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May 12, 2024 - Stew Peters Show
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Victory: SCOTUS Delivers Landmark Decision, Unleashing Dual GI Bill Power for Veterans
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Usually on this show, if you are a regular watcher, you know that we spend, I don't know if it's unusual, but we spend a good amount of time talking about not such pleasant things all the time.
However, this week...
It seems that there was a win in the camp of the veteran in this country.
And so today I am going to facilitate a discussion, just you and I, about this win.
The Supreme Court...
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So today we got a positive message to talk about, a positive article to go through positivity.
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Okay, so, today's positivity.
Well, it's not even today, but earlier this week's positivity.
I hope today is a positive day for everybody.
After all, it's Sunday.
The United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of veterans.
I think, what was it, Tuesday maybe?
Tuesday or Wednesday?
Earlier this week?
That there was a fella who spent many years in the Navy before and after 9-11.
And so for those of us who served before and after 9-11, there were two different Montgomery GI bills.
Basically, your education benefits.
So when you hear people talk about, well, I joined the military for free college, free schooling...
The Montgomery GI Bill is usually what they're talking about because that's your main source of education benefits from the military.
Well, military and the VA. But the VA has some other educational or vocational rehabilitation programs should you qualify for them.
Just being an honorably discharged veteran doesn't qualify you.
There's other things.
But there was two separate ones, the post-911 GI Bill, and then there was like the, for the sake of conversation, the pre-911 GI Bill.
And they said, if you had qualified for both, they said you had to pick one.
You couldn't use both.
It was like double-dipping.
And so, of course, one of them was slightly better than the other, so everyone took the one that was slightly better.
It offered you a little bit more in housing allowance, a little bit more money in your pocket.
And I think there were some other things that were a little bit better.
It's not like it was groundbreakingly better, but it was better.
And so many people took that option and just had to forego Well, the Supreme Court, just the other day, ruled and said that this fellow should be entitled to both.
And so there was an article on The Hill, this media outlet called The Hill, about this.
So I thought we'd go through it, and I would just add commentary as we go through.
This is not something that you're going to hear on the mainstream media.
This is not something that is going to be widely spread, because the truth of the matter is that it doesn't really affect a whole lot of Americans.
In fact, it doesn't really affect a whole ton of veterans.
Maybe only 2 million-ish.
Maybe a little more than that.
But it does affect a lot of veterans.
You know, I guess, so it's a six in one hand, half a dozen in the other type thing.
But it's not a story that's going to make it out there.
But I think that it's important to recognize it because, as I said in the intro, we spend a lot of time Just like nitpicking things apart.
And rightfully so.
I mean, there are a lot of questions.
There's a lot of treachery afoot, it seems, if you will.
And so I think that those things need to be put out to the masses as well.
I mean, whatever you call the masses.
But the point is that now it's on here.
And it's available.
And so it'll pop up.
And if anybody's looking for it, it's there.
Whether they hear it from me, from this show, from my mouth, or from somebody else.
But anyway, so I thought it was important to put it out there because it's not often that veterans get to raise their fists and say, yes, we got one.
So, that's the reason for the topic of the day.
So, let's get started on this.
I'll read through it and then we'll just interject when we need to.
So, it starts out, the Supreme Court recently decided on a case you might not have heard about.
Of course you haven't.
You're not going to, except for here on this show, probably, and on The Hill.
It's underreported landmark ruling about the GI Bill could have a massive positive effect on Americans' veterans, our communities, and our nations for years to come.
Earlier this month, the highest court in the land issued a 7-2 ruling that the Department of Veterans Affairs improperly calculated GI benefits for retired Army Captain James Rudisil.
James, if you ever see this, sir, I hope I'm not murdering your last name.
I hope it reads just as it looks.
Who now works in federal law enforcement.
Like so many others before him, Rudacill had separated from the military and wanted to use the educational benefits that we all earn while serving our country.
However, he earned his benefits under two different versions of the GI Bill.
The one applied to those who served before 9-11 and the one applied to those who served after.
So we talked about that.
There were two separate ones and in fact the version To the best of my understanding, the version of the GI Bill that was pre-911, there was a couple different forms of it, and there was a couple different ways to qualify for different forms.
I'm not a thousand percent sure how it worked, but there was the Montgomery GI Bill, but there were a couple different subsections And I think it was just a difference on how the school got paid and how you got paid and just how things got paid out.
You know, it almost seemed like there was, I guess to make it simple, there was like three or four Montgomery GI Bill accounts.
And the question was, did you qualify to be paid from account one, two, three, or four?
Basically.
If I'm understanding it correctly, I may not be.
But anyway, Russel had served both before and after the awful day in our history, yet the VA told him that he gave up his benefits under the old version when he chose to use the ones he accrued under the post-911 version.
This ruined his plan to go to Yale Divinity School and pursue a job as a military chaplain.
He wanted to be a chaplain.
So here's my question, right?
And here's the cool thing about veterans, I think, and military people.
There's levels to plans, if that makes sense.
This guy served many years in the military.
And then he got out and he wanted to use his benefits to go to Yale Divinity School to learn to become a military chaplain.
But now he's a federal law enforcement agent.
Now he's out there like...
I mean, I suppose there's many different ways to be a federal law enforcement agent.
And maybe he's a chaplain for like the CIA or something.
But he found a niche that didn't work and he chose another path.
So like this ability to adapt and overcome, right?
We talk about that in the infantry all the time.
You know, you rehearse and you rehearse and you rehearse and then you talk about it a couple of times and then you rehearse a few more times and then you do your dry run and then you rehearse it again And then you might do one more dry run before the mission.
If you're planning this like big operation.
But nothing ever goes.
Very rarely.
Very rarely.
I mean, maybe it's safe to say nothing ever goes as planned.
And so you gotta have, like in the back of your mind, you gotta have this idea, like this plan B and You know, like if we go into this room and the door is blocked, well, where are we going to go?
Okay, well, we need to clear this up, down, left, right, and then spin around and very expeditiously make our way out and go to the next room because now we still have the element of surprise and blah, blah, blah.
So, like, there's all kinds of different ways, right, to do these things.
And so, like, it just proves true here with Mr.
Rudisil, right?
Like, well, I want to go to Yale Divinity School.
I earned this and I earned this.
Well, no, wait, wait a minute.
You only get one of the two.
So, Yale Divinity's out.
So, now what?
Okay, well, I'm going to join the DEA. No problem.
Did it.
Now that's where he's at.
I think that it's pretty interesting.
So, sorry, that's my soapbox for this part of the show.
Trust me, there'll be another one.
Media replay.
Let's go.
After I graduated for...
Let's see.
Rather than perpetuate to the VA, he sued it.
Now, I want you guys to understand this is very rare.
People usually don't just go off and sue the VA. So this guy's got big balls.
Fighting all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled in his favor.
The ruling is life-changing news for many veterans who are looking to expand their career opportunities after the military.
It's great news for me personally because I was one of those veterans who will now become eligible for GI Bill benefits.
I think that this is the author now and the author is going to go into a little bit of his military story.
After I graduated from high school in South California, I had the privilege to serve in the world's greatest Navy where I spent more than 10 years on several deployments and worked as a tech with multiple countries, special forces, and naval special warfare community.
My time in the Navy was tough, it was humbling, and it was an absolute honor to serve.
After multiple injuries, my career was cut short and my dream of retiring from the military After a full 20 years, it ended.
I needed to take the next steps for my career.
However, I became completely lost in the VA bureaucracy and desperately needed help navigating it.
Okay, so now here's an interesting one.
So this guy's going to give us a little bit more about his story.
This is the part of...
Of the coming home story.
As it relates to care, veterans care, this is where I think we lose a lot of people.
Things like this, where you're told that you earn this and you earn that, and then you're told, well, wait a minute.
You don't get this and that.
You get this or that.
And that's all.
So don't expect more than what you do.
Which one do you want?
Because there's people waiting in line.
And so people just either accept it or they get pissed and they don't want to fight about it.
So they just go off and they figure out their own thing.
Like we were just talking about.
Like a plan A and a plan B. And maybe a C, D, and E. Who knows?
But I think this is where we lose a lot of veterans to dark places and dark things.
This dude said, screw it.
I'm going to sue y'all.
And he sued and kept suing until he got to the Supreme Court.
Which takes, it's a daunting task.
I'm positive of that.
I'm not sure exactly what the steps of this task is, but I'm positive that it's not slow.
It's daunting.
And it's hard.
And I can understand why people just throw up their hands and go a different direction.
I get it.
But I think that this is the part of many stories where we lose folks.
And I don't know that this is where we lose folks to suicide, but I think that this is where we get people heading towards that direction.
You know, this guy did many years in the military under the assumption that he had made a plan for himself.
I then was told, sorry Charlie, it's not working brother.
And so instead of just accepting it, he sued him.
And so what do many other people do?
I can't say that I would have just nutted up and sued him.
I probably would have just been pissed off about it the rest of my life.
But I think that these are parts of individual stories that we could recognize, right?
So we can then keep our buddies or our loved ones or our family members or whoever they are to us.
We can keep them kind of in mind and understand because it's a swift kick to the groin, I'm telling you.
Because these types of things are what help an individual make their decision about whether or not to even join the service.
Whether or not to even make the commitment to put this country before their own life.
And then you're told, no.
No.
Yeah, no, there was a misunderstanding.
So, again, I'm not trying to say that this is why people off themselves, but I think that this is where we start to lose veterans into, like, this negative whirlwind of things that become out of their control.
And they have a tough time regaining the control, and then it's just a downward spiral.
Anyway, let's keep going here.
Fortunately, now remember, this is the author now.
Sorry, we kind of went back, and now we're going back forward.
I know it's very confusing.
Fortunately, because of the GI Bill and other VA benefits, and the people who helped me navigate them, I was able to attend a local community college The education lead led to the opportunity of a lifetime.
It allowed me to obtain a job in the House of Representatives as a caseworker, which meant I could help my fellow veterans navigate the extremely confusing intricacies of paperwork and the unnecessary bureaucratic hurdles that stand between them and the benefits that are rightly theirs.
The Supreme Court's ruling on this matter Now could affect some 1.7 million servicemen and women who have built up benefits under both the Montgomery GI Bill and the post-911 GI Bill.
I can attest that the number, that that number is a lot more than just, more than just, oh my goodness, more than just a statistic.
What we're talking about here is almost 2 million horizons that could be expanded for veterans and almost 2 million different stories of people who will now have, will now be even more empowered to take their, to take their invaluable military experience completely.
combine it with a higher education or skilled labor or technical school and strengthen our economy by giving back to American opportunities.
The access to these additional benefits will significantly improve not only their own quality of life, but that of their families as well.
And then he ends by saying the Supreme Court made the right decision in this case for veterans, for the Constitution, and for the betterment of our country as a whole.
A couple things there.
I can agree with him that being a congressional caseworker is an opportunity of a lifetime.
I was fortunate enough to be able to do that here in Minnesota for a member of Congress for a couple of years.
And Just the experience of that and being part of that system and watching how it works from the inside.
It kind of gives you a whole different idea of how the government as we know it really operates.
To me, it's extraordinary.
It's extremely...
There's a lot of traditions, right?
There's a lot of procedure.
A lot of procedural stuff, like the way that they talk to each other on the house floor and in community meetings and all that stuff.
But outside of that, when they're like really doing business, it's like the, it's like an extremely informal interaction in suits.
If that makes sense.
And it's like, it's, I don't know, man.
There's a lot of things that happen in the process that are just...
It's a wild process.
But the job of the caseworker...
And he's right.
The author of this article is right.
It gives you the opportunity to learn how these things are adjudicated, what information is really needed, and then be a part of that process.
And so, essentially, you become an advocate of veterans who are coming to your member for help.
You know, you hear a lot when people are at military functions or in the military and they got something to complain about.
Some of you say, well, call your congressman and file a complaint.
Well, that's a real thing.
And there's a lot of complaints filed.
Some of them are extremely ridiculous.
And some of them are extremely important ones.
Some of them are right on par with what's going on in the world.
And so you kind of have this contextual interaction that just kind of melds with the news cycle.
And you get to meet a lot of people.
You get to affect some change.
And then you get to, you know, you get to do some cool things, you know, like get some old-timers, their awards that maybe they were due, but, you know, they had somebody who was working against them so they didn't get put in for them or they got denied or they just never were put in for them in the first place because whoever was supposed to got killed or whatever the case may be.
We also had the opportunity to interview.
We didn't interview, but we facilitated the interviews of all these high school kids who were looking to go to service academy.
So West Point, the Air Force Academy, the Naval Academy, all of them.
Even the Coast Guard Academy.
So, you know, you meet these kids, and then you get them through the process of the application and paperwork, and then they get to come into the congressman's event and sit with the person that has been chosen to interview them from these academies.
And then they're picked.
It's an interview process.
That's a whole thing.
And it's pretty cool.
You are getting some extremely bright individuals That are going into these service academies.
I mean, they're exceptional kids up here.
And that's all you got to know.
And so, like, that process is really cool.
But really, my favorite part was being able to do outreach in the community and go to different events and meet other veterans in the community and what's important to them and find that out and report that back to the congressman.
I mean, it's a cool community to be in.
The worst part about it was having to wear a suit every day, a shirt and tie every day.
I thought it would be cool.
You know, I always used to say, man, I'd really like to have a job where I had to get in a suit and tie every day, and man, I'd be sharp.
Yeah, well, I was sharp for like a week, and then I got sick of it.
Because like at that point, it was, I was a lot more comfortable waking up and throwing on a set of ACUs, you know, and a military uniform feels like pajamas.
Once you wash them a few times, break them in a little bit, they're comfortable.
Shirt and tie, not so much.
Not as comfortable.
So anyway, this was a huge thing.
So there is, what did we say here, 1.7 million veterans are now potentially going to have the ability, if they've used up their post-9-11 GI Bill already, potentially they're going to have this whole other pool of money and education benefits to be able to draw from.
And so if you wanted to continue on and get your, you know, maybe there's enough, depending on how long you served before 9-11, maybe there's enough there to get halfway through a master's degree or get through a master's degree or go get, you know, whatever.
You can use it for technicals.
You want to learn to fly?
Use your education benefits.
You want to learn to do pottery?
And open your own shop, there you go.
You got money to get trained.
There's gonna be a lot of people that are gonna have a lot of opportunities.
My hope is that the people that qualify for this, I don't.
I didn't start serving until a year after 9-11.
But I hope that they take advantage of this.
It's free money, not necessarily money in your bank account.
But it's free money to get trained in something.
Something that can maybe help your life be more fulfilled.
Or like the author said, could help your children.
I don't know if these are able to be passed down to your kids.
Maybe that's even an option.
More education benefits to pass down to your children.
Which I think is a great thing, by the way.
Our kids served also.
And so for them to be able, for us as military members and veterans to have the option to pass down our college, not college, but our post-secondary education benefits to our kids, that's a pretty awesome deal.
So I hope that all these people are taking advantage of this.
You earned it.
You deserve it.
So please don't let it go by the wayside.
Anyway, we need to take a quick break.
We will be right back with you.
Stick with us.
this don't go away hey folks welcome back here to the second segment of the show now now that Now, and I know I promised that we were going to stay positive.
And we are going to do that.
But there's a little bit of tinfoil hat wearer in me on this topic.
Because I wonder...
So, like I said, this is not something that is going to be very widely reported.
In fact, when I found this article and found this information, there was only one source on it.
And it was two days old at that point, which tells me it didn't make the news cycle at all.
There was a lot of reports and a lot of articles on this particular case like three or four weeks ago when we were coming upon the day that was scheduled for the Supreme Court to hear the case.
But the result we didn't hear anything of.
And so I wonder if it would have been denied, would we have heard more about it?
Maybe.
Maybe we wouldn't have heard anything at all.
But I also wonder...
I also wonder why.
Why now?
And if I was understanding correctly...
Supreme Court agreed to hear this case many months ago.
But, you know, it just takes time.
They've got to get through everything else they've committed to hear.
And sometimes the scheduling of all this, it just appears to be It appears to be too much of a coincidence, right?
And so many people say that there's no such thing as a coincidence.
It's just not a real thing.
And I don't know if I believe that 100%, but in a time when, as we've discussed before on the show...
In a time when we're all so polarized and there's so much negativity going on in the world, was this just an attempt at throwing a little nugget out?
I think what we are starting to see, which many of you may not because you're not scouring the internet like we here at the show are doing,
And over at Disgruntled over on Three Clicks Media, what we're doing over there also is scouring for information about the veteran community that we think is worthy of being talked about.
But there sure is an uptick in some areas.
And there's an uptick in areas where...
In the veteran population, in the news about veteran stuff, there's an uptick in information about veterans getting more financially, educational-wise.
And trust me, I hope, I really do hope, That it is a coincidence.
That it's all coming now, you know, like from November of last year into now.
There's just kind of been, it's seemingly, just some more and more little nuggets of talk and of small action to show that there's more wins coming for the vets all over the country.
And then, of course, we hear a lot at the end of every year about the VA's COMP and PEN or disability COLAs that are coming every year.
As long as Social Security gets a COLA, veterans get a COLA. It's how I understand it.
There's a lot of people out there that do shows, podcasts about veterans' benefits.
There are probably a whole lot more I'm more knowledgeable on the whole thing than I am, but I'm pretty sure.
As long as Social Security gets a COLA, so do the veterans.
But it seems like there's just a small uptick in things that veterans are getting.
It always seems like something that's positive.
But it's not really groundbreaking.
Like, I know in this article that we read that the author said this could be groundbreaking for the lives and families of 1.7 million veterans.
And I think that it could be groundbreaking for many veterans.
One and a half million of them?
That I'm not sure about.
Keep in mind, it's 2024.
A lot of these guys that are eligible for benefits for before 9-11, so the Montgomery GI Bill, they're in their mid to upper 40s, maybe 50s some of them.
And my guess is that they've worked careers and things.
Where it would be a huge benefit is for those guys who have children, who are in or about to be in college or will be in the coming years, if it's transferable.
Which I don't think the Montgomery GI Bill was transferable, but maybe they're gonna make an exception.
I don't know.
But is it really groundbreaking for 1.7 million veterans and their families when we're giving millions and millions of illegal immigrants all kinds of free shit that they didn't earn?
So here's my thinking.
Here's my logic.
And maybe I'm off base.
Thank you.
It took a guy who had the testicular fortitude years of suing the VA to get to the Supreme Court to have his case heard and then ultimately have the Supreme Court rule in his favor.
And that's going to be a great...
And now, so this is going to unlock benefits for 1.7 million veterans.
And this is what they earned.
And there's no debate, there's no mistaking that they earned it.
And here it's, I mean, hey, free education is free education.
You get what you get, and you take what you can get.
But now we also, in the same era, at the same time, in the same country, we also have conversations about giving illegal aliens free health care.
Free place to stay.
Free room and board.
Free food.
If they bring children with them, they're entitled to a free public education.
I think it was 1982 or something like that, the Supreme Court ruled that That public education cannot be held from any child based on their immigrant status or whatever the wording is.
Not only that, but we're giving free post-secondary education to illegals also.
And so, this guy...
This guy spends years of his life, God knows how much money, to sue the VA just to get what he earned.
And so it all ends positively.
But when you really stop to think about it, see?
Tin foil hat thing.
When you really stop to think about it, It's pretty ridiculous.
I would say.
These men and women worked their balls off.
And if they didn't work their balls off, they still sacrificed.
They still sacrificed a lot to earn the benefit that was just unlocked for them.
After God knows how much money, many hours and weeks and months, and who knows how many years, being tied up in court.
Just for the Supreme Court to say, hey, yep, you earned it.
Here you go.
All in a technicality, and I'm willing to bet I'm willing to bet that there's a really good chance that this, hey, you need to pick one or the other, that decision was partly made because somebody was confused about eligibility issues.
Well, you know, the eligibility for Montgomery GI Bill is not the same eligibility as the Post 9-11 GI Bill.
So how do we make sure that they go together?
Do they even go together?
Can we offer them together?
And someone said, nah, probably not.
So let's not put that on there.
I'm sure there was many other factors taken into consideration.
But I'm willing to bet that there was questions about eligibility just because the eligibility standards were different that confused some people And the easiest answer was to say, no, let's make them separate.
Then there's no confusion.
And it's easier, administratively, to say, well, it's a lot easier if the soldier just picks one.
And we don't have to manage both.
We don't have to figure out how they go together.
You know, there's probably some super intense secret formula for making them compatible with each other.
Who knows?
But nonetheless, these are all things that were earned.
And And is it fair?
For those of us, or those of you, or for anybody, for anybody who cares whether or not it's fair to veterans, does that matter?
Is it fair to us to even question it?
Is it an issue where we should think, well, you know, these guys weren't going to get it before, now they are.
Thank God that they finally got what they earned.
Go with God.
Amen.
And I tend to go down that route.
But then when you tell me, Well, yeah, but the illegals are getting this, and we're doing that, and we're giving them this, and they can get this, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And then we see it every day.
Every time we look, every time you turn your head, there's another example of how we're just getting dick stomped by the government.
Not just veterans, everybody.
Just kicked in the wieners all the time.
And then they go on TV, and they make it sound like everyone loves it.
No problem.
It's no problem.
President Biden gets on TV and says, our economy's great.
I don't know what anybody's talking about.
Inflation's way down.
For who?
But there's a large portion of people in this country that just, they're willing to accept it.
They're willing to say, yeah, okay, well, I mean, if that's what they say, it's got to be true, right?
Because there's no way that they would defy our trust.
Well, I don't know if they won't.
I'm pretty confident that they will if given the opportunity.
So, I mean, are we overreacting by thinking that it matters?
Thanks.
And then the next question is, if we do think it matters, and it does bother us, and we are pissed off about it, who the hell do you tell?
Who's going to care enough to actually listen, other than the people that you talk to about it all the time, the same crowd?
If it's something you think you can get help with, who's going to listen to it?
Who do you tell?
To me, it's yet another example of how you just get kicked in the shorts and you got to just take the shot.
Right?
Just take the shot knowing that the pain will go away at some point.
Just breathe.
Just breathe.
Just keep breathing.
That's all you got to do is keep breathing.
Because nobody else is going to care.
nobody else is going to listen.
1.7 million veterans.
Here you go.
Enjoy your free education that you earned that you may not use.
Hopefully you can pass it to your kids.
But enjoy that education.
And then when you go to class, make sure that you're tolerant of the teacher having to use Google Translate to teach the class because you have illegal immigrants in there.
Earning an American college degree.
Earning, maybe.
Who knows?
And I hate to make it sound like I'm completely against people, immigrants at all.
Because I'm not.
The whole one side of my family, not one of them was born here.
Not one of them.
My mother's side of the family, not one of them was from America.
My older sister and I are the first generation from that side of the family that are born American-born citizens.
So, I don't accept that.
I don't accept that this is a great way To treat these people.
I don't accept that.
You know why?
Because my grandfather had the balls to pack up his wife and his two little kids and get all four of their asses here through Ellis Island.
And moved to Minnesota, of all places.
Somewhere on a beach, Grandpa would have been sweet, but I get it, I understand.
They're Polish, right?
A lot of Polish people in the Midwest.
Moved to Minnesota, and with a buddy of his, they built their homes with their hands.
And my grandfather went to work as a welder until he died.
The man was a world-class musician.
He was a world-class singer.
I mean, he sang at the Vatican.
He could play instruments.
He spoke seven languages.
He could read and write and speak and understand Hebrew.
He was, I think it was his father's side of the family was Jewish.
and He was an extremely strong, smart man.
He died when I was young.
I wish he was still alive so I could know more of his story.
But they did it the right way.
Amen.
Nobody gave them nothing.
Maybe a little help here and there, a little bit along the way.
He didn't sneak in here like a coward.
He came here like a man with his family and built something.
He built something.
And he went to work and contributed.
So did my grandmother.
She was a seamstress for 40 years or something like that.
Then we retired from there and went and took care of old people.
In their homes.
And cooked for large scale weddings.
So many things.
So maybe that's why I'm more sensitive to it.
Because I know that story.
And I know what it takes.
And so the people that are here and did it and are doing it the right way, it's a lot of work.
It's a lot of commitment.
And so when you sit and you watch and you see people smiling and throwing up peace signs and whatever else as they walk under a barbed wire into America, into open arms of federal people, Agents.
Federal agencies.
It pisses you right the F off.
They didn't have to do any work.
Not here.
I'm sure that the journey was daunting.
I'm sure.
Through the desert.
Through the desert.
Over the river and through the woods.
wherever it is they came from.
And those are maybe just the people that are actually looking to escape something for a better life.
Thank you.
And to those people I say, I'm really sorry that you're in that position, that you need to escape something, but you know what?
We got shit that we need to figure out before we can take care of you.
Because we're not taken care of.
But nope.
Bring them all.
Bring them in.
Back up the trucks.
Let them off.
Line up the food.
Line up the buffet tables.
Bring in the drink carts.
Let her buck.
Meanwhile, there's people with integrity and strength.
They're going through the proper channels, doing it the proper way, showing that they're willing to sacrifice.
Sacrifice whatever it takes.
I'm not sure what that is anymore.
What the route to citizenship looks like any longer if it's changed.
And are committed.
Those guys, those folks, in my opinion, those folks should be the most pissed off.
Thank you.
Because they have to do a whole lot of effing work.
And even after doing all that work and going through all that process, they don't get close to anything that the illegals get when they step foot into America.
But here we are, excited that veterans, 1.7 million of them, are going to get their education benefits that they earned.
And.
And in order to do that, I had to spend years trudging uphill to the Supreme Court.
If you don't see something wrong with that, at tells a lot about where your head is at, in my opinion.
But what are we to do?
Well, here on this show, me and all these people, we're here to tell you about it.
We're here to get pissed off with you.
We're here to laugh with you.
We're here to cry with you.
We don't like to cry much, but if it's needed, we will, I suppose.
We're here to find out What the truth is.
Best way we can.
As much of it as we can, if any.
And that's what we strive for.
We're running short on time.
What I'm going to say is this.
I don't want to end the show on a negative note because I promised positivity today.
And so for the 1.7 million veterans, the men and women and their families that will now have the option and the ability to use these benefits, please do it.
Congratulations.
It's way long overdue, but please do it.
If you're not going to use it, somebody else is, and you deserve it.
So please do that.
And do something meaningful with it.
You know, and listen to me, like I'm the one to tell anybody what's meaningful or not.
But by meaningful, I mean do something that's meaningful to you.
Not to society, not to me, not to America.
But something meaningful to you.
Maybe there's that one thing that'll just put the exclamation point on your career.
Just need that one certification or you'd like to add that one skill set.
Maybe not even for profit, but just to know.
Maybe you can start a hobby, but this is gonna give you the training to start.
I don't know.
Whatever that looks like for you.
So anyway, we'll be back with you next week.
Thank you for joining us.
Take care of yourselves.
Take care of each other the best you can.
Have a great evening.
We'll see you next time.
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