STOPPING THE REPUBLICANS FROM KILLING GRANDMA (and democracy)
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The Republican party has abandoned the responsibility to take care of the American people in the face of the pandemic and economic crisis. How can we best stand up to their insanity? Are we already in a hostile transition or could Trump just maybe pull off becoming a dictator? If not, what is he really trying to do?
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| 0:00.0 | Well, do Americans need to stand up to the GOP? |
| 0:22.2 | I guess the question answers itself. |
| 0:24.4 | We've got a lot to cover today. |
| 0:26.4 | Why is the Republican Party trying to kill grandma and grandpa? |
| 0:29.9 | Let me start at the beginning here. |
| 0:31.3 | I think that what we are looking at right now |
| 0:33.4 | is a crisis like we haven't seen since 1930. |
| 0:36.4 | And Herbert Hoover ignored the Great Depression. |
| 0:39.8 | He kept saying throughout this, you know, |
| 0:41.6 | the crash was in the fall and winter of 1929. |
| 0:45.8 | And it lasted through 1930 and 1931 and 1932. |
| 0:50.3 | And all the way up until March of 1933, |
| 0:52.4 | when Franklin Roosevelt took over. |
| 0:54.2 | During that entire period of time, Herbert Hoover was saying, |
| 0:57.6 | this is just a normal downturn, not to worry. |
| 1:00.0 | We're going to turn the corner at any minute. |
| 1:02.1 | In fact, turn the corner was one of his favorite phrases. |
| 1:05.0 | Where have we heard that before? |
| 1:06.8 | You know, the NFDR came in and fixed things. |
| 1:08.7 | And hopefully that's how it's going to play out this time |
| 1:10.8 | with Biden. |
| 1:12.0 | But the reality is that we're right now |
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