1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,480 Speaker 1: But the fact of the matter is is that Samuel 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: Alito doesn't care what your opinion is. He doesn't care 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:11,800 Speaker 1: what ethics dictate. He doesn't care about probity and rectitude 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:16,159 Speaker 1: as qualities. But he cares about his grievance. And his 5 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:21,920 Speaker 1: arrogance insulates him utterly from any shame about the abdication 6 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,880 Speaker 1: of his The issue at hand is an appeasement issue. 7 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 1: What Samuel Alito is saying is I can do anything 8 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:31,840 Speaker 1: I want and you can't stop me. He is at 9 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: the tip of a new spear pointed at the hearts 10 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:39,840 Speaker 1: of American democracy. It is laced with arrogance. It says 11 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 1: you cannot stop us, You cannot stop me. One hundred 12 00:00:43,479 --> 00:00:46,840 Speaker 1: and sixty six days remain. It is May twenty third, 13 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: and this is the warning. Another Alito flag, Another Thursday 14 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:59,480 Speaker 1: in Maga America. Nearly twenty years have passed since John 15 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: Roberts in a Senate confirmation hearing, being questioned as he 16 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,759 Speaker 1: was being considered to become Chief Justice of the United States. 17 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: During that hearing, John Roberts talked eloquently about the rule 18 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: of law, and he talked about its importance as being 19 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: fundamental to democracy and its sustainment. He made the point 20 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:26,039 Speaker 1: that the Soviet Constitution inherently had all the same rights 21 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 1: that were contained in the American Constitution, but there was 22 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,399 Speaker 1: no tradition of a rule of law. There was no 23 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:41,199 Speaker 1: independent judiciary to sustain freedom because they could contain despotism 24 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 1: through the supremacy of the rule of law. 25 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 2: The difference between our system and our constitution and the 26 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 2: Soviet Constitution that President Reagan used to talk about it 27 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 2: has wonderful rights in it, too, they didn't mean a 28 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 2: thing because there was not an independent Supreme Court, an 29 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 2: independent judiciary to enforce those rights. We do have that, 30 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 2: and that's the reason that we have been able to 31 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:10,119 Speaker 2: make progress in the area of rights and not had 32 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 2: just empty paper promises. 33 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: Now we'll talk about Samuel Alito in just a second, 34 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: but the issue at hand is not Samuel Alito's disgrace. 35 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 1: It is the Chief Justice's appeasement of the sedition that 36 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:29,119 Speaker 1: has been openly embraced by both Clarence Thomas and Justice Alito, 37 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: that has decimated the credibility of the United States Supreme Court. 38 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: That is now the defining legacy of the Roberts Court. 39 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: It is the collapse of trust and the illegitimacy of 40 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 1: the court in the eyes of multitudes of millions of Americans. 41 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: And this has occurred through small appeasements and large appeasements, 42 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,919 Speaker 1: and they have led to a moment of crisis. There 43 00:02:57,040 --> 00:03:01,880 Speaker 1: is no simbol that is more powerful, potent, more unifying 44 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:06,639 Speaker 1: than the American flag. There are traditions around the American flag. 45 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 1: The American flag is never lowered or dipped towards a 46 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: person another nation. There have always been messages and meanings 47 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:20,720 Speaker 1: in the American flag, whether it is that don't tread 48 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 1: on me, Gadsden flag, another revolutionary flag, the first naval 49 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:29,880 Speaker 1: flag of the United States, or dozens of others. The 50 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 1: meaning of the flags is always about defiance and they 51 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 1: link back to the cause of freedom. Now there is 52 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:43,360 Speaker 1: a symbol of oppression that is home grown in the 53 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:47,480 Speaker 1: United States. It's this flag, the Confederate flag. Perhaps the 54 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: greatest disgrace of January sixth was not that the insurrectionists 55 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 1: shat on the floor of the United States Senate and 56 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: House of Representatives while urinating on the world. It was 57 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:04,360 Speaker 1: that this flag was carried through the rotunda of the 58 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:08,000 Speaker 1: United States Capitol Building, this flag of evil and hate 59 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: and slavery finally breached the United States capital one hundred 60 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: and fifty eight years after the Battle of Gettysburg. It 61 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:20,920 Speaker 1: made it and was paraded under the dome that Abraham 62 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,840 Speaker 1: Lincoln insisted be constructed during the height of Civil War 63 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:30,160 Speaker 1: because upon victory, government of the people, by the people 64 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 1: for the people would need a place under which to reconsecrate. 65 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 1: He talked about this at the Gettysburg address. He talked 66 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:43,240 Speaker 1: about that the Union would not perish from this earth. 67 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 1: He talked about it that it could survive this fragile experiment. Now, 68 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 1: when Martin Luther came came to the Lincoln Memorial in 69 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:59,159 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three, he marched under the banner of the 70 00:04:59,200 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 1: American flag. It was the symbol of the Civil rights movement, 71 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:08,039 Speaker 1: the American flag, the symbol of Jim Crow. Was the 72 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:12,679 Speaker 1: Confederate flag, the flag of the people who beat John 73 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 1: Lewis and bloodied old ladies and children and teenagers on 74 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: the Edmund Pettis Bridge is the Confederate flag. And the 75 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:25,920 Speaker 1: Confederate flag has always had adjacent flags. Everybody knows what 76 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,480 Speaker 1: it's like to have something stolen from them. Things get 77 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 1: stolen and taken all the time. MAGA fundamentally is a 78 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:40,280 Speaker 1: philosophy of capricious taking. And one of the things that 79 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:45,840 Speaker 1: MAGA does that Trump understands instinctially is how to take. 80 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:52,360 Speaker 1: And his movement has taken symbols, powerful meaningful symbols, and 81 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 1: corrupted them, repurposed them, reassign them. There is no symbol 82 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 1: except for the American flag itself that cannot be co opted, in, stolen, 83 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: and repurposed, because there is an absence of knowledge about 84 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 1: the meaning of these potent symbols. And so when Samuel 85 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 1: Alito flew an inverted American flag above his own, it 86 00:06:19,839 --> 00:06:24,719 Speaker 1: was a declaration of support for the action around which 87 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:29,480 Speaker 1: millions of flags around the country were flown in inverted 88 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:34,279 Speaker 1: sympathy with which was the assault on the peaceful transition 89 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: of power, sustained by a thousand lies told by an 90 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:45,480 Speaker 1: American president who assaulted the cornerstone of the country's existence, 91 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 1: which is the peaceful transition of power. After the American 92 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 1: people decide who will be assigned lawful authority to execute 93 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 1: the laws, after an election process has played out fairly 94 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:04,480 Speaker 1: and all of the votes have been counted, Samuel Alito 95 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 1: flew a flag of sedition of violence that is the 96 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: plain meaning in January of twenty twenty one, when he 97 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: desecrated his oath, his duty, his responsibility to the country 98 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:25,080 Speaker 1: by making common cause with a new confederacy, a resurch 99 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: in fascism, and making a declaration of partisanship that defiles 100 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: the concepts of judicial independence. It is shameful, it is awful, 101 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: but it gets worse. Now it has been discovered that 102 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:45,680 Speaker 1: at the Jersey Shore another flag has risen above an 103 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:50,000 Speaker 1: Alito household. When the first flag was discovered, among the 104 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:56,119 Speaker 1: concoctions of excuses, one was that somehow the neighboring lawn 105 00:07:56,200 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 1: sign that instigated Missus Alito to fly the inverted flag. 106 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 1: According to the Alitos, was because of her protective instinct 107 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 1: around the children who were at a bus stop coming 108 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 1: home from school, except for there were no buses and 109 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: there were no children getting off of them in the 110 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:20,040 Speaker 1: middle of covid in January in Alexandria, Virginia, so they're 111 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:23,400 Speaker 1: caught lying. What will the lie be around this? This 112 00:08:23,600 --> 00:08:27,560 Speaker 1: is the appeal to Heaven flag, the pine tree, a 113 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 1: potent symbol in the Revolutionary war. Now there are no 114 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 1: surviving original Appeal to Heaven flags. They don't exist in 115 00:08:36,640 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 1: private collections, but we know and remember what they look 116 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 1: like and what they mean. They were a maritime flag. 117 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: Also here it is flying above Alito's home. He has 118 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:53,440 Speaker 1: removed the American flag from the singular position it should 119 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: occupy at the top of the mast. The American flag 120 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,839 Speaker 1: that should be there has been pulled down. I have 121 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:03,680 Speaker 1: a mass to fly flags like that in front of 122 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,800 Speaker 1: your home. You should understand the basic protocols, of course, 123 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 1: and Alito does. It is a purposeful action. Now is 124 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: Samuel Alito a historian of maritime flags and the US 125 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 1: Revolution or is he an extremist political partisan making a statement? 126 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: And of course it is the latter, And the statement 127 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 1: he is making amplifies the statement he has already made, 128 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: which is that I stand with Maga, I stand with Trump. 129 00:09:34,520 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: I am part of a cause. And this is a 130 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:42,959 Speaker 1: desecrative act of the highest magnitude in the United States 131 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: of America, when applied against the commitment any justice should 132 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: have towards the rule of law from the bench of 133 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 1: the nation's High Court. Appalling doesn't begin to describe it. 134 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:58,520 Speaker 1: The fact of the matter is is that Samuel Alito 135 00:09:58,600 --> 00:10:02,199 Speaker 1: doesn't care what you opinion. Is he doesn't care what 136 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 1: ethics dictate. He doesn't care about probity and rectitude as qualities. 137 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:14,280 Speaker 1: Where he cares about his grievance, and his arrogance insulates 138 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 1: him utterly from any shame about the abdication of his 139 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: The issue at hand is an appeasement issue. It is 140 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:28,200 Speaker 1: Chief Justice Roberts who requires some steel in his spine. 141 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 1: At long last, this behavior cannot be abided because the 142 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:37,079 Speaker 1: Supreme Court has lost its legitimacy. It has lost his 143 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:47,479 Speaker 1: legitimacy primarily because of the corruption, incandescent intellectual moral corruption 144 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 1: of two men, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. The Alito 145 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: Court and the Thomas Court and the Roberts Court are 146 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:04,160 Speaker 1: all the same thing of the lowest common denominator of 147 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 1: political insanity. Of a wanton frontal assault on the reputation 148 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:15,040 Speaker 1: of the Court is as despicable as the assault itself. 149 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 1: The absence of heart in defense of a vital institution 150 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 1: is tragic. And John Roberts promised when he was being 151 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 1: confirmed to defend the integrity of the institution. This is 152 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:38,200 Speaker 1: a moment of national defilement. Each day, in some wretched manner, 153 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:45,360 Speaker 1: the Maga cause defiles through acts of demagoguery big and small, 154 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: through shameless panderings and dishonesty, through a rhetoric of division, 155 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 1: a tolerance for hate and extremism, a terrible malevolence has arisen, 156 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 1: promising retribution, promising revenge, promising punishment for dissent, for speech, 157 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:10,080 Speaker 1: for opposition to cruelty. All of this has come to 158 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:15,200 Speaker 1: pass because the people who should have stepped up and 159 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: stood up, backed up and sat down and laid down 160 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 1: and let themselves be rolled over. Americans are a brave 161 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: people and a fundamental proposition has been laid out. What 162 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 1: Samuel Alito is saying is I can do anything I 163 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 1: want and you can't stop me. He is at the 164 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 1: tip of a new spear pointed at the hearts of 165 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:45,960 Speaker 1: American democracy. It is laced with arrogance. It says, you 166 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 1: cannot stop us, you cannot stop me. What Samuel Alito 167 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:54,000 Speaker 1: has done is make assertions. And his assertion is I'm 168 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 1: not a Justice of the United States Supreme Court anymore. 169 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 1: I'm a revolutionary in a rogue who will strike for 170 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 1: that cause within within the United States Supreme Court. And 171 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:12,319 Speaker 1: the Chief Justice isn't tough enough, isn't strong enough, isn't 172 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:16,559 Speaker 1: dedicated enough, isn't committed enough to put a stop to it, 173 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: and neither apparently are the other justices. Comedy, friendliness, collaboration 174 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:28,720 Speaker 1: should not supersede patriotism when the integrity of the court 175 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:33,199 Speaker 1: is under direct assault and its legitimacy is in tatters 176 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:37,240 Speaker 1: and burning. As we speak, sedition is in the air, 177 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:42,079 Speaker 1: literally over Samuel Alito's house. You kill The heaven flag 178 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:45,440 Speaker 1: flying as it is at the top of the mast 179 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 1: isn't an icon of the Revolutionary War, but rather a 180 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:53,080 Speaker 1: symbol of I love Trump. That's what it means, That's 181 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:56,520 Speaker 1: what it asserts. It is a declaration for MAGA, a 182 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 1: declaration for the January sixth insurrectionists. It is an assertion 183 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 1: that the twenty twenty election, which was the fairest and 184 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 1: most honest and cleanest in American history, was stolen. It 185 00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:16,120 Speaker 1: is a promise made but not yet kept, that millions 186 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:21,560 Speaker 1: of black votes will not be counted next time. Though 187 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:25,960 Speaker 1: the attempt was close, it was not successful. Last time. 188 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,320 Speaker 1: Justice Alito was saying, trust me, we'll take care of it. 189 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: It is a level of judicial wretchedness and disgrace unprecedented 190 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 1: in the modern history of the United states. I'm Steve Schmidt. 191 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 1: This is the warning and I invite you to join. 192 00:14:44,120 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 1: Subscribe on our sub stack, on our YouTube channel, follow us. 193 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:51,200 Speaker 1: Welcome to the community.