1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Schmidt Storm. You have questions, 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:08,160 Speaker 1: I got answers. Let's get going. The first question is 3 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:12,320 Speaker 1: what does it say about the United States Congress that 4 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: a member, a woman from Texas named Kay Granger, could 5 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: literally go missing, could shut down her offices and nobody 6 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: would know about it. Congresswoman Granger was discovered in a 7 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:32,720 Speaker 1: long term care facility after going missing for a long time, 8 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,159 Speaker 1: with nobody knowing. Her offices were shut down, though her 9 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 1: staff was still being paid by you, the taxpayer. What 10 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:45,199 Speaker 1: does it say about Congress? It says nothing good. A 11 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: member of Congress went missing. And the truth of the 12 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: matter is we have a very, very broken system of government. 13 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 1: There are three things that have broken it. Money, of course, 14 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:03,320 Speaker 1: redistricting where the members picked their voters, not the other 15 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:07,400 Speaker 1: way around. And the collapse of the media. Think about 16 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: the Washington DC media. For those of you familiar with 17 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 1: the publication Politico. Among the smuggest, most arrogant, most preposterous 18 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:23,679 Speaker 1: figures in all of the Washington media is the blowhard 19 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: John Harris of Politico. This is the person who celebrates 20 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 1: the diligence of his organization. They cover Congress, they cover Washington, 21 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: but The truth is, they don't cover any of that 22 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:44,280 Speaker 1: for you. They cover it to sell ads to lobbyists. 23 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: They dress up trivia and call it news. That's what 24 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:55,960 Speaker 1: politico is. So in an environment that's completely uncaring, utterly transactional, 25 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: that is a gerontocracy filled with people who we don't 26 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: have to run in elections to be elected. Once they 27 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 1: are elected, it's not surprising at all, but it shows 28 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:14,119 Speaker 1: how completely utterly broken the American media is. And by 29 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:18,519 Speaker 1: the way, Texas is not a news desert. Texas is 30 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:24,960 Speaker 1: an American mega state filled with cities with million person populations, 31 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 1: filled with robust media institutions, newspapers and television. And yet 32 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 1: whoevers Kay Granger. And the truth is what's covered in 33 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:41,200 Speaker 1: Washington is the freak show, not the members of Congress. 34 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 1: So the truth is she may not be the only 35 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: one missing. If you look at the past is prologued 36 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: because nobody pays attention to anything these people do, including 37 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 1: famously in New York in the backyard of the New 38 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 1: York Times, George sand does the impostor same story, different member. 39 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 1: The question is how will Trump's plans for mass deportation 40 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:14,920 Speaker 1: play out on day one? Well, this is the question. 41 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 1: At the noon hour, Donald Trump will take the thirty 42 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 1: five word oath, receive a twenty one gun salute with 43 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: ruffles and flourishes, and then he will deliver a speech, 44 00:03:25,520 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: and it promises to be the darkest in American history. 45 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 1: Who knows what he will call for. Then, now, the 46 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: leader of the mass deportation is said to get started, 47 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 1: he will need appropriated from the Congress eighty seven billion 48 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 1: dollars catch and imprison and deport the millions and millions 49 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 1: of migrants that Trump has promised to do so too. Now, 50 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 1: Trump is going to need the military in order to 51 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 1: carry this out, so very early on, this being his 52 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: most important promise, not the tax, it's not any of 53 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 1: this stuff. He's going to use all of the authority 54 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 1: he has to execute this plan, and very quickly. While 55 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: this is happening, it will overwhelm every other story. Americans 56 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:22,560 Speaker 1: aren't used to seeing their government overtly oppressively in their faces, 57 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,720 Speaker 1: but that's going to change. The effort to try to 58 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:31,120 Speaker 1: capture in deport fifteen million people is going to change 59 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:34,800 Speaker 1: how all of us live and go about our day 60 00:04:34,839 --> 00:04:37,960 Speaker 1: to day lives in America. And there is no place 61 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: where that will be felt more strongly than America's schools, 62 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:45,280 Speaker 1: which will become the fishing ponds, because there is no 63 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:50,479 Speaker 1: place easier than to capture an illegal alien parent that 64 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:55,600 Speaker 1: at their children's school. So the country is about to 65 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:59,560 Speaker 1: be transformed, and it will start in twenty one days, 66 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:03,520 Speaker 1: three weeks. The question is what should Americans keep their 67 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: eyes out for as we head into twenty twenty five. 68 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 1: Americans should keep their eyes open to what is happening 69 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,159 Speaker 1: all around them, and all around them there will be 70 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 1: a disconnect. A lot of times when they do things, 71 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 1: the media will report they aren't doing them. A lot 72 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: of times when they say things, the media will report 73 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 1: they didn't mean them. But there will be times when 74 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,599 Speaker 1: the administration does do things and they will be doing them, 75 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: and sometimes they'll be doing things after they said they 76 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 1: did them. And sometimes they'll be doing things after they 77 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:42,479 Speaker 1: promised to do them, and they'll have meant it, and 78 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: the media will say they're not happening, but they are. 79 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:50,160 Speaker 1: A case in point is Trump's rhetoric about Canada, about Greenland, 80 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 1: and about Panama. He says it, and it becomes the 81 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 1: job and the position in society. I suppose for people 82 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 1: like Maggie Haberman, who Trump calls his psychiatrist of the 83 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: New York Times in her tenth year of her symbiotic 84 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:08,719 Speaker 1: relationship with Donald Trump, who will say, no, don't worry 85 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:11,960 Speaker 1: about it, he doesn't mean it. As if a single 86 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 1: New York Times reporter in a country of three hundred 87 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 1: and forty million people is the person who he all 88 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:22,760 Speaker 1: turned to explain whether the most powerful man in the 89 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:26,880 Speaker 1: world means it or not, it's all insanity. I have 90 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:30,280 Speaker 1: a simple piece of advice. It served me well over 91 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 1: the last ten years. I take everything Trump says both 92 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 1: literally and seriously. I don't discount anything. If he says it, 93 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,599 Speaker 1: I suppose he means it. And I do think that 94 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:47,480 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, in some regard as a politician, is a 95 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:52,039 Speaker 1: man of his word. And this time his intentions are 96 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:55,719 Speaker 1: not going to be deterred. He's going to exercise power 97 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 1: with the full knowledge that he is above the law. 98 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: He possesses immunity for a while. He will be able 99 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:08,359 Speaker 1: to do as he wishes, so long as he can 100 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 1: corral all of his maggot cats in the House of Representatives. 101 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: And that is harder than it sounds. I'm Steve Schmidt. 102 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: This is the warning and I invite you to join. 103 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:27,160 Speaker 1: Subscribe on our substack, on our YouTube channel, follow us. 104 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 1: Welcome to the community.