Today, guest host Jefferson Smith mulls over the role of inherited privilege in American society, as he takes a swing at the British royals. And Caroline Fredrickson, author of 'The Democracy Fix' connects this to the way the Republicans is making government serve our own aristocrats.
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 5 June 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:15.0 | Good morning everybody. |
| 0:18.0 | My name is Jefferson Smith. |
| 0:20.0 | Honor to be sitting in for Tom Hartman today and good morning priceless people. |
| 0:25.2 | I've been preparing we got some good stuff coming up some stuff that's not as good |
| 0:30.1 | but is important and hopefully engaging hopefully edifying hopefully |
| 0:34.3 | it'll make us a little bit stronger rather a lot worse it's Pride month |
| 0:38.4 | mainstream media has been missing it largely I hope we don't miss it largely. If we're in this together, if what we get |
| 0:46.0 | together in this show to do is to help bend the Arc of History towards justice and we look |
| 0:50.4 | for the civil rights battles that remain in our world, this is one for which |
| 0:57.2 | there has been meaningful progress and which we should take great pride in that as well. I want to start with something that I don't think |
| 1:07.7 | should be very controversial but I fear that it will be. What I am saying should be as Pablum as being in favor of healthy apple pie. I worry, however, it's going to be a little bit |
| 1:27.6 | controversial. It should not be, in my judgment, particularly arguable, it should not be in my judgment particularly arguable it should not be a hot take |
| 1:36.3 | But I think it does dip into hot take territory |
| 1:39.9 | It shouldn't upset any of you. I am worried that it will upset some of you. |
| 1:47.6 | I fear it will. Trump has been visiting the United Kingdom. |
| 1:55.0 | Basically so Theresa May could make friends with Nigel Farage and continue to be Prime Minister. |
| 2:01.0 | It turns out bringing Donald Trump to the United Kingdom to England |
| 2:05.6 | is going to be one of the last significant things that Theresa May does as Prime Minister. |
| 2:12.1 | And as we see the pomp, as we see the pump, |
| 2:14.0 | we see the circumstance, whose side are we on? |
| 2:19.0 | We're on Theresa May's side, |
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