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greg reese ▲ ● ▼		We Americans are under attack by our own government.
		We, the people, have no choice but to once again defend our freedom.
		This has all happened before, and we can learn much from the American Revolution.
		Starting in 1763 to pay for debts incurred from a war with France, The British began enforcing new taxes on the American colonies.
		In response to this, the colonies set up their own parallel government based on a simple structure of three committees delegated to voice the will of the people.
		A committee of correspondence to disseminate information.
		A committee of inspection to enforce Continental Congress decisions.
		And the most important of the three, a committee of safety to act as general executive in the absence of legal authority.
		These committees stemmed from each community of all the colonies, and each and every local committee of safety had two missions, to provide military support and monitor political affairs.
		Each community delegated its own representatives to speak on their behalf at the county level and then at the state level.
		Where state legislatures are thereby formed and senators are elected to represent the overall interests of the people in that state.
		With these committees, the 13 colonies honorably created a parallel government that lawfully nullified British rule.
		This compelled the Crown to take it back by force, which was met by an honorable and lawful defense of the colonies, known as the American Revolution.
		The three-committee structure that made up this parallel government inspired our U.S. Constitution, a concept of government based upon delegation.
		Individuals were not elected to rule.
		Their only purpose was to facilitate and implement the will of the people.
		It was a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
		Each state was considered to be its own country.
		Which was freely subordinating aspects of its own authority to a federal government.
		Lawfully speaking, this has never changed.
		But the federal government of the United States has become bloated with loyalists to the City of London and enemies of We the People.
		For well over a century, we the people have been coerced into becoming voluntary slaves to a multinational corporate power structure, which has increasingly dumbed us down more and more with each generation.
		Unconstitutional amendments have been enacted.
		Constitutional limits of representation have been ignored.
		And by accepting Federal Reserve banknotes, we have made ourselves a dishonorable nation of debtors.
		By continually contracting with the corporate U.S. being operated out of the Washington, D.C. city-state, Americans are perpetually surrendering their constitutional sovereignty in return for corporate benefits.
		We share a common enemy with our founding fathers.
		Today we call them globalists.
		Back then, they called them British.
		A foreign power exploiting the will and destiny of Americans.
		And back then, their remedy was the Committee of Safety.
		This is happening again today.
		Communities are forming their own committees of safety.
		An excellent example is Santa Rosa County, Florida, where the Recall Florida movement sprang from, which seeks to empower the citizens of Florida with the ability to recall county commissioners for corruption, malfeasance, and neglect of duty. The county sheriff is charged with upholding the supreme law of the Constitution.
		And with your county government in line with your county sheriff, citizens of that county will have the lawful parallel government they need to liberate themselves from contracts made with the corporate US. Because the powers held by the sheriff supersede those of any government official when in the jurisdiction of that county.
		The PSYOP today is meant to make you feel dependent upon the federal government.
		But that has always been your choice.
		And it's not the only choice.
		You can contact your local sheriff and ask him about his oath to uphold the Constitution.
		You can form committees of safety.
		And you can lawfully purge your local government of corruption.
		But it requires action, and time is quickly running out.
		Reporting for InfoWars, this is Greg Reese.
unidentified		It's Thursday, March 2nd, year of our Lord, 2023.
		3.
		And you're listening to The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith.
		Watch it live right now at band.video.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		All right, good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
		Welcome to The American Journal.
		We are coming to you live from the InfoWars headquarters here in Austin, Texas.
		I almost totally forgot today.
		With all of the news that we have to cover...
		Almost forgot. It's Texas Independence Day.
		March 2nd. Very important day.
		We have a lot to talk about today, although we will be welcoming two guests to the show today.
		We'll be joined by Andrew McCarthy at 9 o'clock and Dale Comstock at 10 o'clock.
		So probably not going to have time for calls because we have a lot to cover still.
		Not a lot of videos to show today.
		I downloaded a lot of videos, but maybe other people are experiencing this.
		I don't want to watch any of the videos.
		I don't want to show you any of the videos that were on my Twitter feed for the last two days.
		It's just nothing but horror.
		It's like literally all of the videos that I saw today were either like black guys beating up white women or like Naked men dancing for babies.
		It's just like, okay.
		Alright, that's what's happening around the country today, I guess.
		We do have some other videos that we'll show you.
		No nudity or violence in these, just an overbearing tyranny targeting Christians for their beliefs.
		Yeah, we'll get into all of it and more.
		On today's program, so let's just get into it, shall we?
		Here it is, your daily dispatch.
		All right, here it is, folks, your daily dispatch for Thursday, the 2nd of March, 2023.
		Texas Republican wants tax breaks for having more kids, but only if you're in an opposite-sex marriage.
		The bigot.
		If you've got lots of kids or want them, Representative Brian Slayton wants to give you a break.
		the Royce City Republican, is pitching a measure that would slash property taxes for families with four or more children.
		Families with a quartet of kids would get a 40% cut.
		You got 10 kids, no property taxes at all.
		Married people would catch a deal, too, with a 10% tax trim, even if they don't have kids.
		But there are caveats.
		The married couple must be a man and a woman.
		There's no requirement on how long they have to have been married.
		They cannot have been divorced.
		But with this bill, Texas will start saying to couples, get married, stay married, and be fruitful and multiply.
		Slayton of Royce City said in a statement, the text would reimburse the local taxing agencies.
		Strong families are a backbone and building block of society, and families need financial support to make that happen, he said.
		The bill has no co-authors or companion bills backed by other legislators, which signals the chances of passage are slim this year.
		The question is, why not, though?
		But why wouldn't you want this?
		Why wouldn't you want to support families with kids?
		Why would you not want to make it easier for families with kids to survive and thrive, especially in this economic landscape?
		Why would you oppose this?
		What is your problem?
		I guess my question is.
		That'll be the question of the day.
		What's going on with these people?
		What is their problem? What is their problem?
		I really don't understand how we've gone so far.
		I mean, you think about the left, just in a whole host of issues.
		I know it's kind of a regular talking point, but it's so true.
		It really is so true.
		I am essentially...
		Well, not really.
		But I fit in a lot more with, like, 2010 Obama Democrats...
		Than anybody else these days.
		Like, there used to be a time when abortions were safe, legal, but rare.
		And family values were still something that liberals at least pay lip service to.
		And there was still a large anti-war contingent in them.
		Liberals, though, they've just been decimated.
		They're anti-family, openly, at this point.
		They're pro-war families.
		They're pro-racism.
	It's just like, what have they done to you people?
	It's very sad. It's very sad what they've done to you all.
	And they've done it with your cooperation, which is the strangest part.
	And we'll get into some of that a little bit later as well.
	I really don't want to play the videos, but I will if I have to.
	But moving on. Blinken met with Russian Foreign Minister for the first time since Ukraine war began.
	The U.S. Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, met with Russian Foreign Minister...
	Sergei Lavrov on Thursday for the first time since the war in Ukraine began more than a year ago.
	The brief meeting on the sidelines of the G20 foreign ministers meeting in New Delhi becomes amid some of the most heightened tension between Washington and Moscow in decades.
	According to a State Department official traveling with Blinken, those two spoke for roughly 10 minutes.
	In the conversation, Blinken called on Russia to release wrongfully attained American Paul Whelan and resume engagement with the new START treaty, the nuclear arms control agreement which Putin suspended for No talk of peace,
	obviously. Obviously no talk of peace.
	No talk of how we end this conversation.
	Monumental mistake.
	That's happening in Ukraine.
unidentified		But... That's fine.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		It's pretty amazing to be in de facto war with another country and have no...
		Communication with them for an entire year of the war.
		It's because they don't want the war to end.
		Meanwhile, you have this.
		Pennsylvania man arrested after allegedly trying to bring explosives in his suitcase on a flight.
		Federal agents arrested Pennsylvania man this week after allegedly tried to bring explosives in his suitcase on a flight from Lehigh Valley International Airport to Florida.
		According to court documents, an alarm alerted the baggage belonging to Mark Muffley, and it contained explosives.
		Transportation Secretary Security Administration agents paged Muffley over the airport intercom system and asked him to report to the airport's security desk, prosecutors said.
		But he didn't show up. Soon after, security cameras allegedly caught Muff Lee leaving the airport.
		He'd checked his luggage on Flight 201 bound for Orlando-Samford International Airport, according to court documents.
		The FBI contacted the Carbon County Chief Detective, who said he knew Muff Lee personally, according to court documents, and confirmed that Muff Lee's address matched the one on his driver's license.
		We can get into this later, but what do we think it is?
		What are we putting our money on this time?
		FBI false flag?
		Just one big mistake, or is it that after 20 years of Abusing and fondling the American people.
		They finally caught one.
		They finally got somebody. Or is the TSA finally, after two decades of making air travel nightmarish, have they finally caught a single person?
		Could be. Of course, it was also commercial-grade fireworks, so it could have been not a bomb, but just an idiot trying to bring fireworks on a plane.
		We don't know, but we'll figure it out.
		Meanwhile, rewarding raucous NYC provocateurs with $6 million in taxpayer money is insanity.
		That's the headline from New York Post.
		They advertised the protest with FTP, F the police, and put it out on social media with a statement, We're talking about a revolution.
		Gosh darn it. It was scheduled for June 4, 2020, at 6.30 p.m.
		in Mott Haven, the Bronx. That itself was a provocation, close to the 8 p.m.
		curfew the city had instituted for a week after a week of protest for looting following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
		Now you, the taxpayers, will be giving these radicals $6 million.
		This is the madness of our lawsuit-obsessed and narcissistic society that a group of people who took to the streets to provoke the police are being paid because they provoked the police.
		Media coverage of the Mott Haven arrest show officers swinging batons and binding protesters with zip ties.
		The lawyers are happy for the propaganda, but the pictures miss the context of the evening.
		It had been a week of protests and marches which tied up the city and allowed cover for criminals intent on vandalizing and looting.
		Even progressive then-Mayor Bill de Blasio had enough and introduced a curfew.
		For the first two nights, the rule was widely ignored, especially by left-wing politicians who, rather than called for calm, riled up the crowd.
		Police vehicles were burned.
		A couple of lawyers were caught with Molotov cocktails.
		Cops were spat on and slurred as pigs.
		The Mott Haven protest overtly called for violence with its flaming van, but the NYPD heard other quiet rumblings of anarchy as well.
		So they're arrested. Now they're being paid $6 million in tax money.
		We'll get into that a little bit later as well.
		Finally, we have this. You love to be one of these people that's like, the Great Replacement is a conspiracy theory.
		It's a lie. But actually, you are being evicted for a migrant to come in.
		Good luck finding a home elsewhere.
aldous huxley ▲ ● ▼		Brave New World with another parable which was put forth more recently in George Orwell's book 1984.
		I'm inclined to think that The scientific dictatorships of the future, and I think there are going to be scientific dictatorships in many parts of the world, will be probably a good deal nearer to the Brave New World pattern than to the 1984 pattern.
		They will be a good deal nearer not because of Any humanitarian qualms in the scientific dictators, but simply because the brave new world pattern is probably a good deal more efficient than the other.
		But if you can get people to consent to the state of affairs in which they are living, the state of servitude, the state of being, well, it seems to me that the nature of the ultimate revolution with which we are now faced is precisely this.
		That we are in process of developing a whole series of techniques which will enable the controlling oligarchy, who have always existed and presumably always will exist, to Get people actually to love their servitude.
		People can be made to enjoy a state of affairs which by any decent standard they ought not to enjoy.
		And these methods I think are a real Refinement on the older methods of terror because they combine methods of terror with methods of acceptance.
		But then there are various other methods which one can think of.
		There is, for example, the pharmacological method.
		This was one of the things I talked about in Brave New World.
		And the result would be that, I mean, you can imagine A euphoric which would make people thoroughly happy even in the most abominable circumstances.
		I mean, these things are possible.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Not just possible, but imminent.
		It has arrived.
		It is here.
		The scientific dictatorship of the future.
		Welcome back, folks.
		This is the American Journal, Infowars.com.
		You know, I was reading a book to my son yesterday, Richard Scarry.
		I don't know if people are familiar with him.
		He's been popular for a long time.
		The book I was reading was the best little word book ever.
		If anybody's not familiar with Richard Scarry, it's like the most simple and beautiful books ever.
		They're just like little cartoon books that just help kids understand the world around them, identify what's going on.
		We can go to my computer screen here and just see what these look like.
		I got this horrible sinking feeling when I was reading this book that this isn't the world anymore.
		It's very weird. Because the things that you see in the book are not particular necessarily to one time or place.
		It's just... It's just that the world's not the same anymore.
		And it's quickly becoming something entirely different.
		So in this book in particular, the one I was reading was the best little word book ever.
		You know, it was showing, it was teaching kids about like, You know, what they see when they go down the street.
		Here's a post office.
		Here's what happens there.
		Here's a supermarket.
		Here's what happens there. And it's just like these things don't exist anymore, right?
		It would just be like butcher.
		And it just shows like here are his knives and here are the different types of meat that he sells.
		And here's the fruit salesman with all the various types of fruits.
		Each one's nicely labeled to teach little kids about it.
		And it's just like just imagining Richard's scary books In the future, right?
		It's not, here's the corner store.
		Here's the nice, lovely little corner store where you can buy everything.
		It'll just be like, here's the super center warehouse where the drone-like automatons wander in and out collecting packages.
		You can't see what's in them to deliver them and being yelled at by a computer while they do it.
		Here's the police department.
		It's not a nice guy in a blue uniform looking after one another.
		It's a militarized fort with soldiers there to kill you if you get out of line.
		And again, I was reading this thing, and it's so simple, and there's just this beauty in it, in the simplicity of all of it.
		And even though it is sort of distinctly American, You could have probably taken a book like that back to, I don't know, England, France in the 1600s.
		It would still look roughly the same, right?
		You still had the butchers and the bakers and the candlestick makers.
		You still had the town guard that you'd want to identify.
		So it's not just that things are changing.
		It's like you're just scared of change.
		It's just that... Humanity is moving away from humanity.
		Humanity is moving away from what is natural and has been our lives forever into something that is unrecognizable, dystopian, unhuman, bizarre, horrifying in a lot of ways.
		Yeah, just any picture from the last couple years would be fine, right?
		You could see the cartoonish interpretation of it.
		It's just... You know, you never see a drag queen story hour in a Richard Scarry book.
		This is the transgender clinic where young boys go in to get castrated and come out a lady.
		Yeah, these are some of the videos.
		These are babies.
		This is an organization that has naked men dance for babies.
		You know... Like, is there anything I need to add to what we're seeing here?
		That you literally have full-grown men in nothing but a G-string doing the splits in front of literal babies.
		Do I need to explain this?
		Like, I think I'm the one that's owed an explanation, actually.
		How would you possibly justify this?
matt infowars ▲ ● ▼		Well, actually, Harrison, they are looking at changing the minds of the future by targeting them early.
matt infowars ▲ ● ▼		If they can expose them to this early, then they'll be desensitized to it, and they won't be hateful towards it.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Oh, right. It's about stopping hate against the male stripper demographic.
matt infowars ▲ ● ▼		Actually, Harrison, that's the LGBTQ community at large.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, there's like, how dare you lump us in with pedophiles?
		But anyway, I am attending a strip show for children later today.
		And, you know, I'm sort of torn in other ways too because...
		I'll say this. You look at things like Jeffrey Epstein or pedophile rings, and a lot of people were like, well, we would know about it.
		We would know about it because you can't have a satanic pedophile ring operating.
		People would know.
		Not if the parents of the children are the ones supplying the kids.
		So here you have kids being brought by their parents to watch a strip show It's just, like, what is there to even say that I'm allowed to say on air?
		Like, what is there to say about this that, you know, wouldn't get me arrested?
unidentified		All right, welcome back, folks.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Today was kind of a slow news day, which is saying something because I still have, like, a hundred stories.
		Still kind of a slow news day today.
		Just a lot of moderately insane things rather than one big one.
		I guess that's the issue today.
		Although it was revealed yesterday that...
		The UK government considered whether it might have to ask people to exterminate all pet cats during the early days of the COVID pandemic, a former health minister said.
		It was unclear whether domestic cats could transmit coronavirus, James Bethel said.
		He told Channel 4 News, It's like such a weird thing to say.
		Can you imagine what would have happened if we had wanted to do that?
		I... It's like, but you did want to do that?
		But you're saying you did want to do that.
		Just what? In July 2020, the height of COVID crisis, cat owners were warned not to kiss their pets after a female Siamese became the first known animal in the UK to catch the disease.
		Margaret Hosey, a professor of comparative virology at Glasgow University who led the screening program, advised cat owners at the time to observe very careful hygiene.
		It comes as Lord Bethel's boss at the time, Matt Hancock, the former health secretary, is facing a series of claims in a leaked cache of more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages.
		The messages provide an insight into the way the UK government operated at the start of the pandemic.
		They include suggestions that Hancock rejected the advice of England's chief medical officer, Professor Sir Chris Witte, to test everyone going into care homes in England for COVID. Hancock vehemently denies overruling clinical device.
		A spokesperson called the claim categorically untrue.
		Of course it was true. And of course the same thing happened here in America.
		Not only did people not be screened for the disease before going into care homes, nursing homes, old folks homes, but actually infected people were sent specifically to nursing homes and resulted in tens of thousands of people dying.
		This of course was not the reason that The governor of New York was ousted from office.
		No, that was because he flirted with an underling.
		So, see where the priorities lie for our media and the powers that be.
		Kill 10,000 grandmothers and grandfathers?
		No problem. No problem here.
		Get a little too Italian with your intern?
		You're out, mister.
		Pretty amazing. But of course, this...
		It was obviously the same sort of idea that actually did get implemented, whether it's killing cats or the social distancing rule or lockdown or masks.
		You know, none of it was a matter of like them making a pro and con list of like how much will this, you know, negatively affect people versus how much will it save people from the disease.
		That wasn't the list they were making.
		What they were trying to decide was how much will people put up with?
		How much will people put up with without pushing back and what can we do that will encourage the illusion of danger and fear to give us justification for doing even more stuff later, right?
		And they weren't exactly shy about this.
		There are videos of the people in charge talking about how masks have a psychological effect that was more important than the actual physical effect of stopping the disease.
		It was all about psychology.
		This was all very carefully tuned in psychological levers being pulled.
		And so, at this point, what was being discussed was not whether the cats were spreading the disease and if, you know, the spread of the disease caused by cats was, you know, worse than the effect of culling the cat.
		It had nothing to do with the spread of disease.
		It had to do with the calculus of...
		crowd psychology that asked whether killing all of the cats in Britain would send the right message and made people go, oh, my God, this really is serious.
		After all, I killed my cat for this.
		So, you know, how can I how can I stop now?
		Right.
		Get people really involved in the scam by getting them to sacrifice something that they personally loved.
		And again, just in an overt like, well, this has to be serious.
		They killed all of the cats.
		Right.
		Would that psychological effect of having your cat murdered effectively...
		Force you more into the cult?
		Or would it be too far beyond?
		Would it be over the line and beyond the pale and actually make people fight back and go, alright, I'll wear a mask.
		I'm not about to kill my cat, you psychopath.
		And what they decided was that it would probably be a little bit too much.
		People in the UK are actually famous for animal rights.
		One of the first countries in the world to actually consider abusive animals to be a crime.
		Things like that. They actually love their cats and their animals.
		So they figured out in the spectrum of psychological pressure, this would have been too much.
		It would have pushed people over the edge.
		They may have started questioning other things.
		It would have outweighed the positive benefit they would have gotten from the psychological adherence of making a live animal sacrifice of something you love for them.
		So that's what was happening.
		These people are psychopaths. They would have done it if they thought it would have helped them, but they didn't think it would help them, so they didn't do it.
		Kind of like how they said, you know, six feet social distancing was a nice psychological medium where any less than that, and people would go, I have to say three feet away.
		You think three feet is going to make a difference?
	Three feet's not going to make a difference.
	What are you talking about? There's no way.
	But if you said 12 feet, they would have said, well, that's...
	I can't say 12 feet away from everybody.
	So they found out that 6 feet, no scientific basis whatsoever.
	There was no calculus as to how far can people stay away from one another safely in the spread of disease.
	That wasn't the calculus they were running with.
	It was about psychological pressure.
	How much pressure is enough?
	How much pressure is too much?
	Everything in COVID was about this.
	So, again, this revelation that they actually considered forcing everybody in the UK to kill their own cats...
	This was just one of those psychological operations that they came out at the end of it going, yeah, it would have been too much.
	It would have had more negative effects than positive, so we're not going to do it.
	But, you know, again, if they thought it would have helped, if they thought that forcing you to murder your own cat would have made you more of an adherent to the COVID cult, they would have done it.
	They would have done it. These people are psychopaths.
	They're heartless. I mean, they made...
	You know, husbands stand on the other side of a wall while their wife of 50 years, you know, died in a hospital room off this basis.
	So, you know, there's no length to which they will not go.
	There's no mercy they're willing to offer to anybody.
	There's no humanity in these decisions.
	There's just a cold scientific calculation of how to...
	Best move the public in the direction that you want through abuse and manipulation and lies and deceit and it goes on and on.
	You have to wonder if they're pushing too far with this Swiss thing.
	Again, I just touched on this article, but it's...
	It is pretty wild. What type of sentence is that?
	There's quotas for refugee distribution.
	So there's actually quotas in Switzerland of all places, which is one of the few places that has not gone all in on the migrant crisis.
	Unlike the UK and France and Germany, the Swiss actually have a modicum of restraint when it comes to totally open borders.
	But even in Switzerland, you have residents who have lived at their houses for 15 years being given an eviction notice so some Afghan family can move in.
	This is suicidal. I mean, it's national suicide.
	The state governments are like, we don't even have room for these people, so we're having to kick out our own citizens out of their homes to make room for them to meet some totally arbitrary quota figure imposed on the country by foreign powers?
	So you're just participating in your own invasion.
	That's literally what's happening.
	They're participating in active...
	Participants in the invasion of their own country to the absolute detriment of every one of their citizens.
	It's just happening.
unidentified		They're just doing it. It's going to end badly.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		All right, welcome back, folks. This is the American Journal.
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		We're going to talk about something that...
		It's increasing across the Western world.
		Again, the globalists kind of have a sweet little setup where they operate in the shadows.
		What we need is a term for it.
		It'd have to be something like shadowocracy or something.
		Rule by the shadows, rule by deceit, rule by unseen forces.
		It's really the worst of all possibilities.
		In the realm of human existence, you have various forms of governmental organization.
		And what we're moving towards is one that's similar to feudalism, sort of a neo-feudalism, where the people at the top They appoint themselves.
		They appoint each other. They're totally outside of their own laws that they pass and impose on the people underneath them.
		They're not subject to those laws.
		They're also not subject to approval by the people over whom they are ruling.
unidentified		But see, that...
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Feudalism originally was sort of tempered by the fact that the nobles themselves had noblesse oblige, right?
		The obligation of the nobles.
		They were out front. They were figureheads.
		They had to stand there and go, I am the king.
		I am the one who decided this.
		It is me. So now we have all of the tyranny and the imposition of Rules and regulations from an unaccountable class of nobles.
		But we don't know who they are and they don't have the need to justify anything, they say.
		And there's no fear of like a peasant uprising because peasants wouldn't even know who to uprise against.
		Like there's nobody taking credit for anything that's happening.
		So it's all done in the shadows.
		It's all done in secrecy.
		So sort of the worst of both worlds in a lot of ways.
		And we'll show you a video now that shows how this is happening.
		And it's also a decentralization of the control system to where you don't have just a government doing things.
		The corporations are foot soldiers of the New World Order.
		They're coerced into doing this by the investment companies having things like ESG that force companies to do this.
		And again, none of it makes any logical sense.
		Like, you know, there's a...
		There's a law, and I don't even necessarily agree with it, but, you know, there are laws that say that a company has to try, like, it has to make decisions that will give their investors the best return on investment.
		It's just a law. It's just a rule.
		It was actually, I think it was like Ford versus Dodge, I think was the original Supreme Court case that settled it, where essentially Ford was...
		Instead of giving all of their profit as dividends to their stockholders, they were actually paying high wages and reinvesting the money back into the business, and it was cutting into the profits of the shareholders.
		And so they had, yeah, here it is, Dodge v.
		Ford Motor Company, a case in which the Michigan Supreme Court held that Henry Ford had to operate the Ford Motor Company in the interest of shareholders rather than in a charitable manner for the benefit of his employees or customers.
		I'm against this in general.
		I think, I personally think every company should be an absolute monarchy in a lot of ways.
		I think you should have one person that runs it and they can do with it whatever the hell they want.
		So I'm not even in favor of this, but this is basically established law at this point.
		And so how can you have companies like Adidas just axing 25% of their profits over virtue signaling about Kanye West?
		Because he said DEFCON 3 on Jews.
		Remember, that's what it was all about.
		He didn't actually say anything.
		It's the weirdest thing ever.
		Where is the mass lawsuit against them from their shareholders?
		Going, what the hell? You just cut out a quarter of your yearly profit for no reason other than the virtue signal?
		What the hell is going on here?
		And it happens across the board.
		So like ESG, these types of things, they don't even comport themselves with the laws that we have.
		They should be illegal unless you want to change the rule where profit is no longer the motivating factor, in which case that's 100 years of capitalism out the window.
		You got to change it up. But again, they just do it.
		It's not legal.
		It's not legal. But they do it anyway.
		It's not moral. They do it anyway.
		So they have this mass array of both corporations and the banks pushing the corporations to do certain things, even if the companies don't want to.
		They'll be cut off from the funnel of money if they go against it.
		But on top of that, you have a layer of NGOs.
		You've got a layer of non-governmental organizations where...
		You know, these same people are funneling billions of dollars towards people who just spend all day every day working to progress a leftist agenda and integrate themselves into our existing institutions like education, like, you know, law enforcement, DAs, prosecutors, like, we're just we're confronted by a massive conglomeration of these activists, and they're all working hand in hand together.
		And it's very convenient for them because when one group gets called out for it, they go, well, that wasn't us.
		That was our partner group that we're working with.
		In this case, it's the FBI and the SPLC.
		Merrick Garland was questioned about this on the floor of the Senate by Josh Hawley, on the floor of the Congress by Josh Hawley.
		Let's go to that video now and see again how this works in practice, how the FBI sort of has a win-win situation where they do what the SPLC says.
		They're partners with the SPLC and the ADL, which are leftist activist groups.
		they've They're partnered with them.
		They do what they say.
		And then when there's pushback, they go, well, that wasn't us.
		That was our partner. So they avoid any oversight or intervention to stop them from working on behalf of one political party and against another.
		So let's go to this video now.
		Here's Josh Hawley questioning Merrick Garland.
unidentified		I notice a pattern, though.
		The FBI field office in Richmond, on the 23rd of January of this year, issued a memorandum in which they advocated for, and I quote, the exploration of new avenues for tripwire and source development against traditionalist Catholics, including those who favor the Latin Mass.
		Attorney General, are you cultivating sources and spies in Latin mass parishes and other Catholic parishes around the country?
merrick garland ▲ ● ▼		The Justice Department does not do that.
		It does not do investigations based on religion.
		I saw the document you said.
		It's appalling. It's appalling.
		I'm in complete agreement with you.
		I understand that the FBI has withdrawn it, and it's now looking into how this could ever have happened.
		How did it happen? That's what they're looking into.
		But I'm totally in agreement with you.
		That document is appalling.
unidentified		I'll tell you how it happened. This memorandum, which is supposed to be intelligence, cites extensively the Southern Poverty Law Center, which goes on to identify all of these different Catholics as being part of hate groups.
		Is this how the FBI, under your direction and leadership, is this how they do their intelligence work?
		They look at left-wing advocacy groups?
		To target Catholics?
		Is this what's going on?
		I mean, clearly it is. How is this happening?
merrick garland ▲ ● ▼		The FBI is not targeting Catholics, and as I've said, this is an inappropriate memorandum, and it doesn't reflect the methods that the FBI is supposed to be using.
merrick garland ▲ ● ▼		Should not be relying on any single organization without doing its own work.
unidentified		Let me just ask you, as my time expires here, a very direct question.
unidentified		How many informants do you have in Catholic churches across America?
merrick garland ▲ ● ▼		I don't know, and I don't believe we have any informants aimed at Catholic churches.
merrick garland ▲ ● ▼		We have a rule against investigations based on First Amendment activity, and Catholic churches are obviously First Amendment activity, but I don't know the specific answer to your question.
unidentified		You don't know the specifics of anything, it seems, but apparently on your watch, this Justice Department is targeting Catholics, targeting people of faith specifically for their faith views.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		And again, the other aspect of this that is so beneficial to the tyrants is that they do it in every country all at once, and then the citizens of that country can only work through the national process of trying to stop this from happening.
		But we have videos today of cops arresting a pastor, banging on his door in the morning, and a Arresting him for having protested a drag queen story time.
		You've got the woman who was arrested in the UK for praying in her head, quietly, silently, outside of an abortion clinic.
		And of course everything Merrick Garland said was just a ridiculous lie.
		There's headlines from all the way back in 2018, FBI Southern Poverty Law Center Partnership Alarms Conservatives.
		As of Monday, they say, the SPLC was still listed as a partner on the FBI's Hate Crimes webpage along with organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League, Human Rights Campaign, NAACP, National Center for Transgender Equity, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and National Organization for Women.
		So you've got all these far-left activist groups.
		Partnering with the FBI, instructing them on who to target.
		The ADL even brags back in 2014, quote, Did you know ADL trains every new FBI agent on their role as protectors of the American people and their constitution?
		So they're training the FBI. I know that it's time And you're saying it Alright, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
		This is the second hour of American Journal.
		I'm your host, Harrison Smith.
		Very glad to be with you here today and very glad to welcome my guest, Andrew McCarthy.
		He's an Air Force veteran and an active member of the intelligence community.
		Andrew believes in America First policies and is speaking up for Americans against corrupt politics in D.C. He can be found on Twitter at amccarthyny.
		That's amccarthyny.
		And you gotta... Remember that handle because Google does not point you towards Andrew McCarthy's Twitter, probably for obvious reasons.
		It might have to do with that America first in his bio.
		Thanks so much for coming on, Andrew.
andrew mccarthy ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, thanks for having me, Harrison.
andrew mccarthy ▲ ● ▼		It's not an extensive bio, but it sort of tells the whole story.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		It's everything I need to know.
		So you have a lot of experience, obviously, in politics and just about the corruption in D.C., There's so many places we could go here, but I want to talk to you especially about 2024 and what candidates can do coming up, what you think the best play is for getting the best America First politicians into office these days.
		What's your general outlook on the political landscape these days?
andrew mccarthy ▲ ● ▼		Well, you know, I try to punch towards the left generally, but I don't always take it that far because there's a lot of garbage, a lot of trash we need to take out within the Republican Party.
		Sort of notorious for that, whether it's rhinos that I've primaried or, you know, going after Kevin McCarthy very publicly.
		So I think it starts there.
		We could talk policy solutions and we could talk sort of personnel, but I think it sort of starts with the cult of Kevin McCarthy and You know, why exactly we stopped rallying necessarily.
		I'm not saying rally against him, but why we all got behind him.
		It's hard to put a finger on Kevin McCarthy's ideology.
		I think you just got to kind of ask yourself, how does Kevin McCarthy make you feel?
		And to me, it's sort of cringy and awkward.
		It's a very effeminate person to have as a leader.
		And, you know, When someone has a good reaction to Kevin McCarthy, I think that's a red flag.
		So it all starts with leadership.
		I look around leadership in the Republican Party, people like Elise Stefanik.
		Again, the same kind of vibe here.
		It's that, like, I got called into the vice principal's office for misbehaving in seventh period.
		So I'm getting a lot of weak vibes from the leadership.
		I think that needs to change.
		And really, like, When we start to feel about, you know, what is a good leader?
		What do I want in exchange of that?
		I look for someone that sacrificed something, someone that, you know, like a Matt Gaetz would be great in leadership.
		He really put his ass on the line, and I think it paid off for America First as a whole.
		So it really starts at the top.
		And, you know, when it bleeds into policy, I think they hit us with a lot of shiny objects instead of actual policy solutions.
		For one, like the Hunter Biden laptop.
		We're creating subcommittees over this stuff.
		Is the Hunter Biden laptop going to solve the southern border or the China issue?
		There are so many questions that we have here, and obviously the answer is no.
		Do rich, corrupt kids do stupid shit, do stupid things?
		I'm sorry, it's a family show. Of course they do.
		But, you know, I just don't know if that's the focus that the Republicans should have right now.
		So to answer your initial question after sort of summarizing the party as a whole, I would say if you're in 2024, if you're in the mood to run, keep leadership at arm's length.
		Focus on local issues.
		I'm a big proponent of localism.
		And then, you know, let's talk about things that matter.
		The southern border is the biggest issue in the country right now.
		The crime, if you're in a suburban area or a city.
		I mean, cities—I'm sorry, it's over for cities.
		And then, you know, China is sort of a catch-all.
		I like reverting to that on the campaign trail where I'm helping other people run or craft policy.
		China affects every facet of our life, and it might sound like I'm beating, like, the drum that everyone else is left, right, and center, but it really is everything it's cracked up to be.
		So that's sort of my synopsis up front and what I would offer, you know, someone hopping into the 2024 race.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Well, it was a great overview, so we'll dig down into some of that answer on the other side, how we break ourselves out of business as usual, which seems like what Kevin McCarthy is suggesting, which we know business as usual means our total collapse, corruption, and decline. So let's not have business as usual anymore.
		We'll be right back with Andrew McCarthy.
		Don't go anywhere, folks. Welcome back, folks.
		The second hour of American Journal has begun.
		I'm your host, Harrison Smith.
		With me is Andrew McCarthy.
		He's a political pundit.
		He can be found on Twitter at amccarthyny.
		amccarthyny is his account on Twitter.
		Posts a ton of great stuff.
		Very active on there. We're talking about sort of politics in general, and you laid out a great sort of groundwork of where we are now and what we can do moving forward.
		When it comes to Kevin McCarthy, I mean, he's just a symptom of a larger problem, isn't he?
		I mean, he sort of represents business as usual of the compromises that America First candidates are willing to take to try to get a little bit of power.
		Well, meanwhile, we're just being steamrolled continuously by the left.
		I sense an opportunity to really elaborate on or identify the real division in this country, which is between the Uniparty at the top and everybody else.
		Right now you've got libertarians and socialists teaming up to oppose the war in Ukraine.
		And those pushing for the war in Ukraine are the Bidens and the McCarthys.
		It's the Nancy Pelosi's and the Mitch McConnell.
		So, I mean, the division's never been more clear who's against two.
		I mean, is this an opportunity to seize on that and try to represent the people's will over the Uniparty in Washington?
andrew mccarthy ▲ ● ▼		Well, that's exactly right. Kevin McCarthy, let's just cut to the chase, is a globalist.
		So his priorities are for big business, big pharma, corporate interests.
		It's the same old that came up under Paul Ryan.
		So Kevin McCarthy is one of the reasons that when people look to the Trump administration, one of the big takeaways that they can kind of—that comes to mind is tax cuts rather than, like, really controlling the border or taking a hard line with some of our adversaries or doling out this money internationally and bailing really controlling the border or taking a hard line with some of our adversaries or doling out this money internationally
		So, yeah, I think if I were a candidate—and you used to see this on the left before they sort of galvanized.
		I thought they had a great showing.
		The Democrats, during the Speaker's vote, they were really unified, and they said, hey, we are entirely the party of globalism.
		And, you know, it's all the things that we hate, but at least they're strongly unified.
		I think an opportunity in that fidget that you were describing does exist for someone to call out from the right or the left Yeah, I'm running as more of a populist nationalist, not really so much, you know, standing up for the Constitution and all this stuff.
		No, we need... A change in times means we need a strong person in there, some law and order, a candidate that's actually going to say, you know what, this scenario hasn't really benefited us.
		The NAFTA of the last 40 years, the globalism, the woke stuff that's coming down the pike, it's all bundled up in the same basket.
		So for someone to walk in and say, enough is enough, and I want, you know, what You know, a normal person that you'd run into on the street, the bar, the church, what they want, not what corporate interest is requesting, not what Big Pharma is shoving down our throat, and certainly not what the multinationals have in mind for really reshaping our tradition, reshaping our value structure.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		So how did we get stuck with Kevin McCarthy?
		Again, it's not all about him, but it is a symptom, and everybody's aware of this.
		You know, I rarely go to, like, sort of more con-inc events, conservative incorporated events, but I was sort of blown away.
		I went to a TPSA event earlier this year at the end of last year, and I didn't hear a lot of talk about tax cuts.
		I didn't hear a lot of talk about typical what you would consider Republican talking points from 10 years ago.
		I heard a lot of we have to defeat Klaus Schwab in the New World Order.
		We have to stand up against the World Economic Forum.
		I mean, the people seem to understand this.
		How do we extricate ourselves from the control of people like Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham and Kevin McCarthy who are just the worst?
		I mean, how do we do it other than...
		Because we got some great people elected.
		A lot of them folded and went over to Kevin McCarthy.
		And it's like, how do you do this?
		What is the process of getting there?
		Because right now we're so far from the goal.
		It's almost like, how do we even identify the goal in the first place and then pursue it after?
		What would be step one in your opinion?
andrew mccarthy ▲ ● ▼		Well, like you said, personnel is policy, and a lot of people did let us down.
		I'm not going to go out there and name names.
		I think I've hit a couple of them very hard, but there are some great candidates that plan on running in 2024.
		Joe Kent's going to run again.
		I think he has a great shot.
		We'd love to see Anthony Sabatini throw his hat in there.
		I think there's some redistricting that provides an opening in the great state of Florida for him.
		And it's all, unfortunately, what you were describing is self-preservation.
		So there might be a conversation from a groundswell, a grassroots perspective of what's in their basket of policies.
		But as soon as you take that to Washington, Kevin McCarthy is beholden to his donors.
		They like to, like I said, show you a shiny object like the Hunter Biden laptop, which, again, doesn't really affect Main Street.
		It's not going to close the southern border.
		It's not going to take care of any of the challenges in our communities.
		But it makes them look like—it makes them appear like they're doing something.
		So those two years go by really quickly.
		It's really only one year of policy and a next year of campaigning.
		If you can bring home a couple wins and some pork to the district, you know, then you're not really on the line.
		And this isn't an off year.
		This isn't a year that's going to be full of primaries.
		That'd be looking more towards 2026.
		But I think it really is personnel.
		I know Gates is asking for reinforcements in D.C.
		We love Lauren Boebert, but we're going to need to have more than just that contingent right there.
		And you saw the 20 that were holding on in McCarthy started the domino effect to drop like flies.
		So we're going to need people that really can build a caucus that can be a little stronger than maybe the Freedom Caucus and create some strong policy that resonates with the American people.
		And you're starting to see it, like, towards the center, like you mentioned.
		The unit party is starting to feel the effects of this, because when they double down on some of this stuff, it means they're scared.
		And I think some of the stuff that is coming from the far right and sometimes even the far left Is making them apprehensive, a little nervous.
		So I think it starts with getting the right people in there and then letting the leaders in place, from our side, caucus appropriately.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		I think you're right, and I think it also has to do with we need to stop playing defense.
		We need to stop reacting to what the left is doing.
		And I think a lot of us have that idea in mind, like we're sick of always reacting.
		We're sick of always being on the back foot.
		We want somebody to aggressively take on the left and make them respond to our proposals rather than the other way around.
		And I guess it's just a matter of public messaging is a lot of it, I think, because Republicans, like, don't know how to sell their vision for the future.
		I just watched—we just watched in the last segment this video of Merrick Garland responding to the SBLC telling the FBI that Catholics were a dangerous terrorist group and, you know, they acted very outraged at this.
		But then we read— An article from 2018.
		So five years ago, you've got people like Matt Gaetz complaining about the SPLC working with the FBI. That was five years ago.
		Nothing's happened about it.
		It's still going on.
		So we can't get anything done because we go, hey, the FBI is working with the SPLC. That's not right.
		And suddenly they're putting your son in a dress.
		And you're like, well, I have to deal with this now.
		So it's like, how do we get on the attack, Andrew, is what I'm asking.
andrew mccarthy ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, you're talking about whack-a-mole right there.
		And the person that actually perfectly bundled all this stuff up when he came down the escalator in 2015 was Donald Trump.
		He was saying things that...
		Sort of in a complex system perspective, all connected, but he was able to categorize them individually that made it easy enough for the voter to say, that's my guy.
		That's exactly what my problems are.
		Globalism is my problem.
		I don't know how to explain globalism if you're the average voter, but I know that the jobs are gone.
		I know that inflation's up.
		I know that the thing Things don't seem to be even with China.
		It seems like they're eating our lunch.
		So people understood that.
		And like I said, you got guys that rally day in and day out like Gates does.
		And if I had a dollar for every issue that he brought to the floor that wasn't covered, then I'd be a rich guy.
		But it's going to take...
		Appropriate delegation for the right committees to hit all these issues.
		I think it was also Gates that said every single committee should have oversight, investigative capabilities.
		So if that was the case, we'd have a different country.
		But, you know, syncing up whoever the next president is, hopefully it's Donald Trump, we need to be in lockstep in terms of these issues so that we aren't playing whack-a-mole.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, and so we aren't having to battle our own side in addition to the radical left.
		We'll be back on the other side. Andrew McCarthy at amccarthyny on Twitter.
		We'll be right back to talk more about what we can do to take over once again.
		Actually set this country on the right course.
		Welcome back, folks. Andrew McCarthy is my guest.
		I'm talking about politics in general.
		I guess one question, Andrew, is is there an electoral solution to this?
		It almost feels like when you're talking about politics, you're talking about a rigged game here.
		I'm becoming less and less faithful that we can actually make a positive change through the electoral process.
		I don't know what the alternative would be other than I don't know.
		I don't know what the alternative would be.
		Are politics even a viable function of change in this society?
		Change for the better rather than change for the worse?
		If not, what else are we going to do?
andrew mccarthy ▲ ● ▼		I'll revert right back to the example I gave you before.
		We could go But if we can bring back the 2015-2016 energy that surrounded Donald Trump, And galvanize.
		And, you know, you have problems like the DeSantis issue, Nikki Haley and all these uniparty leftists, frankly, that are coming in from the center and saying, no, we need to focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
		We need to get the soccer mom vote.
		No, no, no, no, no. Donald Trump needs to go back to vintage form, package up what the country needs and deliver.
		I think this is—remember, we're talking about a Republican Party.
		He needs to go further right than all of these people and let people know that, you know, I'm not going to change.
		I'm still Donald Trump. Times were better under the first era of Donald Trump.
		The economy skyrocketed.
		Forget the stock market.
		Forget Wall Street. Main Street did better than it ever has before.
		If you want to talk about expanding the party, African-American unemployment was lower than it was ever.
		Start naming statistics in the Trump I think we have a winning solution.
		But you ask, is there a legislative solution?
		Right now, we need a strong man.
		I can't be any clearer about that.
		Sometimes you need someone with a stronger approach to the executive to It's a safe state to leverage the power of the executive and push it down people's throats.
		So Trump should run a certain way, and he should—he should operate differently once he's in office.
		And I think we need to go super dark MAGA once he's in.
		But in the meantime, it's about hammering DeSantis for everything that he can't deliver.
		And, you know, the questions that still remain on his handling of certain issues and where his money comes from.
		I think that's really important, who he's stood up for, who he's stood up against.
		I think that's all extremely important to discuss on the campaign trail and really separating the two things.
		You know, I think DeSantis wants to play a game where he makes him and Trump a lot alike, but the messaging is different.
		I think Trump needs to say, no, these are two entirely different things.
		You're dealing with someone that was on the Hill for a long time that has a big resume to hit.
		And I think Donald Trump could do that.
		But, you know, I don't think our solutions are going to come from Congress, unfortunately.
		I think they're going to come from the executive.
		And if things go even worse and we get whoever the left has to offer, I don't see them, unless it's a dark horse candidate, waltzing in and stealing the 2024 election.
		I really don't see that happening.
		Then we need to focus on how to get Donald Trump back in office.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I totally agree.
		I think any Republican lining themselves against Trump right now is...
		Sort of a traitor to the cause.
		I mean, Donald Trump is the only one I can remember in my lifetime that made things better and actually did so by sacrificing his own well-being, life, and wealth to do it and to try to oppose him in any way rather than contribute to him.
		It's just a losing suggestion.
		I mean, it would be amazing if we had Ron DeSantis in Florida holding down that state while doing everything he could to work for Donald Trump.
		I mean, that's a winning solution, not these guys trying to tear each other down.
		I guess the only silver lining would be if they try to one-up each other in how far right they are.
		And maybe we could see a positive outcome.
		But we're not going to see that, I don't think.
andrew mccarthy ▲ ● ▼		No, and DeSantis would do whatever he has to do, and then you'll see a different version when he gets in.
		You know, I think he's a great governor.
		I love what Florida's been able to accomplish under Ron DeSantis.
		But, you know, when I go to the Corps—and I would stick by this a few years if the tables have turned—but who would I rather literally go to war for, or which administration would I rather work in?
		I don't think I would even entertain the fact of working for Ron DeSantis.
		I think you'd get the type of personnel that would be reminiscent of the Bush years or something very kind of cringe and neocon.
		So I'm not a huge fan of that, whereas it'd be an honor to really rev up the engines again and get things in line with the Trump administration.
		So I think that's what it is.
		It's like, how does this person make you feel?
		And if we can evoke that within voters in the primaries, especially early on—a primary trail, by the way, state by state, that favors Donald Trump.
		If we take a look at the map, we're talking about heartland America.
		DeSantis doesn't really see an opening until he gets down to Florida, maybe some of the southern states.
		The map favors Trump.
		I think the vibe on the ground favors Trump.
		The track records on a policy basis favored Trump.
		And let's be honest here.
		When he's in the ring, he's untouchable.
		So if he's even 75 percent of what he used to be, I think the voters will make the right decision.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		It's funny seeing people that supported Trump from 2016 on now going, oh, he retweeted this very distasteful meme about DeSantis.
		And it's like, do you not remember 2016?
		This is what the dude does.
		This is Trump on the war path.
		This is what we love about him.
		They've all become Democrats all of a sudden.
		It's very bizarre.
		It's very strange. I don't think he needs to ratchet down his rhetoric at all.
		I think he needs to ratchet it up, if anything.
		I totally agree with all of that.
		And again, you know, it goes into, I feel like I, and I don't know if you've gone through this process, I feel like a lot of people are, You know, I used to be very libertarian.
		Over the years, I've sort of gotten less libertarian.
		I still consider myself libertarian because liberty is my highest value.
		But how we get there, I think, has changed.
		And again, just going back to, you know, this report about the FBI, you know, the FBI as partners have the SPLC, the ADL, the Human Rights Campaign, the NAACP, the National Center for Transgender Equity, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the National Organization for Women.
		It's like you're not just—you can't— The left learned, I guess, you've got to take these institutions over.
		That's what they're doing. We're way behind on that, but we can't just ignore this any longer, can we?
andrew mccarthy ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, no, a couple of things I mentioned earlier was leveraging the power of the executive.
		It could really be the most powerful branch.
		And I think people kind of knee-jerk reaction know that, but it's how you delegate because you don't have the bandwidth to do all these things.
		So the administrative state is sort of the fourth shadow state there, fourth shadow branch there.
		those entities that you named, including the concerning, there was a task force there that sounded a little intimidating, but all of those need to get funding from somewhere.
		So, you know, you can work with Congress to nip that, but people can still move money around.
		So you need to put people in power within all of these three-letter agencies, any of the executive branch agencies that have a really good understanding of the legal process, the budgetary process, and how all these agencies work together And that's easier said than done.
		I think Trump learned that a little late in the game in the first administration.
		I remember the transition was full of people that were concerning.
		So we'll see how that goes.
		But it's got to be a full-blown war on the administrative stage.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		I think you're right.
		I think Trump is the best hope we have.
		We'll pick it up on the other side with Andrew McCarthy and really dig into some of the policies that could be pursued and effective here.
		Alright, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
		My guest is Andrew McCarthy.
		You can be found on Twitter at amccarthyny.
		Talking about America First policies and how we recapture this once great country from the hands of the globalists.
		Now on the topic of Trump, I can hear my audience now.
		The vaccine. But he loves the vaccine, though, Andrew.
		And so, you know, we've covered all of his policy proposals.
		He comes out with a bunch recently, whether it's opposing globalism, going to war with the cartels, wanting to sue progressive DAs if you're a victim of a crime committed by somebody that they let out early.
		I mean, all of these things are amazing.
		Every policy he comes out with is completely, it's what the doctor orders.
		I mean, it's what we need to cure ourselves.
		But the vaccine. People are so hung up on the vaccine and have abandoned Trump because of the vaccine.
		What's your take on his vaccine stance?
andrew mccarthy ▲ ● ▼		Look, Trump's a boomer, first and foremost.
		It was an interesting time during his presidency.
		It was the tail end.
		We were in the middle of a campaign.
		You need to make a hard decision in a very complex environment.
		I'm going to say this. Donald Trump, since he was—he made his billions by running these businesses, not because he has the bandwidth to make all the small decisions, but because he's the delegator.
		And when he was the president, he was the delegator-in-chief.
		You need to put people around you to make wise decisions.
		And Trump's decision-makers, probably more so than him, because Trump has a great gut.
		His instinct is as good as anyone that, like I said, would go to war with or go to battle with.
		He just reminds me of someone that sort of understands the zeitgeist.
		But he missed on this one.
		He knows that. It was more than likely, you know, you had the Kushners around him.
		I think the Steve Mnuchins, the Kushners, the Reince Priebus's of the world won't be in Trump 2.0.
		I don't think we need to worry about that at all.
		So this was a gut decision that I think, you know, he wanted to make and unfortunately was advised against.
		And look, you have the entire international community that was rallying around the opposite of where he wanted to go with this.
		And not to mention that, you know, decisions leading up to that point were really good during that climate.
		When we talk about the China ban, when we talk about a ban on anyone coming into the country and, you know, doling out money immediately, maybe not long term, but making sure that the economy stays on track.
		So he was he was setting the table for this to work in more of a free market, libertarian, you know, individually based way.
		And I think globalism got the best of his administration and the decision making eventually swelled to the top and he had to pull the trigger.
		Look, not defending the decision, but people have to understand, if you think that happens again, we're dealing with a high-IQ individual that would— Get me once, it's your fault.
		Get me twice, it's totally his.
		He understands that. And I don't think we have to worry about that in Trump's viewpoint, not to understate the impact at all.
		But I don't think he had much of a choice from his perspective, and he would have been nailed either way.
		It just affects, unfortunately, his base and all of us that had to deal with that.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I agree. Do you think he's learned his lesson?
		I hate to put it that way, but do you think that he has learned his lesson about delegation?
		Because, you know, this is the problem with the executive branch is it's staffed almost entirely by people who are anti-Trump that would just counterman his orders or just ignore them or make sure they failed.
		And has he learned his lesson or are we going to see Jared Kushner running things again in his office?
		Like, I I haven't seen any statements of him from him that really fill me with confidence.
		Again, I love Trump.
		I'm Trump trained 100%.
		But I still, you know, I worry that he hasn't really learned his lesson yet.
		Do you think he has? Like, do you think he's going to make those same staffing mistakes?
		Or do you think he's going to come in fully, you know, armed and ready to bear knowing what he's up against?
andrew mccarthy ▲ ● ▼		Well, the deep state's a real thing, and it works both ways.
		Sometimes you have someone in a middle-level management position that works as a bridge between whether it's products that come in front of, you know, intelligence products that come in front of the president's purview, whether it's analysis on something like COVID that we talked about, or it could just be personnel issues on a lower level, manning issues on a frontline level that these people in charge of branches need to deal with.
		But I think he has made a statement, and it was right out of the gate.
		Before he even announced his—or as he announced as president or his campaign, he said, you know, right off the bat, Jared Kushner's not coming around for 2.0.
		And, you know, he's sort of the scapegoat, the definition of what we're talking—like the personification of what we're talking about.
		But there's 100 Jared Kushners, the reality is.
		So I think that was a strong statement right off the bat, saying him and Ivanka aren't going to be around for the second run, if that's any indicator.
		And I think it was a deliberate indicator of what he wants to do.
		That was his intention.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I wonder if he'll come out more strongly against that.
		And I wonder if he'll temper his vaccine rhetoric as we move more into the primary and towards 2024.
		It almost feels silly that we're talking about 2024 this early in 2023, but it's going to be here faster than we know.
		Do you think anybody has a chance against him?
		I mean, DeSantis would be the top one.
		Nikki Haley doesn't even have a million followers on Twitter.
		Yeah. She's nobody.
		She's propped up by the establishment, but I don't think she has a chance in hell.
		I don't think Vivek has a chance in hell.
		Is there anybody that can stop Trump?
		And if not, what's the policy of how do we get more people behind Trump and how do we get the obstacles out of his way?
andrew mccarthy ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, you mentioned talking about the COVID situation.
		I think he's been better in terms of just staying away from it.
		It's going to come down to persona.
		We're going to need some vintage Trump.
		The other candidates are great, frankly, because they force him to go right.
		They expose themselves for being moderates, for being uniparty establishment people, in Nikki Haley's case, 20 years.
		And really... They're great punching bags.
		There's enough policy to go around.
		I don't think anyone's really worried about some of the people you mentioned other than DeSantis because there's a big money aspect.
		There's a lot of money behind it.
		There's over $100 million cash on hand for Ron DeSantis and some of these nonprofits that come in later for top cover on ads and stuff like that.
		Unfortunately, that still affects the demographic that votes in Republican primaries, which is the boomer class, And fortunate for Trump, that demographic still is loyal to him, I think.
		You hear a lot of these Cope things, and they're always like, there's never data behind these.
		These are always anecdotal when someone says, well, I love Trump, but my wife doesn't really approve of his rhetoric, like these Yellowstone sort of memed versions of what people suppose the grassroots would be.
		Or, you know, you'll run into someone that doesn't know that they're a neocon will tell you that.
		So they were never really on board with Trump to begin with.
		But look, we're talking about how to win a Republican primary.
		We're not talking about—I don't need to be concerned with these people after that, frankly.
		And Donald Trump shouldn't govern accordingly.
		These are the people that got him in trouble.
		He needs to go far right during the primary, just package it up in a way that always is reminiscent of, this is what I did for you before, we're going to do it again, we're going to make America great again, again.
		So I think he just needs to bring back some of that nostalgia in the same messaging platform that he did in 2016 and some of the same issues.
		Look, we need to finish off the border.
		Go after the Uniparty and the DeSantis of the world for not allowing him to do that.
		Hit some of these governors that are too big for their britches that think they're going to do something.
		Well, they're not hard on immigration.
		They're not hard on China.
		These are platitudes when you have a soft Disney bill, when Glenn Youngkin sort of changes up the—throws a bone here and there to being hard on China.
		The only person that's done that is Donald Trump.
		He introduced the conversation that hasn't really been talked about during all of NAFTA that shelled out our entire country.
		And he said, look, tariffs right off the bat, but we're going to go hard on IP. We're going to go hard on military, on space, on cyber, on any dimension and any domain that you could think of, Donald Trump could talk about.
		And these people simply don't have that to their resume.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I couldn't agree more.
		And we'll get into, on the other side, sort of some of the cultural aspects of what's going on, as well as the Ukraine war, which I think is a major one that should be a massive selling point for Donald Trump.
		The war would have never started under him, and he could probably stop it tomorrow.
		And so could Biden, actually, for that matter, but they don't want to.
		So to get somebody in office that actually wants to stop the war, how can he not vote for that guy?
		I think that's a great case.
		case we'll try to make it on the other side all right welcome back folks I'm Harrison Smith. Your host, my guest, is Andrew McCarthy.
		You can follow him on Twitter at amccarthyny.
		That's amccarthyny on Twitter.
		You gotta type it exactly or else Google will hide him from you for good reason.
		He's an American America first political pundit who advocates for exactly what we advocate for, freeing ourselves from the globalist shackles.
		We're talking about sort of what needs to happen for 2024 to ensure not just a Republican victory, but a Republican victory that matters and that can actually have effect.
		We mentioned in the last segment, we'll get into it in this one, but here's the headline from New York Times today.
		Biden challenged by softening public support for arming Ukraine.
		The war in Ukraine, major issue these days.
		Trump, you know, seems to be one of the only prominent politicians actually suggesting that peace might be an option.
		How do you think the Ukraine war plays into the current political atmosphere and how could it be used for the advantage of Americans?
andrew mccarthy ▲ ● ▼		Well, that headline was a matter of time, right?
		I remember Going back one year almost to the day when everything kicked off, I tweeted out, I said right off the bat, this is not our war.
		Let's not get caught up in the smoke and mirrors and the minutia and all of this.
		And MSNBC immediately did a hit piece on me, Tucker Carlson, and J.D. Vance for coming out against it.
		I think it's a great company to be in, but that's looking back a year.
		And so much has transpired then in terms of the funding, in terms of on The flat-out lies, some of the psyops that goes to Kiev and all the tales that we've been told to get us as far as we are, it's globalism to the max.
		So you have the globalist finance involved in BlackRock now, but the reality is the American people aren't buying it.
		And now it's intruding into the left.
		I think the center's done with it.
		You know, popularity for the war in Ukraine and the United States is at an all-time low.
		And frankly, it is across the world.
		If you look at countries that support, quote-unquote, the war in Ukraine from the Ukrainian perspective, it's the United States, Canada, Australia, and some European—most European countries.
		Outside of that, I mean, you know, 75 percent of the world says we're staying out of this one.
		It doesn't really make sense for us.
		We've seen this playbook before, and it's kind of like an Iraq war.
		You know, it's all the same indicators are going off.
		And I think people are starting – and credit the American people that they're coming around in almost a year right on the dot.
		It didn't take us, thankfully, any American lives.
		It just took us a lot of money that could have been put back into domestic American infrastructure, as we're seeing a very disillusioned, frankly, sick citizenry that we need to fix in a lot of ways.
		And we're taking the eye off the ball.
		But that's the point of globalism, is to take a look at everything but yourself and lacking that self-awareness as a nation, as a sovereign, to be introspective and analyze some of the flaws that we have domestically.
		Like I said, you have Janet Yellen.
		You're showing her right now.
		Our Treasury Secretary has no business in a foreign nation dealing with any of this stuff.
		If they want to go to BlackRock, that's, again, the American taxpayers through their pensions or whatever else bailing out this country.
		So they're hitting us from every single angle.
		They're using actors to do it now, Sean Penn, Zelinsky himself.
		This whole thing is an upfront sigh up on its face.
		So I'm not telling your viewers anything that they don't know.
		But in terms of popularity, I think the left is finally starting to—and they always come around late, right?
		Like InfoWars is a couple years early.
		And then you have normies that kind of hit it within a year or so.
		And then the left a few years later.
		But I think popularity is at an all-time low for this.
		I don't know to the extent what Donald Trump said about peace treaty, but I think it's pretty obvious that there are people even within Ukraine that agree with Vladimir Putin, especially in the territory that he's been able to take, the territory that, in a lot of people's opinion, including those that live in Crimea and some of those regions, that they're part of Russia.
		Ukraine wasn't a thing until within the last century.
		It was always part of a stronger Russian empire.
		I'm not going to be a Putin apologist, but I'm going to be a realist about this entire situation.
		And we're missing that realist foreign policy feel anywhere in Washington.
		Left, right, and center people lined up for this because they knew it was a cash grab for them as well.
		Everybody's—it's a very lucrative deal.
		Everyone's making—whether you're a mouthpiece, whether you're a banker, whether you're a lobbyist, whether you're a sitting member, you're going to make money off Ukraine.
		And you can go and wash it there, too.
		I think it was a win-win for the most corrupt elite within the country that are mostly globalists.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I couldn't agree more.
		And, you know, to me, it really does seem like it...
		I mean, obviously, it's an information war, and...
		I think it would behoove Trump to change the way we talk about this because the way a lot of Americans understand it is you either are with Ukraine and standing up against Big Bad Putin or you love a strongman tyrant coming in and breaking the back of a poor independent country.
		And that's not the case at all.
		It needs to be... We're reconfigured so we understand peace is a possibility, that you can have a peaceful resolution to this, that we are not blameless in all of this.
		I mean, I think once people understand what's actually happening there and don't have this Harry Potter, Star Wars idea of good guys versus bad guys that's happening, you know, maybe we can come to some, you know, understanding and hopefully stop this just utterly senseless war, which, you know, is now not going as good as they like to claim that it is.
		We only have about two minutes left with you.
		Do you think Ukraine is the biggest issue right now?
		If you were advising President Trump, what would be the number one issue that you would put forward and say, hammer this, this is what you have to talk about, make this the central point of your campaign, and everything else will follow?
		Is there one topic that you would point to?
andrew mccarthy ▲ ● ▼		Well, we could go with China, we could go with law and order, we could go with Ukraine, but I'm going to go with the tried and true, my favorite Trump talking point, And it's just the most important thing facing our sovereignty, facing the American people.
		It's the southern border and immigration.
		You've got to handcuff those two issues and say, do you want a country or not?
		It's up to you. You put it back on them.
		Put the onus on the American citizen and say, it's up to you if you want to maintain a country.
		Right now, there's nothing too sovereign about America, whether it's from The individual level, you can come over here, get your license, get all the identifying features.
		You can vote. You don't have to pay taxes.
		It's just a free ride.
		And then from the highest level, we're paying for this, right?
		So from a government to government level, You know, the Black Rocks of the world, the World Economic Forum, and some people within our government actually are encouraging this.
		It's weaponized immigration.
		You need to talk about it as a weapon, as an attack on the American individual, on the small business owner.
		It's an insult to say Americans can't do the job.
		Erase all the old tropes.
		To say that we need legal or illegal immigration Frankly, I'm against—I'm for cutting back about 90 percent of legal immigration, including H-1Bs, and it's a real insult to recent college graduates when you talk about not being—you know, we need these tech jobs to come over from India and South Korea and et cetera.
		Well, that's actually an insult to us, and I think it gets back to what I said about a healthy American citizenry and that mindset of— Knowing that we can do this on our own, we need some of those post-World War II vibes of just being like, no, we got this, man.
		We don't need to necessarily lead from a global perspective.
		I think we need to lead at home right now.
		So that starts with the border, and you can build in all these spinoff issues of what the real ailments are, what the real illnesses are within America, and it starts there.
		And no one's better than that, than Donald Trump.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Well, I knew I was going to agree with you before we had you on because, again, I've been a big follower of yours and have really appreciated what you've had to say on the national scene.
		And, of course, once again, I could not agree with you more on all these topics.
		I think, really, if we all get behind these common-sense ideas, there is victory ahead.
		If we're constantly sniping each other and having to deal with the Kevin McCarthys and the Mitch McConnells of the world, We're going to be endlessly stuck in this quagmire while the leftists speed past us and continue to force their satanic will on the rest of us.
		Incredible stuff. Thank you so much for joining us.
		Andrew McCarthy, everyone. You can find him on Twitter once again at amccarthyny.
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		Thank you so much for being with us, Andrew.
		Thanks for having me, guys. Absolutely our pleasure, and we'll have to do it again sometime soon.
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		Alright, welcome back.
		Ladies and gentlemen, third hour has begun here on American Journal.
		We will be joined by Dale Comstock very shortly.
		So much going on across the world today.
		I just published a video on my Twitter, at Harrison H. Smith, a little highlight reel that we put together.
		We're starting to do this a little bit more.
		Because while, you know, the reason that we're here is to provide everybody listening with the information that they need to operate and to understand the greater plan going on, you know, the way the media operates these days in cooperation with the globalists, like, you only see what they want you to see.
		But if you have enough insight and You can actually figure out what the full, you know, what's actually happening, the real full thing that's going on.
		And that's what we try to do and try to provide for our audience.
		But also, you know, we don't want to be just preaching to the choir.
		We don't want to just be talking to people who sort of already know this stuff and giving them more information.
		We want... To introduce this information to people that are unaware of it.
		People that still...
		I still see people wearing shirts with like, Ukraine, Snake Island, go F yourself.
		And it's like, that never happened.
		That was a lie.
		It never occurred. And of course now things are starting to come out about COVID and all the late night shows are like joking about, oh, the lab leak theory.
		Haha, isn't that funny?
		It's like, well... You were foaming at the mouth and demanding people be censored for saying that exact thing earlier.
		Maybe you should look at that.
		All the evidence is here.
		It's up to the people, I guess, whether they care about being lied to or not, whether they care about getting accurate information or just continually being tossed about in the winds of ever-changing so-called science.
		But I do think, you know, as little evidence as I have for it, there is still evidence.
		I know some people listening to me right now probably didn't listen to InfoWars before last year.
		Maybe didn't listen to InfoWars before COVID-19 or something like that.
		Sort of maybe forced you out of the bubble.
		But slowly but surely, people are waking up.
		People are becoming aware of what's going on.
		And so... One thing that we're starting to do here is trying to package together little highlight videos that take maybe something that I take 15 minutes to cover on the show, pack it down into two minutes, and put it online.
		It was probably a mistake to do the first one about Trump and vaccines, since I know how my audience feels about it.
		But again, we're trying to take the global view here.
		If we're waging a world war, which is what we're waging, it's an information war with the entirety of the human population as both the combatants and the non-combatants and the battlefield itself, then you have to take this bird's eye view of the situation.
		You can't command a world war as an officer in the field focusing on artillery placements to try to Blast a bunker across a field away or whatever.
	You've got to be able to zoom out and see the whole thing and understand that, yeah, at certain places you have to withdraw, but that doesn't mean you're losing there.
	It means that you are going to win the overall war by a strategic retreat here or there.
	All this is to say that...
	I'm trying to think of a good metaphor for it.
	But Donald Trump is like the nuclear bomb, right?
	He is like the solution.
	He's like the end game, the exclamation point at the end of the sentence that settles the rest of it.
	It's like we have a bunch of people now going, we refuse to use the nuclear bomb because it's too expensive or whatever.
	And it's like, you're missing the whole point.
	You're missing the big picture.
	You're hampering yourself.
	You're crippling the entire fight.
unidentified		This entire war being crippled because you refused to use the weapon.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
		The third hour has begun here on American Journal.
		I'm your host, Harrison Smith.
		My guest is Dale Comstock.
		Dale Comstock has given 35 years of service to the United States combating U.S. enemies abroad.
		He's served in every campaign from Granada to present conflicts that the United States is involved in as a Frontline combatant directly engaging the enemy, either as a paratrooper, Green Beret, Delta Force operator, or paramilitary contractor.
		He's been decorated twice for valor in combat and is also the framed breacher that explosively breached the Modelo prison in Panama during the 1989 U.S. invasion and rescue of Kurt Mews.
		His website is dalecomstock.com.
		You can also follow him on Instagram at officialamericanbadass.
		And if you think that was a lengthy, you know...
		Timeline there. We're barely scratching the surface of what you've been able to accomplish.
		Thank you so much for coming on, Dale.
dale comstock ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, appreciate it. Thanks for having me on.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's my pleasure.
		Glad to have somebody like you on with real-world experience to comment on what's going on in the world today.
		Just give me your overall view.
		What is the state of the world at this point, state of the union?
		Are we in a positive trajectory, negative trajectory?
		Just what's your take in the whole political milieu these days?
dale comstock ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, well, no doubt in my mind, we're in a negative trajectory.
		We're in a real steep downward slope.
		You know, so I'm actually talking to you right now from Bali, Indonesia.
		I live here. I have a home here.
		I have a business here. I have a home in Florida.
		I have a home in Manila, Philippines.
		And I've traveled and lived in or worked in over 97 countries.
		So I have a pretty good appreciation about the rest of the world and how they see us.
		How they view Americans.
		And I can tell you that it's not necessarily very favorable.
		And, you know, I've had some opportunities to kind of look at some things from kind of an insider perspective.
		For example, I was at the G20 summit here in Bali.
		This winter. And I was actually providing security for some of the venues and I had an opportunity to listen to some of the programs.
		And I tell you, it was pretty disturbing what I was listening to.
		And I tell you, the G20 was nothing more than a propaganda campaign to sell the world on the idea that we need one world government.
		And basically, there were five areas that they emphasized.
		One, we are in a food shortage.
		Two, we're in a water shortage.
		Three, we're in an energy shortage.
		Four, there's going to be another pandemic.
		And five, the Russians are going to nuke us all, right?
		So I thought, man.
		And then the bottom line after that was, you know, we need one world government.
		We all need to be under one world government for our own safety.
		And also we need, through the World Health Organization, vaccine passports for the future so that we can regulate who moves and who doesn't move based on their vaccine status.
		And I got to tell you, man, it was quite disturbing to hear all that and outright lies.
		I mean, let's be real.
		Okay, first of all, let's talk about the energy shortage.
		There's no energy shortage other than the one that we create.
		We've created our own energy shortage, okay?
		You know, food shortage, I don't see that either.
		For sure, I don't see a water shortage.
		Heck, I'm here in Bali and I almost have to swim to work every day.
		There's so much that going on in here.
		You know, so, you know, and it's really, it's amazing that the elites, what they do is they talk down to the populace, you know, as, you know, everybody else were a bunch of idiots.
		And it's scary to see what's going on.
		This propaganda campaign is so convincing.
		And people are just like the Pied Piper just falling right along with it.
		And nobody's using any critical thinking skills.
		Nobody's really doing an analysis going, wait a minute.
		Is this really true?
		Is this paradigm real or is this some baloney?
		And I was just shocked and surprised by all of it.
		You know, just standing there listening to it.
		And then, you know, I've done quite a bit of research, I think I have, on the state of the world and where we are today, particularly in America, and what our standing looks like in the rest of the world.
		And it's not, for me, it's not positive at all.
		Like I said, I live in Bali.
		I live in the United States. I have a home in the Philippines as well.
		And honestly, I would rather live in Indonesia.
		In fact, I told my friends today, I said, at least here people know what a man is and what a woman is.
		You know, we're not fighting over, you know, stupid stuff.
		People get, you know, people here are still grounded.
		And I don't know what's going on in our country, in America, but these people have lost their mind.
		They weren't even having these conversations anymore, you know, regarding, you know, everything from You know, changing children, sex, you know, just everything that's happening in our country.
		It's just, I never thought I would ever see a day like this.
		But at least here in Indonesia, I don't really experience too much of that, thank goodness.
		But unfortunately, I got to come back.
		I have family in the United States.
		And, you know, a lot of my contemporaries out there, a lot of my friends, you know, they ask me, you know, what's it like to live abroad?
		They want to leave the country.
		They want to live somewhere else. They want to escape.
		And I'm And I tell everybody, I said, don't escape.
		I'm not escaping. I might be abroad, but honestly, I will come back and fight for my country.
		I'm not gonna run and abandon it and give it to, you know, give it to those that are actually less deserving of it.
	So, but yeah, I don't think we're in a good, we're not in a good place.
	And I think it's gonna be a long time before we ever turn this thing around, if we ever do.
	And I think the next election is going to tell the story, what the future is going to look like.
	And so far, it's a scary proposition.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it definitely is.
		And there's so much of what you just talked about that we can dig down and dig into.
		But I think at its basis is a disconnect from reality that you're pointing to.
		That's why I like having people like yourself on.
		You know, there's an extremely high prevalence of, like, what would be considered more conservative mindsets and things like MMA and UFC. You know, there's certain ways of life that you can't believe BS. You can't believe a lie because you're going to get physically hurt because of it.
		I think soldiers sort of fall in line with that, right?
		You can have all the theories you want, but when you're in the ring and you've got to box somebody, suddenly body differences matter.
		Suddenly male and female actually exist because one of you has a higher bone density and greater muscle mass, right?
		So all the fakeness goes away.
		Do you identify that as sort of the central problem?
		Is this disconnect from reality that's really being forced on the people of the world right now?
dale comstock ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, and you know what?
		Sadly, you know, the rest of the world looks at America as, for the example, right?
		So they mimic America.
		For example, here in Indonesia, in Bali, a couple years ago, and it's still there, in fact, I was riding down the road, and I looked over in a parking lot, and right there in the parking lot, in big yellow letters, it said Black Lives Matter.
		They had the fists and everything.
		I was like, holy cow, they even bought into it here.
		You know, so they, you know, America is very impressionable.
		And people, they look at us and they kind of follow our lead.
		And I think in a lot of ways, the whole world is kind of being corrupted by the garbage that we present every day in our country.
		So you're starting to see this everywhere.
		But you're right in that, you know, let's be honest, man.
		There's a difference between men and women.
		And I'll be the first one to tell you, there are men and there are women.
		There are only two sexes, you know?
		And just because you think you're a woman and you're a male doesn't make you a woman.
		You're still a male, even though maybe up here you think you're a woman, you're still a male.
		And unfortunately, you know, like I said, the rest of the world kind of, they kind of buy into this crap, you know.
		And I look at the whole Western world and even Australia and what's going on.
		It's like, wow, we've done this paradigm shift where we've gone from like what I thought was, you know, rational, civilized society.
		All of a sudden we're this, you know, we're this really bizarro, sick society, so to speak.
		And I look at our adversaries, you know, historically our adversaries, and they were becoming the people that we were at one time, even the military, you know, from the military perspective.
		You know, we've watered down our military to the point where we have these You know, recruitment commercials where you've got, you know, gay people let women, you know, and cartoons about, you know, LGBT, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
		Yet you look at the Chinese and Russian recruitment video, and they got guys, you know, doing hand-to-hand and beating each other, doing masculine, manly stuff.
		It's like it's embarrassing as an American soldier to see the two differences and how there's been this paradigm shift in the military mindset.
		And I'm I hate to say this, man.
		We had a great military.
		Honestly, I don't know where it's at today.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Well, I know they're having a recruitment problem.
		We'll pick it up on the other side.
		We've got to go to commercial break. But we'll be back with Dale Comstock.
		And, yeah, I want to talk about the military and some of the struggles it's having right now.
		It's not in good shape either.
		And we'll get into, you know, what that means and what that portends for the rest of us on the other side.
		DaleComstock.com is the website.
		We'll be right back. Welcome back, folks.
		This is the American Journal. I'm your host, Harrison Smith.
		My guest is Dale Comstock, dalecomstock.com.
		His Instagram is officialamericanbadass.
		Officialamericanbadass. Not just an American badass.
		The official, the legitimate one.
		Very excited to continue our conversation about all sorts of issues facing America and the globe today.
		Now, Dale, you spent 35 years...
		You know, helping to fight America's enemies.
		I love the propagandistic perception of the American army.
		I love the American military as this ultimate powerful force that any tyrant around the world has to shake in their boots any time we identify them as being against human rights and we come and free people.
		I love that idea.
		I'm not sure if that's our purpose anymore.
		That's not the role that we've played for...
		A couple decades at this point.
		And we're starting to see the cracks.
		Recruitment is way down.
		There's like a suicide epidemic in the Navy.
		They had to like empty entire ships because multiple sailors had killed themselves.
		I mean, it's a tragedy what's happening.
		And I think a lot of it is because we're not fighting for what we're supposed to be fighting for.
		For freedom and, you know, individual rights and these wonderful things.
		Instead, it's...
		They don't even tell us what we're fighting.
		It's Ukraine. We have to fight Ukraine because shut up, you have to fight Ukraine.
		What is going on with the American military right now?
		Do you still have communication with people in the military?
		Is their morale high?
		What is the focus now?
		What's happening with the American military these days?
dale comstock ▲ ● ▼		Going back in time, I retired in 2001.
		The reason I made the decision to retire in 2001 is I already saw back then This change that was coming about in the military.
		For example, I was in Special Forces, and I remember at the time, it was General Shinseki, Secretary of Defense, came down to Fort Bragg, went to a Yusaka ceremony, had all these green berets.
		And he looked around, he was just in awe at all these green berets.
		And right there, he made a command decision.
		Everybody in the military would get a black beret.
		So he literally took the black beret away from the Army Rangers, And gave everybody a black beret so they could feel good about themselves.
		Not that they earned it, just so they could feel good about themselves.
		And then they started implementing things like stress cards, right?
		So in basic training, if a drill sergeant was, you know, chewing out a recruit, the recruit just pulled out a card and held it up.
		And basically the drill sergeant had to cease and desist and leave him alone.
		And then it got to the point where the recruits didn't have to pass the physical fitness training.
		Or test. They just showed up, you know, fat and out of shape.
		And it was a responsibility of, like me, for example, as a noncommissioned officer, to whoop them into shape.
		And I thought, man, you know, what is going on with the military?
		And it just got worse and worse and worse, to the point where, you know, in the military I grew up, If you made a mistake, you know, your platoon sergeant, your squad leader or team leader would make you do push-ups, right?
		It told you, hey, if you're going to be dumb, we'll make you strong.
		And you push the earth down to China, right?
		And so it taught you things.
		And then we got away from that.
		It was like I couldn't even do that anymore.
		I had to... I had to come up with other ways to reprimand a soldier for breaking the rules.
		It got really stupid, and I realized I don't want any part of this military anymore because it's going way in the wrong direction.
		That's what actually prompted me to retire.
		Honestly, I'm not going to say it's gotten any better.
		I've spent quite a few years in Afghanistan, Iraq, and what I saw, particularly in around the year 2010, I'm gonna kind of share this story of something that happened, which was really kind of an eye-opener for me.
		But think about this.
		You know, we've, you know, we spent, what, 20 years in Afghanistan, so we've had a couple generations now come in of soldiers, and the newer generation, right, the whatever, the X generation, Gen X, and all this stuff, and there was a combat operation,
		it was a three-day operation in Afghanistan that required basically an integrated force of Afghan National Army, U.S. military, and we're maneuvering on Taliban forces in a particular area in Afghanistan on the border,
		Pakistan. Well, one of the guys I was working with, only two of us, he took two of our platoons and he augmented the US military and ANA in this combat operation.
		I had one of the platoons in a QRF, a quick reaction force, in a standby position, so to speak.
		Here's what happened. So my contemporary, he was describing to me one day in the midst of a big firefight in the valley, the platoon came down the side of the valley and there was an MRAP parked out in the open.
		It had actually been RPG'd.
		It had been hit by Taliban.
		There were American casualties scattered around the vehicle.
		And they were probably about 500 meters out to the front.
		And as our element moved around the ridgeline there, They'd notice an entire platoon of American infantry sitting on their butts, literally on their butts, with their gear off, their helmets off, in the shade.
		And the question was posed, why are you guys just sitting here, and why are you not out here trying to help your guys and recover them and get them off the firefight, off the X? They're taking fire.
		And the response was from one of the soldiers, hey, it's too hot out there, Sarge, it's getting too hot.
		And so at that point, again, my...
		I guess my teammate, I'll call him.
		He called over the captain in charge.
		He asked him, what is going on, sir?
		You know, why are you men just sitting here?
		Why are you not out rescuing your fellow soldiers?
		And his answer was, I can't make them do anything.
		They won't move it. They won't do anything.
		So what ended up happening is we ended up sending our own Afghan soldiers out there, all right, to recover and bring these guys back in the midst of a firefight.
		And then it was our medics, our Afghan medics that were trained by us, Actually had to provide medical training for the casualties, while the American medics just sat there and watched.
		And so, a report was submitted.
		Of course, they found a silhouette in a trash can.
		Nobody wanted to talk about that.
		But, you know, it was quite obvious where we are with the new generation.
		Look, I'm not saying all guys are like that or all soldiers are like that, but in this particular incident, this is kind of telling that, you know, it's too hot out there to go out there and go get those guys.
		I'd rather leave them out there to die and bleed to death while I sit in the shade with my equipment off.
		A whole different mindset.
		We have raised bread, raised, you know...
		A bunch of sissies. I'm sorry to say that.
		And I've seen it more than once.
		And so this is what's so scary is, you know, we have a generation of entitled people, okay, that are tasked with and expected to fight for our country, but yet they're not willing to get off their ass and go out there and recover their own fellow soldiers, you know, and risk their lives for that or for their country or for the fellow soldiers.
		And so, I never forgot that, and I realized right away at that point, it's like, man, do I want to continue to be a part of this and die ultimately for nothing, because it all means nothing at the end of the day, right?
		And I was right, because look what happened in Kabul, right?
		20 years, and we pull out, and more Americans die, more Afghans die, civilians die, we leave 80-something billion dollars worth of equipment behind, and What?
		We did that just to kill Osama bin Laden?
	Why? Did we teach the world a lesson?
	Did we teach terrorists a lesson?
	No, we didn't teach anybody a lesson.
	We killed one man. We spent all these resources and lives to kill one man just to pull out and even—it makes no sense.
	And I'll take that all the way back to 1993, Mogadishu.
	Same thing, right under Bill Clinton.
	You know, we were tasked to go out and kill or capture Adid, Mohammed Adid.
	And well, so we got a bloody nose, got in a firefight, and guess what?
	This doesn't look good politically, and we withdrew everybody out of there after we took 17 KIAs and over 77 wounded on October 3rd and 4th.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		And for what? I think you're pointing out exactly what the issue is.
		Dying for nothing. Nobody wants to die for nothing.
		If there's nothing you believe in, nothing you're really fighting for, why should you risk your life?
		We'll pick this up on the other side.
		There's a lot to talk about from that story that you just told.
		Alright, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
		Dale Comstock is my guest.
		I want to stick to it with the topic of the American military overall right now.
		There's a classic meme that's been posted around quite a bit.
		Won a war versus lost a war in the military declarations.
		A humble bar of victory for winning a war.
		You lose a war and you probably run out of room on your chest for all the decorations and accolades you get.
		And it sounds like this is, you know, filtered down to the regular soldiers, the infantrymen being rewarded.
		I mean, you know, I used to sort of roll my eyes to the idea that people, when I'm growing up, people would rail against participation trophies.
		But I mean, this is at a real negative, you know, real world effect.
		I mean, is this start at the top and go down?
		I mean, how has it gotten so corrupt at this point?
dale comstock ▲ ● ▼		Well, you know, it's funny that you showed that picture of General Miley, and I just think he's a paper tiger.
		All those—that fruit salad he's wearing on his chest, I don't think is deserved one bit.
		That guy hasn't seen any combat.
		You know, I mean, come on.
		The guy was a—you know, when we talk about general officers particularly, you know, and field-grade officers in the military, just think of them as— You know, executives.
		They're executive-level managers, okay?
		They're not leaders, okay? That's a misnomer.
		They're not leaders. They're managers.
		The real leaders are noncommissioned officers.
		They're the ones pushing their troops.
		They're the ones making things happen on the battlefield.
		This guy, you know what?
		He gets awards just for being in theater, okay?
		That's what he gets. And he's a total failure on so many levels.
		And, you know, he's a politician.
		And, you know, I've watched, you know, I know a lot of general officers.
		Unfortunately, a lot of them have passed away from old age.
		But, you know, I've seen the ones that—there's some good ones that have evolved, but they'll never make it to a political level because they're just not political enough.
		The guys that make it to that political level are the politicians and the yes-men.
		And I will say, General Mali, the entire command staff up there, they're a bunch of yes men.
		They're not war fighters.
		They're nothing more than administrators, executive administrators.
		But yeah, that permeates all the way down to the very bottom, unfortunately.
		And we're seeing that in the military.
		The whole military mindset is changing.
		Not completely. There are some guys out there that still believe in John Wayne in the American way and believe in America and fighting the war.
		I get it because I do mentor and coach a lot of these guys.
		But I get a lot of guys that come to me, not just me, but my veteran friends, and they ask for guidance about joining the military.
		And pretty much me and all my friends...
		They're former veterans. We pretty much dissuade all the young men from going to the military now.
		We're like, you know what? Do yourself a favor.
		Get an education. Become a sovereign man.
		Start your own business. Don't become dependent on anybody, particularly the government or anybody else for your income, and be free.
		Do not go to combat because you'll die for nothing.
		Because, you know, I've lost so many friends now.
		For nothing. I mean, literally for nothing.
		Gary Gordon was a Congressional Medal of Honor winner in Mogadishu.
		At one point, he was on my team.
		He was a very good guy.
		He was a good friend of mine, and he's gone.
		And I'm like, what did he die for?
		Nothing, you know?
		And so, you know, nothing comes out of this stuff.
		And even now, for example, here we are Fighting a proxy war in Ukraine against the Russians.
		And why are we fighting this proxy war?
		It has nothing to do with freedom and saving the world.
		This has everything to do with protecting financial interests of the Biden family.
		And all these people are invested in Ukraine and the chemical labs and everything else that's going on over there, you know?
		And they only see this, oh, we've got to save Ukraine because, you know, if we don't, they're going to take over the whole world.
		You know? And again, I've been asked several times if I would like to come over as a contractor.
		I've worked as a mercenary, you know, for other foreign countries that were, you know, in line with American policy and particularly fighting the global war on terrorism, but I refuse to go to Ukraine and fight on their behalf.
		I've refused to fight on behalf of the Europeans, that we've spent so much money on the NATO, giving them NATO dollars to build their army, and all they've done is build parade armies, and they're looking at us like, hey, can you come over here and fight for us?
		I'm telling American men and women, do not go.
		It's time we just don't go.
		We just stop going out here and And catering to the elite and dying for these people so they can line their pockets of them and their children, like Hunter Biden, and stop sacrificing our own men and women, you know, for this stupid cause that there's no end in sight.
		And this is going to get even worse.
		You know, it's disgusting.
		And as a soldier, I'm humiliated.
		You know, I spent...
		I spent 35 years, pretty much, fighting for this country.
		I mean, literally, as a frontline combatant.
		I mean, from infantry, to Green Beret, to Delta Force, to mercenary, to paramilitary officer for the government.
		And I look back now, like, man, was it really worth it?
		And really, the only part that was worth it was The friendships I've made, the family I've made, and the skill sets I've obtained.
	But ultimately, you know, there was a time when I had purpose.
	There was a time when it was worth it.
	But something changed probably right around 1993 with Mogadishu.
	And I knew that, you know, we're going in the wrong direction.
	And that's what prompted me to get out in 2001.
	Honestly, I don't know that we're ever going to be able to go back to what America was.
	I think the American ideal is dead, and we're just circling the drain right now.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		It is like tragic.
		Tragic is the only word that comes to my mind, especially when you've got, I've got, you know, family, generations of soldiers.
		I think they can trace their service back to like the Revolutionary War, literally, right?
		You know, my family has, you know, direct descendants from like George Washington's commissioned officers.
		So... And these people are going, yeah, not anymore.
		So you've got centuries of loyalty to this organization, and now it's just like, they're just like, yeah, don't even, don't bother.
		It's suicide going, and what are you fighting for?
		And so now to, you know, instead of looking at themselves and the military going, all right, nobody wants to fight for us.
		Nobody believes in what we're doing.
		Maybe we better change things. The solution of the American military is let's bring foreigners in.
		Let's have, you know, let's staff our army with foreign people and offer them citizenship in exchange for fighting for us.
		I mean, is this a solution in your mind?
		This seems like a surrender, if anything.
dale comstock ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, well, you know what?
		It should be a wake-up call.
		My father was in the Army for 20 years.
		I spent 20 years in the U.S. Army.
		My son's a Green Beret.
		My sister was in the Navy. My whole family comes from a military lineage, both as Americans and the German side of my family.
		You know, we all fought for the same purpose, for freedom, for the American way, for all those things, the ideals.
		And now it's like...
		Wow, what are we fighting for?
		What are we doing? Yeah, you're right.
		If we've got to bring in foreign fighters to fight on our behalf, we're lost, man.
		We're done. What do they come here fighting for?
		For money? To be a part of the American dream?
		What American dream? The American dream is dying.
		It's dying. And I don't want to sound like...
		There's a lot of Americans out there.
		They're patriots. I know.
		And I don't want them to think that I hate America.
		I don't. There's half of America I love.
		I love the country.
		I love half of the citizenry.
		But there's another half, and I don't call them Americans.
		I call them pseudo-Americans at best, that are destroying us from within.
		They are the greatest enemy.
		You know, we're not going to get destroyed from the outside.
		We're getting destroyed from the inside.
		And people that just sit around and go, well, I'm going to be the silent majority and I'm just going to vote them out.
		How did that work the last time?
		It didn't work. We cannot just sit on our butt and be quiet and do nothing and expect somebody else to do something for us.
		Honestly, I'm not doing anything for you anymore.
		You know what? If I have to go to fight, I'm fighting for my friends and my family, for like-minded people.
		That's all I'm fighting for at this point.
		And there's a lot of American veterans like me that are in the same boat.
		We've had enough, and our military is...
		I heard one of the politicians one time, I can't remember his name now, He posed a question about the Second Amendment.
		He goes, so you're telling me, you know, you want to keep your firearms to protect yourself from tyranny, so you're telling me you would shoot American soldiers?
		And you know what the answer to that is?
		Yeah, because if the American soldier is willing to fight for a tyrannical government, is willing to shoot on me— On behalf of the U.S. government, I'm willing to shoot on them.
		That's how it works.
		I'm not going to die for some stupid, liberal, democratic, communist...
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		I'm going to cut you off before you start dropping four-letter words, but we'll be back on the other side with Dale Comstock.
		Don't go anywhere, folks.
		All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back.
		Final segment of the American Journal today.
		My guest is Dale Comstock, dalecomstock.com.
		His Instagram is officialamericanbadass.
		We're talking a lot about the military and sort of the state of the union, as it were.
		Now, I think we've seen a lot of evidence over the last couple years that the American military is being purged.
		I mean, I'm not speculating here.
		They are literally purging people from the American military for things like not wanting to take the vaccine or for having things like the come-and-take-it flag, right?
		They identify just traditional American symbols and then say, if you have these, you're actually an extremist and we're going to kick you out of the army.
		It seems to me, and maybe this is just my suspicious conspiratorial mind, but it seems an awful lot like they're laying the groundwork for siccing the army on the American people and getting rid of anybody who would oppose such a thing.
		Any soldier that would stand up against orders they knew were wrong or that had a firm understanding and grasp of the American Constitution that wouldn't go along with orders to attack their fellow Americans, they're all getting rid of.
		They're getting rid of all of them.
		And I think the attack on the American people, people like me, is coming, and that's what they're laying the groundwork for.
		Do you think there's any legitimacy to that line of thought?
dale comstock ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I think there is, and we talked earlier during the break.
		So when this whole thing started about bringing women into combat arms, I remember I was on a show with Alan West, a good friend of mine, and he had a talk show up in Washington, D.C. I went up there to talk about this topic, and You know, here's my thought on this.
		Why would you bring women into combat arms, okay?
		So it's really easy to sit on a couch and go, well, you know, women should have an opportunity, you know, to do this and do that.
		Well, here's a guy, me, okay, I was in the infantry.
		I was a long-range scout.
		I was a Green Beret. I was a Delta Force operator.
		I was a mercenary. I lived in the field.
		I lived under a rucksack, a heavy rucksack, in the worst conditions you can imagine, whether it was winter, jungle, desert.
		I know what it's like to carry another man's body and all the equipment through the jungle and the physical effort it takes to carry weapons, to carry ammunition, to carry water, to carry your teammates through the fight and then from the fight.
		And so, you know, this is not a place for women.
		I'm sorry. And there is a difference between men and women.
		Just the sheer strength differences of men and women.
		So, you know, what is the agenda here?
		Not just women, but, you know, You know, whatever, transsexuals and all this other, you know, stuff, you know, these people are coming in.
		And I believe it, I can't even keep up with LGBTQ, whatever.
		It's so crazy. You know, how many, good Lord, you know?
		And so I think it's really an effort to infuse liberal thought into what's really a conservative institution.
		When you look at combat arms, you know, whether it's infantry, rangers, marines, SEALs, Delta, Green Berets, The ranks are 99.99% conservative.
		That's what they are. These are guys like me that grew up, that believe in John Wayne, the American way, patriotism.
		And suddenly, we were not the ones that would turn on the American populace, no matter what.
		And so... The government needs guys like us to actually turn on the populace in order for them to promote their agenda in a nefarious way, so to speak.
		So how do you do that? Well, how about if we infuse those ranks with liberals and liberal thought, and now we create this equilibrium, right?
		You know, we defang combat arms.
		We take away their fangs with this liberal mindset.
		Instead of, you know, all right, guys, we're going to have to take that bunker up there and take that machine gun position, suddenly you've got, you know, people in rank going, hey, do we really have to attack that?
		Can we just send them an email and give them an opportunity to surrender?
		You know, and so this is where we're at.
		And And this is all intentional.
		I don't care if it's intentional. And there's no place for it.
		I've been to combat. I've seen women in combat, and it just doesn't work.
		It just doesn't work.
		And everybody goes, well, you know, women are getting into firefights all the time.
		Let me tell you something. There's a difference between getting in an ambush in a vehicle and getting out and shooting, and there's a difference between walking 10, 20, 30, 40 kilometers at night through the desert, through the jungle with an 80-pound rucksack on your back, going to a target, executing, and then withdrawing off that target, perhaps with dead bodies or wounded bodies with you.
		It's a whole different dynamic.
		And everybody wants to sit on the couch and pretend like there's armchair warriors that never spent a day in the military in combat making these decisions.
		And rather than relying on guys that have actually been there and done that, it sounds like a good idea.
		Let's do this. Let's allow women an equal opportunity.
		But what you're going to do is you're basically going to sacrifice more men and more good soldiers over these social justice issues.
		You know, agendas that really have no place in warfighting.
		We soldiers have one purpose, man, to fight wars to defend our freedoms, man.
		That's it. It's got nothing to do with social experimentation.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		No, it's crazy. And, you know, the other question, why would you want to put women in that situation?
		Like, why would you want to force women to take on these manly characteristics?
		It... Makes no sense at all.
		But I want to end on not the blackest of pills.
		Are there any white pills in the future?
		I mean, is there a way out of this?
		Is there a way to regain what we've lost so far?
		Because there's still plenty of us out here.
		I'm sure the ranks of the Army are still full of guys who know what's going on and want to do what's right.
		So is there a way that we can pull ourselves back from the brink, reestablish what it is that made us great in the first place, And to move forward in a positive direction, not this degradation we're experiencing.
		Is there a solution?
dale comstock ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I really think, you know, so I mentioned earlier about, you know, for example, general officers in the military.
		These guys are executive managers.
		They're not leaders. And honestly, you know, even our politicians, like our president, he's not a leader.
		That's a misnomer, okay?
		At best, he's an executive manager as well.
		What we really do need is a leader.
		Someone that can actually lead.
		Someone that people would want to follow.
		If we can get that and reinstate those leadership qualities at the highest level, I think that would go a long way for inspiring younger people to be better people and be better soldiers.
		I think there's a way out, but it's going to take some work.
		We've got to be able to overcome This liberal tsunami, man, that has taken over.
		I mean, it's really, it's permeating every aspect of our life.
		I mean, we're having now, you know, corporations or, you know, everything is, you know, equity, you know.
		It's not about equality.
		It's, you know. It's about equity and equal outcome.
		You know, there's no more—you know, there's everything about trophies for everybody just for participating.
		We've got to get away from that.
		The reality in the world is, you know, it's not a fair world.
		It's a dangerous and feral world.
		And not everything's going to be fair, and it's not fair for everybody.
		Even for me, I wish it was, but it's not.
		As soon as we learn to live with that and deal with the rigors and hardships of the world that we live in and face it, You know, I think it's going to take all that before we can actually get back on it.
		Right now, everybody's just used to getting, you know, and I'll quote a guy named Jeremy Betham.
		He was a philosopher back in the mid-1700s.
		And he coined the term hedonistic utilitarianism.
		And basically what he was saying was of the human condition.
		Humans, we prefer to go the easy, pleasurable way and avoid all the hard, painful things.
		And that's where we're at today. Everybody wants it hot now and easy.
		They don't want to do the hard work.
		They don't want to do the painful things.
		They don't want to take accountability. They want to take responsibility.
		They want to blame everybody else.
		And until we hold everybody accountable for their behavior and everything they do, it's just going to get worse.
		We have to stop giving everybody a pass, going, okay, you know, I understand, you know, you're 10 years old and you think you're a girl when you're actually a boy, and so we're going to change your sex.
		We've got to just say, hey, buck up, buddy.
		All right? Man up. And maybe, you know, get your ass out there in the yard and play football with the rest of the boys and toughen up, you know, until you grow out of this thing.
		We've got to stop placating everybody and absolving everybody of their responsibility and their accountability.
		I think it has to start there, and maybe that goes all the way back into the home and to the family, you know?
		And it starts there with the parents and parents...
		You know, I think we can tie this all the way back to, what was his name, Dr.
		Spock, you know? The guy that said, hey, you know, we don't need to spank our kids, you know, blah, blah, blah.
		So we've created these generations of these, you know, these wimpy kids that, you know, they don't want to even go outside and get their hair wet because it might be, you know, because it's raining.
		And we've got to get away from that.
		You know, when you look at, you know, I look at, for example, Afghanistan, Afghanistan.
		Iraq, the Middle East, and even, you know, South Asia, East Asia.
		You know, you got kids out there learning how to shoot AK-47s at the age of eight, seven, eight years old, you know, and they're perfectly capable of killing men, you know, at that age.
		You know, they're doing all the tough stuff, the hard stuff that we used to do when we were in the 40s and the 50s, and we got away from that.
		Now it's like, you know, we have these cartoon army recruitment videos with LGBTQ, whatever, and then, you know, we look at our adversaries.
harrison smith ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, we want our Latinx lesbians to be able to, you know, bomb people in the third world for no reason also.
		You know, we don't want to deprive them of that chance.
		But no, yeah, I have to laugh at this because it's just so obvious.
		It's so just in your face.
		It's not some new idea.
		We don't need some revolution in thought.
		It's just like do the things that we know make us strong.
		We've known it forever. It worked in the past.
		It can work again in the future.
		I think you're exactly right.
		Folks, that's Dale Comstock.
		DaleComstock.com. Official American Badass is the Instagram you can follow.
		Thank you so much for joining us.
		This has been absolutely great. Love to have you on again sometime.
		Because we got a country and a world to save.
		Thank you, Mr. Comstock, for coming on.
dale comstock ▲ ● ▼		Appreciate it. Thank you. Amazing stuff, folks.
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