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March 3, 2024 - Stew Peters Show
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States Act: National Guard Deployed as Federal Border Security Falters
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Why is it that the states are individually having to handle this problem with no help from the federal government?
We've heard recently a lot of lip service from the federal government about how they are going to now take action.
Is it too little, too late?
I guess I don't know.
But today, Jason and I are going to have a conversation about this issue, so stick with us.
Don't go away.
We start now.
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Okay, so let's get started here.
Let's bring in Jason.
Hello, sir.
How are you?
Very well, and yourself?
Well, I was a little amused, actually.
I know that you saw the announcement by the Missouri governor.
What's your take on how the states individually are having to spend resources, send soldiers away from home, to do a job that we already have A department for.
We already have an agency that is charged with the responsibility of securing our border.
Why is it now up to state's National Guard soldiers to perform this work, do you think?
Well, I'd be willing to dig into that, but I think I need to acknowledge the elephant in the room today.
Okay, what is that?
Congratulations on 100 shows.
Ha ha ha!
Oh, you sly son of a gun.
Well, thank you very much.
Yes, this is our 100th show.
The Richard Leonard Show has been coming at you for 100 weeks in a row.
And thank you to everybody that's been watching, because that's an incredible milestone for you personally.
But it even speaks more to the words that come out of your mouth and the reception that you receive by people.
So congratulations.
Well, thank you.
That's very nice.
And also, thank you to the people who have dedicated the time.
You, for sure, have dedicated a lot of time to providing content.
And everybody else that's been a guest on this show.
You know, Tori Seals was here.
You know, all those people.
There's just so many to Robin, Ben.
We can go on and on.
But thank you to everybody who's had a hand in this, and I really appreciate it.
And I love it.
To be honest with you, man, this is a little therapeutic for me to get on here and talk about this stuff.
It kind of helps me process it, especially when I can get ideas and input from other people.
It always helps to have...
A few minds in the game.
I won't say that we're all great minds.
I'm not a great mind.
You're a savant.
Not an idiot savant, but just a savant.
We're all great with the idiot.
I appreciate you as well.
So thank you very much.
Okay.
Now we got that out of the way.
Yeah, I can do it too.
Yes, you can.
Okay.
Border.
Why are we as individual states securing our border?
What do you think is the reason for this?
Other than the obvious that the Biden administration just doesn't want to do it for whatever reason.
Right.
To think that you're getting to a point where a state's governor has to levy their state-sanctioned militia to do the federal government's job is an amazing point of view to start to think about.
Like, how many things, bro, are messed up in your state?
How many issues do you have from mayors of big cities in your state to get enough pressure To have you actuate your National Guard at the state's cost.
Now, of course, I'm sure there's some training days that they can, you know, filter in and use.
However, it's still an alteration from the typical norm where you are going to be sending your resources, your personnel to do a job that should theoretically be done.
At the cost of your taxpayers, your base, the constituency that voted you in.
I have a feeling, as crazy as it is to think about the troops going to the border, these states must have some pretty rough problems.
Well, absolutely.
I mean, so that's a really good point.
So let's think about this.
Let's just say, for conversation's sake, that we have not had a virtually snowless winter, right?
Which a lot of people are really happy about.
But having served in the National Guard here in the state of Minnesota for just under 19 years, there was a lot of state activation for things like floods.
In the Midwest, it's a huge deal.
Minnesota, it's a big deal.
I would imagine Missouri has its share of challenges.
And so the idea of the National Guard is to protect that state, right?
The Missouri National Guard is charged with the responsibility of helping the state wherever needed.
Now, it is March for the most part.
It is March.
And usually this is about the time when these activations come about.
And so let's just say that we got 100 feet of snow.
It was a snowy winter.
What's happening now to the residents of Missouri who are losing their homes and property and cars and livestock or whatever it is that's impacted by this weather change that comes every year, Now what's happening to those people?
Because the soldiers that are usually charged with providing sandbags, getting people out, bringing them food and water, making sure that their communities are safe, are now at the border doing the job of what the federal government's agency to do so is not able to do.
And for reasons that we really don't know, I think a lot of it's speculation, right?
Now they're doing it for votes.
Is part of the narrative.
And so you're right.
I'm sure Missouri has a whole lot of challenges.
Oh, God.
I mean, if you're facing that kind of pressure where you start thinking, okay, well, you know what?
I'm going to use these Title 32 order dollars.
And rather than, you know, speak to the tag and say, hey, you know, what does the training schedule look like for this year?
Where are those allocations being spent?
I want you to take X amount of troops and go assist Texas with their problems because our cities are being overrun with crime violence.
They're being burdened with additional people that don't have the resources to live a typical life.
So you're draining every locality of their finances.
The drugs, you know, and the problems that drugs bring.
It's not just the drugs.
It's the violence that comes along with it.
It's the uprooting of the household that gets destroyed by it.
Those have to be some fairly immense pressures going on for a governor to sit there and step up to the plate and say, no, we're going to stem this off where it starts.
You know, it's crazy.
Well, he said that.
The governor of Missouri said that, and I forget his name, it escapes me.
I apologize, sir, if for whatever reason you ever see this.
But he said part of the issue at the border as it pertains to Missouri is the drugs and the trafficking.
And it's just become uncontrollable.
And there's not enough money to hire more cops.
In fact, I'm sure that just like a year or two ago, cops are still leaving the profession.
They're leaving their jobs because they just don't want to deal with all this bullshit.
And then also, at the same time, run the risk of losing their whole livelihood.
Because they made a split second decision under duress.
And yes, some people say, Jason, well, that's their job.
That's what they signed up for.
Just like they say about us that joined the military.
Well, I don't know why you're complaining about PTSD and this and that and the other thing.
You signed up for it.
And so maybe part of that is true.
But also, the system wasn't set up to be able to all of a sudden, on a whim, pick up and send half of my state's force to the border to do the job that DHS is supposed to do.
Right.
What I'd say, I mean, for a lot of people that don't know about the National Guard and their state, you know, it's a citizen-soldier force.
It is designed specifically that way.
It's gone through, and I think that'd be a whole, that'd be a great conversation, too, just how that changed through the 90s, how the complexion of all the regular military services versus the reserve component were systematically rebuilt, And became more reliant upon the National Guard and the Ready Reserves as usable pieces in the overall face or the complexion of DOD. But with that being said,
the National Guard does have its priority.
First, it answers.
To the Governor.
And again, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the Governor, even if DOD decides that they want to cherry-pick the unit, I believe the Governor does have discretion to either allow those troops to go and serve Title X orders on active duty or deny it.
I know I had heard that before because I think there was one state, depending upon what time, I think it was maybe like 2008, 2009, where the governor kind of said, no, enough is enough.
You've tasked my citizen soldiers to a point where this is no longer going to happen.
And of course, they found another person or another unit or whatever it was.
But I have heard of it occurring.
But to think again, now you're taking those people away.
You're taking them away from their regular civilian life.
You're impacting their families.
You're impacting their careers.
I can't believe that a governor would take that lightly.
Yeah, well, absolutely not.
So it's a big decision.
It's a huge choice for a man or woman, a person in that position, to choose to send a percentage of your force to do a whole other mission that has nothing directly to do with the state of Missouri.
Now, he outlined that the The drugs and the trafficking and the violence and the influx of people with nowhere to go.
All those things are playing a huge role in his decision to do this.
But I wonder one other thing.
Think about this.
Now that we are finally deciding to secure the border, and we've seen pictures and videos of concertina wire and barbed wire and barriers and barrels full of dirt or cement or water or whatever that are not easy to move, all these things to secure these points of access.
If this thing catches fire and the United States of America, whether it's the federal government or random state governments that decide to send their troops, are effective at stopping the flow of people, drugs, and violence into this country, I wonder what the contingency plan is for when the cartels are finally going to say, well, screw this.
They're screwing up our money.
They're screwing up our business.
And they start to fight back.
Right.
So that makes me wonder, what has the state of Texas or the federal government or whoever's making the call What is the ROE down there?
What are the rules of engagement for these soldiers who are being pulled away from their civilian jobs, from their homes, from their families, from whatever it is that they do to go secure the border, which I will say they're probably happy to do it.
I'm sure there's a lot of soldiers that are thinking, well, it's about damn time.
But what's the plan for when the cartels start to fight back?
Well, the cartels fight back, and you've already got this influx.
What, 4.6 million?
Was that the last number that you saw?
I can't even keep track.
Something like that.
It just rises daily.
You're approaching five million people in this country in just three short years.
But I don't know, man.
Every time I saw something on the traditional media, you know, there was no border issue.
You know, this isn't a problem.
So, of course, I mean, if you're sending troops down to secure border where it's not a problem, you know, maybe you're doing something wrong, but it's clear.
That nobody's wasting their time to go send their citizen-soldier resources down to that border to protect it for no damn good reason.
They're going there for a purpose.
Now, when they do get down there, exactly like you said, are we going to do the ROE that puts people in harm's way for no damn good reason?
Or are you going to allow these individuals to do so?
And I know there's I've always heard about deputizing individuals.
Have you ever heard of that, Richie?
Yes.
So, and I know they've done it in instances where they've had to use the National Guard in a riot control capacity.
Where they're deputized, which does give them the legal authorization to use escalated force tactics.
I don't know if I'm using that phrasing properly.
It's clear that under no circumstance does that authorize a military member to ever take fire on an American However, does that open them up for the ability to do so and the protections of the precinct in which that sheriff has given them the status to do so?
And again, we'll go down to, like, who's paying you?
Who can authorize this?
Blah, blah, blah.
And so I think there's probably a myriad of sticky wickets to try to navigate, but I wonder what the rules of engagement would look like.
And by the way, I've learned to start actually saying the words rather than the acronyms we know, because my wife pounds on me.
She's like, what kind of gibberish are you two fools talking?
She's got to get up on her game.
It's like she's never heard these words.
Typically, I'm using, you know, escalation of force and rules of engagement in regards to the squirrels that are attacking my bird feeders in the backyard.
So, she's blowing me off because she doesn't want to listen anyway.
So, but I digress.
I think that's super interesting.
I mean, what do you think, bro?
I mean...
Well, I think it's a slippery slope, man, because...
Deputizing National Guard members or reservists is an action that is like, from what I understand and the way I read it or interpret it, is it is the last step before issuing martial law, which is when the state or county, not the state, but the county, the city, law enforcement agencies no longer are in charge.
They turn over their jurisdiction to a higher power, which in this case would be the National Guard, the military.
But I think when you start deputizing guard soldiers in instances like this, it's a slippery slope because you're right, you give them the ability to use deadly force if necessary and make those judgment calls.
As polarized as this country is right now and how different all the opinions of people are, I think it's a slippery slope.
And if there is an incident in which a United States military member, whether it's active duty, reservist or guard, but all of them still wear U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine on their chest, whatever branch they're in, that opens up a whole nother issue for people in this country Unfortunately, to set the place on fire.
It opens up a large issue for international exposure about how now the United States of America is turning their soldiers loose on...
And they'll spin it that way, Jason.
They'll spin it as they're turning the military loose on citizens and these poor migrants that are just here to seek asylum and live a better life.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
I can see the headlines right now.
I mean, especially up here in Minneapolis-St.
Paul.
That thing would be spun into an absolute hornet's nest where people that have no real reason to have emotions attached to this would get emotionally attached.
And that's what they've been so damn good at the last few years.
Taking you away from analytical thought and driving you into emotion-based behaviors, they have been strikingly good at that.
They've even caught me a few times getting like emotionally charged over something that I know is analytical.
But I don't know.
But just think about this, man.
When there was an event in St.
Paul leading up to an election and the guard was activated to help secure multiple cities in the metro area.
Well, this was during the RNC, right?
When the RNC was in town.
Well, I was activated as a National Guard member and worked to detail.
And it was cool, right?
We got to be involved.
We got to know a little bit, learn a little bit.
But when there were small incidences here, even way up north in Minnesota, for example, one night there was reported that there were some protesters who Who were throwing and smearing human fecal matter on the bus stops and like door handles of buildings and all that other stuff.
And then when approached by members of law enforcement and military personnel, they made the wrong decision and had a horrible day.
Because I'm here to tell you, I don't care what uniform I'm wearing, if you're throwing your poop at me, we're fighting.
And we're fighting until one of us can't fight anymore.
And so that is basically what happened.
Dude had a pretty painful evening, if I can imagine.
But it almost turned into, like, national news.
That the law enforcement and military are banded together to beat up protesters.
Right.
Nobody put in the story that the guy was wiping diarrhea all over the place that the public is there to use.
So the little old lady or the single mother who needs to put her kids on the bus in order to get to work and school have to now stand in a bus stop full of fecal matter and some a**hole trying to provoke them into some action so he can be on the news and then fly this false narrative all over the place.
So to answer your question, Go way down around the block to go across the street.
If it's needed, I think that it's definitely a tool to use.
But there's a slippery slope for it, I think.
And so doing something like providing these soldiers, if you deputize them or issue martial law, they better all have body cameras and they better all be doing the right thing.
They better have the U2 in the air constantly, constantly gathering the data, the pictures, and everything else.
I mean, we know how awesome that thing is.
That thing can gather it all and then be able to see what's going to happen because I think you're right.
I think if you feel that your life is in danger, of course, there has to be an ability to defend oneself.
You know, no dissimilar to any other civilian walking around In America, as citizens have that right.
We can't take that right away from military members when we put them in a situation like that.
But then again, the optics of it, now you're arming them.
They're using a federally owned M4 or whatever they carry.
What do they carry now?
Sorry, rabbit hole.
M4 and I think Sig Sauer now got the contract, so they're not carrying Berettas anymore.
Okay.
So, you know, you've got your fore or your sidearm.
But, you know, again, now we can just use that.
I think that would be the biggest fear is that if something were to happen, boy, that would be...
If you thought a poo-covered park bench was enough to almost spark the fire, now fast forward how many years, we've seen what things can...
Can turn into.
So now all of a sudden you see somebody get laid down at the border by a military member.
And the optics might not be so clear in that moment because of course it's going to be chopped up to show the perspective desired.
All holy hell is going to break loose.
It's going to break loose everywhere.
It's going to break loose amongst civilians.
It's going to break loose amongst the illegals that are here in this country against law enforcement.
That would be an absolute nightmare to recover from.
Well, and we see this already, right?
Like, we've seen the reports and the videos of the one good thing about US citizens having iPhones and Androids and all these cool phones is that now we can also use that for the other side of the narrative.
We don't use it for just when and if cops make bad mistakes or we see two minutes of the 35 minute video of a police officer doing his job.
Now we see videos of migrants beating up cops, kicking cops, murdering children.
They just arrested the dude last week for murdering a two-year-old girl.
The other guy, I believe it was in Austin, Texas, I could be mistaken about the location, but he killed the girl, the nursing student.
It is clear that these people that are coming to this country aren't coming here for just asylum and a better way to make some money and raise their children.
I just last night saw a video, I want to say it was on Instagram, of some shithead from Venezuela or somewhere down in South America Putting out a video to all of his homies down in South America, wherever he's from, to come here and have a baby because now you'll be a citizen.
Your kid will be a citizen.
And he was holding his baby and talking about how this little girl has gotten me $1,800 a month, free school and a free place to stay, and $3,000 a month to eat.
While, mind you, Jason, while...
Americans are homeless and dying in the cold and they can't find, well, I shouldn't say they can't find jobs.
There's a ton of jobs, but maybe they're not able to work or whatever.
But we're handing out.
They did the breakdown.
It was like $13,000 or $14,000 a month in benefits and gift cards and cell phones and places to stay and food and all this stuff.
For what?
Because you walked under some barbed wire but haven't done s**t to contribute?
Right.
Well, I was sorry I had to look off here because they claim, as of 2020, average American income per house.
I don't know if this is married couple or single, but I'm sure it's a hybrid of both.
$65,000 a year.
And if those numbers are accurate that you just spoke, that is $57,000 for doing nothing.
None of that is sustainable.
So you wonder, I mean, again, kind of reiterating back to that powder keg situation where if something were to happen at the border, how many people are frustrated and pissed off in this country?
You know, that bust their ass for that $60,000, including this guy.
You know, every day, and to find out that that's how somebody is, or that's the kind of money that somebody is potentially taking in, and then you're going to see something blow up, you are going to again get an emotional response to a situation.
Yeah, emotional, you put it very nicely, emotional response, but you're 1000% right.
There is absolutely zero, zero reason for any of it.
And what I find interesting is that even the folks who are coming out public who were anti-America two years ago when COVID was just coming to an end and is now ending,
all these folks that were the leeches, I guess you could say, They're all coming out and talking about how crazy this is that, well, I can't get any of my benefits, but these people are getting benefits.
What the hell's up with that?
So now even the leeches that are Americans are pissed off about it.
And so I think that the positive side behind that is Now the powers that be have to listen because the folks that they were giving, giving, giving, giving everything to Are now not getting everything that they were promised and it's going to somewhere else.
So now that's becoming a squeaky wheel again.
Now they have to do something.
They have to say something.
They have to acknowledge it.
The question is, where will it end?
And so we'll pick up that part of the conversation when we come back from the break.
Stick with us.
Hey folks, welcome back here to the second segment of the show.
When we ended before the break, I was talking, Jason, about the leeches and how the leeches are now even upset with DHS not doing their job and all the influx of BS coming into the country.
And I asked you to chew on it, so I didn't give you an opportunity, so I want to give you an opportunity.
What do you think about the leeches now being vocal about securing the border?
Well, I'm sure that'll create the change needed, right?
You can't keep your constituents unhappy.
Well, that's an interesting spin because I think, like I was saying, once these folks, we'll just call them the leeches, once the leeches start speaking up, there's gonna have to be some action taken.
And not only action by the government, but these folks, in my opinion, are liable to take action in their own hands.
And so when I say these folks are the leeches, I'm talking about the folks that refuse to work and they're leeching off the government and taking whatever it is that they have to throw at these folks that just want free stuff.
In the name of votes.
I believe that there are a lot of folks out there.
We know Ilhan Omar did that here in Minneapolis.
Was it two elections ago now?
Stu Peters and I on Patriotically Correct Radio had video evidence of her people going door to door to elderly Somali folks in Minneapolis Paying them for their mail-in ballots and telling them that, don't worry, I'll mark it the way you want, but they can't read English.
They don't understand what to do with it, so they pay them some money, take their mail-in ballot and fill it out the way they want and send it in.
It's going to be a situation where Now we're going to need to placate to these folks so that they don't take action in their own hands.
They don't become violent.
They don't do this.
They don't do that.
And yet the hard-working American people are still going to be left out in the cold.
Well, it's kind of funny, right?
You choose to ignore...
Federal law that exists for a very specific reason.
It's not that immigration shouldn't occur.
There's no question about that.
I don't think either you or I have an issue with that.
I don't think anybody out there.
I don't know.
Put it in the comments if you do.
I'd love to hear the rationalization.
Why not?
In most instances where it's worthy.
But certainly what we're watching, this isn't migration.
This is infiltration.
This is terrible.
And so, if you are, I would say, politically aligned rut, you see it as a huge burden coming in, problems coming in, unvetted people coming in.
I mean, you wouldn't do this at your house.
You wouldn't do this at a place of employment.
And the other side, the more emotionally based folks that see it as the flight of these folks living in squalor and poor conditions all around the globe and leaving their homeland for a better opportunity.
Sure, there's parts to that.
However, because they chose no action, Now you've charged the people on the right who are opposed to it based upon our laws, and now you're going to have people based upon our use laws mad about it.
I don't really see any other choice other than to shut everything down, and if they don't, you risk exactly what you said, where now you start to align two groups that they've created division amongst, and you're going to give them a common fighting stance?
I'm not talking physical fighting stance, but certainly something that, again, if I'm on Social Security, I only get X amount of money every month.
And if I find out that, obviously, that's not going to be at risk, but there are dwindling resources based upon these other things, the fight is going to be in the ballot box.
And I don't think either side really wants to take a risk at losing those votes because those are kind of the statics, but right now we're tipping into an area where those are the vocal people, like you say, and they're going to be the ones that are going to maybe do something different or something worse.
They're going to be the ones that freak them out and start to create real chaos in the streets, and that's not going to go well for anyone either.
Well, you bring up a really good point.
The real question I have is, why would we even be in the position to worry about those votes?
Why are those folks even allowed to cast a vote?
Why are we in a position in this country where hardworking Americans are having conversations about how do we make sure that these folks don't screw up the voting base for either side?
They shouldn't have a vote.
Oh, you're talking about illegals voting?
Yes.
Oh, shoot.
I was talking about Americans that are voting.
The fact that we're even discussing that, what was that, like a week and a half ago?
We've got an illegal that works in the state of California's the clerk's office overseeing elections?
Yeah, yes.
Why?
And that's the real question, right?
And everybody always wants to say...
Let me go back to something else you said.
Nobody else wants these things, right?
They don't want open borders.
They don't want this and that.
But the do-gooders always want to talk about, well, you know, they just need some help and we got to do this.
This is America, the land of opportunity.
Okay.
But when these conversations come about, and to me, it's a very elementary idea.
If you are not willing to have any stranger, whether they're Americans, a legal migrant, illegal alien, it doesn't matter who the hell it is.
If you're not willing to open your doors of your house and allow anybody to just come on in and sit down on the couch, fill a cup with iced tea, watch a game on your TV and scratch their balls and then ask you for a sandwich, Why is it okay to do it anywhere else in this country?
So if you are going to tout that you think that we should just, you know, we should help these people and make sure they're safe and this, that, and the other thing, then put them in your house.
But I am not okay with paying for their groceries in your house.
Bro, it's the land of opportunity, not the land of plenty.
This is ridiculous, you know?
Again, the time-honored argument about we're a country of immigrants.
Yeah, we're a country of immigrants that actually came here and created.
What America is.
I mean, the immigrants of, well, 80 years now.
Boy, I had to do the quick math on that.
Going back 1930s and 40s in this country, you know, were turning over sod.
They were creating farms.
They were creating business.
They were creating all this.
They didn't come here and just start suckling from the teat.
Everywhere across the country.
I mean, that's the whole thing.
You could come here for the opportunity to become an American, to be part of our society, to be part of this great experiment.
They didn't come here to be parasitic in nature.
And a lot of the things, and it's hard to blame.
Do you blame a parasite for sitting there?
No, that's what they're meant to do.
Right, and I wouldn't do this, but boy, 57.6 is pretty tempting to sit around and do nothing on.
Like, can you imagine that temptation?
If you came from a place where you maybe made $5,000 to $10,000 a year, you want to talk about the high cotton feeling of $60,000 a year without worry?
Can you blame anybody?
Well, no, I can't.
And...
And that's kind of the sticking point, right?
Like, they're coming here, whether their intentions are good or not, you know, for many remain yet to be seen.
But the fact of the matter is that it's even a choice.
It's even a choice for them to choose to come here, sit in God knows where, collect a bunch of money, And do nothing.
You know, the American Dream, my interpretation of the American Dream, Jason, is that you contribute, you work hard, you take care of yourself and your neighbor, and everybody kind of just puts in some effort and some work, and everything works seamlessly.
Like, that's the idea.
And so when you talk about the 30s and 40s and the influx of immigrants that came back then during the end of World War II, it was okay because, number one, we had the ability to help folks out.
But...
There was also an understanding that you come here and you contribute.
So like you said, folks came and they started businesses.
They provided services to the community.
They did good things.
And I'm sure that there were some that had not such good intentions.
But that's not what we see now.
This idea that Like the dude with his baby.
Come here, you'll be an American citizen.
He was claiming he's been here for six months.
Baby's three months old.
They've been here for six months, he's getting all this money, a nice hotel room to live in for now until they can find a home?
What?
Why are these folks even considering talking about finding a home, a permanent place to live?
What gives them the ability to legally lease or rent a place or obtain a mortgage from an American bank?
Don't you have to prove citizenship or something to be able to secure a $300,000 loan from Wells Fargo or any other bank?
What the hell is that even?
Why is this even a conversation is why I get frustrated.
Right.
And I, you know, and that's, you know, kind of that whole, you know, philanthropy starts at home.
That's something we kind of live by in my household.
You know, we take care of ourselves and then as soon as we have the opportunity, we go out and we take care of others.
When we live in a country where you have 12 million children, American children, Every night going to bed hungry or poorly closed or not living up to what, you know, anywhere near the standards that we're talking about right now for that type of person.
What are we doing spending any money outside of our borders?
How are we not taking care of Americans before we take care of everybody else?
I mean, this is...
And that's not even getting into the whole discussion, which we should do at some point, about the social engineering aspect of how we've created programs that should be theoretically taking care of the elderly, the disabled, those who have fallen on financial hard times, alongside of legal immigrants who come here to be part of the American experience.
But now we're just literally talking about chucking money at people that their first action entering America was an illegal action, regardless if somebody wants to say that it wasn't AOC. But here we sit and we're pissing all that money down to help them out at a point where we're not doing anything for anybody else.
You know, it's falling on, and I would love to see what those numbers look like, and I think, you know, that'll remind me after this, give me a call, and I'm gonna reach out and see what our local charitable organizations are doing.
Like, what kind of money are they seeing?
What type of help are they providing for people, you know, that live here in our community?
And see if there's any type of stress on their resources because of all this.
Because I assume this thing hits everywhere.
I mean, that's too big of a number, bro.
Five million people.
Way too big of a number.
And they told us it was coming.
I don't know who they is, but I know that I heard it and I read about it a lot.
And it was predicted that it was going to happen and almost everything has happened or will at some point.
Well, the World Economic Forum is the one who continually touts this migrant nonsense.
We all have, every country has their own Plan.
That's why we vote for leaders.
And we're so fortunate to be in this country where we're a constitutional republic, not a democracy.
A democracy is pure mob rule.
You know, what's good in New York is not necessarily good in Nebraska.
What's good here in Minnesota isn't necessarily great down in Texas or Florida.
You know, it doesn't matter if it's EPA standards or anything else.
So, you know, the idea that, you know, every country is a simple democracy and that migration is going to help everybody as they tout, you know, whatever, those overlords at the WEF. Number one, they don't have a...
Almost.
Atta boy.
Why do they even have a say or anybody can speak and say whatever they want to, but how is our country actually bending or people believing that these are the ideas that we should be living under?
I mean, that is an amount of trickery through brainwashing that I just can't understand.
Soapbox, exit, now.
Well, but here's the thing.
So if two moderately intelligent fellas like you and I can have complex conversation and complex thought about this issue, people who are a whole lot smarter than us haven't figured out or had it figured out long ago.
But yet we still see no change, no change for the better anyway.
And so it leads me to believe that some of this, or all of it, is by design.
And here's the other question I have, looping this back to the military.
If we are sending all these soldiers there, and I shouldn't say we, because Governor Tim Walz in Minnesota isn't doing shit.
He was worthless as a member of the Minnesota National Guard as a military man.
He's worthless as a governor.
So if this is a problem we're seeing all over the country and the federal government clearly isn't doing what it says it's going to do, why is not every state biting the bullet?
some of their dollars and their manpower to help end this problem.
Because truthfully, the sooner we end this problem of people coming in, then we can get to ending the problem that all this caused.
It's a long road, man.
And so I wonder, what is it going to take for every state in the union to send help?
Because I'm quite certain there's soldiers in every state in the union that would be chomping at the bit to get down to that border and stop this from continuing.
And so we got like two minutes left in the segment, man.
I want to let you expound on that, if you will.
Do you have an opinion?
What do you want me to expound on?
Why are we not, why is not everybody sending guard soldiers?
To secure the border.
If it's affecting Missouri in such a negative way that he's sending a big handful of soldiers to do this work, why is Minnesota not doing it?
Why is Iowa not doing it?
Why is North and South Dakota not?
Right.
I think so much of that comes down to optics and politicians make decisions based upon their next job.
You know, that's not leadership.
It's the biggest problem we have in this country when it comes to political leaders that we...
We've been so beaten down and let down as Americans as to who our leaders are going to be.
I don't think Americans respond well to a strong political leader because you have to make decisions.
Living in a gray area is only a political world.
You constantly defer, delay, they wait for feedback, they do whatever.
You know they're all milquetoast.
And we've got that here.
I wish it weren't so.
I wish our politicians would do what's best for the people that they are representing, and do that with the collective mind at stake or at heart, rather than their political careers.
Because a lot of unpopular leaders get a lot of great things done, even if their greatness isn't seen in real time.
History will show that they made the right decision.
That's an interesting take.
I suppose that these men and women in these positions of power, they're faced with the decision of what side of history do you want to be on?
When this is talked about in 50 or 100 years, if we last that long, Where are you going to stand?
And it's unfortunate because, in my opinion, when those decisions are made for your own political or professional gain, when you hold a position that you are charged with the responsibility of the welfare of a whole state of people or a whole county or whatever it is,
whatever position your office governs, It doesn't matter what you want for your next career assignment or where you want to go.
Not to us, because I'm never going to be in an elected office, because I already know.
I won't last long.
They'll have me run out of there with pitchforks and all kinds of shit before I even unpack the pictures of my kids and my wife.
Because if I got elected to some office, I'm going to start cleaning house and we're going to start fresh and really make some change.
But I don't know.
I don't know if my heart can handle it.
That ship has sailed.
And the way things are, I wouldn't wish it on folks I don't like that much.
I would never say I'm a worse enemy because I think maybe they would be a right fit for the job.
But yeah, the burden of leadership and being in positions of great responsibility are not easy.
But if you're making good choices and decisions based upon who you are as a person, rather than politics, you know, those are easy ones.
You might get voted out, but you know you made the right call.
You can actually live with your head held high, your chest out and your shoulders back.
Our politicians are too meek.
They're too subservient to the media and to their own aspirations.
Out of the game.
And it does such a disservice to the people that they supposedly should be representing.
I agree 1000%.
I believe in karma.
So if you do what you know is right, just do the right thing with integrity.
If you get voted out, you can live the rest of your days knowing that you did what you thought was right.
Not placating for money or power, control, all those things we talk about.
Anyway, we've run short on time, so we'll be right back.
Stick with us.
Hey folks, welcome back here.
Jason had some kind of technical difficulties, so he is going to skip out for the last five or six minutes of the show.
But I thank him for his views.
I think that this is an issue that we all have opinions on, and I think we all talk about them amongst our families or close circles.
And so I guess I am not taking the stand that we need to be publicly speaking about these things all the time, because I understand that some folks just don't want to deal with it, and I get it.
But I think it's one of those issues where if we as a community, whether it's your local community or community as a whole, the country, if we don't start speaking up more and holding the powers that be accountable, it's never going to get any better.
And so for our own survivability and our own preservation of the way of life that we like, the American way of life, I don't know, man.
I think that it's possible that if this keeps happening and keeps going forward, that all that's going to change.
And that would be extremely sad because we, as a country, as a population of people, Have been through way too much.
We've overcome way too much as the United States of America to have to worry about now fighting to get our old way of life back.
We've done that already.
And so I guess I don't know what all the answers are.
I have my own ideas and my own opinions.
But what I do know to be true is If we continue to let it happen, we are not going to carry on with the same way of life that we like or are comfortable with.
And I think that's just the facts.
Things are way out of control, and they need to be fixed.
And the question is, who's going to do it?
So, I don't know.
I guess that remains to be seen.
And this conversation will continue over coming weeks and months, I'm sure.
The election's coming, so I'm sure there'll be all kinds of craziness to talk about.
Before we go, we got a couple minutes left of the show.
I want to just take a couple minutes to talk about Today being the 100th episode of the Richard Leonard Show is something for me that is very humbling.
I never thought in a million years that anybody would give two flying craps about what it is that I have to say.
Or how I say it.
Now, there's also a lot of people that watch this show that disagree with me a lot and they make it known and we hear about it and I read about it.
And that's okay too.
That's kind of the whole point of doing this.
But the goal of doing this show initially was to bring an understanding to the veteran culture in this country and how we see things and how we feel about stuff and how we think.
Because the men and women that chose to serve in our military have a big hand in writing the history books.
About how we came to be.
And so there are many people out there that say, you know, that military members are, they're stupid and it was their only option for anything after high school.
There were murderers, were this, were that, and the other thing.
Okay, whatever.
Even if that was true, you still are here.
You're still in America.
You're still exercising your rights.
You're still resting comfortably under the proverbial blanket of freedom that these murderers and these dummies that had no other option provided for you.
I understand that some think that everything we have was bought and it's all corrupt and this and that and the other thing.
Well, maybe that's true.
But it's not true for many people who did the work.
It's real easy for somebody who has never served, who has never put their neck out for their neighbor or anything like that to judge.
And if you're a person who has and you still feel that way, well then maybe this is not the place for you to be.
Maybe Venezuela is a place for you to be.
Maybe Mexico.
Maybe Russia.
Maybe somewhere in Europe is a place for you to be.
I guess I've never understood how American hating Americans can find it within themselves to stay in America.
And do what?
And just bitch.
Go somewhere where you'll be happy, where you don't have to complain about it.
I don't know.
Anyway, to end the 100th show, I want to just say thank you.
Thank you to the powers that be.
My good friend Stu has given me this opportunity 100 weeks ago to provide content for the network.
So thank you to him for that.
Thank you to everybody who watches this week in and week out or if you just come every now and then.
Whatever it is, I appreciate it.
And I appreciate the ability to have a platform to not only myself, but bring people who also want to talk about their experiences and make them known so that we can bridge this gap between military and veterans and the civilian culture in this country to come to some kind of understanding about what life is like and how it's different and how we think differently.
But yet be okay with it.
So thank you for that.
Of course, we've run out of time, so thank you for joining us today.
And here's to another 100 shows.
We are going to continue to work hard to find good things to talk to you about and information to bring you and hopefully continue to invoke change in this country, in our communities, for the lives of countless veterans, but also civilians.
We chose to serve the country.
This call to service doesn't end when you take a uniform off.
For many people, they still have this need to serve.
And I guess that this is how myself and for many, many weeks, Jason has answered that call within himself as well.
So thank you very much.
Take care of yourselves.
Take care of each other.
Have a great night.
We'll see you next week.
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