this is the Tom Hartman program and greetings my friends patriots lovers of

democracy truth and justice believers in peace freedom and the American way

we've got a lot to talk about today we're gonna get into the hidden hand of the

US blockade in Cuba what's going on with that Leonardo Flores with code

pink will be with us what are the Republicans up to right I'll tell you what it

looks to me like they're up to and it's conceivable that I'm completely

misjudging this and if you think that I'm wrong on this you know or if you think

I'm right and I've overlooked something give me a shout but it seems to me

that what's going on here well let me start let me back up a little bit

Dr. Jonathan Reiner he's a CNN medical analyst he was on CNN a couple of days

ago and he said a surprising amount of death will occur soon now what he's

talking about is the fact that this Delta variant which is twice as contagious

and two or three times more deadly than the previous variations of COVID and

it's killing 18-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 30-year-olds in Missouri for

example right now and now in Alabama and Arkansas hospital ICUs are filling

up and they're filling up now with 70-year-olds 70-year-olds are all vaccinated

they're filling up with 20 and 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and not people who are

obese or who are suffering from diabetes or heart disease or asthma or any of

the other conditions that might predispose you these are healthy people

so this is happening right at the same time that right across the

spectrum from Republican elected officials to Republican commentators to

Republican-leaning media from Fox News to OAN to I mean just the whole

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