they d be carried out on a stretcher, folks. guards are gentle, walking out, high fives, smiling, laughing. i d like to punch him in the face. i ll tell ya. we re in a serious moment in our country, and i mean it from the bottom of my heart. as i said last week, we remain in the battle for the soul of america. by the way all right. god love ya. let em go. let em go. no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, let him go. look, everybody is entitled to be an idiot. no, no, everybody is entitled. president biden s response to a protester while campaigning in wisconsin yesterday, as compared to how donald trump handled hecklers during the 2016 campaign. remember that? yeah, willie, it kind of feels like he was speaking to me there. everybody is entitled to be an idiot. i had the same thought. a different approach than donald trump, obviously. that was for us. exactly. also looking back on 2016, too, the idea that donald trump has ever been in a fistfight in his life, the
he is one of the cover stories for the issue, ukrainians are defending the values americans claim to hold. here s part of what george writes. quote, a whole society mobilized: this was my first and most lasting impression. the mayor of lviv described ukraine in crisis as a beehive. nearly everyone i met had looked for something to do as soon as russia attacked, some way to be useful without waiting for instructions from a higher authority. on the day the invasion started, a sculptor and lighting designer went to volunteer at a local territorial defense post in kyiv and were given instant training in the use of ak-47s. neither had ever fired a gun in their lives. but within 24 hours, they were standing on a rooftop in the north of the capital, scouting the streets below for the first russian tanks. yet, almost every ukrainian i met shared it.
we will win. and also, no compromise. i do not know what the men thought of the american politics, and i didn t want to know. back home, we might have argued, might have detested each other. here? we were joined by a common belief in what the ukrainians were trying to do, and admiration for how they were doing it. george, of course, as you note, this has united many americans along bipartisan along partisan divides. there was a line that i thought was very striking. when we ask what is going to happen here, you spoke, actually, to a former green beret from texas on a train ride. let me get the quote right. he said to you, he said, in basic terms, slaves can never defeat free people. once a man tastes freedom, he
summer. republicans are extremism and out of touch with americans on issues like abortion, guns, and, in this case, democracy itself. the president does take pains to say, look, it s not every republican, but a lot of them have been hijacked by donald trump and his maga loyalists. white house aides rolled their eyes to the criticism of the speech, noting that the color scheme was, yes, red, white, and blue, and it was just a close shot of the president. jonathan, we can use a little more red, white, and blue, instead of blood red. if this is all i couldn t got joe, it was reminiscent of the last jedi, the snoke throne room, when it was red and dark. yes! some criticized there were two marines who flanked him for the speech, inappropriate use of the military. every president who held that office has given a speech with marines next to them.
say, that was a moment of conflict and tension, but we got out of it? i totally believe that this is a political and also a moral crisis. i m not preaching. it s not a homily, moral point. the root of the word moral is about custom. it is about how we are with each other. democracies, like the one that s working today across the atlantic, democracies depend on not just adherence to the substance of law and tradition but, as was said in a book that was hugely important to our framers, the spirit of the laws. the thing about this, we have to decide, is my basic point. americans have to decide that we are willing to defer getting exactly what we want, whenever we want it, and say that the