In the wake of another right-wing racist killing spree what is the secret philosophy animating the violence and Thom asks Sheriff Mack about the possibilities of an armed uprising for Trump while Steve King eggs it on.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 19 March 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Is it time to expel Rep Steve King from Congress? After years of ignoring King's racist anomalies, has the representative's recent inflammatory meme gone too far? - The world stands in mourning after the tragedy in Christchurch New Zealand where a Trump supporter took the lives of 50 Muslim people during prayers. For perspective Thom speaks with Wajahat Ali, author of The Domestic Crusaders. - Thom's take on Rush Limbaugh's recent rant and callers respond. - Author of "From My Cold Dead Fingers: Why America Needs Guns" and Oath Keeper's Board of Directors, Sheriff Richard Mack surprises our audience by calling for peace. A position which seems out of step with previous statements. Now that this Oath Keeper has called for peace, will others join him? - Thom Hartmann Book Club reading - The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon - Talk Media News correspondent Luke Vargas gives an update on the uncertain path of Brexit and Mike Pompeo's religiously restrictive and secret press calls.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:20.0 | Louise and I went to back when we lived in Atlanta in Georgia. |
| 0:23.7 | This was like in the late, in the 1980s, |
| 0:26.5 | I forget which election cycle it was, |
| 0:28.6 | but Pat Buchanan was running for president. |
| 0:31.1 | It was in the Republican primary. |
| 0:33.2 | And he was grabbing some traction. |
| 0:35.8 | And we took our kids. |
| 0:36.8 | Our youngest was, she was small enough that she sat on my shoulders. |
| 0:40.3 | I think she was maybe two. |
| 0:42.2 | And we took our kids to this and before we went we said |
| 0:45.6 | you know what you're going to probably see here maybe nothing or this may be |
| 0:49.8 | the kind of rally that you would have seen in Germany in 1932. |
| 0:54.3 | And so I'd just like to show it to you. |
| 0:56.6 | And sure enough, we got in there. |
| 0:58.2 | They locked the doors or they made it very difficult to get in or out. |
| 1:01.4 | The security was bikers and skin heads with |
| 1:03.8 | swastikas. The guy who introduced Pat Buchanan went on a long rant about the |
| 1:08.9 | Jewish bankers controlling the world. Pat Buchanan continued that but instead of saying |
| 1:14.4 | Jewish bankers he kept using the phrase those people. I mean there's a long |
| 1:19.6 | province to this right this idea that people who are not, quote, us are the ones coming to get us. |
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