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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the schmid Storm. You've got questions,

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Speaker 1: I've got answers. This has been an extraordinary week in

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Speaker 1: the life of the United States. Political violence is rearing

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Speaker 1: its head, as was long predicted on this channel. Let's

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Speaker 1: get into the questions. What is the meaning of Charlie

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Speaker 1: Kirk's death. It's a deep question, and I'm afraid I'm

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Speaker 1: not the right person to answer it. I know three things.

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Speaker 1: I know the life is precious, and I watched a

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Speaker 1: young man's exterminated, obliterated on camera, and I know the

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Speaker 1: reaction to it shows the rottenness and the sickness and

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Speaker 1: our society, from people who cheered it, to the president

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Speaker 1: who used it as an opportunity to inflame a situation

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Speaker 1: by pouring gasoline on it and assigning collective guilt, collective

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Speaker 1: blame to every political opponent of his, demanding that the answer,

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Speaker 1: the justice for Charlie Kirk is that we give up

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Speaker 1: our opposition to him and his threats to come after

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Speaker 1: political parties, institutions everybody who dissents as enemies of the state.

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Speaker 1: Because a murder was an act of collective murder. Is

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Speaker 1: as sick as it gets, and it's very dangerous. You know.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that Charlie Kirk said is that

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Speaker 1: empathy is weakness. I can't stand the word empathy. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I think empathy is a made up new age term

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Speaker 1: that does a lot of damage. Donald Trump has no

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Speaker 1: empathy for him, for his family, He is incapable of it.

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Speaker 1: But like a predator, he sends his opportunity. And the opportunity,

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Speaker 1: senses is about political power. Donald Trump is using this

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Speaker 1: moment to try to take Charlie Kirk, turn him into

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Speaker 1: a horsed vessel, a symbol of a faction that becomes

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Speaker 1: through mandate, a symbol of the state. The truth is,

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Speaker 1: what Charlie Kirks stood for in life was Unamerican. He

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Speaker 1: held to the proposition that some of us are more

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Speaker 1: equal than others. He targeted some of the most vulnerable

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Speaker 1: people and he bullied them, He escapegoated them, He spread

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Speaker 1: lies and conspiracies. And that's what the public record is

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Speaker 1: a tragedy. When you murder somebody and you steal time,

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Speaker 1: you steal their life from them. There's no opportunity for

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Speaker 1: this young man to grow out of the nonsense that

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Speaker 1: he believed. And don't let anybody tell you that this

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Speaker 1: was a person who debated high ideas. He provoked mockery

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Speaker 1: and bullying. He set up elaborate confrontations, carefully edited them,

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Speaker 1: all of it designed to make the people who challenged

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Speaker 1: him look like fools. He diminished debate, he didn't enhance it.

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Speaker 1: And no, there shouldn't be a statue to him in

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Speaker 1: the capital of the United States that was invaded and

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Speaker 1: desecrated by a mob that he fully supported and that

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Speaker 1: he stoked with lies and conspiracies. Next question is about

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Speaker 1: what is happening in Venezuela in the military build up.

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Speaker 1: In the days leading up to Charlie Kirk's assassination, I

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Speaker 1: wrote about killing on three or four different occasions, and

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Speaker 1: specifically I talked about an exchange between a journalist named

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Speaker 1: Ed Krasenstein and JD. Vance, and Ed Krasenstein pointed out

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Speaker 1: that without authority, without legal justification, without evidence, destroying a

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Speaker 1: boat in international waters on the basis of an accusation

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Speaker 1: alone is a war crime. And JD. Vance delivered his

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Speaker 1: assessment on that his view of the worth of human

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Speaker 1: life by declaring, I don't give here was the Rand

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Speaker 1: Paul response, there are not enough American forces to invade Venezuela,

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Speaker 1: but there are more than enough to strike Venezuela. Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump started deploying troops as the Epstein scandal drew closer

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Speaker 1: and close. Oh this is real life, wagged the dog,

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Speaker 1: where he's playing with the lives of america soldier, sailors, airmen,

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Speaker 1: and marines. Donald Trump's biggest broken promise will be war.

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Speaker 1: You promise peace, but we will have war. All fascists

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Speaker 1: star wars, and Donald Trump is a fascist. It's important

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Speaker 1: to remember that maybe the best definition ever given a

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Speaker 1: fascism was by Upton Saint Clair, who said it's capitalism

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Speaker 1: plus murder. As long ago prophecied apocryphallly attributed to an

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Speaker 1: author named Saint Clair Lewis that when fascism came to America,

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Speaker 1: it would be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.

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Speaker 1: And for any person who doubts that, well, they haven't

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Speaker 1: been paying much attention over the last seven months. And

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Speaker 1: they certainly haven't been paying attention to the Republican congressman

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Speaker 1: who look at the murder of a man on a

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Speaker 1: college campus and say the response should be the elimination

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Speaker 1: of free speech in America. Charlie Kirk said the epidemic

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Speaker 1: of school shootings was worth the price at a second Amendment.

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Speaker 1: I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to

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Speaker 1: have a cost of unfortunately some gun debts every single

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Speaker 1: year so that we can have the Second Amendment to

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Speaker 1: protect our other God given rights. That is a prudent deal.

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Speaker 1: He didn't deserve to die for that position, as appalling

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Speaker 1: as I find it, but I also know that in

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Speaker 1: his death, the price of that crime is to be

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Speaker 1: paid by the man who did the crime, not Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump's opponents. And there's no linkage except for the fantasies

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Speaker 1: and Donald Trump sick had between the suspension of our

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Speaker 1: rights and a murder in those rights, regardless of murder

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Speaker 1: or not at the disposal of magas politicians, because in

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Speaker 1: the American society they come from a higher power and

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Speaker 1: it's not negotiable. The last question is about the economy.

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Speaker 1: It's simply what's happening. The economy is seizing. It's like

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Speaker 1: a person in cardiac arrest. The heartbeat is seized. Prices

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Speaker 1: are going higher, crazy high. All of the vandalism, all

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Speaker 1: of the madness, all of the lying, all of the

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Speaker 1: bill is coming due. What Trump has done, will a

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Speaker 1: miserate scores at tens of millions of Americans. The Trump

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Speaker 1: economy has only one unanswered question. Will he create a

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Speaker 1: depression worse than what happened in the nineteen thirties, or

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Speaker 1: will he simply create a recession worse than the Great Recession?

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Speaker 1: That's the open question. He's a vandal when it comes

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Speaker 1: to our liberty. He's a vandal when it comes to

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Speaker 1: our security. He's a vandal when it comes to our prosperity.

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Speaker 1: He's a vandal when it comes to our decency, our society.

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Speaker 1: It's the worst president in American history, and then some.

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Speaker 1: He's a liar, an accused rapist, an abuser of women,

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Speaker 1: a con man, a want to be Mussolini, A demented

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Speaker 1: furor in waiting, boiling in his hatreds seething in his contempt,

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Speaker 1: dreaming of retrobush and revenge. A man who is not

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Speaker 1: supported by the people in this country, whose ambitions are

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Speaker 1: falling apart, whose program is not succeeding, whose economy is collapsing,

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Speaker 1: whose administration is a laughing stock all around the world.

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is a joke, and it's not a crime

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Speaker 1: to say it. Not in America and believing it and

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Speaker 1: knowing it and saying it absolutely doesn't make anybody a

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Speaker 1: co conspirator and a murder. This is the warning. I'm

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Speaker 1: Steve Schmidt. This is the warning. I invite you to

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Speaker 1: join this community where I promise to be honest, blunt

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Speaker 1: and direct about what is happening in this country. America

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