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The Hartmann Report

VP DEBATE AND TRUMP'S MANIC MORNING

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Now the GOP is more and more resembling a softer American version of the Taliban: embrace the religious fanatics, openly oppose public education and science, and do everything possible to disempower women. Thom breaks down the VP debate and the art historian's interpretation of the fly encounter. Tom Perez of the DNC joins the show for the latest on avoiding voter suppression and the importance of the VP debate.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Harbin program.

0:17.2

Wow.

0:18.2

What a debate, right?

0:19.2

Or was it a debate at all?

0:21.6

What an insane night.

0:23.7

Let's talk about what happened, what the state of America is, Trump's rage tweeting

0:28.2

yesterday is he apparently got his steroid shot this morning because he was nuts and he

0:34.9

was calling into a TV show after TV show, apparently hasn't done his hair yet.

0:41.2

Phil Proctor of the Fire Science Theatre just sent around some little memes that he'd

0:44.8

collected on the internet.

0:46.7

One, I actually found fascinating, a tweet by Jennifer Wright, that if you look at art

0:53.7

like from the 14th to the 18th century, this is what she says.

0:59.4

A fun art history fact, flies are used to represent rot wasting away decay death in melancholia.

1:05.6

A fly hovering over a church official, this is in a painting from that era, a fly hovering

1:11.6

over a church official or a noble man indicates disfavor with the king or corruption and dereliction

1:18.8

of duty.

1:20.8

A salty liberal tweets, if that fly laid eggs and pence his hair, he better carry them

1:24.7

to full term.

1:25.7

Here's another one.

1:26.7

That fly is Mike Pence's only black friend, but he better carry them to full term thing

1:32.4

is really, I mean, this is, we're looking at the American Taliban here.

1:37.6

Back in 2009, Barack Obama signed an executive order that reversed an executive order that

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