Here's my favorite ramp for the day excerpted from our podcast which you can find over at

Tom Harbin.com.

Greetings my friends, Patriots lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom,

and the American way.

What a day.

The, well, first of all, just, you know, to bring you up to date on the most recent news,

the director of the FBI, Chris Ray, was interrogated by the Senate Intelligence

Committee this morning and basically came right out and said that Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Donald Trump and John Kelly are all lying about

what they knew about Rob Porter and when they knew it. You know, it's like nobody's even treating that like news, right?

I mean, what, the Trump administration lies?

You know, it's like, what's the old line that Michael Keaton did in that that movie about the the guys in the

Midwest unionizing you know when the Japanese came in and took over the plant all this

kind of stuff and he said is a frogs ass watertight well I guess so and I

guess you know Republicans line gee what a surprise but I wanted to talk to you about

democracy and what makes democracy work.

The prevailing meme from the hard right, from the

libertarian right, from the fascistic right, the corporation should control government. the

the corporation should control government right

has been since

certainly since 1980 when David Koch ran for vice president

of the Libertarian

ticket on a platform of ending Social Security, ending Medicare,

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