Terry Virts for Texas: Service Before Self

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Steve Schmidt

News, Politics, Government

4.8 • 784 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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A lot of people ask: “But what we can we do?” Terry Virts is doing something. His announcement deserves your attention and your consideration. I think it’s time for a change. What do you think? To Get Involved: X/Twitter: https://x.com/AstroTerry Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AstroTerry Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/astro_terry/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/astroterry.bsky.social YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AstroTerry Threads: https://www.threads.com/@astro_terry LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terry-virts-146a5939/ Website: http://terryvirts.com Donations: https://secure.numero.ai/contribute/social Subscribe for more and follow me here: Substack: https://steveschmidt.substack.com/subscribe Store: https://thewarningwithsteveschmidt.com/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thewarningses.bsky.social Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SteveSchmidtSES/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thewarningses Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thewarningses/ X: https://x.com/SteveSchmidtSES

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0:00.0	The American crisis continues to grow worse.
0:05.0	And that crisis is born out of our broken politics,
0:11.0	out of the broken two-party political system.
0:16.0	Donald Trump and the MAGA movement are extreme, dangerous, dishonest, and utterly disgraceful.
0:26.6	And yet, that appalling movement has steamrolled over and over and over again the Chuck Schumer-led
0:36.6	national Democratic Party, who are feckless, weak, hapless,
0:43.1	and profoundly out of touch. Now, I want to show you some medicine for that, if you will,
0:51.6	in the form of an announcement ad by Colonel Terry Verz, an Air Force
0:58.3	test pilot, a fighter pilot, and a veteran NASA astronaut and the space shuttle commander,
1:05.2	who has done the most American thing you can do this morning.
1:10.2	He threw his hat into the ring. Let's watch the ad.
1:14.4	From orbit, Earth takes your breath away. It felt like seeing creation from God's point of view.
1:21.9	Something no human was meant to see. But amidst that beauty, danger is never far.
1:28.3	You learn fast that chaos is lethal, so you adapt, you solve problems, and you lead because
1:34.3	your lives depend on it.
1:37.3	Down here, Trump's chaos must be stopped.
1:41.3	The corruption is overwhelming.
1:43.3	Our Constitution is under attack. And MAGA wants corrupt Ken
1:48.5	Paxton in the Senate. Abusing the power of his office. This crisis is real, but leadership is
1:55.8	MIA. We will win. Attacking emergencies to solve problems, that's what I do.
2:02.5	I was raised in a family with more union cards than college degrees.
2:07.1	At 17, I joined the Air Force and eventually became an F-16 pilot.
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