Can Fox News be sued for endangering people's lives with their entertainment product they pass of as news? Thom is joined by Washington State citizen Arthur West- his group WASHLITE - Washington League for Increased Transparency and Ethics has Fox News in court over their months-long insistence that Covid was some kind of 'Democrat Hoax', and urging people to take plane flights and otherwise endanger themselves.

For the Book Club, Thom reads portions from his book "Threshold" and also Greg Sargent's "An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Trumpian Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics."

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The good news is that kind-hearted Samaritans are thinking of ingenious ways to help senior citizens in isolation. The bad news is that when red states start being heavily impacted by Covid-19, watch for the Trump machine to start slinging blame at the Left as a scapegoat. 

And - Jared Kushner, America's 'blunderkind' knows better than the experts!- or not...How to swipe your credit card without exposing it...Should Biden and Bernie team up?.. Coyotes in Manhattan... How Cuba is handling lockdown... The propagandists fawning over Trump in his press room... And is Trump using this crisis to accelerate his attack on the professionals that keep the federal government running?

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We now know that Trump was warned by the military early February in an unclassified briefing that as many as 150,000 Americans were likely to die- and in fact he probably knew much earlier- so why didn't he do anything? And now that thousands of Americans are dead- and counting- from what Trump called a month ago 'A Democrat Hoax', will the Fox News crowd finally realize what kind of man they are following, or will they follow him blindly into a crisis? Should Trumpsters be asked to wear their maggot hats so we can see them coming and keep at least six feet away?

Plus - Trump's ridiculous response letter to Chuck Shumer... avoiding pandemic-inspired scams... with so many people losing their jobs and higher costs due to the pandemic become a death-spiral for the health insurance system?.. bailing out the rich- again... the L.A. rent strike... qAnon carona virus truthers... And the mooseherder checks in with his 'Republicans for Biden' plan...

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Economics professor, Dr. Richard Wolff joins Thom to discuss why the Coronavirus Crash could be worse than the Great Depression.

A normal person as president would anguish over telling his nation that a quarter million people were going to have to die because he listened to Fox News hosts and spent two months holding rallies and playing golf when he could have been ordering test kits, ventilators and personal protective equipment.

The election, and a new president, cannot come fast enough.

For the Book Club, Thom reads from Richard Wolff's "Understanding Socialism."

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Thom welcomes Amit Narang, Regulatory Policy Advocate with Public Citizen on Trump's accelerating destruction of environmental law and the EPA, including the rollback of fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks. Is Trump cynically using the pandemic as cover to gift his corporate buddies everything they ever wanted?

And, unlike every other developed country which are supporting their citizens with monthly checks, Trump and the Republicans have said they will not be paying out anything beyond the $1200 check. How far will that $1200 go for the average person?

Mark Pocan, Progressive leader in the House of Representatives, joins Thom to answer caller questions on the implications of the stimulus passed in the CARE act, and what more Progressive Democrats are hoping to achieve to help people in need in the coming days- and what the Republican majority Senate will likely refuse to pass.

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Thom convenes his 'support group for WE THE PEOPLE'- and asks his listeners what they are grieving the loss of in this time of crisis?... And what positive steps can we take to stay strong?

Meanwhile, does Trump have blood on his hands for his long irresponsible dithering? A major Freedom of Information act release shows White House Officials knew about this crisis for months during which Trump still pretended publicly that 'this is just the common cold'. As deaths in red states begin to mount, will Republicans pivot to blaming the lack of preparation on the impeachment?

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Why did George Washington's contracting smallpox in his youth make him more employable? Are American corporate policies creating a workforce of corona virus survivors?

And Alex Lawson of Social Security Works joins Thom to raise the alarm of a dirty trick Republicans slipped into the latest stimulus bill they might use to undermine Social Security later on.

Plus- what happened to the $3000 ventilators the government paid to develop in 2007? Why can't America match the level of economic support Europe and Canada is giving to its workers? And did Trump give away the game on Fox News when he said about the efforts to require vote by mail "if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,”? Why were briefings to Congress early in the year telling them to expect the coming pandemic given the highest level of national security, making it a crime for Congress to warn the people? What is the connection to the pre-crash stock sell-offs by some of our representatives? And why did Trump ship tons of protective gear and ventilators to China on the 7th of February, when Trump was still telling Americans the disease was 'a Democrat hoax'?

And, will Republican states claim they can't certify the November election so that the a Republican will win based on an alternate process in the 12th amendment to the constitution?

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As a virus- which he not so long ago called 'a democrat hoax'- stills the business of mankind across the planet, has Trump moved his insane and lying ego-boosting rhetoric from his rallies to his press conferences? As sycophantic Republican governors are slow to take safety orders, is Trump favoring red states with federal support? And can we all possibly come to admit the madness of neo-liberalism in the face of its absolute failure in the United States to respond to this crisis?

Thom's brilliant callers digest the historic implications of the pandemic- and the threat to American democracy it may represent.

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Is Trump such a sociopath that he's willing to let people die in states he doesn't like? Trump told Hannity he 'has a feeling' we won't need that many ventilators even as infection numbers arc sharply upward and thousands of Americans are already dead. The first American teen to die from Covid suffered a related heart attack after being turned away from treatment because he didn't have health insurance. How is this possible in the richest country in the world? And what kind of man is leading this obscene parade?

And Peter Maybarduk- the director of Global Citizen's 'Global Access to Medicine' group- joins Thom live. What is the status of the medical supply chains around the world as countries close their borders- and how will that affect the deployment of treatments for the pandemic? Did Gilead sciences try to game the system to price gouge the world for a possible treatment they have? Should we be reviving American pharmaceutical manufacturing like what we used to have in Puerto Rico? And how could the Defence Production Act be applied to cranking out a possible treatment?

Plus Thom's callers digest the issues ranging from the pandemic to Joe Biden to the gold standard to Latvian fake news to the reality or unreality of the stock market.

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As we pass 1000 Americans dead from the pandemic, why is Donald Trump choosing now to prioritize plans to cut many of our basic environmental protections on behalf of his corporate buddies? Did Jared Kushner put a monkey wrench in negotiations to retool a GM plant to make ventilators?- is this what happens when a family of grifters takes over the White House? And with Mississippi's governor reversing all the local shelter-in-place orders and re-opening that state, are Republicans making the same sort of 'mistake' that GW Bush did when he ignored clear warnings about Osama Bin Laden?

As Britain's National Health Service begins to be inundated with a tsunami of Covid cases, and with the nation under lockdown enforced by threat of arrest, correspondent Victoria Jones gives Thom an idea of what life- and politics- are like in the UK right now.

And Thom reads from "Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction" by David Enrich.

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