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The Hartmann Report

BILLIONAIRES SALIVATING AT DREAM OF PRIVATIZING THE POSTAL SERVICE

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Congress, Economics, Climate Change, The Hartmann Report, Debate, Democracy, America, Thom Hartmann, News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Regarding the hearings on the Post Office...

Rand Paul gave the game away asking, essentially:

If you were a venture capitalist what would you need done in order to privatize the postal service?

The billionaires are circling the game, preparing to go in for the kill.

Joe Biden hits a home run with his acceptance speech as the convention concludes. Callers respond.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:18.0

Well, greetings, my friends, patriots,

0:20.2

lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers, and peace, freedom in the American way.

0:25.0

Tom Hartman here with you.

0:27.0

What a brilliant job I thought the DNC did with the convention.

0:30.0

If you watched it, it was extraordinary. I think that this virtual convention this year has actually been a lot more interesting, a lot more informative, and frankly a lot more motivating than the ones that I've seen that are

0:45.1

filled with you know drunken revelers basically when that little boy who is a

0:49.2

stutterr and I think he lived in New Hampshire and and Joe Biden was there for some event and gave a speech and the kid came up afterwards and told him that he was a stutterr and Biden essentially said, well stick around, we'll talk privately.

1:00.7

And then after people had left, he sat down with this little boy and showed

1:04.4

him his speech, you know, that he had marked where he had marked where to pause

1:09.8

so that his stuttering wouldn't get, you know,

1:12.7

Biden has figured out how to work around his instinct

1:16.0

to stutter.

1:16.6

He's been a stutteror his whole entire life.

1:18.9

And this kid was telling the story

1:21.1

of his being a stutterr and how Biden helped him.

1:24.8

I mean it was just like, wow.

1:27.0

And this was just like, you know, some kid who was in a, it wasn't like the, you know,

1:30.4

the son of some senator.

1:32.8

You know, I just thought that was really impressive.

1:35.0

And, you know, I know we mentioned it yesterday afternoon,

1:37.4

but also there is this whole Steve Bannon thing

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