AS REPUBLICANS GO OFF THE DEEP END
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 11 May 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Thom debates the state of the Republican party with conservative Julio Rivera.. Plus- why have we normalized traitors like Josh Holley despite the attack on the capitol? As Republicans increasingly go off the deep end, what can we do to protect our democracy? Or does the sickness of people who can idolize a figure like Ayn Rand run too deep?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Harbin program. |
| 0:16.8 | Welcome back, Tom Harbin here with you. |
| 0:18.9 | Biden addressed the economy. |
| 0:20.4 | In fact, there was one of these Jonsaki was, I think it was Peter Ducey from Fox News |
| 0:25.8 | was like, well, what are you going to do about the fact that people don't want to go back |
| 0:29.2 | to work because they're making so much money on unemployment and you're trying to sell |
| 0:34.2 | that crap to us here in the White House. |
| 0:36.5 | Seriously, come on. |
| 0:38.7 | People are not vaccinated, people don't have childcare, there's all these Bernie's |
| 0:43.1 | response I thought was brilliant. |
| 0:45.0 | We don't need to do away with $300 a week in unemployment benefits. |
| 0:49.0 | We need to do away with, I'm paraphrasing here, we need to do away with starvation wages. |
| 0:55.2 | I mean, you want people to come back to work, pay them decently. |
| 0:59.0 | What a novel idea, never thought of that, yeah, step one. |
| 1:04.7 | But one of the questions I wanted to ask, you know, generally tossed into the conversation |
| 1:09.2 | that we're having today, last Tuesday, the Washington Post hosted this live video chat |
| 1:14.1 | with Josh Hawley. |
| 1:15.7 | And it's like, really, Josh Hawley, a live video chat, I mean, this is the guy who did |
| 1:22.4 | the fist bump, right, or the, you know, pumping his hand in the air about, you know, yeah, |
| 1:26.9 | we want to, you know, go out there and take on, you know, whatever, take the capital, |
| 1:32.0 | take it down. |
| 1:33.9 | There is something fundamentally wrong, in my opinion, with the media treating Josh Hawley |
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