What You May Have Missed
A roundup of the past seven days from the Hartmann Report
The NFL Is “Socialist” on Purpose, and It Exposes Republican Economic Stupidity
Last night’s NFL Super Bowl game was great. The guys wearing blue beat the guys wearing red, and Bad Bunny and Lady Gaga made MAGA snowflakes cry.
Have Human Hunt Clubs Come to America, This Time Wearing Badges and Body Armor?
Donald Trump’s presidency now has a human body count.
What Happens When the World Decides It Can’t Trust America Anymore?
Donald Trump is doing something to America that no foreign adversary has ever managed, something Putin’s been dreaming about for decades: he’s convincing our oldest and closest allies — countries we fought wars to defend and liberate, and with whom we share a democratic system of government — that the United States can’t be trusted.
A Vote for Republicans Is a Vote Against Democracy
Forget about “left or right,” there’s only one thing on the ballot this fall: democracy (Democrats), or oligarchy that leads to tyranny (Republicans).
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Saturday Report 2/14/26 — One of Trump’s top allies and private-White-House-dinner guests is now calling for all American women to be imprisoned in the ICE Concentration Camps...
— Corrupt adjudicated rapist brags that he’s going to rig the November elections to prevent millions of women and minorities from voting, even if Congress won’t help him. The two SAVE Acts the House has passed — which would prevent tens of millions of low-income people and as many as 80 million married women from voting this fall — are both languishing …
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Thom is where I think all savvy political commentators should be when it comes to the continuum between being a cockeyed optimist and someone debilitated by pessimism. This is in the reality based middle. If you have your head in the sand clinging to every piece of good news in the fight against the Trump paramilitary police state as if it mean we are on the verge of winning, and think it means the Trump army is on the run you, are ignoring how strong they are and how they are devising ways to do anything possible to stay in power. On the other side, you can be an inveterate doomsayer and no good to anyone as you sink into being immobilized by clinical depression. The place to be is in the reality based middle. You have to figure out ways to be optimistic, or at least to recharge you depleted emotional battery, without being delusional. I wrote about this here: https://halbrown.substack.com/p/optimism-vs-pessimism-with-reality
Thank you, Professor Hartmann, for your always insightful essays. We’ve been brainwashed to believe that socialism is terrible and will destroy this country. In fact, it is the only thing that will save it. Bring back regulations for gods sake. And WTH with I don’t want to say his name, the mouthy, bullshit spewing brown white male supremacist. Who gives this guy a podium ever? Oh yeah, the white male Christian supremacists in the gop, if that’s not redundant, which it pretty much is. God. We need a major reset. These people are absolutely crazy. And yet somehow in power. We had better stop them now, before the mid terms. And don’t look for Jeffries or Schumer to stop them. Help AOC stop them.