From: Steve Schmidt from The Warning with Steve Schmidt <steveschmidt@substack.com>
Date: Wed, May 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Subject: V-E Da
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"The mission of this Allied Force was fulfilled at 0241, local time, May 7th, 1945." The disgustingness of Trump's bombast and the crudity of his jingoes is a disrespect only exceeded by his ego and inability to see that he is what the dead fought against — and revile from heaven with the deepest scorn. Why did they fight? Antoine de Saint-Exupéry tried to tell us:
The desecrations of this day of remembrance, which should be steeped in humility will be many. The Trump White House will share ground zero with Fox News, which will lie to their brainwashed audiences about the meaning of the day. It is a day when humanity, not America, celebrated victory. Americans filled the streets in jubilation and joy because they were all in — in every way. They led the way to victory through the assertion of a national will and power that has collapsed into ruins in the hands of a fascist, surrounded by oligarchs and a growling security state that wishes to show more teeth — and soon. George Marshall was America's most indispensable man in the war. He said this:
It was — until it wasn't. Ask Canadian actress Jasmine Mooney if our flag still stands for freedom. It has been hijacked and turned into a banner of fear by a posse of sycophants who are perfect distillations of the warning given by Avner Less, who interrogated Adolf Eichmann for 275 hours. Twenty years after Eichmann was hanged Less talked about his faith in democracy as being essential towards safety. He said that we are surrounded by Eichmanns. He said they are everywhere. They are. He said that they are harmless in a democracy, but turn deadly in an instant in a dictatorship. Let me show you three 'Little Eichmanns:'
We have reached an ending, and what is gone is gone forever, lit on fire by the American Nero:
What comes next means letting go. We must imagine better than what has been in order to overcome the malevolence at hand. It is time to ring the bell for a new era to begin. The great visionary of the world in which we live was Franklin Roosevelt. He hoped that the world he dreamed into existence would endure for as long as all the people who were alive on the day that the war was won were still alive. The youngest of those Americans are 80 years old. The world they have known was flushed into the sewer by a grifter from Queens, a blow hard and conman, a jack ass and a jerk off. Their grandchildren and great grandchildren will have so much less than we all did unless we get ready to step up. Will this generation of Americans roll over like the oligarchs and the media chiefs, the lawyers and the universities, or will they take a stand? My friends, there is no more room to back up. There is no more room for the ego above country ethic of the past era. There is no more room to look away anymore. This madness must be faced down. Liberty is not an option in America. Its preservation is the deepest obligation that we all share. Make no mistake: it is threatened by a malice that is historic, bearing down and deeply malevolent. There can be no backing down or backing away. No way. The world witnessed madness in the Oval Office of the White House yesterday. This is an American mess. The American people best clean it up. Should we not, the greatest tragedy in the history of the world will happen on our watch, but I guess the good news is that, in our new Trumpistan, no one need ever be accountable for anything — so long as you love Trump enough. No thanks. The Warning with Steve Schmidt is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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