1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the schmid Storm. You have questions, 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 1: I've got answers. Let's get started. The question is is 3 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: how is Elon Musk's antics and Wisconsin not been flagged 4 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 1: immediately for election interference? So the first thing I want 5 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:23,920 Speaker 1: to say about this question is great question. I want 6 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,319 Speaker 1: to focus on the words election interference because these words 7 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 1: have become contaminated and there is no crime of election 8 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:36,640 Speaker 1: interference such as it is, though certainly interfering in an 9 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 1: election can be a crime. What Elon Musk is doing, 10 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 1: handing out million dollar checks seems to me to be 11 00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:50,559 Speaker 1: certainly dubious, unethical, deeply corrupting to the practice of democracy. 12 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 1: But is it illegal in Wisconsin. I don't know. I'm 13 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: not a Wisconsin election law expert. I do know that 14 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 1: the French minister who said we cannot let the security 15 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: of Europe hang at the whim of a Wisconsin voter 16 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 1: every four years is spot on. The corruption of money 17 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: in the American system is beyond the worst imaginations of 18 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:28,399 Speaker 1: anybody who ever predicted what the result of Citizens United 19 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 1: of McCain fine Gold, which rought predictably Citizens United would be. 20 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:40,319 Speaker 1: American democracy has been sold to the highest bidder, the 21 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:46,240 Speaker 1: scene in the inaugural Trump seating his oligarchs in front 22 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: of the cabinet. All of this is a mark of corruption, 23 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 1: and when Democrats take power again, it can't be for 24 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: the purposes of maintaining Chuck Schumer as majority leader. There 25 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: must be fun und mental campaign finance reform, and there 26 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: has to be thought given to a constitutional amendment that 27 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: fixes permanently the financing mechanisms that have corrupted and endangered 28 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 1: American liberty. There has to be fundamental ethics reform. There 29 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:24,359 Speaker 1: has to be an elimination of special government employees. There 30 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,080 Speaker 1: has to be an end of one set of rules 31 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: for people at the top and a different set for 32 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:35,480 Speaker 1: everybody else. So election interference, Yes, Elon Musk is interfering 33 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:39,760 Speaker 1: in every election in the world through his platform that 34 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:47,799 Speaker 1: is filled with laws and propaganda, and specifically Russian misinformation 35 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: and disinformation that's aimed to undermine faith in democracy, belief 36 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: in Western systems, belief in the rule of law, to 37 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: pit cities against one another. All of this is interference. 38 00:03:03,800 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 1: When the richest man in the world says in Germany, 39 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: you must support the AfD and does everything he can 40 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,959 Speaker 1: to help them it's a party led by Nazis. It's 41 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: common as a member of the AfD to cut your face, 42 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 1: to leave a scar, to show your devotion to the party. 43 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 1: It's anti American, it's anti NATO, it's pro Russian. So 44 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: what he did in Wisconsin is a peace and it 45 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 1: was overcome by the power that can defeat Muskism, that 46 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: can defeat all of this, and that's the power of 47 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:43,320 Speaker 1: the American people and the power of a unified opposition 48 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 1: to say no, you will not buy away from us 49 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 1: with bribes, our birthright. We will not surrender our democracy 50 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: through acts of capitulation and surrender. So election interference we 51 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: have in America is an election contamination problem, not an 52 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: interference problem. Though interference there's a lot of it. Question 53 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: is do I expect any repercussions to come from the 54 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 1: investigations of Signal Gate. No, there will be no repercussions 55 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:25,840 Speaker 1: from the investigations into Signal Gate. There will, however, be 56 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:33,279 Speaker 1: massive repercussions due to the lack of investigations into Signal Gate. 57 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: What it will do is destroy the morale of the 58 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:43,840 Speaker 1: United States military at a battalion level, at a company level, 59 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 1: at a platoon level, at an NCO level. What it 60 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:53,800 Speaker 1: will do is assert a poison into the ranks that 61 00:04:54,520 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 1: is a cancer to the training that every America soldiers, sailor, airman, 62 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:08,359 Speaker 1: and Marine receives. It's a refutation of their education about 63 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: three things. Authority, responsibility, and accountability. The sign that hangs 64 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 1: over the Marine Corps Officer candidate school entrance in Quantico, 65 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:30,599 Speaker 1: Virginia says ductos exampleos lead by example. Accountability for the 66 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 1: things you are responsible for and have authority for is 67 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: the rock upon which the values of the American military 68 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:46,760 Speaker 1: have been laid over two hundred and fifty years. So 69 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 1: the consequence of the assertion that says rules are for 70 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: the privates and the corporals and the sergeant. Rules are 71 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,279 Speaker 1: for the lieutenants, and the captains, and the majors and 72 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:04,000 Speaker 1: the lieutenant colonels and the kernels rarely for a general, 73 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:10,039 Speaker 1: but never ever for their civilian leadership. The higher you are, 74 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 1: the more insulated you are from accountability. One set of 75 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:19,359 Speaker 1: rules for the people at the top, different set of 76 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 1: rules for the serfs at the bottom. That destroys a 77 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:32,280 Speaker 1: military organization, It destroys discipline, it destroys order, and what 78 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: it will cause is a collapse of discipline and good 79 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 1: order in the United States military to levels not seen 80 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: since the end of the Vietnam War, which coincidentally came 81 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:51,600 Speaker 1: fifty years ago this April, the thirtieth of April nineteen 82 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 1: seventy five, when, in scenes of chaos, America's longest failed 83 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:00,240 Speaker 1: war up to that point came to an end with 84 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 1: helicopters being pushed off of aircraft carriers at sea. The 85 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:11,200 Speaker 1: resiliency of the American military and its recovery took a 86 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 1: generation and an awful lot of exquisite leadership, and that 87 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 1: will be required again because what Trump and Pete hag 88 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: Seth and Mike Walls and Tulsey Gabbert and Marco Rubio 89 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: and all the rest of the clowns, Steve Wickkoff, Howard Lutneck, 90 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 1: all of them have done is not just breach faith, 91 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 1: not just give away the positions of aircraft carriers during 92 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: a military operation, not just give away the position of 93 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 1: the pilots and give advance warning of a strike. Not 94 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 1: only did they do that, they did it with one 95 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: of them sitting in Moscow where the Russians read it 96 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 1: in real time. The crime here is that they did 97 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 1: those things for which everybody the rank of general would 98 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: go to jail for, and they are celebrated by the 99 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: President of the United States and praised on the pages 100 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 1: of the Washington Post by a dishonest tack like Mark Thiessen, 101 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: who says, no, it's not incompetence, it's leadership, its genius. 102 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 1: War is peace, up is down, Red is blue, kid Hegseth, 103 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:31,239 Speaker 1: He's like Guysenhower. The quote on Eisenhower's grave talks about 104 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 1: the necessity for humility when praise comes from the blood 105 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: spilled by others and the sacrifices of others still appalling 106 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:49,160 Speaker 1: doesn't begin to describe the lack of accountability. So will 107 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 1: there be consequences their will and they will be graver 108 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 1: than any American can conceivably imagine. It has made the 109 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: world and our children much more dangerous and endangered. The 110 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:10,079 Speaker 1: question is about the impact of these tariffs on America's 111 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 1: farmers and the consumers of America's farms. Prices are going 112 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:20,559 Speaker 1: to go up, and many farmers will go bankrupts. That 113 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 1: is the consequence of these tariffs. The farms that have 114 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: withstood all manner of challenges weather storm, disaster, financial recession, 115 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 1: all of it. They will go under, prices will go up. 116 00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 1: The whole insanity of Maha will be exposed because in 117 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:48,959 Speaker 1: the end, obesity in these conditions are all rooted in poverty, 118 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:53,199 Speaker 1: and the more poor people there are, the more obesity 119 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: there will be. The lack of healthy food all a 120 00:09:56,760 --> 00:10:00,679 Speaker 1: function of a collapsing farm economy, all of it a 121 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 1: function of collapsing purchase power as wages go down, as 122 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 1: jobs disappear, and prices go up as a direct result 123 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:17,320 Speaker 1: of the Trump actions, the Trump economic suicide. The chart 124 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:21,200 Speaker 1: to look carefully at is the stock market, but more 125 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:26,959 Speaker 1: closely still at the dollars value. That dollar collapse means 126 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:32,000 Speaker 1: America's position in the world is diminishing. The bets being 127 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 1: made against America now are everywhere. And let me just 128 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 1: show you what the Canadian Prime Minister said. To leave 129 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 1: it there. 130 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 2: The President's actions will reverberate here in Canada and across 131 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 2: the world. Three sets, three different sets of US tariffs 132 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 2: remain in place and will continue to pose significant threats 133 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 2: to Canadian workers and Canadian businesses. 134 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:02,559 Speaker 1: An era has d and the United States of America 135 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 1: was the chief beneficiary of the era that saw it 136 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 1: rain as the most powerful nation in the world, the 137 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 1: world's dominant military, economic, social, cultural exploration, scientific power, and 138 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 1: greatest force for good in world history. Donald Trump ran 139 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 1: saying that all of that was a lie, all of 140 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:31,400 Speaker 1: that was a burden. America was getting screwed. America was 141 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: the sucker. America's leaders were stupid, all of them except 142 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,680 Speaker 1: for Trump. All of the experts are wrong, All of 143 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:42,400 Speaker 1: the economists or liars, all of the scientists are in 144 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:46,000 Speaker 1: on a scheme to screw everybody, everywhere, all at once. 145 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 1: There's no evidence, of course, just Donald Trump's assertions and 146 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:54,959 Speaker 1: the repetition and the interpretation of the repetition on absurd 147 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:58,679 Speaker 1: shows like whichever one might have got Jennings on at 148 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 1: any particular moment. All of it has led to a 149 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:06,960 Speaker 1: moment where Donald Trump, the man who has hailed himself 150 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:12,840 Speaker 1: as a world's historical genius, defied history, defied logic, defied 151 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: common sense, defied economics, defied the national interest, defied values, 152 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:23,680 Speaker 1: defied alliances and friendships, and picked up a poster board 153 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: and hugged it close and rambled on and devastated. After 154 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:33,880 Speaker 1: eighty years, America's standing in pre eminence in the world 155 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:40,000 Speaker 1: at the edge of the celebrations of the eightieth anniversary 156 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:44,680 Speaker 1: of the victory of the Allied Powers against Nazism. So 157 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:48,079 Speaker 1: when Donald Trump stands there next to the leaders of 158 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:54,280 Speaker 1: Denmark and Canada, two nations he threatens Great Britain and France, 159 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:58,640 Speaker 1: it's a desecration, It's an obscenity. All of this is 160 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:04,760 Speaker 1: America's farms deserve better, America's consumers deserve better, America's poor 161 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:11,040 Speaker 1: people deserve better. Everybody deserve better. But not everybody voted 162 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:14,560 Speaker 1: for better. But let's be honest about that. Maybe better 163 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:17,440 Speaker 1: wasn't on the ballot. Maybe there was just a different 164 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 1: alternative to Trump. Maybe the politics of joy didn't cut it. 165 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:25,959 Speaker 1: Maybe Brat Summer didn't get it done. Maybe chanting we 166 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:29,839 Speaker 1: will win while voting to confirm Marco Rubio wasn't the 167 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 1: right thing to do. Chuck Schumer, just maybe defiance has 168 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:37,839 Speaker 1: called for Maybe that's the answer to Trump's belligerence. Maybe 169 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 1: that's the remedy to the suffering, to make it stop 170 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: by saying no and making the no stick Across the country, 171 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 1: Democratic Party has serially disinvested in the American South. In 172 00:13:51,679 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 1: the Inner Mountain West, vast tracts of America have been 173 00:13:56,400 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 1: abandoned and forsaken and let to rot in the hands 174 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: of political extremists who have gutted public education, who have 175 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:10,400 Speaker 1: gutted public health care. As the roads decay, as the 176 00:14:10,559 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 1: infrastructure decays, as everybody falls behind, as the obesity rates skyrocket, 177 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 1: in the illness rates skyrocket, these places in America should 178 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:27,160 Speaker 1: be the places where the Democrats spend their first off 179 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,760 Speaker 1: to awaken the American people and to say that there's 180 00:14:30,800 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 1: a party that stands for ordinary people and against the 181 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:40,480 Speaker 1: proposition that might makes right. The Great Democratic Party of 182 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: the United States of America needs to resurrect itself in 183 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: the places it has abandoned. Less those places become hollow 184 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 1: receptacles for some of the greatest lies that have been 185 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 1: told in the history of the country, that have gained 186 00:14:58,760 --> 00:15:03,120 Speaker 1: force and mo momentum and power in the second and 187 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 1: third decades of the twenty first century, and now emperil 188 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 1: the entire American project, the entire cause of America's purpose, 189 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:17,800 Speaker 1: liberty and freedom. In the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary 190 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:23,640 Speaker 1: year of our independence, because a selfish people in a 191 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 1: decaying land, decadent beyond measurement, picked the reality television show 192 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 1: with his head so far up as ass there's not 193 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:36,240 Speaker 1: a word for it. To hold the most powerful office 194 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 1: in the world, command thousands of nuclear weapons, and be 195 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 1: the custodian of some of the most important texts and 196 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 1: tracks in the history of the world that define and 197 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 1: defend the rule of law and human dignity and freedom. 198 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: So in two years time, the American people can wipe 199 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:03,000 Speaker 1: away this Congress, get rid of the capitulators, get rid 200 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 1: of the appeasers, get rid of the ambitious drivers, and 201 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 1: get decent normal people who can sit in a room, 202 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 1: tolerate dissent and figure it, figure out complexities and how 203 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 1: to make the country the best version of itself that 204 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: it can be, just like Americans have done for ten 205 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:32,840 Speaker 1: generations until this generation of clowns came along. 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