so at one day you wake up inh kamala harris is the vice president . how does that happen, youyo wonder? no one will say, but youu can r be sure there s a story there.ef so here s the latest example of unexplained weirdness in the news. mike pence, of all people, has just swooped in to save joe biden. yeso , mike pence, a man so flamboyantly pure he won t have minner with ladies, not his wife. and yet mike pence also hadkp secret documents in his house, just like joe biden that you didn t see tha that coming. it wasn t so long ago thatene pence was on television saying was sure he had no classified documents in his possession. he said that a few times. then just days ago, then mike pence sent his personal attorney to searche sent his fah home in carmel, indiana, fore in classified documents. now, if mike pence didn tnk think he had classified documents, why would he send his lawyer to go look forhe sen classified documents? we can t say for certaihin, but it s
which all other rights depend. if you can t defend yourself, te can t defend your family and your property, you don t have any rights at all. you re a l.. by definition. so you may be wondering in this moment of creeping authoritarianism, how is the right to self defense doing in our country? ou we can give some kind of long lecture, but instead, how about some examples? consider two shootings that took place at gas stations in the past year in the united states . the first shooting occurred around two p 2:0m.m on october a the state of missouri, a twentyo three year old felon called javon taylor with a long criminal record convictiontaylor armed robbery, for example, began threatening a female clerk, apparently becausn es st the gas station didn t carry the kind of cigars that he wanted. that s when an off firemanat sw called anthony santae, who was inside, decidehed to step in.or. he told javon taylor to leave ty the storloe. response to that, taylor began threatening h
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
fromservesn office and disgrace. but for this breaking federal classification rules, some of the stupidest and most dishonest laws congress s hasasn ever passed. it s like arresting el chapoint. for expired plates. it s missing the point, but it looks like that s what s going to happen. it seems like every day when abidance lawyer shows up with more sheaves of classifierd documents, like a dog who se found another dead chipmunk under the house. this bunch was in his office at pen , the one paid for by the communist party of china. ch these were found next to hisinat sad little mid-life crisis. sportscar in a garage in delaware and so on . you keep waiting for the white house physician to announce another document. trove has been discovered after a routinr the colonoscopy. it could happen because at this point, you know exactly where this story is heading. permanent washington does not want joe biden to run for biden president . again, this is how they re t i sending that
and by the way, it s the intended effect is to leave the population of the unitedat c states dangerously ignorant on questions that affect liveyou has. ave at this point, you haveorke to wonder if the average, say, new yorker is really better informed than a factory workeray in pyongyang, north korea. probably not. both have been effectively blindfolded by information monopolies. and if you doubt that s true, ask your neighbors who s winning the war in ukraine. and , i of course, to tell yl winn ukraine is winning the that s what they ve seen on the today show every morning for the past eleven months. and not just on the today show, but in virtually every media outlet in america. apart from colonel doug mcgregor s appearances on this show, for which he hasn needles to say, been condemned as an agent of putin, but he s pretty much alone. here s the version that mostm americans see this as leonskerio describe the time as the beginning of the end of the war. does we have t