1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 1: It's January sixth, twenty twenty five, and incredibly, two weeks 2 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:10,240 Speaker 1: from today, Donald Trump will be inaugurated. Despite what he 3 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: did on this day four years ago. This is the warning. 4 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:20,239 Speaker 1: On that day, Donald Trump incited an insurrection. He sent 5 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 1: a mob a hoard to the United States Capital. They 6 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 1: shit on the floors, they urinated on the floors, They 7 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 1: did millions of dollars of damage. They assaulted hundreds of 8 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 1: police officers. But this was no mere riot. It had 9 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:39,879 Speaker 1: a political intent. These people were fed alive, they were 10 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: told that the election was stolen. They were manipulated by 11 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:46,880 Speaker 1: some of the biggest media companies in the world him 12 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 1: by their own stupidity. They were lied to by Donald 13 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 1: Trump and Lindsey Graham and Josh Howley and Ted Cruz 14 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,880 Speaker 1: and most of the MAGA members of Congress. They were 15 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: sent up there. And when they were the politicians who 16 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: incited that, people like Josh Holly, people like Ted Cruz, 17 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: they ran for their lives and they hid in closets. 18 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:10,640 Speaker 1: And now a lot of these January sixth criminals are 19 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: in prison, and soon Donald Trump will take office. He 20 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: will pardon every one of them, and no doubt he 21 00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: will hang presidential medals of Freedom around their neck. So 22 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: as the sun rises this morning over Lost Vegas and 23 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: the desert behind me, it is clear in America that 24 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 1: a new era is dawning. It is the era of 25 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: the billionaire, but not just any billionaire. People that have 26 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: more money than any human beings have ever had the 27 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: problem with talking about how much money Elon must have 28 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 1: and how powerful that makes him is impossible because most 29 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: people can't conceive of what a billion is. And I'm 30 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: going to try to help you. If I said, hey, Elon, 31 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 1: I'm going to meet you in a million seconds, we'd 32 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 1: be hanging out in twelve days. I'd much prefer to 33 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: hear from Elon Musk again in a billion seconds. That's 34 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 1: thirty three years from now. I'm going to explain the 35 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:10,480 Speaker 1: difference between a billion and a trillion. Elon musk net 36 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:13,880 Speaker 1: worth has increased from two hundred and fifty billion to 37 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,960 Speaker 1: four hundred billion dollars since Trump was elected. It is 38 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: almost certain he'll be the world's first trillionaire. And here's 39 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 1: the difference between a billion and a trillion. If I 40 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 1: said to Elon, I'd like to see you again in 41 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 1: a trillion seconds, that's thirty three thousand years from now. 42 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 1: That's the difference between a billion and a trillion, twelve 43 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: days and thirty three years, the difference between a million 44 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:43,240 Speaker 1: and a billion. That's why this cartoon matters so much. 45 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 1: Bob Iger, the chairman of the Walt Disney Company, imposed 46 00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: the settlement of George Stefanopholis's comment, which was entirely accurate, 47 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:56,640 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is an adjudicated rapist. Is a capitulation 48 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:01,919 Speaker 1: born from world cowardice. Because for Biger, the Walt Disney 49 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: Company is more important than his country, and the same 50 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 1: for Jeff and the Lady Bezos or Sanchez Nay Bezos. 51 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 1: These people are worth over a hundred billion dollars, and 52 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: he doesn't have the guts and the courage to run 53 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 1: the Washington Post. And now the best journalists from that 54 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: paper are fleeing it like the first class passengers being 55 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 1: lowered in half filled lifeboats from Titanic. They're being rowed 56 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 1: over to the Atlantic, to the Wall Street Journal and 57 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:37,480 Speaker 1: other reputable publications. The full panic, the full flea hasn't 58 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 1: started yet, but when it does, your everyday reporter, your 59 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 1: everyday editor, there will not be enough lifeboats. Just the 60 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:49,360 Speaker 1: cold sea below, while Bezos until Lady Sanchez, some are 61 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,680 Speaker 1: in the south to France, no doubt, setting a table 62 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 1: for all of the Capitulan who can regale each other 63 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: with stories of their courage and their wisdom. This cartoon 64 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 1: that was killed at the Washington Posts speaks to trillion words. 65 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:08,200 Speaker 1: The American people will not stand for this over the 66 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: long run. Let me put on the screen the vote totals. 67 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: That's it, not a lot of people. If you voted 68 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: for Kamala Harris, you do not stand alone. Though. Political 69 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 1: power has been stripped from all of our hands because 70 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:25,159 Speaker 1: of the incompetence, not of Donald Trump, but of his 71 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: political opposition. Donald Trump is taking power because of the greed, 72 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 1: selfishness for more power, more time by Joe Biden and 73 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 1: his White House deaths, because of the greatest lie ever 74 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:40,480 Speaker 1: told in the twenty first century by an American president 75 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: that I'm okay for four more years. It was Biden's life, 76 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:48,000 Speaker 1: not Trump's lie, that bought back Trump to the White House. 77 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:51,159 Speaker 1: We are fourteen days from now in front of Joe Biden, 78 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 1: whose only legacy is Donald Trump. Trump will shock the 79 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 1: world with an inaugural address that shakes the nation that frightens, 80 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:03,880 Speaker 1: it parrifies millions. The most important thing to understand in 81 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: that moment that those of us who have opposed this 82 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:10,279 Speaker 1: do not have to live in fear, because we are 83 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: Americans with rights that cannot be taken away with bluster. 84 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:19,680 Speaker 1: But those rights require courage to be asserted. And the 85 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:23,240 Speaker 1: courage will not be found at the top. It will 86 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 1: not be found amongst the billionaires. It will be found 87 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 1: where it has always been found in America, which is 88 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: among the common people, and the common regular, ordinary American 89 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:38,400 Speaker 1: has been lied to. They have been deceived by America's 90 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: powerful elites. It's politicians, it's academics, it's business leaders who 91 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 1: have cooperized them. And they have rebelled, which is the 92 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:52,480 Speaker 1: American way. And they have rebelled by sending to Washington 93 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 1: an arsonists to burn it down. What they hope he 94 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,359 Speaker 1: burns down is the corruption of the ruling class. But 95 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:03,040 Speaker 1: they are a victims of a lie. Donald Trump is 96 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:06,840 Speaker 1: the ruling class. Donald Trump is the greatest taker there 97 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:11,159 Speaker 1: has ever been, a con man of unparalleled ability, a 98 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:15,520 Speaker 1: demagogue of world class stature, who has fed to the 99 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: American people the oldest and easiest lie there is. You 100 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,919 Speaker 1: can feel better about your lives by looking down on 101 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:27,960 Speaker 1: someone else. It's an empty calorie. It provides no nourishment. 102 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: And the American people, in their righteous indignation and in 103 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: their wisdom, they will see this clearly in time and 104 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:38,800 Speaker 1: when Trump overreaches and things fall apart, it is the 105 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:42,560 Speaker 1: obligation of the next generation of Democrats to be ready 106 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: to seize the moment, not defend Joe Biden's legacy or 107 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 1: his broken promise or the pardon of his son. It 108 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:52,919 Speaker 1: will be time to take that rock out of the 109 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:56,600 Speaker 1: rucksack and throw it down the hill. Joe Biden made 110 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,039 Speaker 1: his bed and forced all of us to lie in 111 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 1: it for four long years. What happened in the election 112 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four must never happen again. My friend 113 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 1: James Carville is wrong. This election was not about the economy. 114 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:13,280 Speaker 1: It was about honesty. Joe Biden went out and set 115 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: a bad economy was the best that had ever been 116 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 1: and called it Bidenomics over and over again. The American 117 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: people tried to tell the elite of the Democratic Party 118 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 1: in Washington, d C. They did not want a rematch 119 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: between Biden and Trump, and they signaled all along if 120 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 1: the Democratic puhbas forced one on them. They would pick Trump, 121 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:41,920 Speaker 1: and they did. They rebelled against the self interest of 122 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 1: the party that promised it was the morally superior and 123 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:52,080 Speaker 1: better party. Americans hate sanctimony, they hate hypocrisy, and man, 124 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 1: did Theay lower the boom and punish Democrats. The American 125 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 1: people in an election where honesty was front and soud 126 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:04,720 Speaker 1: chose the most prolific liar over Joe Biden on that question. 127 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: And until Democrats grapple with that and realize that and 128 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: can truly appreciate it, they are electorally doomed. The Democratic 129 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 1: Party will come back to power in America. But the 130 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:20,800 Speaker 1: answer to trump Ism is today what it has always been, 131 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:25,239 Speaker 1: which is that something better must be offered, and it wasn't. 132 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 1: And so now two weeks from today it will begin, 133 00:08:28,920 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 1: and here there will be no bowing. This is the warning. 134 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I invite 135 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: you to join. Subscribe on our substack on our YouTube 136 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:47,439 Speaker 1: channel follow us. Welcome to the community.