Explorers in the sort of interior west. So as i told you all last time, weve proceeding pretty chronologically up to this point. This lecture is going kind of spin us out onto a thematic topic. So were going to start right around Thomas Jefferson, who we left off talking about on monday, but were going to jump the way through forward to the usmexico war and the civil war. And so a lotf today, theyre also going to come up in our future lectures. So just know that if you feel slightly unmoored when it comes to what time were in, im going to do my best to signpost, but just flag me down. Youre like, weve suddenly jumped 20 years. Thats going to happen today because its a more of a thematic topic. But what i really want us to get out of this is a deeper insight into this question. Weve been is once you have an empire, how you exert control over it and how is the new us federal government, which we started to talk about on monday, going to control the interior west is going to be its kind o
popular president in modern american history. nobody is impressed by joe biden, and that would be including dr. jill. so this is a big problem for the biden family, obviously, but a much bigger problem for the democratic party, which joe biden leads. unpopular presidents drag their parties to the bottom in midterm elections. that s the unchanging rule of politics. you saw it famously in 1994, with republican takeover of congress after two disastrous years with bill clinton. you saw it in 2006 after hurricane katrina. you saw it in 2010 after obamacare. you saw it in 2018. in fact, it may well happen in 2022. we re certainly praying for it. to be honest, the numbers don t show that happening. not even close. in fact, all the indications we have right now suggest that despite joe biden s well-earned unpopularity, the democratic party still again, as of tonight has a strong chance of holding congress in november. the prediction markets, which many believe are more accurate t
,i personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. second, the department does not take such a decision lightly where possible. it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search and to narrowly scope any search that is undertaken took them long enough to say something without taking any questions. and he was about an hour late. garland s mission was not a surprise. after all, this is the man who spearheading the most wide ranging investigation into department history with the january six probe. i don t know if you ve noticed this the same merrick garland who used the department of justice and the fbi to target parents as the terrorist, which we know they are for exercising their right to free speech. a school board meetings, which we televise a lot of it and play it back even more of it. and while merrick garland has done nothing to even attempt to reduce skyrocketing violent crime, which is all around us in major cit
Explorers in the sort of interior west. So as i told you all last time, weve proceeding pretty chronologically up to this point. This lecture is going kind of spin us out onto a thematic topic. So were going to start right around Thomas Jefferson, who we left off talking about on monday, but were going to jump the way through forward to the usmexico war and the civil war. And so a lot of the topics were talking about today, theyre also going to come up in our future lectures. So just know that if you feel slightly unmoored when it comes to what time were in, im going to do my best to signpost, but just flag me down. Youre like, weve suddenly jumped 20 years. Thats going to happen today because its a more of a thematic topic. But what i really want us to get out of this is a deeper insight into this question. Weve been talking throughout the class, which is once you have an empire, how you exert control over it and how is the new us federal government, which we started to talk about on
So were going to start right around Thomas Jefferson, who we left off talking about on monday, but were going to jump the way through forward to the usmexico war and the civil war. And so a lot of the topics were talking about today, theyre also going to come up in our future lectures. So just know that if you feel slightly unmoored when it comes to what time were in, im going to do my best to signpost, but just flag me down. Youre like, weve suddenly jumped 20 years. Thats going to happen today because its a more of a thematic topic. But what i really want us to get out of this is a deeper insight into this question. Weve been talking throughout the class, which is once you have an empire, how you exert control over it and how is the new us federal government, which we started to talk about on monday, going to control the interior west is going to be its kind of biggest problem. So well start here. Adam smith, pretty famous dude economist, right around 1776, just as the americans are