FAT CATS MAKE OUT LIKE BANDITS, AVERAGE AMERICANS?.. SCREWED
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The GOP is no longer a legitimate political party: it’s a cult. It’s becoming increasingly clear to Americans that the Republican Party only stands for one thing: the privilege and power of wealthy white men. Over the last 40 years they have devised increasingly byzantine rules to prevent low income whites and people of color from voting and are now trying to outright throw out ballots in Detroit, Philadelphia and Atlanta. They’ve worked for decades, at both the state and federal level, to make it harder for women to get access to birth control, women’s health services, and abortion. When the coronavirus hit, most developed countries made direct payments to unemployed workers; Republicans only tolerated that here for a few months, and the price was trillions, which continue to flow, to fat cats and big corporations.Now, to hang on to enough suckers to keep them in power, the GOP has resorted to embracing Nazis, religious fanatics and conspiracy theorists.
Investigative Reporter Greg Palast joins Thom- is Georgia trying to stop anyone who doesn't own a car from registering to vote?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:16.7 | Our old buddy Greg Palist on the line with us, the investigative journalist, the author, |
| 0:20.5 | his latest book, OutTrump Stull 2020, something that is still up in the air. |
| 0:26.0 | Geez. |
| 0:27.0 | This website GregPalist.com, you can tweet him at Greg underscore palace. |
| 0:31.0 | Greg, welcome back to the program. |
| 0:32.6 | I understand there's some new goings on down in Georgia. |
| 0:35.6 | Tell us about it. |
| 0:36.6 | Oh my God, the smell of audacity. |
| 0:40.0 | The Secretary of State has proposed a new rule to stop voter fraud. |
| 0:44.4 | You know all the voter fraud that they've found in Georgia, but this is really serious stuff. |
| 0:49.6 | He stuck in a rule, I'm kiddo not, at midnight last night, Georgia time, with a emergency |
| 0:56.8 | hearing this morning of the Board of Elections to prevent people from coming into Georgia |
| 1:01.8 | and voting in the Senate runoff, which is, of course, going to decide everyone's Senate. |
| 1:07.1 | Now how are they going to catch these fraudsters? |
| 1:09.0 | Will they're going to prevent any county official? |
| 1:12.5 | Elections official in any of the 159 counties can stop anyone from registering. |
| 1:16.8 | Ready? |
| 1:17.8 | If you don't have a car registered in Georgia, now needing to buy a car to vote Tom, that's |
| 1:26.6 | kind of a heavy poll tax. |
| 1:27.9 | They can't actually stop you from voting or registering, but they can withhold your registration |
| 1:34.3 | until they give you a hearing to confirm that you're a Georgian. |
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