Dem Governor Destroys Trump in Most Powerful Speech Yet
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What was the impact of Governor J.B. Pritzker's speech in New Hampshire?
Governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois just brought the House down in New Hampshire in what may have been the most powerful speech so far of the political season. It was a call to action. Let me show you what went down. Governor Pritzker says we need to be done with trying to find optimism in the motivations of these Republicans. They are bad people. They hate America. It's time that we fight. Watch this right here.
Why does Governor Pritzker believe optimism about Republicans is misguided?
It's time for us to be done with optimism about their motives or their objectives. Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don't know how to organize a group chat. It's time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy and wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children's cancer research. And time to stop thinking that we can reason or negotiate with a madman. Time to stop apologizing when we were not wrong. Time to stop surrendering when we need to fight. Our small businesses don't deserve to be bankrupted by unsustainable tariffs. Our retirees don't deserve to be left destitute by a Social Security administration decimated by Elon Musk. Our citizens don't deserve to lose health care coverage because Republicans want to hand a tax cut to billionaires.
Our federal workers don't deserve to have, well, a 19-year-old doge bro called Big Balls destroy their careers. Autistic kids and adults who are loving contributors to our society don't deserve to be stigmatized by a weird nepo baby who once stashed the dead bear in the backseat of his car.
Our military service members don't deserve to be told by a washed up Fox TV commentator who drank too much and committed sexual assault before being appointed Secretary of Defense that they can't serve their country simply because they're black or gay or a woman. And if it sounds like I'm becoming contemptuous of Donald Trump and the people that he has elevated, it's because I am. You should be too. They're an affront to every value this country was founded upon.
Next up, Governor Pritzker talks about how all of these Trump lackeys, these Trump minions, the Trump cabinet, they are failures as human beings. They are failures in life and they are dangerous individuals. Here, play this clip.
How does Governor Pritzker criticize the Trump administration's policies and personnel?
But because of Donald Trump's xenophobia, we've seen foreign students already choosing not to attend our universities and being told to leave. Businesses from overseas are afraid to invest their money here and to bring their executives to our shores. Scientists are choosing to innovate in European laboratories instead of American ones, already in just 100 days. If the best and the brightest around the world no longer flock to this shining city on a hill, then the US economy is likely to fail. But failure It's starting to look like that's the point of all this, doesn't it? We have a Secretary of Education who hates teachers and schools. We have a Secretary of Transportation who hates public transit. We have an Attorney General who hates the Constitution.
We have a Secretary of State, the son of naturalized citizens, a family of refugees, on a crusade to expel our country of both. We have a head of the Department of Government Efficiency, an immigrant granted the privilege of living and working here, a man who has made hundreds of billions of dollars after the government rescued his business for him, who is looking to destroy the American middle class to fund tax cuts for himself. And we have a president who claims to love America, but who hates our military so much that he calls them losers and suckers and who can't be bothered to delay his golf game to greet the bodies of four fallen US soldiers. And we have a grand old party founded by one of our nation's bravest presidents, Abraham Lincoln, who today would be a Democrat, I might add.
but a grand old party so afraid of the felon and the fraud that they put into the White House that they would sooner watch him destroy our country than lift a hand to save it. Democrats, we may have to fix our messaging and our strategy, but our values are exactly where they ought to be. And we will never join so many Republicans in the special place in hell reserved for quizlings and cowards.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What was the impact of Governor J.B. Pritzker's speech in New Hampshire?
0:00–0:30
2
Why does Governor Pritzker believe optimism about Republicans is misguided?
0:30–3:05
3
How does Governor Pritzker criticize the Trump administration's policies and personnel?
3:05–6:26
4
What personal background does Governor Pritzker share and why is it important?
6:26–7:43
5
How does Governor Pritzker address the misuse of anti-Semitism in politics?
7:43–9:46
6
What message does Governor Pritzker have for fellow Democrats?
9:46–17:07