GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE UPSIDE OF THE POX

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?