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The Hartmann Report

DEMOCRATS CAN'T WIN TALK RADIO IF THEY DON'T PLAY

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Republicans have taken over Talk Radio. If Democrats want to win the American people, they need to get on the air.

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0:00.0

Well, greetings, my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers

0:22.9

and peace, freedom and the American way, Tom Harman here with you.

0:27.4

Well, the Republicans are up to their usual perfidious, I'm lacking words, it's reached that

0:34.8

point.

0:35.8

It's like I'm running out of adjectives to describe the Trump administration and the

0:39.7

Republican Party as we just saw another unemployment report, these weekly unemployment

0:46.3

reports.

0:47.3

So this one wasn't the 7,800,000 new people filing for unemployment, it was over a million.

0:54.2

We are sliding, you know, as we're going right into the jaws of the third wave of this

0:59.1

or the second big wave nationally of this pandemic here in the United States as a result

1:05.8

of Donald Trump and Kristi Nome and a bunch of other Republicans actively encouraging people

1:11.9

to get infected.

1:13.5

Kristi Nome, inviting 500, you know, half a million bikers to South Dakota so they could

1:17.7

all infect each other and then spread back out all across the United States.

1:21.4

That was probably the number one super spreader event in the United States.

1:25.2

And then Donald Trump holding rallies, maskless rallies all over the country.

1:29.1

And we see now the maps, you know, the counties and areas around those rallies and the virus

1:34.2

just spreading out from there.

1:36.4

So and we now learn also from internal emails within the Trump administration that this

1:43.2

was actually their policy to try and get as many people as infected as possible.

1:48.4

Now they completely miss the fact that yeah, one or two or three percent of people died

1:52.4

depending on whose numbers you're looking at when in the pandemic it was and whether

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