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March 10, 2024 - Stew Peters Show
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National Guard in Subways: Biden Fails… AGAIN
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Anyway, today we are going to have a discussion about...
This bullshit of governors deploying National Guard soldiers to do jobs that don't necessarily fall into their purview.
This week, it was Governor Kathy Hochul from New York activating the National Guard to do spot checks and bag searches In the New York City subways.
And so, why don't we bring Jason in so we can further this conversation.
Hello, sir.
How are you?
Hey, big time.
Pretty good.
And yourself?
Well, I'm a little twisted today because I don't know how to digest this stuff that's happening Right.
Well, I think, you know, there's two points, because we kind of went down this path last week discussing, you know, sending, and I do want to reiterate, I had probably misspoke last week that when I said reserve component, because I don't think the reserve component can be used by the governor's office.
So if I did say those words, I was wrong.
It's always been National Guard, but I'm inclusive when it comes to National Guard and reserve components.
Well, good, good.
Keep us in good standing.
Yeah, I understand.
But, you know, I was thinking when Governor Hochul decided she was going to do this, I was like, alright, so, you know, what possibly could have changed?
Number one, you know, at what point do we quit looking at the National Guard as this usable asset for What should be civilian-trained occupational specialties, you know, outside of times of crisis, which brings up the second point, which is, what do these folks know that we don't know?
Why are you putting the National Guard in said subway?
And with the oddity going on with the southern border, you know, and I've seen a few memes out there, again, referring back to my information portal that is iFunny.
Yeah.
You know, there's a lot of people talking about things that maybe they know, that the government knows, you know, things that might be happening on our soil.
And so I wonder, is this potentially a, not a precursor, but at least a reaction to something that they know about?
I think that's even more likely than just needing the National Guard there.
Are you insinuating that maybe they know about some impending attack or some kind of thing like that?
Is that what you mean?
Well, okay, so 250 individuals.
I don't know what unit, what type of unit this unit was that was being called up.
Do you?
I believe it was MPs or SPs if they're Air Force personnel.
Okay.
Go ahead.
Oh, sorry.
So they're using at least that faction, their military, which I have to assume the few MPs that I knew, most of them were civilian law enforcement anyway.
And I think you're probably stealing other civilian law enforcement at the same time that you're bolstering your own here in New York.
But...
It feels odd.
You know, with all of the things that we've been hearing over the past month about oddities that are happening in this country.
I mean, we went from Russia as an antiquated military that can't even take over the Ukraine to all of a sudden they had sonic booming launchers and lasers up in space and satellites.
I don't think any of us forgot about that.
They were turds, but now they're like Star Wars super turds.
Okay, that was a 30 days flip.
And then you have now they've spoken very specifically about how maybe we've overestimated China's ability to mobilize their military.
So, you know, we took, we basically flip-flopped.
On both of those, and now you're starting to see these reserve component assets being pushed around in places where we otherwise wouldn't see them.
This isn't a flood.
You and I know up here in Minnesota, that was a pretty regular thing, and we've discussed it before.
But, you know, and riot control, you know, sometimes that would come up with a quick reaction force that the National Guard builds out state by state for riots, things of that nature.
But this is completely different.
This feels to me like a precautionary action against maybe a perceived threat, potentially.
Well, you're right.
The Guard is used for natural disasters as relief to help people get out of their homes.
Here in Minnesota, when we have flooding, which used to be a lot more common than it is now, I can't tell you how many sandbags the Minnesota National Guard has probably filled in the last decade.
But here's what I think is happening, and this is just my opinion.
Some years ago, I think we all remember when that career criminal piece of shit George Floyd overdosed on fentanyl on the streets of Minneapolis and the world blew up.
Everybody and their mother was talking about how to defund the police.
Cops are racist.
All this crap.
And then government offices, like in Minneapolis, Mayor Frye jumped right on board.
And then all of a sudden, you see him doing the cabbage patch with a bunch of folks in front of City Hall, like a complete idiot.
Right?
And so then all that started happening.
And then it spread like wildfire all over the country.
And The narrative then became, amongst many other things, the narrative became that cops are racist, the police are, they're just, they wake up every day, they get dressed, they go to work, and the whole time before they get in their squad car to start their shift, what they're thinking about is how many black people can they kill today?
And then just targeting these people and taking them out.
And through that whole narrative, Jason, there was never any conversation about many things that could probably spark about 13 other shows, but there was no conversation about black folks killing black folks, the little black kids that got shot and killed by stray bullets on trampolines at their own birthday parties, and all this stuff.
So what happens now?
Cops leave.
Nobody wants to go to work with the idea that, well, tonight my career might be over, my retirement might be gone, you know, I'm gonna end up in prison maybe, I'll be all over the world, news, in court, blah, blah, blah.
The whole litany of bullshit that follows that.
And now that the country seems to be waking up a little bit, things are changing a little bit as far as the social narrative of what's happening in our communities, Now there's no cops.
And there certainly isn't a whole lot of cops who are still on the job that are super concerned about doing their job because, again, nobody wants to be the guy or the gal on the world stage that's a black guy killer, right?
And nobody wants to be the racist cop on the world stage.
And so they just probably aren't doing their jobs effectively.
And who can blame them?
And so now what's the answer?
Well, don't worry, we'll deploy the National Guard to police the subways in New York City.
But from what I was reading, and correct me if I'm wrong, you might know more about it than I do, but these soldiers, they're not even, and the cops, right?
So she deployed 750 Guard members and 250 state police officers.
But they're not even riding the trains.
They're standing at the gates by the stairs, and they're checking your bags and your purses and all that stuff before you get on the platform.
So if you're slick enough to get a weapon past some cops who don't want to really do their job because they don't want to lose everything they've ever worked for or get past some guard soldiers that are in the back of their mind thinking, well, this is some bullshit, I'm losing money because I have a civilian job or whatever.
I can't see my kids and my wife.
They're at home.
Or whatever the case may be.
So if you get a weapon past them, then you're good to go.
Because once you get on that train, go ahead and take it hostage.
There's no help for these innocent people.
And so I guess my question is...
Where did things go wrong in New York City?
Because there's so many things that we could talk about that this became a good idea.
That we are going to deploy our state's National Guard troops to police city streets.
And then what happens, Jason?
Let me ask you this.
This is an even better question.
What happens when and if there's a critical incident And one of these National Guard soldiers has to use deadly force or have to use any kind of force to help detain these people or get the situation under control.
Then what?
Now the country's really going to burn because our own military is now...
taken out if they have to, American citizens, or in New York City, who knows?
Maybe they'll be illegals that are just camping out on the train.
Who knows?
But what's going to happen in this country should there be a critical incident on a New York subway and a United States military member has to take action?
What's that going to look like?
I don't even want to think about it, to be honest.
And who knows?
The emotional response that America has shown in the past to something, because you know it's going to be completely driven by the media, whatever way they want.
Absolutely.
I mean, my heart goes out to these 75 individuals who have to go do this job, number one.
750, bro.
Did I say, what did I say?
75.
Oh, sorry.
That's okay.
I said zero here and there.
Yeah, so you basically have five companies moving out or probably a battalion, I would assume, right?
But I'm going to go back to flood duty.
So when you went sandbagging, And enjoyed that run.
Did you guys ever go to the armory and pull your M4s or your sidearms?
I never was activated for flood duty to do sandbagging, but many of us, many of our people in our unit were, and no.
Nobody went to the arms room to grab a weapon.
Okay, so again, I'm just going to trust my lying eyes, because everything I read, they're searching bags.
If they're searching bags, doing routine things like that, Why the hell did they go to the arms room and why were they issued out their M4s and their service pistols?
Well, because the whole narrative from the governor's office is that we just can't keep this violence under control and that the people who are riding the subways every day just to get to work or see their aging parents in a nursing home or a hospital or whatever, Are getting attacked and maimed.
I did read part of an article where a dude lost his ear.
He was attacked by somebody and they sliced his ear off.
Oh, yeah, of course.
And then they say, oh, the crime is coming down from COVID-19 pandemic level highs.
Okay, whatever.
But I'm telling you right now, specifically, the reason that they were able, or they did...
Activate their guard.
Was to search bags.
Right.
That is the specific mission.
I know that these missions have to be written very specifically.
There was a point in time in Minnesota, and this is many years before either of our times in the guard or military, where Minnesota had a shutdown of, I believe it was some of our mental hospitals and our medical security prisons, where National Guard troops were mobilized Under Title 32 orders like they are right now here in New York to go man those places because otherwise there would have been nobody there.
But those orders were written so specifically to what they were able to do and not do that this was not just random happenstance that they said very specifically To search passengers' bags for weapons.
That is it.
I have a feeling when the Governor is giving intent, and I'm sorry I keep referring back to this thing because I want to make sure I'm including the information as properly as I can, that their entire goal is to search bags.
That's why they're up front.
And then that begs the question, why arm them?
I'm not saying that Armingham is a bad idea.
I mean, I sure as hell wouldn't go into a New York City subway without something.
Right.
Agreed.
Like a bag of rat feed or...
I want one or two.
One or the other.
Preferably both.
None of it really makes a ton of sense, does it?
Like, you don't waste the time.
You don't go pull the armor.
You don't put that stuff out there.
The same side of the aisle continually talks about, like, the police look too much like the military, and now we're doing the same thing that they do in countries where they always take shots at them for having their military standing guard.
Like, what kind of country needs their military to be armed amongst their population?
Well, apparently it's New York.
Yeah, well, and that's just the start, bro.
I believe that this thing will...
Now she set a precedent, right?
If you can't get the stuff under control, don't worry.
Use your National Guard.
And you brought up a really good point early in the conversation about...
Now you're pulling these soldiers from their civilian jobs.
So let's just say for conversation's sake that out of the 750 military personnel that have been deployed to the New York City subways, 500 of them are cops.
Somewhere in New York or somewhere around the country.
Because a little unknown fact that people may not know is that you don't necessarily have to be a resident of the guard unit in which you work in.
In fact, I just talked to a fellow the other day who moved to Minnesota recently.
He's a National Guard Special Forces soldier, and his unit is down in Austin or Houston or something like that.
And so he flies to Texas every month to go to drill and do his thing.
So if we're pulling, for conversation's sake, 500 cops off the street, what does that do for the communities in which they police?
And so as a governor...
And trust me, if there's anybody further away from a governor's office or being qualified to be in a governor's office, I don't know if there's anybody more unqualified than I am.
But common sense would tell me, if I pull 500 cops off the streets of Minnesota or anywhere in this country, we are now leaving gaps in those cities in which they work in.
And so, is this an issue of...
I mean, it's just so idiotic to me.
It makes me chuckle.
Is this an issue of just complete ignorance?
She can't be that ignorant, right?
If you don't have enough cops in New York City to patrol your subways, what makes you think that the rest of your state has any room to lose any more police officers from their departments When you're doing things in New York State, like displacing people to put illegals, and then the illegals are kicking the shit out of your cops.
They're beating their asses all the time.
We only hear about one or two here and there.
But it doesn't mean it's not happening.
So what are we doing for these communities in which we're losing all this manpower?
And maybe it's not even just cops, but are any of them doctors or nurses or teachers or carpenters or whatever it is?
You're putting the rest of your state in jeopardy.
It's a depletion of an already finite resource.
And you know what's happening.
I mean, there's a lot of people that are in the Guard that venture far away from their MOS in their civilian occupation.
But there are certain units that tend to kind of grab their civilian counterpart.
I can't speak to percentages or anything else, but I don't care if it's 50 or 10 police officers that are being pulled off the streets.
Maybe they're in rural communities where they only have three law enforcement officers the way that it is, and now you're going to reduce their ability by 33% to police their, you know, maybe it's a rural municipality.
It's so short-sighted, but you hit on another piece, it's like, What have you done the past few years that's causing all these problems?
Yes, it was the way that you were treating law enforcement the way that that they The political elites that chose this path that the police are always wrong and then the people that jumped on the bandwagon saying that all cops are bad.
You destroyed their morale.
You ran them out.
I mean, I would not in a million years blame any police officer for retiring, leaving, or young people just not wanting to become a police officer because of the target that they put on their back.
But now you created that problem.
You exacerbated it by allowing An unruly population of human beings to infiltrate your space, creating another host of undue pressures, or unneeded pressures.
They already have an issue with resource dollars.
They don't have any tax money.
They're losing, they're ulcering businesses, and people are fleeing the state, so you know their coffers are running dry.
To do this, it's almost a pathetic cry for help in my mind.
You know, you really have nothing left in the tank because you're doing this and it's not because the guard is a bad option.
It's just the fact you don't have...
I got shit left.
This is all I got.
I can't go tax people.
I can't give them 85 hours of overtime every week because they're only willing to work 30.
And I think that would be an interesting one to look into too.
Because everything that I've heard from people in law enforcement that talk about folks and buddies that they have in the city, Those guys get extraordinary overtime pay and they all take advantage of it up to a point because there's nobody else.
Their numbers are diminished.
Yeah, they don't, yes.
And so they're, I mean, I'm sure that the overtime pay nowadays is just through the roof.
And so here's the question I have.
If I'm a police officer and I'm working my 40 to 50 hours a week scheduled, And then I'm pulling another 20 to 30 hours of overtime a week.
That's great.
That's great for my financial well-being.
But you can only, as a person, you can only take so much.
You can only be policing a community that has these types of things going on so much before you've had enough.
And so, what are we doing for the mental health of these individuals that do this work, first off?
Second off, are all of them committed to doing the best job that they can whenever they are on the clock?
When they're being forced to do...
I shouldn't say forced because maybe overtime's optional.
But kind of forced.
If there's nobody else, they can make mandatory overtime, right?
Are they going to be as...
As vigilant as they are if they've had a couple days off.
I mean, at what point do we also start talking about the well-being of the men and women that are doing these jobs?
Right?
The ones that are left.
And amongst the ones that are left, the good ones that are left.
Because we all know that nobody hates...
A crooked or a bad cop worse than a good cop.
Nobody hates a shitbag soldier more than a soldier who's doing the things that they're supposed to do, right?
Because it makes everybody look bad.
So how effective are these men and women who are doing overtime or the ones that you pulled out of their civilian life to do a job that isn't necessarily their gig, right?
Are these folks going to be committed to the cause?
And if not, I mean, I guess I don't blame anybody for having, like, overload and, you know, this fatigue of just doing your job and being vigilant and then dealing with all of these idiots all the time.
I mean, Jason, if I am not the type of person, I am not the type of person that could work in a nursery, right?
If I spent 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, amongst a bunch of crying, drooling, peeing and pooping babies, I'm gonna have a conniption.
But God bless the people that love that work and will do that day in and day out, right?
And I believe that type of work is also a selfless job because it doesn't matter if you're having a bad day.
It doesn't matter if your dad died or if your wife left you or your kids had an accident playing basketball and broke his leg and you gotta deal with it.
None of that matters.
You still have a job to do.
And so now we're gonna be overwhelming our forces And I guess I question whether or not it's going to be effective for those reasons.
And it's an interesting position to be in because these governments, city, state, federal governments, they created this monster.
And now they're relying on the people who kept their nose down, kept doing their job and going to work every day.
To pick up the pieces.
And I imagine that if this starts to become a trend around the country, folks are going to be leaving.
People won't re-enlist.
This is not going to do any favors for our recruitment and sustainment.
Yeah, retention numbers are going down, but I did have a little bit of an idea when you were talking.
Oh yeah, let's hear it.
Ready for it?
Yeah.
They should bring in some social workers.
Wasn't that the answer?
Hey, we need some social workers.
Get the social workers ass on down to the subway and leave these guard folks at home.
Can I ask you why you have this crack pipe in your bag, ma'am?
Is everything okay?
No?
This crack pipe is indicative of something deeper and darker.
Like, how much deeper and darker does it get than a crack pipe?
Well, and so that's a very good point.
And Who knows?
Who knows where the social workers are?
I'm guessing that after the last go-about with social workers on the street, there isn't many of them that are going to be like, hey, I'll go down the subway and talk to people who might be in crisis.
Not after we watched how many of them get their asses handed to them, trying to step in and dissolve a situation that they're not trained to dissolve.
It's absolutely ridiculous.
But anyway, folks, we've run out of time in this segment.
Stick with us.
We'll be right back.
Hey folks, welcome back here to the second segment of the show.
I was on quite a bit of a soapbox before we took a break.
Jason, you had a really good idea about how to maybe handle this.
Would you like to share that with our audience, please?
Which one do you think was better?
Well, let's do them both.
Alright, so to me, getting away from using more people down there, maybe New York needs to look at treating things like the TSA does, or what it's like going into a federal building, which I know Oh boy.
Are there metal detectors there already?
I feel like there are.
Where?
In the subway?
I don't know.
I've never been in a subway.
Well, I haven't either.
And I'm sure there is in places.
What they do have is the little gates where you scan your car to put in your money and it opens.
But people jump right over the top of that, I'm sure.
Yeah.
Well, I've seen the King of Queens, so I know they turnstile jump.
Yes, there you go.
Arthur Roberts, the single greatest character ever made for television sitcoms, but I digress.
The second idea is just Let this thing go mad max like one weapon in one weapon out like you get you You get a weapon of some sort when you go down in the subway And then all the then the field is leveled and then upon your exit back to the street you turn in your weapon Maybe well I in theory In theory, I don't think those are bad ideas.
I think that if we TSA'd the shit out of the New York subway...
That might actually work.
If you get on the subway and you got to get the body scan and they scan all your bags and they rifle through your stuff, you can't take a drink more than three and a half ounces on the train, that type of thing, maybe that would work.
But here's the thing.
As far as we're told via the mainstream media about this issue, they're not riding the trains anyway.
And so it seems to me that once you get on that train, it's Thunderdome anyhow.
And so I don't mind, actually, the idea of when you cross that turnstile, you have a selection of weapons.
There's bats and clubs and little pickaxes or whatever, and then everyone fight it out.
All the shitheads will either lose or they'll take over the whole thing and nobody will take the subway anyway, and then they'll just shut them down.
But this becomes a huge tragedy for the people that live in the city that are just trying to do the right thing.
Just trying to go to work and get home, raise their kids, and live their lives in peace.
And so I think that becomes the rub, right?
I mean...
I would be all for, and somebody could probably make a lot of money on the reality show of the New York City Subway Battle Dome.
Right.
Surviving the subway?
Yeah, I mean, somebody made a lot of money on making some documentary about surviving R. Kelly.
We already know what he did.
He was peeing on teenage girls and doing things he shouldn't have, but they made millions of dollars on a two-part docuseries about him.
Like, anybody gave a shit.
How many times did you download it?
Well, I watched it because I was an R. Kelly fan when I was a teenager.
I didn't know that he was doing all that.
And the one girl, the one that died in the plane crash, I loved her music.
She did a couple good movies, Aaliyah.
So yeah, I watched it, but I wasn't surprised by it.
It wasn't like they told us anything we didn't know already.
The guy's a dirtbag, and he belongs in prison, and that's where he sits.
Right.
Doesn't New York have really strict gun laws, though?
And, like, weapons enforcement laws?
As far as I know.
Not anywhere as strict as places like Chicago, but strict enough.
It sounds like it's, I think it's more strict than what we're accustomed to, but why are they having these problems?
I mean, if they've already put all these laws in place to stop these folks, you know, I mean, you've exhausted all your resources.
Well, here's my sneaking suspicion.
There's treachery afoot, and I believe that the reason they're having these problems is because The police and the powers that be, they don't care.
They don't care anymore because they're not supported in doing their jobs.
The powers that be, your state governors, the rest of the state government, the city government, the county governments, they all want you to do what they want you to do.
But they are not the ones who every day go to roll call or do whatever they gotta do and get into a squad car or get on a bicycle or walk their beat or whatever it is that they do and have to deal with these shitheads all day every day.
And so they make these rules and they put these people in these positions without having any idea What the hell it's actually like.
How about the governor of New York?
Ride the train to work.
Ride the train to work for two weeks.
Yeah, without your security and your detail.
Exactly.
I just want you to go raw dog it like everybody else does.
Like Mrs.
Johnson, you know, who lives in a rougher part of, I don't know.
I tried to come up with like a borough name or something, but I just came up with a lot of shit.
Brooklyn.
There you go.
I would have thought I could have come up with one, but I care so little about it.
But not only that, bro.
Not only that, but why doesn't she bring her elderly mother with her?
Right.
Go ahead.
If your goal is to make your transit experience safe, then go see what the problem is.
And it goes for anything that we talk about as far as our government is concerned.
Part of the problem I've always said is that the people that are making these decisions about how to handle these problems have never had to deal with them.
They learn about them through the media.
They learn about them through police brass, the police commissioner and the chief of police.
Which, in my opinion, it's very rare for anybody to rise to the level of chief of police and then still have the same mentality as they did when they were a patrol officer.
Just like the military, right?
You get those guys who start out as privates and then end up as full bird colonels.
Very few of them hold true to what it's like to be an enlisted soldier.
Right.
Yeah, in 06 they become the galaxy quest and I don't think it's any different.
It's a political appointment too.
Right.
So if we as leaders aren't willing to do the job of the subordinates in which we command, Then how are we qualified to tell them what to do?
Because somebody wrote it in a book?
Much like I always say, I believe to be qualified to be president of this country, you should have served in the military.
A thousand percent, which would preclude people like Donald Trump from being president.
I think he was a great president.
I think he'll be a great president if he's elected again.
But I also think that if there was an opponent who served in the military and I believed in what he was saying, he would get my vote over Donald Trump a thousand times over.
Right.
No doubt about it.
Right.
And I think, you know, it kind of gets away from the conversation of why is the guard there in the first place, but I think it is the most important conversation that you can have is why did you need the national guard?
You know, it's so easy to jump on, you know, the Monday morning quarterbacking, but it's like, You know, this one is almost like you're watching a team and the quarterback, you know, drops back in the pocket and then throws the ball immediately to the ground on fourth down and then comes walking back out like there's another down.
They're totally missing the mark.
Like they have no context of the reality around them.
It's like you can't make You know, every limp decision on planet Earth and have something solid or anything with a foundation behind it.
You know, and we see that in our state sometimes.
You know, I'm thankful that we live in a state where our sheriffs don't allow a lot of the nonsense that they do in other places.
You know, I don't think New York has a...
They only have their police force, right?
Like in the city of...
I believe so, yeah.
I don't believe they have.
I don't know.
Again, I'm speaking way out of context.
I don't know.
But I thought a lot of those metropolitan areas, if you were a sheriff or a sheriff's deputy, you had to be called in.
There was a bunch of other jurisdictional issues.
And maybe I'm way off base.
But it always seems to be that when your leadership is close to the community in which they're in, the decisions that are made are better for said community.
And they're not made with a political motive in mind.
And so all of these things have led to a point where you have a bunch of guard people taken out of their regular lives yet again, destroying morale.
I can absolutely say, in my opinion, that you have to be destroying morale by doing these things because this is not an omelet deployment that anybody probably wanted to sign up for.
Yeah, and then they'll make it...
They'll think they're making it a little better for soldiers by giving them some Operation Free the Subway ribbon or some dumb shit like that to put on their uniform.
Like anybody gives a shit about the ribbons on their chest.
I don't know, man.
I think that this is a very slippery slope.
I think that this is going to be the first...
Of a whole lot of these types of issues.
Like, let's just Portland, Oregon, for example.
That place is still a shithole.
But didn't they reverse their decision on legalizing hard drugs?
Who knows?
Oh, I think they did earlier this week.
I think they finally went back.
I mean, who would have ever thought you shouldn't let people freely and openly do heroin and crack cocaine on the streets?
There was going to be something bad that might happen.
Yeah, weird.
You know, I know they did reverse that, but at least that one's a fractional reversal where you can do a quick run over.
No, sorry.
Well, it's okay.
You know, a quick backtrack and put things back to where they are, but a lot of these decisions that get made have years of consequences out in front of them.
This police issue is going to take a long time to resolve itself, and I think the only way that you build confidence back or, you know, this could be said for the military too, why they have this, you know, We're basically a retention issue.
I think when we were looking through those things, that retention number is so much lower than it used to be that they really had to try to bump up the recruiting numbers, which is why historically the recruiting numbers now have been continually coming down.
But I think they were being beefed up against retention.
And so, you know, if you go back prior to 9-11, we're probably seeing something similar to what it was before or in that timeframe prior to.
And now we're kind of coming out of it on the back end.
Now it's going to take a couple of quote-unquote generations of military members to get those numbers back.
You've probably got eight years.
Well, how long does it take for a police force to be rebuilt?
How long does it take where you take these kids that have seen all the things that they've seen on TV with the police being thrashed and verbally destroyed by the media, by the people that they report to, by everybody?
Who would ever want to be a part of that?
You've got to go 12 years.
Until you start to see kids who are maybe raised in a pro-police environment to start to see those recruiting numbers come up.
So does that mean that you have to start using the National Guard to fulfill that and bridge that gap?
Or, I don't know, I mean...
Well, it's interesting because it seems like this whole institution that we call law enforcement was just destroyed almost overnight.
Almost overnight by some false narrative that was put out mainly by the media.
And so I guess I would go out on a limb and say that the folks that perpetuated this issue should be the ones that have to pay the consequences.
So for all of those those dirtbag news reporters and all of these slimy politicians and all of these bleeding heart liberals who like to go on their social media and talk shit about this country, the police that police your streets and all of that stuff. the police that police your streets and all of that Put all of them in the situation that they got to fight for their lives.
And that's.
I'm going to plant my flag on that.
For anybody who wants to make these decisions for the powers that be and for the masses, go live it before you have the balls to talk about how you're going to fix it.
Jason, it'd be like me...
Walking into my wife's business and telling her to step aside, I got this.
When I have zero idea about what I'm doing.
How the hell can some lady governor, and it makes no difference that she's a lady, so how the hell can any governor at all Think that she or he is going to know better about how to police a subway and what the best steps are.
How many times do you think she's even ridden the subway?
I think she's probably eaten that subway more often than she's ridden the subway.
That wasn't a dig on subway or anything else, but I just, I highly doubt that any of these elites ever spend any quality time down in the subway system.
And then they wonder why people are leaving these jobs and these professions at alarming rates.
And might I add, Jason, that people are leaving these jobs and they're sacrificing their whole career.
You know, it's absolutely, what a slap in the face.
Right?
And a call, and most likely a calling, something that they wanted to do since they were children.
I don't know a lot of people that get into law enforcement late in life.
It is a noble career, and I'm sure there's going to be people that'll say, oh, they're the brown shirts, and they're doing the job, too.
We've got to cut them a little slack.
Of course, there are some turds, but on a whole, man, the things that they were dealing with, you know, those that are still there are still dealing with it, but those that left, The shit that they went through each and every day, I don't think the normal civilian truly understands the depravity of the humans that they interact with.
I really don't.
I mean, and that's even in just your, you know, small suburban towns.
You know, the turds that they are continually inundated with.
I think, you know, a person who isn't called to that doesn't make it long.
Well, and so maybe that brings up another good point.
How did we get here?
How did we get to a place in this country where our younger generations, they don't give a shit about their neighbor, they don't care about being respectful to their elders, they don't care about working hard to build something for themselves and their family should they have one?
They don't care about doing something noble like being a police officer or anything else for the greater good.
And they don't care about what their parents think, their families think, and just none of it.
It's almost like there's this magical sheet of bullshit over these younger generations that's just shielding them from all of these...
Things that we were taught when we were growing up about how to be a contributing member of society.
And of course, times change, right?
Of course, as time goes by, things, they change and they kind of morph into other things.
But where did we get to a place?
When did it happen that all of a sudden we don't care about any of that?
And I think that part of that is parenting.
And I hate to say it, but it's people of our generation, bro, who are parents now of young children.
Look, I'm an empty nester at 42 years old.
I would like to think that my kids are able to stand on their own two feet, respect the people next to them that they share spaces with, say please and thank you and open the door for a lady or an elderly person.
And you don't see any of that commonly anymore in our communities at all.
Yeah, I mean, I think it's there.
I don't think there's, you know, it's not where it used to be.
But I think those kids and those families too, they're fighting against the education system.
You know, where you've removed so many of the things that were taught to us that were important.
I am looking forward, as my kids grow up and start entering the school systems, to see what their curriculum really looks like.
You know, do they have a metal shop anymore?
Do they have electronics?
Do they have any of these?
Do they have any of the real life skills?
You know, Department of Education, and I can say this, With absolute certainty, drops the ball when it comes to teaching people the modest amounts of fiscal responsibility that they need to have on a balance of checkbook, etc., etc.
Absolutely.
I think it goes further and it's worse.
I don't want to say it's by design and sound like, you know, one of those folks.
But I think it is.
There's a reason that we've pushed away from all these things.
There's a reason that, you know, everything has gone to feelings versus reality or fact.
You know, if it's to dumb the population down to get to a point for control, et cetera, et cetera.
And I know those are a bunch of, you know, thoughts that take you down a wormhole, too.
Look at what we're looking at.
I mean, a lot of this stuff is, like, idiocracy.
The movie.
Yeah.
I still have never seen it, but I need to watch it.
Wait, okay.
And for those of you out there that have actually seen it, and you obviously know this fact, but this is one of those facts that I absolutely love.
So when that movie was made, bro...
They went out because there were so many extras and people that were gonna be in this thing and they all needed to be wearing, quote unquote, futuristic clothing.
And it all had to be so absurd that it would never happen.
Do you know the brand of shoe that they used?
Hmm.
Nike.
Croc.
Croc.
And now everybody wears Crocs.
They all wore these, you know, hideous at the time, yellow Crocs.
And I'm not going to lie.
Crocs have...
Crocs.
I own Crocs.
Yeah, I keep mine in four-wheel drive all the time.
It's hard.
See, I can't do it.
I can't.
It's a whole thing.
But wait until you learn about flofers, and that's a conversation for after the show.
That's a floating loafer.
And yes, you can get them in red, white, and blue, just like mine.
But...
But I digress.
I mean, that's where we're at.
I mean, the next thing is going to be, you know, icy and the water fountains and all this other trash because everybody's a participant.
There are winners and losers in life.
You should have basic survival skills by the time you're 18 years old.
You should know how to change a light bulb, change your oil, understand what food looks like, you know, make sure that you can take care of yourself and do a lot of the simple basics.
And I'm not saying that everybody can't.
But boy, it sure seems like they're pretty happy when they do what I consider to be pretty mundane things.
Well, and I think that part of that, sorry to cut you off, bro, but I think that part of that is that the folks that are able to do it, especially young folks that are able to take care of themselves and conduct themselves as upstanding people, we don't see them as much because they're not the idiots in front of a camera showing their ass.
And I'll tell you this, Jason, I will admit right here on the show that I am not the most devout follower of Jesus Christ.
I'm a believer, but I'm not a devout follower.
But I believe that this downfall of our young people began when they took God out of the schools.
And also, My kids, we just graduated our last two kids out of high school last year.
They never had any kind of classes about how to cook for themselves.
I remember being in school and I made myself a hoodie in home at class and the one sleeve didn't go past my elbow and the other one went down to my knee.
But I made it, right?
I was able to learn how to fashion some kind of clothes.
You know, just those, like you said, those life skills.
Nobody's teaching our kids how to manage a bank account and keep from over...
You know, when I saw last fall, sorry to keep jumping topics, but man, it just got me riled up.
When I saw last fall that banks were offering This overdraft protection with no penalty?
Oh, you can overdraft up to $30 and don't worry about it.
We know you're good for the money, basically.
What the hell is that about?
And furthermore, being accountable and having some integrity in school.
When our children can go, how long is a semester at school?
Three months?
Four months?
Something like that?
When our kids can go to school and do nothing at all, and then the last week of the semester turn in all of their work and pass with an A or a B if they did it all correctly, that's ridiculous.
What does that teach them about being accountable in the civilian world?
Yeah, but half of that too is training for the real world when you're an adult.
Spending 40 hours a week doing a thing.
You're absolutely right.
School doesn't need to be the way that it is.
It has a lot of problems.
And I am not going to talk about it anymore because I feel myself going in a new direction I don't want to.
I'll keep that opinion to myself today.
Well, and rightfully so, man, because you have children that are in the school system.
So it is something that you should be concerned about.
And The only thing that we can hope for is that we do a good enough job inside of our homes teaching our kids how to be upstanding citizens and contributing members of society.
And so, I don't know how that, again, I don't know how that equates to National Guard at the subway in New York, but this is the beautiful thing about the Richard Leonard Show, right, is we can start the show on one topic, we can hammer it, get our point across, and then also talk about how it affects many other things, because this sets a precedence for the rest of the country, right?
And the domino effect of just something as simply as putting National Guard soldiers to police the streets in America, I don't know that a whole lot of people really understand the impact that that can have on us in the very near future.
Yeah.
Yeah, this is something I think, I have a feeling we're going to be talking about this in the near future.
There's going to be other things that are going to happen, and I hope we stay on top of it, and I hope anybody out there that hears about anything that's happening that maybe isn't getting the coverage that it's due would reach out to us and let us know how your guard units are being utilized in your state, be under the radar.
Yeah, that'd be amazing.
And then, of course, Jason, you bring up a really good point, but we have run out of time, so we need to get to the last stage of the show.
And we got about a minute and a half, so you're gonna get cut short here on your final thoughts, but what do you got for us?
Well, I think you hit on it.
We need to understand the words of Christ.
Go read the gospel, crack the book, and get to know them.
There you go.
Thank you for that.
I think a lot of people just kind of need that reminder when we live in the times that we are now.
I think that This action by the governor of New York can have a disastrous effect across the rest of the country.
Hopefully not.
Hopefully I'm wrong.
Jason, hopefully you and I are dead wrong and we get roasted in the comments later because we were so wrong.
I'd be fine with that.
The last thought I have that I want for you all to chew on as we close out the show and think about over the next day or two is it wasn't very long ago Couple weeks, maybe a month, that this conversation about sending National Guard soldiers to the southern borders to police them and help stop this invasion became front page news.
Now, a week or two later, we see a governor in New York, and I will go out on a limb and say we will probably see quite a few more activating National Guard soldiers for things that maybe they shouldn't, Is this a way for these states and these politicians to get out of putting troops at the border to actually secure it?
Now, is this the old switcheroo?
Like, hey, look at us here in the subway when really there's some other tragedy happening down on the border or elsewhere.
And I hope, again, I hope that I'm wrong about that.
But, of course, we've run out of time.
We could probably keep going for an hour or two.
So thank you for joining us this evening, and we'll be back with you again next week.
Take care of yourselves.
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