1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: It is July the eighteenth, twenty twenty four, and the 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: number of the day is thirty two. There are thirty 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:10,639 Speaker 1: two short days left for the Democratic Party and the 4 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 1: President of the United States to avert a national catastrophe. 5 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 1: This is the warning. We have come as a nation 6 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: to a fork in the road. But at the head 7 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:28,920 Speaker 1: of the column is the leadership of the Democratic Party. 8 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:33,680 Speaker 1: Soon we will know something with perfect clarity. There is 9 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:37,560 Speaker 1: a question in the air, and the question is what 10 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 1: is Trump? Is he who the Democrats have maintained he 11 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: is or is he just an effective villain, a Freddie 12 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: Krueger comical character that has been effective at raising money 13 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 1: from and mobilizing the base. Is he someone who is 14 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:01,680 Speaker 1: a perfect foil? Who is Trump? Well? Is he a danger? 15 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 1: Or is he a prop The hour at hand to 16 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: decide is now, and soon we will know. Joe Biden 17 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:15,600 Speaker 1: should be taken at his word. He has long maintained 18 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:19,760 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is an existential threat. But something else 19 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: must be said. It was Joe Biden and his team 20 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: of customers that wanted the debate that imploded his campaign. 21 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:32,759 Speaker 1: It was also their idea to so rig and throttle 22 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:37,319 Speaker 1: the Democratic primary process that there could be no conceivable competition. 23 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:41,320 Speaker 1: Let's be clear about something. Donald Trump will not have 24 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:45,760 Speaker 1: a lonely victory. He will have with him a maga 25 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: United States Senate and a maga House of Representatives, and 26 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: they will have two unfettered years to change America, to 27 00:01:55,680 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: recast and to remake it. Jd. Vance offered a sweetener, 28 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: an afrodisiac, if you will, like a cult leader offering 29 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 1: a sample of love to the lonely and distressed. He 30 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: kept the hideous parts quiet when he talked about the 31 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:19,520 Speaker 1: graves of seven generations, part of a nation. What he's 32 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 1: talking about is blood and soil nationalism, and it's an 33 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: evil and it's antithetical to the ideals and ideas of 34 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: the United States. What jd. Vance talked about last night 35 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 1: sounds reasonable, sounds appealing, but it is a mask for 36 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: the darkest and most dangerous of all ideologies, us versus them, 37 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:54,640 Speaker 1: the ideology and dogma of nationalism. JD. Vance put his 38 00:02:54,880 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: toe into the water, leading forward into the darkness. That's 39 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 1: what it is, that's where it goes. And so again, 40 00:03:04,919 --> 00:03:10,960 Speaker 1: at this hour, the Democratic Party must face reality. Speaker 41 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:15,359 Speaker 1: Emeritus Nancy Pelosi has said the president can't win to him, 42 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 1: according to news reports, as has sent a majority leader 43 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer, leader Hakim Jeffries. According to Puck News, the 44 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:30,320 Speaker 1: President Biden assaulted the service of a decorated Democratic congressman, 45 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: a combat veteran with the eighty second Airborne in the 46 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: seventy fifth Ranger Regiment, Jason Crow of Colorado. He was incoherent, angry, rambling. 47 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 1: Yet he and a small group of people at this 48 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: hour maintain a fiction at the expense of their patriotism, 49 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: at the expense of the country. And the fiction is 50 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 1: that the president is okay and that the President is winning, 51 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:01,200 Speaker 1: when in fact he has been repeat cudiated by the 52 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: American people, not yet in an election, but in poll 53 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: after poll, an interview after interview. As he has fallen apart. 54 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 1: Whatever Joe Biden has accomplished in his public life, his 55 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:21,679 Speaker 1: legacy is finished. All that is left is a terrible, 56 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 1: humiliating chapter of defeat, and everybody sees it coming, and 57 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: so many cowards keep lying about it over and over again. 58 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 1: This is a dire moment for the country because Donald 59 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:38,359 Speaker 1: Trump is, in fact everything that Joe Biden says he is. 60 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: What a terrible moment for the country. But what a 61 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 1: magnificent opportunity for the Democratic Party and for our younger 62 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: generation to step forward and mass in a group and 63 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:55,919 Speaker 1: to say enough, we must pass the torch. Now, we 64 00:04:56,040 --> 00:05:01,600 Speaker 1: must have generational change. Now we must are particulate something 65 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: better in order to defeat the worst cause since the 66 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 1: Confederacy and Jim Crow and the booned. And that cause 67 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 1: is maga. It is trump Ism, it is American fascism. 68 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 1: The Trump Advance ticket is a threat. It is a danger, 69 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 1: but it will not be bought to power under its 70 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:31,479 Speaker 1: own strength, but rather the appeasements of cowardly Democrats and 71 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:35,760 Speaker 1: a cabal that lacks the bravery to say the obvious 72 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 1: out loud, that puts a single man's ego ahead of duty, 73 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 1: ahead of their country. Sound familiar to anybody. When you 74 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 1: become what you oppose, you've not only lost the cause, 75 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: but your soul and your morality with it. And that 76 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:57,400 Speaker 1: is the most devastating type of defeat and the most 77 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 1: difficult to recover from. At all. Our crafts are at 78 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: the fork in the road. I pray to God they 79 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: choose wisely. This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This 80 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:10,840 Speaker 1: is the warning, and I invite you to join. Subscribe 81 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 1: on our substack, on our YouTube channel, follow us, Welcome 82 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 1: to the community.