Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 10/30/2018 - Funny how schools and many parents in Silicon Valley are banning computers and phones from the classroom, while poorer cities go the opposite direction. Meanwhile, Trump continues to take a page from the Nazi playbook, almost every single day.
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Thom looks at critical look of the fragility of socially isolated youth growing up with their attention fixed on phone screens. With a consideration of the new book, "The Coddling of the American Mind" co-authored by Jonathan Haidt, Thom reflects on the impact screens have on developing minds including increased suicide rates, and a rejection of digital dependence on their children by Silicon Valley parents. ----------- Listeners call in with very interesting observations and experiences on kid's screen addictions. ---------- Thom wants listeners to vote for the cover of his new book ---------- Trump is following the Nazi's first rule of manipulation - never let the public cool off- so Trump stirs the pot constantly, even if his vitriol leads to mail bombs and mass shootings. ---------- Talk Media News' Luke Vargas has a hot story from London via Iran on why the Saudis really killed Khashoggi. And, how long does it take to walk to Texas from Guatemala? ---------- Callers respond.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Creetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:21.0 | believers in peace, freedom in the American way. |
| 0:25.2 | I'm so sick of Donald Trump and I get it that Gerbles told Hitler |
| 0:29.2 | your first priority |
| 0:31.1 | is never let the people cool down every single day. |
| 0:35.0 | You have to say something that produces some kind of controversy every single day. |
| 0:40.0 | And Trump has been following that advice for almost two years now. |
| 0:43.0 | Which brings us to this issue of the sensitivity of some people. |
| 0:48.0 | I wrote an op-ed that's up on Common Dreams and alternate right now |
| 0:52.0 | about how the guy who shot up the synagogue, the |
| 0:56.3 | terrorist who shot up the synagogue, because he's a white guy they call him |
| 0:59.4 | mentally ill, the terrorist who shot up the synagogue did so because of their association with |
| 1:04.8 | this Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, HIAS. |
| 1:08.9 | And I think you can clearly draw a straight line from Fox News to Donald Trump to the terrorist |
| 1:16.0 | or maybe from Donald Trump to Fox News to the terrorist. And now you know you have Fox News saying |
| 1:20.4 | oh these people are bringing smallpox, smallpox doesn't even |
| 1:23.3 | exist anymore. But I want to talk about fragility for a couple of minutes and have a |
| 1:29.5 | conversation with you about it. Jonathan Hight was on Bill Maher's show Friday. |
| 1:35.0 | I caught it yesterday afternoon and did a great job. |
| 1:40.0 | I was at a Democracy Alliance meeting years ago that maybe four or five years ago in DC |
| 1:44.7 | that he spoke at. |
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