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Thom Hartmann Program - 1 Hour Edition - 12/26/18 - What's the Price Americans Pay for Privatization of the Commons? Thom answers listener questions and gives his take on the latest news.

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🗓️ 27 December 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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What's the Price Americans Pay for Privatization of the Commons? Did Romans "The Fall of the Roman Empire" Pay the Same Price? Thom gives his take on the recent news including the more important impact of Donald debunking Santa to children and a new report which indicates that Trump's bone spurs were a lie all along.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman Program.

0:15.0

Greetings my friends,

0:20.0

Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom, and the American way.

0:27.0

Hey, happy post Christmas, pre-New Year's Eve.

0:31.8

Boy, is there a pile of news?

0:34.0

First of all, the story that is being played in the press about Donald Trump's phone call with a

0:39.3

seven-year-old over the weekend, he and Malania were manning the phones with

0:43.0

norad where little kids can call and say where's it's rain deer and norad says

0:47.6

well it looks like they're coming over Boston right now so he got this little girl

0:52.2

Coleman Lloyd's seven-year-old girl on the phone and told her

0:56.0

that he thought it was only marginal for a girl who was seven years old to believe in

1:00.0

Santa Claus. Now everybody is like oh my God

1:03.4

Donald Trump is trying to ruin Christmas. I don't think that's the big story and

1:07.5

I think everybody else has missed the big story and this is what kind of blows my

1:11.2

mind frankly. The big story is that Donald Trump

1:14.3

being a malignant narcissist being the center of his own movie being the only

1:18.7

person in the universe who is a real person who actually feels emotions,

1:22.6

Donald Trump doesn't understand appropriate behavior.

1:28.0

Literally doesn't understand appropriate behavior.

1:31.0

He doesn't know when it's time to say something and

1:33.0

time to not say something. You know the horrible consequence of that is not for us as a

1:37.8

country is not that he's blowing up Santa for seven-year-olds. It's that when

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