and so one of the greatissi and happy and unexpected smsurprises of this cycle is how many interesting people are running around the country., y people something to say that isn t necessarily about them. people who have interests beyond just accumulating country more power. jd vance and ohio kerry, blake a and blake masters in arizona,nd joe kent in washington state. dr. oz in pennsylvania. none of these people has been in politics before. all of them seem tobefore. be listening to voters listing, not just talkingthey a. all coazingly, all of them could win on november eight . and if they do, that s a huge problem for the democratic dis party and for the people iasnne charge. more broadly, it s a potential thing tdisaster. it s one thing to elect mitc more mitch mcconnell s team. republicanls, tames know what ts are. the first rule, of course,the f is you must lose. bu people like that will play along as they faithfully have for decades. but what happe would happen ifre someo
the democratic party all around the country. p they are now petrifiedetrifi by very real possibility that the democrats could lose the house and lose the senate, not to majr mention multiple major gubernatorial races all across this great country of ours. this weekend, barack obama, bernie sanders, even first lady jill biden, they re all hitting the campaign trail hard in a desperate attempt to salvager. some of these races. bujot noe t joe biden, the president. it s m he s just noort up to the taskt and it s more than he can handle at thishi point in his life. so he will be spending the weekend in delawarere with his wit granddaughter. so much needed rest and relaxation for the president.afe now, afterr al all, it was a vey nesy week for joe , public events almost every single day. needless to say, the struggle was very real. sed yesterday, for example, bideemn seemed to think that heg inherited five dollar a gallon gas pricesn ga and that america, you, the american people,
the freedom that matters is the freedom to speak your mind, the freedom of speech. that s the most basic and essential of all the freedoms. and that s why it s enshrined in the very first amendment to the bill of rights. it s central not simply to freedom, but to humanity. it s not opposable thumbs that separate us from the animalsk. that s our power. words in the beginning was the word, declares john . at the opening of the fourth gospel, the word the word is the most important thing that we have. take away our ability to choose our own words, and we are no longer fully human. we are subjects. we re chattel. authoritarians understand this. above all, that s why they hate freedom of speech. in fact, if you gave them a choice, they d let you have a fully automatic 50 caliber machine gun before they allowed you to say exactly what you want with a gun, you might be able to kill people, but with words you can expose them . with words you can change the world. in fact, there has n
bell and air conditioning and modern hospitals. it is not another world. so given that given how closely related the united states is to europe and has always been, you would imagine our leaders would notice when europe began to fall apart, especially when the signs were not subtle at all and they weren t. this summer, germans begin clearcutting ancient forests to heat their homes. in poland, families queued up for hours to buy coal just did one hundred and fifty years ago in the uk, the government projected that more than ten thousand britons will freeze to death, will die this winter for lack of heating fuel. freeze to death in england. that is not supposed to happen in a first world country. so europe is moving backward at high speed and it s not clear where it will end. so the question is why is this happening? and the answer for once is a very simple one to warm ukraine. that s why it s happening. a huge percentage of europe s energy came from russia. those imports h
is nothing compared to what southwest florida woke up to today. shreve seeflorida woke un house others carried away by brutal storm . carried away by brutal storm surge surge and debris, including cars ending up in bays. in some circumstances, the destruction is almost unimaginable. circumstance steve harrigan, by the grace of god , rode out the storm as close to the impact zoneow as anyone else. and tonight we find him inrigh placita, which is right acrossci the causeway connecting i the barrier island of bocasl grande. steve , you ve seen some justrii horrific destruction.de what can youstruct telion, whatc how the search and rescue attempts areue unfolding in the dark? there? ar they are going on . they are continuous. h they ve carried ouavt more than seven hundred rescues and they really got started just aftether 1:00 o clock in the morning.as o as soon as the winds die down belomow forty miles per hour, they were out there really risking their lives to try to save