1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:04,640 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. For earlier access to these episodes, access 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:08,160 Speaker 1: to Ask Me Anything sessions, and extended breakdowns of historical 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: and current events. Please consider joining our Warning Premium community 4 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 1: by clicking the link in the description to this episode. 5 00:00:18,079 --> 00:00:23,400 Speaker 1: America stands out an inflection point. Donald Trump, the forty 6 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: fifth president of the United States, has been arraigned criminally 7 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 1: three times in the last months. His latest arrests stem 8 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 1: from the charges resulting from his conduct inciting and leading 9 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:43,199 Speaker 1: an insurrection against the United States government on January sixth 10 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:47,960 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty one. Millions and millions of Americans have 11 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 1: been poisoned by Fox News and misinformation over these recent years. 12 00:00:55,160 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 1: Propaganda is evil because it is effective, because it works. 13 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 1: There are millions of our fellow citizens who live in 14 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: a bubble of delusion, who have been serially lied to, misinformed, 15 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 1: and abused over the recent years. We have millions more 16 00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: who have surrendered their agency and their sovereignty. They've given 17 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:29,080 Speaker 1: up on adult life and responsibility. They've taken the easy 18 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 1: path out, the path of excuses, where failure can be 19 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 1: blamed on someone else. Grievance, victimization always every failure at 20 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:46,920 Speaker 1: the hands of some unseen conspiracy. Donald Trump makes it 21 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 1: easy for them. There are millions of Americans who legitimately 22 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: believe Donald Trump is being persecuted. They believe one of 23 00:01:58,720 --> 00:02:03,760 Speaker 1: the great bullies in history is a victim. They believe 24 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:08,520 Speaker 1: that the Deep State is real. They believe these things 25 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: because of the terrible, terrible job the Democratic Party has 26 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:20,239 Speaker 1: done rebutting them and refuting them. What the Democratic Party 27 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:26,760 Speaker 1: has missed is a fighter, is a brawler, a happy warrior. 28 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:31,679 Speaker 1: Somebody who is unafraid of the magabase, Somebody who will 29 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:36,560 Speaker 1: go anywhere, at any time to tell the truth, who 30 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 1: is unafraid of the host, unafraid of Donald Trump, unafraid 31 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 1: of Sean Hannity, and unafraid of Trump's understudy, the fascists 32 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:56,359 Speaker 1: from Tallahassee. Ron DeSantis enter California Governor Gavin Newsom. Gavin 33 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: Newsom isn't a perfect leader. Who is? He has one 34 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: of the most complicated jobs in the United States. The 35 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 1: former mayor of San Francisco and Lieutenant governor of California 36 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,519 Speaker 1: is the chief executive of a nation state of thirty 37 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 1: eight million people. If California were a nation, it would 38 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 1: be the sixth largest economy in the world. California is 39 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 1: America's economic engine, technologically and agriculturally. The problems and challenges 40 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: of California are the nation's challenges. The evidence of failure 41 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 1: is not that California has challenges. 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Gavin Newsom has been an exceptional leader 57 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 1: at a moment of time, overwhelmed by timidity and cowardice. 58 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom he is unafraid to call out the MAGA 59 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: lies and he's going to do so on Sean Hannity's 60 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:12,000 Speaker 1: show on Fox News's Air with Governor ron DeSantis, there 61 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:17,279 Speaker 1: in a debate. Some will say this debate is without precedent, 62 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,400 Speaker 1: but it's not. In nineteen sixty seven, there was a 63 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:26,280 Speaker 1: remarkable debate that took place between Robert Kennedy and Ronald D. Reagan. 64 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: They answered questions on live television from students from around 65 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: the world. A lot of those questions were hostile. This 66 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:38,680 Speaker 1: forum will be different than that, and no doubt the 67 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:42,800 Speaker 1: audience will be packed and loaded. But it doesn't matter 68 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:46,280 Speaker 1: because Gavin Newsom will have truth on his side and 69 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: he's an exceptional communicator. What MAGA Americans have been fed 70 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:57,719 Speaker 1: is a steady diet of lies. They have been walled 71 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:03,919 Speaker 1: off from alternate information sources. How should this debate be 72 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,760 Speaker 1: thought about? It's not so very different than during the 73 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:12,160 Speaker 1: days of the Cold War, when occasionally, during moments of 74 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 1: reproach monk an American president would have the rare opportunity 75 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 1: to speak directly to Soviet or Soviet Block citizens to 76 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 1: be able to deliver them an unvarnished version of reality 77 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 1: and the truth. The truth cannot be hidden forever, and 78 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:39,280 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is no victim. The overwhelming majority of Americans 79 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 1: do not want Donald Trump's civil war, nor do they 80 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: want Rohn de Sanusus. They don't want the culture war. 81 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 1: They don't want the division. What they don't want is 82 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:57,719 Speaker 1: America at each other's throat. What they don't want is 83 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 1: in America where hundreds of millions of people are at 84 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:06,520 Speaker 1: each other's throats, stoked as pawns would be by their 85 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 1: politicians in a game where power is the prize. It's appalling. 86 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: Ron DeSantis is going to be humiliated when he faces 87 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: off against the California governor. He's going to be humiliated 88 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: because the Maga stick is thin, it's dishonest, and it 89 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: goes unchallenged constantly. That will end. And what Gavin Newsom 90 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:38,080 Speaker 1: will do in confronting the proverbial mag lion in its 91 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: den is he will inspire courage. The simple truth is 92 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: this confronting this imbecility and this idiocy causes nothing bad 93 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 1: to happen to you. Gavin Newsom is going to stand up, 94 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: and it's going to take a lot of Americans alongside 95 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: him for the right against the worst cause in America 96 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:08,880 Speaker 1: since the Confederacy, to put it away in twenty twenty four. 97 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: That is what the mission of this election is. To 98 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 1: end the extremist movement in America, so at long last, 99 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:21,520 Speaker 1: after eight wasted Trump years, we can move on as 100 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: a country. Thank you for watching. Make sure you subscribe 101 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 1: to our channel so you never miss a video. Also, 102 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:31,360 Speaker 1: for more content just like this, please consider joining our 103 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 1: Warning premium community. You can find out more in the 104 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:36,440 Speaker 1: description below.