between people who are willing to use the power of the state to silence their opponents and those who are unwillingng what s held this country together since the civil war. it s not c the federal code. it s not even the bill of rights. as important as that document is . remember, the soviet union i had a bill of rights guaranteed freedom of speech and equal rights. but in practice,free the bolshes assassinated their political opponents and sent their dissidents to the gulagsoa as veria boasted. showst me t the man. i llan show you the crime. now, what s kept us functioning through the centuries were failed is thatha our constitution separatedt powers and prevented a unified party. also had an unwritten understanding. the state power will not be youu shall not be used for improper political purposes. the law must be enforced equally without political considerations. once you lose that common understanding, it s mutually assuredn destruction. no one has any reason to upholdn th
the society can no longer perform its most basic function. the reason we have societies in the first place, which is to protect the weak from the strong. that s why you have a society well in places like this it becomes, among many other things, very hard to travel anywhere. you just can t go where you want to go with legitimate authority in retreat, roads are not controlled by the police. they re controlled by armed predators. and the armed predators take exactly what they want from travelers because they can. this is an ancient problem used to be called highway robbery. and for most of history it kept people very close to home. turns out it still exists, but now it s called carjacking. carjacking is the clearest possible sign that your civilization is falling apart and that s where you find it in places like somalia and south africa. places where force violence and clan loyalty have replaced law and order, places where might makes right in the city of johannesburg, for exam
a pretty conventional understanding of this country s first black indian partrs canadian vice president who also happens tosi identify as a woman. now we assume that kamala harris was historically unpopular because she s historically incompetent and fake. we assume she earned her low approval. so we re not alone in that. lots off other people have comea to the very same conclusion. there s currently a debate among software engineers about whether harris is even of biological origin or instead the product of a classified government. evei project gone wrong. we don t know the answer, but we certainly understandnd the questionon . she s that synthetic. so again, until the other day we assume that people don t like kamala harris because d she s highlyca unlikable. keep in mind that even her own husband kisses or with a mask on to us that seemed like a pretty clear sign. but we re here tonight to tellu you that assumptions can changeh even assumptions rooted r in overwhelming evid
four p.m. on thursday. the group reentereded the building. accounts vary as to what exactly happened next , but it seems clear that colbert s employees werees let inside by an ally within the building that would be a freshmanou member of congress from massachusetts called jake auchinclosssja. once on federal property, colbert completed what they came to do, which was disruptpts the business of congress and apparently we re not subtle about doing itng, poundeder on doors and yelled whatever they did, it got people s attention. it takes an awful lot force a police force controlledo by nancy pelosi to arrestup a group of leftwingte entertainmentrt figures. but that s exactly what happened next . capitol hill police arrestedpith stephen colbert employees and brought them to jail allt seven of them were chargedde with unlawful entry. now that s the identical chargee that hundreds of january six defendants have been prosecuted for. but unlike january six defendants, cobus employees
bill nye, the science guy blaming or pickup truck for extreme weather. these are not people who are speaking in good faith. they re not trying to solve problems. they re not even interested in what actually happened. they re lying. they re unscrupulous and they will say anything if they think it ll make them more powerful. so best to ignore them. on the other hand and this is also true over time it is possible to draw legitimate connections between decisions that politicians make and the catastrophes that follow the rising gas prices. for example, the price of gas in america now qualifies as a catastrophe. that s true . no matter how you feel about carbon emissions, you still probably assume to be able to afford to drive to work every day or take a vacation with your kids this summer or buy dinner in a restaurant once in a while. but you can t and gas prices are the reason you can t. nothing makes our country poorer, faster than rising energy prices. so how did this happen? w