WEBVTT - Big Tech, Bad Apples & Biden's Legacy | The Schmidt Storm 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:04.880 It is the final schmid storm before the inauguration. I'm 0:00:04.920 --> 0:00:09.479 in Vegas. You've got questions, I have answers. Let's get started. 0:00:09.800 --> 0:00:13.800 The question is what can Democratic senators do to oppose 0:00:14.120 --> 0:00:19.000 the worst of Trump's nominees. Democratic Senators, as you know, 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.400 are in the minority, and they're going to stay in 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:26.720 the minority. This is very important for Democrats to understand 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:30.680 the action is in the house. Chuck Schumer is the 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:36.120 ultimate Washington DC checkers player, routinely hailed as a genius, 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.720 who's not. He's a person who got sixteen hundred on 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:43.080 his SAT scores but would have a hard time making 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.880 it around the block without assistance. You have a guy 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:51.360 who's been hailed for twenty years as a political genius, 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:55.800 who has played the hand over these last elections and 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:59.920 left to Democrats without much possibility of getting back into 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:04.440 the majority before twenty twenty eight because of the map. 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:09.440 It's appalling the Democratic senators did not coordinate their messaging, 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:14.280 did not coordinate their questions. So maybe they'll coordinate their opposition, 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.959 because if they don't coordinate their opposition, what's the point 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.840 of the Democratic Party. The opposition to Trump will have 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:25.800 to come from somewhere else. The simple truth about this 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:31.240 moment is the Democrats are as capitulant towards Trump as 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:35.840 everybody else. Tommy Tuverville, the adult from Alabama, put a 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:40.319 hold on the nominations of the entirety of the senior 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:45.640 military leadership. The Senate is filled with rules and procedures 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:51.160 to give the minority power. Every single rule should be exploited. 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:56.360 Democrats should put holds on these nominations or make clear 0:01:56.720 --> 0:02:01.680 that they'll hold up nominations everywhere grime the government to 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:05.920 a holt make it clear that the ascension of Pete 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:09.080 hag Seth and Tulsei Gabbert into these life and death 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:12.520 position is unacceptable. And the Democrats should be on every 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.920 television show. They should be shouting from the mountaintops, they 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:20.120 should be holding news conferences, and instead they're appeasing Trump 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:24.720 and they're rolling over and it is utterly, absolutely unacceptable. 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:29.320 Particularly with America's fighting men and women, these Democratic senators 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:34.280 have an absolute obligation and responsibility to have the backs 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.000 of those men and women. In a way, for example, 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:40.600 that Jony Ernst does not question is how should Americans 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:44.200 feel about the big tech CEOs descending on Washington, d C. 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:51.639 For the inauguration Ais Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon must 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:56.680 all of them, Jeff Bezos, Ed Moore gathered together. They're 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:01.400 not there to witness the peaceful transition of power and 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:05.960 the majesty of an American inauguration that did not happen 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:10.799 in twenty twenty, and so this inauguration is stained by 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:15.880 that travesty. The tech bros, oligarchs all are coming to 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:22.160 Washington to celebrate not the peaceful transfer of power, but power, 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:27.720 raw political power. They are coming like feudal lords to 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:32.160 the court of the king with tribute. They're coming to 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:35.640 be nice. And how should the average American feel about 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.920 these people. They should be scared of them. They should 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:42.440 be frightened because they have immense power, and the fear 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:46.880 isn't baseless. American people should view them the way our 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.720 ancestors viewed the railroad barons at the beginning of the 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:54.560 Industrial Age, with a lot of skepticism. And in the end, 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.960 these people are not all powerful in their dreams of 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:02.440 conquest and power and control over all things everywhere. Will 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:06.160 come to dust like all such dreams, because the American 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.800 people in the end will break up these companies. There 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.520 was a king once. He was a bad king, and 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:16.240 the American farmers overthrew him and we became a country. 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:20.839 Because mankind is ingenious. There are all sorts of people 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:24.000 who have tried in all sorts of new ways to 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:28.080 become kings. In America. These guys are the latest batch, 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:33.520 and like everybody else, their ambitions will seem reachable for 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.280 a while, and then the American people will rise up 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.280 and say no, and we will break up their companies, 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.320 and all of the things that happened to all of 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:46.120 the railroad and all of the oil trusts a century 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:49.839 ago will happen to them because we're a free society 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:54.799 and they are impediments to the exercise of freedom because 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:59.320 their companies are about control. The question is, what is 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:04.159 my reaction to Donald Trump raising the American flag to 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:08.680 full staff in violation of protocol during the morning period, 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:13.240 which lasts thirty days. For President Jimmy Carter, I think 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.560 it's despicable, and I think it's even more despicable that 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:21.080 the Speaker of the House, who lacks dignity, toughness, and judgment, 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.560 would allow him to do it. The speaker is like 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:29.000 the mayor of an institution, the House of Representatives. It's 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:32.080 one of the most important institutions in the country. And 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.800 he's the guy where Nancy Pelosi was, the woman who 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:43.280 makes the decision about these things. Flags, protocol, rank, everything 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:49.200 matters in Washington. The symbolism. There's a reason the flags 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.320 are flown at half staff for thirty days in a 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.680 period of morning. When a president does what Donald Trump 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:59.800 is doing is an action which is typical in that 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:06.080 it aggrandizes him while diminishing an institution, disrespecting it. And 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:10.080 so it is an act of disrespect on the one hand, 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.960 and an act of appeasement and weakness on the part 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.320 of Mike Johnson who's letting him do it. And it's 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:22.159 despicable and every American should be offended by it. The 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.800 question is if I would react to Joe Biden's farewell 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:31.680 addresses and speak to his legacy. Joe Biden's legacy is 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:35.919 going to be one word five letters in Boston, fake gold, 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:40.320 letter T, letter R, letter U, letter M, and letter P. 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:44.640 But together it spells Trump. And it's what Joe Biden 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:48.480 gave America. It's what he left America. It is his legacy. 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:52.960 And let me just say when doctor Jill says that 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:58.000 she's upset with Nancy Pelosi because somehow Nancy Pelosi betrayed 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:01.520 the Bidens by pointing out too late, as was the 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.920 case that he was unfit to finish the campaign, let 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:10.120 alone another term. She felt betrayed personally, as if Nancy 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.840 stole the favor of Biden heir loom from the coffee table. 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:19.240 The American presidency does not belong to the Bidens, or 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:23.240 to the Bushes, or to the Clintons. It belongs to you. 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:27.679 It's offensive in the extreme, and so in an era 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:32.120 of selfishness where it is practiced by too many people, 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.360 nobody should be surprised that the guy who won the 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:39.640 race was the Michael Phelps of selfishness, was the usine 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:43.960 Bolt of corruption, the fastest man alive when it comes 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:48.120 to scump baggery, Donald Trump, and in a race where 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:51.880 the scum baggery is featured, scumbag wins. And the great 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:56.600 achievement politically of Joe Biden and the Democratic Party of 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.440 this moment, and one around which there's not been much 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:03.200 real soul searching but a lot of denialism, is Joe Biden. 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:08.160 A very small group of people, through their abject selfishness 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.200 managed to lose an election not on the economy, not 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.680 on national defense issues, but on honesty to the most 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:19.960 prolific liar in American history. They lost the election on 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.560 the border. Who was telling the truth about it? Trump 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.520 or Biden? That to be Trump? Border was out of control. 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.559 The American people saw it. Who was telling the truth 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.960 about the economy? Trump said it sucked? Biden said it 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:35.079 was the best it could ever be, the greatest economy 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:38.080 in American history. They called the Biden nomics, and the 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.880 people around him called him fder. Who's being honest about 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.040 the economy? That would be Trump? Again, it did suck 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.480 if you were a working person. And who is being 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:51.480 honest about Joe Biden's condition? Who is being honest about 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.280 the one term pledge? Would that have been Biden? Or 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.240 would that have been the most prolific liar in American history? 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:01.280 You see, one of the great problems American life is 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:05.120 the cult of fandom that's taken root. For example, let's 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.440 talk about another broken promise. Karen Bass. She said she 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.960 would never ever leave the state except for it to 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.960 go to Washington and New York if she had to. 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.280 She left the state she went to Ghana and it 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:21.200 burned down. And when you point that out, there's a 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:25.000 sizeable portion of the American elector that says, how dare 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:28.280 you say that about Karen Bass? And because of those people, 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:32.480 we got Trump. And until the opposition party can offer 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:36.640 something new and fresh and better produce candidates with conviction, 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:41.440 who can speak extemporaneously, don't need a teleprompter, know what 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:45.960 they're talking about, have some manner of expertise about law, 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:52.000 about politics, about sociology, psychology, history of the country. They're doomed. 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:57.840 Just the greatest defeat by a political party in American history, 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.320 not by the nature of the vote count, but because 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:05.080 of who the opposition was. When a political party loses 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:08.080 to an unfit movement and an unfit and moral leader, 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:12.240 it must reflect on itself. If you're a Democrat out there, 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:15.480 you're mad at me for saying this, You're nuts. This 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:18.560 is the warning. I want to win again in four 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:24.600 years before they burn the country completely down. I'm Steve Schmidt. 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.000 This is the warning, and I invite you to join. 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:31.360 Subscribe on our substack on our YouTube channel, follow us. 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:36.480 Welcome to the community.