1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:04,520 Speaker 1: Eighty two days until the American people decide who sits 2 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:07,720 Speaker 1: behind the resolute desk in the Oval Office as the 3 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:12,360 Speaker 1: commander in chief of the most potent military in the 4 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:18,400 Speaker 1: history of the world. This is the warning. At this hour, 5 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 1: Ukrainian forces continue to advance into Kirsk in Russia. At 6 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:29,480 Speaker 1: this hour, carrier battle groups continue to move towards the 7 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 1: Middle East, awaiting an Iranian attack on Israel. Domestically, in 8 00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 1: the United States, Vice President Kamala Harris is ahead. If 9 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 1: the election were tomorrow, she would win. Donald Trump is decomposing, 10 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:49,559 Speaker 1: He is spiraling, and today he will talk about the 11 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 1: economy in North Carolina. But if his interview with Elon 12 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 1: Musk is a preview, there won't be much economic news. 13 00:00:58,560 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 1: What there will be is insanity, delusion, lying, nonsense, and 14 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: all sorts of attacks, some based in reality, some not 15 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 1: based in reality. Donald Trump has reached an inflection point. 16 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:20,040 Speaker 1: The madness is too obvious to ignore. The slurring that 17 00:01:20,080 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 1: the campaign tells us we did not hear is certainly there. 18 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: What's going on with the seventy eight year old Trump Mentally, 19 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 1: he seems to be cracking up. It's as if something 20 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: has broken inside of him. Again, the same part that 21 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: broke after he was defeated in November of twenty twenty 22 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 1: by President Biden. President Biden is not in this campaign anymore, 23 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 1: but Donald Trump can't stop talking about him. We're gonna 24 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 1: get Joe Biden out of the White House. Joe is bad. 25 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 1: Joe couldn't hear, He couldn't he could do anything. Joe 26 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:58,200 Speaker 1: Biden was exposed during the debate. Are you a communist? Joe? 27 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 1: I don't know. Are we dealing with Biden? Biden? Probably 28 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:03,880 Speaker 1: should get out? What do you like better? Does it 29 00:02:03,960 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: matter anymore? But what do you like better? Crooked Joe 30 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 1: or sleepy Joe. He doesn't seem to understand that the 31 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:13,800 Speaker 1: woman who is on the ballot is Kamala Harris, and 32 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:17,640 Speaker 1: he doesn't seem to appreciate the fact that everything he 33 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:21,480 Speaker 1: once said about President Biden seems to just be bouncing 34 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 1: right off of her. The good news for Donald Trump 35 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 1: is is that there's eighty days of beclowning left to 36 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:34,480 Speaker 1: go before his life sentence takes effect. Trump's not going 37 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:38,720 Speaker 1: to prison, but he's going to imprison his mar Lago members. 38 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 1: He's going to imprison them on the patio as he 39 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:48,240 Speaker 1: works the tables, President Norma Desmond, interminal decline for twenty years. 40 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 1: When he's one hundred and five and six, Trump will 41 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:54,440 Speaker 1: be sitting there at mar Lago working the tables, and it 42 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: will be the final few members. There will be no 43 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:03,079 Speaker 1: Presidential library. This man will fail in disgrace. And the 44 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 1: best part about what's coming next for Trump is this. 45 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:11,440 Speaker 1: All of these people who sold out everything, whose cynicism 46 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 1: is beyond description, Tom Cotton, Lindsey Graham, all of them, 47 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:21,639 Speaker 1: all of the people that made Trump possible, will pretend 48 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,680 Speaker 1: he never existed. They have no idea who he was, 49 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: that the ten years never happened. And the American people 50 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 1: will let them do it, because the American people hate 51 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: looking backwards. Our capacity as a people for amnesia is 52 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:44,520 Speaker 1: absolutely without challenge anywhere in the world. The Trump era 53 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:49,120 Speaker 1: will be forgotten, will fade away, will be a footnote, 54 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: an era of madness, and it won't be repeated. P. T. 55 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: Barnum became president at the dawn of the age, when 56 00:03:57,600 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 1: all human beings found their instantaneous connection. This communication revolution 57 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:08,640 Speaker 1: remains in its infancy, and when we look back on it, 58 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 1: or generations from now look back on it, they'll understand 59 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 1: that in the infancy of this technology, bizarre things happened. 60 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 1: It used to be if there was a stark, raving, 61 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:25,440 Speaker 1: mad political lunatic spouting Linden Laruche theories, for example, in 62 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 1: a supermarket parking lot, we didn't take that person seriously 63 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: as a community, as a state, as a county, as 64 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,040 Speaker 1: a country, however you wanted to look at it. It 65 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: was a disqualification. If you couldn't tell the truth, it 66 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:43,839 Speaker 1: was a disqualification. If you had no character, it was 67 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:48,160 Speaker 1: a disqualification. If during a global pandemic you told people 68 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: to inject bleach because you're an imbecile, it was a disqualification. 69 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:57,839 Speaker 1: But all of that in a moment was upended when 70 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:04,800 Speaker 1: we could all communicate instantly and be validated simultaneously. People 71 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: became disconnected, they became isolated, and they became lonely. Their 72 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:15,599 Speaker 1: phones became their lifelines. And the reality is the person 73 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 1: who exploited that cultural weakness more than any other person 74 00:05:21,880 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 1: to great effect was a demagogue out of Queens, New York, 75 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:30,279 Speaker 1: Donald John Trump, who was there all along. What this 76 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: era did was turn all of the media into the 77 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: New York City tabloids, and he was a maestro. But 78 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 1: it's all coming to an end because people get it. 79 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: They look at this and they see a circle going 80 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: round and round and round and down and down and 81 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 1: down into the drain. The United States is about to 82 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 1: be two hundred and fifty years old to monumental achievement. 83 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:03,159 Speaker 1: Can you imagine the astonishment of the founding fathers to 84 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 1: see a black woman as President of the United States 85 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:09,960 Speaker 1: and to learn that there's an American flag on the moon. 86 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:15,119 Speaker 1: The country has gone through many trials and tribulations, much 87 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 1: worse than Donald Trump. The country has faced down hate, 88 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 1: terrible racism, slavery. It has face down brutal ignorance. It 89 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 1: has faced down all these things because the United States 90 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:31,240 Speaker 1: is a government of the people, by the people, for 91 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 1: the people. And some of the people are terrible. Some 92 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:38,560 Speaker 1: of the terrible people, because terrible people get represented in 93 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 1: a democracy, also wind up in Congress, like Lauren Bobert, 94 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:47,520 Speaker 1: like Marjorie Taylor Greed, A bunch of loons and conspiracy 95 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: theorists have latched on to politics. These unfit people are 96 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: coming to the end of their rope. The pendulum is 97 00:06:55,560 --> 00:07:00,600 Speaker 1: swinging back towards normalcy after a decade of chaos. It's 98 00:07:00,640 --> 00:07:04,040 Speaker 1: a good thing. It's a healthy thing. America is living 99 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 1: through a moment of adjustment in an era of profound 100 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 1: change and transition. The event between Elon Musk and Donald 101 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 1: Trump is a farce. It's a joke. It's a type 102 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: of absurdist theater. It's not real. And both of these 103 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 1: narcissists do not care at all about anything aside from 104 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:31,840 Speaker 1: money and power and attention. What Donald Trump is in 105 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: this moment of transition is a philosopher of sorts. It's 106 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: a philosopher of youwism. We live in a time where 107 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,119 Speaker 1: a lot of people, a lot of people at the top, 108 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: deserve an fu. But an fu is an empty calorie. 109 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 1: It doesn't get you ahead. But when you're stagnant, when 110 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 1: you're treading water, stuck in the muck, feels good to 111 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:58,560 Speaker 1: say it sometimes. And a lot of people have set 112 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: it by pulling down the Trump lover. But they're still stuck. 113 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: Now they have something better to vote for, Kamala Harris, 114 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 1: And that's why the race has so completely changed. So 115 00:08:12,160 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: many people say that this is a surprise, it's not. 116 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: If you know how to read a poll, this is 117 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: exactly what was going to happen as Joe Biden got 118 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 1: out of the race. Because think of a spring that 119 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:27,000 Speaker 1: is being compressed or stepped on. When you step off 120 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: of it, up it goes. And when Joe Biden stepped 121 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: off that spring, it launched Kamala Harris. Because people want younger, 122 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:40,079 Speaker 1: they want smarter, they want better, they want a president 123 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:43,960 Speaker 1: for the twenty first century to deal with the challenges now. 124 00:08:44,160 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 1: And the Trump campaign is spinning, confused, lost, and most 125 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 1: importantly it's losing. We are on the eve of the 126 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 1: Democratic National Convention, and the MAGA movement in America is 127 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 1: dying this August of twenty twenty four. 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