Speaker 1: Thirty two days from today, an elderly, orange tinted man
Speaker 1: will raise his right hand on the west front of
Speaker 1: the Capitol and swear the same thirty five word oath
Speaker 1: that Abraham Lincoln did, And in that moment of ascension,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump will pass the torch to the most powerful
Speaker 1: man in the world, who is also its richest president,
Speaker 1: unelected Elon Musk. This is the warning. I'm going to
Speaker 1: explain the difference between a million, a billion, and a
Speaker 1: trillion this morning, and I'm going to do it because
Speaker 1: the United States is thirty six trillion dollars in debt,
Speaker 1: and one day, as Donald Trump cuts taxes for the
Speaker 1: richest people in the world spends more money than has
Speaker 1: ever been spent in American history, he will lay the
Speaker 1: groundwork for that economy to implode and cause massive suffering
Speaker 1: because of the stupidity, the ignorant and the arrogance of
Speaker 1: the world's richest man, expert in all things, President Elon.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump does what Elon tells him to do because
Speaker 1: the presidency, in a way, is a present that Elon
Speaker 1: purchased for his sugar baby Donald by spending two hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy seven million dollars in American money. Elon Musk
Speaker 1: has been able to in a month increase his net
Speaker 1: worth by more than two one hundred fifty billion dollars.
Speaker 1: What's the difference between a billion and a trillion. Well,
Speaker 1: let's say that I wanted to meet Elon twelve days
Speaker 1: from now. It's appropriate twelve days from now, the twelve
Speaker 1: days of Christmas, because the Christmas shutdown that's coming for
Speaker 1: government is the Elon shutdown. But if I were to
Speaker 1: say Elon, let's meet twelve days from now, it would
Speaker 1: be a million seconds. Million seconds is twelve days. I've
Speaker 1: met Elon's brother. So I imagine if I met Elon a
Speaker 1: million seconds from now, I wouldn't want to see him again,
Speaker 1: maybe for a billion seconds. If I say, hey, Elon,
Speaker 1: I'll meet you in a billion seconds, what that means
Speaker 1: is I'll see you in thirty three years. That's the
Speaker 1: difference between a million and a billion. A million seconds
Speaker 1: twelve days from now, a billion seconds thirty three years
Speaker 1: from now. Again, Elon Musk spent two hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: seven million dollars, and his net worth has gone up
Speaker 1: a month after the election and a month before the
Speaker 1: inauguration by two one hundred and fifty billion dollars. Elon
Speaker 1: Musk is on pace to be the world's first trillionaire.
Speaker 1: A trillion. The United States government, it's thirty six trillion
Speaker 1: in debt. You know what the difference between a billion
Speaker 1: and a trillion is. If I said I'll meet you
Speaker 1: Elon in a trillion seconds, it would mean I wouldn't
Speaker 1: see him. It would mean I wouldn't see him for
Speaker 1: almost thirty three thousand years. That's a trillion. And so
Speaker 1: it came to be on the edge of the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four Christmas season that Republican senators and Mike Johnson
Speaker 1: were desperate to clean up the decks so Donald Trump
Speaker 1: could start the year fresh, implementing his mega agenda. With
Speaker 1: a Republican majority in the House that maybe five seats
Speaker 1: or four or three or two. There is no margin
Speaker 1: for error, for illness, for absence. Mike Johnson assembled the bill,
Speaker 1: and it is a monstrosity. It is terrible for the country.
Speaker 1: It is a bible of irresponsibility. Nobody has read it,
Speaker 1: nobody has any idea what's in it. Elon Musk took
Speaker 1: a picture of it, put it on Twitter and he said,
Speaker 1: vote it down. This is all about politics, though, politics
Speaker 1: with consequences, and one of the consequences that the American
Speaker 1: people will have to appreciate, including the millions that will
Speaker 1: be harmed by the government shutdown, is that in a democracy,
Speaker 1: elections they have consequences. We live in a country where
Speaker 1: ninety million people didn't give a shit and didn't show
Speaker 1: up to vote. Some of those people are going to suffer,
Speaker 1: and I feel badly for that, but there is nothing
Speaker 1: that can be done because to try to intervene and
Speaker 1: stop the suffering will lead to more and greater suffering.
Speaker 1: So therefore, in this moment, it is of the utmost
Speaker 1: importance the Democrats do not give the MAGA movement one vote,
Speaker 1: not one zero. Speaker Johnson has dug his proverbial political
Speaker 1: grave here and now all that is left to do
Speaker 1: is lie down in it. Politics can be a brutal business,
Speaker 1: and this is a time when it's time to be brutal.
Speaker 1: No votes, not a one for the MAGA forces that
Speaker 1: have vandalized and are about to start vandalizing the United States.
Speaker 1: But back to Elon Musk, he doesn't understand politics, and
Speaker 1: what he and Vivak Ramaswami have foisted upon Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Now is a version of Maga Vietnam. They had their
Speaker 1: chance to sweep all the detritus into the ocean off
Speaker 1: the deck of the boat, but they chose not to.
Speaker 1: So when January comes and the new Congress convenes, it
Speaker 1: will start with chaos. And then all those moderate Republicans
Speaker 1: in tough races, they get to choose do I want
Speaker 1: to lose in a primary to Trump or to the Democrat.
Speaker 1: In November, Keir Starmer, the British Prime Minister, took office
Speaker 1: and the day after he had a net approval of
Speaker 1: sixteen points. A couple months later, his net approval is
Speaker 1: minus fifty. The goal of the Democratic Party is to
Speaker 1: push upon Donald Trump's failure as early and as often
Speaker 1: as possible, because his agenda, all of it, is a
Speaker 1: danger to the security of the United States and to
Speaker 1: the prosperity of the United States. The gift that Elon
Speaker 1: Musk has given to the Democrats is now they'll have
Speaker 1: to take the vote on the cuts along with the
Speaker 1: tax cuts. For Elon Musk, who, by the way, and
Speaker 1: this is very important, he was elected to nothing, he
Speaker 1: was appointed to nothing, he was confirmed by nobody to nothing.
Speaker 1: Vivk Ramaswami and Mike Johnson and Elon Musk are text friends,
Speaker 1: not government friends.
Speaker 2: Well, I was communicating with Elon last night. Elon and
Speaker 2: Vivek and I are on a text chain together. I
Speaker 2: was on a text chain last night with Elon and
Speaker 2: Viveke about Doaje because I'm super excited about that. And
Speaker 2: I said, guys, these are the necessary things. They don't
Speaker 2: like spending either. They said, we know this is not
Speaker 2: you personally, speaker, and we got to get through this.
Speaker 1: The other day, a good friend of mine who works
Speaker 1: in politics called me and he said he thought that
Speaker 1: it was a good idea that Elon Musk would take
Speaker 1: a fresh approach, fresh eyes to government spending. What I
Speaker 1: was really surprised about by my friend, who should know better,
Speaker 1: is this. We are a nation of laws. The president
Speaker 1: becomes the president only when he swears the oath. It's
Speaker 1: the magic that makes him the president, along with winning
Speaker 1: the election, winning the electoral college. Being elected is what
Speaker 1: gives you, as an individual, for a very short period
Speaker 1: of time, temporary limited lawful power in a very complicated
Speaker 1: system of checks and balances. There is no Department of
Speaker 1: government efficiency. It does not exist. There is no budget,
Speaker 1: there is no staff, there is no nothing. It is
Speaker 1: a fantasy. Elon Musk's power is illusory. It's the power
Speaker 1: of the tweets. It's the power of the threat. It's
Speaker 1: the power of I'll spend more money than you can
Speaker 1: comprehend to defeat you in your primary. You'll do as
Speaker 1: I say, or I'll take you out. This is gangster democracy.
Speaker 1: There's another word for it, plutocracy. And this is the
Speaker 1: first days of it. And it is truly unbelievable to watch.
Speaker 1: Every Democrat should be rejoiced because politically you can't fix stupid.
Speaker 1: And what Elon Musk has done is imposed on Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and the Republican majority in the Senate and the
Speaker 1: Republican majority in the House is a very heavy backpack
Speaker 1: to carry in January.
Speaker 3: It's not Donald Trump asking for this. It's very clearly
Speaker 3: President Elon Musk asking for this. The fact that Donald
Speaker 3: Trump has been completely a wall during these negotiations, to
Speaker 3: the point where only after Elon Musk publicly tweets about
Speaker 3: his displeasure and about this budget deal, all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: Donald Trump, chief of staff to Elon Musk comes trotting
Speaker 3: in and blows up the deal.
Speaker 1: This is what the American people have chosen. The Democratic
Speaker 1: Party is not the fire Department. They're the minority party.
Speaker 1: The Democratic party sh job is not to try to
Speaker 1: stop the terrible things from happening. In fact, it's to
Speaker 1: communicate why they have happened with picture perfect clarity, and
Speaker 1: to communicate what can be done at the next election.
Speaker 1: In the Senate, some of the most unfit people in
Speaker 1: American history ever ever put forward forcical people, nonsensical people
Speaker 1: into positions of grave responsibility, will soon sit in front
Speaker 1: of Senate committees and answer questions. There are people like
Speaker 1: Mitt Romney who stand as a type of archetype of
Speaker 1: softness of nonsense, and they speak a language that is
Speaker 1: a derivative of English that needs to be expelled from
Speaker 1: our politics because the vanilla farina, tasteless crapola that it
Speaker 1: produces does nothing but lift up the extremist movement. And
Speaker 1: here's Mitt Romney talking about, well, I would have nominated
Speaker 1: these people, but I didn't win the election.
Speaker 4: This is a team of people who are very very different,
Speaker 4: extraordinarly different backgrounds, different perspectives on issues. In some cases
Speaker 4: I think even than the president. So an unusual collection
Speaker 4: of individuals, not the people I would have chosen, but
Speaker 4: I lost. He won, all right, I'd like to revisit
Speaker 4: that and win, but I didn't get that chance. And
Speaker 4: so these are the kind of people he wants to
Speaker 4: run him that he's a title to.
Speaker 1: That simple truth is we're going to know if the
Speaker 1: republic is teetering, because if you cannot get a majority
Speaker 1: of senators to obstruct these nominees by saying no, then
Speaker 1: there is no advice and consent function that's operable in
Speaker 1: the United States Senate. And Donald Trump, in fact, is
Speaker 1: a caesar who can do as he wishes or as
Speaker 1: President Musk tells him to do. Trueth of the matter
Speaker 1: is Donald Trump is probably indifferent about the power. He
Speaker 1: likes to wave at the crowd at the rallies, on
Speaker 1: the stages. He likes to do the weave. That's what
Speaker 1: Donald Trump likes to do. You know, I do the weave.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: The weave is I'll talk about like nine different things
Speaker 5: and they all come back brilliantly together. And it's like
Speaker 5: and friends of mine that are like English professors, they
Speaker 5: say it's the most brilliant thing I've ever seen. But
Speaker 5: the fake news. You know what they say. He rambled.
Speaker 5: That's that rambling when you have What you do is
Speaker 5: you get off a subject to mention another little tidbit.
Speaker 5: Then you get back under the subject and you go
Speaker 5: through this and you do it for two hours and
Speaker 5: you don't even mispronounce one word.
Speaker 1: Elon runs the government. That much is clear, and incredibly
Speaker 1: he does it from mar A Lago. Elon Musk has
Speaker 1: moved on up by moving in. It's President Musk for
Speaker 1: everybody who doesn't get the picture by now, and he
Speaker 1: calls the shots because the richest in the world, if
Speaker 1: you didn't know, since he has the most, is also
Speaker 1: the most brilliant. And because he's the richest and the
Speaker 1: most brilliant, well I suppose he should be in charge too,
Speaker 1: right where he can tell all of us cleaves what
Speaker 1: to do, when to do, what to do, when to
Speaker 1: do it, and how to do it because in the
Speaker 1: end he's got the most. And that's the meaning of life,
Speaker 1: isn't it. This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This
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