Louder with Crowder - Hegseth Makes the Military Great Again! 2025-10-03 18:05

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	Especially when people have to be wanted and stuff going through.
	And you do have sometimes people who show up who are who are not acting in good faith where they're like and by the way, I want to promote Howard Surns Penis or whatever it is.
	And you're like, okay, all right.
	So we don't want to waste your time with that.
	Um 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.
	Uh so interesting.
	This is in reference, I'm I'm guessing to when Pete Hexeth said uh no more beardos.
	Yes.
	Um I can't speak for him, obviously.
	Uh, 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 bumps.
	Razor bumps, as is more commonly known.
	And um there's a lot of people in the military that that get these shaving profiles because they did they do suck and they hurt, and I get it.
	Um they might not be shaving the right way too.
	A lot of these people in the military, they never they never were taught how to be a man by uh you know, a mentor or father or something like that.
	So I I get it.
	But they'll they'll get these shaving profiles, and then what happens after that is that there is a regulation that it has to be uh well kept.
	Yeah, but there's no specific regulation about it.
	With haircuts, there are.
	Right.
	There are specific regulations like where your hair your hairline can't um your hairline can't go below your uh eyebrows uh or it it has to be able to go up in your hat and your helmet.
	It can't touch your ears.
	Right.
	There's certain standards that go with the haircut where they don't apply necessarily with a beard or facial hair for these people.
	Um and then they end up having some kind of scraggly, patchy, nappy, just your brother in arms is a pub and jafar.
	Yes, exactly.
	And then and then it it's been crass, it looks like shit.
	Yeah.
	And you look at it.
	It's gonna be behind the glass at CVS, but you get it.
	Yeah, there's there's things you could do.
	There's there's treatments you could do.
	And and usually typically these type of people you'll see their uniform doesn't look right either.
	Right.
	They they'll they're they're one of their pant legs on bloused, or their their top is really wrinkly, or their flag is crooked, their name tapes crooked, they're uh their ranks on it there's there's always something else with these people, and it and it just bleeds into their work and they become lazy people at their job.
	They they're uh uh resentful towards everybody who makes them do something, which they're supposed to do.
	Right.
	This is not and I could be wrong, but uh I really don't think I I this is not a reference to people who grow beards based on their job duties.
	Right.
	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, uh training militias and and young militaries how to defend their countries.
	These guys are different.
	They're blending in to the culture.
	When in Afghanistan, we had guys that would go out into um the villages and they would get uh they'd recon intelligence from from village elders about Taliban and and and uh IED cell leaders, and they would have beards because not only did it um make them fit in more, uh I'm um it's not really that because it you can a ginger guy with a big orange beard or a you know, or a big Mexican guy with a big Mexican beard.
	Yeah, they they don't think he's one of them.
	No, but it is a respect thing.
	Right.
	And that they fit in with the culture that way.
	And so uh it's not a reference to those guys, and um uh to be honest with you, uh looking intimidating has nothing to has nothing to do with a beard.
	Uh 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 uh it's amazing that this is controversial.
	My grandfather was a colonel in the air force, and my dad would talk like he he and his brother had to make their bed and he grant my grandfather would have to bounce a quarter off of it.
	Like, those that she 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 uh you know have a taco bell dog Johnny Depp must be.
	I believe that's what he means by beardos is that he doesn't get it.
	You know, Gerald earlier earlier goes, beard what's beardo?
	And Steven goes, uh uh a weirdo with a beard?
	Yeah.
	And I'm like, no, I you 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.
	Yeah.
	Hey, you know what?
	You're lucky I made a mistake shaving a weird.
	Yeah, you gotta go.
	I think what's coming out.
	I just don't it's just it gets gray.
	I look like Santa Claus.
	Yeah.
	He looks like they're worse.
	No, no, no.
	He looks like uh dumb fuck dynasty.
	Next chat.
	I know two kids laughing right now that shouldn't be.
	Yeah, but uh 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 at greater threat.
	Trevor Burrus, Jr.
	Oh no, no.
	That's a val that's a valid uh that's a valid argument.
	For example, like AOC going out going, I'm handcuffed, but she wasn't handcuffed.
	We're actually uh this is necessary because uh we get assaulted and killed.
	Yeah.
	So it's not 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 uh 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 him in the eye, next check.
	All right, let's see.
	Uh uh 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?
	Aaron Powell I, by design wasn't really involved with that.
	I know you were more Gerald and we had some complications and there were a lot of complications with uh with getting this.
	I don't know that necessarily I can lay it all at the feed of SMU specifically.
	I mean, they're they're just hoops to jump through any time you're going to do an event on campus like this and with the kind of security that we set up, it was it was extraordinary because of the times.
	Um but they you know we 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 my mind we're gonna do.
	I'm not gonna 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 um support us.
	You know, we don't have a uh a giant organization, and uh a reason we did it was also you know, we're we are in the state of Texas.
	Um and so it's a little you know, travel is a big thing.
	And unless we have uh uh an actual private plane, we we'll have to charter it because of the amount of security.
	It's not possible to do the 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 uh 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 uh based on my experience, and I know some other campuses are are being pretty helpful.
	Next chat.
	All right, next chat from Guerbear 4.
	Why do people on the left seem to think a toy authoritarian is right and communism is left, and they are two radical opposites on the political spectrum.
	Uh I think you're saying that they are 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.
	Communism can't happen without authoritarianism.
	I mean you can't look at any of the somebody has to make the population agree to this.
	You don't get everyone to become communist and to you know share the wealth so to speak without making them do it.
	Trevor Burrus, 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, uh 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 uh uh you can look at uh Cambodia with Pol Pot.
	You can, of course, did I say Stalin's Russia?
	I don't know.
	Russia is the best example because and the reason it's the best example is because it went from somewhat not not quite as authoritarian as it would obviously had you know, you know, people that were in charge.
	But once it went 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 destroy the summary.
	It does, exactly.
	That's a good point because you can't example.
	Once you're living a life that's you know uh you're relying on the government every every corner you turn and once they're not you know it's like declawing a cat and it's an indoor cat and then going like, here you go, enjoy the jungle.
	Yes, exactly.
	Right.
	But at the same time, it you know, it was 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 Alende before him.
	Helicopter rides.
	Helicopter rides, 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 communist, like Alende, 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.
	Yeah.
	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 fact they really kind of mean it interchangeably, meaning someone who basically just forces you to follow locks and doesn't do shit 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 party 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 uh with the black and white on the gray issues in the barbershop.
	Um the reason too, 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 twelve 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.
	Who I yeah, I don't know.
	I they go, I hear I know we heard some bullshit about maybe black people respond until I said, 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 I would say and then at one point they go, 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 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, uh professor at Harvard.
	He did the study.
	And he came to the conclusion, he he he went through the stats that black men are effectively at zero percent increased risk of being shot by the police.
	Then what?
	They go, oh, 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, Oh, that's a white institution.
	And so I said, and now it's the prod, now it's the poodle, it's the nothing is safe.
	Let me go, yeah, that's why I'll say Uncle Tom, they go, it's not just if 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 gonna 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 gotta 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 the this black and white in the gray issue.
	Sometimes you just do have to acknowledge that, okay, it doesn't what do you do when I just 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 uh, this is by design.
	This is by design.
	Do you think it's an accident that those on the left said Donald Trump uh 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, MSNB, C, CNBC.
	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?
	So the QAnon shaman is 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 um 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 why, 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.
	You're going into test.
	Yeah, you're going into debt to hear this shit.
	Hey, if they're in why would all media outlets lie to you.
	Right?
	It's the institution.
	Shouldn't you try to?
	Hey, why would the FBI lie to you?
	Why would our intelligence uh 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 the most favored fallacies that you see from the left is the appeal to authority fallacy.
	Uh along with appeal to, you know, add populum uh to popularity, where Bernie goes, This is for the people.
	Most people like it.
	Look, I use polls when reflecting, uh, 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.
	He'll smoke a cigarette.
	You'll support the trans, right?
	It's support gay marriage, right?
	You support catching religion.
	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 politzer winning journalists are wrong.
	What?
	So the Nobel Prize Committee is wrong.
	They can't win a Yasser Airfat bitch.
	Yeah, sometimes they're wrong.
	Yeah.
	But they want to set up that intellectual foul.
	And you see them use that very, very often.
	And uh 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 with the 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 uh Luna the Mom for Cody and Writers.
	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.
	This is their favorite part is Gerald getting admonished.
	Say we're Nick, I don't know.
	Everyone here.
	And I said, please never change, never stop, and keep kicking ass out there.
	We very much support it.
	We're able to do that because of you, Luna.
	And uh and the Cody and Ryder, as much as we're, you know, um kind of busting chops here.
	I can tell you this, your mom went out of her way because she really loves you guys.
	She, 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 gonna send you some merch signed everything.
	So uh do what mom says, otherwise we'll take it back.
	Crompus 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, guys.
	Wait, you really think he's gonna win?
	You guys, come on, vote for someone else.
	No, there's no way.
	Then he wins the primary.
	Well, there's no way he's gonna win at this point.
	This guy's gonna destroy all the experts.
	He's gonna destroy the economy.
	He's going 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, so you might as well stay home while he gets elected.
	And then 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.
	Uh, 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.
	And 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, don't 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 that point, hydroxychloroquine zinc, quartetin, then ivermectin, they were banned, right?
	All the other authorities were banned.
	Well, come on, guys.
	Two weeks to two weeks to stop the spread to flatten the curve.
	Well, then that ended up being more.
	And then you had teachers who didn't.
	Well, the teachers unions, no, come on, the teacher these are the ones who are true heroes out there.
	And they they're educating your kids.
	You should trust the experts.
	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, the select 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 and election interity, including Amy Klibachar 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 male inbody.
	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 collective of experts.
	Our intelligence agencies, CDC, Pharma, Johnson and 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.
	He's gonna have his finger on the button.
	He's gonna 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, 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 the 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 our 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 uh 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 two percent of their GDP on military spending, right as part of a 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.
	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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