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Feb. 9, 2025 - Stew Peters Show
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DEI Out, Integrity In: Restoring Focus and Integrity in the Military
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Question quick.
If you served in this nation's military back in the day, and by back in the day I mean 2010 and before, if any part of your military career was before 2010, let me ask you.
When you heard that Pete Hegseth was cutting out DEI and all this other garbage from the military, Be recognized.
What did you think?
I know what I thought.
And we're going to talk about that today.
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Okay, so.
DEI. Out of here.
Out of the military.
Out of the Department of Defense.
Out of the Pentagon.
And there seems to be.
There seems to be a lot of disdain for this by smaller groups within organizations that answer to Mr. Hegseth.
And I think we see it all over the country, right?
Like, look how crazy people went about the shakeup of USAID. When whoever it was, and maybe it was Elon, I'm sure it was, Elon.
Maybe it was Doge.
Who put out a list of things that we, you, me, the people sitting next to you or the people you're driving by right now on the road or whatever, the things that you as hardworking Americans are paying for all over this world, all over the globe.
And people are okay with these types of things.
People are okay with shelling out money all over the world except for keeping it here inside our borders.
People actually think, folks, people actually think we're America.
We can afford to help.
We have to.
We're the only ones that can.
But I like to ask those people, you ever get on this cellular telephonic device that most of us can't even go take a shit without having in our hands?
You ever get on that thing?
Or you ever sit down at a computer and go to your precious goo goo and type in the United States debt calculator and watch that thing tick for, just watch it for three minutes.
And watch it tick live.
Now, I've been told that it's pretty accurate.
I don't know how to confirm whether or not it's accurate.
I assume it is.
It could all be a lie.
There's a lot of other things around us that are a lie.
But it's believable.
If you look at that thing and see that we're...
$38, $39 trillion in the debt as a country.
And watch how fast these numbers are moving and how fast the debt is counting.
It's believable.
So maybe the usdebtcalculator.com or whatever it is, that might be full of shit.
Maybe the numbers are off or whatever.
But the speed in which it's counting upwards, That's believable to me.
Just the sheer speed of it.
The rate at which we as a country spend money.
I believe it.
But we're not here to talk about USAID. We'll leave that for another show for another time.
We're here to talk about In my opinion, some of the most important members of the American people.
The ones that serve in our military.
And I remember the morning that Pete Hegseth got sworn in as our Secretary of Defense.
And not long after that, they interviewed him on the steps.
Of the Pentagon.
I believe it was the Pentagon that they caught him getting out of a truck, an SUV of some sort, and walking in.
And of course the reporters had questions for him.
And he obliged.
And he talked about this DEI thing.
And his words are, it's dead.
It's dead here.
And some people...
Went completely off their rocker about it.
And then it wasn't, I don't know, three, four, five days ago maybe, a co-worker of mine at the local Harley Davidson dealership that I work at had came to me and he asked, hey, did you see what they're doing about this DEI and like these?
Woke holidays or whatever in the Department of Defense that this Pete Hegseth guy was saying, we're not going to even acknowledge them any longer.
Did you see that?
He goes, I want to get your take on it.
Shane, his name is Shane.
Shane watches this show and my other show over on YouTube.
Thank you, Shane, for checking us out.
And my response to him was, well, that's how it used to be.
The military used to be that way.
Then he asked me about, like, don't ask, don't tell.
He goes, do you think don't ask, don't tell will come back?
And I said, well, maybe.
And he said, well, what do you think of that?
Whatever.
Okay, don't ask, don't tell.
And I think that here's the sticky part about it.
I have had conversations with veterans in the past who are gay or have alternative lifestyles.
And we've had conversations about them serving under Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
And, you know, I think people that were, I think people that really wanted to be open and out of the closet, if you speak, if you, so to speak, they really struggled with it because they couldn't be out if they wanted to be.
But I think from a perspective for me as a straight man in the United States Army, before Don't Ask, Don't Tell went away, I served with gay people.
I knew they were gay.
In certain circles within the unit, they weren't quiet about being gay.
They weren't out throwing it in everybody's face.
They didn't feel the need to do that, maybe.
But everyone knew.
No one was going to turn them in.
And I understand that that's not everybody's experience.
But this all goes back to the idea that Pete Hexeth talked about.
That we shouldn't be.
And according to him, we are not going to be.
We are not going to segregate our war fighters by any of these things that don't matter on a battlefield.
That any of these things that don't matter really at all.
Because when...
Man.
When the shit hits the fan, nobody gives a shit.
Nobody cares if the guy next to them is gay.
To be quite honest, nobody probably really cares if the guy next to them wants to chop his dick off and become a woman.
Not at that moment.
Maybe when that moment is over, there's some feelings or some conversations or whatever.
But I believe that getting rid of things like don't ask, don't tell.
With the understanding that that's not everybody's experience, but getting rid of it kind of just made it more of a More of a thing to be looked at.
More of a thing to be bullied about.
Maybe.
I guess my question is, does it really matter?
Does it really matter if the United States Marine Corps has dedicated groups amongst its ranks that only black Marines are allowed to attend?
And only...
Muslim Marines over here are allowed to attend.
And only the Hindu Marines over here are allowed to attend.
And the white guys are over here and gals.
And the Native American guys are here.
And the Latinos are...
Why?
We don't separate by race.
We don't separate by sexual preference or orientation.
When we're making units and we're making fire teams?
When our command staff, our commanders, are deciding the best way to cross-level their people so that you have people who are good at many things spread amongst the unit properly?
It gives a shit about your skin color.
Or who you decide to lay down next to at night?
The expectation is that you show up at the right time in the right clothes and do the right thing and have some goddamn integrity.
There's nowhere in any of the rules in the military that says we have to separate.
By race or sexual preference or age or gender or anything like that.
That was all made up.
And as far as it goes for the military, in my opinion, maybe it wasn't intended to divide us.
But it certainly became that way, it seems, at times.
You know, I can remember...
I can remember being in the field with the boys.
We had black dudes in our platoon.
Sergeant Smith, he was a black guy.
Manny Kintu, he was a black guy.
Parents are African.
I mean, we had a whole litany of ethnic backgrounds just in our platoon.
And we became a family.
We were a family.
We had a little Asian guy in our platoon who would bring big pants.
Specialist Yang.
He'd bring big pans of Pad Thai to drill that he made for everybody in the platoon.
It was awesome.
It was amazing.
I think his sister or his mom would make egg rolls, and he'd show up in the morning with this big pan of Pad Thai and this littler pan of egg rolls instead of eating the bullshit that was made for us for lunch.
Although at the end of my career, the food was pretty damn good that our cooks made.
Our cooks in particular were pretty damn good.
But he didn't care.
He didn't care if Sergeant Leonard is a half-black, half-Native American, half-Polish guy.
He didn't care if I ate his food.
We needed help with something.
He didn't care if Sergeant Smith was black.
He went and asked him for help.
When we were in the field and somebody lost their water or didn't bring enough food because they didn't bring all of their MRE because we weren't going to be out there that long and they were hungry as hell, we shared.
When we got overseas, and at times, things seemed like chaos.
IEDs were going off, complex attacks every now and then, here and there, where there's gunfire and RPGs and just fucking madness happening around you.
And we got through it.
We got to the safe spot, the closest base, so that we could do a battle damage assessment.
We could cross-level ammo if we needed to.
We could fuel up our vehicles.
We could change a tire if we needed to.
Take a break.
Let the adrenaline pump.
Slow down a little bit.
Get some chow in you.
Stand around in a group and talk about what happened.
Monday morning quarterback it, so to speak.
Get some training value out of an engagement.
We all did that together.
We were all worried about one another.
The only color that we saw...
The only thing that we worried about was the person that you are protecting or fighting alongside of, that their uniform was the same color as yours, and that it wasn't soaked in red liquid.
Nobody gives a shit about your ethnic background.
When you're wearing a military uniform, they say that America is the biggest melting pot in the world.
Okay.
Well, let me tell you what.
Within America, the biggest melting pot in the world, the United States military is the biggest melting pot in America.
The United States military recognizes something like 86 religions.
It's made up of members of all kinds of ethnic backgrounds.
Some you might not have even heard of.
And they all get their religious exemptions if they need it.
They all get their prayer time if they need it.
They all have their dedicated time available to them to go to a service.
If that's what they so choose and if they need it.
Nobody else cares.
And why?
And why is it if America, if the United States of America is said to be the most lethal fighting force in the world?
We're top dog.
If that's the case, How in God's name do we intend on keeping that status?
When we're worried about placating to whether or not we have enough transgender programs in the military.
Do we have enough Black History Month programs in the military?
Are we doing enough for the Arab Americans in our service for when it's time to remember Arab Americans?
How about this?
How about everybody just do their fucking job?
How about we stand up a strong military that doesn't see color?
That doesn't see ethnic background?
That doesn't see...
Any of this DEI woke bullshit that's going to just downgrade our lethality as a military fighting force.
What about that?
Why aren't we putting our energy into training soldiers?
In a better, maybe more efficient way.
Why aren't we putting our energy into finding ways to protect them on the battlefield in a better way?
Why are we focused on this?
And more importantly, these are the kinds of things that we, as a country, Voted for.
An overwhelming majority, mind you.
Some say a majority that has never been seen before ever in the history of this country.
For 249 years, this is the biggest landslide presidential victory ever.
And I know that there's a lot of people out there.
There's a lot of folks out there that are all for this.
All this shake-up and all this transparency that we're getting.
There's a lot of people that are supporting it.
But maybe it's a case of the squeaky wheel, right?
The squeaky wheel gets most of the grease.
But I felt like this was something that needed to be discussed because I haven't really heard any other conversations in many places and maybe I'm not looking in the right place really about this and why there's seemingly so much pushback.
I think that things like pushback from From the left is explainable.
I think it's fear.
I think that it's nervousness.
I think it's anxiety.
And not just with the Department of Defense, but all over government.
For all these years, all these things that have been going on and politicians lining their pockets.
All the politicians and their insider trading and making millions and millions and millions of dollars throughout their careers because they're privy to the information, apparently.
American people are pretty pissed about that.
Because we're struggling.
The average everyday American Is not living high on the hog to be able to go invest a bunch of money and have a sweet turnaround for millions of dollars.
Or even thousands of dollars.
Maybe not even hundreds of dollars.
But our politicians who are making the rules and then telling us what to do are living way better.
Living way better.
Than the people that voted him into those positions.
And then you have people talking about how none of this is any good.
What are we doing?
What?
This is what we asked for.
And it's pretty damn cool.
Who would have thought that in 20-ish days, or whatever it is, 15 days?
I mean, how long has it been that this much would happen?
I mean, look at the folks who are getting confirmed.
Pam Bondi.
F&A, man.
F&A. I think she's going to be great.
I think Pete Hegseth is going to be great.
Kash Patel, I don't know.
That one's a little shaky, buddy.
I don't know.
I think he lied.
I think he might have lied in his thing and got caught, but we'll see.
But even he, if he gets in, is kind of an exciting move because he's just as hungry to learn as we are.
And I really think that that's what all this is about.
I really think that this has a lot to do with why there's so much We're going
to learn.
We're going to learn how deep the swamp Might be.
We're going to learn where our money has been going.
We're going to learn why disenfranchised groups of people, homeless vets, homeless people in our country, period, are shit on all the time.
We're going to learn a lot of stuff.
I think we're going to learn a lot about the truth about January 6th.
I think there's a whole lot of information that we have no idea about yet.
And I think that people within our government all have their fingers in it.
Some way, somehow.
I think we're going to start to...
Peel back a layer.
Not we.
I think they are going to start to peel back some layers and we're going to learn.
And that's part of the reason why they're so scared.
Buckle up, folks.
Yes.
I for one, I for one hope that it is one hell of an effing ride.
Because ever since I've started doing This show, the Richard Leonard Show, on the Stu Peters Network, almost three years now.
I have dug in to things.
I have talked to people.
If you've been with us long enough to remember, I talk about it often now, the caregiver episodes with Robin Stitt and that whole debacle.
The veteran, the VSOs, the veteran service organizations, how much federal money they just wipe their asses with and flush down the toilet without helping the population of people they say they're going to help.
But they're all living real high on the hog.
All of them.
And don't get me wrong.
I think that those people, they deserve to make a paycheck.
But come on, guys.
When is enough enough?
I believe to do this type of work that a lot of these folks say they're doing, you actually have to have a passion for it.
It's not a get-rich quick, by any means quick, but not a get-rich plan at all.
And that's what I have a hard time wrapping my mind around.
All these higher-ups at the VA and the Department of Defense until now.
It seems like they're not...
They talk a really good game about how veterans are...
Their veterans are our lifeblood, and they're so important to our communities, and they're our heroes, and they're this and that, and yada, yada, yada.
Okay.
They talk about it well, but the results say that your words don't mean shit.
And so there are small victories that we get here and there, but for the large majority of the shit that comes out of a lot of their mouths, we never really see much of it.
It doesn't really affect much of us.
And then they never give you any quantitative data.
They never give you anything to show you that what they said they were going to do, they're doing, and it's working.
Then not to us, not to the American people, not to the veterans.
The department that's designed to take care of us.
The men and women who serve this country, they don't like to share the data of what they're doing to take better care of us.
They just tell us to show up here.
Show up here.
These are what we're going to do.
And they'll give you a printout and you can read about what might happen.
And then if you have questions, of course, you can ask.
But it's never really all that clear.
What's next?
And we certainly never learn about what it is we're getting for our tax dollars.
We hear a lot of words, but the words don't mean shit when there's no results.
It's not paying attention to the words.
So, I don't know.
I mean, I think maybe we've gone off the track a little bit.
But it all kind of melds back together.
All this DEI shit.
Fucking go.
Get out of here.
Holy cow.
We've got to take a break, folks.
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Hey folks, welcome back here.
Let's just keep going because, of course, I went over time as usual and we're running short.
Before we continue the conversation, I wanted to show you this two-minute clip of a news clip.
This two-minute clip of a news clip.
It was a report done, I think it's on Fox Live now or something, about Pete Hegseth's announcement.
To kill identity months in the military.
So let's watch that because it has a little bit to play in the next part of the discussion.
So here we go.
Let's check it out.
I do want to take you back to another developing story that we are following at this hour as we received a release from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who was sworn in just about a week ago.
He now says in this news release that identity months are dead at the Department of Defense.
I want to read this for you in full.
Again, this is all that release coming in from Hegseth.
He says, Our unity and purpose are instrumental to meeting the department's warfighting mission.
Efforts to divide the force to put one group ahead of another erode camaraderie and threaten mission execution.
Going forward, DOD components and military departments will not use official resources to include man hours to host celebrations or events related to cultural awareness months, including National African American Black History Month.
Women's History Month, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Pride Month, National Hispanic Heritage Month, National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and National American Indian Heritage Month.
Service members and civilians remain permitted to attend these events in an unofficial capacity outside of duty hours.
Installations, units, and offices are encouraged to celebrate the valor and success of military heroes of all races, genders, and backgrounds as we restore our warrior culture and ethos.
We are proud of our warriors and their history, but we will focus on the character of their service instead of some characteristics.
This guidance is effective immediately.
Again, that is a statement here.
There we go.
See?
Now, did you take note of how many awareness months the military is identifying or was identifying with?
As we talked about in the first segment, the biggest melting pot in this country is our military.
In my opinion, the only way to ensure a lethal fighting force that can be respected the world over that nobody's going to want to test, no one's going to want to try, is to not focus on that stuff.
Is it important?
Sure.
Sure it's important.
But there are some things that just don't belong in some places.
And I agree with Mr. Hegseth on this.
These types of things, they don't belong in the military.
Not that it's not important.
But having this to focus on at all, within the ranks of the United States military, Only divides our services further away from each other.
Why wouldn't we be holding events to bring people together?
How about just a company barbecue?
A company outing?
A unit outing?
To build camaraderie and build family.
I mean, in my opinion, one of the only ways to ensure, as a commander, now, I've never been a commander, never been an officer in the United States military, but I spend enough time in a uniform.
To kind of understand the way that maybe it should be or the way it might work better for enlisted soldiers being talked to or whatever by officers.
But it might be better to include everybody.
Because, in my opinion, one way to secure The idea that you have a fighting force that is going to overtake an enemy,
rub them off the face of the planet, assault through an objective, and do it with speed and violence of action, and do it professionally and safely for everybody involved, as safe as possible.
If you're one of those guys on the other side pointing and shooting a gun, well, you're not going to be very safe because you're going to be dead.
But if you're a civilian trapped in the middle of all this shit, it is certainly at the top of the minds of soldiers to protect innocent people.
And wouldn't it just make for just a better situation all around?
To just include everybody to everything?
How about this?
Like Pete Hegseth also said, what if we focused, when we talk about our military, what if we focused more on their skill sets?
What if we focused more on A merit-based system.
Proficiency.
The ability to do the job.
No matter what you look like.
And no matter what gender you are.
Or what gender you've switched to.
I bet you no one would care.
And no one would bother you if you showed up every day and you just did your effing job and did it well.
Because truly, that's how you gain acceptance.
If you're a person going to a new unit and you want to fit in, of course you want to fit in because that's your family now.
And you want them to accept you.
I would think the last thing you want to do is pick out things that divide you from them.
Whatever those may be.
So why is it such a crazy idea to not even have it as something to focus on?
And as you saw in the news clip, soldiers aren't being told they can't participate.
You can certainly go to a Latino American military member gathering, remembrance, observance, or whatever the hell it's called, whatever they have.
You just can't do it in uniform, and you do it on your own time, and you don't do it as a member of the United States military.
Or there'll be disciplinary action taken, probably.
And why is that such a crazy idea?
Think about...
Think about America and our record.
We are undefeated.
Undefeated World War champs.
Vietnam, depends on who you ask.
I personally think, sometimes, depending on what piece of information I'm taking in, sometimes I think that our government Got us into Vietnam and expected us to lose.
Which is bullshit for the men and women that had to serve there.
And we all know how those guys got treated when they came home.
atrocious we won korea The Gulf War.
And we did all of that when we weren't concerned about color and gender, religion, whether religion, whether or not we hated our phalluses.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Was there some of that going on?
Yeah, I'm sure there was.
And I'm sure there always will be, because you can't get all the shitbags out all the time.
And if you or somebody you know had fallen to that, had fell into that bubble where they had to or have to deal with that, that really sucks.
And I'm sorry that that was your or their experience.
It's not fair.
But dividing the force further, I really don't think is the answer.
Because for every bad story you hear about race or gender or this or that or the other thing, you hear a lot more positive ones.
And I think that some of those issues will clear themselves up when we bring on a new idea, a new culture that is going to show our soldiers we don't care if the guy in the bunk next to you is blacky.
yellow, purple, green, blue, doesn't matter.
They're your battle buddies and you look out for each other.
Because at some point you may find yourself in a situation Where that blue guy next to you is the only thing that's going to keep you from dying.
And you, the only thing that may keep him from dying.
And at the end of the day, every mission has a goal, has a purpose.
But every soldier on every mission also has their own goal.
And their own purpose alongside the mission goal and purpose.
And that is to go home.
And to fight like hell.
To achieve the mission.
Make sure they go home and make sure that their buddies go home too.
So, when soldiers get a mission, it's really three.
Because we're worried about us going home and we're worried about everyone else going home also.
On top of the mission that we were given from the commander.
Our job as infantrymen was to meet commander's intent.
We do whatever we're told to do to further the commander's narrative.
Whatever the end goal is.
Today, in order to get to the end goal, the commander wants us to do blah, blah, blah.
His intent is that we do this.
Okay?
So we're going to go do that, but we're also going to do this and this, which is bring each other home.
And bring ourselves home.
By any means necessary.
And then they train you.
They train you to do that.
They train you To be a lethal fighter.
Because how can you complete the mission without being lethal?
And so now you have all these skills.
and You have a new mindset.
You have a new purpose sometimes.
And you go to do all this stuff.
Whatever the mission is.
And sometimes, there's a lot to go into planning and executing a mission.
So, it's a process.
And then if it's all done correctly, to watch it unfold and to watch it work and to watch it move and live and breathe.
To watch a unit complete a mission and just do it.
It's really a neat thing.
But it takes a lot of training and a lot of time.
And doing it together to get there.
So my point is...
In order for us to be the type of military force that is going to be the leader, the biggest dick on the block military force, we can't focus.
We can't focus on whether or not this guy's gay and he hates his dick.
And he might be black and he's East Indian.
I can't serve with these guys.
It's not going to work.
Yeah.
That doesn't happen.
And if it is happening, this is what's going to fix it.
If those types of things are happening in our military today, it is a thousand percent because of leadership.
A thousand percent.
The military just, it has a way of bleeding that shit out of you to a certain extent.
Some people, you know, some people will still have it.
They'll still have some of it.
But that process, at least for me and the guys that I was with, because we talked about it, the process, That you go through within yourself just at basic training alone really makes you think.
Because it would be easy to slip into a mode where you're super lonely in that place by yourself.
Because if you decide not to subscribe to the team game, you will be by yourself and you will fail by yourself.
So, it has to be started from the beginning.
Okay.
Maybe it doesn't have to be, but I think it works a lot better if it starts from the beginning.
When you come here...
We're not talking about your skin color.
We're not talking about your religion.
We're not talking about where you came from, your ethnic background.
We're not talking about whether or not you're gay or straight.
We're not talking about if you want to be transgender.
We're not talking about if birds are fake.
We're not talking about none of that shit.
We're here for a purpose.
And all this other noise...
It's only going to distract from that purpose.
And at the end of the day, distracting from that purpose is going to get our soldiers killed.
If we want to look at the grand scale of events, all of this noise and DEI shit, it takes away from training.
It takes away from readiness.
It takes away from cohesiveness.
It takes away from any other team building.
And that, folks, all those things are very important for team success, for unit success.
Because without those things, People die.
And combat's not checkers.
It might seem like it on Call of Duty or Fortnite or whatever the hell it is these kids play.
But this is the real world where when you come running around a corner or whatever and get shot in the face, Your game's over forever.
There's no respawning.
There's no pause button.
There's no backing out to go to a different game or whatever.
So these things are all very serious because it takes away from unit effectiveness.
If the unit's not effective, we die.
And in the grand scheme of things, no matter what side of the aisle you sit on, no matter what you think of Donald Trump or Pete Hegseth or Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or any of these fucking politicians, whatever you think of any of them, none of that matters.
all that noise takes away from our force and all it equals to in the end is dead soldiers.
Because they're not training the way that they could be or should be.
Not only that, but they're not hanging out off duty.
They're not getting to know each other's families.
They're not godfathers to each other's kids.
None of that shit.
And why?
Because our own leadership is telling them to be divided.
I don't know, folks.
Maybe for this whole hour, I've been a broken record.
But it seems like when you get out into any space and start to have these conversations, people just don't get it.
They just don't understand.
It's either you have it or you don't.
And if you don't have it, you're racist or you're a homophobe or whatever.
If you do want it, then you're good to go.
But nobody talks about how this affects our lethality, our survivability.
And how it's really going to affect the men and women that are strapping 80 pounds on their back, picking up a weapon, putting on a helmet, and going out and walking towards gunfire to face our enemies.
And doing it without reservation.
And we're telling them to divide themselves.
I don't want to see any of them die.
And so if we don't get to celebrate Black History Month and People with Disabilities Hiring Month and Latino American Month and American Indian Month and Hindu American Month and this month and that month and the next month and the month after that, if we don't get to celebrate that because it's going to take away from our survivability, then so be it.
Who gives a shit?
We want our soldiers to have a high probability of survival.
So we owe it to them.
To let them grow together.
To let them become family together.
To let them become the most lethal fighting force on the planet.
And do it together.
Without all of our bullshit fucking opinions.
Let those soldiers go do their jobs.
And leave them be.
Make sure they're trained.
Make sure they understand the mission.
Make sure that they have some kind of god dang integrity.
And let them go win the war.
Whenever.
Or wherever it needs to be fought.
If it's here, then let's do it here.
Let's get it over with.
But something's got to give.
give And Pete Hegseth is the guy that's pushing.
And I, for one, really hope and I think that it's going to work out.
I could be wrong.
Maybe he falls flat on his face.
Who knows?
But it's already better than it was a month ago.
So for that, for now, I'm happy with.
Folks, we've run out of time.
Went way too far over.
I'm going to get a hand slap, but it's okay.
I think it's important.
With that, we will be back next week.
Please take care of yourselves.
Have a great rest of your weekend.
We'll see you later.
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 state of Israel.
Look at the state of Tel Aviv and look at the state 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 you.
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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