Thanks for listening. For earlier access to these episodes, access to Ask Me Anything sessions, and extended breakdowns of historical and current events. Please consider joining our Warning Premium community by clicking the link in the description to this episode. America stands out an inflection point. Donald Trump, the forty fifth president of the United States, has been arraigned criminally
three times in the last months. His latest arrests stem from the charges resulting from his conduct inciting and leading an insurrection against the United States government on January sixth of twenty twenty one. Millions and millions of Americans have been poisoned by Fox News and misinformation over these recent years. Propaganda is evil because it is effective, because it works.
There are millions of our fellow citizens who live in a bubble of delusion, who have been serially lied to, misinformed, and abused over the recent years. We have millions more who have surrendered their agency and their sovereignty. They've given up on adult life and responsibility. They've taken the easy path out, the path of excuses, where failure can be blamed on someone else. Grievance, victimization always every failure at the hands of some unseen conspiracy. Donald Trump makes it
easy for them. There are millions of Americans who legitimately believe Donald Trump is being persecuted. They believe one of the great bullies in history is a victim. They believe that the Deep State is real. They believe these things because of the terrible, terrible job the Democratic Party has done rebutting them and refuting them. What the Democratic Party has missed is a fighter, is a brawler, a happy warrior.
Somebody who is unafraid of the magabase, Somebody who will go anywhere, at any time to tell the truth, who is unafraid of the host, unafraid of Donald Trump, unafraid of Sean Hannity, and unafraid of Trump's understudy, the fascists from Tallahassee. Ron DeSantis enter California Governor Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom isn't a perfect leader. Who is? He has one
of the most complicated jobs in the United States. The former mayor of San Francisco and Lieutenant governor of California is the chief executive of a nation state of thirty eight million people. If California were a nation, it would be the sixth largest economy in the world. California is America's economic engine, technologically and agriculturally. The problems and challenges of California are the nation's challenges. The evidence of failure
is not that California has challenges. Like some mega politicians like to say, 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. The twenty twenty four pre as anential election is the most consequential in America's history. It's
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listening and watching. Gavin Newsom has been an exceptional leader at a moment of time, overwhelmed by timidity and cowardice. Gavin Newsom he is unafraid to call out the MAGA lies and he's going to do so on Sean Hannity's show on Fox News's Air with Governor ron DeSantis, there in a debate. Some will say this debate is without precedent, but it's not. In nineteen sixty seven, there was a remarkable debate that took place between Robert Kennedy and Ronald D. Reagan.
They answered questions on live television from students from around the world. A lot of those questions were hostile. This forum will be different than that, and no doubt the audience will be packed and loaded. But it doesn't matter because Gavin Newsom will have truth on his side and he's an exceptional communicator. What MAGA Americans have been fed is a steady diet of lies. They have been walled off from alternate information sources. How should this debate be
thought about? It's not so very different than during the days of the Cold War, when occasionally, during moments of reproach monk an American president would have the rare opportunity to speak directly to Soviet or Soviet Block citizens to be able to deliver them an unvarnished version of reality and the truth. The truth cannot be hidden forever, and Donald Trump is no victim. The overwhelming majority of Americans do not want Donald Trump's civil war, nor do they
want Rohn de Sanusus. They don't want the culture war. They don't want the division. What they don't want is America at each other's throat. What they don't want is in America where hundreds of millions of people are at each other's throats, stoked as pawns would be by their politicians in a game where power is the prize. It's appalling. Ron DeSantis is going to be humiliated when he faces
off against the California governor. He's going to be humiliated because the Maga stick is thin, it's dishonest, and it goes unchallenged constantly. That will end. And what Gavin Newsom will do in confronting the proverbial mag lion in its den is he will inspire courage. The simple truth is this confronting this imbecility and this idiocy causes nothing bad
to happen to you. Gavin Newsom is going to stand up, and it's going to take a lot of Americans alongside him for the right against the worst cause in America since the Confederacy, to put it away in twenty twenty four. That is what the mission of this election is. To end the extremist movement in America, so at long last, after eight wasted Trump years, we can move on as a country. Thank you for watching. Make sure you subscribe
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