Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 11/08/2018 - Live from New York it's.. Thom Hartmann! Post midterms:: What did we learn, where do we go?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 8 November 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Thom examines an insightful new essay in the Guardian, "Is Trump The New Confederate President?" and reflects reasons it may ring true. And Thom's take on Georgia, where Brian Kemp has declared victory as governor, but Stacey Abrams is not conceding. ------- Bob Ney of Talk Media News is happy to say his election predictions were pretty close- and the former congressman still has had his ears to the ground so he can bring us today's chit-chat from Washington. ------- Thom has a discussion with conservative Bryan Pruitt of RedState.com on voter suppression. He questions whether Republicans would so easily accept suppression tactics if it were conservative votes being eradicated. ------- The chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Mark Pocan, is the man with the post-election plan. As he and Thom take calls, they count the lessons from the election and contemplate the road ahead. But, what love-letters (with checks in them) will the dastardly lame duck Republicans send the rich and powerful before the year is out? And what sweet jobs will they land next as a result? ------- Greg Palast phones in from Atlanta, where he's been hanging out with purged voters unable to cast a ballot, including, by chance- Martin Luther King's cousin. ------- Thom takes listener calls.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman Program. |
| 0:17.0 | Greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, |
| 0:21.3 | believers in peace, freedom, and the American way. |
| 0:24.6 | Tom Hartman here with you, I'm broadcasting live from the conference room at ProPublica |
| 0:28.8 | in New York City. |
| 0:29.8 | Absolutely extraordinary organization that is doing some of the best investigative reporting going on in the country. |
| 0:35.4 | It just blows my mind. They've got a great app by the way. A lot going on the blue wave continues. |
| 0:41.0 | We just picked up another seat in New Mexico. It's amazing to me how the |
| 0:44.6 | press is minimizing this. This Democratic victory is as substantial as |
| 0:49.3 | anything that we've seen in the last couple of decades. I mean it's right in that zone. The fact |
| 0:53.8 | that we didn't take the Senate is I mean we took four governorships, we took a |
| 0:57.8 | significant majority in the House, you know the numbers are still being |
| 1:01.1 | sorted out. |
| 1:03.3 | And I wanted to share with you an idea for a frame for all this, |
| 1:09.8 | to understand what's going on. |
| 1:12.4 | And I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. |
| 1:16.0 | There's a piece over on The Guardian by Rebecca Solnut, |
| 1:19.0 | and it's titled, The American Civil War didn't end, |
| 1:21.0 | and Trump is a Confederate president. |
| 1:24.5 | And you read that and you go, what, really? |
| 1:28.4 | But think about this, the Confederacy was founded on the idea of white male supremacy. |
| 1:35.4 | I mean, overtly, explicitly, the law at that time |
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