Speaker 1: You know, I hope that we can all acknowledge that
Trump's performance in Davos it's political suicide for the GOP,
from his threats of using force to invade Greenland to
his phony board of Peace MAGA, They're losing all credibility.
And as much as I like to come on here
and to expose Trump's craziness, I only have so much
power and influence. And as we gear up for the
midterm elections, Democrats, we Democrats must step to the plate.
California Governor Gavin Newsom, well, he too was in Davos
this week, and just wait until you hear what he
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the news. So Gavin Newsom revealed that he was supposed
to speak at the USA House after Trump's speech yesterday,
but the event was canceled. Why well play the clip.
Speaker 2: I was going to speak last night. It was a
well established event at the USA House, simple conversation, discussion
after Trump's speech. They made sure that I didn't. They
made sure it was canceled. And that's what's happening in
the United States America. Freedom expression, freedom assembly, freedom of speech.
It's American reverse their sensory historical facts. They're rewriting history,
their sensoring books. Four thousand, three hundred and forty books,
libraries and in schools banned in the United States of America.
You're watching institutions, any institution of independent thinking is under
assaultant attack by the Trump administration. You're seeing what's playing
out in the streets of American cities. What played out
in California, the second largest city in the United States
of America, four thousand National Guard were federalized. Seven hundred
active duty Marines were not sent overseas that were sent
to my largest city in the state of California. Masked
men guy Greg Bovino dressed up as if he literally
went on eBay and purchased ss GARB Greg Bravino, Secret Police,
Private Army, mass men. People disappearing quite literally no due process,
windows being smashed, seatbelts on being literally just sort of
cut off, people dragged in the streets, kids separated from family,
knocking on doors racially.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me be crystal clear on something right there.
You're seeing, in my opinion, the Democratic front runner for
the next presidential election. You know, a lot of people
love him, some people dislike him. Some people friends of
mine from California, they don't like him at all. And
I said why, And by the way, they happen to
be Democrats, they don't. There's nothing more powerful than the
way this man lays things out, crystal clear, plain and simple.
Newsom also goes on and he explained how Trump's corruption
is at his scale that we have never seen before anywhere,
at any time. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: These guys are going to try to take me down,
not just my state. I'm not naive about what I've
said this morning and how that will be reflected in
the official White House account. I'm not naive about the
fact that he threatened to prosecute the FED chief in
the United States of America, who's literally going after his
enemies with the FBI and the DOJ and these power ministries.
I'm not naive about any of this. I'm not naive
about the corruption and the graft at scale we've never
seen in American history. I'm not naive about folks writing
billion dollar checks to Wick Cough to Jared Kushner for
this new piece deal they're announcing today. I'm not naive
about the fact that President United States made a billion
and a half plus dollars in the last twelve months. Personally,
How are the hell are we putting up with this?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's look, as I said, he raises points that
everybody is thinking, but he's the one that's saying it
out loud. We all need to actually just call out
the corruption where corruption, where corruption exists. In fact, that's
not being partisan, that's being American. That's expecting that the
process needs to be fair, it needs to be it
needs to be judicial, and it needs to be it
needs to be lawful. You know, I wrote in my
substack of today, which I called never Again. From Bohnia
to Minneapolis, there are a lot of comparisons in terms
of what's going on right now in Minneapolis that, as
I explain to my substack, as a Jew and the
son of a Holocaust survivor, I carry with me the
echoes of the stories that my father told about the
day that the Nazis came to his town of Bognia, Poland,
and I can still hear them as if they were
whispered yesterday, with boots pounding on the cobblestone streets, Doors
kicked in without warning, Families ripped apart in seconds, people
dragged from their homes, beaten in front of neighbors, killed
or resettled for the unforgivable crime of being Jewish. There
was no due process, There was no mercy, just power
exercise with cruelty and indifference. You know, as I grew older,
I tried to understand, not just emotionally but intellectually, how
a civilized society could descend into such barbarism. I took
classes in college on the film and literature of World
War Two, believing that knowledge was the strongest guardrail against repetition.
The images seared themselves into my soul, where you have
young and old men and women shoved to the ground, faces, bloody,
dignity stripped away. And what haunted me, What haunted me
most were not only the victims, but the smiles, the smiles,
the chilling, casual smiles of the Nazi officers asserting dominance
over helpless human beings. Evil, I learned, does not always scream.
Sometimes it grins. And I believe, like so many others,
that by remembering, by educating ourselves, by vowing never again,
that we on a line in history that would never
be crossed. And yet today, as we all watch what's
unfolding in Mineapolis, right here in the United States of America,
I feel, I personally feel that line eroding beneath our feet.
And what have they done? They have replaced the villain,
the victim, the Jewish people with undocumented immigrants. As I
read to you that from my sub stack, were you
not thinking to yourself, holy crap, this is like what's
going on right now in Minneapolis? Well, Newsom, he didn't
stop there. He also spoke about how Trump has literally
taken over the entire Republican Party and he's also sinking
that ship. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: We can read He's an invasive species Donald Trump, He's not.
He is. He took over the Republican Party. Just I mean,
he's got you know, a few of them. Lindsey Graham,
I mean my head speaking of the kneepads. I'm sorry,
this is tough stuff. It's tough stuff. I don't recognize
these people any longer. I used to respect Lindsay. I mean, Lindsey,
you think what I'm saying about Trump's tough. How about
what Lindsey Graham said about Trump? How about the Secretary
of State Marco Rubio? Do you think this is These
are the same people, and this is why we for
things to change, We need to change. You think that's
why I'm changing my approach, And again I'm gratefully altered. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Let me also be clear. The one who I think
said the absolute worst thing is the Vice President of
the United States when he called Trump America's hitler. You know, again,
in the article, I turned around and I say, when
Democratic Representative Angie Craig says that what is happening certainly
reminds her of the many images that she saw in
the nineteen thirties in Germany. She's not exaggerating, she's warning us,
and so is Gavin Newsom, because history does not repeat
itself word for word. It changes accents, uniforms, and justifications.
But the pattern, the pattern, my friends, is unmistakable. Dehumanize
a group, label them a threat, loosen the restraints of law,
and unleashed force in the name of order. That's exactly
what Gavin Newsom is bringing up now. After Trump's speech yesterday,
Caitlin Collins Well, she asked for Newsom's thoughts. Play the clip, Well.
Speaker 2: Non plus, did it stand out to you that he
said Iceland multiple times?
Speaker 3: An't you just talking about Greenland? You know?
Speaker 4: And that every time a windmill turns a cost one
thousand dollars and a lot of stuff stands out.
Speaker 3: None of this is normalized.
Speaker 4: There's a normalization of deviancy of consciousness and you know,
comments and commentary.
Speaker 3: Other brother, he's held to the curve. He's greater on
a curve.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a really some job dropping and remarkable
statements that just you know, fly in the face of facts.
Speaker 3: An evidence of common sense. So, but they're so. You've
heard them over and over and over again again.
Speaker 4: For the European audience that may have a new speech,
By god, there wasn't anything new about that speech.
Speaker 3: For the American audience.
Speaker 4: The only thing that was new is he said he's
willing to negotiate. But wait a second, that's not new either,
because he has been saying we've wanted to negotiate for
every year.
Speaker 1: You criticize what an incredible way that Gavin Newsom handled
that question by Caatelin. Think about it. What you really
wanted to talk about was Gavin Newsom's belief on Trump's cognition.
And he didn't take de bait no, because that while
it was a mistake, an acknowledged mistakes several times, not once,
but like four times. Okay, okay, but that's not the
part that Gavin Newsom wanted to concentrate on. It's the
other aspects which actually made the statement by Newsom more legitimate,
more hard hitting. And Newsom also had a message for
our allies. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: It's time to stand tall and firm, have a backbone.
I can't take this complicity people rolling over. I mean
it's just pathetic, and I hope people understand how pathetic
they look on the world stage. I mean, at least
from an American perspective, it's embarrassing. The European should decide
for themselves what to do. But one thing they can't
do is what they've been doing. And they've been playing.
So this guy's been playing folks for fools. They need
to stand tall, stand firm, stand united. This guy's a
wrecking ball. I hope people are waking up to what
we're dealing with. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Let me also just turn around and say, if hypothetically
Kevin Newsom becomes the next president of the United States,
imagine the bulk of the people that were on that
stage are going to have to explain to him exactly
what they're doing today. Now, one thing Newsome definitely knows,
that's how to troll Trump, and he did so as well,
not just here in the United States, but in Davos.
Speaker 5: Played the clip you know you you know, you're you're
running around distributing kneepads to CEOs, And I think it
does and it do have a few if you'd like,
And honestly, it sounds.
Speaker 2: By the way, I'm not kidding. They're the new Trumps
signature serious pads. Yeah, and they are available online. I
told you the last one sold out. Uh and uh
and I just want to a serious moment it actually
we laugh. Uh. Anyway, these are available and in bulk too.
Speaker 5: But I want, I want to read you a couple
of things the US.
Speaker 1: So funny is that imagine you're bringing props to Davos
knee pads for obvious reasons. But I'll tell you. I
do want to end on a clip of Newsom discussing
the way that the Trump administration rolls him.
Speaker 2: Played the clip and in bulk too.
Speaker 5: But I want, I want to read you a couple
of things the US government has said about you in
the last twenty four.
Speaker 2: Hours or so.
Speaker 5: The Treasure the US government, the Treasury Secretary put it in.
The Treasury Secretary described you as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle
beach Ken. The White House Communications director called was this?
Speaker 2: That was the US Secretary of Treasure.
Speaker 5: I have a couple more and then and then you
can respond. The White House Communications respect director called you
Gavin Nouskum and a and an official White House account,
you know, a federal government account described you with a
i'd say, very online sexual slur that people here probably
don't want to hear aday thirty in the morning, and
you're in some sense responding in kind, and we can't
do you think should you? I mean, is is that
kind of discourse from you, from them good for America?
Speaker 2: Oh, it's deeply unbecoming. Come on, of course it is.
It's not what we should be doing. But you've got
to point out the absurdity. You got to put a
mirror up to this. This is madness. President. You see
what he saying about European leaders. You talking down to people,
talking past people. I mean, look the comments he made yesterday.
We're not even discussing because you're discussing all the other
comments about windmills or whatever else that's happening. Well, he
talked about Somalia's community. This is not normal, the deviation
of normalcy. We've got to call it out. So I
put a mirror up to Trump and Trump as in
all caps.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let me be clear. It reminds me of mean tweets,
which was something that I participated when I was on
Comedy Central. Charlemagne the God people always have something mean
to say about you, always, But In the end, I
really do believe that Gavin Newsom will ultimately be the
Democratic nominee, and I don't really see anybody on the
other side that's stronger and better for the job than he.
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