Speaker 1: It is the twenty fifth of October, and there are
Speaker 1: eleven days left until the American people, more than one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty million of us, will vote. We will
Speaker 1: choose the forty seventh President of the United States in
Speaker 1: an election that has become existential. This is the warning.
Speaker 1: It's existential because this time there are not two candidates
Speaker 1: of two parties competing over a different vision of a
Speaker 1: shared goal to make the union stronger. This time one
Speaker 1: of the candidates is a liar, is a demagogue, is
Speaker 1: a fascist who disdains the American way of life, the
Speaker 1: cornerstone of our civilization. And yes, it is a unique civilization,
Speaker 1: the only one in the history of the world, made
Speaker 1: up of all of the peoples of the world, a
Speaker 1: country built on an idea, not blood in soil nationalism.
Speaker 1: The idea is about liberty, about the individual, the notion
Speaker 1: that we are all endowed by a creator not named,
Speaker 1: a creator with certain inalienable rights that can't be taken
Speaker 1: away and are not man's, not a king's, not an emperor's,
Speaker 1: not trumps to grant. They are life, liberty, and the
Speaker 1: pursuit of happiness. What this requires is freedom and liberty.
Speaker 1: I've said often in my writing and on these videos
Speaker 1: that without freedom, there is no rock and roll. Bruce
Speaker 1: Springsteen understands this. Let's listen to him and listen carefully
Speaker 1: because what he says is very important. Note the distinction
Speaker 1: what he supports yet also what he opposes. Today, I'm
Speaker 1: going to talk about opposition defiant because these values, that
Speaker 1: spirit attached to fierceness is elemental in the national character.
Speaker 1: But over to the pride of New Jersey the Boss.
Speaker 2: I'm Bruce Brinksteen, and I am here today to support
Speaker 2: Mala Harris and Tim Walltz for President and Vice President
Speaker 2: of the United States, and to oppose to oppose Donald
Speaker 2: Trump and j D. Vance. Now here's why. I want
Speaker 2: a president who revers the Constitution, who does not threaten,
Speaker 2: but wants to protect and guide our great democracy, who
Speaker 2: believes in the rule of law and the peaceful transfer
Speaker 2: of power, who will fight for a woman's right to choose,
Speaker 2: and who wants to create a middle class economy that
Speaker 2: will serve all our citizens. There is only one kendidate
Speaker 2: in this election who holds those principles, Dear Malaris.
Speaker 1: A president takes the only oath that's written into the
Speaker 1: US Constitution. It's thirty five words long, and it's been
Speaker 1: sworn by every president. Washington took it, John Adams took it,
Speaker 1: Thomas Jefferson took it, Abraham Lincoln took it. All took
Speaker 1: the same oath. I do solemnly swear to preserve, protect,
Speaker 1: and defend the Constitution of the United States of America
Speaker 1: to the best of my ability. So help me, God
Speaker 1: is the money line. It was this man who desecrated it.
Speaker 1: He refused to accept the results of a free and
Speaker 1: fair election that he lost. Instead, he incited violence. He
Speaker 1: sent a mob to attack our government of the people,
Speaker 1: by the people, for the people. He tried to take
Speaker 1: that from us for himself. Donald Trump tried to anoint
Speaker 1: himself dictator. Listen to his malice. It's not new. It
Speaker 1: goes all the way back to the beginning.
Speaker 3: They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're
Speaker 3: bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime,
Speaker 3: their rapists, and some I assume are good people.
Speaker 1: He is a man who sat in the Oval Office
Speaker 1: and asked when black Americans, yes, black Americans, were peacefully
Speaker 1: protesting in front of the White House, whether the military
Speaker 1: could shoot them. The restraint he showed was this, he
Speaker 1: didn't want to shoot to kill, just to mame. This
Speaker 1: is a man who believes Adolph Hitler did some good things.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump admires this man. It's sick. He's a fascist,
Speaker 1: and we will see in these final eleven days him
Speaker 1: fully bear his fangs. Donald Trump is a man of menace.
Speaker 1: He's a divider, spewing hate wherever he goes, and the
Speaker 1: crowds cheer. They look big on the television because all
Speaker 1: you see is Donald Trump standing supreme in front of
Speaker 1: a cult that cheers and worships every insanity, in every
Speaker 1: incoherent utterance. It doesn't matter. But that's a mirage. It's
Speaker 1: not real. This is a giant nation of three hundred
Speaker 1: and forty million people. In fact, almost half of all
Speaker 1: Americans who have ever lived since the beginning of the
Speaker 1: Declaration of Independence are alive. Right now, are we going
Speaker 1: to cashshier American liberty? Are we going to put into
Speaker 1: the trash can? American freedom? Donald Trump smears the United
Speaker 1: States every chance he gets here. He is yesterday calling
Speaker 1: it a garbage.
Speaker 4: Can, right, and we're a dumping ground. Were like a
Speaker 4: garbage can. For the world. That's what's happened. That's what's happened.
Speaker 4: Were like a garbage can. You know, it's the first
Speaker 4: time I've ever said that, And every time I come
Speaker 4: up and talk about what they've done to a country,
Speaker 4: I get angry and angry. First time I've ever said
Speaker 4: garbage can. But you know what, it's a very accurate description.
Speaker 1: Here's a question. Donald's not that bright, but even he
Speaker 1: might have given himself some pause by pondering the obvious.
Speaker 1: If we're such a garbage can, why do so many
Speaker 1: people from around the world want to come here? And
Speaker 1: the answer to that question is there's no place like
Speaker 1: it on Earth. There is no place with more opportunity.
Speaker 1: There is no place where, in one generation's time, the
Speaker 1: child of an immigrant can become the president of the
Speaker 1: United States. Somewhere in America today, every language known to
Speaker 1: man will be spoken somewhere in our country. It's what
Speaker 1: makes us strong, not weak. Together in this experiment where
Speaker 1: freedom has expanded to include everybody where, we now understand
Speaker 1: that it is the content of character, not the pigment
Speaker 1: of skin color, that ought to determine destiny this country,
Speaker 1: our country, the United States, our ancestors. Americans have fed
Speaker 1: more people, cured more people, liberated more people than the
Speaker 1: peoples of every other nation put together since the beginning
Speaker 1: of time. We Americans stand for an idea. It's luminescent.
Speaker 1: We reject the idea of kings and emperors and dictators,
Speaker 1: the notion that power flows from the top down, that
Speaker 1: the sprinklings the tastes of freedom that are granted by
Speaker 1: a king are no such thing, because freedom is not
Speaker 1: his to give nor his to take. This is the
Speaker 1: essence of Americanism. We the people in order to form
Speaker 1: a more perfect union. So it's not enough to vote
Speaker 1: for Vice President Harris and to affirm her as commander
Speaker 1: in chief. This is a moment that requires defiance and
Speaker 1: fierce opposition. I rise in opposition to Donald Trump because
Speaker 1: I reject his assault on the freedom of speech. I
Speaker 1: reject his assault on dissent and the freedom of conscience.
Speaker 1: I find his threats of punishment and retribution to be
Speaker 1: morally repugnant and deeply un American. I will oppose his
Speaker 1: malice and his cruelty, and his misogyny and his racism,
Speaker 1: and I will oppose his disgusting character. This man is
Speaker 1: an adjudicated rapist, and we propose to allow him to
Speaker 1: stand behind the seal of the President of the United
Speaker 1: States of America, flanked by the flag of our nation
Speaker 1: and the flag of the President of the United States.
Speaker 1: It is sick, it is perverted, it is indecent, and
Speaker 1: it is unworthy. We have gotten here to this muddy,
Speaker 1: disgusting river, polluted by MAGA and polluted by trump Ism,
Speaker 1: because there was a lot of dumping of a lot
Speaker 1: of acid into the waters by America's corrupted and broken
Speaker 1: news media who covered Donald Trump as a ring master,
Speaker 1: not a fascist threat, who covered him as a clown
Speaker 1: but not a toxic one. This moment has arrived because
Speaker 1: there's more derelictions than can be counted. There are more
Speaker 1: evasions of responsibility that can be listed. This is a
Speaker 1: moment for every American to appreciate what loyalty we owe.
Speaker 1: We owe not to the letter of a political party
Speaker 1: next to the name onto the ballot, but to an
Speaker 1: idea paid in blood, refreshed in blood, and passed down
Speaker 1: to us so that it may be preserved for the
Speaker 1: next generation, and the one after that and the one
Speaker 1: after that. Donald Trump is unfit and a spectacular, historic,
Speaker 1: fundamental way. He worships Hitler, not the Constitution. He celebrates violence,
Speaker 1: not unity. He pushes divisions like a junkie receives heroin
Speaker 1: from their pusher. This vile man must not win. And
Speaker 1: that requires two things. A vote for something better, which
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris has offered, and a strong vote that says, never,
Speaker 1: never again, never ever will a man like Donald Trump
Speaker 1: be the president. Not with my vote, not with my efforts.
Speaker 1: This is a moment that requires action, requires you to
Speaker 1: do something. Donald Trump is exactly what he appears to be,
Speaker 1: which is a grave danger to you, to your friends,
Speaker 1: to your children, to your loved ones, to your community,
Speaker 1: to your state, to your nation, and to your way
Speaker 1: of life. He's made it clear, can you hear him?
Speaker 4: And until we get a fair and free press of
Speaker 4: this country. They just bad people. I mean, look, how
Speaker 4: easy here you have. All they have to do is
Speaker 4: just go huh huh, one inch this way and one
Speaker 4: in is this way, and you got it.
Speaker 2: They don't want to do that. They're the enemy of
Speaker 2: the people.
Speaker 4: They are.
Speaker 1: Let's make the smart choice. Let's make the right choice.
Speaker 1: Let's make the moral choice. Let's make the American choice
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris for President of the United States of America.
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