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Hegseth Makes the Military Great Again! 2025-10-03 18:05
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Especially when people have to be wandered and stuff going through.
And you do have sometimes people who show up who are not acting in good faith where they're like, and by the way, I want to promote Howard Sherns Penis or whatever it is.
And you're like, okay, all right.
So we don't want to waste your time with that.
All right, next chat.
All right, next chat from Avocado Man 16.
Question for Josh.
What are your thoughts on the no beards policy?
I think beards can make the military look more intimidating.
So interesting.
This is in reference, I'm guessing, to when Pete Hexeth said no more beardos.
Yes.
I can't speak for him, obviously, but what I think he was referencing was people in the military who will get what's called a medical profile.
A medical profile is something that makes you exempt from doing certain things because of a medical issue, and they'll get a medical profile for shaving because they get some kind of rash or some kind of breakout or razor bumps.
Razor bumps, as it's more commonly known.
And there's a lot of people in the military that get these shaving profiles because they do suck and they hurt.
And I get it.
They might not be shaving the right way, too.
A lot of these people in the military, they never were taught how to be a man by a mentor or father or something like that.
So I get it.
But they'll get these shaving profiles.
And then what happens after that is that there is a regulation that it has to be well kept, but there's no specific regulation about it.
With haircuts, there are.
There are specific regulations like where your hairline can't go below your eyebrows or it has to be able to go up in your hat and your helmet.
It can't touch your ears.
There's certain standards that go with the haircut where they don't apply necessarily with a beard or with facial hair for these people.
And then they end up having some kind of scraggly, patchy, nappy, just not lined up.
Yes, exactly.
And then craft it looks like shit.
And you look.
You know, how about this?
Give them an exemption for the razor bump lotion.
It's going to be behind the glass at CBS, but you get it.
Yeah, there's things you could do.
There's treatments you could do.
And usually, typically these type of people, you'll see their uniform doesn't look right either.
Right.
One of their pant legs is unbloused or their top is really wrinkly or their flag is crooked.
Their name tape's crooked.
Their ranks on.
There's always something else with these people.
And it just, and it bleeds into their work.
And they become lazy people at their job.
They're resentful towards everybody who makes them do something, which they're supposed to do.
This is not, and I could be wrong, but I really don't think this is not a reference to people who grow beards based on their job duties.
Like guys who are in special operation forces, guys that work on recon teams, guys that work in special forces who are down in South America as we speak, that are in Africa as we speak, that are across the globe right now teaching guerrilla forces how to defend their villages, how to defend their country, training militias and young militaries how to defend their countries.
These guys are different.
They're blending in to the culture.
In Afghanistan, we had guys that would go out into the villages and they'd get recon intelligence from village elders about Taliban and IED cell leaders.
And they would have beards because not only did it make them fit in more, it's not really that because a ginger guy with a big orange beard or a pop.
It doesn't, yeah, exactly.
Or a big Mexican guy with a big Mexican beard.
They don't think he's one of them.
No.
But it is a respect thing.
Right.
And they fit in with the culture that way.
And so it's not a reference to those guys.
And to be honest with you, looking intimidating has nothing to do with a beard.
It has everything to do with a guy waking you up at three in the morning saying, get the fuck out of your bed and come with me.
Yep.
And it's amazing this is controversial.
My grandfather was a colonel in the Air Force, and my dad would talk, like he and his brother had to make their bed, and my grandfather would have to bounce a quarter off of it.
They're like, that sheet has to be tight, bounce a quarter off.
And I was like, what does that even mean, Dad?
And like, so the fact that now it's like, yeah, you can smell like poop and, you know, have a Taco Bell Dog, Johnny Depp must have.
But to me, that's what he means by beardos, is that he doesn't.
Yep, get it.
You know, Gerald earlier, Gerald earlier goes, what's beardo?
And Steven goes, a weirdo with a beard?
Yeah.
And I'm like, no, I. Yeah, that makes total sense.
Yeah, that's kind of.
Okay.
Yeah.
All right.
But enough about my awesome beard and Gerald's pube face.
Hey, you know what?
You're lucky.
I made a mistake shaving.
Yeah, you got it.
Yeah, thing was coming.
I just don't, it just, it gets gray.
I look like Santa Claus.
Yeah.
He looks like their worst.
No, no, no.
He looks like a dumb fuck dynasty.
I know two kids laughing right now that shouldn't be.
Yeah, but your wife shouldn't be letting them watch the show.
Yeah.
Very nice.
Next chat.
Let's grab a couple more.
Next chat from Bolt Blaze.
Question for the crew.
Yes.
What say you to the argument that just because conservatives do spend more on security doesn't inherently mean they are a greater threat?
Oh, no, no.
That's a valid, that's a valid argument.
For example, like AOC going out going, I'm handcuffed, but she wasn't handcuffed.
We're actually, this is necessary because we get assaulted and killed.
So we're not doing it because it could happen.
We're doing it because it did happen.
Next chat.
All right.
Next chat from D. Gadkins.
How many times do you have to take a deep breath so you don't slap the shit out of someone sitting across from you?
Many times.
Many times.
And it helps if I don't look them in the eye.
Next chat.
All right.
Let's see.
From Mike Chimp.
How helpful was the school admin when setting up this CMM compared to previous ones?
Do you think Charlie's murder has changed their approach to conservatives on campus?
I, by design, wasn't really involved with that.
I know you were more, Gerald.
And we had some complications.
There were a lot of complications with getting this done.
I don't know that necessarily I can lay it all at the feet of SMU specifically.
I mean, they're just hoops to jump through.
Anytime you're going to do an event on campus like this with the kind of security that we set up, it was extraordinary because of the times.
But we did have people on campus that were very much in support of this helping kind of coordinate, but we had to pull it, kind of pull it out of some of the administrative folks to a degree.
Now, we've been in touch.
This is not the only change of my mind we're going to do.
I'm not going to say when, where, how, all that other stuff, but we've been in touch with a number of different universities that have been very excited.
Well, I will say this.
They'll be more helpful at some places and less at others.
And that's where your support, like, look, if you're a member, if you want to gift a membership or merch, you know, it's the best way to support us.
You know, we don't have a giant organization.
And the reason we did it was also, you know, we are in the state of Texas.
And so it's a little, you know, travel is a big thing.
And unless we have an actual private plane, we will have to charter it because of the amount of security.
It's not possible to do a commercial.
So that alone is a huge cost.
So this time we wanted to keep it a little bit more limited.
It was in the bowels of campus where no one, there was no through traffic at all.
And so we look at it, reassess, and go, okay, what can we do in the future?
But I think they were more helpful based on my experience.
And I know some other campuses are being pretty helpful.
Next chat.
All right.
Next chat from Gerber Voor.
Why do people on the left seem to think authoritarian is right and communism is left?
And they are two radical opposites on the political spectrum.
I think you're saying that they're not two opposites.
They're actually I don't want to say one and the same, but communism doesn't happen without fascism.
They say authoritarianism.
Communism can't happen without authoritarianism.
I mean, you can't look at any.
Yeah, somebody has to make the population agree to this.
You don't get everyone to become communist and to share the wealth, so to speak, without making them do it.
You can say that some people initially support it, right?
Democratic socialism.
But then you have to seize the means of production and distribution, which means those people don't want it.
That has to be authoritarian.
And then once that happens, you don't see legitimate elections.
Again, you can look anywhere.
You can look at Venezuela.
You can look at Cuba.
You can look at China.
You can look at Cambodia with Pol Pot.
You can, of course, did I say Stalin's Russia?
I don't know.
Russia is the best example because the reason it's the best example is because it went from somewhat not quite as authoritarian as it obviously had people that were in charge.
But once it went to communism and stayed that way for a very long time and then they tried to go away from it, they had trained the people so much to be dependent on it that they could not even break away with it, even when given the opportunity to do it.
It destroys the soul.
It does, exactly.
That's a good point because you have an example.
Once you're living a life that's, you know, you're relying on the government every corner you turn.
And once they're not, you know, it's like declawing a cat and some indoor cat and then going like, here you go, enjoy the jungle.
Yes, exactly.
It doesn't work.
And I'm not saying the czars were like, you know, pro-free market or anything like that.
But at the same time, it was different when Stalin and those guys were in power.
Well, even if you look at, for example, Pinochet, and I'm not saying that I love Pinochet, but I'm saying he wasn't all wrong.
And what I mean by that is if you look at Allende before him, helicopter rights.
Helicopter rights, because Pinochet was like, hey, look.
And of course there was some corruption, but he's still supported by a lot of people.
And the reason for that is if you were not a communist seeking to actively seize the means of production and distribution and completely control the free market, you really weren't at risk.
The only people under Pinochet who were at risk were the communists who he was, by the way, elected to replace.
Now, you can say it was aggressive, sure, but the difference between a communist, like Allende, saying, I'm doing it for the people until you're successful enough.
So I determine which of you are the people.
Pinochet was like, you are all the people except for the communists.
So it's a very, very specific target.
And because people had lived through communism, that's why they don't see him as evil of a fascist.
So there is some fascism.
That would be the closest thing you could kind of find.
That's why they say Donald Trump, but you cannot find a leftist, a communist, or socialist government that, of course, did not require authoritarianism.
And people use autocratic facts.
They really kind of mean it interchangeably, meaning someone who basically just forces you to follow locks and position about your freedom.
Final chat.
All right.
Final chat from DP Coast.
Why do people on the left not look into the things the news and their parties say instead of doing their due diligence and sorting fact from fiction?
Great show and love you guys.
Thank you very much, DP Coast.
You'll see that with the black and white on the gray issues in the barbershop.
It's a reason to like you'll unlike Change My Mind, you will see me yell, like full-on yell.
And it's because I just said, like, well, okay, but let's talk about this, though, too.
Isn't it relevant that a white guy is 12 times more likely to be killed by a black man than a black man?
They go, I don't know about that.
I don't know where you're getting those numbers.
I said, okay, assume I'm not lying to you.
Yeah, I don't know.
They go, I know we heard some bullshit about maybe black people responding to us.
Yeah, because we all know those white people, those white boys going into black neighborhoods and stirring shit up.
That's why they get their ass kicked by a gang at 7-Eleven, right?
They try to do the food desert thing.
And then at one point, well, you have people like Donald Trump encouraging them.
I said, are you seeing the very fine people on both sides?
I said, what if, mere seconds before that, he said, I'm not saying neo-Nazis and white supremacists who should be condemned totally.
What if he said that and that was cut out by the media?
Would that change your mind?
Like, I never heard it.
I don't know.
I'd have to see it.
I go, okay, assuming I'm not lying to you.
What if, and when I said, hey, Roland Fryer, liberal, black, professor at Harvard, he did the study and he came to the conclusion.
He went through the stats that black men are effectively at 0% increased risk of being shot by the police than what?
They go, oh, yeah.
And I said, that's exactly what people said.
And so this black man who's a liberal who set out to see by how much black men were at greater risk, he conducted the study a second time and came to the exact same conclusion.
They go, that's a white institution.
And so now it's the fraud.
Now it's the poodle.
Nothing is safe.
I'll say Uncle Tommy goes, it's not just a student, it's true.
So they just denied it.
And so you'll see me at some point where they go, I know Donald Trump, you can argue the felony thing.
They go, how many felonies?
I go, none.
Because these people don't live in reality.
I know I'm just going to have to kind of cut through.
Unfortunately, the empirical doesn't matter.
You know it's going to be in the anecdotal.
And this is what the left does.
It is primarily a feelings-based worldview.
It really, really is.
And that's why I push back on you would feel bad, but it's your duty to protect your family.
That's why I push back on Sure, sure, I get it.
It feels good to give people a second chance, but that feeling leads to 14 chances and a dead lady on a train.
We got to get out of feelings and get back to our duties.
And by the way, men and women have separate duties, both to each other in a relationship and to society.
Your duty as a judge is not only to enable the criminal out of empathy, it's to protect the law-abiding citizen.
The left doesn't want that.
The left manipulates you because they hope that you have a really strong feeling.
And that's what you'll see with this black and white of the gray issue.
Sometimes you just do have to acknowledge that, okay, it doesn't, what do you do when it's go, I don't believe the stat.
Here's another one.
I don't believe it.
Here's another one.
I don't believe it.
Here's a video.
I never saw that.
Here's another one.
I don't believe it.
You have to kind of stop wasting your time in some instances.
And this is by design.
This is by design.
Do you think it's an accident that those on the left said Donald Trump said very fine people referring to white supremacists?
He said the opposite of that.
You think that's an accident?
You think no one at CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNB, you think no one saw 30 seconds before that?
You think no one saw on January 6th Donald Trump say, hey, peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard?
You think no one saw the QAnon shaman as weird as he is saying, we have to be peaceful?
You think no one saw it?
You think all of those things are an accident?
You think no one knew that maybe seven people weren't killed on January 6th?
Maybe five weren't killed, which you heard for another week?
Maybe none except for Ashley Babbitt, who's a conservative herself?
You think all of these are accidents?
What they do, and when you see not just a lie by omission, but when you see a mistruth, ask yourself why.
And then you'll also find yourself at the same answer as to why they seize power of institutions.
That's what, hey, if a professor tells you Donald Trump condoned white supremacy, he's in a position of it.
Hey, you have to believe it.
Why would the institution lie?
It's higher learning.
Yeah, you're going into debt to hear this shit.
Hey, why would all media outlets lie to you?
Right?
It's the institution.
Shouldn't you try?
Hey, why would the FBI lie to you?
Why would our intelligence agency, why would they lie to you?
By the way, put Charlie Kirk on the hate watch list.
Yeah, we'll go with the ADL.
That's why they seize power of institutions so that they never have to answer for it and they can proactively mislead you.
One of the most favored fallacies that you see from the left is the appeal to authority fallacy, along with appeal to add populum to popularity, where Bernie goes, this is for the people, most people like it.
Look, I use polls when reflecting, when making an assessment of what people believe.
I'm not saying that it makes it right.
I can use polls and say the left is violent because they support violence.
That's the relevancy of the poll.
It doesn't make it right.
The left is the peer pressure.
You'll smoke a cigarette.
You'll support the trans, right?
You support gay marriage, right?
You support catching.
Hey, you support Black Lives Matter, right?
They use polls to try and make you feel like you're a minority, divide and conquer.
And the appeal to authority.
What?
So the PhD professors are wrong?
What?
So the polits are winning.
Journalists are wrong.
What?
So the Nobel Prize Committee is wrong.
They gave one of Yasser Airfett, bitch.
Yeah, sometimes they're wrong.
Yeah.
But they want to set up that intellectual fallacy.
And you see them use that very, very often.
And the appeal to popularity, but the appeal to authority fallacy.
Think of what we live through.
Think, I will walk you through this.
Okay.
And you know what?
Before I walk you through this, I just realized my iPad went off.
But why is this not working?
Okay, hold on a second.
I'll walk you through the appeal to authority.
Why is my thing not?
There we go.
Before I do that, I do want to read this letter from Luna the mom for Cody and Ryder.
She said, I love Mug Club.
It's hands down.
My favorite show to throw on while I'm doing my morning shuffle, dropping my boys off.
When Charlie Crick was assassinated, my boys were upset, angry, immediately saying, we need to pray for Steven Crowder and the team.
They all pray for all of you by name.
Their favorite part is Gerald getting admonished.
They learn Nick.
I don't know.
Everyone here.
And I said, please never change, never stop, and keep your kicking ass out there.
We very much support it.
We're able to do that because of you, Luna.
And Cody and Ryder, as much as we're kind of busting shops here, I can tell you this, your mom went out of her way because she really loves you guys.
That's a mom who loves her kids and she's proud of who you're becoming.
Please stay on that track.
And we're going to send you some merch signed everything.
So do what mom says.
Otherwise, we'll take it back.
Krompus is coming for you.
Now, the appeal to authority.
I'll walk you through this.
This is why they like it so much.
Donald Trump comes down the escalator.
Okay.
Let's just walk through this.
All the experts.
He's not a serious candidate.
He's never going to win.
Come on.
Wait, you really think he's going to win?
You guys, come on, vote for someone else.
There's no way.
He wins a primary.
Well, there's no way he's going to win at this point.
This guy's going to destroy all the experts.
He's going to destroy the economy.
This is going to be the end of America, World War III, if Donald Trump is elected.
And by the way, there's no chance that you might as well stay home while he gets elected.
And we have an economy like we've never seen before.
And they go, oh, come on.
The experts know Russia right.
Well, it turns out that that's fake too.
Then during COVID, it's, well, the experts are saying that everyone is going to die.
Two million people, right?
I think it was the Imperial College of London.
But that was like in the first two months, right?
And we didn't even come close.
Even though they registered every single death, including motorcycle accidents as COVID deaths.
I'm like, well, come on.
Donald Trump, the authorities say you shouldn't put, the experts tell you you shouldn't inject bleach in your arm.
Donald Trump never said that, but the experts are saying that he said that.
Then they go, hey, trust the science, guys.
Trust the science.
Six-foot social distancing.
Turns out that was made up.
Trust the experts.
Well, we find out the doctors who are actually treating patients using at that point hydroxychloroquine, zinc, quercetin, then ivermectin, they were banned, right?
All the other authorities were banned.
Well, come on, guys.
It says two weeks to, two weeks to stop the spread, to flatten the curve.
Well, then that ended up being more.
And then he had teachers who didn't.
Well, the teachers unions know, come on, these are the ones who are true heroes out there.
And they're educating your kids.
You should trust the expert.
Turns out they didn't want to go back.
They never would have wanted to go back.
The real heroes, the nurses, they were dancing on TikTok.
Most hospitals were completely empty.
Then after that, hey, come on, this elect guys, let's let's, this is the most free and fair election of all.
The experts have told you so.
Then you find out that those experts actually said that election fraud was a big issue in election integrity, including Amy Klibichar and Bernie Sanders.
And I believe Elizabeth Warren, I'd have to go back.
I'm going by rote here, but all of a sudden it's fine, even though there was mass mail-in.
But trust the experts because we tell you to.
And then we look at the second Donald Trump election.
Hey, there's no chance.
And he's a fascist.
He's a Nazi.
Every single time it's trust the experts.
Hey, trust the experts.
If you pay more in taxes, the sun will be less hot.
Hey, trust the experts.
Even though they have said that we don't know the long-term results, and so we've given them complete immunity, take this experimental injection because the experts say you should.
And it's a collective of experts.
Our intelligence agencies, CDC, Pharma, Johnson ⁇ Johnson, AstraZeneca.
Hey, guys, trust the experts.
We're going to be in World War III.
Remember, that was a big one.
Trust the experts.
This man has no foreign policy experience.
Going to have his finger on the button.
He's going to have the codes.
Remember that?
That's one the experts couldn't have been less wrong about.
Whether you like them or not, this has been the least war hawkish president of our lifetime.
Potentially all time in this country, certainly top three.
Do you guys remember that the experts were saying World War III was imminent with Donald Trump?
That was their concern.
Trust the experts.
Trust your media.
Trust your institutions like education, intelligence agencies, international governing bodies.
And to each one of them, do you know where it starts to fall apart?
And I'm not going to give you some false confidence where you just ask one question and checkmate, but it starts to fall apart.
You pull up that thread with this.
Hey, trust your institutions.
Trust academia.
Why?
Well, hey, trust your institutions.
Trust the intelligence agencies.
Why?
Trust your institution.
Come on.
Trust the UN, NATO.
Why?
And they might give you an answer, but you only need one or two follow-ups.
Trust your institutions.
Trust education.
Why?
Well, because aren't these institutions that have saddled us with more debt than ever?
You complain about that.
People aren't finding jobs.
Not to mention literacy and math scores are lower.
Why should we trust them?
Well, trust your intelligence agencies.
Well, why?
Didn't know intelligence agencies target American citizens simply because of their political beliefs?
Didn't they take part in fabricating a hoax that we now know for which people will be indicted?
They've lied to you repeatedly?
Hey, trust the UN and NATO.
NATO is a collective of nations, right?
Hey, hold on a second.
Why should we trust the people who signed a contract that they were going to promise, spend 2% of their GDP on military spending, as part of NATO, and not meet it for decades?
Why should we trust the people who don't honor the word that they give, which is the only reason for them being in said organization that we're supposed to trust?
Give them a follow-up.
Why?
It doesn't mean that nothing is true.
The left wants you to believe that if an authority says it, it must always be true.
And that's the difference.
Start asking why.
You'll be surprised as to how often it trips somebody up.
We'll see you on Monday.
It's been a long week.
Love you.
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