Trump's Fake National Security Scam

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1:12This is the Tom Harbin Program. Just a reminder Friday night, I'll be at Powell's City of Books here in Portland, signing the Manu Book who killed the American Dream. I think you'll find it entertaining. I hope you can show up. Donald Trump made a big announcement. We're cutting drug prices for Medicaid recipients. It's going to save a fortune. The only problem is the deal is secret. But it's not transparent. It's not public. Public citizens calling them out. Elizabeth Warren is calling them out. Peter Maybarduck, the director of public citizens access to medicine programs said, quote, Trump's drug pricing deals are a mirage designed to convince Americans that he's taken significant action on drug pricing while creating minimal, if any, downside for big pharma. He says the text showed Trump handing out favors to big pharma, undercutting his own models to lower prices and throwing the support of the U.S. government behind corporate decisions to deny medicines entirely to other countries.

2:15Trump talks about this most favored nation stuff, but it's apparently all BS. And what's really amazing is that the Bob Kennedy, the FDA, has now said, you can no longer import drugs from Canada. The largest and probably highest reputation, well known of the Canadian pharmacies that caters to American customers. It's most of their business. It's called Northwest Pharmacy. Website is northwestfarmacy.com, northwestpharmacy.com, they've got a toll free number and all kinds of stuff. I mean, they're there. And right up at the top of their website, it me order immediately. October 9th is the final deadline for standard orders in a new FDA policy schedule for October 22nd is expected to block prescription treatments to Americans from licensed Canadian and other international pharmacies. Millions will be affected. And this is true. So Trump cuts a deal with the big drug companies that the Canadians can't compete with you any

3:20longer. So now everybody in America, instead of being able to buy your medicine from Canada for half price or less, you are now going to have to pay full price in the United States. But to sweeten the pot, he's got a discount on we go for Medicaid people, which is not saving the Medicaid people any money. It's saving the federal government some money. So it's like on the one hand, we're going to make these drugs more expensive. On the other hand, we're going to make it so the government saves some money on some of these drugs. It's astonishing. It's astonishing. What's astonishing to me is the media played this story yesterday or the day before, over and over and over again of Donald Trump saying, we're going to lower a drug prices for Medicaid. Never once mentioning that he's doing this or he's doing this PR because he's getting blowback from people for cutting off the access to Canadian drugs.

4:25You can literally go to NorthwestFarmacy.com and look at their prices. And you'll see, the drugs that you're buying here in the United States are available for dramatically less, let's say, in Canada. And the reason why is very simple. Canada has a single payer healthcare system. The system negotiates drugs for the country and those negotiated prices are the prices of the pharmacy's pay. And so the pharmacies in Canada are, there's competition. You've got a government saying, we're going to buy a Zillion pills. Who's going to give us the best deal? It's called competition. Here in the United States, no competition. We've got a handful of companies that own all of our pharmacies. They're increasingly owned now by insurance companies, which are increasingly also affiliated with their drug company. It's a scam. The whole healthcare thing in America has become a scam. I wrote a book about this. The Hidden History of American Healthcare. It was shocking the stuff I learned when I was writing that book.

5:29So anyway, check it out. This is just the latest scam to come out of the GOP and Trump. And if you want to get some action steps, go to northwestfarmacy.com and just click on the link at the top of the page. They'll tell you all about it. They've got all the details. We'll be right back. Stick around. It's 27 minutes past the end. I'll get one more story here for you and I'll pick up your clothes. I have several cherished sweaters in my closet from Quince that I wear on repeat. You know, I run cold sweaters for sweaters often and that's one of the things that Quince does best. Quince also makes premium pants, fitted tees and polos and breathable active wear. Quality basics designed to work across your wardrobe and hold up to everyday wear. Everything at Quince is priced 50 to 80% less than similar brands. They work directly with ethical factories and therefore they cut out the middlemen to your pain for high quality, not brand markup. And it's not just clothing. Quince brings that same approach to everything they make from hotel quality, bedding and

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7:29Anyway, the shooting, the federal officers did not give first aid. They just stood around and let him bleed until the Austin city police showed up. And they then ran in and opened up his shirt and found a bullet hole in his back because ICE guys are goons and thugs and they shoot people on the back or in the face and or in the back of the head in the case of Alex Prattie. And this guy was making it a delivery for DoorDash. So here you got a guy who's just trying to make a living, no criminal history. And hey, he's got brown skin. Shoot him quick. I mean, that's where we're at now, thanks to Stephen Miller and Donald Trump. So what's on your mind? Joanne in Berkshire, Massachusetts, H.O. Anne, thanks for listening to WHO. What's up? Hi, I've been thinking about this Tom about that we need our own manifesto because we're

8:33being framed and we're on the defensive. We're always responding to the Republican manifesto. They had their first manifesto or they came out with it 1997 with the project for the New American Century, which is signed by the same people who promoted coaches platform when he ran for, I think it was David Koch who ran for president 1980. Now all this has been reincarnated in the project for 2025 and is being put into effect by Trump. I think we need to take the initiative. It will unite us and I'm trying to work with groups here where I am and reference to this in writing a platform, but I think we need to get it out so that people know what we stand for because they are perverting us and stealing us and or willing and perverting everything we say. The other thing is I really believe we need to reset. We need to impeach Trump. We need to impeach Roberts and Clarence Thomas and anyone who is taking enormous amounts

9:40of money. They have broken their contract. They have made an oath to Trump and to the Republican Party's agenda. I think we can hold them accountable on that. I also believe that Trump is vulnerable and weak now. If you keep saying, oh my God, they are going to impeach me if you don't re-elect me. That's like Brea Rabbit and Brea Fox. Don't throw me into the Brea patch. He needs to be there. He needs to be held accountable. We need this role model. We need to over-get-a-loose the next generation of voters. Yeah. I agree, Joanne. Putting together, the only challenge the Democrats have right now in United Kingdom around a manifesto is that there is this relatively consequential number of corporate Democrats, Democrats who are on the take, who will fight things like health care for all, who will fight things like free college, which I think should be at the core of this,

10:44who will fight things like subsidized housing because their friends in the hedge fund industry are making money on housing, their friends in the banking industry are making money on student debt, their friends in the health insurance industry are making money on housing. The housing is no longer an agency, the government, it has been privatized and they are kicked back. And they are not just a large extent. Yeah, well, the guy who is in the head of HUD right now is just a former football player. Trump put him in because he was a Republican, but I mean, it's just pathetic. It really is. Joanne, thank you. You're so strong. Can I have one more thing? Yeah, sure. Can I ask him more? Okay, I think Karni is fantastic. I think he's doing just what he has to do. But he is standing up, and not only is he standing up for Canada, but he's standing up in a sense for us as an ally to the people who are Democrats, and he is making a difference. And I have talked to Canadians who were fighting, and I said, it's up to you guys now. It's like World War II, and we need the allies to come and save us.

11:48Yeah. And Shine bomb in Mexico, too, is doing some remarkable stuff. So, you know, I don't think we need to despair. We just, we need to work with our allies. I'm with you. Joanne, thank you. Catherine and Chicago watching us on YouTube, hit Catherine. What's up? Last week, there was a spectacularly stunningly detailed interview between Katie Kirk and a gentleman named Judge Michael Ludic, L-U-T-T-I-G. And I don't know, Tom, if you covered anything that he's done recently, but he wrote an article for the New Republic. I think it was published on September 10th. There were a lot of really kind of scary details that were discussed during the interview last week with Katie Kirk. The most important one being it's not only the midterm elections in November that we have to worry about, but it's also the process of the congressional transition in January.

12:54It's not just the speaker calling into session, you know, from the current Congress. It's the clerk of Congress. But it's also the calling names. It's also calling their presence. And if there are a couple of sequences omitted from this process, essentially what Judge Ludic indicated was that there's a possibility that they could stop Congress from transitioning and therefore we could have no running government until they decide. Or they simply refuse to seat some of the Democrats claiming that there's voter fraud going on in those districts. And therefore we can't seriously seat these people. And Mike Johnson might decide to preemptively fire the clerk of the house who's the person who compiles that stuff and replace them with a mega neo-fascist totey. Yeah, I'm real familiar with this argument. He's been on this program before. We've talked about this as some length.

13:55There's a fascinating piece on Daily Coase right now. And let me see if I can get the title of it for you. It is the transfer of power in the house is the title by its number 11 right now in Daily Coase. That knocks down some of Ludic's arguments. But you know, on the other hand, you've got this story about Abraham Lincoln, apparently in the election of 1862, something very similar to this was expected to happen. And Lincoln's station troops in the basement of the capital building basically to put a gun to the head of the clerk of the court if he didn't go along with the appropriately seating people. And everything went just fine as a result of that. I'm concerned about it. I share your concern. I think a lot of people are concerned about this right now, Catherine. Thank you very much for covering it before. I didn't know that you had. So that's great. And the other thing is my mantra that I'd like to say one more time if I may is that abuse

14:58has been the epidemic of our time. We need to get the abusers out. Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome, Catherine. And let's start with Leon Black. I mean, there's a bunch of billionaires who have been circling Epstein and Trump for a long, long time. But yeah, I'm with you. Catherine, thank you. You may know Frontotemporal degeneration or FTD as the disease that recently forced Bruce Willis to retire from acting while it's the most common form of dementia for adults under age 60. Many people, even doctors, aren't familiar with it. Uncharacteristic personality changes, apathy and unexplained struggles with decision-making, movement, speaking or language comprehension are the most common symptoms. It is often misdiagnosed as bipolar disorder, depression, and sometimes just a midlife crisis. It's world FTD awareness week. You can learn more about this disease and the important steps you can take to preserve

16:00and maximize quality of life by visiting the Association for Frontotemporal degeneration at the aftd.org. And help share hope. Go now to the aftd.org. Maria and Evanston, Illinois. Hey, Maria, what's on your mind today? I just want to bring up a former news announcer on Progressive Radio from a few years back. His name was Norman Goldman. Oh, yeah. Norman is an old friend of mine. I haven't talked to him in years, but he was a good guy. Yeah, great guy. And I always loved listening to your show and his show and the other ones. He was also a successful businessman. Yeah, he was a former lawyer. And I really appreciated that he was trying to educate the public about law and our government and how unfortunate it is in our country that we don't have civics anymore in the school, which is terrible because kids don't understand how our government works.

17:05But a few of the things that he used to say, quoting him, was he felt that saying midterm elections was not inspiring enough for voters. He said it should be called congressional elections so that people understand that congressional, they're voted every two years. And we've got to keep the Senate when Senate comes up and the House strong. That's how we can get things done. We're the House. And I thought that was great saying to inform people and I thought I wanted to bring it up on your show since you have a lot of listeners. You just did. Good job. He used to say, Republic cons, which I always got a kick out of and I quoted him saying that ever since then and people left. And you know, because they are con people, unfortunately. And it's, you know, since Trump puts us down as Democrats or Progressors, it's telling it like it is. Yeah, I get it.

18:06And I'd love to hear Norman's name again. It'd be nice to hear his voice. But Maria, thank you. Thank you for the call. Mark in Oakland, California. Mark, what's up? Hey, Tom. I hope you had a great weekend. Yeah. I wanted to call you to great. I wanted to talk to you today. I have a take on Xi Jinping's visit to Washington. Yeah, next week. I'm going to direct. Yes. Actually, isn't it on the 20th? It's on the 23rd and two days, isn't it? Oh, it is. Oh, it's on the 24th. It's just coming Thursday. He's going to fly in Wednesday at 4 o'clock p.m. Trump is going to do something as extremely unusual. He's going to like, greet him at the Andrews, join Air Force Base, which are used typically presidents. Do not do that. And I'm getting ahead of my skis here. Basically, okay. So any which ways, it's not, this is not really a state visit. I, I am, I just get right into the meat and potatoes of it. I think that Xi Jinping is coming here, not to binge watch Breaking Bad with Trump, but

19:06to tell him what's what. He just came out of this, they just came out of this brick summit where now I can all the people were there, Modi Putin's, Xi Jinping, as a leader from South Africa, the dude from Iran, they were all there, but you know, who wasn't there, anybody from the United States. I think Xi Jinping, he was going to fly in, deliver the news and fly up there very next day. We Trump begged him to have that dinner on Thursday that state took to the pop and circumstance for Trump's benefit, but he's going to basically, this is what he's going to tell Trump. He's going to say, everything the United States has never, when they're in that crowded meeting, they have never been, you have never been more vulnerable than you have. Art today as a country. Your military is a paper tiger. You are an invasible country. Your country, your country, and then hate you. I think you're right. You have. I think you're right. Don't you dare challenge us when we take Taiwan. Mark, I got to run. Thanks. You're listening to Tom Hartman. Visit tomheartman.com for audio and video archives.

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21:13That's 800-218-4623. Jim in Austin, Texas. Hey, Jim. Thanks for watching Free Speech. What's up? Well, thank you. Tom, it seems like it's a lot going on. I'm going to Austin, of course, shooting him out this shooting, which was about two miles from my house. Whoa. I'll be patient by. Yeah, I'm going to tell him about that. I'm going to tell him about that. I'm going to tell him about that. Yeah, he's been moved away from Austin to some other place, but he does have a larger stand on his case. I'm calling him about Anne Rand, because there has been an announcement in the last few weeks of the Anne Rand Center to be built here in Austin. Oh, really? By. Yes. I think it's the, let's see what it was, say, here by the Anne Rand Institute. Yeah, the Anne Rand Institute. And they're building it over in the West Campus area on San Gabriel and Ninth Street. Ninth Street has been renamed for years Martin Luther King Boulevard.

22:19It's going to have something like 30,000 square feet, red or large building as the, have all of the paperwork, et cetera, and a lot of room for educating, not putting that in quoting quote marks, people that are interested in Anne Rand. So I, I know that it's at Anne Rand Center.org. There's a press release and it might be interesting to follow up on that. I know, I know, I was, I knew Anne Rand, you know, 67 years ago while I was in college. And she hasn't faded out yet. So there's a story to investigate. No, I heard her terrible fiction continues to make the rounds. Yeah, I read it and it was terrible then. It's terrible now. Yeah, I'm with you. I read Alice Shrugged and it just astonished me. I mean, you know, the whole, the whole argument, you got this, this young man and woman who inherited a railroad from their father.

23:20And they're the noble capitalists, these nepot babies. I mean, this is who we're supposed to identify. It's just crazy. Linda and Auburn Washington, you're on the air. What's up? So I was looking into the type of Christians, Compas and his administration and I asked Brave Browser, which is run by Catholics. You know, what, did me the breakdown on the people in his administration and are they Catholic or what kind of Protestant denomination? So people can do that. Okay, it's a real, the top ones are Catholic, including Robert Kennedy, Jr. Marco Rubio, Sean Duffy and Linda McHan, education and J.E. Vance. Okay, so those are Catholic, okay, then the different kind of Protestants, people need to know that Episcopal were really the Church of England. Yeah, then somehow defense secretary of Pete Hankseth is a reformed evangelical. I haven't looked into that one yet.

24:22His pastor is a notorious right wing homophobic racist Christian nationalist. Okay, so then, then I was like, are they Christian and named only like Stunned? C-I-N-O, like, right now. And I got no, okay, they sincerely believe they're Christian. And then I asked, I do this by muscle testing. I asked, do they understand Jesus? And I got no on most of them. And I got, and are they pleasing to Jesus? No, that would be the thing. If they understood Jesus, they would not be Republicans, Linda. It's up to Robert Kennedy, Jr. I got, yes, he's mostly pleasing to Jesus. And I, I got, yes, he's working on the glycetate issue. Yeah. Except that he's, except the authorize them to spread all over our crops. Linda, thanks for the call. Paul in Zilla Washington, hey, Paul, what's up? Well, I heard a couple of things while driving my tractor this morning.

25:24So I thought a progressive farmer from Yakima accountings could call it. Are some of this here? There's a lot of folks that I'm getting from generational wealth right next to me this morning. There were about 80, H2A farm workers harvesting apples for God, Hancock insurance company. They own hundreds and hundreds of acres of water. Oh, damn saying we should do ethanol for fuel. We already do. We have 90 million acres of corn we grow in the United States. 36 million of it goes to producing ethanol. All right. My understanding is that you put more calories into producing the ethanol than you get out of the ethanol. Is that correct? That's what, that's what the data suggests. And you know, that's that there's 13 million acres of corn in Iowa, some say by the government where people get to vote first and have a big influence. The best farmers like some banks, because they're very big wealth, they're receiving.

26:28Yeah, yeah, for sure. Well, Paul, thank you for checking in and always nice hearing from you. Here at thisiodelsold.com, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.