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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Will the New Illustrious Dunderheads Lead us Into WWIII?

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Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Will this generation of treason-weasel Republicans drag us into another world war by ignoring Putin's fascist land-grab?

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Will the new illustrious dunderheads lead us into World War 3?

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This article starts out with two epigraph quotes,... you know header quotes the first one

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is from tennessee republican representative john jennings on july fourteenth nineteen forty

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he said

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our enemies the administration keeps telling the people are Germany, Italy, and Japan,

0:24.2

naming them. But not one of them has made a gesture toward us. For all we think and feel about

0:28.9

Hitler, he has not attacked us. But the American government has attacked Hitler, first by words, then by measures short of war,

0:35.0

then by giving pledge to his enemies to assist them by all physical means to the utmost.

0:40.0

The second quote is from Michigan Republican Representative Paul Schaefer on

0:44.9

May 16th 1941.

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Quote, I know of no member in this house, Mr. Speaker, who possesses the remotest idea

0:52.2

that any of Hitler's

0:53.0

panzer divisions are to strike in the desert of Arizona or in the sand stretches of

0:57.1

the Mojave how long are the American people to be fed this stuff and then the article begins.

1:06.3

In the two years leading up to Pearl Harbor, roughly a hundred Republican members of Congress

1:10.1

stood up to publicly defend Hitler and condemn Democratic President Roosevelt for

1:15.0

war-mongering and promoting socialism.

1:18.8

Last week, Marjorie Taylor Green echoed their comments almost to the word in condemning President Biden's efforts

1:24.4

to aid Ukraine against this generation's fascist menace Vladimir Putin.

1:29.2

She told reporters and then posted to Facebook, X and Instagram,

1:32.8

quote, I wish the CIA cared about our own border

1:35.3

security like they care about Ukraine's.

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