WEBVTT - American News Media Is Becoming Propaganda 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:05.359 This is the morning. Good morning from Santa Fe, New Mexico. 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:08.879 I've spent the last few days driving across the country. 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:13.319 I've driven from Toronto, Canada, crossing the border down through 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:17.200 the path of old Route sixty six from Chicago to 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:21.120 the gateway to the West coast, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:25.720 The Santa Fe Trail one of the routes that carried 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:30.160 Americans west. It's quite an astonishing thing to be able 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:35.040 to cross a peaceful international boundary and then drive for 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.839 thousands of miles. There are no checkpoints, there were no 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:43.280 military vehicles on the roads. There was no evidence of 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:49.280 a mass deportation, no roundup, just freedom to drive to 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:53.440 go wherever it is that I pleased as an American 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:58.720 citizen heading west into California. Later today thought about that, 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.200 I thought about the country, and I thought about what's 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.480 coming thirty nine days from now. The country will be 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:11.720 transformed radically and profoundly if Donald Trump does the things 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:15.320 that he says he is going to do. During the election, 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:21.320 people myself included of valuated Donald Trump's words, his conduct 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:26.440 and concluded that this wasn't conservatism, it was fascism. In 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:30.640 the aftermath of his victory, which was not a majority 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.960 but rather a plurality. Donald Trump has declared a mandate. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.839 The fact is he has one of the smallest mandates 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:43.160 that any president has received over the last hundred years. 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:47.039 When all the votes are counted, he'll fall in somewhere 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:52.480 between sixteenth and eighteenth place. But what is Donald Trump? 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:58.120 Is he the danger that his words suggest, or simply 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:02.120 a P. T. Barnum a show an incompetent leader, a 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:05.960 blustering politician, and there's not much to worry about. This 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:11.160 is the fundamental and most important question, isn't it? What 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:16.760 is and who is Donald Trump? And why can it 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:22.400 not be revealed by an American media that focuses on 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:28.080 the connection between the things he says, the lies he tells, 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:33.120 and the actions he undertakes. What's coming in America is 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:38.720 an age unlike anything that anyone alive has ever experienced. 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:44.799 The corruption to come will be beyond imagination. For example, 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:49.480 Elon Musk, in just the period since Donald Trump has 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:54.160 been elected, has expanded his net worth from two hundred 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:59.120 billion dollars to four hundred billion dollars. Forty percent of 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:05.200 America does not have four hundred dollars of cash available 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:09.399 for an emergency, and Elon Musk is functioning as much 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:16.480 as anyone ever has, with no nomination, no confirmation, no appointment, 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:21.640 no election. Has a type of deputy president with a 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:28.000 license to do what he wants while reaping in untold 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:33.359 and unprecedented billions in government contracts, and none of it 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:38.840 will be scrutinized or opposed by a client and compitulant 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:43.400 United States Congress. Let me introduce you to Jony Ernst. 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:46.720 She's the United States Senator from the state of Iowa. 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.160 She is a combat veteran, a lieutenant colonel in the 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:54.600 Army Reserve, and a sexual assault survivor. When Joony Ernst 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:57.839 was a candidate, she ran an ad that helped elect her, 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.200 who was made by a consultant named Todd Harris, and 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.720 it's one of the best ads of the last twenty 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:07.280 five years. Let me show it to you. I'm Joni Ernst. 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.760 I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:14.000 when I get to Washington, I'll know how to cut port. 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.560 This is why Jony Ernst was elected. And now many 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:22.760 years later, she sits in Washington and she's about to 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:27.000 make a vote to confirm somebody who, it has been reported, 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:33.000 is often drunk, frequently unable to control himself, an alleged rapists, 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:37.440 and the most manifestly unfit person ever put forward by 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:41.680 any president over eighty years to lead the United States 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:46.680 Armed forces. He's as unfit as the FBI director Cash Ptel. 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:52.120 These people will provide a marker, a waypoint in a 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:56.760 dissent into the ABYSS. If there are not four Republican 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:01.080 Senators who just simply say no on the merits of 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.320 who these people are, the promises, for example, by cash 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:08.480 Ptel to lock up his political opponents, then in many ways, 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:13.039 the Republic is wobbling because there is no check and 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:18.000 there is no balance. One branch has subordinated itself to 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:22.119 another coequal branch, not on the basis of any type 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:26.840 of law, but simply the dominance of one man's personality 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:32.000 in the reach of his propaganda machine. It is remarkable 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:35.840 and appalling to watch, and of course none of this 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:42.840 could possibly be happening absent the moral and political capitulations 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:49.400 playing out behind the newsdesks in the American media power establishment. 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:54.839 Let's talk about this tirade from Joe Scarborough and why 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:58.280 it's so important now I'm going to show it to you, 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.359 and I'm going to point out a couple of things 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:07.320 in advance. Joe Scarborough is very angrily going to justify 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.560 the meeting, and he's going to say a couple of things, 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.520 the first of which is I had to go there 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:19.080 to cake Trump's measure, but didn't he take Trump's measure 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:23.120 already when he said this. 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:23.800 This is not a reach. I could go back and 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.200 talk about Nazi Germany and I do it. I do 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.200 it without any concerns whatsoever. And if people can't start 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:32.240 drawing the parallels, well you're just stupid or you have 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.600 your head in the sand. Are you're one of them? 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.440 And this You can do two things at the same time. 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.240 You can say he had fascist rhetoric and still go 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:44.279 in and talk to him. Yeah, you know why I 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.880 do that to get the read of the man. And 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.360 this you know why I went in and talked to 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.080 mcclan to get the read of the man at a 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:57.600 crucial time in the EU funding and NATO funding. 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:02.560 Joe Scarborough, I think he misunderstands what the job is. 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:07.760 Nobody relies on Joe Scarborough to take anybody's measure and 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.960 report back to us with actions. What the job of 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:16.480 a journalist is is to reveal the subject at hand, 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:21.560 to ask the questions that let that person tell who 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.840 they are to the public. That's an action that's in 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:30.520 the public interest. Now, when you think about the question 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:36.040 of taking someone's measure, Joe Scarborough's aptitude has to be 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:42.119 weighed against his taking measure of Joe Biden and stifling 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:46.920 the debate that should have been had but was not 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:51.600 because he created, as the host of the most important 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:56.960 morning show, let's call it, an impermissive environment. He may 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:02.240 be great at asking questions about people that helped them 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.920 revealed to the public what it is there about. He 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:10.240 did some of that in twenty sixteen with Trump, but 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.840 he doesn't seem to be good when it comes to 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:18.880 understanding who these people are. So here's the problem with 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:22.160 the mar A Lago visit. The purpose of it is 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:26.800 shifting opening lines of communication. Is different than well, I 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.320 needed to take his measure, but again, the measurement had 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.920 been drawn, had it not, And it all I added 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.440 up to Trump is America's hitler. So here's the question. 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:40.400 Did Joe Scarborough discover Trump is not hitler? Because he 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:43.240 should tell the country or did he make a deal 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:47.319 with Hitler now deals with Hitler. The real one never 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:51.079 held up because every deal was built on a foundation 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.920 of appeasement. It's a big word. What does it mean. Well, 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:58.240 if it was a philosophy and it was applied to 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:03.520 feeding crocodiles, it's the philosophy of I'll be the first 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:07.640 to feed the crocodile, so that I may be the 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:12.120 last person that the crocodile eats. It's not an enduring 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:17.320 strategy as an entire generation of humanity discovered. With thirty 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:21.400 nine days to go, there is a lot happening in America, 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:25.240 a lot to think about. Bill Clinton is thinking about 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:29.640 some things. He's thinking about the targeting of the former 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:33.000 first Lady of the United States, a Secretary of State, 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.960 a United States Senator, and the Democratic nominee for President 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:40.040 of the United States. And he said he's open to 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:44.320 hearing from Joe Biden about a preempt of pardon. Again, no, 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:49.959 Secretary Clinton did nothing wrong. She must not accept a pardon. 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:54.800 The remedy to the abuse will be general strikes by 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.839 the American people over the next two years. Who will 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:04.079 be the that polices and puts a check in balance 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:10.960 on Donald Trump's coming exceptional constitutional abuses. We will know 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:16.280 if through the votes to confirm, if Pete Hagseeth makes it, 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:20.920 and Tulca Gabbert makes it, and Cash Ptel make it 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:25.080 one or all. What it means is that for two 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:29.920 years until a tragedy happens, there is no check in 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:33.720 the United States Senate. The damage that will be done, 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.679 The orders that will be given will not come in 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.320 an email from Trump. They will all be implied, and 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:45.840 there will be a competition to please Donald Trump to 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:49.680 see him. Nobody has to tell the runner at the 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.960 start of the race that the goal is to get 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:56.360 to the finish line first. In the same way, all 0:10:56.480 --> 0:11:01.000 of Trump's power appointments will understand what it is they 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.920 are to do. If it's Pete Hegseath, it's to decapitate 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:09.240 the command structure of the US military, to fire generals, 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:14.400 to purge them through a guilt by association campaign that 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:20.080 justifies the destruction of careers service to the country that's 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:25.080 lasted thirty thirty five forty years. Cash Battel will gut 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:29.000 the FBI. He will strip it of standards, he will 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:32.240 give it teeth, he will sharpen them and then turn 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:37.560 the FBI loose on domestic descent. The worst abuses by 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.959 the FBI in American history took place during the Civil 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.240 Rights movement. If he becomes the director of the worst 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.680 is yet to come. And there is no person more 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:52.119 dangerous than Tulsi Gabbard, more unfit for the nation's secrets, 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:56.080 less responsible for the men and women out there on 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.720 the knife's edge, gathering them at great risk. Lives will 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:04.559 be lost with these people nominated and confirmed into positions 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:10.120 of responsibility. And there is no argument, logical, one, substantive 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:15.559 one that justifies their confirmation into these positions. The question 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.880 that Trump has put on the table, and he is 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.960 always when it comes to dealing with anybody in Washington, 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:27.520 the superior negotiator. What he has done is make the 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:31.960 excess the issue. What he's saying is I dare you 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:35.720 to stop me? And when he knows that, there is 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:39.160 no red light and there will be no speed limits 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:43.440 regarding the abuses. And that's why this moment matters so 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:47.240 very much. We are in the calm before the storm, 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:51.359 and we are already seeing all of the behaviors, the appeasements, 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:57.680 the capitulations, the panicking that undermines the ability to form 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:05.640 a coherent, tough, focused, honest, decent opposition. Soon, the American 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:10.720 people will rebel against the abuses of authority and the 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:15.280 vast taking by a few from a great many of 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:18.720 things to which they have no right to take. During 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.680 the months ahead, and opposition we'll find its footing in 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:25.520 the midst of a sea of abuse and a sea 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:30.680 of idiocy and corruption. Arrogance is what will undo MAGA, 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:34.199 and it hopefully will stiffen the spine of a great 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:37.719 many people who said a great many things that they 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:41.800 have no basis in reality for changing unless they know 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:45.280 something the rest of us don't know. And if they do, 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:49.240 by all means, Joe Scarborough and Mika, please tell us 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:53.560 we deserve to know, don't we. The coming months will 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:57.720 test the American system and the resolve of the seventy 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:01.080 five million people who said no, No, go to Donald Trump. 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:04.800 We lost an election, but we're not wrong about anything. 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.480 Not when it comes to him. There is nothing new 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:12.920 to learn, no new measurement to be taken. He is 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.840 what he is, and for that we can be grateful for. 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:20.560 There is no mystery about Donald Trump, nor is there 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.720 any about what he has promised to do because he 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:27.120 has told us, and it looks like he means to 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:31.280 do it, which means when the first abuses come, they 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:35.360 must be opposed with the end in mind of stopping them. 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:40.160 No American should ever be afraid to speak out about 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.920 what they believe is right. This American will not be 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:49.240 intimidated ever. Join the Warning community. Here you will learn 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:52.720 the truth about what is happening, why it is happening, 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.200 and be able to orient to it to figure out. 0:14:56.560 --> 0:15:00.320 You don't need somebody to take the measurements of what 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.480 is plainly in front of you, and you definitely don't 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.880 need somebody who when they did it looked at Joe Biden. 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.680 It came to the conclusion he came to. And then 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:14.000 at the first opportunity he got after calling Donald Trump hitler, 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.880 he went to the Burgoff hat in hand. During the 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:21.840 weeks and months ahead, a toughness that has not yet 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:26.120 been evident will need to form. When it does, Trump's 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:30.960 progress and abusing the country, the constitution and the American 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:36.560 people will slow until then. 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