of where the republican candidates running for president stand in ukrainening a little bit shocking.t republ it s all we expected, and it sin cas at all what republican on capitol hill are saying.disc more evidence that there son a disconnectnect between republicans in washington and everyone else. we ll get that in just everyon a minute. but first tonight, it hass sinc been 15 years since the global 2018financial crisis of 2008, a. a long time, but it hasn t gonee away. it s consequences st is , in fa. still define our world. sy is the u.s. government so deeply in debt?how di how did wall street get so muchm money? what did they do exactlyuc? why are housing prices so high? hi why do our leaders stoke racial conflict? why have so many mano americans concluded that their system is rigged? in every caserigged. the anss to those questions is the same . it all bega n inin two thousand eight now 2008. u and its aftermath is a complex story, but it s justncia some up in
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
lost its mojo, that they ve blown a historic midterm opportunity, that all because their primary winners were just terrible. you do have republican nominating, shall we say, flawed candidates. herschel walker in georgia, j.d. vance in in in ohio, dr. oz in in pennsylvania. what looked like a wipeout for democrats in the fall is maybe not going to be so bad because of the candidates. republicans are nominating. walker can lose ause, can lose, johnson can lose their bad candidates so smug and so wrong. liberal super pacs even helped boost the so-called election, denying republicans the primaries with the thought that they d be easier to defeat in the general elections. well, even our own senate minority leader joined the pig pile against his own party, trying to tamp down his party s expectations by blaming the populace. the maga folks. there s probably a greater likelihood the house flips than some senate races are just different or statewide. candidate quality has
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