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The Hartmann Report

WHAT LEGALIZED BRIBERY HAS DONE TO AMERICA

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

News, Congress, America, Thom Hartmann, Climate Change, Democracy, Debate, Economics, The Hartmann Report

4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

How has our country changed since the Supreme Court allowed money to flood into our politics?

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This is the Tom Harbin program.

0:45.6

Ron DeSantis, well the headline actually at the Miami Herald, the Miami Herald is calling him out,

0:55.5

which is like, I think really good news, right? The headline DeSantis is a master of distraction.

1:02.4

When is Florida's governor actually going to govern?

1:06.3

And you know, they point out that, you know, now he's pissed off with the college board, right?

1:11.2

You know, how dare you have African-American studies.

1:14.7

Now the government is making barely veiled threats that he's going to end all advanced

1:19.8

placement courses in Florida. All together, which is, you know, just going to devastate a lot

1:25.1

of high school students who are trying to get into good colleges. But hey, it's Florida, you know,

1:29.4

it's DeSantis land. You know, and this op-ed, this is a fascinating line, it says,

1:38.5

if you like DeSantis as a leader, you're probably happy with his most recent strong man amitation.

1:43.0

If you despise him, you're probably seeing red. In either case, you are doing exactly what he wants.

1:48.9

You are distracted from thinking about all the stuff that he's not doing, like, say, governing.

1:55.7

DeSantis, like Donald Trump before him, is practicing the dark art of manipulating our attention,

2:01.7

throwing bombs to keep us riveted, even as other far less sexy state problems remain unfixed,

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