Speaker 1: The broken American media has covered Donald Trump like they
Speaker 1: cover Survivor. Each day in the news is an episode
Speaker 1: of a reality show, with the Sunday shows beginning the
Speaker 1: week with a special edition of Catch Me if you can,
Speaker 1: over and over and over again. The insanity has been indulged.
Speaker 1: A perfect example of Scott Bessen being interviewed on CNBC.
Speaker 2: Four years in the Europeans are still financing the war
Speaker 2: against themselves.
Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about it.
Speaker 2: But what I do want to say is same thing
Speaker 2: that I said after Liberation Day on April second. Everyone
Speaker 2: take a deep breath. Do not escalate, do not escalate.
Speaker 2: And President Trump has a strategy here hear him out,
Speaker 2: and then everything will be fine.
Speaker 1: Don't escalate, don't escalate. But what did anybody expect to
Speaker 1: happen when the United States abandon its values, abandon its ideals?
Speaker 1: The world has answered. This is January two. First, I'm
Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. At the World Economic
Speaker 1: Forum in Davas, American flags were burned. The United States,
Speaker 1: according to Reich fior Miller, has declared itself a predator nation.
Speaker 1: The world watches Donald Trump's secret police assault American citizens
Speaker 1: and attack ollies threatening to invade the Kingdom of Denmark
Speaker 1: and destroy Nata. Here is the answer from President Emanuel Macron.
Speaker 4: But we do prefer respect to bullie, we do prefer
Speaker 4: science to plutism, and we do prefer rule of law
Speaker 4: to brutality. We have a place where rule of law
Speaker 4: and predictability is still the rule.
Speaker 5: Of the game. And my guess is that it is
Speaker 5: largely unenterprised by the market. Having a place like Europe
Speaker 5: which sometimes is too slow for sure and needs to
Speaker 5: be reformed for sure, which she's predictable, loyal, and when
Speaker 5: where you knew that the rule of the game is
Speaker 5: just the rule of lou it's a good place.
Speaker 1: Here was the Democratic front runner Gavin Newsom, making clear
Speaker 1: that appeasement in the twenty first century leads to the
Speaker 1: same road of ruin as it did in the twentieth.
Speaker 3: And stop being complicity. It's time to stand tall and firm,
Speaker 3: have a backbone. I can't take this complicity people rolling over.
Speaker 6: I should have brought up a bunch of knee pads
Speaker 6: for all the world leaders. And I hope people understand
Speaker 6: how pathetic they look on the world stage. I mean,
Speaker 6: at least from an American perspective, it's embarrassing.
Speaker 3: So what should you and I doing?
Speaker 6: They usually decide. The European should decide for themselves what
Speaker 6: to do. But one thing they can't do is what
Speaker 6: they've been doing. And they've been playing. So it's been
Speaker 6: playing folks for fools and it's embarrassing European state.
Speaker 3: This is deploymacy and this will also this is diplomacy
Speaker 3: with Donald Trump. He's a t rex. You mate with
Speaker 3: him or he devours you one or the other. I
Speaker 3: need to stemon No.
Speaker 6: The Europeans could be if they continue to put down
Speaker 6: this path and process. They need to stand tall, stand firm,
Speaker 6: stand united. Look, you said this a year ago. We
Speaker 6: should have been having this conversation and they didn't. Okay,
Speaker 6: and now you're paying the price exactly what anyone Objectiveserver
Speaker 6: would have anticipated with the where we are to.
Speaker 1: Here is the Prime Minister of Belgium.
Speaker 7: But now so many red lines are being crossed that
Speaker 7: you have the choice between your self respect. Being a
Speaker 7: happy vessel is one thing, being a miserable slave is
Speaker 7: something else. If you back down now, you're going to
Speaker 7: lose your dignity. And that's probably the most precious thing
Speaker 7: you can have in a democracy.
Speaker 3: It's your dignity.
Speaker 1: A happy vassal or an unhappy slave, is how he
Speaker 1: sees it. And of course there is the address by
Speaker 1: the Canadian Prime Minister. It is a world historic speech.
Speaker 1: One year after Trump's vile inaugural that rejected and repudiated
Speaker 1: the Atlantic Charter. One of the charter members of the
Speaker 1: Free World, Canada has answered.
Speaker 8: We knew the story of the international rules base order
Speaker 8: was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient,
Speaker 8: that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, and we knew that
Speaker 8: international law applied with variant rigor depending on the identity
Speaker 8: of the accused or the victim. This fiction was useful.
Speaker 8: An American hegemony, in particular, helped provide public goods, open
Speaker 8: sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support
Speaker 8: for frameworks for resolving disputes. So we placed the sign
Speaker 8: in the window, We participated in the rituals, and we
Speaker 8: largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality.
Speaker 5: This bargain no longer works.
Speaker 1: It is an extraordinary address. It is a smashing through
Speaker 1: the potempting window of normalcy. Morc Carney explained how tutalitarianism works,
Speaker 1: and he refuses to be the shopkeeper that puts the
Speaker 1: sign up every day no more. Carney demonstrated he's a
Speaker 1: serious man in a serious time. Eighty years ago, the
Speaker 1: world paid a terrible price for appeasement. Here's what Winston
Speaker 1: Churchill said then. And late last night, Democratic senators capitulated
Speaker 1: to Donald Trump suggesting that they will deliver the votes
Speaker 1: to fund his gestapo, his secret police, the collaborators, Corey Booker,
Speaker 1: Patty Murray. They're the same appeasers that Gavin Newsome is
Speaker 1: warning about in Europe.
Speaker 6: This is co read. I mean, you guys are still
Speaker 6: playing by all set of rules. Everybody with Globe is
Speaker 6: with this guy. He's unmoored. It's the law of the jungle.
Speaker 6: It's the rule of Don and I hope it's donning
Speaker 6: on the world what we're up against.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is this is serious.
Speaker 6: This guy is.
Speaker 3: He's he's not mad, he's very.
Speaker 6: Intentional, but he's unmoored and he's unhinged and it requires
Speaker 6: the goal is whatever he wants it to be about.
Speaker 3: The goal is the world in his image. What would yours?
Speaker 3: A narcissay? I mean, it's just it's no advice of
Speaker 3: common sense.
Speaker 6: Why don't Why don't folks do what they say publicly,
Speaker 6: what they're saying in private. Why don't they just simply
Speaker 6: do what they know is right. I mean, everybody's talking
Speaker 6: behind his back, they're laughing, and I don't. Meanwhile, they're sucking
Speaker 6: up to him. It's embarrassing. I mean, this is your
Speaker 6: modeling behavior for our kids, generations of folks. This is
Speaker 6: not the pomacy.
Speaker 3: This is stupidity.
Speaker 1: Appeasement and malice together have led us to the edge
Speaker 1: of ruin. And so let me leave you with these
Speaker 1: words from the Canadian Prime Minister, because they are a
Speaker 1: warning of things to come where we will be poorer
Speaker 1: and our children will have left because of the fascist
Speaker 1: Donald Trump.
Speaker 5: Let me be direct.
Speaker 8: We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.
Speaker 8: Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy,
Speaker 8: and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration.
Speaker 8: But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration
Speaker 8: as weapons. Tariffs's leverage, financial infrastructure, is coercion, supply chains
Speaker 8: as vulnerabilities to be exploited. You cannot live within the
Speaker 8: lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the
Speaker 8: source of your subordination.
Speaker 1: Bob Steve met this is the warning. I invite you
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Speaker 1: blunt and direct about what is happening in this country.
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