the data does not back that up either. inflation started the up climb after president biden took office and well before the putin invasion of ukraine. and the federal reserve said putin is not the reason. gillian: happy 4th. happy 4th. rich. rich: a great day not to look at your 401(k). wall street is witnessing the worst first half since 1970. lauren has more on this. stop the presses, we saw the chart of the dow, it was down but it s actually higher right now, fingers crossed. you have seen how this year has been with the s & p 500 down 20%. nasdaq s worst start to a year ever with the near 30% decline. in all, before today, january through yesterday, u.s. stocks
news and what it does and what it has done. we have hyper partisanship which has divided the country in very specific sorts of ways, such that you can t have a kind of deliberative public engaged in the democratic process. so, it seems like every element, beyond the corruption of particular elements, it seems as if every element of our democracy is teetering on a knife s edge. and it s the confluence of those factors on top of the corruption and grift of donald trump and his minions that seems to throw us in crisis. so watergate is like how can we put it it s like atari compared to xbox 363. for generations later. that s the difference in my view. and i just dated myself. i know xbox three 60 you sure did, as soon as you referenced you atari, you certainly did. jelani, people are talking about liz cheney. and her position here. she could lose her next race. and she said she s willing to
we have a gerrymandered house, we have a dysfunctional senate, we have a politicized court. we have an imperial presidency run amok. the fourth estate has been complicated by fox prop, by fox news and what it does and what it has done. we have hyper partisanship which has divided the country in very specific sorts of ways, such that you can t have a kind of deliberative public engaged in the democratic process. so, it seems like every element, beyond the corruption of particular elements, it seems as if every element of our democracy is teetering on a nice edge. and it s the confluence of those factors on top of the corruption and grift of donald trump and his minions that seems to throw us in crisis. so watergate is like how can we put it it s like a tory
unfortunately, are getting so disgusted with the hyper partisanship. especially the white nationalist hyperpartisan ship of the supreme court. it s actually turning them off and it s our job to help assure them and put them in the center of their own democracy. neil, we re out of time, but i want to give you an opportunity to give us some final thoughts on the legal stuff that is presented by this alito opinion. what should we be paying attention to as we wind our way to the end of the court s term? it s not just the bottom line that roe v. wade is overturned, it had i got there. the alito draft has this historical ridiculous test that he ll turn back the clock and threaten everything from gamers to contraception laws to possibly even brown versus board of education. we ll probably flank their test. this is the result of a radical move by mitch mcconnell and others, who monkeys with the court, and the fruits of that are now, unfortunately, starting to be seen by the
country headed for civil war. it has all the attributes that the sociologists and economic scholar cascading system. hyper partisanship, environmental degradation, high levels of inequality and low levels of solidarity as well as declining faith in institution and arising tendency to violence. and more less what i see broadly is a struggle over the meaning of america. and that expressing itself through violence. you say in your book, the united states is coming to an end. the question is, how? in your view, how? well, the book offers speculative nonfiction. there are many different ideas of how it could be. it could be a conflict with the sheriff the mandates of the federal government. it could be sort of a broader terrorist act that causes marshall law to be imposed. i think the point of the book is really that america, political landscape is very dry