Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 11/13/18 : As Republicans quietly dismantle Medicare and the social safety net while peddling hate and fear- what will they do if it stops working? And what should the Progressive response be? Including both recent and ancient historical perspective.
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 13 November 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Looking at the recent election, Thom asks what the Republicans will do if hate and fear doesn't work for them anymore. Callers respond. ------ Thom reads from 'Mortal Republic- How Rome turned in Tyranny'. ------ Luke Vargas from Talk Media News always has tremendous headlines, the best headlines. ------ Thom reads from Bernie Sanders new book 'Where do we Go From Here?'. ------ Breakfast cereal and orange juice now has measureable amount of glyphosate, what could go wrong? ------ Alex Lawson from Social Security Works has been keeping up with the continued dismantling of the social safety net with fresh moves against Medicare.
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| 0:00.0 | This is truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom, and the American way. |
| 0:24.8 | Is hate no longer working for the Republican Party? |
| 0:28.4 | And if not, are they going to amp it up or tone it down? |
| 0:32.4 | You know, what's their option? What's their |
| 0:33.7 | alternative? Demographically, they're looking to get wiped out. You have a |
| 0:39.5 | senatorial race in Mississippi. Mike Espy, who is black, the current Republican Senator |
| 0:45.5 | Cindy Hyde Smith, who is white. Neither one of them got 50% in the election. |
| 0:50.4 | So there's going to be a runoff vote on November 27th. This could be another |
| 0:55.0 | pick-up seat for the Democrats if they can mobilize enough people in |
| 0:57.8 | Mississippi to show up because it's a tight race. So in the process of mobilizing voters in Mississippi to vote for |
| 1:06.0 | the Democrat who is black, as that's happening, the Republicans are like, well |
| 1:10.9 | how do we get the white voters out you know we need we need to get |
| 1:13.6 | the white voters out how do we do that and I don't know if this was a campaign |
| 1:20.2 | strategy that miss Hyde Smith said she was talking about, you know, somebody |
| 1:25.3 | had invited her to give a speech or something and she said if he invited me to a |
| 1:28.6 | public hanging I'd be on the front row. Now you know it's possible that in her family and I say in her family because you know |
| 1:35.8 | listed to Joe Scarborough this morning who grew up in the South and he was talking |
| 1:39.7 | with a few other people who grew up in the South and basically Eugene Robinson and a couple |
| 1:43.7 | of others they were all saying you know I never heard that expression this is this is |
| 1:48.4 | not an expression that I that I grew up with yeah I'd go to a public hanging with |
| 1:52.2 | him as a way of saying, yeah, I really |
| 1:54.1 | like that guy. And Mississippi is the epicenter for lynching in the United States. I mean, you know, more |
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