Speaker 1: This is the warning I thought that I would say
Speaker 1: a few things as Donald Trump's incoherent, fascistic news conference
Speaker 1: continues to onferral. Standing on either side of him is
Speaker 1: the Attorney General of the United States, the galactically unfit
Speaker 1: Pam Bondi, really a Fox News television character actress who
Speaker 1: is boycotting that network because she went on and talked
Speaker 1: about the fact that she was reading the Epstein files
Speaker 1: and is now deeply implicated in the cover up of that.
Speaker 1: The movement of Gislaine Maxwell and Pam Baldendy will ultimately
Speaker 1: be a person deeply implicated with Pam Bondi and Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and the rest of them free with presidential pardon
Speaker 1: Gawaine Maxwell from federal custody. Standing next to Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is the inept and incompetent Secretary Area of Fence, the
Speaker 1: most unfit leader of the armed forces of the United
Speaker 1: States and the entire history of the country bar none.
Speaker 1: This is a man a company to work every day
Speaker 1: by his shadow, his third wife, his Jenny, the woman
Speaker 1: referred to by the Pentagon staff as Yoko Ono. Her
Speaker 1: soul responsibility besides outfitting the makeup room for Secretary Champagne
Speaker 1: Pete's frequent television appearances is to make sure the secretary's
Speaker 1: pants stay on lest the wives of the Navy captains
Speaker 1: on seed duty be in danger, and to make certain
Speaker 1: that the bottle stays away from Champagne Pete's thirsty lips.
Speaker 1: He is an incompetent that beggars description. Of course, the
Speaker 1: placement of classified information and war plan ends onto a
Speaker 1: signal chat. We see him every day, blustering, sneering, abusing
Speaker 1: his authority and position. What we see today is something
Speaker 1: deeply ominous, frankly terrifying, and let's unpack it. First. Washington,
Speaker 1: DC is the Federal district. It is not a state,
Speaker 1: It is not an American territory. The federal district was
Speaker 1: created by land donated from the states of Maryland and Virginia,
Speaker 1: and the federal capital was named for the father of
Speaker 1: the country, George Washington, who twice, when having the opportunity
Speaker 1: to be a king, walked away from power. The monument
Speaker 1: in the middle of the city commemorates George Washington, the
Speaker 1: father of the country. At the time of his death,
Speaker 1: he was eulogized as first in war, first in peace,
Speaker 1: first in the hearts of his countrymen. And when you
Speaker 1: look at the Washington Monument, you'll notice that there's a
Speaker 1: line of discoloration about a third of the way up
Speaker 1: and there The monument sat unfinished for almost twenty five
Speaker 1: years because the Pope had donated marble for its construction,
Speaker 1: along with the heads of states of many other nations.
Speaker 1: But the know nothings threw that marble into the Potomac
Speaker 1: River protesting against Irish immigration, protesting against German immigration, protesting
Speaker 1: against Catholic immigration. And that Catholic marble was thrown in
Speaker 1: to the Potomac. And the man that Champagne Pete has
Speaker 1: reinstalled on a marble pedestal, a middling Confederate general named
Speaker 1: Albert Pike, was a no nothing, an anti Catholic bigot.
Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth is a Christian nationalist. His crazed pastor, doing
Speaker 1: an interview on CNN in the last forty eight hours,
Speaker 1: doesn't believe women should have the right to vote. A
Speaker 1: real life handmade's tail character, a real life want to
Speaker 1: be commander. And so what we see here on Furrowing
Speaker 1: today is ominous. It's dangerous. This is the face of
Speaker 1: American fascism. And as was long predicted ago apocryphally attributed
Speaker 1: to Upton Saint Clair, that when fascism came to America,
Speaker 1: I would be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.
Speaker 1: And so today the American people are subjected to a
Speaker 1: level of lying that's on precedented, a level of concoction
Speaker 1: that is beyond belief, as Donald Trump talks about a
Speaker 1: crime apocalypse as a justification to militarize under federal authority
Speaker 1: the nation's capital to wipe out the slums. As he says, now,
Speaker 1: I he's the founding of the country and the founding
Speaker 1: father of the country. Because it's important to appreciate that
Speaker 1: when the city was built, the White House, which would
Speaker 1: one day be the home of the forty fourth President,
Speaker 1: a black man, capital of the United States, saved from
Speaker 1: destruction by terrorists in two thousand and one by ordinary
Speaker 1: Americans of all walks of life, gay and straight, black
Speaker 1: and white. It was built by slaves. It would be
Speaker 1: redeemed by men like Marian Luther King and John Lewis,
Speaker 1: and that slavery would be eradicated in a war of
Speaker 1: liberation against Southern slaveholders secessionists who these people venerate but
Speaker 1: tried to destroy the union, the Washington and Adams and
Speaker 1: Jefferson gave the country that imperfect union. And so today
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, in the two hundred and fiftieth
Speaker 1: anniversary year of the country, what we're witnessing peer is
Speaker 1: a clown pack Fox News characters, Jeanine Piro, Cash Bentel.
Speaker 1: The conspiracy here is Pam Bondi, pie Hegsa Cash Btel.
Speaker 1: And we see this all white cadre about to impose
Speaker 1: order without the will of the community, without the will
Speaker 1: of the people who live in Washington, d C. On
Speaker 1: the black majority. And that should be noted, they should
Speaker 1: be noted up front that we shouldn't dance around the
Speaker 1: racist overturns, the racist overtones, and the clear and loud
Speaker 1: usurpation of the rights of the people of Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: To have elected leaders that make decisions in their city instead,
Speaker 1: as Trump indicated, Washington, d C. Is about the beginning.
Speaker 1: And this will spread out all over the country. Everywhere
Speaker 1: there's a crime. Everywhere, something has has been happened that's
Speaker 1: an evil. Donald Trump will have a rationale to asserve
Speaker 1: more power as the cure over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: And what you're witnessing at this news conference today is
Speaker 1: a collection of some of the most dishonest public officials,
Speaker 1: unfit public officials that have ever been lining up to
Speaker 1: lie in the further into of the interests of the
Speaker 1: power of a single man. And so in this moment,
Speaker 1: when DC crime rates are down and dropping, Donald Trump
Speaker 1: has deployed the military. Donald Trump has told the American
Speaker 1: people the crime is so bad despite crime rates droppings,
Speaker 1: that he has to deploy the army to occupy the
Speaker 1: nation's capital, and that it's an urgent enough issue that
Speaker 1: soon it will be coming to a city near you.
Speaker 1: Led by Field Marshall, Pete Hegseat and Pam Bondi and
Speaker 1: Judge Janine and all the Fox detritus. What we are
Speaker 1: watching play out on international television on CNN. And if
Speaker 1: that's what you're watching, like I am with Pam Bondy
Speaker 1: Shining Cross as she's involved in building concentration camps where
Speaker 1: immigrant detainees are abused and tortured by personnel of the
Speaker 1: federal government of the United States on orders of some
Speaker 1: of the senior officials of the government. As Donald Trump said,
Speaker 1: you spit, we hit, foreshadowing that fascistic use of force,
Speaker 1: foreshadowing more abuses of power, foreshadowing his luss to unleash
Speaker 1: the violence of the state against people, any people, so
Speaker 1: long as it's in the name of Trump's control and authority.
Speaker 1: And so what a dangerous moment we have arrived at
Speaker 1: year before the middle of August, in the year twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. Now, in the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
Speaker 1: year of the United States of America, Washington, DC is
Speaker 1: to be an occupied city, a federalized city. The rights
Speaker 1: of the black majority have been stripped away, disenfranchised out
Speaker 1: of necessity for security. Seems interesting how that goes together.
Speaker 1: In order to be safe, the black majority of Washington
Speaker 1: must be less free. Doesn't seem quite right. As we
Speaker 1: approach that anniversary of doctor King's speech about a dream
Speaker 1: he had that seems to be regressing. But again, as
Speaker 1: he pointed out, the moral arc of the universe is long,
Speaker 1: and it bends towards justice, which means in that long arc,
Speaker 1: in that bend, there any long, flat sessions that can
Speaker 1: cast off a mirage that show regression, when in fact
Speaker 1: what they indicate is the necessity for fighting and struggling
Speaker 1: to maintain the trajectory of that arc. But let's be clear,
Speaker 1: what is being seen today is about one thing, power,
Speaker 1: and there's a proposition that we're watching play out. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's policies are rejected by a clear majority of Americans,
Speaker 1: and yet Trump, through his aggressive maximalism, grows more powerful
Speaker 1: by the hour as he grows less popular by the day,
Speaker 1: and the Democratic Party maintains a flat line of weakness
Speaker 1: in the face of aggressions that cannot be tolerated in countenance.
Speaker 1: There must be a react hink this that is beyond
Speaker 1: an appearance by Democratic leaders members of Congress on MSNBC.
Speaker 1: There must be a meeting of governors. There must be
Speaker 1: a caucus of political leaders to announce in a compact
Speaker 1: that they will not stand for a rising federal tyranny
Speaker 1: under the dictatorship of Donald Trump and his cabinet of
Speaker 1: loons and losers, of conspiracy, dranks, cranks, nutjobs, and liars.
Speaker 1: The goons assembled to announce what effectively is martial law
Speaker 1: as a distraction to the scandal that draws effort nearer
Speaker 1: his friendship with the most notorious child sex traffic or
Speaker 1: pedophile of the twenty first century, and his right hand,
Speaker 1: his accomplice Gislaying Maxwell. There's a lot of movie plots
Speaker 1: that ponder what would happen if a terrorist had a
Speaker 1: nuclear weapon and they could blackmail the president. It seems
Speaker 1: like on any given day these days that Gislaine Maxwell
Speaker 1: is a person who has a nuclear weapon of sorts
Speaker 1: and a relationship with the President, who gets to use
Speaker 1: powers in an announcement of a sea of white faces
Speaker 1: to impose control and order on the black people of Washington, DC,
Speaker 1: in the name of the security of as Homeland Security
Speaker 1: puts it. Our culture, and what culture might that be?
Speaker 1: The culture that venerates the Confederate General, the Confederate cause,
Speaker 1: that venerated the cause of racial domination and supremacy. Here
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, those values, those things are ascended,
Speaker 1: and what's descending down on all of us is the
Speaker 1: black curtain of fascism. Trump's heavy hand is everywhere in
Speaker 1: the economy, me in your business. It's there to punish,
Speaker 1: to seek retribution. There is to be noice sent just
Speaker 1: sick a fancy, just the gleamy eyed zealotry of the people.
Speaker 1: Like Pam Bondy with her shiny little cross upon her chest,
Speaker 1: standing next to Pete Hegseth, a certifiable whack job on
Speaker 1: national television announcing against all of the statistics and all
Speaker 1: of the facts, the necessity to an essence militarily occupied Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. As the test case. It's the test case
Speaker 1: to clean up the slums and get rid of the homeless.
Speaker 1: And I wonder, just wonder with what he is Pete
Speaker 1: Hagseth would give the order to line up some of
Speaker 1: those homeless against the wall or the Pam BONDI would
Speaker 1: or cash ptel because what you're seeing today is a
Speaker 1: gathering of little likements from the White House soon to
Speaker 1: be desecrated by the ballroom for the man who just
Speaker 1: with the stroke of a pen disenfranchised hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of Americans, took away their vote, took away their rights,
Speaker 1: and occupied their city while calling them criminals. Welcome to
Speaker 1: Trump's America, the America where the law is what Judge
Speaker 1: Genine from Fox News says it is. It is a
Speaker 1: most appalling moment. This is the warning.
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