All Episodes
Previous Next
May 19, 2024 - Stew Peters Show
58:52
Challenging Leadership: A Call for Decisive Action and Domestic Focus
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Wondered what the rest of the world thinks of the United States.
What do they think of our government?
What do they think of our military?
What do they think of us?
Our policy?
Anything.
I have.
In fact, we've talked about it on this show a couple of times.
In passing, we've never really had a full-blown show on it.
But we've talked about it.
We made comments that the whole world is laughing at us.
And so, in preparation for today's show, I came across a few different publications from outside of the US that had topics about the United States of America.
And I thought they were quite interesting, and I picked one out, and so I thought that we'd go over it today.
I have some opinions on it.
And I have to say, before we get into it, that I don't necessarily disagree with everything that is said.
And so, before we get there, we better get through the intro and all that stuff.
But today's conversation is going to be centralized around What other outlets, what other countries, what we are viewed as around the world, just by the small guy, the little publications.
So stick with us.
Don't go away.
we start now.
Hey everybody and welcome here to another installment of the Richard Leonard show.
I want to, as always, thank you for being here.
I really appreciate everybody who watches our content.
We do a lot of work around here to make sure that we're talking about things that you aren't necessarily going to hear about on the big media stage.
Although sometimes the topics intermingle or they're just too crazy not to talk about or they're very relevant to what's going on in the community of veterans around this country.
And so we are forever humbled that all of you join us every week.
So thank you for that.
Before we get into it, of course, I know you won't mind me telling you about how the show is made possible, and that's Cortez Wealth Management.
Get yourself on over to AmericaFirstRetirementPlan.com.
Sign up for the webinars.
They happen on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 7 p.m.
Eastern Standard Time.
Let Carlos and his staff help you to plan, put together, and then execute a tax-free retirement plan.
When you get to the end of your days of working and it's time to relax and enjoy the fruits of your labor, doing whatever it is you decide you want to do, Do it with as small of a tax liability as possible.
That's what he's there for.
So go through the webinar.
If you have any questions, comments, and or concerns, make sure you bring them up.
Get ahold of Carlos and or his staff any way you can and let them help you get over those hurdles.
That's what they're there for.
AmericaFirstRetirementPlan.com.
Get on over there and check them out today.
Okay, so as I was saying in the intro, I found some information.
It's an article that was published.
What's the name of this publication?
It's called The Telegraph.
And I know I said in the pre-intro, like we have an intro and we have a pre-intro, that it was the small guys that I had been interested in.
But to be quite honest, it's really any foreign publication that I was looking for.
This one happens to be The Telegraph out of the UK magazine.
And it won UK's News Website of the Year.
So it's not necessarily a small publication, but it is not an American one.
And so, of course, we're not naive individuals.
We're aware that there are other countries in this world, and that not all those countries...
Probably agree with us and support our goings-ons.
But it's always interesting for me to just kind of see what they say about us and what it is that we're doing and how we're doing it.
So I wanted to go through this one because I think that it's relevant to this show.
It's relevant to this platform.
The title of this paragraph, the title of this article is called...
Iran and the Houthis have defeated the US military.
America cannot be the omnipotent force fighting every battle around the globe.
It's time US officials acknowledge this reality.
And so before we even get into the meat of the information, we already know what it's about.
We've heard people for many years talk about how the US doesn't always need to be the world police.
We've heard parents, loved ones, family members, spouses, And whoever else talk about how it's a travesty that we send soldiers to these foreign lands to risk their lives.
Some of them, obviously, we know suffer casualties and come home in flag-draped boxes.
We know that that's a truth.
We know that that's a reality.
And some would argue that If this is going to be something that needs to be done, it's better to be done outside the borders of this country than inside of them.
And I mostly agree with that.
However, I think that as a country, we should probably start thinking about being more prepared for a fight on our own land.
Because I think that it is becoming ever more possible.
It's becoming ever more imminent.
And if you are a person that is surprised by this, we're going to need you to begin to gather your things and exit from underneath the rock that you're living under.
Um...
We know there's an invasion happening at our southern border.
Who knows if that extends to the eastern and western border and the northern border.
It's interesting because you never hear a whole lot about the northern border.
There's a whole lot of space up there that's extremely remote.
I don't know.
I'm not saying that it's happening, but I'm saying it could be.
And I'm asking, is anybody watching?
I know that we have Border Patrol agents at our northern border, but do we have enough in case it is happening?
Anyway, let's get in.
I mean, lookit, we're eight minutes into today's show and we're already off the beaten path onto some goat trail off the side of the road.
Let's get into the article here.
So, Iran and the Houthis have defeated the United States military.
Title of today's article for dissection.
There's the art, that's the picture.
Americans.
Americans are taught at a young age to not only love their country, but to marvel at its power.
Whether it's on the stump during speeches or at a press event, politicians and policy makers on both ends of the political spectrum are quick to marvel at just how impactful the United States is around the world.
The former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, her contention that the U.S. is the indispensable nation, the still central part of the American vocabulary.
As our great, amazing, witty, and insanely intelligent President Joe Biden told The Nation last October, America is a beacon to the rest of the world.
We are, as my friend Madeleine Albright said, the indispensable nation.
And so, like, here we go.
First paragraph, we've already been fed some bullshit.
Now, I will agree that the United States of America...
Is a force to be reckoned with on paper.
I think that if we were playing the game of risk on paper, the United States of America is a pretty strong, strong country to not be messed with.
And I think physically, in real life, the United States of America could be a power not to be messed with.
But I think we've come to this crossroads that doesn't allow us to be an indispensable nation.
We are entering a time where the common man, the common woman, the common person in this country is going to have to take up arms, possibly, against its own government.
How many of us can say that we have full faith?
In the government in which they tell us we elected into office.
I don't know that there's...
I don't know that there's a whole lot of confidence there from the common American.
So, I would ask Madeleine Albright and President Biden.
I almost said President Obama, I guess, what's the difference?
What makes the United States of America indispensable?
Because it's not the leadership.
Now, if this guy who wrote this article all the way from the UK had said, the United States of America certainly has the ability to be the indispensable nation if the government would stop handcuffing its citizens.
And was able to build trust in the constituency in which they serve, I'd be more apt to believe this.
But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Doesn't seem to be the case at all.
Let's move on, because we're gonna quickly run out of time if we have big breaks.
All right, it's hard not to be sympathetic to this line of argument.
The U.S., after all, holds a quarter of the world's gross domestic product.
The U.S. military is second to none.
On paper, I'll add.
With the U.S. spending more on defense than the next nine countries combined.
The United States has extensive influence in international commerce.
58% of global currency reserves are in U.S. dollars.
Washington holds significant influence in international economic institutions like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
And America's system of alliances is unrivaled by any other major power.
Okay.
So, let's go line by line here.
The U.S. holds a quarter of the world's gross domestic product.
Okay.
I think that we can agree on that.
I don't know how we verify that.
But...
I believe that some years ago it was probably more than a quarter.
The military is second to none, with the U.S. spending more on defense than the next nine countries combined.
So this is where I like to use the on-paper analogy.
The United States of America...
Has equipment and weapons and personnel that are second to none.
This is true.
The problem is that when it's time to completely destroy and eviscerate our enemies...
Our soldiers are handcuffed.
Our soldiers are handcuffed by bullshit rules of engagement.
Our soldiers are handcuffed by some policies.
There's always something.
To the best of my knowledge, there never really is a time where Soldiers and other military members are given their tools, their weapons, their vehicles, their tanks, their mortars, their bombs, their bullets, whatever you want to call it, and are told, go do your job.
You see, in fact...
The rules...
It's so weird to say this.
The rules of combat to be followed by a United States military member are a lot to think about.
At least in my experience.
For example...
My first deployment to Iraq.
Rules of engagement were, when you leave the base, of course you load your weapons.
Any weapons and all weapons that are at your disposal.
I had two most of the time, sometimes I had three.
Every now and then I had a pistol, so I had a third weapon.
So you load all your weapons.
And you leave the base and you go out to do whatever the job is to do that day.
For us, most of the time, it was to escort logistical convoys north and south through Iraq.
Now, the only way that you were allowed to engage an enemy is if you were fired upon first...
And you were able to positively identify the individual that fired said weapon.
The only exception to that was that it was illegal at that time to carry RPGs.
So if you came across a dude that had an RPG in his hand and a soldier decided to just shoot him, That was within the rules of engagement.
You're good.
But for everything else, you better not get caught engaging in any kind of firefight or anything involving firing your weapon system if you have not seen the person or people that shot at you first.
Now, let me ask you guys this, people watching.
The people watching that have never served in the military.
Imagine that you are a soldier.
And imagine that you are conducting a dismounted patrol through the streets of Baghdad in the late summer, early fall of 2005.
Or the spring of 06.
At the height of the war.
Like this was the wild wild west.
Knowing that the surge was coming.
The end of 06, beginning of 07 is when President Bush initiated the surge.
And this is when the Minnesota Army National Guard, the 34th Infantry Division Red Bulls, got extended.
And we stayed for another, I think it was another three months or something like that.
And you're walking through town.
And bullets start flying.
Your bullets are hitting all around you and you take cover.
What do you do?
You can't shoot back.
You can't shoot back because you haven't seen who shot at you.
And so this becomes a problem.
Right?
Because even in infantry school...
Doctrine says that if you're going to break contact from an engagement, you provide covering fire so your buddies can move, and when they get to a spot, they provide covering fire so the people that are ahead of them can move back, and you bound backwards.
And when you get to a certain point, whatever that predetermined point is, or whatever, then you just start hauling ass.
And of course, nobody's excited about breaking contact.
For Christ's sake, we are the United States Army.
We do not give up ground.
Unfortunately, sometimes it's necessary.
Sometimes you have to break contact, regroup, cross-load ammo, get some water, whatever it is.
Get the team together, get your heads right, and go back in there and destroy these assholes.
But given the rules of engagement, we can't even effectively break contact.
And so, I'm guessing, I'm not admitting to anything, but I'm guessing that there were a lot of reports that were written very well.
We'll just leave it at that.
And so, that's why I say, on paper, the United States military is second to none.
But I believe that our forces get handcuffed by the leadership, the government...
They get handcuffed and not allowed to be able to do their job the effective way that they're trained, by the way, they're trained in this manner.
The United States Army preaches that you train as you fight, which is all well and good, but it is not effective when you train as you fight and then you get to fighting and you can't fight as you train.
You gotta fight as you're told.
It doesn't work out very well.
Moving on.
I'm getting sweaty, right?
It's frustrating.
It's frustrating because the people that make these rules...
These rules of engagement and all this bullshit.
Majority of the time is my belief that these things are made up by men and women who never even had the fortitude to put on a damn uniform.
And they sit in some office up on Capitol Hill or they sit in a conference room around the table Thirteen stories underground for all we know.
And they commiserate.
They commiserate about what they're going to let the soldiers do in this particular theater of operations.
They talk about rules of engagement.
They talk about how far we're going to let these soldiers go before we have to intervene.
What can we do to win hearts and minds?
That was the other thing.
We're not only here to take care of this insurgency and bring democracy to Iraq, but we're also here to win the hearts and minds of the people.
We want the people on our side.
I don't know if we are.
I think we're here to win a war.
We're here to annihilate an enemy because these folks don't seem to be able to do it.
We've been sent here to destroy an enemy.
Don't get me all riled up.
And see, here's the thing.
You get a bunch of infantry Joes, a bunch of army rangers, and I'm sure a bunch of special operations folks.
You get them all riled up and chomping at the bit to go to some land far away to annihilate an enemy by any means necessary with all the tools of war at our disposal.
And then you get there and they say, well, okay, here's the rules.
Here's the rules, boys.
Now you're gonna go out there.
You're gonna get shot at.
They're gonna put bombs and explosives in the roads and in the asses of dead animals.
And they're going to string heavy gauge piano wire like shit across the overpasses so that your gunners get decapitated.
They're going to do all kinds of things.
Shoot RPGs at you.
They're going to do all kinds of stuff.
Just make sure you know who it was.
That took any kind of violent or adverse action against you before you respond.
Bullshit.
It's complete bullshit.
I'm willing to bet a large chunk of my next paycheck...
Those bullshit rules of engagement cost soldiers their lives.
Because you have the soldiers that are going to do what they're told.
You have them.
And so I'm sure that you had soldiers who were out there and getting shot at and they're trying to peek over a berm or sneak a peek somewhere to see if they can see a muzzle flash so that they can return fire and get on with their mission.
They ended up taking a round to the face.
Where if we could just provide cover fire, suppressive fire, and move to a better position to get a better angle or a better view, or a different view that they're not expecting us to be at, or give our assault force time to flank around and assault through, we probably could have saved some lives.
And I don't know, this is maybe my tinfoil hat moment of the show.
But it really pisses me off.
It really pisses me off that we sent millions of men and women to fight a war only to tell them when they got there.
You can't fight the way that we've taught you to fight.
We've trained, we've trained, we trained again and then we trained some more.
All for this moment.
And now you're at the show.
You're in the Super Bowl.
We're in the Super Bowl.
And now the rules of the game change.
It's bullshit.
Let's let's move on Man got me fired up Sorry, guys.
Yeah, what U.S. policymakers frequently fail to grasp is that power doesn't necessarily equate to unlimited influence.
The architects of U.S. foreign policy all too often assume the U.S. is all-powerful, that it can will events out of whole cloth and coerce friends and adversaries alike to adapt their policies to Washington's liking.
Boy, if this isn't true...
See, now, this is one of the things that I agree with.
I agree.
The United States of America, the political infrastructure, or whatever you want to call it, Have this idea that the rest of the world is just going to fall in line because we say they should.
And maybe that's worked in the past.
Maybe it has worked in the past.
But we are now in a place where people don't give a shit, man.
For example...
It is the middle of May, 2024.
How many police officers have been killed this year?
How many police officers have been attacked, kicked in the head, beat up, ganged up on?
Way too many.
How many things that we focus on are just smoke and mirrors, just BS, stuff that isn't really going to change no matter what we say, what we do, that are put there as a distraction All this crap that was happening on college campuses, still happening.
Like, what is...
What is all these college campus protests?
What are they going to change?
For full clarity, I'm all for everyone using their First Amendment rights.
Protest.
Demonstrate.
Scream from the mountaintops, whatever your argument is.
But when you get to the point of violence and looting and destroying stuff and setting it on fire and accosting other students and beating people up, your whole point is lost on me.
And I feel like it's lost on so many other people.
So whatever it is that you're trying to accomplish, I feel like you've lost a lot of people.
The very first thing that was set on fire, you lost me.
And I don't even know if you had me to begin with, to be honest.
To be quite honest, before it all started, these protests on campuses, and in the beginning when they first started, I didn't even really know what the hell they were protesting.
I try to make it a habit not to watch the mainstream media.
Because I don't like to be pissed off first thing in the morning.
I got enough problems going on.
I mean, geez louise man.
But this guy might be on to something here.
They think that their adversaries and their friends, allies and adversaries, are just going to fall into line because the United States of America is this huge superpower.
And I'm starting to think that we're getting to the point in time where the rest of the world ain't really scared of us.
They're not nervous about what it is that we got going on here.
Or what we might be able to do to them.
And it isn't because of what's on paper.
Because on paper, we'll destroy everybody.
But in my opinion, it's more of a thing that they know that we have extremely weak leadership.
We do not have a precedent that will say, keep it up.
You've been warned.
And that was one of the things about Trump that I really appreciated, to be quite honest.
When he strolled out down that carpet to the backyard, when he was in the backyard of the White House, maybe it was the front yard, I don't know.
And he was like, hey, look, I told these people, if you do this and you don't stop doing this, I know where you're at, I'm just going to bomb you.
We'll just take care of the problem.
You've been warned.
So if you want to call my bluff, keep it up.
And I think that they believed him.
Would he have done it?
I don't know.
I'd like to think that he would have.
Because he said he would.
But who knows really.
But I appreciated that about him.
Sometimes you gotta just show these son of a bitches you mean business.
And at some point, at some point, Dad, if you're watching, this is your line.
At some point, sacrificial lambs must be taken.
And I think that good old Donnie Trump would have lived up to his word.
I hope, anyway.
Okay.
This assumption is almost universal, yet has been disproven time and time again.
Okay, well here he's going to explain to us why this is not correct.
Particularly in the Middle East, take Yemen.
The Houthis, The de facto government in the country has been treating the Red Sea as its own personal firing range since November.
The Iran-backed militia has attacked civilian vessels and US Navy ships transitioning to waterway more than 100 times over that time span.
Is that true?
Huni leaders have been abundantly clear throughout.
The attacks in the Red Sea will continue as long as Israel continues fighting Gaza.
Okay, see?
Now this is exactly what we were just talking about.
Does the United States really think that these guys are going to just stop doing what you tell them to do?
These dudes are telling you, as long as this whole thing keeps going on, we're shooting missiles, baby.
And if it's true, if it's true that this Iran-backed militia, the Houthis have...
Shot missiles at U.S. Navy ships and they're still breathing?
That's a problem.
That is a problem.
And so, I mean, maybe we don't even need to read the rest of the article.
Because that proves his point right there.
These guys can tell the United States of America, keep coming through here if you want to.
But as long as Israel and Gaza are still fighting, we're going to keep shooting missiles at anything in our area here.
Anything in the Red Sea, we're shooting it down.
including United States Navy ships.
That takes big balls. haha That takes really big balls.
Because I think, you know, if you've never seen, you should look it up.
A carrier group sailing together on the ocean is pretty damn intimidating.
Because it's many ships.
The aircraft carrier is the big daddy in the middle and it's surrounded by its support ships.
Battle cruisers and supply ships and this ship and that ship and fuelers and who knows what else.
I wasn't in the Navy but they got a whole entourage, man.
It's like It's almost like the president and his entourage of security, right?
Like the big daddy's walking in the middle, and he's got all these security people around him.
Well, a carrier group is an aircraft carrier sailing down the ocean, sailing across the ocean, and he's got all his security dudes around him.
And they're all saying, go ahead.
But now we've come to a point where we're being intimidated by a militia, not even an organized military group, by a militia that's backed by Iran.
We're going to keep shooting at Navy ships as long as they're in our area.
They should have been wiped off the map five hours or less after issuing that threat, in my opinion.
But I'm sure there's more to it.
You know, people like to say, well, you know, Richard, there's a whole lot more to these decisions.
It's not just about revenge or an eye for an eye or this or blah, blah, blah.
There's a whole lot more that plays into it.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
Is there going to be a whole lot more playing into it when missiles are hitting the United States soil?
Are we going to care about what else plays into it?
You see, to me, this is a domino effect.
You start shooting at U.S. Navy ships, and the whole world can see that we're not doing anything about it.
Well, what is the next group of ballsy terrorists going to do?
Well, they're going to try something.
Well, God forbid we don't do something about that.
Next thing you know, we're fighting at home.
You see, my opinion on all this is that there's a chain reaction, right?
For every action, there's a reaction.
And the one other thing I agree with in this article is that the United States military has probably spread too thin.
They can't possibly deal with everything going on all over the world.
My response to that is...
Stop being involved in everything all over the world.
There's zero reason in my eyes that we need to have soldiers in the Ukraine or around the Ukraine.
There's zero reason we need to give them billions and hundreds of billions of dollars.
Why?
Bye.
Thank you.
If we stop getting involved in things that we probably shouldn't be involved in, then we have the manpower.
But we're already at a disadvantage because we can't get anybody to join.
Recruitment numbers are still plummeting.
All-time lows.
But we're worried about...
Man.
The Biden administration, in cooperation with the United Kingdom, has attempted to change the Houthi's strategic calculus by taking military action against their assets on the ground.
The US and the UK have conducted four rounds of comprehensive airstrikes against the Houthi military facilities across Yemen.
The latest occurring in February, U.S. Air Force and Navy jets have shot down drones and missiles multiple times a week, in addition to striking Houthi ground locations.
Yet the mere fact that the U.S. is taking military action every week is proof that U.S. policy isn't impacting the Houthi decision-making whatsoever, because the missiles keep on coming.
Iran is yet another example, and perhaps the most prevalent.
Oh yeah?
During the Trump administration, Iran was public enemy number one.
Trump prodded by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton.
withdrew from the Obama-era Iran nuclear agreement and reimposed the economic sanctions previously lifted under the deal.
The maximum pressure strategy was designed to bring the Iranian economy to a point where Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would have no choice but to beg for forgiveness and sign a new deal.
And a deal that was on America's terms.
Yeah, I don't know about that man man.
I don't know about that.
You know...
So this is where I'm confused.
Let's go back up a paragraph.
Military action is being taken on a weekly basis to shoot down drones, shoot down missiles, They're conducting airstrikes on ground forces and ground installations.
Does anybody in a leadership role really expect any of us to believe that they don't know where the big dogs are at?
I mean, it's possible that they don't.
But It's possible, but really?
And if not, what's the CIA doing?
What's more important?
It's certainly not the Ukraine.
What's a bigger threat right now?
And maybe there is one and we just don't know about it.
I mean, that's certainly possible, for sure.
But if we're conducting airstrikes every week, multiple times a week, and there's missiles still coming from that side, conduct more airstrikes and make the place a parking lot.
But you know, we like to talk about collateral damage.
Innocent people dying.
They didn't ask for it.
They don't deserve it.
And yeah, you're right.
A thousand percent, I agree with that.
But, there's always a but.
But are they more important than our own people?
If the tables were turned and we were the aggressors, right?
Let's say we were the Houthis and we lived in Yemen and we were backed by Iran.
And we are, you know, we are who we are, just the geographical location and our allegiance switched.
Do you think they'd spare our people?
If the roles were reversed, would the Houthis and would the Iranians, would they spare our people?
Would they not shoot their missiles?
Would they not drop their bombs?
Would they not wreak havoc in our homes because of our innocent people?
I don't know.
I think they would.
And this all goes back to the idea that war is hell.
It's not supposed to be pretty.
But it is, however, supposed to provide results.
There is, however, supposed to be a winner.
There's no fucking participation trophies in war.
So wipe them off the face of the planet.
Stop messing around.
It's enough now.
Here I am cussing.
Cussing in front of all these people.
I apologize.
Kinda.
Kinda.
Iran's economy plummeted, no doubt.
Iran's crude oil exports plunged from 1.8 million barrels a day in 2017 to about 445,000 barrels a day in 2020, a 76% decrease, yet the economic pain didn't produce any positive policy results on the nuclear file.
If anything, the Iranian nuclear problem got even worse.
Tehran, free from any nuclear constraints, started installing more centrifuges, using centrifuges of higher quality, brought enrichment to higher level, and downgraded the International Atomic Energy Agency's access.
Wow.
Say that four times fast.
International Atomic Energy Agency's access.
Iran is now as close to nuclear bomb fuel as it's ever been.
None of this isn't to suggest the US isn't a powerful state.
Rather, the point is that the US often inflates its power, underestimates the power of other states to resist US dictates, and is overly confident that whatever challenges exist...
Along the way can be easily brushed aside.
The reality is far more complex.
And it's about time that US officials have acknowledged that.
Now, I don't necessarily disagree with this guy on some of this stuff.
And I think that a huge part of the problem is just that We are spread too thin.
Our soldiers are severely overworked and severely underpaid.
And our government doesn't seem to be doing a whole lot to address the recruitment issues.
And this is just the military side of the whole thing.
There's also arguments to be made for trade.
There's arguments to be made for all kinds of policy issues.
I mean, there's all kinds of things.
But here on this show, we talk about military and veterans issues.
And to be quite honest, international business is not a strength of mine, believe it or not.
We just need to...
And this might sound bad...
But we need to take the handcuffs off of our military members.
Just off the military in general.
If our soldiers were allowed...
To use even 90% of the power that they have at their fingertips.
This whole narrative would be different, I think.
If we had leadership that was able to trust The men and women that have decided to put a uniform on and trust the leadership all the way down to the lowest level to do their job.
Things would be a lot different, I think.
But there's a whole lot of pockets being lined, I think.
In fact, I think I'm sure of it, but I can't prove it.
So I shouldn't say that I'm sure.
But here, I think I'm sure.
I don't think that there's any other explanation.
Money, power, and control.
Those are the three things that always seem to be At the end of the road of all this Mickey Mouse bullshit.
Somebody is gaining more money, power, and control, or a combination of the three, or all three of the three.
And it's time to stop it.
but it's time to knock it off.
And now the rest of the world just may be on to our game, folks.
Okay.
And Daniel...
Daniel, if you ever see this, I'm sorry for butchering your last name.
Daniel DePetris.
Maybe I got it exactly right.
I don't know.
Who is the author of this article?
He's saying that We talk a big game and we can't back it up, basically.
You know what that reminds me of?
It reminds me of the high school football coach.
The high school football coach who lists all of his guys another 25 pounds bigger, 25 pounds heavier and like four inches taller than what they really are for the program.
So when every other team in the conference looks at their roster, they go, holy crap, they got some big kids over there.
We're going to get worked and get in their head before they even get to the stadium.
In my opinion, that's kind of what Daniel is saying the U.S. does.
And he might be right.
You might be right on.
The Houthis got to go.
Thank you.
They're launching missiles and destroying shit and attacking United States military assets.
Stop Mickey Mouse patty-cakeing these guys.
Just do it.
Rip the band-aid off.
And I don't think that it's going to happen.
I honestly don't.
I think that if Donald Trump gets re-elected into office, I think we have a chance of it happening then.
I think there's a chance that he says, alright, we've had enough.
Send him.
Send them, let them get whatever it is they believe they get when they die.
Let's send them to their God early.
It's enough.
We cannot, as a country, move forward and begin to heal from all the bullshit that has happened around this country in the last five years.
Until all this other shit is taken care of or we just get out of it.
We don't have any business being part of some of this crap anyhow.
Because as I've said before, our backyard is dirty as hell.
So we need to clean up our mess before we start cleaning up somebody else's.
Let Zelensky go dance in a g-string for some other country and leech money off of them for a while.
We need a break.
We got people in America that need help.
We have an insurgency infiltrating our country.
We should probably take care of that.
We have homeless people everywhere.
The city of San Francisco is covered in human shit.
San Francisco, I have family that live out there in suburbs of San Francisco.
It used to be a beautiful, beautiful city.
Loved going out there.
There was a crepe shop in San Francisco.
That was absolutely amazing.
Now the whole place is covered in feces.
So all the homeless folks don't have anywhere to take a dump.
But yet we're worried about the Ukraine.
We're worried about the Houthis and Yemen and Iran and Israel and Gaza.
we're worried about everything except for what we should be worried about it's sad and I hope that we can fix it Amen.
Hope that we can fix it.
If it takes a change in the Oval Office, then it takes a change, so I hope that we can get that too.
Whatever that looks like.
We got work to do.
Anyway, folks, I'm getting the signal here that I've ran over time.
So we have to run for this week.
But as usual, I want to thank you, thank you, thank you for joining us.
Take care of yourselves.
We will be back with you next week.
Have a great evening.
And keep the faith.
Change is going to come.
▲
Export Selection