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The Hartmann Report

WAS IT A FAILED COUP OR A REHEARSAL?

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

"What do you call a failed coup? A rehearsal."

If the Reaganism billionaires and GOP succeed in crippling the Biden administration's efforts to help Americans during the Second Republican Great Depression, buckle up. It's going to get a lot worse in 2024.

Also Medea Benjamin on how Biden promised to end a devastating war in Yemen. He must act — today.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Harbin Program.

0:18.2

Well greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers

0:22.9

and peace, freedom and the American way Tom Harbin here with you.

0:27.3

If I want to get into the economy as a starting point and its relationship to the rise of neo-fascism

0:34.5

on the right and the impact of Reaganism, some of this stuff is stuff that I've ran

0:39.0

it about before, but this is reaching a crisis point right now here in the United States.

0:44.6

If you think things are bad now in America, just wait until people start kicking in people's

0:50.0

doors for food.

0:52.4

There's already an epidemic of food shoplifting.

0:55.0

There's an epidemic of stealing packages from people's houses.

0:59.7

Just last week we had a homeless person going through our garbage looking for cans.

1:05.4

It's happening all over the country and in fact, I mean, the Washington Post just today,

1:11.3

the headline, 2020 was the worst year for economic growth since the Second World War.

1:17.0

You know, the Second World War was like in the tail end of the Republican Great Depression.

1:21.5

We are now in the Second Republican Great Depression.

1:27.4

Another Washington Post article points out, we are now out of every six families with

1:32.7

children, at six renter families with children.

1:36.9

One of those six families, quote, lacked sufficient food in the past seven days, end quote.

1:43.3

This is a survey that was done two weeks ago.

1:47.7

One in between six and seven families, one in six families, more or less, literally

1:53.8

at this moment, as we're speaking in the United States of America, the so-called richest

1:58.1

country in the world, one in six families don't have enough food for their kids, families

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