1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. For earlier access to these episodes, access 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:08,119 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 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:18,799 Speaker 1: by clicking the link in the description to this episode. 5 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: There he is Governor Ron DeSantis, the Mussolini of Tallahassee, 6 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: using a US Navy war vessel as a visual prop, 7 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: just days after his disastrous launch, which spurns the fantastic 8 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 1: hashtag hashtag disaster. Now, Ronda Santis has apparently learned that 9 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: while running for president, it's a visual medium that matters. 10 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,600 Speaker 1: And so there he is, standing, well framed, looking good, 11 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:55,440 Speaker 1: about to answer a question. Now, generations of Americans have 12 00:00:55,560 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: been raised being told something that we all know isn't true. 13 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 1: And it's say, there's no stupid questions. There are. There's 14 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:06,399 Speaker 1: lots of stupid questions, and a great place to find 15 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 1: them is on Fox and Friends. Let's watch one. But 16 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: before we do, let's understand something about the question. It's 17 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:18,039 Speaker 1: tremised on the delusion, and the delusion is this is 18 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 1: that all over the country the American people are wondering wondering, 19 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 1: why Ron, Why Ron? Why? Why do you have to run? Now? 20 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: Why can't you wait? Why can't you wait for mister 21 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:33,039 Speaker 1: Trump to get four more years? 22 00:01:33,319 --> 00:01:35,919 Speaker 2: Republicans? Most of the people that support you, who probably 23 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 2: voted for President Trump twice. And the first comment I 24 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 2: hear over and over again is why doesn't Ron de 25 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 2: Santis wait for President Trump's second term and then run? 26 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 2: And what is your best answer to that? Why is 27 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 2: right now the time for rond de Santis to run 28 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:50,200 Speaker 2: for president? 29 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 3: Because everyone knows if I'm the nominee, I will beat Biden, 30 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 3: and I will serve two terms and I will be 31 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 3: able to destroy leftism in this country and leave woke 32 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 3: ideology on the dustbin of history. 33 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: I'd legitimately like to know who is it that he 34 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: intends to smash? Is he going to arrest Bernie Sanders? 35 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: Does he want to send AOC to a rehabilitation and 36 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:24,920 Speaker 1: re education camp? What's he talking about? American politicians, don't 37 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: talk about this, don't talk like this. These are the 38 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:31,440 Speaker 1: words of a thug. These are the words of an autocrat. 39 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: These are the words of a dictator, and they should 40 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:38,639 Speaker 1: be taken seriously because he means it. There's something disordered 41 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:44,080 Speaker 1: about Ron de Santis. He doesn't understand. Apparently, the ideas 42 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 1: and ideals of the country. And by the way, everybody 43 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:51,399 Speaker 1: knows that ron de Santis is going to beat Joe 44 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:56,359 Speaker 1: Biden and serve two terms. Let me set the record straight. Actually, 45 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 1: nobody knows that, like literally nobody, as in anyone across America. 46 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: When they look at Rond de Santis, what they see 47 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: is a hugely awkward autocrat wanta bee who he's putting 48 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:17,679 Speaker 1: with his fingers and wears these boots in public. Quite 49 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: a thing, particularly if you're running to be commander in 50 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: chief of the Earth's most powerful military. Now, the heart 51 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 1: of what Ronda Santis is saying is that he's going 52 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:34,200 Speaker 1: to smash the left. Well, let's take that apart. What 53 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 1: does it mean when he talks about woke ideology? What's 54 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: he talking about and who exactly is it that he's 55 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 1: going to smash. Maybe he ought to consider a campaign flag. 56 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: How about a clenched fist on a red flag to 57 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: advance his commitment to smash his fellow Americans that may 58 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:59,160 Speaker 1: happen to disagree with him. When he talks about woke 59 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 1: ideology and smashing the left, is he talking about Bob Iger, 60 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:08,320 Speaker 1: the Disney CEO that he launched his own personal quagmire 61 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 1: against or is he talking about your wife, your husbands, 62 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 1: your kids, your grandkids? And by the way, after the 63 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:20,480 Speaker 1: left is smashed, where should these people go to re 64 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:24,920 Speaker 1: education camps? What is it that Ron DeSantis doesn't understand 65 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 1: about the United States of America? Look at this man. 66 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:34,359 Speaker 1: He's running for the office that was occupied by Abraham Lincoln, 67 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: a man who said with charity towards all and malice 68 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 1: towards none at the end of a civil war that 69 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 1: killed the equivalent of eight and a half million people 70 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 1: at the high end according to today's population. What is 71 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:55,479 Speaker 1: he talking about? Nobody has run for president of the 72 00:04:55,600 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 1: United States with a smaller, more constricted, hateful message except 73 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:06,240 Speaker 1: for one person, the person that Ronda Santis's campaign has 74 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: collapsed against. Because the truth of the matter is Republicans 75 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: want the real thing, not the shadow, not diat trunk. 76 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 1: And that's Ronda Santis's fundamental problem. What astounding hubris? Now, 77 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 1: Rond de Santis could go out and talk about a 78 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: lot of things. What is he talking about when he 79 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 1: says he's going to serve two terms? Are you kidding? 80 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: Ron de Santis has collapsed forty points in the polls. 81 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,679 Speaker 1: Ron de Santis has fallen. Let me be clear about something. 82 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: This isn't how American politicians are supposed to talk. This 83 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: is how thugs talk in Banana republics. This is how 84 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:54,760 Speaker 1: dictators talk. We don't talk about smashing people we disagree with. 85 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 1: Even if you don't like the left. In America, every 86 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 1: buddy has a constitutional right to speech, the freedom of association, 87 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:10,400 Speaker 1: to conscience, to travel. In America, we can do what 88 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 1: we want, so long as doing what we want doesn't 89 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:20,120 Speaker 1: infringe on other people's rights. What is it that Ron 90 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 1: DeSantis hates about the American idea and ideal? What is 91 00:06:24,880 --> 00:06:28,919 Speaker 1: so disordered about his personality that every time there is 92 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:34,600 Speaker 1: disagreement he seeks revenge. He seeks vengeance even at the 93 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 1: cost of billions of dollars and thousands of jobs for 94 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:43,080 Speaker 1: the state he swore an oath to lead and then 95 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 1: abandoned for a presidential campaign that is failing to lead 96 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:54,679 Speaker 1: the Maga empire. Ron Desantus's campaign is going to be epic, 97 00:06:55,440 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 1: as in an epic debacle for the ages. Raise more 98 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:06,919 Speaker 1: money against lower vote results than any presidential candidate in 99 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:11,600 Speaker 1: American history. He's going to make Texas Senator Phil Graham 100 00:07:12,080 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 1: look like Bill Clinton when it comes to politics. By 101 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: the time this is done, let me just say this 102 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: about Ron DeSantis, and he's wanting to smash and break 103 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: and hurt. The job of the American President is to 104 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: temporarily lead the American people and to make the union 105 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 1: more perfect. The American President is not the head of 106 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 1: a faction, is not the head of a mob. It 107 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 1: is not the head of a gang. Despite Donald Trump 108 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:48,960 Speaker 1: trying to convince us that he is, the American President 109 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: is the leader of the mightiest experiment in all of 110 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 1: human history. Ron de Santis doesn't understand that he's as 111 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 1: unfit at a orl left at a character level as 112 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 1: any person has ever been, including Donald Trump. Running for 113 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 1: this office. He will fail. It'll be fun while watching it. 114 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 1: Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is getting into the 115 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:23,560 Speaker 1: Republican primary and he promises to take on Donald Trump directly, clearly, 116 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 1: and unequivocally. Will he now? Chris Christy has a long 117 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:32,280 Speaker 1: history with Donald Trump. He stood behind Donald Trump after 118 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 1: the New Hampshire primary, becoming the first serious and major 119 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:41,319 Speaker 1: figure to get in line. He was shamed standing there 120 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 1: like a Stepford wife Donald Trump humiliated Chris Christy. He 121 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 1: gave him COVID, passed him over for Vice president. Chris 122 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:55,440 Speaker 1: Christy knows what Donald Trump is. But Chris Christy wanted power. 123 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:58,840 Speaker 1: He wanted to be in the room where it happens. 124 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 1: He wanted to play the game. What he should have 125 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:06,400 Speaker 1: done is keep his toes on the line and hold it. 126 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:11,079 Speaker 1: What he should have done is oppose Donald Trump. What 127 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: he should have done is look into camera and say 128 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:18,480 Speaker 1: I know this man, and this man is unfit for 129 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 1: any high office or any position of responsibility. Chris Christy 130 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:28,720 Speaker 1: wasn't alone, but Chris Christy has come around in understanding 131 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: what a threat Donald Trump is, and there's something missing 132 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 1: in this race. Somebody needs to walk up to the bully, 133 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:41,479 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and do what must be done to bullies proverbially, 134 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: which is to knock them on their ass. And Chris Christy, 135 00:09:47,960 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 1: alone among all of the weaklings, is in a position 136 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 1: to do it. Now. Chris Christy is from my home state, 137 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 1: New Jersey. Every state has something to contribut to the Union. 138 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. New Jersey has something to contribute, 139 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:09,240 Speaker 1: and maybe what it has to contribute is Chris Christy 140 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 1: to tell Donald Trump to shut the fuck up and 141 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 1: to sit down, and to stop, to stop the madness, 142 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 1: to stop the insanity. Donald Trump is a spoiled, petulant 143 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: child who lives in the disordered mind of an adult 144 00:10:30,559 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 1: who became, for a time the most powerful person in 145 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:38,199 Speaker 1: the world until something happened to him, something that has 146 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:43,439 Speaker 1: happened since the very, very very beginning of the United States. 147 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:48,840 Speaker 1: He lost an election, but he couldn't accept that he 148 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 1: lost because he's sick. And nobody walked into the Oval 149 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 1: office and said, you lost, What the fuck is the 150 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: matter with you? Not as kids, not as lawyers, not 151 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:12,520 Speaker 1: a staff, nobody, With very few exceptions, nobody has looked 152 00:11:12,559 --> 00:11:16,320 Speaker 1: Donald Trump in the eye and called him out to 153 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 1: his face fearlessly. This country needs somebody to do it, 154 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 1: and the person who seems ready and able and willing 155 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 1: to do it, and who can actually get into a 156 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 1: room in front of television cameras to bring it home 157 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 1: is Chris Christy. We shouldn't look for saints in our politics, 158 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 1: because there are in any And here's another thing. Politicians 159 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: shouldn't have fans like movie stars and rock stars. It's 160 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 1: a business relationship. It's transactional and it's completely okay to 161 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:03,320 Speaker 1: be pissed off and disappointed about a politician in the 162 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 1: one moment, while rooting for them to do something good 163 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:16,439 Speaker 1: in the next. Politicians simultaneously disappoint and deliver, and Christi 164 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:21,680 Speaker 1: is a pristine example of that. By far, the most 165 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:28,200 Speaker 1: talented politician, the most quick witted, the funniest, the best 166 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 1: on his feed in the debate, the best speaker in 167 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:36,400 Speaker 1: a room, the most interesting is Chris Christie in this race. 168 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: There was a time when Chris Christie in twenty twelve 169 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:47,240 Speaker 1: could have walked to the Republican nomination. He demurred, it 170 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 1: was an act of humility. Actually, he said, in that 171 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:55,480 Speaker 1: moment in time, he simply wasn't ready to be president. Well, 172 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:58,839 Speaker 1: he learned the hard way that when the bust of 173 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:03,559 Speaker 1: opportunities stopped and the door opens, get on the bus. 174 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 1: He missed his moment, He lost badly in twenty sixteen. 175 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 1: He made a terribly wrong turn. But he's come around now. 176 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 1: The question isn't whether Chris Christy will be the Republican 177 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:22,559 Speaker 1: nominee or whether Chris Christy will be president. It's too 178 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 1: early to talk about that. The question at hand is 179 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 1: how will Chris Christy comport himself, and it starts with 180 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 1: the first most obvious predictable question in the world, and 181 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:43,400 Speaker 1: here it is Governor Christy, will you support Donald Trump 182 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:49,600 Speaker 1: should he become the Republican nominee in his quest to 183 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:53,600 Speaker 1: return to the White House as the forty seventh President 184 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:58,320 Speaker 1: of the United States. There's only one acceptable answer to 185 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:02,559 Speaker 1: that question, and deliver it in New Jersey. Fuck. No, 186 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 1: that's where the campaign starts. The next sentence has to 187 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:11,559 Speaker 1: say why. What Chris Christie has to do to have 188 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:15,560 Speaker 1: any hope of gaining traction in this race is to 189 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: engage in a campaign of radical honesty. He should speak 190 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:25,120 Speaker 1: clearly about his ambition. He should speak clearly about the 191 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 1: titanic mistake of allowing that ambition to overwhelm the good 192 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 1: judgment that I know he has. Chris Christy is a 193 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: talented man and everybody should recognize that, especially people who 194 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 1: disagree with him. Joe Biden and many many White House 195 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:53,160 Speaker 1: aides have been quoted talking about the fact that they 196 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:57,800 Speaker 1: hope to run against Donald Trump. This is as reckless 197 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:03,080 Speaker 1: and irresponsible a position as there is. What that position 198 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 1: is is hoping that Donald Trump is one person away 199 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: from retaking political power so the other person can beat him. 200 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:18,360 Speaker 1: Have we learned no lesson since twenty and sixteen in 201 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 1: this country, Chris Christie's learned a lesson. Maybe we ought 202 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 1: to listen to him and give him a shot to 203 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 1: kick ass. He's capable of doing it. We've watched him 204 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: do it before. The problem with Chris Christie in twenty 205 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 1: and sixteen is he punched down and he took out 206 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 1: little Morco Rubio, which wasn't a particularly heavy lift for 207 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: the big guy. There's a bigger target now. It's the 208 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 1: gorilla in the middle of the rank. That guy needs 209 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 1: a brawler and to knock him on his ass. I 210 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 1: don't know if Chris Christy can deliver. But when you 211 00:15:57,680 --> 00:15:59,760 Speaker 1: look at that field of Republicans who will be on 212 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 1: that debate stage, understand this, he's the only one with 213 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 1: any possibility of doing it at all.