These grifters and political criminals are all doubling down on their bet that they can simply bullshit their way through this and succeed. Do you think they’ll win that bet?

• ThomHartmann.com

[Jimaz]

Attachment 40086
Does Trump Have A Conscience?
[[w/ Dr. Justin A. Frank, MD)

Donald Trump has put America in unprecedented situations and he doesn't care as long as it gives him power. He is acting like he doesn't have a conscience. We ask Dr. Justin Frank, author of Trump on the Couch.

Dr. Justin Frank joins to talk about Trump's personality disorders, whether or not the President of the United States has a conscience and more.

Trump on the Couch:
Inside the Mind of the President

• SocialSecurityWorks.org
• MediaMatters.org
• ThomHartmann.com