1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,520 Speaker 1: It is Tuesday, July the sixteenth. There are one hundred 2 00:00:03,520 --> 00:00:08,159 Speaker 1: and eleven days until the last polls close on the 3 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:12,680 Speaker 1: presidential election day, and thirty four until the opening gavel 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: of the Democratic National Convention. And this is the warning. 5 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:23,799 Speaker 1: Yesterday was a historic day in the United States. Donald 6 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: Trump has done something that only two other Americans have 7 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:33,320 Speaker 1: ever done. Their names were Henry Clay and William Jennings Bryan. 8 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: Both of those men were the nominees of their parties 9 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 1: three times. Now Trump is back, fresh off surviving an 10 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:47,440 Speaker 1: assassination attempt, and he walked out during prime time into 11 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:51,800 Speaker 1: the Republican National Convention, and he took his seat next 12 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:57,440 Speaker 1: to his running mate, thirty nine year old Ohio Senator j. D. Vance, 13 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:02,720 Speaker 1: a protege of Silicon Valley weirdo Peter Keel. There they 14 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 1: sat Tucker Carlson, the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, 15 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:15,880 Speaker 1: a religious extremist by every conceivable definition of the word. Now, 16 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 1: this is a man who believes that people and dinosaurs 17 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:25,680 Speaker 1: were walking around together five thousand years ago. He explicitly 18 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: has said he doesn't believe in the separation of church 19 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 1: and state. My favorite moment of the entire day and 20 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:37,919 Speaker 1: there were many was watching Mike Johnson nod his head 21 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: up and down like a bobblehead as Amber, the tattooed 22 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:47,280 Speaker 1: stripper tattoo on her forehead, of course, talked to the 23 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: country during that vital primetime hour about the fact that 24 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 1: Donald Trump was a racist. Now, scores of millions of 25 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 1: Americans wondered, why is this happening? What am I watching? 26 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 1: Can you imagine if Eisenhower and Reagan and Nixon, we're 27 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:07,760 Speaker 1: all sitting around up there beyond the pearly gates looking down. 28 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:13,919 Speaker 1: So there she is, Kanye West's former girlfriend giving character 29 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 1: testimony about Donald Trump on the basis of her research. 30 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:24,079 Speaker 1: The only fans model, the innovator and host of the 31 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:29,800 Speaker 1: slut Walk captivated Mike Johnson. How can it be that 32 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 1: on CNN I am watching pundits and anchors and others 33 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: talk about Donald Trump a man find libel of rape 34 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: and then defaming the woman in the aftermath, raping her 35 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: and psychologically torturing her. How can it be that this 36 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: man is spoken about suddenly in the aftermath of surviving 37 00:02:55,680 --> 00:03:00,519 Speaker 1: an assassination attempt, like he is a reborn apostle of peace. 38 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 1: What conceivable ludicrousness could so infect anybody's brain that such astonishing, 39 00:03:09,480 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: utter nonsensical words could parse their lips. It's a question 40 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:17,920 Speaker 1: for the aegis, but also an urgent one because much 41 00:03:17,960 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: of the media has decided that there's a new chapter 42 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 1: in our evolving an unfolding national reality show. The man 43 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 1: of violence, the man who raped a woman is suddenly 44 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: redeemed because he was victimized by the types of acts 45 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,840 Speaker 1: that he has propelled, that he has stoked, that he 46 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 1: has celebrated. This is a man who, in the Oval 47 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: office pondered about shooting peacefully protesting black people, our fellow citizens. 48 00:03:56,080 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: This is a man who celebrated Paul Pelosi's violent Donald 49 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: Trump has courted violence, He's used violence. Now, Donald Trump 50 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: has a long and sordid history of racial animus. He 51 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: has a long history of stoking violence. But let's get 52 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:20,039 Speaker 1: back specifically to violence against women, because there is an 53 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 1: issue that most normal people could find consensus on. Now, 54 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,239 Speaker 1: if you were a child watching your mother being beat 55 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 1: if you were a brother who knew his sister was 56 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:36,560 Speaker 1: being beat a father who knew his daughter was being 57 00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:41,600 Speaker 1: beat a friend who knew the person you loved was 58 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:47,479 Speaker 1: being beaten, and abused torture. What type of sick soul 59 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: would say that that beaten woman should stay in the 60 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 1: marriage today, should take the beating for the good of 61 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: the kids. You know who jd Vance is? Who jd 62 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:05,159 Speaker 1: Vance said the beaten woman should stay married, stay with 63 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:08,919 Speaker 1: the abuse. Jd Vance has said other things. Now, this 64 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 1: California Yale billy who pretends he's part of the working classes, 65 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:18,039 Speaker 1: in fact, a Yale educated venture capitalist who said he 66 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 1: was uncomfortable in the state of Ohio where many people 67 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: have suffered and died from opio eight addiction. Jd Vance 68 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 1: was involved in a fraudulent OPIOAH charity. And now J. 69 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: D Vance has been picked as the Trumpian dou fan, 70 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 1: the MAGA successor at thirty nine in Donald Trump's twisted vision, 71 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:49,159 Speaker 1: no doubt president by forty three, and a retired kingpin 72 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:53,160 Speaker 1: by fifty one. Certainly that's how Elon Musk sees it. 73 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 1: He's donating forty five million dollars a month to the 74 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 1: cause of American FACS, to the cause of Donald Trump, 75 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: to the cause of political violence. There has been no 76 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 1: person in fifty years that has talked more directly, more 77 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 1: openly and had a greater impact restoring a culture of 78 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 1: violence and menace and threat to our politics than Donald Trump. 79 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: His record is clear, his menace is clear, his extremism 80 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: is clear. Donald Trump is the leading cause of incivility 81 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 1: in the United States. He is the leading cause of 82 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:40,719 Speaker 1: racial antagonism in the United States. He is the leading 83 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 1: cause of the cancer in our society. He leads an 84 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 1: autocratic movement that threatens American democracy because it does not 85 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:55,040 Speaker 1: believe in the cornerstone principles of the country. The truth 86 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 1: of the matter is Donald Trump is ahead in the 87 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:02,479 Speaker 1: campaign and he has to be his vice president. A 88 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:07,239 Speaker 1: thirty nine year old fraud of Titanic dimensions. Donald Trump 89 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 1: and JD. Vance are the most extreme political ticket in 90 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 1: American history. Barnutt jd Vance is a fascist who fetishizes 91 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: Victor Orba, who has celebrated the Russian invasion of Ukraine. 92 00:07:23,760 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: He is an American because he has made clear that 93 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 1: he does not believe in democracy. Jd Vance has talked 94 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: about the necessity of an American caesar to set things right. 95 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 1: We don't need a caesar in America. We need a 96 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: president vigorous and able to respond to this manifest threat 97 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: to America's civilization and defeat it with a message of 98 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:56,880 Speaker 1: goodness against this sinister, vile, malignant, violent cause. Fascism is 99 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 1: a philosophy of violence, and maga and fascism are the 100 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:06,679 Speaker 1: same thing. And that's been clear for a long time. 101 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 1: But too many in the media are uncomfortable with using 102 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 1: the word fascist because they believe it implies a judgment 103 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 1: as opposed to a precise description. And the thing is, 104 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:23,200 Speaker 1: when you abandon precision, when you make words meaningless, when 105 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 1: you obliterate the ability to put meaning into a sentence 106 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 1: or a paragraph, what happens is reality becomes blurred, and 107 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:36,439 Speaker 1: it becomes impossible for people to tell the difference between 108 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 1: up and down, right and left, red and blue, and 109 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:45,800 Speaker 1: a fascist and someone who's an American patriot. Now fascists 110 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:49,480 Speaker 1: have gathered before, they gathered to Madison Square Garden. They 111 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:55,080 Speaker 1: even hung swastika emblazoned George Washington banners next to the stage, 112 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 1: and they called it a patriotic event. It wasn't. We 113 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: have reached a moment of absurdity, a dangerous moment of absurdity. No, 114 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:10,439 Speaker 1: Scott Jennings of CNN, Miss Amber doesn't have a future 115 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 1: in American politics. What she is is part of the 116 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:18,640 Speaker 1: carnival act, a bearded lady, part of the freak show 117 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 1: that you have embedded as a mouthpiece in a suit 118 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 1: and tie on CNN, excusing the inexcusable. But at any rate, 119 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 1: it's more than about one CNN commentator. It's about the 120 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 1: thousands of cynics and the opportunists. The thing about an 121 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 1: authoritarian is they never act alone the cytop and ecosystem. 122 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 1: There are always the financiers. And Trump and his fascist 123 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:53,080 Speaker 1: cause have his finance steers, the Vinkel Vosses, Elon Musk, 124 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: Bill Ackman, Schwartzman, principal funders or some of them of 125 00:09:58,559 --> 00:10:03,559 Speaker 1: American fascism in twenty twenty four. He has his propagandists. 126 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson, a disgraced Fox News personality, a Russian useful idiot, 127 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:16,280 Speaker 1: sitting there in the front row with the disgraced former president, 128 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 1: the rapist, and the extremist speaker. A man who's been 129 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 1: celebrated on Russian TV, A man who assails our allies, 130 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:28,840 Speaker 1: that celebrates our enemies. There was Tucker Carlson sitting in 131 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:33,319 Speaker 1: the front row. The days ahead will reveal the Maga movement. 132 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:37,840 Speaker 1: The most important thing to understand about this election is 133 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:42,680 Speaker 1: whoever it is about loses. And Donald Trump has made 134 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 1: the election about Joe Biden, and he's done it successfully 135 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 1: for a long time because he has the financiers, and 136 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:55,080 Speaker 1: he has the propagandists, he has the think tankers, he 137 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:59,559 Speaker 1: has the fanaticism of a cult of personality, and that 138 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:04,240 Speaker 1: cult of personality as a charismatic leader. And thus we 139 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 1: have a real life authoritarian movement and it will bear 140 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: its fangs this week while declaring the necessity for unity. 141 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: It will preach menace but also peace. And the American 142 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:20,040 Speaker 1: people in the end have to sit in judgment of 143 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:24,080 Speaker 1: this cause, have to evaluate what's at stake and have 144 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:28,360 Speaker 1: to look deeply at the threats being made against them 145 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:32,120 Speaker 1: by who by Trump, because what he has said cannot 146 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:36,439 Speaker 1: be washed away with a bandage on his ear. I'm 147 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt. This is the warning and I invite you 148 00:11:39,160 --> 00:11:43,320 Speaker 1: to join. Subscribe on our substack, on our YouTube channel, 149 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:45,520 Speaker 1: follow us. Welcome to the community.