the rachel maddow show starts right now. thank you very much, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. i m jumping the gun because this has just been a heck of a day in the news. the united states supreme court for the first time ever has issued an ethics code for supreme court justices, first time, first time in our history. and honestly, we have had some terrible supreme court justices in our history. it s not like everyone before this was good, so we didn t need rules. no, we had a justice resign ahead of being probably impeached for alleged bribery. we had a supreme court justice revealed to have been in the kkk just a few weeks after he got confirmed to the court. we had a justice who was so anti-semitic he reportedly would not speak to one of his colleagues. he would not speak to justice brandeis for years because justice brandeis was jewish. that guy was such a thorough going jerk that when he died, not a single one of the other supreme court ju
supreme court justices. first time in urhistory. it s not like everyone before this was good so we didn t need rules. no, we had a justice resign ahead of being probably impeached for alleged bribery.ei we had a supreme court justice revealed to have been in the kkk just a few weeks after he got confirmed to the court. we had a justice who was so anti-semitic he reportedly would not speak to one of his colleagues. he would not speak to justice brandeis for years because justice brandeis was jewish. that guy was such a thorough going jerk that when he died, s not a single one of the other t supreme court justices even bothered to go to his funeral. we have had some bad ones, i tell you. but we have never before had a whole wing of the court that has produced corruption scandal after corruption scandal after r corruption scandal. and not like esoteric legalese versions of corruption that are hard to understand.de things like buy me an rv, buy my mom a house. those kinds of fina
behalf of the country. i think they have shown they care a lot about maintaining their existence. you know, rachel, there s something is that a few minutes ago that really struck a bell, or rang a bell in my head. when you talked about this existentialist rhetoric, and this eliminationist rhetoric. sorry, this is the kind of rhetoric that the russians used about the ukrainians. the ukrainians know it. so they also believe that they are fighting for their country. they know that when the russians takeover territory, they don t just take over buildings and land, they are murdering people, deporting people, raping women, and so for them it is an existential battle in which every centimeter of territory matters. for us in washington, or in paris, or london, it doesn t mean quite the same thing. so the speed of weapons delivered really does matter. anne applebaum, staffer at the atlantic, author of twilight of democracy most
ukraine? yes, i believe we re really, you know, we re at a very important balancing moment. you know, the ukrainians did chase the russians out of the northern part of their country, they did resist the first attack on kyiv, and they did use extraordinarily creative tactics, and they showed that they need to fight and they want to fight, not just professional soldiers but really the whole population, and friends and friends of mine, who you would not think of soldiers join the territorial army, all kinds of people are doing, whether it is volunteer jobs or computer jobs, working on behalf of the country and i think they show that they, you know, that they care a lot about maintaining their existence. you know, rachel, there s something you said a few minutes ago that really struck a bell, you know, rang a bell in my head, when you talked about this existentialist rhetoric and this eliminationist rhetoric, sorry, this is the kind of the rhetoric