55 Comments

Pure Powerful Excellence, Steve! I'm so glad you brought up Epstein. Trump talking about Epstein's assets was sickening. We KNOW Trump was involved in sexual predation on young women. Thanks for hitting Trump hard. I personally would love to punch him out myself, but I've got you, thankfully!

Expand full comment

No doubt Biden the elder statesman had the wisdom and the audacity to have selected Kamala. Biden laid the ground work into the bold future, here and abroad. It is up to Biden to let Ukraine give the final knockout blow, after over two and a half years of Russian’s daily killing in Ukraine, it is due past time. But here Kamala Harris, the supercharged antidote to Trumpism thankfully does not need his permission. She will deal a fatal knockout blow now and in November. We all just have to pitch in.

Expand full comment

That second sentence is a knock-out, May. Pure dynamite. Well done!

Expand full comment

Yes, pure dynamite, May!

Expand full comment

How right you are Steve. We the people have that power in the election box. We must send a message to Trump that we won't go back. We won't go back to only I can fix it. We won't go back to praising Putin for his cruelty. We won't go back to lies about crowd size and we won't go back to separating children as an immigration policy. We are through with you so go tell your lies at the 19th hole and leave the serious people to solve the problems of the day.

Expand full comment

His debate prepper is Tulsi Gabbard. Between her and Vance, it is a ringside seat for Uncle Vlad.

Expand full comment

Do not forget Trump’s Road Scholar sons! Credit them with bringing MAGAs JD!

What a find? A treasure in the making?

Expand full comment

Anyone who votes for someone selected by Beavis and Butthead needs to seriously ponder their station in life.

Expand full comment

Total Idiocracy!

Expand full comment

I am sure Peter Thiel had something to do with bringing on Vance.

Expand full comment

Wow!

Expand full comment

How proud Trump was to confess his mental game for slippery lying. “I weave”. As in BOB and WEAVE?

Expand full comment

Watching video now, but I would encourage you to STOP referring to this lying unqualified POS as "The Donald". It gives him some kind of elevated air and he deserves much less.

Expand full comment

TFG is "TFG", a "sexual predator", a "Fascist", and "demented dangerous nut-case".

Expand full comment

I can only call him Chump because that is what he is and that is what his supporters are.

Expand full comment

Good catch, Mike! It also harkens back to a time when we had an amusement with him, thanks largely to his wife Ivana. Hope Steve sees this.

Expand full comment

Convicted Felon DonOLD works for me.

Expand full comment

I think trump might have a nervous breakdown before the debate and might be going to the hospital first.

Expand full comment

Yes, even his spray tans have become 'abstract expressionist' paintings. He's imploding!

Expand full comment

I like the way you think.

Expand full comment

An escape, perhaps!

Expand full comment

The essence of this video is contained in the very last part. "It's all madness. Make it stop." Yes. Let's do just that. Vote.

Expand full comment

Fascist-TFG is inciting violence. He loves the POWER of violence. He should be held accountable for manslaughter when there are school shootings. There was another school shooting in Georgia today-NPR: https://www.npr.org/2024/09/04/nx-s1-5100648/apalachee-high-school-georgia-shooting?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20240904&utm_term=9689514&utm_campaign=breaking-news&utm_id=42294125&orgid=72&utm_att1=

Expand full comment

It's possible the Trump campaign is experimenting with levels of sedatives in preparation for the debate--enough that he won't at some point lose his mind in anger, but at the same time not so much that he falls asleep at the podium and drops to the floor. Seriously.

Expand full comment

Great analysis Steve! Keep up the great work because Traitor Trump should be down by 10 points rather than 4-5 points! VOTE ALL BLUE AS INTEND TO DO!!!

Expand full comment

The latest with Mark Robinson is he was a regular for years at a porn shop.

Now, I do not give one whit about it. But it is quite rich that this is a man who goes to great lengths — and in nasty diatribes calling gay people “filth” or women like Beyoncé “skanks” — telling others how to live. Do as I say, not as I do. Yep, that is Mark Robinson.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-north-carolina-candidate-for-governor-mark-robinson-was-regular-at-porn-shop-employee

Expand full comment

Robinson is a creepy hypocrite. Reading this, I finally somewhat understood this nut-case :-(

Expand full comment

"Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, regularly ad-libs false claims that his campaign is unable to substantiate. When CNN asked the campaign on Monday for any evidence of a school deciding to send a child into gender-affirming surgery without parental consent, the campaign could not provide any.

Tiffany Justice, the Moms for Liberty co-founder who conducted the public conversation with Trump, said in a Tuesday interview: 'Are kids getting surgery in school? No they’re not.' But she continued that she was still 'thankful to President Trump' for making the claim – since, she said, his remark has drawn attention to the important issue of schools facilitating children’s social transitions without parental consent. "https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/politics/donald-trump-fact-check-children-gender-affirming-surgery/index.html

Two points: First, Isn't there something in the Ten Commandments, that Moms for "Liberty" wants posted in every classroom, that condemns "bearing false withess"? Isn't that whatTrump did when he lied about schools providing this surgery without parental consent and didn't Tiffany Justice endorse that lie? Second, in order to have the freedom to make good choices we need accurate information. Condemning gender-affirming surgery based on a lie distorts the accurate information people need to make good choices in a Democratic society. But, that is not what these fascist Christians want.

Kamala should call him a liar because he is a liar, BIG TIME.

Expand full comment

Telling outrageous lies is the only way TFG knows how to 'win'. He is a grifter, a LOSER!

Expand full comment

Harris should just keep repeating that we should be unburdened by the past so each of her word salad failures to make any salient point can just be forgotten as we seek joy and enthusiasm about a better Harris performance in the future.

But, let's not be unburdened by the past for Trump. No, not at all. As the standard Democrat hypocrisy of self-identified elites, let's weaponize everything we can about the history of Trump words and behaviors to destroy him. Little Kamala deserves victim coddling and a constant get out of rhetorical jail card... because you know... she is a leader of VICTIMS UNITED!

Expand full comment

You're nothing more than a Kool-Aid drinking ridiculous joke. Bye Felecia.

Expand full comment

There is the pseudo intellectual Mikey spewing his personal invective as he lacks anything useful to say on the topic. Mikey, you are so gaslit by your media feeds, I fear if you walk to close to a flame you will explode in a ball of fake news methane.

Expand full comment

Mike, as you can see, Franky Shank-Lee is--like his fellow Magats--very frustrated and revealing himself as a typical stuck-n-steamin' Trump Chump attempting to let off some of that steam by trolling Steven Schmidt's substack. My advice--have empathy for such a hopeless intellectual pretender and move on.

Expand full comment

I signed up to Steve's Substact to learn something I did not know. I did learn something... that his followers are a vile and nasty bunch of emotionally uncontrolled clowns that believe they are elites. And they are terrible at having civil conversations because they have degraded into primitive tribal instincts to kill the other tribe, working class Americans, so they can continue to feel smugly superior. My job is to keep holding up the mirror.

Expand full comment

I wish I could empathize with someone who appears more psychotically deranged than Trump, but who could actually imagine that exceeding the miscreant is humanly possible? But now we’ve been provided with an extended ostensive definition of psychopathy and instantiation of the idea.

Expand full comment

Keny is also gaslit. You probably still think Biden is fit, and Kamala is a skilled and capable politician. You believe it because Facebook memes told you so.

Expand full comment

I don’t use Facebook or most social media, Lee. I read books and articles judiciously, copiously and thoughtfully, processes clearly alien to your ken. And, FYI, in America we spell my name with a double n.

Expand full comment

Frank Lee has a starring role in the sequel movie "Idiocracy".

Expand full comment

“Democrat hypocrisy of self-identified elites” Wow, talk about a word salad…I’m not sure I know any “self-identified elites” who also identify as Democrats…but go ahead and spew your hatred and divisive BS..it’s entertaining

Expand full comment

"...so each of her word salad failures to make any salient point..."

Well, Chis. He tried his Cult 45 fakey darndest to come off as eloquent. But ened up only managing awkward. And that was just the first sentence.

Expand full comment

It all adds up! Frank Lee has a starring role in the sequel movie "Idiocracy".

Expand full comment

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/the-155-craziest-things-trump-said-this-cycle-214420/

A few samples from the lengthy list (155 in the article) of crazy things Trump has said:

3. “I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I’ll build them very inexpensively, I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.” (Campaign launch speech, June 16, 2015)

10. “And I had an idea recently. When they send illegals into our country, we charge Mexico $100,000 for every illegal that crosses that border because it’s trouble.” (On Sean Hannity’s show, July 15, 2015)

24. “Everything I’ve done virtually has been a tremendous success.” (Debate. September 16, 2015.)

26. “I’m looking at guys like Marco Rubio who has the worst voting record in the United States Senate. Young guy although he sweats more than any young person I’ve seen in my life. I’ve never seen a person sweat — I have never seen a guy down water like he downs water. They bring it in in buckets for this guy.” (Morning Joe interview. September 24, 2015)

14. “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.” (Donald Trump in a CNN interview about Megyn Kelly, one of Fox News’ moderators in the first Republican debate, on August 7, 2015.)

27. “I believe in clean air. Immaculate air. … But I don’t believe in climate change.” (CNN TV Interview, September 24, 2015)

34. “When he said he stabbed somebody with a knife but it hit a belt buckle—I know all about knives and belt buckles.” (Interview on CNN speaking about Ben Carson’s memoir, in which Carson recalls attempting to stab someone as a young man, November 12, 2015)

44. “If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of ’em, would you? Seriously. OK? Just knock the hell—I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise. I promise.” (Referring to protesters, rally in Iowa, February 1, 2016)

45. “I would bring back waterboarding. And I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.” (Republican primary debate in New Hampshire, February 6, 2016)

55. “Part of the problem and part of the reason it takes so long [to kick out protesters] is nobody wants to hurt each other anymore.” (Speaking at a rally in St. Louis, Missouri, March 11, 2016)

56. “I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things.” (Asked on Morning Joe who his foreign policy consultants are, March 16, 2016

60. “Europe is a big place, I’m not going to take cards off the table.” (About using nuclear weapons in Europe on “The O’Reilly Factor,” March 31, 2016)

61. “After I beat them, I’m going to be so presidential, you’re going to be so bored, you’re going to say, this is the most boring human being I’ve ever interviewed.” (Interview on “Fox News Sunday” April 3, 2016)

62.. “Which is true, actually, I actually have low blood pressure, can you believe it? Can you believe it? I have like 100 over something. The doctor said, ‘Man you have the blood pressure of a great, great, athlete who is 20 years old. 110, I like that, because I like being a great athlete.” (Rally in Waterbury, Connecticut, April 23, 2016)

65. “Do I look a president? How handsome am I, right? How handsome?” (Rally in West Chester, Pennsylvania, April 25, 2016)

88. “They’re trying to take over our children. ...They’re pouring in and we don’t know what we’re doing.” (Speech at Saint Anselm College, New Hampshire, on refugees suspected of being terrorists, June 13, 2016)

90. “I feel like a supermodel except, like, times 10, OK? It’s true. I’m a supermodel.” (Rally in Arizona, June 18, 2016)

92. “I don’t think anybody should listen to me because I haven’t really focused on it very much.”

(Interview on Fox Business regarding Brexit, June 22, 2016

96. “That could be a Mexican plane up there. They’re getting ready to attack,” (Rally in New Hampshire, June 30, 2016)

106. “He’s not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you understand. He’s not going to go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want.” (Interview with George Stephanopoulos, July 31, 2016)

107. “The people of Crimea, from what I’ve heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were.” (Interview with George Stephanopoulos, July 31, 2016)

111. “Many people are saying that the Iranians killed the scientist who helped the U.S. because of Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails.” (Twitter, Aug 8, 2016)

I don't know what you mean by, "let's not be unburdened by the past for Trump." But this article was published in 2016 and an up to date list would be far longer and contain even crazier statements. Trump was a liar, a fool, and an Ignoramus in the past and is even worse today.

Expand full comment

It is nearly incomprehensible that anyone saying things like this could be POTUS :-( Disgusting and deeply concerning.

Expand full comment

Trump spends more time incessantly whining about his personal VICTIMHOOD than possibly any political incumbant or candidate running for office in modern history. For that matter you might as well toss in ancient history as well.

On that basis alone, pretzel-twisting, projectionist hypocrtites such as yourself Frank prove yourself to have ZERO credibility. There's a lot more to say but isn't that enough? That's a rhetorical question folks because perhaps above all we have come to know MAGA is like a dog to it's own vomit and has absolutely no shame. None.

Expand full comment

Since Harris reluctantly agreed to Trump’s team demand for muted microphones, she should repeat any nonsense he utters and address that as though the microphones were on. Don’t let him get away with his attempts at intimidation.

Expand full comment