WHY THE CULTURE WAR DISTRACTIONS OF POTATO HEAD AND DR SEUSS?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 7 March 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Republicans are engaging in culture war with Potato Head & Dr Seuss... so you won't notice their embrace of Gangster Capitalism.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman 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 Hartman here with you. |
| 0:27.2 | I have a few things I'd like to rant about if I may use my hosts' privilege to do so and |
| 0:32.9 | they may stimulate some thoughts on your part as well and then we'll just we'll get into |
| 0:37.3 | it basically. |
| 0:38.3 | We've got the whole day to talk here. |
| 0:40.2 | I want to start out with cancel culture and I'm going to get to why the Republicans |
| 0:45.4 | are doing this in just a minute but first let's talk about what they're doing. |
| 0:49.2 | For example, in the third congressional district of Michigan this is up at the Grand Rapids |
| 0:54.4 | area. |
| 0:55.4 | The area that used to be represented by the guy who said, yeah, let's go ahead and impeach |
| 1:03.0 | Trump. |
| 1:05.5 | That guy's been replaced by Peter Meyer. |
| 1:08.8 | Now I grew up in Michigan, I mean, Meyer's is a big grocery store chain that has become |
| 1:13.3 | kind of like a Walmart chain across Michigan. |
| 1:15.9 | In fact, I think they've spread across the Midwest and Peter Meyer is from the family that |
| 1:20.1 | owns that, a billionaire family. |
| 1:22.4 | And he beat in the primary guy named Tom Norton, 50.2 percent to 15.8 percent. |
| 1:28.2 | Tom Norton got 15 percent of the vote, lost to Peter Meyer. |
| 1:32.2 | Peter Meyer is now the Republican congressman from Michigan's third congressional district. |
| 1:37.1 | But Tom Norton's the loser, his website, he's still accepting donations and he is asking, |
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