Daily Take: Zuckerberg's Libertarianism: Why Do Republicans Embrace Cruelty? (Part 2)
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 27 September 2024
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While the ideas and policies promoted by the libertarian wing of the Republican Party have made CEOs and billionaire investors very, very rich in recent decades, it’s killing the rest of us.
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| 0:00.0 | Zuckerberg's libertarianism. Why do Republicans embrace cruelty? |
| 0:05.1 | As noted yesterday, Uber billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, according to the New York Times, now professes to be a |
| 0:09.8 | libertarian. So once again, why are Republicans so cruel and why do they seem so fond of |
| 0:15.9 | libertarianism? Why does Greg Abbott put razor wire in the Rio Grande River? |
| 0:20.3 | Why does Donald Trump target people for assassination by his followers? |
| 0:24.0 | Why does Ron Desantis revel in keeping tens of thousands of low-income Florida children from getting Medicaid? |
| 0:30.0 | Why would Zuckerberg hook up with a group that wants to strip Americans of basic social safety net protections and regulations? |
| 0:36.0 | Yesterday I laid out the terrible impact Libertarian policies which have infected the GOP for five decades have had on the United States. |
| 0:45.0 | But where did the whole idea of Libertarianism come from and who started the Libertarian Party? |
| 0:50.0 | Get waiting for a wild ride as we dive deep into America's most bizarre and phony political party. |
| 0:56.7 | How is that the Republicans have so often embraced casual cruelty like tearing mothers |
| 1:00.6 | from their children or throwing pregnant women in poverty off public assistance |
| 1:05.0 | why have twelve Republican controlled states refuse to this day |
| 1:08.6 | to expand medicaid |
| 1:10.0 | for the thirty million minimum wage working people when the federal government covers 90% of the cost. |
| 1:15.7 | Why are Republicans so committed to destroy Medicare and Social Security? |
| 1:20.2 | Why do they go so far as to use the disrespectful slur Democrat party when there's no such thing in America never has been? |
| 1:26.4 | It's the Democratic Party named by Thomas Jefferson. |
| 1:30.0 | Why are Democratic members of Congress having to arm their own homes having received over 9,000 death threats so far this year virtually all of them from domestic terrorists that Republicans refuse to repudiate? |
| 1:41.0 | The FBI is still looking for a Matt Gates supporter who |
| 1:44.2 | threatened to murder Gates's Democratic opponent. Why are these people |
| 1:47.9 | attracted to the GOP? It turns out this is not just politics. The roots of this brutal movement in today's GOP |
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