Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 12/07/18 - Republican corruption causes real and even deadly consequences to individual suffering. Thom speculates on "Russiagate" with scholar Stephen Cohen.
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Thom explains the GOP plans to strip social programs and details a deeper understanding of the student loan debt crisis and its devastating effects.
While exposing the scam of Medicare Advantage, Thom answers listener questions about universal health care and Medicare.
Life expectancy takes a significant dive from suicide and overdose as a result of the economic ruin caused by conservative corruption.
For the book club, Thom reads from 'Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society' by Thomas Frank.
To gain more insight into the investigation of Trump's potential “kompromat” Thom speaks with the author of 'War with Russia: From Putin and Ukraine To Trump and Russiagate' Stephen Cohen.
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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, |
| 0:20.0 | believers in peace, freedom, and the American way, Tom Hartman here with you. |
| 0:25.6 | I want to start out with the damage that is being done to this country by the corruption, |
| 0:31.8 | largely within the Republican Party that was countenance by the |
| 0:36.2 | Supreme Court in Citizens United and going back in the Buckley decision was the |
| 0:40.5 | beginning of this in the 76 but it carries through right to today. |
| 0:45.0 | You know the mask is being pulled off. |
| 0:47.2 | The awakening of America to the profidity to the lies to the scam that is the Republican |
| 0:52.1 | Party. I mean how many Republicans do you |
| 0:55.0 | know in your life who have woke up who have awakened and said you know I get |
| 1:00.6 | it now the Republicans are all about the money. They're all about the |
| 1:05.0 | banksters. They're all about the big greedy corporations. They're all about |
| 1:08.4 | the dividends. They're all about the stock market. The Republicans don't give a |
| 1:11.3 | rats ass about wages. They don't give a rat's ass about the Social Security or |
| 1:15.2 | Medicare. In fact, they just assume that Social Security was taken over by the |
| 1:18.6 | big banks in New York and Medicare was taken over by the big insurance companies, |
| 1:22.1 | both of which make giant |
| 1:23.6 | contributions to Republicans, the Republican Party. How long is it going to take for |
| 1:28.6 | the rest of America to wake up? I mean we're still seeing elections that are |
| 1:31.2 | being decided 50-50 right how long is it |
| 1:34.8 | going to take and are your Republican friends waking up you know some of mine are I |
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