Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the schmid Storm. You have questions,
Speaker 1: I've got answers. Let's get started. The question is is
Speaker 1: how is Elon Musk's antics and Wisconsin not been flagged
Speaker 1: immediately for election interference? So the first thing I want
Speaker 1: to say about this question is great question. I want
Speaker 1: to focus on the words election interference because these words
Speaker 1: have become contaminated and there is no crime of election
Speaker 1: interference such as it is, though certainly interfering in an
Speaker 1: election can be a crime. What Elon Musk is doing,
Speaker 1: handing out million dollar checks seems to me to be
Speaker 1: certainly dubious, unethical, deeply corrupting to the practice of democracy.
Speaker 1: But is it illegal in Wisconsin. I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: not a Wisconsin election law expert. I do know that
Speaker 1: the French minister who said we cannot let the security
Speaker 1: of Europe hang at the whim of a Wisconsin voter
Speaker 1: every four years is spot on. The corruption of money
Speaker 1: in the American system is beyond the worst imaginations of
Speaker 1: anybody who ever predicted what the result of Citizens United
Speaker 1: of McCain fine Gold, which rought predictably Citizens United would be.
Speaker 1: American democracy has been sold to the highest bidder, the
Speaker 1: scene in the inaugural Trump seating his oligarchs in front
Speaker 1: of the cabinet. All of this is a mark of corruption,
Speaker 1: and when Democrats take power again, it can't be for
Speaker 1: the purposes of maintaining Chuck Schumer as majority leader. There
Speaker 1: must be fun und mental campaign finance reform, and there
Speaker 1: has to be thought given to a constitutional amendment that
Speaker 1: fixes permanently the financing mechanisms that have corrupted and endangered
Speaker 1: American liberty. There has to be fundamental ethics reform. There
Speaker 1: has to be an elimination of special government employees. There
Speaker 1: has to be an end of one set of rules
Speaker 1: for people at the top and a different set for
Speaker 1: everybody else. So election interference, Yes, Elon Musk is interfering
Speaker 1: in every election in the world through his platform that
Speaker 1: is filled with laws and propaganda, and specifically Russian misinformation
Speaker 1: and disinformation that's aimed to undermine faith in democracy, belief
Speaker 1: in Western systems, belief in the rule of law, to
Speaker 1: pit cities against one another. All of this is interference.
Speaker 1: When the richest man in the world says in Germany,
Speaker 1: you must support the AfD and does everything he can
Speaker 1: to help them it's a party led by Nazis. It's
Speaker 1: common as a member of the AfD to cut your face,
Speaker 1: to leave a scar, to show your devotion to the party.
Speaker 1: It's anti American, it's anti NATO, it's pro Russian. So
Speaker 1: what he did in Wisconsin is a peace and it
Speaker 1: was overcome by the power that can defeat Muskism, that
Speaker 1: can defeat all of this, and that's the power of
Speaker 1: the American people and the power of a unified opposition
Speaker 1: to say no, you will not buy away from us
Speaker 1: with bribes, our birthright. We will not surrender our democracy
Speaker 1: through acts of capitulation and surrender. So election interference we
Speaker 1: have in America is an election contamination problem, not an
Speaker 1: interference problem. Though interference there's a lot of it. Question
Speaker 1: is do I expect any repercussions to come from the
Speaker 1: investigations of Signal Gate. No, there will be no repercussions
Speaker 1: from the investigations into Signal Gate. There will, however, be
Speaker 1: massive repercussions due to the lack of investigations into Signal Gate.
Speaker 1: What it will do is destroy the morale of the
Speaker 1: United States military at a battalion level, at a company level,
Speaker 1: at a platoon level, at an NCO level. What it
Speaker 1: will do is assert a poison into the ranks that
Speaker 1: is a cancer to the training that every America soldiers, sailor, airman,
Speaker 1: and Marine receives. It's a refutation of their education about
Speaker 1: three things. Authority, responsibility, and accountability. The sign that hangs
Speaker 1: over the Marine Corps Officer candidate school entrance in Quantico,
Speaker 1: Virginia says ductos exampleos lead by example. Accountability for the
Speaker 1: things you are responsible for and have authority for is
Speaker 1: the rock upon which the values of the American military
Speaker 1: have been laid over two hundred and fifty years. So
Speaker 1: the consequence of the assertion that says rules are for
Speaker 1: the privates and the corporals and the sergeant. Rules are
Speaker 1: for the lieutenants, and the captains, and the majors and
Speaker 1: the lieutenant colonels and the kernels rarely for a general,
Speaker 1: but never ever for their civilian leadership. The higher you are,
Speaker 1: the more insulated you are from accountability. One set of
Speaker 1: rules for the people at the top, different set of
Speaker 1: rules for the serfs at the bottom. That destroys a
Speaker 1: military organization, It destroys discipline, it destroys order, and what
Speaker 1: it will cause is a collapse of discipline and good
Speaker 1: order in the United States military to levels not seen
Speaker 1: since the end of the Vietnam War, which coincidentally came
Speaker 1: fifty years ago this April, the thirtieth of April nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy five, when, in scenes of chaos, America's longest failed
Speaker 1: war up to that point came to an end with
Speaker 1: helicopters being pushed off of aircraft carriers at sea. The
Speaker 1: resiliency of the American military and its recovery took a
Speaker 1: generation and an awful lot of exquisite leadership, and that
Speaker 1: will be required again because what Trump and Pete hag
Speaker 1: Seth and Mike Walls and Tulsey Gabbert and Marco Rubio
Speaker 1: and all the rest of the clowns, Steve Wickkoff, Howard Lutneck,
Speaker 1: all of them have done is not just breach faith,
Speaker 1: not just give away the positions of aircraft carriers during
Speaker 1: a military operation, not just give away the position of
Speaker 1: the pilots and give advance warning of a strike. Not
Speaker 1: only did they do that, they did it with one
Speaker 1: of them sitting in Moscow where the Russians read it
Speaker 1: in real time. The crime here is that they did
Speaker 1: those things for which everybody the rank of general would
Speaker 1: go to jail for, and they are celebrated by the
Speaker 1: President of the United States and praised on the pages
Speaker 1: of the Washington Post by a dishonest tack like Mark Thiessen,
Speaker 1: who says, no, it's not incompetence, it's leadership, its genius.
Speaker 1: War is peace, up is down, Red is blue, kid Hegseth,
Speaker 1: He's like Guysenhower. The quote on Eisenhower's grave talks about
Speaker 1: the necessity for humility when praise comes from the blood
Speaker 1: spilled by others and the sacrifices of others still appalling
Speaker 1: doesn't begin to describe the lack of accountability. So will
Speaker 1: there be consequences their will and they will be graver
Speaker 1: than any American can conceivably imagine. It has made the
Speaker 1: world and our children much more dangerous and endangered. The
Speaker 1: question is about the impact of these tariffs on America's
Speaker 1: farmers and the consumers of America's farms. Prices are going
Speaker 1: to go up, and many farmers will go bankrupts. That
Speaker 1: is the consequence of these tariffs. The farms that have
Speaker 1: withstood all manner of challenges weather storm, disaster, financial recession,
Speaker 1: all of it. They will go under, prices will go up.
Speaker 1: The whole insanity of Maha will be exposed because in
Speaker 1: the end, obesity in these conditions are all rooted in poverty,
Speaker 1: and the more poor people there are, the more obesity
Speaker 1: there will be. The lack of healthy food all a
Speaker 1: function of a collapsing farm economy, all of it a
Speaker 1: function of collapsing purchase power as wages go down, as
Speaker 1: jobs disappear, and prices go up as a direct result
Speaker 1: of the Trump actions, the Trump economic suicide. The chart
Speaker 1: to look carefully at is the stock market, but more
Speaker 1: closely still at the dollars value. That dollar collapse means
Speaker 1: America's position in the world is diminishing. The bets being
Speaker 1: made against America now are everywhere. And let me just
Speaker 1: show you what the Canadian Prime Minister said. To leave
Speaker 1: it there.
Speaker 2: The President's actions will reverberate here in Canada and across
Speaker 2: the world. Three sets, three different sets of US tariffs
Speaker 2: remain in place and will continue to pose significant threats
Speaker 2: to Canadian workers and Canadian businesses.
Speaker 1: An era has d and the United States of America
Speaker 1: was the chief beneficiary of the era that saw it
Speaker 1: rain as the most powerful nation in the world, the
Speaker 1: world's dominant military, economic, social, cultural exploration, scientific power, and
Speaker 1: greatest force for good in world history. Donald Trump ran
Speaker 1: saying that all of that was a lie, all of
Speaker 1: that was a burden. America was getting screwed. America was
Speaker 1: the sucker. America's leaders were stupid, all of them except
Speaker 1: for Trump. All of the experts are wrong, All of
Speaker 1: the economists or liars, all of the scientists are in
Speaker 1: on a scheme to screw everybody, everywhere, all at once.
Speaker 1: There's no evidence, of course, just Donald Trump's assertions and
Speaker 1: the repetition and the interpretation of the repetition on absurd
Speaker 1: shows like whichever one might have got Jennings on at
Speaker 1: any particular moment. All of it has led to a
Speaker 1: moment where Donald Trump, the man who has hailed himself
Speaker 1: as a world's historical genius, defied history, defied logic, defied
Speaker 1: common sense, defied economics, defied the national interest, defied values,
Speaker 1: defied alliances and friendships, and picked up a poster board
Speaker 1: and hugged it close and rambled on and devastated. After
Speaker 1: eighty years, America's standing in pre eminence in the world
Speaker 1: at the edge of the celebrations of the eightieth anniversary
Speaker 1: of the victory of the Allied Powers against Nazism. So
Speaker 1: when Donald Trump stands there next to the leaders of
Speaker 1: Denmark and Canada, two nations he threatens Great Britain and France,
Speaker 1: it's a desecration, It's an obscenity. All of this is
Speaker 1: America's farms deserve better, America's consumers deserve better, America's poor
Speaker 1: people deserve better. Everybody deserve better. But not everybody voted
Speaker 1: for better. But let's be honest about that. Maybe better
Speaker 1: wasn't on the ballot. Maybe there was just a different
Speaker 1: alternative to Trump. Maybe the politics of joy didn't cut it.
Speaker 1: Maybe Brat Summer didn't get it done. Maybe chanting we
Speaker 1: will win while voting to confirm Marco Rubio wasn't the
Speaker 1: right thing to do. Chuck Schumer, just maybe defiance has
Speaker 1: called for Maybe that's the answer to Trump's belligerence. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's the remedy to the suffering, to make it stop
Speaker 1: by saying no and making the no stick Across the country,
Speaker 1: Democratic Party has serially disinvested in the American South. In
Speaker 1: the Inner Mountain West, vast tracts of America have been
Speaker 1: abandoned and forsaken and let to rot in the hands
Speaker 1: of political extremists who have gutted public education, who have
Speaker 1: gutted public health care. As the roads decay, as the
Speaker 1: infrastructure decays, as everybody falls behind, as the obesity rates skyrocket,
Speaker 1: in the illness rates skyrocket, these places in America should
Speaker 1: be the places where the Democrats spend their first off
Speaker 1: to awaken the American people and to say that there's
Speaker 1: a party that stands for ordinary people and against the
Speaker 1: proposition that might makes right. The Great Democratic Party of
Speaker 1: the United States of America needs to resurrect itself in
Speaker 1: the places it has abandoned. Less those places become hollow
Speaker 1: receptacles for some of the greatest lies that have been
Speaker 1: told in the history of the country, that have gained
Speaker 1: force and mo momentum and power in the second and
Speaker 1: third decades of the twenty first century, and now emperil
Speaker 1: the entire American project, the entire cause of America's purpose,
Speaker 1: liberty and freedom. In the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
Speaker 1: year of our independence, because a selfish people in a
Speaker 1: decaying land, decadent beyond measurement, picked the reality television show
Speaker 1: with his head so far up as ass there's not
Speaker 1: a word for it. To hold the most powerful office
Speaker 1: in the world, command thousands of nuclear weapons, and be
Speaker 1: the custodian of some of the most important texts and
Speaker 1: tracks in the history of the world that define and
Speaker 1: defend the rule of law and human dignity and freedom.
Speaker 1: So in two years time, the American people can wipe
Speaker 1: away this Congress, get rid of the capitulators, get rid
Speaker 1: of the appeasers, get rid of the ambitious drivers, and
Speaker 1: get decent normal people who can sit in a room,
Speaker 1: tolerate dissent and figure it, figure out complexities and how
Speaker 1: to make the country the best version of itself that
Speaker 1: it can be, just like Americans have done for ten
Speaker 1: generations until this generation of clowns came along. And I'm
Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you to
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