2021 Archives

Posted at Hartmann Report on Jun. 24, 2021

Vaccine Passports Could Save Us From Trump's Final Massacre

Will the next few months become a “Great Awakening” for America or a “Great Dying” for Trump followers? J. R. R. Tolkien wrote, “The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.” It’s a painful truth that people in red states, and red counties in blue and purple states, are about to learn. Here comes Donald Trump’s Final Massacre.

Posted at Hartmann Report on Jun. 23, 2021

The “mind-boggling” hidden threat in Georgia’s new voting restriction law

364,000 votes in jeopardy from little-noticed provision of SB 202. By Thom and Greg Palast.

Posted at Hartmann Report on Jun. 23, 2021

Time to Say "You're Fired" to Merrick Garland?

It’s time for the Biden administration to put someone in Merrick Garland’s position who will fight for our republic and the rule of law. Raping women and then slandering them, beating protesters, and trying to overthrow the government are not normal parts of the job of President of the United States. But for reasons that seem entirely bizarre, Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice is operating as if they are.

Posted at Hartmann Report on Jun. 22, 2021

How Does America Solve Its "Fake News" Crisis?

So if we can’t regulate the “news” or even stop foreign trolls from stirring up Americans, how can we activate the “immune system” of democracy? America is now in the midst of a “truth crisis” that threats to tear us apart and end the American Experiment in democratic governance; Finland is implementing a solution to “fake news” that we should seriously consider.

Posted at Hartmann Report on Jun. 21, 2021

Biden Should Withhold What’s Most Sacred to Rightwing Churches —Money

Enough is enough. President Biden must reverse Trump’s executive order and direct the IRS to enforce the so-called “Johnson Amendment”. A group of rightwing American Catholic bishops are trying to withhold one of that church’s most sacred rituals – communion or the Eucharist – from President Joe Biden, a devout Catholic, because he and his political party favor a woman having the right to choose abortion and birth control.

Posted at Hartmann Report on Jun. 19, 2021

How Far Will the GOP Go To Steal the 2022 Election?

The Congressional switchboard is 202-224-3121. Americans who care about the fate and future of our republic damn well better get active now. How far will the GOP go to steal the 2022 election? The corrupt Republican Party, a wholly-owned division of corporate and billionaire America, has dropped all pretense of having any governing ideas that will help or improve America.

Posted at Hartmann Report on Jun. 18, 2021

The Demise of Local Entrepreneurialism is the Death of the American Dream

Like giant suckers from an alien, octopus-like spaceship, when you see a national chain in your neighborhood know that they are extracting wealth from you and your community that will never return Entrepreneurialism is what builds vibrant local economies and a strong middle class, but ever since major changes in the enforcement of anti-trust laws as part of the Reagan Revolution in the 1980s, entrepreneurialism has been dying. The Biden administration now has a chance to fix this.

Posted at Hartmann Report on Jun. 17, 2021

Why Is America the Only Developed Nation With No Right To Healthcare?

The for-profit health insurance industry has attached itself to us like a giant, bloodsucking tick and "Scientific Racism" is part of the reason why. There’s only one person in this photograph/video of last week’s G7 meeting who represents a country where an illness can destroy an entire family, leaving them bankrupt and homeless, with the repercussions of that sudden fall into poverty echoing down through generations. Most Americans have no idea that the United States is quite literally the only country in the developed world that doesn’t define healthcare as an absolute right for all of its citizens. That’s it. We’re the only one left.

Posted at Hartmann Report on Jun. 16, 2021

One of them has to go: The GOP or America as we know it

The GOP has become, as Eisenhower warned, “merely a conspiracy to seize power” and the tragic result is a weakened, potholed, polluted and impoverished America. Texas is showing us all how the corruption that has overwhelmed the GOP has reached a crisis point, and it’s killing people. President Dwight Eisenhower said, “If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.”

Posted at Hartmann Report on Jun. 15, 2021

How Trump Made Being a Psychopath Fashionable

Trump’s tribe of psychopaths are finding each other & coming together in armed groups, plotting revenge against a society they feel has unfairly tried to constrain their selfish impulses & behaviors My friend and colleague on SiriusXM radio, Dean Obeidallah, reminded me yesterday when we were chatting on his show that he pointed out last week that “air rage” incidents have exploded this year. He wrote a great op-ed about it for CNN here. The FAA says there have been 2900 reports of air rage since the first of the year, and 2200 of those involved people becoming enraged over mask requirements.