Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 01/29/19 - Corporate lobbyists and billionaires are directly running the executive branch, and many congresspeople have been bought and paid for- corruption is explicit and extreme, and the president seems to be looking for a good war wherever he can find one. Is it time to declare this a true crisis that requires an energetic Progressive crusade on the order of the world-changing Progressive movements in our past? And who should and could be elected to lead that change?

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🗓️ 29 January 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Thom makes the case that our present crisis of extraordinary corruption- with lobbyists and billionaires directly running the government to enrich themselves- is on the level of past crises that led to a powerful Progressive response. Who is the right person to disinfect government and return power to the people? Elizabeth Warren, or? ------ Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin examines the crisis In Venezuela and considers whether there will be a coup and if it will be led by the U.S.? Will this be a part of the crises that could require Progressives to push back in a massive way, or will Trump use war to gain power? ----- Thom reads from Medea Benjamin's book 'Kingdom of the Unjust'. ----- Callers respond, and the examples of the various Bush wars are examined. And Thom expands on his thesis that the present crisis requires a Progressive push-back to the chaos that has resulted from the billionaire power grab that has grown out of the Powell memo. ------ Investigative Journalist Greg Palast enumerates the potential of nine million green card holders as election-swinging voters if they become citizens, and the intimidation factor of Trump's anti-immigrant policies. ------- Thom holds court with callers and their thoughts on a Progressive strategy for 2020.

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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.
0:23.2	Tom Hartman here with you.
0:24.1	There is a lot going on in Washington, D.C.
0:26.2	First of all, the Trump administration
0:28.5	has appointed a convicted war criminal,
0:31.2	a guy who covered up the massacre of a thousand people as
0:34.3	their special envoy to Venezuela
0:36.7	Elliot Abrams a guy that was pardoned by George Bush senior as part of the Iran
0:40.7	contra pardons that stopped the investigation into Bush himself.
0:45.1	It's really pretty amazing.
0:47.6	We have a crisis right now in America.
0:51.6	We are experiencing a crisis. You know for years I have been
0:55.1	saying on this program and I wrote about this in my book Crash of 2016 should have
0:59.5	been titled The Coming Crash rather than putting a year on it.
1:02.8	But in any case, I wrote about this,
1:04.8	I've talked about this many times that if you look
1:07.8	at the arc of American history, of the history of our republic, the political and practical history of the United States.
1:18.2	What you see is that the times that we have had significant lirches forward in a progressive direction.
1:27.2	When the country has moved in a positive and forward-looking direction have always been after great crises.
1:35.9	You had the Tax, the Stamp Act and then the T Act of 1773, as I recall, followed by the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre and
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