Jay Inslee
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you, that's a good argument. And I will, I will not argue the point.
you, that's a good argument. And I will, I will not argue the point.
But at least during those 60 years, we just can't, this is the failure of imagination. It's very difficult even today to wrap your heads around a guy, you know, I grew up in the fifties and this, you know, doing the pledge of allegiance every day. And worshiping the president, being united during the Cuban Missile Crisis. And I grew up with that all-American kind of attitude.
But at least during those 60 years, we just can't, this is the failure of imagination. It's very difficult even today to wrap your heads around a guy, you know, I grew up in the fifties and this, you know, doing the pledge of allegiance every day. And worshiping the president, being united during the Cuban Missile Crisis. And I grew up with that all-American kind of attitude.
But at least during those 60 years, we just can't, this is the failure of imagination. It's very difficult even today to wrap your heads around a guy, you know, I grew up in the fifties and this, you know, doing the pledge of allegiance every day. And worshiping the president, being united during the Cuban Missile Crisis. And I grew up with that all-American kind of attitude.
And to think, to have to imagine an American president facially ignoring the US Supreme Court, it takes the powers of imagination because we've never experienced that in the United States. Hungary has experienced it. Germany has experienced it. Argentina has experienced it. We never have. So I think part of it is we have to imagine this because we've never experienced it.
And to think, to have to imagine an American president facially ignoring the US Supreme Court, it takes the powers of imagination because we've never experienced that in the United States. Hungary has experienced it. Germany has experienced it. Argentina has experienced it. We never have. So I think part of it is we have to imagine this because we've never experienced it.
And to think, to have to imagine an American president facially ignoring the US Supreme Court, it takes the powers of imagination because we've never experienced that in the United States. Hungary has experienced it. Germany has experienced it. Argentina has experienced it. We never have. So I think part of it is we have to imagine this because we've never experienced it.
But I do believe there's some exhaustion, but I'll tell you, people are waking up. So I spoke to, I don't know, 20,000 people on a sunny day in Seattle a couple weekends ago. On my street corner up here in Bainbridge Island, every day there's two dozen people standing out there. And they're not in the New York Times or on your show, but they're just out there. People are waking up.
But I do believe there's some exhaustion, but I'll tell you, people are waking up. So I spoke to, I don't know, 20,000 people on a sunny day in Seattle a couple weekends ago. On my street corner up here in Bainbridge Island, every day there's two dozen people standing out there. And they're not in the New York Times or on your show, but they're just out there. People are waking up.
But I do believe there's some exhaustion, but I'll tell you, people are waking up. So I spoke to, I don't know, 20,000 people on a sunny day in Seattle a couple weekends ago. On my street corner up here in Bainbridge Island, every day there's two dozen people standing out there. And they're not in the New York Times or on your show, but they're just out there. People are waking up.
I wrote this piece in The Guardian you referred to about a month ago, and there has been some marginal waking up that's happening. So I'm very pleased by that. because people are starting to feel the ramifications, because he is capable of totally ripping apart every law and every constitutional privilege if we don't get out there. So I'm glad that we are. And everybody's got a stake in this.
I wrote this piece in The Guardian you referred to about a month ago, and there has been some marginal waking up that's happening. So I'm very pleased by that. because people are starting to feel the ramifications, because he is capable of totally ripping apart every law and every constitutional privilege if we don't get out there. So I'm glad that we are. And everybody's got a stake in this.
I wrote this piece in The Guardian you referred to about a month ago, and there has been some marginal waking up that's happening. So I'm very pleased by that. because people are starting to feel the ramifications, because he is capable of totally ripping apart every law and every constitutional privilege if we don't get out there. So I'm glad that we are. And everybody's got a stake in this.
There's going to be a report released tomorrow or a couple of days after this by Climate Power.
There's going to be a report released tomorrow or a couple of days after this by Climate Power.
There's going to be a report released tomorrow or a couple of days after this by Climate Power.
They're going to release a report that's going to talk about the incredible tens of thousands of jobs lost that we've already lost because of his attack on clean energy. I guess what I'm saying is the assault on democracy has real term ramifications for your economic conditions of your family. It's not just kind of ivory tower constitutional law. It means you're going to pay more for utility.
They're going to release a report that's going to talk about the incredible tens of thousands of jobs lost that we've already lost because of his attack on clean energy. I guess what I'm saying is the assault on democracy has real term ramifications for your economic conditions of your family. It's not just kind of ivory tower constitutional law. It means you're going to pay more for utility.
They're going to release a report that's going to talk about the incredible tens of thousands of jobs lost that we've already lost because of his attack on clean energy. I guess what I'm saying is the assault on democracy has real term ramifications for your economic conditions of your family. It's not just kind of ivory tower constitutional law. It means you're going to pay more for utility.