Trump and Vance Want To Take Away Your Rights

My friends, you are being lied to non-stop around the clock

You are being fed a diet of dangerous nonsense that will light the world on fire

We have, in this country, lost touch with our history, with the events of the 20th century

that almost pulled the world into an abyss from which it would not have recovered

We, had we been born or survived at all, would be slaves

That is how close the darkness came. This is the warning. These are historic days

Men are trying to take power, and with it, your rights to speech, to conscience

The ideas of liberty that are foundational to America have lit and inspired people all over the world

These ideas are worth fighting for. And one million Americans over the last 250 years gave their lives to defend not deals, not real estate transactions, but values

The ephemeral freedom, the notion that all men are created equal and endowed by a creator with inalienable rights that include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

And it is this idea that has inspired free people around the world

Free people fight for their freedom. And the United States has always stood on the side of freedom

It has stood on the side of the men and women around the world who have raised up a fist and said no

Until very recently. Until the appalling, shameful, and embarrassing scene in the Oval Office

John Kennedy talked about assembling a cabinet of excellence. Talked about assembling a cabinet of character and purpose

and dedication. Donald Trump has assembled a freak show. Let's take a look at the shyster

who is the Commerce Secretary, the billionaire Howard Lucknick, who has dined out on the 9-11

tragedy for 25 years, trying to mask his scumbaggery with acts of what he calls empathy

The truth is, he is an immoral man. And now, he is one of the faces of the U.S. government

He is unworthy to say the name Zelensky out loud. But listen to this man

Listen to him denigrate Ukraine. Listen to him parrot Putin's propaganda. Appreciate his ignorance

What a lightweight he is There he sits next to Wolf Blitzer spewing utter nonsense incapable of understanding the reason there is war in Ukraine is that Ukraine has been invaded by a tyrant and a dictator that

has killed their people, has raped women, has raped girls, has raped old ladies, and has kidnapped

have children. And Howard Lucknick sits there and says that the impediment to peace is the invaded

people who have picked up rifles and fought back and killed the Russian savage. It is an extraordinary

moment to watch this buffoon who was incredibly, just weeks ago, given power with democratic votes

Let's watch the immorality. We love America. We appreciate America. You know, we want you by our side. And if you think we should have peace, we should have peace. Right. But instead, he said, I want 300 billion in reparations from Russia. I want them off my land. I want all the land, really all the land and reparations and security guarantees

The answer was, it's just way too far. That's not a peacemaker

That's a troublemaker. And that's what the president saw. And he took it for 40 minutes before and 45 minutes in front of the camera

And then it was just enough already. Enough. Enough is enough is about right

J.D. Vance is crazy. J.D. Vance has decided because he is a Peter Thiel disciple, a wacko, that the threat to Western civilization is not the Russian ballistic missile raining down on European men and children

No, it's the enforcement of laws in Germany that say we won't tolerate speech by Nazis

That we're not allowed to debate ideas, that we're not allowed to discuss things, that we have to silence people, censor them, throw them in jail for silently praying outside of an abortion clinic

These ideas are going to destroy Western civilization. They're going to destroy Europe and they would destroy the United States of America if we allowed them to fester

Thank God we have a president now who believes in free speech. But the danger is still there

The danger is there in Europe. The danger is there in the United States of America

we have to ask ourselves the questions as leaders. Are we willing to defend people

even if we disagree with what they say? Personally, I think European speech laws

are restrictive. I don't like them. I don't support them. I believe in the First Amendment

and I think every free society should have a First Amendment. But every free society is not

the United States of America alone, and each free society must be free to make the decisions

about how they regulate the most offensive and hateful type of speech that within the lifetime

of 80 years burned down their cities and killed in excess around the world 80 million people Though that simple fact has been forgotten by MAGA though it has never been learned by J Vance it has not been unlearned by the Europeans who remember the starvation who remember the

Holocaust, who remember the rise through democratic elections of the greatest evil and virulence in

world history. They remember J.D. Vance thinks and serves a cause that believes and holds that

Germany and France, yes, this is what Viktor Orban has said, are part of old Europe, postmodern

Europe. What Orban has said is mongrelized Europe. Europe now, Orban says, is Central Europe

and Europe is values, it's civilization, specifically white civilization. This is what

yokes Orban to Hitler, and it explains the affinity of all of these people for Vladimir Putin

the world's most powerful fascist. So powerful indeed that he can bend to his will the most

powerful man in the world, the President of the United States, who he has turned into a yellow

striped belly crawler who debased the United States, the Presidency of the United States

and the Oval Office with an act of submission and weakness and surrender that is unprecedented

in the entire history of the United States. These are low days. Tonight, Donald Trump

the head of the Article 2 branch of government, the executive, a man who sent a mob to storm and

attack and piss on the floors and shit on the floors of the Article I branch of government

will again breach the doors and come to desecrate the place with venomous words of division

lies, lies, and more lies which he will spew forth. What should Democrats do? Some Democrats

say the thing to do tonight is to dress up wearing different colors. Some say they should wear black

Others, pink. Some say the thing to do is wear white. Some say they should bring placards and degrade the Congress in the same manner that Trump degrades it

Because, of course, degradation is a contest they can win against Donald Trump

What Democrats should do is sit in silence. This man who is attacking and savaging the government

This man who is assaulting the Atlantic Alliance. alliance this man who is breaking the law does not deserve respect stay seated as he walks in

when he starts parroting the russian propaganda lies silently stand up one by one and walk out

let it start one and then the next and the next and let the trickle turn into a line and into a

flood of people leaving and walking out here is the thing my friends whether it is for europe leaders or Democratic politicians what Donald Trump needs what Donald Trump craves is to be at the center of things

Walking out on him moves the center. It pushes him to the periphery

When the Europeans meet in London and there is no Trump and they act, Trump moves to the periphery

Handing Trump, like Sir Keir did, a golden ticket from King Charles like it's a Willy Wonka candy gram is the wrong thing to do

The wrong thing to do is to appease Trump. The right thing to do is to do what this man is doing, Doug Ford, who, amazingly, is undercovered and unseen in the United States

despite the fact he is the only leader in the world who has been elected since Donald Trump's inauguration

explicitly, clearly, and directly on a platform that says, trust me, I won't back down. I'll stand up for you. I'll fight Trump

And fight Doug Ford will. Doug Ford at this hour is fighting for my American values

Doug Ford at this hour is fighting for your values. our country's ideas and ideals by being tough, by being steely, and being defiant against an

unwarranted economic attack by the most powerful economy in the world against our neighbor

our best friend and ally, with which we share the longest undefended border in world history

This is what Donald Trump is attacking. He is pouring acid on the bonds of friendship

The combined face of people who have bled together, fought together, saved the world together

Canadians landed on Juneau Beach. They were shoulder to shoulder with Americans on D-Day

And Donald Trump has no goddamn right to do what he is doing

Shame on him and shame on any American who stands with that bully and his despotism in this hour of assault and degradation against all of the things that we have long held true and have even longer claimed to believe and commit ourselves to saying that we would never allow what is happening to happen

And yet it happens on our watch, this generation of American citizens who sit and see and must believe that Elon Musk is this

Donald Trump serves an evil cause. See it clearly. This man that comes into the Congress tonight comes as an invader of our values and ideas

He is a most despicable man. This is The Morning. I'm Steve Schmidt

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