Meet the new GOP scam, same as the old GOP scam. Insights from Greg Palast, Richard Wolff and Marianne Williamson.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 11 March 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
- Trump's new anti-socialist rhetoric against the Dems has been recycled for years by the GOP and called out by FDR decades ago. Will red state voters who have the most to lose fall for it again?
- The Crisis in Venezuela continues as Guaido returns after an attempted coup against the Maduro government. Investigative Journalist Greg Palast joins Thom Hartmann to discuss just who is behind efforts to challenge Maduro Could it be in the interest of oil companies and the Koch Brothers to overthrow Maduro and install Guaido?
- A little ditty about Alexandria Ocazio Cortez
- Economic Crashes are part of the normal cycle of capitalism. Miraculously Japan and a few other countries have found a way to stop economic crashes using a very simple method. Redistribution of wealth. Thom Hartmann Asks Professor Richard Wolff if these methods can be applied to the United States or if the billionaire class will let us stop the crashes before it is too late?
- Dave in Texas and Donald in California have some bumper sticker ideas. And should Democrats appear on Faux News? And what is truly antisemitism? And Do you believe in climate chance?
- Marianne Williamson, renowned Author, Lecturer, and activist, is running for President! She argues that we need a far deeper response to our current problems for us to move forward. Discover how she is finding it so far and some of her campaign pointers.
- Talk Media News with Bob Ney: Insights behind the recent air disaster and Trump's ruinous economic plan.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:20.0 | believers in peace, freedom in the American way. |
| 0:24.0 | Trump's budget is out or is about to come up. |
| 0:27.7 | We know the broad outline of it. |
| 0:30.5 | And it's going to do just extraordinary damage to red state America. |
| 0:35.0 | By a large to working class white people, the people who voted for Donald Trump, |
| 0:41.0 | it's going to do just extraordinary damage to them. |
| 0:43.5 | And he wants to cut $1.1 trillion, this is over a 10-year period, |
| 0:47.2 | 1.1 trillion dollars to Medicaid. |
| 0:50.4 | And Medicaid is the health care program that in those states that have done Medicaid expansion |
| 0:56.4 | that is available to the working poor. |
| 0:59.2 | Medicaid is, in that context, kind of a subsidy for McDonald's and Walmart and all those other companies |
| 1:04.4 | that pay really really low wages because if you make so little that you qualify for Medicaid, |
| 1:10.9 | then you work for basically trumps America and you know the question that I'm |
| 1:16.1 | asking actually let me get right to this Eugene Robinson in the Washington |
| 1:20.6 | Post over the weekend wrote that essentially |
| 1:23.4 | Trump's supporters are the stupidest most gullible people on earth. |
| 1:27.6 | He said quote he apparently believes his loyal supporters are the dumbest |
| 1:31.9 | most gullible people on earth. |
| 1:33.1 | We'll see if he's right. |
| 1:35.4 | And then he goes through the list of, you know, lies Trump is told and |
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