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And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace,

freedom and the American way Tom Hartman here with you. We've got a lot to talk about today.

The GOP is turning up hate and fear or turning up the dial on it. We'll get into that in just a moment.

We've got a lot to talk about. I want to just start out very quickly by pointing out that, you know,

at the top of the news, right across the board and right across the country,

are these atrocities, these Russian atrocities that are coming out of Bucha, this little suburb of

Kiv, and the Russians have taken a much larger city,

Mary Opel, and just bombed the crap out of it. There's still a couple hundred thousand people

in that city. And it looks like, according to coverage, this is out of a website based out of

Ukraine. You just never know, you know, is this, is this, you know, information? Is it news?

Is it propaganda? I can't vouch for this. It's not been verified by US sources, but this is what

the Mary Opel City Council, which is now kind of a city council in hiding, or, you know,

a shadow council or whatever, because the Russians have pretty much seized the city. And the mayor,

what they have to say, this is a press release from the City Council of Mary Opel. Quote,

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