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Jan. 19, 2025 - Stew Peters Show
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Pete Hegseth's Nomination: A Veteran’s Perspective on Leadership
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Well folks It goes down tomorrow Tomorrow is the inauguration.
Inauguration of President Donald Trump's second term.
And boy, what a week it was leading up to this weekend.
All the confirmation hearings, all the stories, the attempts at smearing the names.
And conduct and personalities of these folks.
Today we're going to talk about, of course, Pete Hegseth's hearing that happened earlier in the week.
But I think if we look at all of them, I think we'll see that it was just a debacle.
Especially for the left side of the aisle.
It was really kind of...
Kind of sad to watch.
But I think that folks who watched the left smear the other side for so long and the antics that were played and all this stuff for all this time leading up to now, it feels good for people.
I think folks are feeling good about watching the liberals.
And the Democrats squirm a little bit.
But today we're going to dive into Pete Hegseth and his committee hearing for confirmation a little bit.
So let's get down to it.
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Okay, Mr. Pete Hegseth.
Earlier in the week, he sat down in front of the firing squad, it seems.
And to be quite honest, I think he did pretty well taking shots on the chin.
There were a lot of shots coming to him, especially from the left side of the house.
It didn't seem like they really wanted him to answer any questions.
It seemed like they wanted to use their time to throw out what they think are facts, to smear his name, to get him to admit to something, to get him to commit to something that they can then use against him later once he is confirmed.
And I think, and they, Whoever they are, are talking about it all over the place.
That he is going to be confirmed.
The Republicans have the majority, so it's really not an issue.
And maybe he knew that going in.
And maybe the thought was, I just got to sit here, what was it, four hours or five hours or something, answer the questions the best I can, keep my cool, and get my point across.
And I think that he did that very well.
And there were a lot of things that he had said that I thought were insightful, that I thought were good.
And I think that having a person in the role of Secretary of Defense that is focused on the warfighter, that is focused on the soldier and their family, Is very important, and it's something that I don't know that we've had in that position for a long time.
And some people may look at it and think, well, maybe those are issues that need to be handled a little bit lower down the chain.
And maybe that's not a bad idea.
Maybe that's not a way out there thought.
But I think that the advantage of having it at the highest level of the military pyramid, if you will, is that now it's a standard.
Mr. Hegseth talked a lot about holding commanders and leadership accountable.
The exact words out of his mouth at one point were, We'll be held accountable.
And I think that that's great.
And I don't know that that is something that past Secretaries of Defense had in mind and put into play and then enforced.
I can tell you that at times in my military career, over the 19 years that I served, there wasn't always that.
It depended on who you had, who your leadership was, and how much they actually cared about the soldiers in which they were leading.
And if they cared about the soldiers just as much as they cared about accomplishing the mission.
And I think that at times for leaders, especially new leaders, it becomes a juggling act.
That can be quite cumbersome because there's a lot of demand as a leader.
You have your people to look after.
Every one of those people has their own life, their own issues, their own things going on that you as their leader need to help them work through, guide them, and ensure that they are taken care of the best way that you can.
And then you also have to make sure that you're right.
That you're in the right place, at the right time, in the right uniform, and you're doing all of your things, plus all your soldiers are doing the right thing.
And, I mean, it just becomes a, just like anybody else, right?
Anybody else who has people that they supervise in a job.
I think that it becomes a little more cumbersome at times in the military because the stakes can be extremely high.
Especially in combat roles.
All it takes is one, folks.
All it takes is one person.
To not give a shit about their job.
To not care about getting better.
To not take training seriously.
To not commit to the mission.
All it takes is one.
And when and if that one person really does decide to say, man, screw this, I'm out of here, or I don't care, I'm just going to go through the motions, the failure of that one person can be catastrophic for the whole team, the whole platoon, maybe even the whole unit, depending on the mission and the unit and what the job is.
But he really had something that really hit home for me when we talk about qualifications of what the Secretary of Defense is.
And so let's hit on that real quick.
At one point in the hearing, a member had asked him, a senator had asked him, what are the qualifications?
In fact, he asked the chairman.
Chairman, what are the qualifications to be Secretary of State?
And the chairman looked at him and goes, I'm guessing you're going to tell me.
Which now, this guy is the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
He is chairing the committee to confirm The Secretary of Defense of the United States of America.
And he doesn't know what the qualifications are?
That's a little suspect to me.
And it should be to everybody else.
Or at least it seemed like he didn't know what the qualifications are.
But let me tell you what the qualifications are.
According to the United States of America's literature.
You must be a U.S. citizen.
Who is a veteran who has served in the United States military and been retired for at least seven years.
But that is waiverable.
You can be somebody who's been out for four years.
You can request a waiver from this very committee with an explanation as to why you deserve this waiver.
And it can be waived.
Lloyd Austin, our current...
Secretary of Defense.
The guy that thought, well, I'm sick, so I'm going to disappear for four or five days.
I'm not telling anybody.
I'm just going to go get treatment.
I don't want anybody to know.
I don't want nobody to know.
I'm just going to go.
I'll be back.
They won't miss me.
Meanwhile, half the world is blowing up.
That guy, I don't even know if the ink was dry on his exit paperwork from the United States Army before he got his waiver to be Secretary of Defense.
So he got his waiver.
There was a couple others.
But he was the most recent one.
And I think that Pete Hegseth being nominated was quite a refreshing thing because if we think back to when Donald Trump first came down the escalator to announce that he's running for president, everybody was in shock.
Everybody was in awe.
And when he talked about draining the swamp and all these things, all the swamp rats, They got scared.
You remember?
Pelosi, Schiff, I mean, insert swamp rat here.
They all got scared.
They all got pissed.
And that's when they started to try to bury the guy.
And either they forgot or they didn't care that at one point in their political careers, or maybe just in life, outside of their job, loved Donald Trump.
They were at galas with him, taking pictures, talking about how great of a guy he was here and there.
Not all of them, but some.
Now that he wants to be president, and he wants to stop this corruption and all this bullshit happening in our government that's screwing over the American people, now they hate him.
They want to take him out.
They want to put him in prison.
And now...
Of course, he's an existential threat to our democracy.
But those of us that supported him, we all loved him.
We all loved the idea of possibly having Donald Trump as president.
And why?
Because he wasn't a career politician.
He's a successful businessman.
He's outspoken.
He wanted to make America great again.
And he was boisterous about it.
He was adamant about it.
And that's all he talked about.
But he wasn't a career politician.
And then he won the election.
Nobody could believe it.
And many of the things that he said he was going to do, he started.
Many of them he did.
A lot of his stuff was shut down or whatever.
I mean, it wasn't perfect, of course.
It never is.
But I think based on what he said and how he approached it, he did some pretty good things.
People were pretty happy and America was living pretty good.
Until he left office.
Well, now he's coming back.
And he has nominated people like Pete Hegseth.
To be the Secretary of Defense.
And I think the interesting thing about him is that he is not a general.
He didn't wear stars on his chest when he had his army uniform on.
He didn't serve for 32 or 35 years in the military, which those people that have, thank you for your service.
He wasn't promised.
Some military industrial complex job with a six or seven figure salary when he got out of the military because he has influence and he knows people.
He wasn't going to help somebody make millions and millions and maybe even billions of dollars on conflict somewhere in this world, on this globe.
He did his time and he got out.
He went and worked for a couple non-profits.
Did well.
And then we found him on Fox News.
And now here he is.
And I think that if there's anything that we could gig Pete Hegseth on, it's being part of the bullshit mainstream media.
I think that there's There's some room there to maybe argue that, you know, at that point maybe he was a little bit part of the problem more than he was a help, but that's just my opinion.
I don't think that that disqualifies him from being Secretary of State.
But he said something really good in his opening statement about his qualifications, and I don't want to regurgitate it.
Because I think it comes best out of his mouth.
So let's just watch it.
I think it's about 15 or 20 seconds.
Here it is.
Check this out.
Now, it is true and has been acknowledged that I don't have a similar biography to defense secretaries of the last 30 years.
But as President Trump also told me, we've repeatedly placed people atop the Pentagon with supposedly the right credentials, whether they are retired generals, academics, or defense contractor executives.
And where...
Has it gotten us?
He believes, I humbly agree, that it's time to give someone with dust on his boots the helm.
A change agent.
Someone with no vested interest in certain companies or specific programs or approved narratives.
My only special interest is the warfighter.
Deterring wars and if called upon winning wars by ensuring our warriors never enter a fair fight.
We let them win, and we bring them home.
Like many of my generation, I've been there.
I've led troops in combat.
I've been on patrol for days.
I've pulled the trigger downrange, heard bullets whizzed by, flex cuffed insurgents, called in close air support, led medevacs, dodged IEDs, pulled out dead bodies, and knelt before a battlefield cross.
This is not academic for me.
This is my life.
See?
Now, to me, to me those words hit home.
To me those words hit home.
And I hope for anybody listening and watching that those words hit home too.
Even if maybe you don't 100% support him in the role.
But just think about it.
The people that sit in that seat, in that office, the Secretary of Defense, they're the ones that are at a very high level making decisions about where our military goes, who they're fighting and why, when they're going, what kind of tools of war.
They're going to use what they're going to be allowed to use, what the rules of engagement are, all these things.
Now, he doesn't get to make the decision himself, because at its core, the Secretary of Defense is the most senior military advisor to the President.
So, the one ultimately making the decisions and giving the orders is the President of the United States, giving it to him, but it's a conversation.
Donald Trump isn't a military man.
Donald Trump didn't...
Fire rounds downrange.
Donald Trump didn't have bullets whizzing by his head.
Donald Trump didn't pull out dead bodies.
He didn't kneel behind a cross.
He didn't get hit with IEDs.
He didn't have to be on patrol for days.
He didn't have to live in a box baking in the desert.
Whether we were sent there for the right reasons or the wrong reasons or whatever, he didn't have to do it.
Pete Exeth did it.
And so, putting somebody in that position who has been there, who's got the boots at home in a tote somewhere or in a duffel bag that still have sand from Iraq in them and on them, seems like a pretty good candidate.
Along with other qualifications, of course.
To be sitting at the highest seat in the Pentagon to monitor what the hell is going on.
And if we can have somebody there that gives a shit about the soldiers, I think it's going to help a lot.
We've talked many times on this show about how How our country and its military has been in this recruiting crisis for quite a while now.
All branches of service, with the exception of the Marine Corps, which still baffles me, but hey, good for them, are missing their mark on recruitment numbers.
So why would we not want some new blood?
Why would we not want somebody in that seat that isn't much of the same?
That isn't the same that we've had there year after year, president after president, election after election, cycle after cycle.
Could it get any worse?
And maybe the answer is yes, it could.
But if we believe, if we believe people who say, man, I really, really, really support the troops.
I don't support the war.
I don't understand why we're there fighting a war.
I don't know why our sons and daughters are there dying.
I don't get that, but man, boy, do I support those troops.
God bless them.
For sticking up for this country.
Why wouldn't we have that in the highest seat of the Pentagon?
To put those initiatives out and tell the commanders, hey, this is what we're doing.
Either you get on board or you get out.
And maybe there'll be people that leave.
But it's about time.
It's about time that we have a Secretary of Defense that is outspoken about taking care of the soldiers.
I'll tell you, when soldiers are happy, they're going to do a whole lot more for you.
I'll tell you that from experience.
And when I say happy, I don't mean more pay.
More pay is nice, of course.
But when soldiers know that they have a dry, semi-clean, I mean, it's up to them to be clean, but dry, clean, warm, or air-conditioned place to sleep and rest, and that they're going to have hot meals, They don't taste like Purina Pro Plan Plus.
They're going to be a lot more happy.
When soldiers feel like they're downrange, deployed somewhere, and that their families are well taken care of, that they got resources that they need, they have somebody that can...
Go fix the furnace.
If I had somebody to go fix the furnace for my wife and kids while I'm deployed somewhere, should it go out?
I don't have to stress about that while I'm trying to conduct a patrol and fight for my life.
If soldiers know that they're going to get paid on time and their pay is going to be the right amount, They're gonna be a whole lot happier.
They're gonna show up on time.
They should show up on time anyway.
They're gonna work harder.
They're gonna train harder.
They're gonna fight better.
They're gonna take better care of themselves and each other.
Just the overall experience and the overall output of these soldiers is gonna be better.
There's nothing more distracting.
Than being outside the wire or doing some kind of job in the military, whether it's dangerous or not.
But you've got to be on.
You've got to be there.
You've got to be present.
And you have to pay attention, no matter what you're doing.
But you can't do that when you're 50,000 miles away from home.
And your pay's not right.
Daycare is coming due.
The mortgage payment is coming up.
There's all kinds of things.
There's all kinds of things that soldiers go through.
And there's nothing worse than feeling helpless.
Because now you're half the world away.
And all you can do is call somebody.
Maybe.
So when he says things like this to me, a soldier, a veteran, who knows what it's like, and also knows what it's like to have his battle buddy go through this and try to pick him up, hey brother, don't worry, we'll work this out.
But right now, we gotta grab your shit, man.
We gotta go.
We gotta patrol.
We gotta convoy to do.
We'll be back in a few days.
Don't worry, we'll get it handled.
Yeah, I mean, we got to go to work.
We got to do this.
But that doesn't solve the problem at home.
And now we're leaving for two or three days to go run a convoy up north and then bring one back down south in a day or two.
And hope that we don't get hit by an IED and one of our trucks gets destroyed and we get stuck somewhere.
Or worse, one of us gets killed or you get blown up and you get medevaced out.
And then what?
No soldier wants to leave the wire and go to their job with this in their head.
And then guess what?
You get blown up and you lose a couple legs.
And now you've just added that problem on top.
And compounded your issues.
There's no qualms about it, man.
Taking care of soldiers is extremely important.
And we haven't had somebody at this position, in my opinion, that has been outspoken about taking care of the men and women who are wearing the uniform and they're leaving these bases and leaving these fobs and going to do their goddang job every day.
And some of them not knowing if their problems and the issues they have that they're responsible for when they come back home from work, back home from deployment, or whatever, don't know if their family is getting the help they need.
It's a double-edged sword.
And so, if you're a person that...
That is on the fence about whether or not this guy is a good fit.
Let that be one of the things that you judge him by.
Because from a soldier's perspective, that's a big deal.
A really big deal, if you ask me.
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We talked about in the first segment about why Pete Hegseth may be a good person to have on the highest seat in the Pentagon as the top military official in the land.
But I wanted to touch on A couple other things that were thrown at him during his hearing.
You know, at one point in his opening statement, and while he was answering questions, he talked a lot about standards.
A lot about standards in the military.
And for some reason, it appeared to trigger some of the senators who were sitting on the committee as him not wanting to answer the questions or whatever.
And one of the biggest ones was about women in combat roles.
There were a couple senators.
I don't remember their names.
I don't think it's important.
poor, and I don't want to give them any more attention than they really got already.
But I think that Mr. Hegseth has been pretty transparent about his view of women in combat roles in our military.
And his view, it seems, is not that women should not be in combat roles, but more importantly, that the standards should not be any different. that the standards should not be any different.
For women in combat roles.
The standards by which you are judged to fulfill the duties of a combat role should be the same, no matter what equipment you have between your legs.
Thanks.
And I agree with that a thousand percent.
I also don't think that women should be precluded just because they're women.
A lot of people will say, well, you know, the biological difference is they don't have the strength, they don't have the stamina, men are better shooters, men are better this, men are better that.
And in some cases, some of that stuff is true.
But I think that there are women out there that can and will meet the standard should they want to fulfill those roles.
And I can...
I was just talking about this over on Disgruntled, my other show over on YouTube, that I can remember when they lifted the ban on women in combat.
I want to say it was like 2016 or 2017. And the battalion sergeant major came in to our company and he talked to each infantry platoon.
Just platoon by platoon, so one at a time.
He came in and he said, well, we're going to meet in the Chow Hall in 15 minutes, so make sure you're there, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So we all go in there, and he told us that the military, now the government has just lifted the ban on females in combat roles.
How do you guys feel about it?
Because we are an infantry unit, and should any ladies in our organization We just want to get a gauge about how current members of the organization feel about it so that we can better address it and just have the open discussion.
Because to me it felt like it was something that we weren't going to have a choice in.
So if there was people that were staunchly against it, it was going to have to be a conversation and maybe some further training or whatever.
I don't know how they planned on addressing it, but they just wanted to know how we felt.
And there were some guys who were like, nope, don't want it.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
You know, that type of thing.
And you know, I don't disagree with anybody.
I think that however you feel you can best do your job is the opinion you should voice.
It was an open forum.
Nobody was going to get in trouble for voicing their opinion, and so they did.
But my stance always has been, I don't care.
I don't care who it is.
But if that person, and it's always been important to me, no matter man or woman, because, you know, I'm not a small person.
You know, I'm 6'4", 330 pounds now.
But I was, you know, above 300 pounds while I was in the military at 6'4".
And so my concern always was, can one or two of you honyucks drag me to cover should I get shot in the leg or something?
And I need help.
I need buddy aid.
Can one of you guys drag me?
Can I be lifted?
And so we had those conversations in platoons I was in.
And for the most part, we were all able to take care of each other.
And so if we got ladies in the unit, can they assist in buddy aid?
Not just of me, but anybody.
But keep in mind...
That it's not just body weight, but we got body armor, we got weapons, we got ammo, we got water, we got food, we got, you know, whatever.
You never know what you're going to have.
It all depends on the mission that you're performing.
But at the very least, you got weapons, ammo, and body armor, and water are like the essentials you have on your body at all times.
If I had any objection, To women in combat roles.
It wasn't because they're uncapable.
I've always said, also, if ladies can meet the standard, well, welcome.
Come on in.
Training's this way.
My objection to it was that it is, in my opinion, it is inherent in men To take care of ladies.
When we see them fall, when we see them hurt, when we see them crying, when we see them in distress, and we think that we can help, men help.
And so now multiply that, compound that with the idea that we are now family.
And any military unit that is effective, especially a platoon-sized element, that lives together, that trains together, that works together, that gets their kids together to play, goes to birthday parties, goes to each other's grandparents' funerals, whatever it is.
You become very close.
And a lot of that happens while you're training and while you're living together.
You spend a lot of time with each other.
You build some cohesiveness.
And should you throw ladies in the mix?
Well, of course.
They're going to be part of the herd too.
Brothers and sisters.
I've never had this idea that Any ladies in my platoon, should ladies be in the infantry and come into my infantry platoon, that they were fair game for dating and sex and drinking and partying.
We all drank and partied, so of course they would join us.
But we're not dating and we're not having sex and we're not doing all that stuff.
We're a family.
So you put that into the mix.
And now you put us into combat.
And then say now your sister gets shot.
She ain't dead.
She isn't dead.
But she's laying on the ground bleeding.
In pain.
Crying out for help.
Just like anybody else would.
Screaming for a medic.
Is that going to draw...
Your attention away from the firefight.
And I think that the answer for most men, whether they want to admit it or not, is going to be yes.
And so the question you might have is, well, why wouldn't you do that for any of your brothers, any of the guys that you serve with?
My answer to that is, I don't know.
I don't know why.
I think that as men, we understand.
We understand the game.
We understand the job.
We understand the assignment.
We already know.
But there's something about my sister.
I can envision my own little sister.
Man, I would be terrified.
If my own little sister walked into the company area as an infantryman, or infantrywoman, infantryperson, or whatever the hell you want to call it, knowing that we were going to go to combat, that'd be nuts.
I'd never be able to think straight.
That's my sister.
But I think for a lot of people, a lot of soldiers, these are the types of bonds that you create with people you serve with.
And so, if I had any objection to women serving in combat, it was that.
Not that they're not capable.
We talked about this on the show the other night, too, on Disgruntled.
I taught some marksmanship.
The last few years of my military career, you know, to people that needed extra help because they weren't able to get their weapons zeroed all that well or they weren't doing well on weapons qualifications, so they needed some remedial training.
And to be quite honest, the ladies that showed up required not very much correction, just a couple little tips, or maybe they were doing one or two things wrong.
But once we got that ironed out, they were the best shots.
Women, for whatever reason, when they listen to the person training them, if they're not scared of the weapon, and that goes for anybody, for men too, if they listen to what they're being told and they're not scared of the weapon, women, for whatever reason, are amazing marksmen.
And so it wouldn't surprise me if we started to see women as snipers, if they can meet the standard.
And the standards for some of these combat roles is very high.
And so maybe at some point it does come down to the differences, the biological differences between men and women.
Maybe.
But I do not agree that those standards need to change because, quite frankly, There is a lot of men that can't meet the standard either.
And if the standard is that high, it means that that job is that important that it requires a person that is able to do that job and do it effectively.
So the standards do not change.
And I think that's the only thing that Mr. Hegseth was talking about.
But yet they were lobbing questions at him and just bombarding him with all this shit and then would not give him the opportunity to respond.
You know, and then they wanted to pick him apart about his past, his past wives, that he was a drunk.
Apparently somebody had alleged that he'd show up to work drunk all the time and he'd take his employees out to strip clubs and get them drunk and there was sexual harassment going on while he was drinking at work and blah blah blah.
All this stuff.
None of it substantiated.
No proof or evidence ever supplied or presented.
Just anonymous tips.
And there was nothing else.
you Thank you.
And so then they hammered him on that.
And so like we said earlier in the show, he just had to sit with his arms crossed and just keep repeating.
Those are allegations that are unfounded, untrue, and there's no evidence.
So I don't know what you're talking about.
It was kind of like, When your kids become like young teenagers, like 13, 14 years old, and they start to think that they know better than adults, and then at like 15,
16, when they start moving around, moving around at school and to and from school, and they might get a little job at, you know, the cupcake place or the gas station or Wendy's or something like that.
And they start to meet other people that may be a little bit older with them because they got jobs now.
And you start to talk to them and they got that look on their face like you don't know what you're talking about.
It was like that.
You know, like these senators were just grasping at straws.
Just trying to think of anything to make him slip up.
And that's when I realized.
It was then and then the next day when the committee was trying to do their thing for the confirmation of Ms. Bondi, the Attorney General nominee.
They try to get you to say, yep, I'm going to do this or no, I'm not going to do that.
I don't agree with this or I do agree with that.
And get you to make some kind of commitment or some kind of statement.
Come the day after you're confirmed, these are the things that we're going to hold against you.
And we're going to try to fry you for it.
And Pete Hegseth and Miss Bondi did a great job at not doing any of that.
In fact, they both stuck up for themselves very well.
Not to be bullied by these career politicians.
And so, those...
All of those things coupled with the idea that Pete Hegseth is not a career politician.
In fact, he only reached the rank of Major.
So, I mean, for those of you who don't know, you have 1st and 2nd Lieutenant, 01, 02, Captain, 03, Major, 04. He didn't make it very high in the officer ranks, which is fine.
He's a guy that did the hard work, that did the grunt work.
He didn't just go to college and go, you know what, I think I'm going to be a military officer.
Run a couple PT tests and take some classes and a book.
Pass a test, graduate from college, come into the military, and then just start bossing people around with no experience.
This guy lived it.
And I think that that's worth something.
And like I said before, how worse can it get?
How bad could it really be?
The idea that this guy wants to ensure that we're not fighting wars just to fight wars, but if we're going to send our soldiers to fight any war anywhere on this globe, that they're set up for success.
Like he said, let's send them there to win.
Let's annihilate the enemy with all the tools of war that we have to give them, to use, to destroy, and wipe the enemy off the face of the earth.
And then let's bring them home.
All right.
We're down for that.
This idea of being at war for 23, 24 years, I don't know that America can sustain that again.
Not at this point.
I don't know that it's necessary for America to have to try to sustain that again.
But I guess that we'll see.
I think that we have a lot of players in dark spots that are unidentified at this point that would love for us to go to war with anybody.
When America is at war, folks, there's a lot of pockets, a lot of them, that get filled.
There's a lot of bank accounts that get filled to the brim.
But you know whose bank accounts don't get filled to the brim?
Yours.
Mine.
But more importantly, the young men and women who are sent in to fight these things.
What we're doing is telling them to go take that hill.
Don't worry, we got your back.
And then bringing them home to a system that doesn't really do everything seemingly that it says it does.
It doesn't seem that VA care is as easy to access as they talk about, which we talk about on this show.
It doesn't seem like the organizations put in place to help veterans carry on with a life of dignity and comfort that is talked about.
It doesn't seem like all that's very easy to obtain.
Much like we saw when we had seven weeks talking about The caregiver program when we had Robin Stitt on for seven weeks in a row.
And she told us all about this caregiver program and how they're getting just screwed over and over again.
And it doesn't seem like there's anything positive happening.
There's been changes made, but nothing positive.
for the caregivers.
Some of these people are going to be kicked out in the cold.
Thank you.
They'll be expected to go get VA care like I go get VA care.
When for many years now, they've been at home comfortable.
With a family member, such as a spouse, or a child, or an aunt or an uncle, or in some cases a grandparent, they're taking care of them, being paid by the VA to do so.
But now it may just be cut off, because they no longer qualify, after many years.
And being told, seemingly, You just got to get used to a new system.
So we're going to uproot everything you've known for the last X amount of years.
You just got to get used to it.
Don't worry.
It'll be good.
I don't know about that.
So having folks in positions that aren't the status quo seems really, really attractive.
I'll give.
I hope that you agree.
Maybe you don't.
But I believe that our soldiers who are currently serving should be, I don't know about excited, right?
Because maybe they should be excited.
But they certainly should be feeling a lot better about where Their military is going.
They should be feeling a whole lot better about what they can hope to expect from the guy who is going to be sitting in the highest seat of the United States military, who's reporting right to the president, giving him his advice, and the president telling him, okay, we're going to do A, B, and C. We'll do D and E later, maybe.
But let's focus on this.
And then Mr. Hegseth is going to go forward and implement it and get it done.
I like that idea.
It can't work any worse.
Again.
Amen.
So I wish that these senators who were trying to slander him and drag his name, And his career and things like that through the mud.
I wish that they would have spent their time, their five minutes.
I wish they would have spent their time constructively.
Ask good, meaningful questions about something that was going to actually do some good for this country and not about their own interests.
Part of the problem, I think, and part of the reason why America is giving up on the liberal agenda is because it's very, very clear that it's not really about the people.
Everything that they talk about, seemingly at times, is all about some kind of idea or some kind of policy or some kind of effing scam.
To get their way, to get more money, to get more power, to get more control, to put themselves in position for this, you know, whatever the case may be, none of it ever really seems to be a whole lot about the people.
I think that they say it is, but the words that they say...
And that they tell us, the American people, about what it is they're going to do for us never really turns out to be what happens.
And so I think people are just, they're losing their patience with listening to that shit.
And now we have seemingly a lot of new blood.
Now they have to be confirmed yet.
Allegedly, this vote for Pete Hegseth is going to happen tomorrow.
At the earliest.
We'll see.
But man.
It'll be refreshing.
It'll be refreshing to have some new blood in Washington.
Hopefully the changes that we were told that we can expect to see coming.
Happen, or at least start to happen, and we can get down the road to a better way of life, a better America.
The United States of America that we were living in 10 years ago, even.
Maybe that wasn't great, but it was better than where we've been the last few years.
I just hope...
I hope that finally we can get a win.
Because my question always has been, the last couple months, when do we get to win?
We seemingly got to win on November 5th, when Donald Trump won the election.
But when do we get to win?
When do the hard-working people of America who pay an assload of money and taxes When do we, the hardworking people of America, who get slapped around by the government, the IRS, the Department of Revenue, we get slapped around at the gas pump, we get slapped around at the grocery store, we get slapped around when we pay our effing energy bills, when we need to buy a new vehicle, when we need to do this, buy a home, whatever it is.
When do we get to win?
Maybe it's now.
Even if it's just a couple small victories.
A couple W's in the belt would feel pretty nice, I think.
I wish we could talk longer, folks, but we have run out of time for the week.
Tomorrow should be interesting.
I'm interested.
I'm really interested to watch the tension on the stage as all of these past presidents and what have you sit on the stage.
Michelle Obama's not coming.
Nobody gives a shit.
A big mic, she's going to be at the groomer getting her mustache lined up or something.
Who knows?
But you guys have a great rest of your evening.
Enjoy the inauguration tomorrow or not.
But we will see you next week.
Thanks for joining us again.
Good night.
As Christians in a Christian country, we have a right to be at minimum agnostic about the leadership being all Jewishly occupied
We literally should be at war with fucking Israel a hundred times over, and instead we're just sending them money, and it's fucking craziness.
Look at the site of Israel, look at the site of Tel Aviv, and look at the site of Philadelphia.
You tell me where this money's going, you tell me who's benefiting from this.
I am prepared to die in the battle.
Fighting this monstrosity that would wish to enslave me and my family and steal away any rights to my property and to take away my God, go fuck yourself.
Will I submit to that? - And if you've got a foreign state, you've got dual citizens in your government, who do you think they're supporting?
God, right now, would you protect the nation of Israel and protect those of us, not just our church, but every church in the world and in this nation that's willing to put their neck on the line and say, we stand with them.
We stand with them.
Here you go to Trump's cabinet.
You go to Biden's cabinet.
It's for Jews.
I have a black friend in school.
I have nothing against blacks.
She has nothing against me.
She understands where I'm coming from.
Excuse me, I'm a Jew, and I'd just like to say that, you know, in our Bible it says that you're like animals.
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