MITCH MCCONNELL WANTS TO LET CORPORATIONS KILL YOU WITHOUT CONSEQUENCE
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 15 December 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
It's time to fight back. If corporate media continues to refuse to discuss McConnell's blackmail, we must individually speak up among friends and communities, and also let our lawmakers know what we think. It's time to raise some hell.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:17.2 | So my friend George just sent me a, by the way, top of the morning to you. |
| 0:21.6 | Just sent me a screenshot from CNN that says, breaking news. |
| 0:26.9 | In final bid for victory, Trump changes name to Joe Biden. |
| 0:33.0 | I get it. |
| 0:34.0 | It's a spoof, but it's hysterical. |
| 0:35.0 | Anyway, we've got, we've got a lot going on today. |
| 0:39.0 | First of all, I think probably the most under reported story since May has been Mitch McConnell |
| 0:47.3 | trying to block first the Heroes Act and then, you know, the Democrats came back and |
| 0:52.0 | said, okay, three trillions, too much for you. |
| 0:54.3 | How about two trillion? |
| 0:55.8 | And there was another piece of legislation. |
| 0:57.2 | I'm not sure it ever had a name, but it was like the, well, how's this act? |
| 1:02.2 | And he has refused to even allow either of these pieces of legislation to even be discussed |
| 1:08.7 | on the floor of the Sun. |
| 1:10.9 | And you know, now we're talking about maybe there's a compromise that we can even bloody, |
| 1:14.6 | bloody, bloody. |
| 1:15.9 | But what nobody seems to be talking about is that Mitch McConnell has been holding your |
| 1:23.8 | health and your economic welfare, if you're one of the 20 million Americans who have |
| 1:29.7 | lost your job or the 10 million Americans who have lost your health care or the probably |
| 1:34.9 | 30 or 40 million Americans who've seen, you know, your economic fortunes diminish substantially |
| 1:40.2 | over the last little less than a year, nine months or so. |
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