Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the schmid Storm. You have questions,
Speaker 1: I've got answers, so let's get started. And the first
Speaker 1: one has to do with the unprecedented scheduling of every
Speaker 1: general being recalled to Washington, DC for a meeting with
Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth. And the question is what's going on with
Speaker 1: the eight hundred generals coming to Quantico, Virginia the marine base.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it is frightening, it's unacceptable, and
Speaker 1: it's a major story. There are eight hundred general officers
Speaker 1: in the US military. That's about one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: to two hundred too many. One of the inflations we
Speaker 1: don't talk enough about is the inflation in the ranks.
Speaker 1: An incredible statistic is that there were more generals in
Speaker 1: Baghdad in two thousand and seven than there were in
Speaker 1: all of Europe on V Day victory in Europe eighty
Speaker 1: years ago. And at that time, the US forces had
Speaker 1: sixteen million men and women under arms at any rate,
Speaker 1: removing from their combatant commands and from their jobs all
Speaker 1: over the world. The senior enlisted advisors, the sergeant majors
Speaker 1: and command master chiefs, if they're in the Navy along
Speaker 1: with the four Stars, three stars, two stores, and one stars.
Speaker 1: To bring them all together isn't just a massive security
Speaker 1: risk with regard to the continuity of command, It's just
Speaker 1: plain stupid. Now everybody knows that no professional military officer
Speaker 1: has any respect whatsoever for Pete Hegseth, because when they
Speaker 1: look at him, they recognize that standing in front of
Speaker 1: them in a nation of three hundred and forty million
Speaker 1: people is one of our greatest diptions. The tattooed Christian
Speaker 1: nationalist freak show with his third wife Jenny, trailing about
Speaker 1: taking him to his makeup room in the Pentagon, to
Speaker 1: the TV room here and there, bouncing around like a
Speaker 1: rubber ball on the Fox newsroom wall. Third wife Jenny
Speaker 1: helps Pete with his makeup and sits in on all
Speaker 1: the meetings with the generals, and no doubt Jenny will
Speaker 1: be in the room with the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Truly,
Speaker 1: there are no words other than the words of prayer
Speaker 1: that this nation not fight a war, because there has
Speaker 1: never been a moment in American history, not a single second,
Speaker 1: where the men under arms have been more preposterously led
Speaker 1: by the commander in chief and by this buffoon there
Speaker 1: are no words for the National Guard. Major Field Marshall Pete,
Speaker 1: Secretary of War. The next question has to do with
Speaker 1: the prosecution of James Comy, and the question is are
Speaker 1: you afraid of being locked up and sent to prison?
Speaker 1: I'm with James Comy on this. I refuse to be
Speaker 1: afraid of these people. If I am sent to prison
Speaker 1: for some concocted crime, I do hope I get to
Speaker 1: work with the puppies in the prison where Gislaine.
Speaker 2: Maxwell has been set.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they have male facilities where you get to
Speaker 1: work with the dogs.
Speaker 2: At any rate.
Speaker 1: The thing about political prisoners is they're guilty of no crime.
Speaker 1: In James Comy is a political prisoner of sorts. His life,
Speaker 1: his family's life has been taken hostage by the government
Speaker 1: by a raging mob boss named Donald Trump, who said,
Speaker 1: get this guy, and then the prosecutor said, show me
Speaker 1: the man, I'll find you the crime and voila. And
Speaker 1: if they can do that to James Comy, they can
Speaker 1: do it to anybody. This is arbitrary justice, and it
Speaker 1: is evil. It is un American, and this malicious prosecution
Speaker 1: will fail and the jury should nullify the prosecution. It
Speaker 1: is an awful abuse of power, and James Comy will
Speaker 1: be acquitted of this nonsense, because James Comy acquitted no crime.
Speaker 1: The third question is about Jimmy Kimmel in his return
Speaker 1: to television, and it is this, why did Disney cave?
Speaker 1: Disney caved because the cost of firing Jimmy Kimmel to
Speaker 1: appease Donald Trump was many billions of dollars and it
Speaker 1: would have destroyed the company's brand, and in fact, it's
Speaker 1: illegal and unconstitutional. And what the records will show, and
Speaker 1: they will all be made public someday, what they will
Speaker 1: show is the panic in the Disney c suite and
Speaker 1: demands from government officials to the CEO of the company,
Speaker 1: Bob Biger, demanding that Jimmy Kimmel be returned.
Speaker 2: And Bob Biger is a coward.
Speaker 1: He's feckless, utterly fatuous, And that yellow striped coward took
Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel off the air because he was afraid, and
Speaker 1: he put him back on the air because he was afraid.
Speaker 1: Appeasing Trump only brings the next demand. And it's a
Speaker 1: lesson for every CEO and every minister of government everywhere
Speaker 1: in the world. The way you deal with a bully
Speaker 1: is you hold the line and you never back up,
Speaker 1: and when he comes and punches you, you slug them back.
Speaker 1: And that's how you deal with a bully. And the
Speaker 1: bottom line is this idea in America that the CEO
Speaker 1: class has some type of moral conviction or standing to
Speaker 1: speak out on anything, this religion of the CEO. When
Speaker 1: you think back on Indra Newey performance with purpose, it's all.
Speaker 2: Bullshit and it always has been.
Speaker 1: She's an example of a person who sells poison sugar water.
Speaker 2: She's in the obesity business.
Speaker 1: Yet America's news media sanctified her and Bob Iger and
Speaker 1: many more. In fact, these people have no guts, they
Speaker 1: have no ethics, they have no grit, no stamina, no nothing.
Speaker 1: And you saw that play out with Jimmy Kimmel, who
Speaker 1: has a lot of guts and a lot of stamina
Speaker 1: and a lot of grit. And it's grit, stamina and
Speaker 1: guts that will get us through this terrible Trump era.
Speaker 1: But here's the deal. Free speech doesn't come from branding
Speaker 1: Carr and he doesn't get to threaten anybody over speech.
Speaker 1: I have been a consistent critic of Ted Kruz. But
Speaker 1: in this instant, on this occasion, it was Ted Cruz's
Speaker 1: finest hour in America.
Speaker 2: We don't debate speech.
Speaker 1: You can say, can think and express yourself in most
Speaker 1: any way you want. You get to make fun of
Speaker 1: the president in America, you get to laugh at him,
Speaker 1: you get to offend people. That's the price of living
Speaker 1: in a free country, being offended. And the idea that
Speaker 1: Donald's will eliminate offense by dealing with the speech that offends, well,
Speaker 1: let's just say that's offensive and it's never going to happen.
Speaker 2: This is the warning.
Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you
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Speaker 2: Thank you.