Welcome to another edition of the schmid Storm. You have questions, I've got answers, so let's get started. And the first one has to do with the unprecedented scheduling of every general being recalled to Washington, DC for a meeting with Pete Hegseth. And the question is what's going on with the eight hundred generals coming to Quantico, Virginia the marine base. I don't know, but it is frightening, it's unacceptable, and it's a major story. There are eight hundred general officers
in the US military. That's about one hundred and fifty to two hundred too many. One of the inflations we don't talk enough about is the inflation in the ranks. An incredible statistic is that there were more generals in Baghdad in two thousand and seven than there were in all of Europe on V Day victory in Europe eighty years ago. And at that time, the US forces had sixteen million men and women under arms at any rate, removing from their combatant commands and from their jobs all
over the world. The senior enlisted advisors, the sergeant majors and command master chiefs, if they're in the Navy along with the four Stars, three stars, two stores, and one stars. To bring them all together isn't just a massive security risk with regard to the continuity of command, It's just
plain stupid. Now everybody knows that no professional military officer has any respect whatsoever for Pete Hegseth, because when they look at him, they recognize that standing in front of them in a nation of three hundred and forty million people is one of our greatest diptions. The tattooed Christian nationalist freak show with his third wife Jenny, trailing about taking him to his makeup room in the Pentagon, to the TV room here and there, bouncing around like a
rubber ball on the Fox newsroom wall. Third wife Jenny helps Pete with his makeup and sits in on all the meetings with the generals, and no doubt Jenny will be in the room with the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. Truly, there are no words other than the words of prayer that this nation not fight a war, because there has never been a moment in American history, not a single second, where the men under arms have been more preposterously led by the commander in chief and by this buffoon there
are no words for the National Guard. Major Field Marshall Pete, Secretary of War. The next question has to do with the prosecution of James Comy, and the question is are you afraid of being locked up and sent to prison? I'm with James Comy on this. I refuse to be afraid of these people. If I am sent to prison for some concocted crime, I do hope I get to work with the puppies in the prison where Gislaine.
Maxwell has been set.
I'm sure they have male facilities where you get to work with the dogs.
At any rate.
The thing about political prisoners is they're guilty of no crime. In James Comy is a political prisoner of sorts. His life, his family's life has been taken hostage by the government by a raging mob boss named Donald Trump, who said, get this guy, and then the prosecutor said, show me the man, I'll find you the crime and voila. And if they can do that to James Comy, they can do it to anybody. This is arbitrary justice, and it is evil. It is un American, and this malicious prosecution
will fail and the jury should nullify the prosecution. It is an awful abuse of power, and James Comy will be acquitted of this nonsense, because James Comy acquitted no crime. The third question is about Jimmy Kimmel in his return to television, and it is this, why did Disney cave? Disney caved because the cost of firing Jimmy Kimmel to appease Donald Trump was many billions of dollars and it would have destroyed the company's brand, and in fact, it's
illegal and unconstitutional. And what the records will show, and they will all be made public someday, what they will show is the panic in the Disney c suite and demands from government officials to the CEO of the company, Bob Biger, demanding that Jimmy Kimmel be returned.
And Bob Biger is a coward.
He's feckless, utterly fatuous, And that yellow striped coward took Jimmy Kimmel off the air because he was afraid, and he put him back on the air because he was afraid. Appeasing Trump only brings the next demand. And it's a lesson for every CEO and every minister of government everywhere in the world. The way you deal with a bully is you hold the line and you never back up, and when he comes and punches you, you slug them back.
And that's how you deal with a bully. And the bottom line is this idea in America that the CEO class has some type of moral conviction or standing to speak out on anything, this religion of the CEO. When you think back on Indra Newey performance with purpose, it's all.
Bullshit and it always has been.
She's an example of a person who sells poison sugar water.
She's in the obesity business.
Yet America's news media sanctified her and Bob Iger and many more. In fact, these people have no guts, they have no ethics, they have no grit, no stamina, no nothing. And you saw that play out with Jimmy Kimmel, who has a lot of guts and a lot of stamina and a lot of grit. And it's grit, stamina and guts that will get us through this terrible Trump era. But here's the deal. Free speech doesn't come from branding Carr and he doesn't get to threaten anybody over speech.
I have been a consistent critic of Ted Kruz. But in this instant, on this occasion, it was Ted Cruz's finest hour in America.
We don't debate speech.
You can say, can think and express yourself in most any way you want. You get to make fun of the president in America, you get to laugh at him, you get to offend people. That's the price of living in a free country, being offended. And the idea that Donald's will eliminate offense by dealing with the speech that offends, well, let's just say that's offensive and it's never going to happen.
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