WHAT DOES THE G.O.P. TRULY WORSHIP?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 2 April 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
From policies that continue to add to the pile of the Covid dead, to denying the disabled and the homeless the support they need to simply survive, how and why does the right wing do what it does? Has the GOP become a cult that celebrates death and destruction?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:16.3 | And welcome back Tom Hartman here with you, your thoughts on whatever you want to talk |
| 0:22.1 | about. |
| 0:23.1 | My rant today over at HartmanReport.com, Colorado's the epicenter for this right now, but the |
| 0:28.5 | Republicans have no interest in governing. |
| 0:32.6 | Even when they do run the government, they don't run the government. |
| 0:35.1 | The only two accomplishments that Donald Trump, the legislative accomplishments that he |
| 0:39.0 | had during his four years as president, the first bill that he signed, allowed coal mining |
| 0:44.9 | companies to dump their ways directly into rivers. |
| 0:48.2 | So the children living downstream in those rivers and cities that get their water supply |
| 0:52.4 | from the Mississippi and are even smaller rivers. |
| 0:55.4 | People who live downstream from those rivers, their children will get poisoned with mercury |
| 0:59.1 | and cadmium and there's even uranium and I mean radioactive materials in coal waste. |
| 1:06.1 | That was his first piece of legislation. |
| 1:07.6 | His second was a one and a half trillion and turns out it was more than $2 trillion. |
| 1:11.7 | More than $2 trillion tax cut, 83% of which went to the top 1% of Americans in giant corporations. |
| 1:18.1 | That's it. |
| 1:20.1 | So when you have no commitment to actually helping improve the general welfare of the people |
| 1:26.2 | of the country or ensuring domestic tranquility or providing for the stuff that the preamble |
| 1:31.5 | the Constitution talks about, when you have no interest in doing that, you only have an |
| 1:35.4 | interest in sucking up to big corporate donors and billionaires who want to have their taxes |
| 1:40.8 | lowered and cutting taxes. |
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