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Feb. 23, 2025 - Stew Peters Show
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The Price of Dominance: Exposing the Pentagon’s Financial Monster
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Here we go.
We're getting close.
We're getting a lot closer to the day.
We're getting a lot closer to the day that Mr. Elon and his band of misfits or his band of nerds or whatever it is you'd like to insert there.
Maybe they're heroes at this point.
They're coming for the Pentagon.
And maybe rightfully so.
I have a feeling That we're going to all be a little bit...
I shouldn't say all of us.
I have a feeling that we're going to see some pretty egregious shit coming down the pipe.
Anyway, today's conversation is going to be centered around what might Elon and the Doge folks find?
And what might they be doing about it?
So stick with us.
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So, as we see, seemingly, day after day, and now a couple weeks have gone by, now week after week, we hear We hear all kinds of hubbub and negativity around what Elon Musk and his people are finding in
the work that they're doing.
For some, it's not very well received, as we all know.
And I have a feeling that all of these negative people are going to also be the ones to cast...
A whole lot of extra judgment on the Department of Defense and the military when all of those findings come out.
And I'll be one of the first to tell you, if nobody has yet, they're going to find some stuff.
A thousand percent, I believe.
They're going to find some egregious shit going on within the ledgers of the Department of Defense.
The question is, what are they going to do about it?
And so, before we get down the road to all of that stuff and talking about what might be, because none of us really know for sure what's going to happen and what it's going to look like.
Although, I think a lot of us have a pretty good idea, especially those that spent a significant time in the military and kind of have a memory about how...
Money was spent and how things were done when it revolved around budgets.
Even down to the platoon and company levels.
There's definitely some waste and abuse going on.
And I was part of it.
I think everybody who serves at some point is part of it.
The question is, are you knowingly part of the egregious stuff?
But let's talk about what the United States military spends its money on.
Because I think a lot of people, when they think about military spending, they think about weapons and tanks and planes and ships and submarines, armament, missiles, bombs, bullets, all that stuff.
And all of that is true.
But there's a lot of other things that the military spends money on.
And now, I'm not here to tell you these few things that I thought were kind of important, and there's so much.
If you care to do even a tiny dive, let alone a deep dive, into the military budget and spending, it's all out there.
All of it's out there.
The one thing that I think we can give credit to the military on is that if you're willing to go find the information, it's all there, and it seems to be pretty transparent.
And so I did a little bit of digging.
I also found a couple YouTube channels, one in particular.
Boy, they did a hell of a job.
They put a lot of work in.
They got a lot of numbers.
And so there are people out there doing the work, but if you want to see for yourself, you can find it.
It's out there.
So let's just go down.
I made a little list of like four or five things, and I think that we should talk about them.
Because they kind of, along with what I read and what I watched, there's just subcategories.
That are massive.
And within these subcategories are hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands and thousands and tens of thousands of sub-subcategories.
Whatever you call that.
There's categories, subcategories.
What's next?
Sub-subs?
I'm not sure.
And so you can really dive down into the weeds and you can really get down and dirty with it.
But I just took note of the categories.
The first one, and the biggest part, the biggest chunk of the military budget, as it was reported for 2023, anyway, was $352 billion on operations and maintenance.
And so, if we think about that...
What goes into operations and maintenance?
The biggest part about that is probably the maintenance.
Every vehicle, every piece of equipment, every weapon, every tool, every uniform, every piece of clothing, all of those things all come with pretty, I'm not going to say strict, but pretty Sometimes detailed instructions about how to maintain it.
If you were in the military, you'll remember doing a PMCS, a Preventative Maintenance Checks and Services, on things like vehicles, weapon systems, stuff like that, where you take a guided tour with your paperwork through the vehicle, the lights, the engine, the oil, the brake fluid.
The coolant, the body, depending on what the body's made out of.
We had a lot of soft-sided Humvees when I was in.
So you check the tarps and then blah, blah, blah.
You just check everything over.
Anything that is not the way that it should be gets annotated.
And theoretically, the maintenance staff fixes it when it all gets put in line.
And when it's turned in line, it gets fixed.
And there's different...
There's different categories of checks.
Some things you can, all right, well, we've got to rip in the canopy of this truck.
Okay, well, it's not going to prevent it from working for training, so go ahead, take it.
Make sure we annotate it properly, and then we'll fix it when it's not being used for training.
That's expensive.
Vehicle parts are expensive.
Tools are expensive.
There's just a lot of stuff that's super expensive.
When we also think of operations, we also have to keep in mind that this part of the budget as well helps pay for childcare, helps pay for teachers.
To teach the children of the active duty soldiers that are living on base.
You can get really down and dirty in the weeds about all this stuff.
But think about your job.
Whatever it is that you do, if it involves any kind of operations at all, you know how tedious it can be.
You know how much of a headache it can be, and it can be expensive.
And so along with all this stuff, and the one thing that we should point out for maintenance is the documentation and the computer systems, the software, the hardware, making sure that it's rugged enough to stand up to some dipshit mechanic that is not doing the right thing.
I don't know about you guys, but when I was in, we had a lot of guys who chose to be mechanics who were alright in fixing vehicles and fixing things.
But boy, they struggled with a lot of other things.
We also had some mechanics, I'll tell you what, that were geniuses.
We had a dude in our unit.
As the story goes, he's never confirmed this, and I've never checked on his information.
Not really.
Not really worth the time.
I believe it after knowing this fella for long enough.
But as the story goes, he didn't do very well on his ASVAB test.
And the only place on his test that he scored through the roof was mechanical.
And so the deal they offered him was, listen bro, everything that we have put in front of you that has anything to do with mechanics, You figure it out.
It's no problem for you.
So if you want to join the military, you're welcome to join, but you can be a mechanic.
That's it.
He didn't pass anything else to put him in any other job, and it just so happened to work out for this guy because a mechanic is what he wanted to be, and he was great.
When we were in Iraq, this fellow found a bicycle.
I think some unit had left, and they just left their bicycles by the dumpster or by the bus stop or something.
For people to take and use.
This guy grabbed a bike, found a small engine off of some small piece of equipment that was damaged and wasn't working, took the time on his off time to rebuild this thing, put it together, and mount it to this bicycle.
And he now had a motorized bike to ride around base, to the chow hall, to the gym, down to the motor pool where he worked, all kinds of stuff.
Very smart dude.
Great mechanic.
I don't know how we got there, but we were talking about operations.
So like these types of things are all operation type issues.
And they all require tools and equipment and all that stuff.
And all of that costs money.
The other part of it is health services.
In this part of the budget.
Of the $352 billion for operations and maintenance, the military spends $39 billion of that $352 billion on defense health services.
This is where the schools and the teachers and the doctors and the dentists and all those things, that's where all this gets paid for.
I don't even know how many bases there are in the United States.
There's got to be a couple hundred.
You would think.
We got guard bases.
We got small little camps here and there.
We have big active duty bases.
Maybe it's not 200. I do know that throughout the world, the United States military has 800-something bases.
According to the information that we read.
So now imagine all of these bases all over the world.
And we gotta put doctors there.
We gotta put medical facilities.
We gotta put schools if it's a place in the world where soldiers are allowed to move their families to.
Which are most places in Europe.
Things like that.
Their families deserve to have schools and jobs and things like that.
So all of those things need to be provided because the military provides that for its soldiers and their families.
The other part of this $352 billion for operations and maintenance is also environmental cleanup, environmental preservation.
Things like that.
Wherever the United States military goes, especially when we're fighting, we've got to clean up after ourselves.
So, when we roll into some country, some city within that country, and firefights and war breaks out, and the place becomes decimated, well...
We rebuild it.
The United States of America rebuilds where it fought.
We go and we try to pick up all of our unexploded ordnance.
Anything that is going to cause harm to the area in which we were or to its people are the things that the United States of America aims to pick up, clean up, and make right again.
There is enough collateral damage happening in war already, all by itself.
So we must clean up after ourselves.
Or at least that's what the Department of Defense says.
And I agree with it too.
But I think that there is a slippery slope there.
I think that...
If we're fighting wars in foreign lands, especially if we're taken up for somebody who may not be able to defend themselves as well, hopefully they share in the cost and the operations to make all of that right again.
Because after all, if U.S. troops were there and they accomplished their mission, well, that would tell me...
That they've just secured that area for the indigenous people there, for the people that grew up there, that live there, that have spent their whole lives there.
So they have a vested interest in helping pay and do whatever it is that they can do to just contribute.
I don't know if that's too much to ask.
Moving on.
The United States military spends $172 billion on personnel costs.
So in this section, in personnel, of course we have recruiting.
We have uniforms.
We have food, sustainment, and whatever it takes to sustain these men and women.
It's a lot.
If you think about just the gear, the uniforms, the TA-50, the field gear, that is provided to each and every person, it's thousands of dollars.
Three, four, five, six thousand dollars, depending on your job and the equipment needed to perform it.
And who knows what it's like now.
It may be higher than that now.
I mean...
Shit, I got out in 2021. That was four years ago.
We've been through a lot since then.
But you get your four uniforms.
You get socks.
You get underwear.
You get a few pairs of boots.
You get hats.
You get dress uniforms.
You get PT uniforms.
You get cold weather gear.
You get your field gear.
All of your body armor, your helmet, your eye protection, your gloves.
I mean, everything.
Everything you need.
Tactical gear, load-bearing vests, gas masks.
Those are handed out by the unit.
Those are sensitive items, so you take them out and turn them in as you use them.
So that's not issued to you.
There's just a lot of stuff.
We have to have enough weapon systems, which may be part of your...
But each soldier also gets cleaning kits.
I mean, there's a lot of stuff.
I think that I've been out for, what, five years now?
Four years?
And I still got a few bins full of military stuff laying around the house.
And part of that is because I don't want to get rid of it.
You know, it was 19 years of my life that I spent.
So some of that stuff I want to keep.
It's got a little bit of meaning to me.
But that's a pretty big cost, $172 billion.
And remember that we've been in a recruiting crisis for a long time now.
We've been trying to find soldiers for a few years.
Hopefully now that there's been a switch.
In the government, maybe we'll get a lot more young people that are interested and willing to join the military and have great careers and do amazing things and see the world and all those other things that are talked about.
But that's a lot of money when we're not even hitting our recruiting goals.
So I wonder, If that number is going to be higher as more people come in, and I think of course it will be, but is it going to be like astronomically higher?
Is the price per troop going to go up?
And not just like with inflation, but there's a whole lot more gear expected to be coming out.
The military is going to new weapon systems.
There's just a lot of stuff.
How much higher is it going to cost the taxpayer per soldier to have the tools and equipment needed for each individual soldier?
And I'm not here saying that we need to start taking back equipment from soldiers.
I think that's the wrong idea.
But we're just talking about what's spent.
There's a lot of money spent.
Moving on, $140 billion in research and development, and most of that is used to maintain technological superiority on the battlefield.
To be the cat's ass on whatever battlefield we may find ourselves in is certainly in our advantage.
It certainly plays to our advantage.
So, keep researching and keep developing.
And here's the thing, right?
The military budget is bigger than like 10 other countries in the world combined.
Some of these subsets, you know, like $352 billion was more than, the guy said it on the podcast, it was like more than Belarus's whole economy.
And that's just one section of what we're selling.
I don't know if it was Belarus.
It was one of those Eastern European countries.
But just operations and maintenance cost the United States taxpayer more than their whole country's economy combined.
And then also more than 10 other countries' military budget combined.
And so how do we maintain our lethality?
How do we maintain being the top dog if we are?
Everybody claims that we are.
Everywhere you read, everything you watch, most people you talk to.
Yeah, the United States is by far military powerhouse, military super force.
And it seems as if that's not too far from the truth.
Once you start digging into what other countries are putting into their defense and what they're spending and this and that and the other thing, it seems to be pretty true.
And in watching these videos and taking in the information and reading the articles and the research, it got me thinking about Why?
Why is our military budget bigger than 10 other countries combined?
Why is one subset of our military budget bigger than some other countries' whole economy?
And the dude on the podcast said this also, and I agree 10,000%.
It's the price that we have to pay to be the top dog.
To write the rules.
And to tell people how they're going to follow these rules.
And so things like $140 billion on R&D, it's a ton of money.
But if we knock it down to $80 billion, let's say, is that going to be...
Is that going to be the difference between another country advancing their technology and their lethality above ours?
And then they're going to test the top dog.
I don't know if we want to do that.
I think the rest of the world having a somewhat suspicious but healthy fear of what the United States military can do Anywhere in the world is an advantage to us.
Because what you also have to ask yourself through all of this, as you're looking through all these numbers and you're talking about all this waste and abuse and maybe even a bunch of fraud, which I'm sure there's going to be some.
I'm not naive to it.
What we have to really stop and think about is, is all of this spending keeping us safe?
Are we as Americans safer by spending this much money on a military budget?
And I think that depending on who you ask, of course, you're going to get a lot of mixed answers.
If you ask me, I'm going to say, yeah, probably.
But that doesn't mean that I like it.
It doesn't mean that I a thousand percent agree with why it has to be that way.
But when you're in a situation where your authority and your status could be checked, well, I think that that poses an issue.
And so those types of things...
I think are extremely important.
So, in my opinion, $140 billion on research and development, it might be just enough.
Could it be more?
I'm positive that it could be.
But what is the price that America has to pay for, for lack of a better term, the safety?
In which we have.
This, as we talked about before, this proverbial blanket of freedom that we were told about so many years ago.
And you remember the old saying, freedom isn't free?
Well, I don't know if that was just directed at the troops.
Most people take that as freedom isn't free means that a lot of soldiers gave their lives and sacrificed a lot of stuff, their whole life, for this country, for the idea of freedom, to provide this blanket.
And I don't know.
Is it just the soldiers?
But I think that when we're talking about numbers, it becomes pretty clear that freedom isn't free also because we've got to pay through the nose for it.
But is it worth paying all that money, paying through the nose, to be the one that writes the rules, that enforces the rules, that deals out discipline when the rules aren't followed?
And maybe people don't want to be that America.
Maybe people don't want to be the America that is writing the rules and telling people what they got to do other places in the world, as it relates to, you know, political leaders and things of that nature.
But I think now that we're here, and for lack of a better term, enjoying the top spot, Even though at times it looks pretty effing dismal.
I don't know if the grass is greener.
Spots below us.
And so I think that what we're going to find is that there's going to be quite a few different places that we can cut some spending and save the government and the taxpayer some money.
It only helps us.
It doesn't hurt us at all.
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Let's keep going down the list.
I ran pretty long over the break again, so we ought to just jump back in.
There's two subsets left that we should discuss briefly, and then we'll move on.
The next one, which is the smallest part of the budget, the smallest part, is $19 billion for construction.
And $19 billion.
In a budget so large, $19 billion seems a little short for construction.
And so I wonder, what I wonder is, is this $19 billion construction budget for, like, the building of...
New barracks and new office buildings and things like that on bases around the world.
Or is this $19 billion for construction on other things?
And the barracks and the office buildings and the chow halls, all the stuff that you see in the middle of a base, you know, the PX and the grocery store.
All that stuff.
Is that part of this budget?
Or does that fall under a different category?
Or discretional funding?
Which, keep in mind, we haven't talked about discretional spending because the numbers and how that breaks down is...
All over the place.
That's probably two or three shows all in itself.
The discretional budget for the military is wild, man.
And so, like, is some of that money or procurement money going to contractors to do construction?
What does the $19 billion for construction actually go to?
And that is something that wasn't very widely discussed.
They just kind of threw it out there, and probably because in the grand scheme of things, it's pennies compared to what we're spending in the military on everything else.
And so, you know, in reading some research, part of this budget was building new ranges and new training facilities, new mount sites, new land nav courses, those types of things.
That happen in a training environment.
Those kind of structures.
Because usually they're cinder block buildings, or they were cinder block buildings set up in a little town.
And they can be used for training purposes.
But they do different floor plans and stuff.
So they're helpful and they're useful for training.
But I don't know that $19 billion is part of the nice stuff.
We'll just say nice stuff on a base.
The fluff, if you will.
The next subset is procurement.
And I found this to be pretty wild.
Aside from the discretional spending.
The discretional budget is, like I said, is nuts.
But also remember that that budget makes up 43% of the overall federal budget.
Almost half of the federal budget is Department of Defense or military discretional spending.
So let your mind take that wherever it will.
Procurement, though.
This is for all the tangible stuff, right?
The ammunition, the rockets, The bombs, the missiles, the planes, the helicopters, the submarines, the Navy ships, all that stuff.
All falls under this.
As well as some contracting dollars.
There are contractors in the United States that I'm sure everyone knows about.
Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, you know, things like that.
That are making our weapons.
Lockheed Martin, for lack of a better description, is like the Stark Industries of the United States of America in real life.
They make everything that we shoot at people.
Other than the bullets, I'm sure, but they make rockets, they make bombs, they make missiles.
Boeing makes a lot of aircraft stuff.
Aviation stuff.
And all of it is very expensive.
And the federal government has ordered a shit ton of all of these things over the next few years.
Billions and billions of dollars worth, as we can see.
But this goes back to the R&D explanation.
In my mind.
In order to keep our lethality, in order to be the biggest dick on the block, right?
To walk and carry the biggest stick.
We've got to have the best weapons.
We've got to have those weapons that people in other countries, other military leaders are talking about.
Like, I don't know if we should be riling up the United States.
They got these missiles, they got these bombs, they got this, they got that, they got the other thing.
And, of course, other countries have it, too.
I think we see that all the time, and we know that.
It's not a foreign idea to any of us.
But there's a lot of money spent.
On procurement, just to make sure that we have the necessary equipment, the necessary stuff to be lethal and to be thorough.
Because what you don't want to do in any combat situation is miss something and have to go back for more.
Once you blaze that trail, you don't want to have to go back.
And so, the cost of these things, you know, like, what's the F-22?
Something like $143 million or something like that.
Maybe it's more per plane.
And for 25, if I remember right, the United States ordered like 83 of them.
Didn't we just give a bunch of fighter jets away?
I mean, maybe they were old.
But didn't we just give a ton of them away to other countries?
And by a ton, I mean like 15 to 30?
In my mind, as it pertains to fighter jets, that's a lot.
That's a ton.
When we're ordering, you know, less than 100 a year because they're so expensive.
They talked about the new vehicle that soldiers will be taking into battle.
The LRTM or something like that.
I forget the acronym that they used.
But that thing's like $120,000 a piece.
We're ordering them by the hundreds.
Is it necessary?
Maybe it is.
Maybe it is necessary.
But it's a lot of money.
And so I think that a decision, that President Trump is going to have to make a decision about How much we're spending and on what.
And maybe the decision is to not cut a whole lot from the military.
Maybe the decision is to cut from everywhere else first.
But I promise you, I promise you guys, as sure as the sun will come up tomorrow, I promise you that they're going to find things to cut.
And I believe that that discretionary spending budget Could probably come down quite a bit.
The set budgets, the things that are set that we need, personnel, operations, maintenance, the R&D for sure, those types of things, I think that maybe they can be adjusted, probably.
I guess we'll see.
To not be so expensive.
Maybe we don't have to...
Maybe we don't have to research 20 weapons.
Maybe we only research 12 weapons.
Or 15. I don't know.
I don't know exactly what all the money is spent on.
But I'm sure that there are things that can be done to save the taxpayers some money.
And just like every other agency that Elon and his folks and the president are going to go through, I think that there's probably, in every agency, something that can be saved, something good, something that's meaningful.
And it's hard for me to believe that there aren't federal employees out there that are really trying to do the right thing.
They're trying to keep adequate counts of the things that they have and not waste the money on things they don't need.
Stuff like that.
But what really troubles me, if anything, about this whole Doge tour that they're going to take in the federal government and audit the place as they go through is that people are pissed off about it.
If you are a person who, every day, gets your ass up.
Whenever it is, it's time for you to get up.
Take your ass to work.
And work hard for your money.
Only to pay tax on it.
To pay tax on it again.
And guess what?
To pay tax on it one more time.
You want to know.
I would think.
You want to know where this money is going.
And you want to know that it's being spent on something.
That it's going to be helpful for you and your community.
This idea that this is somehow a mission for Elon Musk to take over the United States of America and be this treasonous traitor, I think is far-fetched.
And you know what?
Maybe I'll have to eat my words in a few short years.
But, as it sits today, I find it hard to believe that anybody has a problem with us as the United States of America and its citizens understanding where the money that we pay the government and tax and whatever else, day after day after day.
I don't think it's wrong for us to know where it's going.
And I don't think it's wrong for anybody to say, well wait a minute.
We're spending a lot of money on unnecessary things.
We're going to have to get rid of this stuff.
Which means that people are probably going to have to lose jobs.
Departments may close.
Downsizing.
We have to.
And all of these politicians and bureaucrats throughout our government, and not just the federal government, folks, the state, the cities, the counties, the school boards, the city councils, county commissioners, all of these people are wasting money, some way, somehow.
Is it possible that there are government agencies and government officials somewhere that are keeping accurate tabs on every cent?
Yeah, it's possible.
And I really hope that it exists out there somewhere.
I don't believe that where I'm at, in Minnesota, that it's true.
I think if Elon and his crew came to Minnesota and started auditing counties and cities and things of that nature, it might even be a better read than what they're going to find in the federal government.
And then the discussion becomes, well, how much of that state money was given by the federal government?
So now and hence we're wasting.
Federal tax dollars that were given to the state to do whatever the initiative was.
Who knows?
But I'll tell you what, man.
I don't see how this is bad at all.
Is it going to hurt for some people?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's going to hurt.
But I think that in the long run, at the end of the day, that we're all going to be better off.
Our children will be better off.
Their children will be better off.
But we have to keep this momentum.
See, the part of this that's troubling is that now the clock is ticking.
The clock is ticking and it's ticking fast.
Before we know it, there's going to be another presidential election cycle coming.
And 77 million people...
Aren't going to be able to congregate on the mountaintops and scream their support for Donald Trump.
He's out.
So what comes next?
Who comes next?
So my question is, is all of this possibly going to end up being In vain.
Because I can promise you one thing.
If the other side wins the next presidential election, all of this stuff that Trump is doing now is going to just get reversed.
Unless he's doing something to make sure it's permanent.
And he just might be.
I'm convinced that Donald Trump is playing chess.
And I hope that he's a really good chess player.
In fact, I hope he's a master chess player.
I think it would benefit all of us if he was.
But also what I find extremely interesting is the level and the lengths that politicians And the halls of our government are going to try to throw a wrench in all of this.
And every time they scream louder and they resist harder, in my opinion, it just becomes more clear.
It becomes more clear to me how involved and How screwed up the system is.
How involved these people are in what's going on outside of doing what the American people have asked them to do.
The insider trading is ridiculous.
How is it?
How is it that?
I'm not exactly sure what a sitting member of Congress makes a year, but it's probably I think it's like around two between 200 and $300,000 a year.
And also all you have to do is serve one term and get medical care for the rest of your life.
That's wild.
and But how much money are these folks making?
When that is your salary, when you're making, let's just say 220, let's just say that a sitting member of Congress makes $220,000 a year.
And they leave Congress 25, 30 years later, and they're worth hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars.
How is that possible?
And some people will say, well, you know, a lot of these people marry rich people.
Rich folks want to be married to politicians.
I don't know if that's true.
I don't know if that's true.
I think that the spouses of all these politicians become rich because everything gets put in their name.
And the politicians are the ones that are making all the money on the backside.
Slide in their greasy palms in each other's pockets.
And all the while, here are the American people struggling.
Which is what really drives a lot of people nuts, I would imagine.
Furthermore, didn't the Democrats scream for a long time about how much money we're wasting?
And how much this costs and that costs?
And now, we don't want anybody to touch it.
We're concerned what Elon might find.
Are we concerned about what things cost as long as it doesn't interfere with the money that's coming into my pocket?
I don't know, man.
If you think about $167 billion on procurement, There's a lot of contracts in there.
And a lot of these organizations that hold these contracts, they're American companies.
And they're all in somebody's district, in somebody's state.
And so if you're a company that makes missiles, To the tune of $1.3 million apiece.
Or $560,000 apiece.
And at that price, soldiers are just firing them in training.
Which is necessary.
You've got to shoot the real thing if you're going to know how it operates in real life.
You've got to do it in training.
You train as you fight.
But all these places are in.
Some politicians' district.
And they all employ a lot of people.
All of them do.
And so if all those people are going to potentially be out of a job or they're going to lose wages or something like that, you better believe they're going right to their elected official that is walking the halls in Washington that can get them The things that they need.
Like saving their jobs.
So some lobbyists will go in.
That is representing said company.
And I believe that there is a chance that these conversations are pretty short.
Hey Richard, my name is Tom.
And I own Missiles R Us.
In Nevada, you happen to be the member of Congress that represents the district that my company falls in.
I'm going to tell you what, I'm going to be frank with you.
If I give you $50 million right now, can you help us get some rules changed so that we can operate and pay less money?
Can you help us with taxes?
Can you help us with this?
Can you help us with that?
And if you can, And we get legislation passed and it all works out.
We'll give you another extra $100 million.
Can you do that for us?
My opinion is that might be pretty close to how these lobbyist conversations happen behind closed doors.
Why else would the politicians be so pissed?
That they're finding all this fraud, waste, and abuse.
Millions and millions of dollars, billions of dollars spent on bullshit contracts and bullshit initiatives all over the world in the United States of America.
You are paying for it.
But the politicians are pissed because Elon is not the president.
Yeah, well, I don't care if Elon is the president or not.
Elon and his people are the ones that are right now telling us, the American people, where you slimy son of a bitches are screwing us over yet again.
So keep it up.
Go ahead, Elon.
Keep doing your thing, bro.
Majority, the majority of the country is excited that you're here.
We all love what you're doing.
So don't hold back.
Keep searching, keep finding, and keep being transparent.
If nothing else, that's what I believe the American people love the most, is the transparency.
It is something that we have not had from our government and our elected officials in a long time.
So thank you for that.
I don't know, folks.
What do you think about the military budget?
What do you think we should be spending our money on?
This is very preliminary information.
I did not do a deep dive.
Well, I did do a deeper dive than I talked about on the show, but I think that these types of discussions are valuable because I'd like them to prompt you to dig and to do a little bit of reading if you're so inclined to do so.
Because there's a lot more to learn.
There's a lot of information out there and there's a lot of people talking about it.
We just don't always see it unless we go looking for it.
So, dive in.
Dive in and also keep watching because we're going to see.
We're going to see what they find.
We're going to see what the government is doing.
No problem.
I think that we're going to see a lot of it.
Anyway, we've run out of time for this week.
Again, I want to tell you how much I appreciate you being here.
Thanks for joining us.
Take care of yourselves, and we'll see you all next week.
Have a good night.
Bye-bye.
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 them.
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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