What You May Have Missed
A round-up of the past seven days on the Hartmann Report
Trump and The Odyssey: The Ancient Curse He Just Unleashed on America
When you go to see Christopher Nolan’s new epic film The Odyssey (as Louise and I did on Saturday), you’ll be bathed in the revelation that Trump and his military lickspittles are breaking the most ancient law that created what we today call western civilization.
They Didn't Just Buy Politicians: They Bought Your Food, Your Health, Your Future, and They're Coming for What's Left
As I write this, federal investigators are chasing the worst cyclospora outbreak in decades, thousands of people across more than thirty states doubled over with what the CDC delicately calls “frequent and sometimes explosive diarrhea,” and they still can’t tell you for certain which farm it came from.
First They Came for Immigrants. Then They Came for Dissent. Next Are They Coming for Us?
First they came for the criminals….
They Made You Fear and Hate Your Neighbor So They Could Rob Your Future
In his 1961 Farewell Address to the Nation, President Dwight D. Eisenhower said:
The Fourth Assault on American Democracy Has Already Begun. This Fall Decides Whether It Ends.
“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there’s a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.” —William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice 1939-1975
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Saturday Report 7/25/26 — Is the Social Security Reckoning Finally Here?
— Is this going to be Trump‘s and the GOP’s strategy this fall? New York Times columnist David French published a truly alarming op-ed yesterday, pointing out a strategy that Republicans are apparently considering as we approach this November’s election. In Article I, Section 5, the Constitution says that both the House and…
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COMMONWEALTH REPORT
Cheeto's Economic Disaster: Let Them Eat Broccoli
Over at Macleod Finance substack(https://bit.ly/3LChfs8) Macleod lays out a compelling case for the end of fiat currency of today. With spendthrift Cheeto at the wheel another $1T in debt has been added to the national debt in the last 6m and the Fed will begin QE to keep the equity market together which will further reduce the purchasing power of the beleaguered dollar.
Cheeto's resurrected tariff policy of the 1890's that led to the robber baron's era has enthused him to push his aggressive tariff policy that has become his authoritarian weapon of choice and he has accelerated with his attempt to destroy NATO over Greenland.
Like Hoover's tariff policy in the late 1920's Cheeto is courting disaster but obviously doesn't care if he destroys the American reputation or economy. There is a real possibility that Cheeto will preside over a Great Depression 2.0 Wouldn't be surprising since all economic disasters have been watched by fascist Republicans.
With the purchasing power of the dollar now to 6 cents of what it was in 1971 when the US was taken off the gold standard by a Republican Nixon, this puts the country in a precarious debt trap which is politically unsolvable at this point.