Hot Democracy Summer
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Our favorite substitute teacher, thinker and talk show host Jeff Smith fills in for Thom. What are the ingredients in the recipe for genuine people-powered Democracy in America?
Plus- Thom read from "Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood" by Colin Woodard.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to Anything Goes Friday on the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:20.0 | We're honored to have you and I'm honored to be with you. We'll go over some things. |
| 0:24.8 | So we'll talk a little Alex Jones. I do want to talk about D-Day. |
| 0:31.5 | Last time I was on we were gearing up and thank you to the people listening who supported, |
| 0:37.0 | who were interested, attended, etc. |
| 0:40.0 | There was a major conference on climate technology, |
| 0:42.8 | the Wings Conference, and it happened to be located |
| 0:45.8 | and based around my hometown. |
| 0:48.7 | And the, but people came from further away. |
| 0:52.7 | And a couple of the speakers we're going to have on. |
| 0:55.6 | How do we think about this moment as there's a moment of challenge, |
| 0:59.5 | of stress internationally, locally, domestically, also is a time of opportunity, also the time of |
| 1:07.0 | being able to revisit not only our social contract, but the deal we make with our natural environment? |
| 1:15.0 | Did you see that Alex Jones agreed to liquidate his assets to pay the Sandy Hook families |
| 1:22.0 | in a move that would end his ownership of Infow Wars. |
| 1:25.9 | So he was going to try to do, I think, Chapter 11 bankruptcy. |
| 1:30.1 | He changed that. |
| 1:31.1 | They figured there wasn't a way to restructure so it could generate the money |
| 1:33.5 | owes over a billion dollars to the families for his slander and libel and he didn't have a billion |
| 1:41.8 | and a half dollars but he's got a lot of assets that could help |
| 1:45.5 | pay the families. |
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