1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:04,600 Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Schmidt Storm. You've got questions, 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:08,639 Speaker 1: I've got answers. Let's get started. The question is before 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: he leaves office, President Biden is looking to make reforms 4 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,160 Speaker 1: to the United States Supreme Court. This is a very 5 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,400 Speaker 1: important issue, and this is something that's not going to 6 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 1: happen overnight. But we have a broken institution, and that 7 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: institution is the United States Supreme Court. The legacy of 8 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:32,599 Speaker 1: the Roberts Court is that it has lost the trust 9 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 1: of the American people, and during his testimony as a nominee, 10 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:42,840 Speaker 1: the Chief Justice expressed over and over again his deep 11 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,720 Speaker 1: and sincere concern about this. The truth of the matter 12 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 1: is is he is a man I admire. I led 13 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:53,520 Speaker 1: his confirmation process. But the simple facts of the matter 14 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: are he just simply has not been able to grapple 15 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:04,759 Speaker 1: with the unpressed in political, partisan, and ethical breaches of 16 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:09,959 Speaker 1: Samuel Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas, who is traveling the 17 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: world alongside billionaires who have business before the court, cases 18 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 1: before the Court without disclosing it. It's wild. And the 19 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: number one thing over time that has to happen is 20 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:30,800 Speaker 1: the abolishment of the concept of lifetime tenure. There cannot 21 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:36,279 Speaker 1: be lifetime tenure in a season of history where human 22 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:39,760 Speaker 1: beings are going to routinely live to be one hundred 23 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 1: and ten years old. It cannot be the case that 24 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: we have justices serving for eighty years on the Court. 25 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:52,560 Speaker 1: It is corrupt. It is beyond the realm of the 26 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 1: imagination of what the founders could have envisioned. Life tenure 27 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:02,160 Speaker 1: meant something very very different in seventeen eighty than it 28 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:06,040 Speaker 1: does in the twenty twenties. And so whether it's ethics, 29 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 1: whether it's life tenure, the Court and its functionality, its credibility, 30 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 1: and its trust with the American people has to be restored, 31 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 1: and it can only be restored through reform. And in 32 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: the end, what has happened at this confluence of money 33 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: in politics and the money washing around the Court in 34 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 1: the form of Leonard Leo and some of the other 35 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: very corrupt right wingers zelots who have shaped the court 36 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: so much in their partisan image over recent years. We 37 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 1: have a big, big, big, big big problem in this 38 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,520 Speaker 1: country with the Court. To this first step is a 39 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: good thing. The question is why doesn't the American media 40 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 1: call out Donald Trump and JD. Vans for having no 41 00:02:56,520 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 1: policy specifics whatsoever beyond running the country down and talking 42 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 1: about transgenderism. I talk about it. I think it's a 43 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: great point. I spoke out loudly, clearly and would deep 44 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 1: worry about President Biden's capacity to win the election, and 45 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:18,679 Speaker 1: I talked about something that was painful for a lot 46 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: of people to hear, which was his evident decline. Now, 47 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: if you take what I said about President Biden and 48 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 1: you weigh that against anything that comes out of the 49 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,920 Speaker 1: mouth of Donald Trump on a daily basis, and you 50 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: measure the two by overwhelming magnitude, the more concerning behavior 51 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 1: comments come from Donald Trump, who slurs his words, is 52 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: completely incoherent, who blusters inanities. There was someone on Fox 53 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: the other day who pointed out to the panel, challenge 54 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 1: to them, tell me what he's talking about. And that's 55 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: been true for a long time. Saying Ago is going 56 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 1: to pay for a wall is not policy. It's a 57 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: form of simpletonism. And Trump at his core is a 58 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: Chauncey Gardner with venom glands, maliced simpleton who has never, ever, 59 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:23,159 Speaker 1: one time ever talked coherently and in depth and fluently 60 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:27,320 Speaker 1: about any issue. And so it's all part of the 61 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:34,120 Speaker 1: kabuki the pretend the false balance that goes by the 62 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:40,039 Speaker 1: name of journalism, which has become completely warped from any 63 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: and all ethical standards and bearing as badly warped, as 64 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:49,159 Speaker 1: broken as the Republican Party is as an institution. It 65 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 1: was broken by Trump as surely as that institution and 66 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: many others were during this era. There is no good 67 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: answer to your question, but there are tw two words 68 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: that probably explain it, best access and cynicism. The question 69 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: is what is the best course of action for Israel 70 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 1: and Palestine following the murder of the Israeli hostages. Well, 71 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:19,919 Speaker 1: first off, Israeli hostages were murdered, but so was an 72 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: American hostage. Hamas murdered an American hostage, and the American 73 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:31,440 Speaker 1: people met hirsch poland Goldberg's parents, his mother and his father, 74 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:36,960 Speaker 1: heroic people, admired by the American people. And there was 75 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: a lie in the air, a deception in the wind, 76 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: if you will, propagated by inflammatory images spread by mainstream media, 77 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:54,559 Speaker 1: by the New York Times executive editor who foolishly looked 78 00:05:54,600 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: at these campus protests, these pro Hamas protests. There and 79 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 1: a super minority fraction of the American population of sliver 80 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:10,039 Speaker 1: and decided that this was nineteen sixty eight, as delusional 81 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 1: as anything that comes out of Trump's head, complete craziness. 82 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:19,560 Speaker 1: The American people you saw at the Democratic National Convention, 83 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: where the American people stand on this issue. They want 84 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 1: these hostages home. And one of our people, America's people, 85 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 1: who was murdered for being a Jew by terrorists and 86 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 1: the people who did that, who were responsible for that, 87 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: all of them must be hunted down and killed by 88 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 1: the American military on the orders of the American President. Secondly, 89 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: it's very important to attach a preface to the words hamas, 90 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: this is Iranian Hamas, this is Iranian Hezbollah. And Winston 91 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:01,719 Speaker 1: Churchill gave a speech in the nineteen thirties and he 92 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:06,880 Speaker 1: said only a madman would wish for war. So in 93 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 1: a Western society, when we talk about peace, of course 94 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 1: no one wants war. But what about a society where 95 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 1: the focus of that society and the goal of the 96 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: leader is to wage war when the values of the 97 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 1: society or that there's nothing more important than dying for 98 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: the country killing Jews, because that is the culture of Iran. 99 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: Iran is waging war against the United States, and it's 100 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 1: waging war against Israel, and it's waging war against our 101 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 1: Western allies. It's waging war and has been waging war 102 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:44,559 Speaker 1: and will wage war. This will fall into the great 103 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:48,720 Speaker 1: challenge is facing the next president. There is a regime 104 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: filled with religious fanatics on the edge of nuclear weapons 105 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: that is waging war against us and murdering our people. 106 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: The lesson of history is that there are great will 107 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: only be deterred by overwhelming strength. Any Time they see weakness, 108 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: it drives their aggression. Hamas cannot survive this war. It 109 00:08:12,640 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: cannot be the case that sixty thousand Israelis cannot return 110 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 1: home in the north of Israel. Israel's in a tragic 111 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: situation because it is yoked to the most terrible leader 112 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:27,120 Speaker 1: in its history, Benjaminett and Yahoo right now, and so 113 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 1: it's a tragic situation. But before there can be peace, 114 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 1: these terror organizations have to be destroyed. There's no difference 115 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:38,720 Speaker 1: between Hamas and the Waff and SS. And there's a 116 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:44,160 Speaker 1: great disease running rampant among too many Americans cheering for 117 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: the equivalent of the Nazi Waff and SS in the 118 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:51,120 Speaker 1: murder of Jews. And so this appalling moment has to 119 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: be talked about clearly and openly and directly, and the 120 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 1: American president is responsible for the protection of America's city 121 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:04,960 Speaker 1: and Hirsch Goldbert Poland was many things in life, but 122 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:10,200 Speaker 1: among them was our fellow American. The question is, is 123 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 1: rf case failure to get his name removed from ballots 124 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 1: all over the country the greatest political fail in American history. No, 125 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:21,280 Speaker 1: it's definitely not the biggest political fail in American history. 126 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: That would belong to the American people who elected Donald 127 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:28,560 Speaker 1: Trump to the presidency by a very narrow margin in 128 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, setting in motion cultural, spiritual, national catastrophe. But 129 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:39,559 Speaker 1: it's a pretty big fail. I'm old enough to remember 130 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: when Bobby Kennedy was scrambling to get on the ballots. 131 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 1: And the deal is, once you're on it, it's really hard 132 00:09:45,960 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 1: to get off. You're on, and you're on because the 133 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:55,200 Speaker 1: candidate's wishes do not supersede the signatures and the desires 134 00:09:55,600 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 1: of the people who wanted to put him on the ballot. 135 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:03,680 Speaker 1: You see, people signed the petitions. You're on, and he 136 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 1: wanted to be on, and now he's on. He got 137 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 1: what he wanted, and that's the way life worked out. 138 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 1: And so his cynical and corrupt bargain seeking power in 139 00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 1: some type of deal is yet another demonstration of one 140 00:10:18,559 --> 00:10:23,680 Speaker 1: of the most important principles in life. Prior proper planning 141 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: prevents piss poor performance the seven Piece. Robert Kennedy clearly, 142 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:33,679 Speaker 1: whether it was chainsawing the head off the whale, playing 143 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:36,800 Speaker 1: the dead bear prank, or a lot of other things, 144 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:40,880 Speaker 1: does not believe in the seven piece. You should practice 145 00:10:41,320 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 1: the seven piece because they were and if Bobby Kennedy 146 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:49,040 Speaker 1: had practiced them, he would know how difficult it is 147 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:53,400 Speaker 1: to get off a ballot doing hocus pocus and corrupt 148 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 1: deals behind the curtain. The system isn't rigged for that. 149 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,720 Speaker 1: I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning and I invite 150 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 1: you to join. Subscribe on our substack on our YouTube channel, 151 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:08,199 Speaker 1: follow us. 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