Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 02/05/19 - Thom thinks the state of the Union is -worried-! From the damage Trump's corrupt rule is doing to the damage he could do- from deliberately losing thousands of people's kids, to putting Koch industries in charge at the EPA, to massively running up the federal deficit solely to give massively rich people a huge tax cut, to handing Russia a get-out-of-treaties-free card and sparking a nuclear arms race, to ending net neutrality, to fostering a low-wage economy for millions... Hey, what could go wrong?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 5 February 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Thom's take on just some of the crazy world Trump is presiding over- should we be worried about the state of this union? - Trumps cancellation of the nuclear treaty with Russia could be dangerous, with the possibility (probability?) that both sides will now develop new nuclear weapons. Derek Johnson from Global Zero tells Thom about what happens next and whether we are all safe " or not. Is the Cold War back on? Russia immediately reacted, with Vladimir Putin also withdrawing from the INF Treaty. Did Russia breech the treaty? Or the U.S.? Or both? - Thom's callers have a very clear idea of what we should be worried about. - Even though net neutrality rules have been rolled back, citizens are still fighting for the principle to be restored and save internet freedom. Yosef Getachew from Common Cause has the details, and what we can do. - Venezuela and other American foreign policy 'interests' are on the brilliant mind of Luke Vargas, chief foreign correspondent for Talk Media News. - Thom's take on the realities of inequality, health care, and taxes. How do Progressive solutions apply? And the callers clarify and deepen the train of thought.- Patreon ask - Thom examines the state of our union with his thoughtful callers. Why do the millionaires who host the cable news shows not cover how the rich shelter their taxes?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:17.0 | And greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers, and peace, freedom, and the American way. |
| 0:26.0 | What is the state of our union? |
| 0:28.7 | I think the state of our union is worried. |
| 0:32.4 | We are worried about global warming. We're worried about all |
| 0:36.6 | the lobbyists running government. We just we just learned today or actually yesterday |
| 0:41.6 | I guess. I've got the article to go off on today. |
| 0:45.3 | We just learned that another scientist who worked for Koch industries. |
| 0:50.0 | Koch Industries owns Georgia Pacific, the big paper company, Georgia |
| 0:53.9 | Pacific apparently has a problem with contaminating land with a particular |
| 0:58.5 | class of chemicals. This guy is now working at the EPA trying to make sure that those chemicals are not regulated or not regulated the way. |
| 1:06.0 | You know, it's just, it's like this is so weird. |
| 1:09.0 | So anyhow, we're worried about global warming. |
| 1:11.0 | Trump is doing not only nothing about that |
| 1:15.0 | he's making the situation worse he pulled us out of Paris the lobbyists running the |
| 1:18.1 | government |
| 1:19.0 | we're worried that the economy is going to crash |
| 1:21.6 | we just added a trillion and a half dollars to our national |
| 1:24.2 | debt last year. We're going to add another trillion to it this year. It's getting, it's getting |
| 1:30.6 | to the point where, you know, back in 1980 when Ronald Reagan was worrying |
| 1:36.2 | out loud about the national debt and it was an $800 billion less than $1 trillion. |
| 1:40.5 | Of course he tripled it but but you know, back then the Republicans are like, oh my God, if the national debt gets too big, it's going to be a real problem because of all the interest payments. Well, we're there. We're concerned about that. We're concerned we're worried that Trump is going to start a war, |
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