Florida Governor Ron de Santis has issued a campaign promise or a threat. I guess it depends on how you look at it. He promised that on day one, when he becomes the president, he'll start slitting throats. You heard it correctly, Florida Governor Ron de Santis is running for president to slit throats. I guess my response to that
is lighting up Francis. The simple truth is American politics is profoundly broken, and the evidence of that is the Florida governor who isn't home in his state tending to the massive leprosy outbreak, but instead threatening to slit the throats of American citizens in forty nine other states. That puts him a good stead against Donald Trump, who is promising his campaign will be a force of retribution and revenge.
Donald Trump promises to smite all of his enemies, the people that have held him to account, the criminal justice system. In fact, every American that opposes Donald Trump, according to Donald Trump, is a threat, is a member of the deep state, and therefore deserves political punishment, revenge imposed on them,
and just retribution from the MAGA extremists. Because how could it be that any American could fairly look at the situation at hand and come to any conclusion other than Donald Trump should be president for life and that we should discard our elections process. A lot of headlines are filled with reports that seek to characterize what is that Donald Trump has done. This dilemma has confronted the American media since the moments the insurrection began. Nobody knew what
to call it. On CNN in the early hours, it was referred to as a riot, and then it became an insurrection, which it certainly was. But more than that, what we witnessed on that day was a premeditated, organized conspiracy to topple the United States government. Yes, abstractly, it was an assault on democracy. Yes, in an abstract, it was an assault on pluralism. Yes, in an abstract it was an assault on the Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution of the United States. In reality, though tangibly, it was an attack of the United States dates of America, incited by a president, by senators, by governors, and by the news media who lied and lied and lied, and convinced in this country through those lies millions of people that the most fair and legitimate election in American history was in fact fraudulent, that, in fact the person who won,
Joe Biden, was an illegitimate president. What Donald Trump did over and over and over again, with no small number of allies, is inject this poisonous lie into America's body, the body politic. He poisoned faith and belief. He divided the country. He ended the peaceful transition of power in
a hand handed attempt to make himself dictator. America's presidents are the only people in the country who swear an oath that is written in the Constitution of the United States, the same oath that Donald Trump and Joe Biden took, or the same oath that Miller Fillmore, John Adams and
George Washington took. The only American president and we've had some bad ones over the years that desecrated that oath, that burned it to the ground, that sought to rip up the Constitution of the United States so that he could be in power, is Donald Trump. People died during the attempt. Police officers were bludgeoned with American flag. The insurrectionists invaded the capital. They defecated on the floors of the United States House of Representatives and the United States
Senate hundreds of people are serving jail sentences. Thousands of Americans have been convicted for their participation in those events that were commanded by Donald Trump. And now Donald Trump has been held to account, he has been charged with crimes, yet he remains the overwhelming front runner for the Republican nomination. The Republican Party is the third oldest political party in the world, and it is imposing on the country a
proposition that is unacceptable. Thomas Jefferson referred to Americans with passionate differences who were aligning into two factions, two parties, the very parties that Washington had warned about. In his farewell Jefferson talked after a divisive election in eighteen hundred to those parties, and what he said matters today. He said that they were brethren of the same cause. And they are, and they were, and it is true today. The cause of American politics is the preservation of the
American Revolution. That's not about democracy. The American Revolution wasn't about democracy. It was about liberty. The only system of government that has ever been successful at securing man's rights and man's liberties is democratic government. Government that accepts the proposition that people human beings are above the state, that they create the state and not the other way around. This is elemental to understand. This is what keeps us safe.
This is what keeps the jackboot off of the citizen's neck. When democracy collapses, when the rule of law expires, when elections don't matter, what that looks like is the chaos and mayem of January sixth, because politics devolves in that moment to a contact, yes, between the strong and the weak. If you can punch and kick harder, if you can beat with a lead pole your opponent harder, if you can kill instead and bring your opponent to physical submission, well,
then shouldn't you be in charge? That is the proposition of January sixth. That is the Maga proposition that strength makes right, that power is good, and that absolute power is best and if you can, you take it. There are no sentiments that are more Unamerican than these. Thank you for listening to my political commentary. If you like what you've heard today, please also consider subscribing to the Warning Daily newsletter on substack. Our democracy hangs in the balance.
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notes section below. Thank you to each and every one of you for listening and watching. The Republican Party has a lie in itself with Donald Trump's magafaction. The party has been consumed by it, and Donald Trump controls the party. He controls its apparatuses, He controls the institution of the Republican Party at a national level, at a state level, and at a local level. That party serves Donald Trump's ambitions, and Donald Trump's ambitions do not serve the United States
of America. Donald Trump's ambitions are in conflict directly with the Constitution of the United States of America. Donald Trump is running to rip it up, and the answer from every loyal American must be no. This has nothing to do with whether you're a conservative or a progressive, whether you're a person of the left or the right, whether you are pro choice or pro life, whether you support school vouchers or not. We the people get to decide
these issues. We the people get to debate that, and we the people pick our leaders in the United States of America. That will not be taken from us by Donald trump that will not be taken from us by Donald Trump's thugs, and that will not be taken from us by lie after lie after lie. Because here's the truth. The United States of America isn't just an experiment. It is the most noble experiment in world's history, and it
is a miracle. We are not a perfect nation. We are a nation that is made up of all of the peoples of the world, so in that there is great hope. We are the only nation. We are somewhere today in this land, every language of the world will be spoken. This country, made up of all of the people of the world, has fed, cured, liberated, and done more good in the world than all of the other nations put together since the beginning of time. Our young nation has so much to be proud of. And soon
it will be two hundred and fifty years old. Will this generation of Americans allow the United States to slip into the darkness, into the abyss. Will the American people, upon the occasion of two one hundred and fifty years of our independence, put into the White House a man who tried to take it from us? They will not.
But Donald Trump is betting on something. He is betting that his faction, which is committed, extreme and fanatical, plus their opposite, the Americans who don't give a shit at all, don't care, can't see the difference between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, can't see the difference between a democratic party that supports democracy and pluralism and a fascist party that has succumbed to the sirens on of power, to the lies of a demagogue who seeks to become a dictator.
Because those people, plus the committed Trump fanatics, in a close election, just may be enough to get to two hundred and seventy electoral votes, and so we shouldn't have any questions, any ambiguities, any confusions around what it is they plan to do. Listen to them. Ron DeSantis has made it clear he's going to slit your throat and he's the gentle one between him and Donald Trump. The answer to these people and their sick ambitions is very simple,
very American. Summon some of the defiance that would have been recognized by our ancestors, and let's pass it on to our descendants, because the answer to their power fantasies is this no. Thank you for watching. Make sure you subscribe to our channel so you never miss a video. Also, for more content just like this, please consider joining our Warning premium community. You can find out more in the description below.