Author: Thom Hartmann

As the January 6th Committee continues to unpeel layers of criminality and conspiracy, it is important to note that the Stone/Bannon/Trump “Stop The Steal” scheme did not originate in 2020. It was, in fact, 20 years in the making. Roger Stone, Trump’s dirty trickster who was sentenced to 40 months in prison before Trump pardoned him, rolled out version 1.0 in Florida in 2000, helping the George W. Bush campaign stop a Florida Supreme Court-mandated statewide recount that would have handed the election to Al Gore. After Stone’s successful efforts to shut down the Miami-Dade County recount with the...

Six Republicans on the Supreme Court recently announced, a story that has largely flown under the nation’s political radar, that they will consider pre-rigging the presidential election of 2024. Here is how one aspect of it could work out, if they go along with the GOP’s arguments that will be before the Court this October: It is November, 2024, and the presidential race between Biden and DeSantis has been tabulated by the states and called by the networks. Biden won 84,355,740 votes to DeSantis’ 77,366,412, clearly carrying the popular vote. But the popular vote is not enough: George W....

Why don’t we have gun control? It is because our Supreme Court, or, more correctly, five Republicans on our Supreme Court, legalized bribery. Not the bribery of store clerks or bank tellers or people who work for airlines. You go to jail for that. Not the bribery of judges or police or people who work in government offices. That’s still very much a crime. Not even international bribery; if your company does business overseas and you execute a bribe to conduct that business, you can still go to prison here in the United States. The Supreme Court legalized bribery...

Civil society requires that its citizens feel safe in public spaces; destroy that generalized sense of safety and you will radically warp public opinion to the Right, which promises safety and “tough on crime,” while producing a whole new generation of safe-space destroyers. Our most fragile members of society are our children, which is why when shooters go after schools it disrupts society at its most fundamental level. Right behind schools are celebratory events (Vegas shooter, yesterday’s Trump supporter), stores/theaters, and places of worship. If a malignant actor — say, Putin — wanted to truly disrupt American society, all...