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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 Tom Hartman here with you. So let's talk about actual news.

Let's start out with just acknowledging the cruelty and death is the Republican party's brand

and has been since the 1920s, 100 years. Speaking of, you know, celebrating long term events,

I'll give you the details on that in just a moment. And is the far right's entire agenda driven by

one singular perspective, which is that liberals are not bad, not wrong, not, you know, bad policy,

don't screw things up, but are actually essentially evil. We'll talk about that.

And also how privatizing the commons is harming communities and countries.

You will recall in 2020, the power systems of Puerto Rico were privatized.

And now Jackson, Mississippi is looking at having their water system privatized, which will involve,

you know, roughly a 50% increase in prices for water. And, you know,

God only knows what it's going to do to the quality. We'll talk about that. But to start out,

let's just all acknowledge that cruelty and death is the GOP brand. That's the headline over

HartmanReport.com today. You know, the, I don't know if you caught yesterday's New York Times,

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