Dems play patty cake and repubs play Freddie Krueger. If you don't fight fire with fire, dems will continue to get burned. Corporate congressional dems are embarrassing.
The right wing Heritage Foundation after getting Project 2025 off to a running start with Cheeto’s Nazi regime with Vought in charge, has now begun a new Esther project. This one is to use antisemitism as a tool to go after political opponents
The first step is to designate people as members of the Hamas Support Network(HSN) which is deemed a complex web of entities, individuals, and activities that span both its primary area of operation in Gaza and extend globally
In exercising free speech in opposition to the genocidal atrocities in Gaza in university settings or in public forums, exploiting antisemitism as a trope can get you labeled as a supporter of the HSN
The next step in Project Esther is to label anyone exercising free speech about matters in Gaza as part of a terrorist organization This will get your visas revoked according to Cheeto’s secretary of state Hermann Goring(aka Rubio) Universities will have to watch their student populations carefully Social media will be monitored and weaponized
To their credit several Jewish organizations have pushed back against this attack on free speech using antisemitism as a Nazi weapon, seeing it for what it is Watch this space
I am angry, frustrated, and disheartened by what is happening to my country. So I write because, being 92, housebound, living on a pension with diminishing energy, I can only write and think. I want to help, I want to fight. I want to yell from the church tower like Paul Revere and shout, 'The enemy is coming, the enemy is here, the enemy is winning.' But I sit at my desk in my wonderful house in the Berkshires and wage a mental war against my country's enemy, and all I can do is write. It makes me feel better, so I write.
When our flag was raised at the Olympics, I had to hold back my feelings of joy. In comparison, this past Fourth of July, I couldn't feel proud of my country when half of them believe in and cheer Trump.
Warriors, when preparing for a battle, develop war plans or battle plans and follow specific procedures. First, they learn about their enemy. Second, they select the location where the battle will occur. Third, they understand and assess their forces.
And so I develop my battle plans. My enemy is massive and consists of three entities: one is the dark money forces, the second is capitalism, and the third is the middle class.
Trump is not my enemy; he's a clown, buffoon, puppet whose voice is that of the dark money billionaires and multi-millionaires. This enemy, the dark money, is well-organized, well-funded, with billions of dollars at its disposal, and has a long history of an active campaign to change how our government functions to better align with its financial interests.
The second enemy is difficult to define because it is a cultural belief system that is accepted and promoted by the elite and our society as a whole. I believe we have all lived with this mindset without questioning it: that certain people in our culture deserve to be paid more than others. No one questions this; we all agree and see no problem with it. Doctors, surgeons, star athletes, and entrepreneurs should all earn more than the average person or those in other professions. People with a college degree should make more than those with only a high school diploma; this is the core of capitalism, and it is how billionaires are created.
We all think this is right, this is never questioned, this is a socially accepted belief, except maybe it is questioned by some crazy Marxist or Socialist. There may be those whom we agree should earn and deserve more pay than the general public, but a thousand percent higher is creating billionaires. No one ever considers what a reasonable increase should be. I offer for consideration two examples of societies that operate under different guidelines for compensating individuals. One is the Mongragon Corporation in Spain, founded by a priest, and has a unique structure where employees are also owners of the business. The other is Marinleda, a town in Spain located in the province of Andalusia.
The third problem is the middle class, both now and in the past. My middle-class never aspired to be millionaires. We wanted a way to have a comfortable life with a lovely house, a job that we liked, good healthcare, possibly a family, and living in a neighborhood with other people like us. We believed in caring for others and left the operation of our country to the politicians. We drank the Kool-Aid provided by the dark money propaganda machine. We avoided our reality by not being concerned with the Tea Party or the fact that Obama's health plan was crippled. That's it! We were essentially asleep at the wheel; we were lost in our dream state. But my middle class is walking out the door, and is already a dying breed. My concern is with the middle class of today, who are foreigners to me, and I don't know how to warn them about the fate of their country. They seem to be a friendly bunch, neither aggressive nor thinking of war or fighting. The idea of being successful and becoming a millionaire is prevalent in their culture. I may be wrong because I have a limited sample of this population. Somehow, this should be their war, but I am not sensing any overt concern with stopping Trump and his band of marauders. I know that I have read and outlined Project 2025, a 900-page book, and that there are excellent books that summarize it. However, I do not know of anyone else who has read it, including the network commentators, and I doubt that this middle class has taken the time to read this book.
The terrain where the battle will take place presents problems because our enemy already has an advantage, having no resistance from Congress and the courts, and with massive amounts of dark money, has already established a beachhead and launched a total invasion and occupation of Washington.
Upon reviewing my weapons, I realize they are no match for my enemy. Half of Congress is dead in their chairs, nodding in accord with Trump. So I cannot assume they will offer any resistance. The Democratic Party is useless and is led by weak, aged nonfighters who caused Trump to be elected the second time by not acknowledging that Biden was deteriorating. They waited three months before the election to announce that Biden was not running, giving Vice President Harris three months to defeat Trump without any help from them.
I do not see any way to match their funding, which comes from billionaires who started in 1977, such as the Koch brothers, and will continue. I don't think that there is a match for Trump's "Truth Social" with 6.3 million active participants and his fellow billionaires controlling the press and the broadcasting systems. I think the Democrats will take control of Congress in November. Still, the dark money will continue to finance those who support their government takeover. There is the truth that the Republican Party will retake control of Congress in the future elections. The dark money will finance and lobby to obtain its goal of a government designed to increase its wealth.
The dark money has effectively campaigned against any ideas or programs that promote the concept of a country with less capitalism, such as a national health plan, free college tuition, and an increase in social security benefits, and above all, stronger unions.
I return to the idea that the only effective organization to take on the battle is the democratic states that can match the financial resources of the billionaires and reduce the power of the president, as well as control the billionaires' ability to buy members of Congress, because the states are better controlled by their citizens. I wish I had another idea, and if you have one, please share. So I feel as though I've fought my battle, and now I can rest.
You clearly still have your PhD marbles! Can you write postcards (Google "postcards to swing states") and write to the DNC? I am doing postcards right now and plan to tell the DNC to take the gloves off, fight fire with fire, and reverse all the decisions Tom recommended if/when we take back the House and Senate.
I try not to dwell on the state of our dear country. I volunteer as a Master Gardener and at a food bank and as a reading buddy for kids falling behind in school. The current rift in MAGA gives me some hope that the Con Artist in Chief has a chink in the armor.
Thanks for your comment.i am obsessed with the fate of our country. I think the Epstein files will provide the Republicans with a way to be critical of Trump and yet not alienate his base.
Damn! I learned a lot. I guess I knew the basics of all of these topics but the details Thom presented are incredible. I listen to his show but there is a lot of interacting with the public. Thom H for president!
GOP KKKristians are literally starving infants and children in order to feed the grotesquely wealthy. Ut has been estimated that a child dies of starvation every 15 seconds from the slashing of USAID by the genocidal maniacs musk, trump and little marco. Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, and Lucifer blush at the inhumanity of republicans.
Thank you, JoycesLegacy. BRING THEM BACK! We should learn from Trump and have a resurrection movement WITH INTEGRITY instead of authoritarianism and criminality. Project 2028 to MOVE FORWARD. Trump, Musk, and Putin bought and "stole" the election. We lost by a small percentage. We have THE BEST CANDIDATES with millions who voted for them sitting right in front of us. BRING THEM BACK! Medical privacy not abortion vs. forced birth, and we are all in this TOGETHER. We need unity, not division, to get and MAINTAIN POWER for the GOOD.
I did NOT know stock buy backs were created during Reagans regime....he sure did alot of damage to American society. But the wealthy did fantastic and that's why they wanted to rename everything nailed down after Reagan. DC has Reagan Int'l Airport & the Reagan Bldg on Pennsylvania Ave.
This discussion was very enlightening. Thank you both!
Our healthcare system is designed to kill what I think they consider “useless eaters” It was bad before and it’s getting worse literally by the day.
Thank you, Thom, for such enlightening information.
I want a giant library room like Thom Hartmann.
Dems MUST fight fire with fire if we are going to take back the Senate and the House.
Dems play patty cake and repubs play Freddie Krueger. If you don't fight fire with fire, dems will continue to get burned. Corporate congressional dems are embarrassing.
Project Esther
The right wing Heritage Foundation after getting Project 2025 off to a running start with Cheeto’s Nazi regime with Vought in charge, has now begun a new Esther project. This one is to use antisemitism as a tool to go after political opponents
The first step is to designate people as members of the Hamas Support Network(HSN) which is deemed a complex web of entities, individuals, and activities that span both its primary area of operation in Gaza and extend globally
In exercising free speech in opposition to the genocidal atrocities in Gaza in university settings or in public forums, exploiting antisemitism as a trope can get you labeled as a supporter of the HSN
The next step in Project Esther is to label anyone exercising free speech about matters in Gaza as part of a terrorist organization This will get your visas revoked according to Cheeto’s secretary of state Hermann Goring(aka Rubio) Universities will have to watch their student populations carefully Social media will be monitored and weaponized
To their credit several Jewish organizations have pushed back against this attack on free speech using antisemitism as a Nazi weapon, seeing it for what it is Watch this space
And so I write
I am angry, frustrated, and disheartened by what is happening to my country. So I write because, being 92, housebound, living on a pension with diminishing energy, I can only write and think. I want to help, I want to fight. I want to yell from the church tower like Paul Revere and shout, 'The enemy is coming, the enemy is here, the enemy is winning.' But I sit at my desk in my wonderful house in the Berkshires and wage a mental war against my country's enemy, and all I can do is write. It makes me feel better, so I write.
When our flag was raised at the Olympics, I had to hold back my feelings of joy. In comparison, this past Fourth of July, I couldn't feel proud of my country when half of them believe in and cheer Trump.
Warriors, when preparing for a battle, develop war plans or battle plans and follow specific procedures. First, they learn about their enemy. Second, they select the location where the battle will occur. Third, they understand and assess their forces.
And so I develop my battle plans. My enemy is massive and consists of three entities: one is the dark money forces, the second is capitalism, and the third is the middle class.
Trump is not my enemy; he's a clown, buffoon, puppet whose voice is that of the dark money billionaires and multi-millionaires. This enemy, the dark money, is well-organized, well-funded, with billions of dollars at its disposal, and has a long history of an active campaign to change how our government functions to better align with its financial interests.
The second enemy is difficult to define because it is a cultural belief system that is accepted and promoted by the elite and our society as a whole. I believe we have all lived with this mindset without questioning it: that certain people in our culture deserve to be paid more than others. No one questions this; we all agree and see no problem with it. Doctors, surgeons, star athletes, and entrepreneurs should all earn more than the average person or those in other professions. People with a college degree should make more than those with only a high school diploma; this is the core of capitalism, and it is how billionaires are created.
We all think this is right, this is never questioned, this is a socially accepted belief, except maybe it is questioned by some crazy Marxist or Socialist. There may be those whom we agree should earn and deserve more pay than the general public, but a thousand percent higher is creating billionaires. No one ever considers what a reasonable increase should be. I offer for consideration two examples of societies that operate under different guidelines for compensating individuals. One is the Mongragon Corporation in Spain, founded by a priest, and has a unique structure where employees are also owners of the business. The other is Marinleda, a town in Spain located in the province of Andalusia.
The third problem is the middle class, both now and in the past. My middle-class never aspired to be millionaires. We wanted a way to have a comfortable life with a lovely house, a job that we liked, good healthcare, possibly a family, and living in a neighborhood with other people like us. We believed in caring for others and left the operation of our country to the politicians. We drank the Kool-Aid provided by the dark money propaganda machine. We avoided our reality by not being concerned with the Tea Party or the fact that Obama's health plan was crippled. That's it! We were essentially asleep at the wheel; we were lost in our dream state. But my middle class is walking out the door, and is already a dying breed. My concern is with the middle class of today, who are foreigners to me, and I don't know how to warn them about the fate of their country. They seem to be a friendly bunch, neither aggressive nor thinking of war or fighting. The idea of being successful and becoming a millionaire is prevalent in their culture. I may be wrong because I have a limited sample of this population. Somehow, this should be their war, but I am not sensing any overt concern with stopping Trump and his band of marauders. I know that I have read and outlined Project 2025, a 900-page book, and that there are excellent books that summarize it. However, I do not know of anyone else who has read it, including the network commentators, and I doubt that this middle class has taken the time to read this book.
The terrain where the battle will take place presents problems because our enemy already has an advantage, having no resistance from Congress and the courts, and with massive amounts of dark money, has already established a beachhead and launched a total invasion and occupation of Washington.
Upon reviewing my weapons, I realize they are no match for my enemy. Half of Congress is dead in their chairs, nodding in accord with Trump. So I cannot assume they will offer any resistance. The Democratic Party is useless and is led by weak, aged nonfighters who caused Trump to be elected the second time by not acknowledging that Biden was deteriorating. They waited three months before the election to announce that Biden was not running, giving Vice President Harris three months to defeat Trump without any help from them.
I do not see any way to match their funding, which comes from billionaires who started in 1977, such as the Koch brothers, and will continue. I don't think that there is a match for Trump's "Truth Social" with 6.3 million active participants and his fellow billionaires controlling the press and the broadcasting systems. I think the Democrats will take control of Congress in November. Still, the dark money will continue to finance those who support their government takeover. There is the truth that the Republican Party will retake control of Congress in the future elections. The dark money will finance and lobby to obtain its goal of a government designed to increase its wealth.
The dark money has effectively campaigned against any ideas or programs that promote the concept of a country with less capitalism, such as a national health plan, free college tuition, and an increase in social security benefits, and above all, stronger unions.
I return to the idea that the only effective organization to take on the battle is the democratic states that can match the financial resources of the billionaires and reduce the power of the president, as well as control the billionaires' ability to buy members of Congress, because the states are better controlled by their citizens. I wish I had another idea, and if you have one, please share. So I feel as though I've fought my battle, and now I can rest.
You clearly still have your PhD marbles! Can you write postcards (Google "postcards to swing states") and write to the DNC? I am doing postcards right now and plan to tell the DNC to take the gloves off, fight fire with fire, and reverse all the decisions Tom recommended if/when we take back the House and Senate.
I try not to dwell on the state of our dear country. I volunteer as a Master Gardener and at a food bank and as a reading buddy for kids falling behind in school. The current rift in MAGA gives me some hope that the Con Artist in Chief has a chink in the armor.
Thanks for your comment.i am obsessed with the fate of our country. I think the Epstein files will provide the Republicans with a way to be critical of Trump and yet not alienate his base.
Damn! I learned a lot. I guess I knew the basics of all of these topics but the details Thom presented are incredible. I listen to his show but there is a lot of interacting with the public. Thom H for president!
GOP KKKristians are literally starving infants and children in order to feed the grotesquely wealthy. Ut has been estimated that a child dies of starvation every 15 seconds from the slashing of USAID by the genocidal maniacs musk, trump and little marco. Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, and Lucifer blush at the inhumanity of republicans.
"Toto...somehow we've ended up in Florida."
Thank you, JoycesLegacy. BRING THEM BACK! We should learn from Trump and have a resurrection movement WITH INTEGRITY instead of authoritarianism and criminality. Project 2028 to MOVE FORWARD. Trump, Musk, and Putin bought and "stole" the election. We lost by a small percentage. We have THE BEST CANDIDATES with millions who voted for them sitting right in front of us. BRING THEM BACK! Medical privacy not abortion vs. forced birth, and we are all in this TOGETHER. We need unity, not division, to get and MAINTAIN POWER for the GOOD.
I did NOT know stock buy backs were created during Reagans regime....he sure did alot of damage to American society. But the wealthy did fantastic and that's why they wanted to rename everything nailed down after Reagan. DC has Reagan Int'l Airport & the Reagan Bldg on Pennsylvania Ave.
Allowing or causing the deaths of one's own citizens is DEMOCIDE. COVID comes to mind.
How to fight back get him out of office - https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-part-vi-how-we-get-her-in