the weekend trail derailment poiseoned an entire town in ohio, the transportation secretary the man in charge of preventing train derailments held a press conference attacking white construction workers because they re the problem. it s 1952. our 80 year old president, meanwhile, 80 years old, he seems convinced it s 1915 and we re all living in rural alabama burning crosses in the front yard of terrified share croppers to amuse ourselves. we don t have tv. biden gave a speech the other day, in 2023, to denounce lynching. as if lynching is still happening in the united states. this all seems a little delusional. so it was with genuine relief that we saw today one of biden s to be cabinet officials janet yellen, sign off her twitter account leave washington and meet with actual flesh and blood human beings who are suffering. and not only did she meet with them, janet yellen brought with her a check for a billion dollars. and we were happy to see that, finally someone from t
market. a penguin is a mammal. so they weren t selling penguins in a seafood market for one thing. for another, a group of chinese researchers went and interviewed everybody in the bet market and asked, have you ever seen a penguin for sale here, or bats, another mammal? no, not one had. that was on the internet. we read it and reported it. that was february 2020. so what we knew at that point was the chinese government s lying. tom cotton was absolutely right and for his trouble he was called insane, a conspiracy therapist. tom cotton, a couple of days ago, spouting a conspiracy theory that the chinese made this virus up and tried to spool up some of the whoever was wearing tin foil hats in your audience. let s a apply caulk um s razor and call crazy crazy. this is crazy an insane thing to do wildly irresponsible and totally unnecessary.
in fact, this weekend after months of marinating at mar-a-lago, he is now really leaning into racism, spouting a completely false and completely racist idea that white americans now have to get to the back of the line to receive covid treatment. ivanka trump stewing in miami must be really proud of her dad. the former president was also spinning wild fantasies about the fbi and insurrection and doing it at the very same time the fbi was helping end a hostage taking just two states away at a synagogue in dallas-fort worth area. now, according to the anti-defamation league s most recent reports, acts of anti-semitism are at the highest level since 1979. so if the arc of history may feel a little more brittle tonight, there is probably good reason for it. at the same time, even now, as a you are about to see, there is also reason for hope. hope in the form of tolerance and compassion, decency and simple human kindness. you can find it right now at a methodist church not far from the congr
what s more, the party s figure head, the former president, is back in front of crowds pushing those phony stories over the weekend. refusing to concede the plain fact that he lost. he lost. he lost and he cannot stop whining about it, and denying it happened. in fact, this weekend after months of marinating at m mar-a-lago, he is now really leaning, spouting a completely false and completely racist idea that white americans now have to get to the back of a line to receive covid treatment. ivanka trump stewing in miami must be really proud of her dad. the former president was also spinning wild fantasies about the fbi and insurrection and doing it at the very same time the fbi was helping end a hostage taking just two states away at a synagogue in dallas-ft. worth area. now, according to the anti-defamation league s most recent reports, acts of anti-semitism are at the highest level since 1979. so if the arc of history may feel a little more brittle