i think if we had a policy which was firm, which armed ukraine with defensive and offensive weapons so they could defend themselves i think putin would make different calculations so i think oballa s policy of weakness is actually making a larger conflict more likely that was less than eight years ago, but now, desantis wants to appease putin, calling the brutal invasion of ukraine nothing more than a territorial dispute. the latest sign the party of desantis, trump, and tucker is seriously out of touch with the views of most americans. also tonight, how the failure of silicon valley bank is exposing the myths of regulation and the hypocrisy of libertarians who seem real pro government when it comes to federal assistance for them. and donald trump rolls out the melania defense with his lawyer claiming the payment made to the porn actress whom he was allegedly cheating with were made to protect melania. not to help him get elected president. but we begin the reidout
Oregonians across the political spectrum largely agree on the value of compromise in politics, respecting individual choices around abortion and marriage and the ability of individuals to succeed despite outside
commission have opened investigations into last week s collapse of silicon valley bank. it comes as the treasury department is using emergency measures to give all depositors access to their full funds at no cost to the taxpayer though the biden administration maintains it is not a bailout. what should not be lost among the news of this collapse is the speed at which these tech start-ups and venture capitalists, the quintessential free market libertarians who invested in svb, went from being fervently against government handouts to basically begging for one. it was almost immediate, as nathan robinson puts it, every libertarian becomes a socialist the moment the free market screws them. writing, billionaire mark cuban swiftly went from denouncing regulators to asking, where were the regulators tech industry leaders immediately started calling for the fdic to ditch its $250,000 cap on guaranteed deposits david sac said it was unfair for depositors to be punished for
political coalition works right now. it doesn t matter how many of those ads you run, right. i m curious to see what your thoughts are as someone whose politics lean libertarian, who is an athiest, how you see the modern conservative coalition and where your place in it might be or if there is a place in it for you. there s no place in it whatsoever. political psychologists usually say that political ideologies tend to be organized along two dimensions, a left-right dimension and authoritarian-lyre tearian dimension. in practice, political parties and political movements tend tobacco ligss of convenience. it used to be that the democratic party had southern segregation istds and northeast jewish liberals. now a days the american conservative party has the free market libertarians and the evangelical christians. it s not easy to find a common
tell me a little bit about what the koch brothers did to set up shop in madison, wisconsin, after walker s victory. in addition to hosting tea parties, they actually opened a new government affairs shop, which is, you know, basically lobbyists talk to lobbying office. they hired seven new lobbyists. they re really expanding their operation to take advantage of a very friendly government there. what do they want, do you think? they obviously already have the thing about busting the unions. talk to me about no-ed by contracts. there s a line item in the budget, in addition to collective bargaining issue, there s a line item that allows no big contracts, so governor walker can sell off the state s power plants. it would be very good for their business. but here s the dirty secret about koch industries, even though david and charles koch like to talk about being free