i m in my bedroom on january 6th watching thousands of people at the united states capitol on the day that the presidential election was supposed to be certified. like most of us, last winter i watched live as people stormed the united states capitol. fueled by the baseless claim that the election was stolen. make no mistake, this election was stolen from you, from me. stop the steal! stop the steal! this is the consequence of conspiracy theories rung amok. accusations of lies, treason, even pedophilia flew from all directions. it begs the question, how did we end up here? americans have always been fascinated with alternate versions of the truth. the clues were all there, actually, that it had the potential to get as huge as it s become. but in the last decade, conspiracy thinking has gone mainstream, and it may not be entirely our fault. if you re a democrat and i m a republican, the algorithm is incentivized to push us apart. tonight we re taking a closer
Whose rocket hit the overcrowded hospital, whether it was fired from israeli plane or was launched by militants towards a jewish settlement, but deviated from the course and hit their own people, i repeat once again, all this is completely unimportant, the important thing is that both hamas and the israeli idf conduct military operations in such a way as if the innocent on the other side of the barricades simply do not exist, but our entire modern civilization seems to have suddenly disappeared somewhere into the dark middle ages. Caidites eus novet, dominus eus. Kill everyone. The lord will distinguish his own from strangers. With these words, at the beginning of the 13th century, the papal legate admonished the participants of the albigensian crusade to storm the enemy citadel. Its hard to imagine a modern politician saying Something Like that on camera, unless he wanted to publicly commit political harakiriri. But the socalled, not named. Sources, which journalists love to refer to
Predicting the inability of House Republicans to simply do their jobs, the Biden Administration is now threatening Government Agencies to review their shut down plants. Make no mistake, the Government Shutdown is going to result in real consequences for millions of americans, and it will hurt our economy. Heres a snapshot of the last Government Shutdown. This occurred between the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019 on trumps watch. A stretched on for 34 days, 300,000 Government Workers were furloughed and. It costs our economy 11 billion dollars. Its not Monopoly Money, folks. Its not Monopoly Money to republicans who think that we have too much debt in the country, 11 Trillion Dollars for no particular reason, seems foolhardy. I should not be complicated. Funding the government is a basic power given to congress in the constitution. Its one of the few things that the United States constitution actually says that congress has to do it, its not optional. They have what you commonly he
Our economy. Heres a snapshot of the last Government Shutdown. This occurred between the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019 on trumps watch. A stretfo 34 days, 300,000 Government Workers were furloughed and. It costs our economy 11 billion dollars. Its not Monopoly Money, folks. Its not Monopoly Money to republicans who think that we have too much debt in the country, 11 Trillion Dollars for no particular reason, seems foolhardy. I should not be complicated. Funding the government is a basic power given to congress in the constitution. Its one of the few things that the United States constitution actually says that congress has to do it, its not optional. They have what you commonly here as the power of the house under the leadership of the speaker, Kevin Mccarthy, tenuously the ship though it is. He is choosing chaos over governing. For a party that touts fiscal responsibility, its just not responsible to hold the Economy Hostage over hard line policy requests that stand zero chanc
conviction two weeks ago. the day after trump was convicted of 34 felony counts in his new york hush money case, eight republican senators vowed to oppose all biden nominees and all democratic legislation as retribution. today six republican senators led by trump vice presidential short lister j.d. vance put the oppose all biden nominees part of that vow into writing. senators explained that they would block nominees, including anyone who has suggested the trump prosecutions were reasonable, anyone who endorsed trump s guilt, anyone who supported organizations that celebrated the indictment of donald trump, and anyone who supported manhattan district attorney alvin bragg or supported lawfare or censorship in other way, which is just vague enough to include basically anyone president biden has nominated. now, these republican senators say that their blockade will last until election day. and in practical terms, that means the u.s. government will not be able to appoint represe