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The Hartmann Report

AMERICA SHOULD BUY OUT THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Congress, Economics, Climate Change, The Hartmann Report, Debate, Democracy, America, Thom Hartmann, News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This time it’s not just about saving our banks, keeping our schools intact, or fighting a war. This time, it’s about saving the world. Mike Pence is now saying that Americans have no right to "freedom from religion." Say what?! Father sues school for it's support of "homosexual lifestyles," as he calls it, claiming a teacher posted two rainbow pride flags.

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0:52.0

freedom in the American way, Tom Hartman here with you.

0:55.5

The fossil fuel industry holds, to a large extent, holds the fate and future of the world in its hands,

1:03.2

at least here in the United States.

1:05.8

And the reason for that is the U.S. Supreme Court.

1:08.8

Of course, the U.S. Supreme Court gave corporations personhood and the U.S. Supreme Court

1:13.7

gave corporations the First Amendment right to what they claim was a First Amendment right.

1:18.8

I don't see it in the First Amendment, but they say it's there, it's over at the free speech

1:23.3

to buy politicians.

1:25.8

And the fossil fuel industry in the United States has bought every single Republican who's available

1:30.3

for sale and Joe Manchin and, you know, a good-sized handful of Democrats, not a particularly

1:36.2

large handful of Democrats, but there, you know, enough to block legislation as Joe Manchin did

1:42.7

would build back better, for example.

1:44.4

So what do we do? We've got a toxic industry that just ExxonMobil just showed the largest

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