Speaker 1: We're going to talk about two things today, the appeasement
Speaker 1: of Senate Democrats to Donald Trump and the Quebec conference
Speaker 1: that's taking place, the G seven meeting in Quebec, Canada
Speaker 1: that Marco Rubio is attending. This is the warning. Let
Speaker 1: me start out today by reading from Politico, which gives
Speaker 1: an accurate description of what is going on within Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know what mind of Chuck Schumer. Now the
Speaker 1: White House is openly mocking and laughing at the weakness
Speaker 1: and the ineptitude of Chuck Schumer. And before I say
Speaker 1: another word, last night with Stephen Beschloss, I had a
Speaker 1: couple of thousand people on a substack life and every
Speaker 1: single person in every comment scrolling through had but one
Speaker 1: overwhelming priority and concern, which was the immediate cessation of
Speaker 1: everything and anything that the unelected, unappointed, unconfirmed Elon Musk
Speaker 1: and his team of teenagers, the doge children of the
Speaker 1: corn are thrown out of the halls of government. That's
Speaker 1: what the people want. They wanted to stop, that's what
Speaker 1: democratic constituencies want, and they want to know everything that
Speaker 1: has happened. Democrats have the power to make this happen
Speaker 1: because Donald Trump, who is the President, John Thune who
Speaker 1: is the Senate majority leader, and Mike Johnson, who is
Speaker 1: the Speaker of the House, need Democratic votes. Now, Chuck
Speaker 1: Schumer has a job that requires an ability to negotiate.
Speaker 1: Anybody like me who's my age knows if they grew
Speaker 1: up in New Jersey, that Donald Trump is a clown
Speaker 1: and a commn that he's a demagogue, that he is
Speaker 1: the cleon, the demagogic leader that the founders prophesied and
Speaker 1: worried about, that has finally risen and taking control. But
Speaker 1: nobody ever viewed Donald Trump as a great deal maker.
Speaker 1: There is nobody what deals Dave McCormick, the new Senator
Speaker 1: from Pennsylvania, was the COO of Bridgewater Ray Dalyo's hedge fund.
Speaker 1: What deals did Dave McCormick do with Trump? What deals
Speaker 1: did Jamie Morrigan do with Trump? Who did deals with Trump? Nobody?
Speaker 1: He is a reality television show store that has played
Speaker 1: a role, has manipulated the media, which was primarily his
Speaker 1: chief skill. Always Donald Trump had the best press agent
Speaker 1: in the world, John Barron. But the crisis of this
Speaker 1: moment is one of leadership and one of ineptitude. In
Speaker 1: the opposition facing Donald Trump. Let me read from Politico
Speaker 1: a story that is astonishing by the chief Capitol Hill correspondent,
Speaker 1: Rachel Bade. Senate Democrats haven't even surrendered yet on a
Speaker 1: government shutdown, but already White House officials are gloating about
Speaker 1: making them, etcro almost taunting them to vote no. Senate
Speaker 1: Minority Leader Chuck Schumer threw down the gauntlet Wednesday, proclaiming
Speaker 1: that Republicans don't have the sixty votes, but President Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and senior White House officials are increasingly confident Schumer
Speaker 1: will release enough Centrist to put up the votes for passage.
Speaker 1: According to multiple White House officials I spoke to over
Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours, they're one hundred percent going
Speaker 1: to swallow it. One White House of Fife official told
Speaker 1: me they're totally screwed. The confidence is especially noteworthy given
Speaker 1: that Schumer has yet to detail his plans. Many lawmakers
Speaker 1: in both parties are privately predicting that some sort of
Speaker 1: deal will be reached in which Senate Democrats get amendment
Speaker 1: votes in return for allowing the House pass Continuing Resolution
Speaker 1: to advance and ultimately pass. Chuck Schumer again has made
Speaker 1: threats that are empty and hollow and meaningless, has been
Speaker 1: unable to construct a wall, an obstacle, or even so
Speaker 1: much of a speed bump. A few weeks ago, the
Speaker 1: man who well did this and we will win. We
Speaker 1: will win. We will win, We will win, we will win,
Speaker 1: We will win, said that his strategy would be to
Speaker 1: lay across the railroad track, and that appears to be
Speaker 1: exactly what is happening now. Within the Democratic Conference. There's
Speaker 1: a divergence of opinion. Schumer can either communicate or lead.
Speaker 1: He's utterly weak, completely comically inact, and his presence as
Speaker 1: leader turns the entire Senate Democratic Conference into a joke.
Speaker 1: It will become clear in the months ahead what the
Speaker 1: cost of Schumer's leadership is when the Senate Democrats have
Speaker 1: no money. But the good news is all that means
Speaker 1: is Schumer has no control. There is no better year ever.
Speaker 1: If you're a normal person out there, a firefighter, a nurse,
Speaker 1: a teacher, or a plumber. You ride a motorcycle, you
Speaker 1: like to go out on hikes in the mountains, you
Speaker 1: like to paint, You like to do the things that
Speaker 1: normal people do, not the sociopaths we have now, but
Speaker 1: good and decent people. This is your year. To run
Speaker 1: for office because there will be no safe seats anywhere
Speaker 1: in this country, at a Senate level or at a
Speaker 1: House level. But those races, per usual, will not be
Speaker 1: top down affairs. They will be bottom up because the
Speaker 1: surrender Chuck Conference to all of this madness, or a
Speaker 1: group of weak need appeasers who simply want sheep to
Speaker 1: vote for Schumer so he can remain in power and
Speaker 1: they can remain in good stead with the person in power.
Speaker 1: If I, for example, was running for the US Senate
Speaker 1: in the state like New Hampshire, I would rather cut
Speaker 1: my hand off as a US Senator than vote for
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer as majority leader. But that's a story for
Speaker 1: a different day. There are good men in the US
Speaker 1: Senate like Mark Kelly who are wrong. They evaluate the
Speaker 1: situation and they say, wow, if we don't keep the
Speaker 1: government open, then Trump, and they're right about this, will
Speaker 1: have more power to damage the government because he'll have
Speaker 1: more discretion within the boundaries of the decision making that
Speaker 1: comes with a shutdown government. Senator Kelly is right about that.
Speaker 1: He will have more power, but he will also break
Speaker 1: Donald Trump knows right now how all of this ends.
Speaker 1: He gets the Democratic votes that Chuck Schumer says he
Speaker 1: can't get and he'll do it without giving anything up,
Speaker 1: which will incentivize his worst instincts and conduct. And so
Speaker 1: Mark Kelly has to appreciate in this moment with respect,
Speaker 1: his oath is not to keep the government open. It's
Speaker 1: to defend the constitution. And the threat to the constitution
Speaker 1: is elon Musk's presence within the government, and absent the
Speaker 1: application of pressure to make it stop right now inside
Speaker 1: this continuing resolution, then Democrats will abandon all leverage to
Speaker 1: make it stop and will then put themselves on the
Speaker 1: opposite side of their voters and an opposition movement. They
Speaker 1: will have to take to the streets. We'll have to protest,
Speaker 1: We'll have to engage in civil disobedience. We'll have to
Speaker 1: escalate the situation everywhere at once to make it stop.
Speaker 1: That is the price of appeasement. And these are all
Speaker 1: acts of appeasement. There is no scenario other than in
Speaker 1: the mind of the appeasers where they will, in actuality
Speaker 1: over the duration of the stalemate and the conflict, be blamed.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump will be blamed because Donald Trump as president,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is the leader, the facto of the Senate
Speaker 1: and the House because there by thin margins his polop
Speaker 1: bureau rubber stamps everything he does, as Lindsey Graham said,
Speaker 1: and yet another series of principalists flipflops. I trust Trump,
Speaker 1: And so then Marco Rubio is off to Canada to
Speaker 1: the Quebec Conference where there were two at the creation
Speaker 1: of the international system that Rubio and Vance and Musk
Speaker 1: and Trump are smashing. And Rubio, having just arrived, is
Speaker 1: now meeting with Canadian officials, the neighbor to the north
Speaker 1: that America is attacking and waging economic warfare against. Maybe
Speaker 1: it should occur to the Senate Democrats that disobscenity be
Speaker 1: part of the negotiation. Also maybe, but no. The appeasement
Speaker 1: is a philosophy that holds if I feed the crocodile,
Speaker 1: he'll eat me last. It is a stupid philosophy, a
Speaker 1: dangerous one, and one that we are watching be practiced
Speaker 1: in plain sight by the people who should be stopping
Speaker 1: Trump as opposed to enabling him. And so, if you
Speaker 1: are an American and you are disgusted, I'll leave you
Speaker 1: with this question this morning. Why is it that the
Speaker 1: strongest toughest criticism of our nero came on the floor
Speaker 1: of the Senate of the French Republic, not on the
Speaker 1: floor of the polyp Buro in Washington. They used to
Speaker 1: be known as the world's greatest deliberative body, but has
Speaker 1: become a shallow callo joke, destroyed in equal parts by
Speaker 1: the collaboration between the two old men Chuck Schumer and
Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell peas in a po god opposite images in
Speaker 1: the same mirror. This is the warning, and I'm Steve Schmidt.
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