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PROTECT THE BILLIONAIRES Apr 18, 2020

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Is Michael Savage calling right wingers like Hannity on the carpet for denying science? And speaking of that, what is up with TV preachers getting their audience infected while simultaneously asking for a $1200 donation? Why are right-wing billionaires funding the protests against stay at home orders? Why are TV doctors on Fox news advocating letting people die so that business can resume? Is all of this because billionaires fear that their taxes will be raised to pay for economic stimulus?? .. Is it case of 'Follow the money'?

Plus - Why is Covid infection exploding among slaughterhouse workers?... Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton moves to block absentee ballots... Israel reports that Trump new about Covid in November... And why does anybody watch Trump's daily TV rallies?

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PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS Apr 17, 2020

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Thom speculates on the legendary struggle between good and evil and how the corona-virus seems to putting an end to the right-wing billionaire scheme of trickle down exploitation.

Trump aims his anger at Democratic governors who have banded together to save their people on their own. If Trump can't take credit for it, he will stop it.

Believing that the state compact is an affront to his power to govern, Donald Trump is setting out to punish states that are not listening to him about reopening the country.

For the Book Club, Thom reads portions from "This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West" by Christopher H. Ketcham and "How Wealth Rules the World: Saving Our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property" by Ben G. Price.

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FAILING RESPONSE TO THE PANDEMIC CRISIS Apr 16, 2020

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Thom discusses using yoga and exercise to dispel Trump's omnipresence on cable television as

responds to listener calls from transgender unemployment through primary election concerns.

For the Book Club, Thom reads portions from his book The Hidden History of the War on Voting, also Sideswiped by Robert Ney and Take Hold of Our History by Harvey J. Kaye.

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THE NEOLIBERAL EXPERIMENT IS A FRAUD Apr 15, 2020

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The corona virus has torn the mask off the failure of Reaganism. As we discover the depths of the giveaways to the very rich squirreled away in the CARES Act, will Americans wake up and stop yet another billionaire bailout? With the 245th anniversary of Lexington and Concord coming up, will Americans today say 'no' to the king and to a growing oligarchy?- or will many continue to fall pray to conservative propaganda behind the ignorant protests in Michigan?

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STALKING THE HUMAN RACE Apr 14, 2020

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Dr. David Nabarro of the World Health Organization says that until a vaccine is developed, the corona virus will likely “stalk the human race“ for quite a while.

Because Trump utterly failed in keeping the virus away from the United States and refuses to fund and implement a nationwide testing and contract tracing program, simply slowing down hundreds of thousands of coming deaths may well be all we have left.

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CRIMES OF DONALD TRUMP Apr 13, 2020

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Is Donald Trump Going Full Dictator?

National Vote by Mail has to happen or the Republicans will steal the election and our democracy with it!

Wisconsin showed us the Republican game plan for the election and our only hope is to make vote by mail national!

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IS HERD IMMUNITY THE SHADOW STRATEGY OF THE RIGHT? Apr 12, 2020

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People of color are dying from the corona virus at massively higher rates than the average population. Do conservatives care about the deaths of the most vulnerable- those with hypertension, obesity, blue collar jobs, poor health care, poor diets, or even people who are just old? Is a cold-hearted fantasy of 'herd immunity' behind the constant declarations that this crisis is overblown and behind the lackluster efforts on the part of Republicans to protect people? What does it mean to be historically disadvantaged as a pandemic virus sweeps the nation? If the price of rapidly toughing out this virus is the death of many vulnerable people, is that a price conservatives are willing to pay?

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PRIMALA JAYAPAL AND THE PROGRESSIVE AGENDA Apr 11, 2020

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Representative Primila Jayapal, a leader of the Progressive Caucus, joins Thom to observe the spectacle of Trump's insane mismanagement of the carona virus. What have been and will be the legislative goals of Progressives as they struggle to protect America over the resistance of the Republican-majority Senate?

Plus- Will we learn to love this clean air and want to keep it after the pandemic is over?.. And what were the lessons of the Great Depression that could inform us in the current crisis?

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FOLLOW THE MONEY! Apr 10, 2020

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When even the Financial Times recognizes that Reaganism and neoliberalism has been shown to be a failure, how will we dig ourselves out of this economic crisis? Professor Richard Wolff joins Thom with his analysis. Can we trust the Federal Reserve and the rest of the government to keep the economy going- for all of us? And why did Trump fire the Inspector General?

As Biden proposes to drop the Medicare eligibility age to 60 is he moving in a more Progressive direction? Thom asks if we should repeal the Bankruptcy Act of 2002 that made it impossible to discharge student debt.

How many thousands of dead Americans is a fair price to pay to get partial herd immunity and put the economy back in gear? Who would benefit, and could it be that this is Trump's unspoken policy? And Thom's listeners reflect back what they're seeing happen to the economy from where they sit.

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SHOULD BLUE STATES GO THEIR OWN WAY? Apr 09, 2020

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Today a lively discussion of legal ways that Democratic-leaning states could possibly band together to do things like provide universal health care, create community banks, or take action on climate change.

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