1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: It is Friday, August the eighth. Welcome to another edition 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:07,680 Speaker 1: of the schmid Storm. You have questions, I've got answers. 3 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 1: The first question is about the militarization of Washington, DC 4 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 1: in the aftermath of the assault on Big Balls, the 5 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:24,799 Speaker 1: Doje arsonists, who was photographed purportedly after he tried to 6 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: stop a cord jacking at three in the morning. Now, 7 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:32,239 Speaker 1: I don't believe a word of that. In the end, 8 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 1: Big Balls did not heed an important lesson in life 9 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:39,919 Speaker 1: that was passed on to me by my dad and 10 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 1: that I've passed on to my kids, and it's this 11 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:48,280 Speaker 1: that nothing good happens after two am in the big city. 12 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:49,200 Speaker 2: Go to bed. 13 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: But at any rate, Big Balls was up and about 14 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:58,040 Speaker 1: at three in the morning and he was supposedly assaulted. 15 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 2: By a gang of children. 16 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:07,320 Speaker 1: Terrorists as such described by the Trump administration slash regime. 17 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: Now it's really important to understand who the Central Park 18 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:16,280 Speaker 1: five were, young black men that Donald Trump pointed a 19 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 1: finger at accused absent evidence and said should get the 20 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 1: death penalty. There's been a lot written on the subject. 21 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: What should endure, though, is Donald Trump's malice and his 22 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: deep racism and so in Washington, DC, the majority black 23 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: capital of the nation. Donald Trump, in response to Big Balls, 24 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:45,880 Speaker 1: has set about to deploy the army. Because everywhere that 25 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: Donald Trump can assert power like a dime store Mussolini, 26 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: our orange duche tries to assert him. 27 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 2: And so now because Big Balls got. 28 00:01:57,080 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 1: His ass cake by the children criminals of Washington, we 29 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: have to deploy the United States Army. And I just 30 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: got to say, every American should be a gas at 31 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: a militarized federal capital, armed to the teeth with federal 32 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 1: agents by a fascist because a punk got beat up 33 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,040 Speaker 1: wandering around a big city in the middle of the night. 34 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:24,079 Speaker 2: Second question. 35 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth has restored a monument called the Reconciliation Memorial 36 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 1: Darlington National Cemetery that commemorates Albert Pike, who was a 37 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 1: Confederate brigadier general. This symbol, the stars and bars the 38 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:46,359 Speaker 1: Confederate battleflag, is a symbol of white supremacy, of oppression, 39 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: of treason, and importantly of defeat. It is a myth 40 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 1: that General Lee the Trader was some strategic genius. There 41 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: was a strategic genius in the Civil War. His name 42 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 1: was Ulysses Grant. Albert Pike was a mediocrity. He was 43 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 1: a know nothing, and the know nothings were a predecessor. 44 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 2: Of Maga, and they hated Catholics. 45 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: Now, Peter Hagseth, not for nothing, is festooned in Christian 46 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 1: nationalist tattoos, and Peter Hagseth. 47 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 2: May be anti Catholic. 48 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:30,360 Speaker 1: Those nationalist tattoos would suggest that he is. His decision 49 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:34,720 Speaker 1: to commemorate Albert Pike would suggest that he is. 50 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 2: If you look at the. 51 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:40,800 Speaker 1: Washington Monument, you can't see this line of discoloration, and 52 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: it comes from a period when that monument sat there 53 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:49,200 Speaker 1: at that line, unfinished, like a stump. Because the no 54 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:54,480 Speaker 1: nothings of which Pike was one, seized a donation of 55 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: marble made by the Vatican, and they threw it into 56 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: the Potomac River. They threw it into the Potomac River 57 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:07,640 Speaker 1: because of the Catholic marble. Now construction stop for twenty 58 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 1: five years. And you can see in the completed work 59 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:14,000 Speaker 1: to the first President of the United States, the man 60 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 1: that was called first in war, first in peace, first 61 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 1: in the hearts of his countrymen, the man who twice 62 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:25,279 Speaker 1: walked away from the opportunity to be king, to bequeath 63 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:30,520 Speaker 1: us as Democratic Republic. That man, his monument carries the 64 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:38,160 Speaker 1: scar of Pike's hatreds of Pike's movement, which would metastasize 65 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:43,760 Speaker 1: over time into an embrace of treason, an embrace of secession, 66 00:04:44,080 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 1: which is what the Confederacy stands for. The vice Presidency 67 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:52,360 Speaker 1: of the Confederacy left no doubt about it, will put 68 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:58,279 Speaker 1: the words of the Cornerstone speech that Alexander Stevens delivered. 69 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 1: So this is what Trump says celebrates, this is what 70 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth celebrates. It is a white supremacy, it is 71 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:11,160 Speaker 1: a white nationalism, and it is the precise meaning of 72 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 1: this sick ad posted by Ice recruiting losers, which calls 73 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: on them in the same way the Right called on 74 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: its losers to join the SS and the Essay to 75 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 1: defend not the country but their culture. So the government 76 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 1: now has recruiting posters like the ku Klux Klan and 77 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:38,160 Speaker 1: the neo Nazis, and they give these people masks, badges, weapons, 78 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,479 Speaker 1: long rifles and set them loose in the back of 79 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:46,440 Speaker 1: rider trucks and Penske trucks to terrorize neighborhoods in places 80 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 1: like Los Angeles. Next question, what do you think about 81 00:05:50,279 --> 00:05:53,919 Speaker 1: the South Park Christineome episode. I think it was a 82 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: work of genius. I love it, and christineoam is rattled 83 00:05:58,120 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 1: by it. 84 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 2: Let's watch did a good job in their soldier. Okay, 85 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,119 Speaker 2: thank you, captain. I know it's tough doing what's hard, 86 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:11,280 Speaker 2: but we could use more men of our viel your 87 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 2: boatox misnom oh just kicks me up, chicks me up 88 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:20,280 Speaker 2: another day doing what's tough. 89 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:25,480 Speaker 1: With the south Park episode points out is that Christy 90 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 1: no is America's greatest skank. She is a face dripping 91 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 1: wax caricature of despotism, a clown for sure, a buffoon 92 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 1: at a woman traveling the country coastplaying a dress up 93 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 1: action heroin with her boyfriend in their married relationship. 94 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:52,960 Speaker 2: It's something. 95 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 1: And so the lampooning of this despotic, tyrannical woman was 96 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 1: terrific and it hit and it cut deep and it 97 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 1: wounded her. And it's a guide for everybody out there 98 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:09,320 Speaker 1: about where to draw the target and how you engage 99 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 1: Christine nom this sixth sociopathic narcissist. What she cares about 100 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: is people telling her she looks hot. Good for the 101 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: south Park guys for exposing that. What Christy Nome is 102 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 1: all about. Is the rot What a rotten woman, What 103 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: a despicable woman, the ugliest one that I could think 104 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: of in this country of three hundred and forty million souls. 105 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 1: The next question is about what is happening in Texas 106 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 1: and the redrawing of the lines and John Cornyn asking 107 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:46,720 Speaker 1: the FBI to arrest the Texas legislators. John Cornan, who 108 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: incredibly used to be a judge, has become a full 109 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:57,240 Speaker 1: fledged demagogue. Really, he's a ghost, a nebulous, invisible type figure. 110 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:00,560 Speaker 2: He is the exact. 111 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:05,000 Speaker 1: Caricature of the person that John Kennedy talked about in 112 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: his inaugural address, that foolish man who sought power by 113 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 1: trying to ride the back of the tiger, only to 114 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: wind up inside. And so John Cornan is getting his 115 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,679 Speaker 1: ass kicked to Ken past and one of the most 116 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: despicable members of MAGA, one of the most corrupt public officials, 117 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: and history of Texas and history of the United States 118 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 1: completely off the wall, as off the wall, a whack 119 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:35,320 Speaker 1: job as there is an elected office anywhere, and I include. 120 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 2: Trump in that. 121 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 1: If Ken Paxson were elected to the United States Senate 122 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 1: November of twenty twenty six. 123 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 2: Immediately, he'd be the most corrupt guy there. 124 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:46,800 Speaker 1: He's worse than Ted Cruz and Josh Holly put together. 125 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 2: He would be like the Senate version of Chucky. 126 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 1: Words divide ability to describe this scumbag. At any rate, 127 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:01,760 Speaker 1: he's the certain Republican nominee, the certain MAGA nomine against 128 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: John Cornon, who is as desperate as a candidate can be. 129 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: And so John Cornon has asked the corrupt FBI of 130 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:16,679 Speaker 1: cash Pattel, which is firing everywhere you look, the last 131 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 1: vestiges of integrity from the agency, the last vestiges of standards, 132 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: and filling it with Trump stooges and desecrating the glorious 133 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 1: legacy of the world's premier law enforcement institution. 134 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,480 Speaker 2: But at any rate, we have Cash Patel. 135 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: Supposedly, according to John Corny and Judge Cornon is going 136 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:48,599 Speaker 1: to arrest the Texas legislat towards in Illinois on behalf 137 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 1: of the governor of Texas, despite those legislators breaking no 138 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 1: law whatsoever in Texas and there being no crime whatsoever, 139 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: certainly not at a federal level, which means the FBI 140 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,280 Speaker 1: has as much jurisdiction here as does the Canadian mounted 141 00:10:05,280 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 1: beliefe in zero nothing but the overreach the FBI to 142 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 1: arrest the Texas legislators, tanks in the streets of DC 143 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:20,000 Speaker 1: for big balls, and everywhere an iceman in a neighborhood 144 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:24,959 Speaker 1: near you. So we can be great again soon. It's 145 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:29,080 Speaker 1: working out great. Last question, the tariffs have raised the 146 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 1: cost of goods and prices everywhere. What should Democrats say 147 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 1: about it? Well, Democrats should make the point that Donald 148 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 1: Trump ran saying that he was going to lower costs. 149 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:42,680 Speaker 1: Here's Elizabeth Warren doing a great job of. 150 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:47,079 Speaker 3: It, Chirpal, What has changed in the last six months 151 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:51,559 Speaker 3: that has caused the FIT to forecast substantially higher inflation, 152 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 3: somewhat higher unemployment, and lower economic growth than you did 153 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:56,800 Speaker 3: in December. 154 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: Everywhere costs or higher because Donald Trump has raised taxes 155 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 1: on a lot of the things ordinary people need to 156 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:11,040 Speaker 1: buy every day, higher than they've been in a hundred 157 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: years time. And the last time they were this high, 158 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 1: it caused the Great Depression, and Donald Trump has caused 159 00:11:18,920 --> 00:11:23,400 Speaker 1: a recession that's coming closer. It's like a hurricane that's 160 00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:27,320 Speaker 1: formed out in the ocean that hasn't quite made landfall yet. 161 00:11:27,320 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 1: But if you live near the ocean. If you live 162 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:35,080 Speaker 1: near the beach, you feel it. You know the flooding 163 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:38,199 Speaker 1: is coming. You know the disaster at hand. If you're 164 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:41,360 Speaker 1: a farmer, you know it. It's why the suicide rate 165 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:45,040 Speaker 1: of farmers is surgeon. The Trump disaster is coming. Doe, 166 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:48,440 Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, and it's coming. Do hard, and it's 167 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:52,760 Speaker 1: coming do fast, and it's coming due for everybody everywhere. 168 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:56,319 Speaker 2: It will be a brutal fall in America. 169 00:11:57,280 --> 00:12:00,560 Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you 170 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,840 Speaker 1: to join this community where I promise to be honest, 171 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 1: blunt and direct about what is happening in this country. 172 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:12,320 Speaker 1: America is in crisis. Follow and subscribe to this channel 173 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:13,439 Speaker 1: and on substack. 174 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:14,000 Speaker 2: Thank you.