In the latest edition of "The Schmidt Storm,” I answer your questions about Congresswoman Kay Granger, Trump's day one deportation plans, and what to keep an eye on for 2025:The Warning with Steve Schmidt is a reader-supported publication.
I love the Schmidtstorm. I had seen the Kay Granger story. When you have not been seen in months and are living in the memory care unit of a nursing home as a sitting Congresswoman, you have a lot of people covering up for you. It is awful. On the other hand, Nancy Mace apparently has all of her mental faculties and is as pathetic as it gets. Just another day on the declining path.
I love the Schmidtstorm too ! Especially when it's funny .. Because I am heartbroken over our country becoming a laughing stock! At the same time the world must be weary of us. Our allies can no longer trust us. Kay Granger is a perfect example of how broken we are. No one cares that a US Congress Woman did not participate in government for months. We paid her and her staff for what? No one is outraged . It's insane. They are thinking of running MTG for the senate in Georgia against Ossoff. Trumps boy Musk will put up enough money to defeat him .. It is all to disgusting .
Steve, I have found stories in Politico to be frequently in line with your views. As an example I quote from today's article about Dean Philips:
"Dean Phillips has some regrets. Not about his decision to launch a quixotic primary challenge to President Joe Biden. He stands by that move, which alienated him from his party even as it proved prescient after Biden’s disastrous debate with Donald Trump.
But in an exit interview with POLITICO Magazine, the retiring Minnesota Democrat said he wished he had been more successful at fixing what he says is a deeply broken Congress and that he could have delivered more for his constituents. And he made clear he was leaving Capitol Hill extraordinarily frustrated with his party.
'We are totally devoid of leadership. We are rudderless,' he said."
Trump may be the person whose combined arrogance and greed will lead the world to nuclear armageddon.Threatening Canada, Mexico, and Panama come from deep within his psychic need for unlimited power. He is the secular devil and there will be no Christ standing upon the mushroom clouds to separate the wheat from the chaff.
I too have always taken what he says literally and seriously. What do you believe the Day 1 executive orders will be and what do you believe the first 100 day priorities will be other than the mass deportations?
Steve, I have a suggestion for your next hour long conversation series. You are so often speaking to generational change in government, bringing on those who are trying to do it is just the thing. David Hogg and Kevin Lata of https://leaderswedeserve.com for the hour. This can bring to The Warning community a younger perspective, while exposing their younger constituency to The Warning. They can gain support from all at The Warning and The Warning can receive new subscribers! Help make this conversation the national necessity it is.
The American people, including Trump’s symbiotic cult cosseters, simply have no idea of how relentless, totally socially and personally disruptive and psychologically damaging the execution of the American Fuhrer’s deranged and impractical mass deportation plan will be for nearly all Americans. It will turn America into a Gestapo-like terror state reminiscent of Nazi Germany which, in addition to those directly targeted and persecuted, like Jews during the Third Reich, will upturn the daily lives of average, natural born American citizens, both those suspected of harboring or assisting the ‘illegal’ human beings, as well as those merely going about their business who are unexpectedly confronted with the scene of SS Kommandant Homan’s goons and/or the local police and US military bursting into schools, university classrooms, dormitories, libraries and gyms, malls, grocery and other stores, apartment buildings and single-family private residences, hospitals and places of worship, etc. manically searching like jackbooted thugs for their Trump-demonized, ‘vermin’-like, ‘blood-poisoning’ prey. You Americans need to gird yourselves for the volcanic opening act of the Fourth Reich on your homeland soil. Enjoy the tumultuous, psychopathy-spawned ride of the Trump terror, especially you MAGA gullibles who believed you would escape untouched!
We have to keep following Intelligent, truthful, professional news sources like yours and Medias Touch to understand what we need to do to Resist Corrupt MAGA LIAR, Traitor Trump.
Great #SchmidtStorm Steve!! While I do miss cable news at times, most of the time I don't. But I can always count on you to catch me up on what's going on. First Ive heard of the Kay Granger story. Oh my!! Unreal. Yes, we are a mess. Thanks so much for all you do. Which is a LOT. 💙😘🇺🇸
Trump a “man of his word?“ Not so sure, Steve. A lot of what he promised during the campaign was just what he thought he needed to say to get elected. He’s already backed off on many of his promises: lower prices, tariffs, 20 million deportations, 24 hours to end the war in Ukraine, letting RFK Jr. “go wild” (polio vaccine), demonizing trans people, no cuts to Social Security and Medicare, etc.
My frustration continues with not finding anyway to read Steve. He has started doing a few more posts rather than audio. I have no desire to listen to him nor should I have to. I am a subscriber and enjoy his thoughts but not to listen to them. It says to read go to the app. I can find nothing in Substack except the video. Please advise where I can READ today’s post rather than listen.
You can only read the transcript on the web version of Substack. You will see a “Transcript” button underneath my byline (to the right). Click on it, and the transcript will appear.
I do one written post per day 7x/week and a video/audio recording 6x/week.
The political art of "disappearing" is a standard tactic from the fascist manual of tactics. Seeing it here confirms the progress of the coup. Still trying to comprehend the number of people and agencies who were needed to pull this one off--the actual kidnapping, transportation, neighborers who missed her, fellow congress members, entire staff who housed her and kept her rum-dumb on drugs daily, etc. Nobody, nobody saying anything. Some sympathetic to the cause, some silenced in fear. Maybe some more disappeared.
I’m curious if the American people will participate in the abuse of their children’s brown skin school mates. This will the opportunity for the jack booted cowards in
law enforcement to stand by while their fellow
officers abuse or look away while the men,women and children that they attend church with and shop with are suffering!
If Americans don’t like $6 a doz eggs they surely won’t like $12 a doz.!
I am frankly asking the question of where are the farm workers going to come from? ? ? !
Is the military going to kick doors down and arbitrarily snatch up citizens and force them onto farms to do work they know nothing about. Most Americans have never even been on a farm or grown a tomato! Who’s going to grow the chickens, gather eggs work in slaughter houses??
Where in heavens name do Americans think FOOD comes from? What will happen to the schools? We have had declining birth rates for 2 generations. We are an aging nation!
America has gone senile and stupid!
It’s going to get scary quickly!
We haven’t taught Civics in Schools in
fifty (50) years! Who is going to build the houses? Who’s going to hang sheet rock, plumbing,electrical. Who’s going to do landscaping and MOST importantly who will
Maintain the Golf Courses!
Bring the smelling salts and the fainting couch!
Well, “in a Democracy you get the government
you Deserve!”
The very least the ignorant can do is
refrain from Voting 🗳️
The Piper will be paid,the music has sopped and there aren’t enough chairs🪑for the nuts!
....as you say "for awhile, he'll be able to do as he wishes"..... But Then, the courts, the lawyers, prodded by the Dems, will step in to stop his mad dash, and right the wrongs. I believe. Because he will be breaking laws.
I love the Schmidtstorm. I had seen the Kay Granger story. When you have not been seen in months and are living in the memory care unit of a nursing home as a sitting Congresswoman, you have a lot of people covering up for you. It is awful. On the other hand, Nancy Mace apparently has all of her mental faculties and is as pathetic as it gets. Just another day on the declining path.
I love the Schmidtstorm too ! Especially when it's funny .. Because I am heartbroken over our country becoming a laughing stock! At the same time the world must be weary of us. Our allies can no longer trust us. Kay Granger is a perfect example of how broken we are. No one cares that a US Congress Woman did not participate in government for months. We paid her and her staff for what? No one is outraged . It's insane. They are thinking of running MTG for the senate in Georgia against Ossoff. Trumps boy Musk will put up enough money to defeat him .. It is all to disgusting .
Now if she were a Democrat....
As always, Steve nails it!
Steve, I have found stories in Politico to be frequently in line with your views. As an example I quote from today's article about Dean Philips:
"Dean Phillips has some regrets. Not about his decision to launch a quixotic primary challenge to President Joe Biden. He stands by that move, which alienated him from his party even as it proved prescient after Biden’s disastrous debate with Donald Trump.
But in an exit interview with POLITICO Magazine, the retiring Minnesota Democrat said he wished he had been more successful at fixing what he says is a deeply broken Congress and that he could have delivered more for his constituents. And he made clear he was leaving Capitol Hill extraordinarily frustrated with his party.
'We are totally devoid of leadership. We are rudderless,' he said."
Full article:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/12/28/dean-phillips-congress-exit-interview-00195232
Trump may be the person whose combined arrogance and greed will lead the world to nuclear armageddon.Threatening Canada, Mexico, and Panama come from deep within his psychic need for unlimited power. He is the secular devil and there will be no Christ standing upon the mushroom clouds to separate the wheat from the chaff.
I read all three of his threats to those other countries were for Pvtin's benefit. Rvssia would benefit from all three.
I too have always taken what he says literally and seriously. What do you believe the Day 1 executive orders will be and what do you believe the first 100 day priorities will be other than the mass deportations?
Steve, I have a suggestion for your next hour long conversation series. You are so often speaking to generational change in government, bringing on those who are trying to do it is just the thing. David Hogg and Kevin Lata of https://leaderswedeserve.com for the hour. This can bring to The Warning community a younger perspective, while exposing their younger constituency to The Warning. They can gain support from all at The Warning and The Warning can receive new subscribers! Help make this conversation the national necessity it is.
The American people, including Trump’s symbiotic cult cosseters, simply have no idea of how relentless, totally socially and personally disruptive and psychologically damaging the execution of the American Fuhrer’s deranged and impractical mass deportation plan will be for nearly all Americans. It will turn America into a Gestapo-like terror state reminiscent of Nazi Germany which, in addition to those directly targeted and persecuted, like Jews during the Third Reich, will upturn the daily lives of average, natural born American citizens, both those suspected of harboring or assisting the ‘illegal’ human beings, as well as those merely going about their business who are unexpectedly confronted with the scene of SS Kommandant Homan’s goons and/or the local police and US military bursting into schools, university classrooms, dormitories, libraries and gyms, malls, grocery and other stores, apartment buildings and single-family private residences, hospitals and places of worship, etc. manically searching like jackbooted thugs for their Trump-demonized, ‘vermin’-like, ‘blood-poisoning’ prey. You Americans need to gird yourselves for the volcanic opening act of the Fourth Reich on your homeland soil. Enjoy the tumultuous, psychopathy-spawned ride of the Trump terror, especially you MAGA gullibles who believed you would escape untouched!
We have to keep following Intelligent, truthful, professional news sources like yours and Medias Touch to understand what we need to do to Resist Corrupt MAGA LIAR, Traitor Trump.
“Meidas Touch?”
Great #SchmidtStorm Steve!! While I do miss cable news at times, most of the time I don't. But I can always count on you to catch me up on what's going on. First Ive heard of the Kay Granger story. Oh my!! Unreal. Yes, we are a mess. Thanks so much for all you do. Which is a LOT. 💙😘🇺🇸
Trump a “man of his word?“ Not so sure, Steve. A lot of what he promised during the campaign was just what he thought he needed to say to get elected. He’s already backed off on many of his promises: lower prices, tariffs, 20 million deportations, 24 hours to end the war in Ukraine, letting RFK Jr. “go wild” (polio vaccine), demonizing trans people, no cuts to Social Security and Medicare, etc.
We’ll see. Pass the popcorn, please. 😁
Apparently even hyper-malignantly narcissist Trump recoiled at the sound of Barron ‘Iron Lung’ Trump.
Sorry, I don't understand your reference to Barron ‘Iron Lung’ Trump.
My frustration continues with not finding anyway to read Steve. He has started doing a few more posts rather than audio. I have no desire to listen to him nor should I have to. I am a subscriber and enjoy his thoughts but not to listen to them. It says to read go to the app. I can find nothing in Substack except the video. Please advise where I can READ today’s post rather than listen.
Sherry,
You can only read the transcript on the web version of Substack. You will see a “Transcript” button underneath my byline (to the right). Click on it, and the transcript will appear.
I do one written post per day 7x/week and a video/audio recording 6x/week.
Steve
Thank you. Strange you cannot do it through the App. I have figured it out now. I would not want to miss a word. I very much enjoy your thoughts.
The political art of "disappearing" is a standard tactic from the fascist manual of tactics. Seeing it here confirms the progress of the coup. Still trying to comprehend the number of people and agencies who were needed to pull this one off--the actual kidnapping, transportation, neighborers who missed her, fellow congress members, entire staff who housed her and kept her rum-dumb on drugs daily, etc. Nobody, nobody saying anything. Some sympathetic to the cause, some silenced in fear. Maybe some more disappeared.
I’m curious if the American people will participate in the abuse of their children’s brown skin school mates. This will the opportunity for the jack booted cowards in
law enforcement to stand by while their fellow
officers abuse or look away while the men,women and children that they attend church with and shop with are suffering!
If Americans don’t like $6 a doz eggs they surely won’t like $12 a doz.!
I am frankly asking the question of where are the farm workers going to come from? ? ? !
Is the military going to kick doors down and arbitrarily snatch up citizens and force them onto farms to do work they know nothing about. Most Americans have never even been on a farm or grown a tomato! Who’s going to grow the chickens, gather eggs work in slaughter houses??
Where in heavens name do Americans think FOOD comes from? What will happen to the schools? We have had declining birth rates for 2 generations. We are an aging nation!
America has gone senile and stupid!
It’s going to get scary quickly!
We haven’t taught Civics in Schools in
fifty (50) years! Who is going to build the houses? Who’s going to hang sheet rock, plumbing,electrical. Who’s going to do landscaping and MOST importantly who will
Maintain the Golf Courses!
Bring the smelling salts and the fainting couch!
Well, “in a Democracy you get the government
you Deserve!”
The very least the ignorant can do is
refrain from Voting 🗳️
The Piper will be paid,the music has sopped and there aren’t enough chairs🪑for the nuts!
....as you say "for awhile, he'll be able to do as he wishes"..... But Then, the courts, the lawyers, prodded by the Dems, will step in to stop his mad dash, and right the wrongs. I believe. Because he will be breaking laws.