Americans. We'd like to make lists. We like to rank things. If you turn on any sports radio show in the country, you'll get to listen to ballplayers being ranked. Who never played against one another, Who was the greatest of all time? Who was the best fighter? Who is the best basketball player, the best ballerina, It doesn't matter. We can't help but rank things as Americans. Who was the best president? Who
was the worst? Well, the answer of that, of course, is the guy who was just re elected to a second term after his first with forty nine percent of the vote. The forty fifth president was the worst in history. We'll see how he combines with the forty seventh. This is the warning. The United States government is sustained by
a principle we call checks and balances. Do you know, for example, that the presidency the executives branch, is not more powerful than the legislative branch or the judicial branch. They're all equal. They all have powers that are enumerated to fancy word for listed listed in the Constitution. That's what a lot of the legal fights before the Supreme Court are about who has power to do what? Now? How many of you thought that a United States senator
works for the president. They don't co equal. Each state sends two representatives to work in the United States Senate to vote on life and death matters, to cooperate with the president, to oppose him when necessary. But the senators the state sends just like the members of Congress it elects, it just like the president it chooses. In the American system, though they have different powers, they have different roles, they
have different responsibilities, they are all equal. Now, one of the responsibilities that Donald Trump has is to appoint a cabinet, and so immediately in the media, the ranking game starts. Who's the most incompetent? Is it Tulca Gabbard or is it Pete Hegseath? Or is it Matt Gates? Or is it Christy Nole or is it Robert F. Kennedy. The American media lacks the capacity to cover all five, which
is incredible if you think about it. They can't take all five of these people and communicate about them as if they are separate but equal threats to your life and health, which they surely are. So instead they're ranked. There is no evidence to suggest that Tulsi Gabbert is
any less or more dangerous than Robert F. Kennedy. At this point, the evidence concludes, if you read it, that they're all equally unfit, that none of these people should ever have a position of public trust because psychologically they're unsuited for it. Tulsa Gabbert is and smart enough for the job she's been nominated for. She can't deduce complex information into a simple conclusion. And she's a cult member who believes her yoga gives her the power to see full truth.
Robert F.
Kennedy is an addict, sex addict, drug addict, pathological liar, somebody who causes profound pain wherever they walk in life. He will kill a lot of people, profoundly unfit to regulate America's public health. And by the way, yes, the FDA is corrupt and it is broken, but an unfit, dangerous narcissist isn't the person to fix it. There's Matt Gates. There are no words now. Matt Gates was under an ethics committee investigation because in part he did this.
You gotta think about this guy. This is a guy that didn't have that. The media didn't give a time at day to after he was accused of sleeping with an underage girl, and there's a reason why no one and the conference came definite him because we had all seen the videos he was showing on the house floor that all of us had walked away of the girls that he had slept with. He'd brag about how he would crush ed medicine and chase it with with an energy drink so he could go all night.
But then Mark Wayne Mullen, since he's a cult member who lacks toughness, and Gret is going to say, but since Donald Trump picked him, everything is okay.
Are you going to vote for mccans? You know, Matt Gates And either's no question that we've had our differences. They've been very public about it. I completely trust President Trump's decision making on this one. But at the same time, he's got to come to Congress and selling self. There's a lot of or to the Senate and selling self. There's a lot of questions that are going to be
out there. He's got to answer those questions and hopefully he's able to answer the questions right and if he can, then we'll we'll go through the confirmation process.
Why not get Diddy out of Rikers Island and maka at Gates's deputy Make America Great Again. Pete Hegseth, Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Defense, claims, get this, he the tough guy, was sexually assaulted by a mom at a Republican conference in Monterey. Now, the woman went and got a rape kit. The woman's friend made the report. She had bruising on her thighs, and Pete Hegseth wrote her a check. I want to see every detail of
Pete Hegseath's payoff. The military has a rape crisis, and this man has been accused of allegedly raping a civilian. We know already that Pete Hegseth will bring dishonor and shame and the sensibility of a loser to the Pentagon. And he'll go in there and he will wreck as quickly as he can the apolitical traditions of the American military. He's a threat to the most lethal military in all the world. If he gets in there, it's going to hurt it very, very badly. Now more than anything else.
When we ask the question, how is it that this happened? How is it that after nine years, Donald Trump is back in the White House, The answer is the American media above all others. America's access media helped produce a reality show. That reality show pushed every serious issue to the bottom of the barrel, and it made billions celebrating the freak show. There's an old saying, if a clown goes to a castle, he does not become a king. The castle becomes a circus, and the ring masters of
the circus or the American media. Now, yesterday there was a ludicrous interview that took place between Jake Tapper and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. The purpose of interviews with powerful public officials is to hold them to account in the name of the public interest. The reason that so many of these people like Mike Johnson line up to go on Jake Tapper's show is they know they're going to a softball game. There will be no tough questions, there will be no interruptions. They can do it in
their sleep without preparation. I've told a lot of politicians over the years, there's no bad questions, just bad answers. We're going to watch Mike Johnson filibuster an answer without interruption. But the question that Tapper doesn't ask successfully is one about hypocrisy. Donald Trump is an adjudicated rapist who's been credibly accused of assaulting dozens of women. Pulsey Gabbard is a Russian stooge. Robert F. Kennedy should be in a psych ward, Christy Nome is a dog killing sadist and
allegedly openly Corey Lowandowski's girlfriend. And then there's Matt Gates. The Matt Gates who walked around on the floor of the house showing naked pictures of seventeen year old girls, bragging about how he would snort viagra, chase it with Monster Energy drinks, and go all night long. And Jake Tapper asked Mike Johnson, shouldn't there be any standard? And here's Mike Johnson's answer.
You're a man of faith, You're a man of God, You're a man of family. With some of these nominees, Gates, Hegsath RFK Junior, I wonder does it matter anymore for Republicans to think of leaders as people who are moral in their personal lives? Is that still important to the Republican Party.
Sure, it's an important issue for anyone in leadership. This is what I'll say about the nominees that the President has put forward is that they are persons who will shake up the status quo. And I think what the American people have believe in what they've delivered with the mandate in this election is demand that we shake up the status quo. It's not working for the American people. So use the term in the opening about how these are disruptors.
They are.
I think that's by design. Any president has the right to name their own cabinet, to nominate persons that they think will fulfill their agenda, and the people that are on this list will do that. They will go into the agencies that they're being asked to lead and they will reform them. These agencies need reform, and I think the vast majority of the American people understand that you can't have status quo appointments in a moment like this. I'm
really excited about the days ahead. I think the America First policies will deliver for the American people. I think we're going to have a warm embrace of all the new folks who came into the Republican Party in this election cycle. The demographic shifts that we saw that were historic, because we have a chance now to demonstrate for them that our policies are conservative, constitutional policies, common sense policies are best for them as individuals and families and communities
in state, in the nation as a whole. So exciting days ahead. It is a new day in America. These individuals will help deliver that, and I think the Senate needs to do its job and get him appointed so that the president President Donald J. Trump and JD. Vance can begin that administration and run with it on day one.
We're in a lot of trouble. The good news is this The cardinal sin in American life is hypocrisy. And the one thing that Donald Trump was able to skate by on in twenty twenty four was hypocrisy. He's not so much a hypocrite because he is exactly what he appears to be, but Mike Johnson and most of the rest are, and it will start to be there on doing There's a couple of things that Democrats have to insist and we'll practice the lines right now. Release the
headset report. It's not hard to say, and Democrats will have to get good as saying these words. Maga rubber stamp Congress and Maga rubber stamp House and Maga rubber stamp. Senate Democrats will have to fight back now, will have to attack. These are some of the most unworthy people that have ever been nominated to anything in the history of the United States. These confirmations need to be brutal. They need to be fought, They need to be opposed. A marker needs to be laid down, A fight, even
if it's lost, needs to be initiated. Fight back against these unqualified people. It will be hard because the Democratic Senate is poorly and incompetently led by Chuck Schumer, so it will likely come to pass that a lot of these people will lead the departments of the American government that have the capacity to kill a lot of us, imprison a lot of us, poison a lot of us,
or do as they wish. We don't have to tolerate it, and we have other recourses than to have feeble Democratic senators who don't know how to fight, who won't fight, who can't talk, who can't ask questions, and a decrepit media do it for us. We're going to have to do it ourselves, the American people. We'll have to push back, fight back, resist, protest. Terrible days are ahead. But beyond them is the beginning of renewal and an American reawakening.
We'll get there, but first there will be pain. This is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning, and I invite you to join. Subscribe on our substack, on our YouTube channel, follow us. Welcome to the community.