OLIGARCHY V. AUTOCRACY V. DEMOCRACY
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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StrikePAC.com founder Rachel Bitecofer joins Thom for a deep analysis of the political landscape. Why are Republicans ignoring the ongoing dangers of Covid, and how must Democrats get their message out in this environment in the run-up to the midterm elections?
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| 0:00.0 | this is the Tom Hartman program greetings by friends patriots lovers of democracy truth |
| 0:19.3 | and justice believers in peace freedom and the American way we've got a lot coming up |
| 0:24.6 | on the program Rachel Bitticofer will be with us talking about the Rondesandas death |
| 0:29.6 | cult this should be interesting she's talking lawsuit I find it fascinating plus I want |
| 0:34.4 | to talk with her about democratic party messaging in red states authoritarians what they |
| 0:39.6 | love to buy and use and these two buckets in which you can put different kinds of government |
| 0:48.2 | and I'll get to that in just a moment president Biden just came out and gave a talk a short |
| 0:53.5 | speech about the economy the main thrust of his talk was to tell you know reassure people |
| 0:58.9 | and say you know inflation isn't going nuts the pandemic is principally among the unvaccinated |
| 1:04.8 | and so no need to freak out hysterically but it sure seems to me that the Republican effort |
| 1:11.4 | to essentially cause Americans to commit suicide which is really what they're encouraging |
| 1:19.4 | is working I mean this reminds me of the Japanese and World War II you had the kamikaze bombers |
| 1:26.0 | who would fly their planes right onto the decks of aircraft carriers to crash the plane and blow |
| 1:31.6 | up the aircraft carrier and go out and blaze a glory because dear leader told them to you know |
| 1:37.2 | tojo it sure seems to me like something very similar is going on where dear leader is you know |
| 1:42.8 | from Donald Trump to Tucker Carlson to all the other you know right wing talking heads that we know |
| 1:48.0 | of the guy at CPAC we said oh they thought they could get 90% of people vaccinated oh they missed |
| 1:53.2 | that in an effort to damage the Biden administration and a damage our economy in advance of the 2022 |
| 2:00.5 | election and I wrote about this last week but now it's like just coming true I believe that the |
| 2:09.6 | Republicans are literally encouraging people to commit suicide they're encouraging them not to |
| 2:14.9 | be vaccinated at the same moment that a far more highly contagious and apparently more deadly |
| 2:22.1 | strain particularly for younger people of this COVID is starting to sweep the country |
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