WEBVTT - Trump's Creature Cantina Cabinet CANNOT Be Confirmed 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:02.960 It is the thirteenth of January, and there are seven 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:08.039 days left until the noon hour when Donald Trump raises 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:11.799 his hand no doubt over a Trump Bible, which he 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:15.360 will soon start hawking on the internet. He will swear 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:19.160 the thirty five word oath, which he has already desecrated, 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:23.280 and then once again he will be commander in Chief, 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:27.760 the American head of state, President of the United States 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:33.960 for four long years. This is the warning Donald Trump 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:37.640 will be sworn in at a moment of American crisis. 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:41.200 As I speak, one hundred and fifty miles to the west, 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:44.960 Los Angeles is burning. Here are many members of the 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:51.320 California Congressional delegation during an apocalyptic crisis there at mar Lago, 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.720 celebrating Trump, and MAGA has made clear. When they look 0:00:55.760 --> 0:01:00.520 out across the world and they see their enemies hits Californians, 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:04.920 they're fellow Americans. That's who they're going to take it 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:09.040 out on. You see, according to all of the geniuses 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:13.840 in MAGA, the fire it's California's fault and therefore the 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:20.640 disaster aid it's contingent until and unless California genuflex to 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:24.880 Donald Trump to MAGA gets in line with the Trumpian way. 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:28.400 No money for them here is one of the dumbest 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.479 United States senators. And believe me when I say this, 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:35.280 it's a race to the bottom. Bill Haggerty of Tennessee 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:40.040 suggesting that California may not get money from the federal government. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.720 You've got to bring accountability to bear here, and before 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.640 we put funds into place, we've got to find out 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.760 exactly how we're going to hold these leaders accountable and 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:50.360 what sort of policy changes are required. 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.560 The federal government is like a giant cash machine, like 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:59.880 a slot machine. For some the slot machine devours quarters 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:04.040 that would be California. Their a state that when it 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:08.000 goes to the Washington casino, it puts in a dollar 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:12.040 and it gets sixty five cents back. California is the 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:16.840 state more than any other that funds the federal government, 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.320 so that there are states like Tennessee that can put 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:24.840 that dollar in and every time they win the jackpop 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:28.799 getting a dollar twenty five a dollar thirty back. The 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:33.720 rest of the country would go bankrupt but for California, 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:40.320 the programs that are required in states like Mississippi and Alabama, 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:45.760 for American backwaters, they would be so much worse off 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:50.840 without California without the people who were scorned in those hills. 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:55.399 And this is what Donald Trump is doing. Scorekeeping dividing 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:59.200 used to be when an American was in trouble, anywhere 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:03.600 all of us felt, all of us would feel compelled 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:07.080 to act. But no more. We have some states rooting 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.560 against other states, and we have the political leaders of 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.680 those states, no matter what the facts of the matter, 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:18.359 ready to point a finger, not even to score points 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:22.920 for themselves, but for Donald Trump. And while all of 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:26.480 this is going on, this is the week where his 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:34.160 great menagerie of spectacular unfitness and keep depravity starts its 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:40.440 confirmation hearings. There's the registered Katari agent Pam Bondi, who, 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:45.320 but for the absence of a statutory rape allegation, is 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:49.480 just as ludicrous a pick to run the Department of 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:55.600 Justice as was Macates, a Katari agent the home country 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:59.280 of Hamas. No one should be surprised Pam Bondi was 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:03.880 on the payroll. Christy Noon, the dog killing South Dakota governor, 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:08.480 gave Donald Trump a replica of Mount Rushmore and put 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:12.840 Trump on it. This woman who ran on cruelty is 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:18.200 going to be the head of America's monstrosity federal agency, 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:22.240 the Department of Homeland Security, that should never have been 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.560 in the first place, but became in the fear in 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.880 the reaction to the nine to eleven attacks. If there 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.960 is an agency that will be turned on the American 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:35.240 people to abuse them, it's this, and there is the 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.720 perfect candidate to lead it. There are truly no words 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.120 for the freak show that Donald Trump has nominated the 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:47.520 alleged rapist, the drunk to sit atop the National Command 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:51.240 Authority at the tip of the chain of command for 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:56.440 our five four hundred plus nuclear warheads. Pete Hagsath with 0:04:56.600 --> 0:05:02.680 his white nationalist tattoos festooned about his chest, the Hansy 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:07.039 Fox News morning host, is perhaps the most unfit of 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.960 them all. But then again, how do you rank Tulca Gabbert? 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.919 How do you rank Robert F. Kennedy? How do you 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.280 rank any of these people? The professional staff of the 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:23.520 National Security Council, which includes senior military officers, nonpartisan who 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:27.120 the only oath they've taken is to the Constitution of 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:31.239 the United States, have been interrogated by the incoming Trump 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:35.240 administration about their loyalty. The concern is not about their 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.719 fidelity to the United States to the Constitution of the 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:42.320 United States. No, it is whether they are sufficiently loyal 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.400 to Donald Trump. And the truth is none of them 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:49.400 can satisfy the MAGA fanatics. So the entirety of the 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:53.480 National Security Council staff, along with much of the senior 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:58.160 leadership of the military, will be fired by sunset on 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:03.360 January twenty. First things will happen fast. It is going 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:06.680 to be shocking, it's going to be numbing, it's going 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:10.479 to be frightening. And then the American people will say no, 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:15.080 they'll say enough, they'll say bullshit, and they'll dig in 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.360 and they'll oppose. This truth is in the city of 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:22.040 Los Angeles, the state of California at large, a great 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:27.360 many people are apathetic about politics. California is broken in 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:31.600 part because of a lack of participation in the political system. 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:35.120 It has allowed, if you think about it, like a garden, 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.479 for the weeds to grow in. The weeds are the 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:42.520 succession of political hacks who have thrived in the term 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:46.200 limits one party era. And the truth is that era 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:48.880 it has to come to an end now in California 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.640 because the rebuilding will take the vision of a man 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:56.560 like Pat Brown. It's going to take genius and vision. 0:06:56.800 --> 0:07:01.080 There will be a great reawakening in California, deep intolerance, 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.839 as there should be from so many people who've lost 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:09.360 everything about delays caused by nonsense in the rebuilding of 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.880 their lives. Government is going to be confronted in California 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.840 like it has not been perhaps ever, and people at 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.680 California are going to be upset about the layers of 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:23.600 byzantine bureaucracy and the rules and the contradictions and the 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:28.400 suffering that they impose in California. Gives all the tools 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:32.760 that are necessary for an electorate to possess to make 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:36.680 dramatic change. And there will be and after that, because 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:40.360 trends start in California, the energy will be released that 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.560 will help make drastic change in the United States. And 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:48.000 the aftermath of the Trump disaster that's coming, that's bearing down. 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:52.320 These are going to be turbulent years in America, frightening 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.320 years in America. But don't give into the fear. We 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.960 live in an era where the richest and most powerful 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.360 people in the country are lined up around on the 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:04.320 block to genuflect to Donald Trump, and then they get 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.880 called out on it, like Michael Steele did. To Joe Scarborough. 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:12.320 They don't like it very much, but nevertheless it's true. 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:16.240 The owner of the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, has commissioned 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:23.080 a forty million dollar documentary about the life of Malania Trump, 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:28.320 someone that nobody's interested in, not even her husband. It's payoff, 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:34.240 it's bribe, whether it's Zuckerberg, whether it's Bezos, whether it's Scarborough, 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:39.400 or whether it's these California fools dining on crab of 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:43.680 hunka while they're state burns. Were in for it because 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.600 this is what the American people chose in their infinite wisdom, 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.480 with forty nine point two percent of the vote. And 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:55.400 in a democracy, the people are never wrong, just temporarily misguided. 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:59.320 And so misguided, we are on the eve of a 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:03.040 type of instruction, in a season of burning. When the 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.920 flames come, when the fire comes, it seems as if 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.800 everything is burning. But that's not the case. And no 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:14.760 matter what Donald Trump burns, it will not be the 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:18.600 case that he has burned everything. There will be plenty 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:23.200 of unscarred land to stand on and to fight back 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:27.760 from when the burning begins, and it will. This is 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:31.960 the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning and 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.520 I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substack, on 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:41.280 our YouTube channel, follow us, Welcome to the community.