1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: It's the Friday after the election in America. This is 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:08,240 Speaker 1: the warning. The sun came up today, just like it 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:12,080 Speaker 1: did yesterday, and just like it will seven hundred and 4 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: twenty four days from now, when the American people get 5 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 1: to go to the polls and deliver a referendum on 6 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's MAGA government. Winston Churchill said, countries get the 7 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: governments they deserve, and the American people have voted, and 8 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 1: they voted in the majority to give Donald Trump the presidency. 9 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 1: The election was fair. There were no conspiracies. And any 10 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: Democratic voter who after four years of madness and treachery 11 00:00:42,120 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 1: and sedition makes up and embraces whole cloth the same 12 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 1: conspiracies that the MAGA people embraced, that makes you the 13 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: same as them, equal threats to America. Elections have consequences, 14 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:04,280 Speaker 1: and this one will have seismic consequences domestically on the 15 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:08,520 Speaker 1: North American continent and all around the world. Donald Trump 16 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: isn't just the most prolific liar in American history to 17 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: hold the public office, because Donald Trump is an exquisite scumbag, 18 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 1: a liar, a seditionist, but he's not a hypocrite. He 19 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 1: is exactly as he appears to be, and in a 20 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 1: world of astounding hypocrisy, a great many people find it refreshing. 21 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: So how did this happen when it came to the 22 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:37,399 Speaker 1: chaos at the border and there was not chaos the 23 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:40,560 Speaker 1: day that Trump left? Who was telling the truth about that? 24 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: Was it Biden or was it Trump? And what about 25 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: the more important issue Biden's condition? And the great gas 26 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 1: lighting by the Biden White House, the lies eagerly embraced 27 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: and supported by the media, but clearly seen by the 28 00:01:56,040 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 1: American people. Who was telling the truth about Biden, House 29 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:04,080 Speaker 1: or Trump? And so one hundred days before the election, 30 00:02:04,520 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 1: the incapacitated eighty two year old president fell flat on 31 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:11,520 Speaker 1: his face and had to drop out of the race. 32 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 1: And there was no competition. The person Kamala Harris who 33 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: became the nominee has only ever run one competitive race 34 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: in her life. You don't get elected to the United 35 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:28,160 Speaker 1: States Senate in California and competitive races. The process to 36 00:02:28,200 --> 00:02:31,919 Speaker 1: become the nominee is competitive, but not the election process. 37 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: The first time that Kamala Harris ran in a national election, 38 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:39,600 Speaker 1: it was an unmitigated disaster. In fact, it was such 39 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:44,920 Speaker 1: a disaster that what she said in that campaign about 40 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: paying for transgender reassignment surgery for prisoners helped doom her 41 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: in this campaign. In the first campaign, Kamala Harris did 42 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: not perform well. In this campaign, she performed to the 43 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 1: utmost of her abilities. She performed very, very well. But 44 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 1: it wasn't enough. And it wasn't enough because the fundamental 45 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 1: question in a change election was what would you do differently? 46 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:17,639 Speaker 1: And Kamala Harris went on the view and this happened. 47 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: Would you have done something differently than President Biden during 48 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 1: the past four years, there is not a thing that 49 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: comes to mind in terms of and I've been a 50 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 1: part of most of the decisions that have had impact. 51 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 1: Joe Biden promised to be a one term president. He 52 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 1: broke that promise with the greatest act of selfishness in 53 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:48,640 Speaker 1: American political history, titanic act of egotism, supported and led 54 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: by his wife Jill, and his advisors who wanted to 55 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:56,720 Speaker 1: cling to the power their proximity brought them as much 56 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: as Jill Biden, as much as Joe Biden, Steve Anita Dunn, 57 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: Mike Donlin in a small group of other powerful aids, 58 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 1: bullied the media, intimidated the media, cut off access and 59 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 1: succeeded in shutting down all in any conversation about whether 60 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 1: Biden was in a position to run again. Now, the 61 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: American people, forty percent of whom don't have four hundred 62 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:30,919 Speaker 1: dollars available, reacted to the inflation. Biden and his team 63 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: named it Bidenomics, said it was great and called Biden 64 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 1: fder and the American people didn't agree. Now, Chuck Schumer 65 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 1: should have already resigned as the Senate Democratic leader because 66 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: of the incompetency of the political operation that has achieved 67 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:55,239 Speaker 1: the result that Chuck Schumer and his team incredibly put 68 00:04:55,320 --> 00:05:00,240 Speaker 1: out a news release about claiming victory. Trust me, it's 69 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 1: not going to look like victory when the whack jobs 70 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 1: start getting confirmed into Donald Trump administration. Schumer has to go. 71 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: In fact, all of the geriatrics need to go. What 72 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: needs to happen is a reckoning with reality. Donald Trump 73 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: beat Joe Biden, not so much Kamala Harris, though she 74 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 1: was on the ballot and she could have done some 75 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: things differently, which we'll talk about in a different post. 76 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: But what elected Donald Trump was ego, And as I've 77 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:37,799 Speaker 1: said many times, there's no flower in all the world 78 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 1: more delicate than the male ego. Can you hear it? 79 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: I can In all of the stories suggesting that only 80 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: if Joe Biden had stayed in the race, that Donald 81 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 1: Trump wouldn't be president, nonsense. Joe Biden is the architect 82 00:05:55,640 --> 00:06:00,359 Speaker 1: of this disaster. He is its major shareholder. He did this, 83 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:03,720 Speaker 1: He did this to the country, and he did it 84 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:07,160 Speaker 1: because he wanted more. It's as simple as that, and 85 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:10,799 Speaker 1: the damage that will come next lies at his feet. 86 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: The conduct was shameful, the ring of people trying to 87 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: surround him and shout down even at this hour, criticism 88 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: of the obvious is despicable and I won't have it 89 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: seeing a lot of Democratic leaders at this hour pretend 90 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: that they did not do everything in their power to 91 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 1: deny and evade the obvious, that they didn't shut down 92 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:39,600 Speaker 1: a primary that was the salvation of the Democratic Party. No, 93 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 1: not here. There are plenty of other platforms where the 94 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 1: bullshittary will flow freely. Here at the warning, reality will 95 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:53,640 Speaker 1: be embraced, Reality will be discussed, so that one thousand, 96 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:57,680 Speaker 1: four hundred and sixty days from now we will be 97 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 1: celebrating the defeat of Report Publican nominee jdie Vance, and 98 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: it will be hard to do, because the tide of 99 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:10,040 Speaker 1: the electorate is to give these two not four more years, 100 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 1: but eight years. And at the current rate of introspection 101 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 1: inside the Democratic Party, it may take eight hundred and 102 00:07:17,320 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: fifty years to be ready to put forward a candidate 103 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:25,880 Speaker 1: that can rebuke the mistakes by running a campaign that's hopeful, 104 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:31,239 Speaker 1: that's optimistic, that's forward and connected to the American people. 105 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:34,960 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris stood up and very much was the woman 106 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 1: in the arena that Teddy Roosevelt wrote about long ago. 107 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 1: She has my deep respect, she has my gratitude, and 108 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 1: I hope she has yours. But the defeat and its 109 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 1: author do not have my respect, and I hope they 110 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: don't have yours, because they did a terrible thing, and 111 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:56,040 Speaker 1: now we pay the bill. In the end, there are 112 00:07:56,200 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 1: hundreds of reasons why Donald Trump won this election. Face them, 113 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:05,560 Speaker 1: do not turn away from them. He's a world class demagogue, 114 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:08,320 Speaker 1: and now he has power pile in our office. Is 115 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:14,000 Speaker 1: the most powerful president in American history, fundamentally unchecked, restrained 116 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 1: only by his goodwill. We're going to be in trouble 117 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 1: for some time, but there will be a moment ahead 118 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:24,920 Speaker 1: when Donald Trump will overreach disaster will follow, and an 119 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 1: opportunity to offer something new and something different will be 120 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 1: on the table. What should be on the table is 121 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,959 Speaker 1: not some radical vision, but a vision of Americanism, an 122 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:40,080 Speaker 1: embrace of pluralism and of our core identity e plural 123 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:44,440 Speaker 1: bazoon am out of many one. The Democratic Party will evolve, 124 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 1: it will change, it will adjust after this. I hope 125 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,360 Speaker 1: it needs to be an opportunity party. It needs to 126 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:55,839 Speaker 1: say big things, important things, and its candidates need to 127 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:59,839 Speaker 1: lay out a vision that inspires. But the Biden camp 128 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 1: and the Biden White House demanded in story after story 129 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:08,160 Speaker 1: that there'd be expressions of gratitude for the president, that 130 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 1: Joe Biden be celebrated as a world's historical figure. And 131 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: so this is the bubble, an expression of it, and 132 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: it was pierced on contact with the American people, who 133 00:09:19,920 --> 00:09:22,800 Speaker 1: in fact think Biden was an awful president. But if 134 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:26,079 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party wants to maintain that he was FDR 135 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 1: and Harry Truman and John Kennedy and Barack Obama all 136 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 1: bundled together, then one four hundred and sixty days from 137 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 1: now we'll be getting ready for forty three year old 138 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 1: President JD. Vance and I don't want to see that. 139 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: It was clear two plus years ago what would happen 140 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,840 Speaker 1: if Joe Biden ran for another term, and it happened. 141 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,559 Speaker 1: How Kamala Harris got into this race was through a 142 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: ejection button. She had to come in the race on 143 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 1: a parachute, and she did amazing things in it, raised 144 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 1: more money than any candidate ever a billion dollars. She 145 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:07,559 Speaker 1: made few mistakes, but one of them was playing it 146 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 1: so cautious that she forgot to say big things and 147 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:14,839 Speaker 1: offer great ideas to do what John Kennedy did in 148 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:19,160 Speaker 1: point forward to a new horizon, a new frontier. American 149 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 1: politics is about poetry, and when the politics requires poetry 150 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:30,160 Speaker 1: of better of imagination, against the poetry of darkness, the 151 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: crudities that came out of Donald Trump's mouth, it was 152 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:36,880 Speaker 1: just missing. This is a terrible moment for America. It's 153 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 1: going to be a tragic moment for the country. No 154 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 1: good will come from this. Donald Trump is going to 155 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: try to do terrible things. Quitting isn't an option. One 156 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 1: of the things about authoritarian is systems is the ubiquity 157 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: of the leader in the ceaselessness of politics. It just 158 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:58,440 Speaker 1: never stops. It's always in your face, and that's what 159 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 1: it's going to be like. Of life is civics, civic duty. 160 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:05,479 Speaker 1: We need to be engaged, we need to be involved, 161 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:09,560 Speaker 1: and real people need to be able to look at 162 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 1: someone like Chuck Schumer clinging to power and understand he's 163 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: not on your side and MAGA has no better friend. 164 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 1: Right now, it's not time to start planning the next election. 165 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 1: Now it's the time to stare in the mirror for 166 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 1: a good long while and to look with laser focus 167 00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:36,120 Speaker 1: at the leadership of the Democratic Party, the Washington insiders, 168 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:43,199 Speaker 1: the lobbyists, the corporations. All of it together has created 169 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 1: a ten eared orchestra of loserdom and it can't be 170 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:54,040 Speaker 1: playing the same tune for years from now. This is 171 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:58,400 Speaker 1: the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and 172 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: I invite you to join some tribe on our substack 173 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:05,359 Speaker 1: on our YouTube channel follow us. Welcome to the community.