and Louise I went to Europe and we
visited uh I visited Spain which I'm
going to talk about in a little while
but we also visited Portugal and a dear
old friend of mine who worked in the
media who has worked in media his entire
life in fact back back in the 70s we
were both working in Detroit we didn't
know each other at the time but we were
in Michigan and but we were working on
on sister Publications and
um
uh we visited him and his wife and and
visited their home in Portugal they're
now expats they're now living there
and he was telling me about this project
he's working on that so shocked me
because it never even occurred to me
that I should be thinking like this
and and he was like you know we're
working on this project to uh and it's a
bunch of people all across Europe in the
European Union countries
to provide Refuge shelter for American
journalists and opinion writers
and their families to get them out of
the United States
should Trump or DeSantis or some other
fascist become president and begin a
putin-like Crackdown I mean this is you
know we saw this happen last year when
Putin started cracking down on reporters
who were talking Russian reporters who
were talking about what was going on in
Ukraine and over 300 Russian reporters
have you know that we know of now have
fled the country and there are
organizations and some of them are quite
underground and and my friends I'm not
naming him because the organization he's
putting together is not going to be you
know publicly known although there are
some out there that are
but uh we're getting there
I mean it's just incredible when you
look at what has already happened you
know people like Carrie Lake saying I'm
I'm talking to you media you're going to
have to go through us and we are NRA
members right
um when you get uh you know all these uh
reporters who have been and and and and
other people associated with them who
have been fired by by the Trump the
DeSantis Administration the Trump
Administration
they're they have basically declared
open War on journalism and on opinion
writers
um should they become president and uh
wow this was such a slap in the face
you're listening to the Thom Hartmann
program call 202 808 9925 yeah bad wrong
metaphor it was a splash of cold water
in the face is what it was it was an
eye-opener like whoa seriously this is
how the rest of the world views America