1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: It is the fourteenth of June, and one hundred and 2 00:00:02,920 --> 00:00:06,120 Speaker 1: forty four days remain until the very last votes will 3 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 1: be counted on election day for the presidency of the 4 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 1: United States. Its flag day and Donald Trump's birthday. What 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: an irony. This is the warning the worst president in 6 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: American history, the only president to incite an insurrection against 7 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: the government he swore to be faithful to when he 8 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:31,639 Speaker 1: raised his hand and swore the thirty five word oath 9 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 1: to the Constitution of the United States. Who betrayed it, 10 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: desecrated it, who refused to leave when the American people 11 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:44,160 Speaker 1: fired him. He calls the criminals of January sixth patriots. 12 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: Watch them desecrate the flag, turning it into a bludgeon 13 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 1: and a weapon. And by the way, this political party 14 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: calls itself the law and Order party, it calls itself 15 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: the friend of police officers party. It's all a lie. 16 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 1: During the Second War World War one of the greatest 17 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 1: Americans in our history, General George C. Marshall Man, who 18 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 1: would go on to become the Secretary of State, Secretary 19 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 1: of Defense, but at that time was the chief of 20 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: Staff of the United States Army. And he said during 21 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 1: the war that before it was won, the American flag 22 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:23,080 Speaker 1: would be known around the world as a symbol of 23 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:28,119 Speaker 1: freedom but also overwhelming force and power, because that's what's 24 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: required to protect freedom. The American flag has changed many, 25 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: many times. Each new state changed the flag adding a star. 26 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: Before nineteen twelve, the arrangements of the stars could be 27 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: laid out in a hundred different ways. There was no 28 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 1: standardized code, there was no symmetry. One of my favorite 29 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: patterns of stars is the medallion wreath pattern, the circular constellation, 30 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:59,480 Speaker 1: but the stars on the flag were laid out in 31 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:05,040 Speaker 1: one hundreds of ways, the constellations oftentimes delivering political messages 32 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 1: during the Civil War, pro union and pro Confederate, all 33 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:13,520 Speaker 1: of it disguised in the arrangement of the stars. The 34 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: truth about the American flag is this, it's not until 35 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:22,240 Speaker 1: we get to fifty stars before all Americans are equal 36 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 1: under the law. Before apartheid in Georgia and Alabama and 37 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 1: Louisiana and Mississippi starts to come to an end in 38 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: the late nineteen sixties, and there's still work to be done. 39 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:40,440 Speaker 1: John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge under the fifty 40 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: star flag. The victories of Civil rights and women's rights, 41 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:48,640 Speaker 1: and the progress that holds today that all of us 42 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: are indeed equal under the law, regardless of our race 43 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:58,079 Speaker 1: or creed. That has only come to pass under the 44 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: fifty star American flag, the thirteen stripes red and white, 45 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: red symbolizing the blood sacrifice, the stripes denoting the original colonies, 46 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:16,000 Speaker 1: some slave colonies, some free. The America of today is 47 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: very different from that small nation of three million people 48 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 1: with a thirteen star flag arranged in a circle, where 49 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 1: human beings were held as chattel slaves. The nation has grown. 50 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:33,360 Speaker 1: It's three hundred and forty million strong. There have only 51 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 1: ever been seven hundred million of us who have ever lived. 52 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 1: That means half of all Americans that have ever been 53 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 1: are alive right now. And this is our flag. We 54 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:49,000 Speaker 1: share this. It is our national symbol. It unifies us. 55 00:03:49,240 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: It does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not 56 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: belong to Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. These flags that 57 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:04,120 Speaker 1: have become synonymous with extremism and Christian nationalism, the Appeal 58 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 1: to Heaven flag, the Gadsten flag. These flags are sacred. 59 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: They are revolutionary flags. They are American flags that have 60 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: been co opted by a fascist political movement. But the 61 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: American flag doesn't belong to them. No American flag belongs 62 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 1: to them because they are an American, because they want 63 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:30,840 Speaker 1: to punish descent, because they want to lock up political opponents, 64 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 1: because they want to do violence in the streets, because 65 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:40,159 Speaker 1: someone dares to express an unpopular thought or conviction belief. 66 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 1: It is the most Unamerican cause since the Confederacy, since 67 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 1: the Boons. The American flag is the unifying symbol that 68 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:56,120 Speaker 1: stands opposite the Maga flag. They are opposed to each other. 69 00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:01,479 Speaker 1: They are irreconcilable from one another. Flag of Trump tried 70 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 1: to tear down the American flag and it did pull 71 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 1: it down on January sixth, turned it into a weapon 72 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 1: of violence, chaos in mayhem. There is no person who 73 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:17,359 Speaker 1: lives and breathes in the United States who has done 74 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 1: more to vandalize and desecrate our national colors than Donald Trump. Nobody. 75 00:05:23,920 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: He has defiled our flag, defiled the Constitution, defiled his 76 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:34,160 Speaker 1: oath of office. He tried to become a dictator and 77 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: hasn't given it up. What he has done to the 78 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:40,799 Speaker 1: flag and the nation and the people under it is appalling. 79 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:45,480 Speaker 1: It makes him the worst president in all of American history. 80 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:50,279 Speaker 1: A low man leading a lower cause. Happy Birthday, Donald. 81 00:05:50,720 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 1: At seventy eight years, He's done a lot. He's been 82 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: convicted of thirty four felonies. He raped a woman and 83 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: was found libel and defamed her. And for the third 84 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 1: time in a row, he's the Republican nominee for president. 85 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:08,480 Speaker 1: This is the warning. Happy flag Day. 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