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April 6, 2025 - Stew Peters Show
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Fighting for a Cause: Veterans, Commitment, and Disillusionment in the Ukraine Conflict
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What if I were to tell you that United States military veterans who have, at one point in their lives, they filled out a blank check, right?
We've all heard this.
Fill out a blank check and the amount up into the cost of my life.
Here you go, America, now send me to do your bidding.
Send me, I signed up to be a soldier.
Send me to be a soldier.
And now that they've completed this service, and they've chosen to go fight on behalf of the Ukraine, they now see America in a much different light, it seems.
So, today we're going to discuss that, and I also am interested about why veterans are in the news so often nowadays.
I find that interesting as well.
So stick with us, don't go away.
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So, throughout the week, as I've explained before, throughout the week, I spend a significant amount of time trying to stay up on what's happening, right?
I feel like part of, maybe part of the responsibility of doing this kind of work is that you just try to stay informed, right?
Don't know nothing about nothing.
But if you make an effort to try to stay informed, so at least you can provide some kind of content that provides context to what people are thinking and feeling or maybe not even knowing about, I think that's important.
That's why we're here, right?
I don't know if this is the place where you go to find people who are just randomly talking about whatever's on their mind.
So, I try to do that.
And I came across a story of all places, military.com, which I haven't really ever read a whole lot of their stuff.
They were trying to force you to be a member and paid membership and all this stuff at one point.
Well, there's a few military publications that you can kind of get similar stories from, but military.com seems to be a little more left-leaning.
...than the others that are, in my opinion, a little more straight down the middle, like military and veterans issues should be.
That's what we think, anyway.
But there's this story about United States military veterans who have chosen, of their own free will, just like when they joined the military to go fight on behalf...
And watching all the political discourse and everything that's going on back home, they say, has really altered their perception and their opinion of their country and how it's run.
And the people that we, as voters, elect into the office, a couple of them even highlighted that they voted for Donald Trump.
I agree with that.
I think that...
In the last administration, those of us who were willing and able and wanted to had a field day with interesting content to talk about.
And don't get me wrong, there's still interesting things to be talking about because there's a lot of what, in my opinion, is some pretty interesting shenanigans going on in and around Capitol Hill.
Like Mr. Blumenthal's shadow hearings, right?
Like we talked about last week.
I find that interesting.
That anybody thinks that's going to work when you have just one side of the story.
Aren't a lot of these politicians, they're lawyers and mayors and X this and X that and they were this and they went to this big fancy Ivy League school or whatever.
But yet they still think that We're going to segregate both sides of the story.
Segregate both sides of the issue.
A lot like the police do, right?
If you get pulled over in a car and there's been a crime committed and the police think that the car that you're driving matches the description and they get everyone out of the car, what is the first thing they do?
They separate you.
They segregate you to get the story.
See how many of the stories line up?
Probably, depending on the age of the individuals, a lot of times I bet they find that none of the stories line up, because they haven't agreed on a lie yet.
They haven't thought it out enough to agree on what the lie is going to be, when and if we get caught, as kids do.
But here now, on Capitol Hill, we have these...
Full-grown adults.
Accomplished individuals.
They say that we've all elected.
We've all voted them into office.
And so that makes them super competent.
And so, of course, now they're going to separate.
They're going to segregate the issue.
But the problem is that they're not going to get the other side of the story.
They're not going to get both sides of the story.
They're not going to look to see if there's anybody on the middle ground.
Hmm. And this is going to solve a problem for VA layoffs, right?
When the man, the secretary, says he wants to cut 80,000 more people and we're holding shadow hearings, like we talked about, for 2,400.
4,400, whatever the number was.
I find it interesting.
And so now, back to the real thing, right?
The veterans who are fighting in Ukraine.
So now they see all this stuff.
They see what Trump is saying on TV and the way that people are reacting and maybe some of their investments if they're in the stock market.
Crypto or whatever and they see the way that all that's reacting to what Trump's doing and saying and what the legacy media is saying.
And they formulated this whole opinion about how they just hate the government.
They hate the country that they came from.
And maybe they don't say they hate.
Maybe I should have it on the screen like I usually do.
But they have a strong disdain for the United States system.
Which I guess saying it out loud a lot of people in the current situation have a lot of disdain for the United States system.
But the concern is For me, a little bit more about why.
Why they're so upset.
They're so upset because America is apparently going to stop supporting the war in Ukraine.
Now there was a ceasefire, there was some deal.
But according to this, bombs are still falling.
People are still getting shot.
There's firefights.
There's rocket attacks.
There's this and that.
It's still happening.
So, I don't know.
I don't know what the...
I'm not educated on the ceasefire deal.
What was agreed to in what regions and what was not agreed to in what regions.
But nobody asked you.
To go.
Nobody asked these guys, hey, all you dudes should get a bunch of your gear, grab your weapons.
You should go and fight the Russians in the Ukraine war.
Don't worry.
It'll all be good.
Big Papa's coming, right?
The big guy.
Keep some on ice for the big guy.
He's coming.
But it doesn't seem like big daddy American military is coming.
Maybe they are.
Maybe that will happen.
See, I think it's a little bit different when you show disdain for the government that you sacrificed your whole life for.
You sacrificed your youth.
You sacrificed your health.
You sacrificed some experiences in life that you don't get that most other people do because you're doing something different.
So if you have strong disdain for that, after you've given, If you can say that you've given everything that you were supposed to, that you agreed to, and you left it all out on the field, and you were abandoned somewhere, then I get it.
But now because you've chosen, you've chosen to gather your things, go over, Join forces with the Ukrainians and fight the Russians.
And America can't support it forever.
They can't pay the bill forever.
As we've been hearing day after day after day after day, now you're pissed off.
Now, I don't think that that's...
I don't think that that argument holds any weight.
Because... I get it, right?
Like, I understand that some guys will, some guys look at this, and women too, there's women there fighting.
I think that people look at it as like this, this commitment that they made for peace and justice, or whatever it looks like to them, that it needs to be made wherever it is that they can help, wherever they can lend a hand.
And I get it.
I understand where they're coming from.
I understand how they feel.
But still, at the end of the day, it's your decision, man.
If that's how you feel, that you're going to go and fight injustice, I'm on board with you.
I get it.
I'm not going with you, but I can support that feeling and that drive for you.
And if somebody, one of my buddies that I served with, for example, had contacted me and said, you know, I really feel compelled.
I really feel compelled to gather all my equipment and go fight the Russians on behalf of the Ukrainian people.
If we were in the same town, I'd ask them to meet up.
Have a whiskey together.
Have a beer together.
Have a conversation.
Do some reminiscing, maybe.
And I would wish him well.
That's your decision, man, and I get it.
Godspeed, brother.
But you can't look back and say, well, you didn't come with me, so that doesn't...
You're not supportive.
And so when the American government says, all right, we're done with this.
We can't afford it.
We can't spend billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars here.
Well, that means you, Joe Snuffy, that decided to go.
That is going to affect you.
One of the guys in here talked about...
The tension.
It didn't sound to me like he felt unsafe, but it certainly sounded like there's tension now.
When you're not out in the front lines fighting and you're in the rear doing recovery or whatever it is you're doing, like now there's tension and people look at you different and people are upset at you and all this other stuff because America, in their eyes, backed out.
They picked up their ball and they went home.
After the last interaction that we all saw on the news with President Zelensky and President Trump.
That's when they say America picked up their ball, put their thumb in their mouth, and went crying back home.
I think that it takes a very strong person to commit.
To that fight.
It takes a strong person to put your life on hold.
And maybe some of these folks, maybe they're single and they don't have any kids.
And they don't necessarily like the job that they're in.
Or maybe they didn't have a job.
Who knows where these folks were at before they decided to go.
But whatever.
Even if you have kids and a wife at home and this and that.
And your family supports you doing it.
I support you doing it too.
But I don't support your disdain for the country who's trying to rebuild itself and get itself out of this decline, this plummet.
This plummet that we found ourselves in for quite a long time.
I would think that they would look and say, well, maybe not.
I guess vision through...
Through the smoke and the fog and all that stuff is different.
The view of the facts, I suppose, they look different from the front lines than they do from where I'm sitting.
I can certainly say that when I was in combat and I was out there running around in trucks, escorting semis up and down the highways and shooting it out with people and we were dodging IEDs and all kinds of shit.
The view of the world from that perspective was a whole lot different than it was from anybody who was sitting here.
Home. Back in America.
So, I understand where they're coming from.
But I also would challenge them to think about also what you left.
You know, we've talked a lot of times on this show about watching our own bobber.
We talk a lot about having integrity and honesty.
I would think that a man or a woman who spent a career Or hover along in the military and they found that kind of devotion.
They found the ability to commit fully to something like fighting the Russians.
You're going to just leave your whole life behind.
It takes a strong person to do that.
Some would say it takes a crazy person to do it.
I think it takes a strong person to do it.
But you also have to remember that you walked away from a lot of people that could have used your efforts also.
When your own backyard is full of dog shit, you're going to the other people's yard to pick up their dog shit.
Some people would say, you walked out on America.
America didn't walk out on you.
After everything that you've been through, everything you've given, maybe some of the things you've seen or the things you've had to do, or just having this discussion with a buddy of mine, being a member of the military is a thankless job.
It's a thankless job.
Sure, people will shake your hand.
They'll thank you for your service.
There's all these organizations that'll do things and some places will offer you a 10% discount or a free meal on November 11th to say thank you and all that is great.
I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with it.
It's a gesture.
an extent of gratitude and And, you know, people will.
All the time.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Awesome. But let me ask you this.
If you're one of those people, how many times have you taken the opportunity to really, really talk to a member of the military or a veteran?
And find out really what the experience is like.
And it's a lot easier said than done, I realize.
But think about this.
If we teach our kids, right?
We teach our kids, hey, there's a policeman.
You should go shake his hand, buddy, and say thank you for protecting our community.
Or you see a firefighter.
Or when you see a soldier, thank them for their service.
But do we tell them why?
Do we know why?
Not only are we teaching our kids why, but do we know why?
Okay.
Do we know why we tell our kids to go other than the cops keep the bad guys away and they keep us safe?
The firemen, they help us when accidents happen, when lightning strikes our house and it starts on fire, or, you know, somebody made a mistake and left the pizza in too long and the house starts on whatever the case may be.
You didn't know you couldn't put grease or water on a grease fire, that type of thing.
They come and they save us.
And we thank soldiers for their service because they protect America all over the world.
And so as we grow older, do we continue to have those conversations about why We say thank you to those people.
And for many people, I believe that they just assume that those types of things, they grow organically.
People will understand organically why we say thank you to soldiers and this and that and the other thing.
But I think where we've kind of fell short with veterans is, do you really know what their experience was?
Do you know what you're thankful for?
The flag is great.
Freedom and prosperity.
Living the American dream.
The proverbial blanket of freedom.
Yeah, that's all part of it.
Thank you.
But what was the experience like?
Now, I don't necessarily mean that we need to tell People and kids and everyone else all these gruesome, gory, horrible details about combat or the things that we've seen or the things that we've been through.
But you can certainly talk about your experience.
I have found that there are ways to talk about things like combat in a way that seems a little less shocking although I hate doing it because I believe that everyone should have to feel it.
If you want to know, and you really want to try to understand, then you've got to feel something.
Because everybody that, in my opinion, everybody that put on that uniform, they all experienced something that was life-changing.
Good, bad, or indifferent.
Everybody experienced something.
And everybody should be able to To talk about those experiences and how it shaped who they have become and all of those types of things.
So I believe that although, again, easier said than done, I believe that if we were to get serious about meaning, Our thank yous and meaning the things that we say, that'll change a little bit, maybe.
And I don't even know how we got down that goat trail talking about veterans fighting in the Ukraine.
But I think it's interesting, right?
Because people are real quick.
People are real quick to forget where they came from.
And how it was developed and how it all came to be when the next big thing comes.
It's kind of like those people.
Do you know any people who are like the bigger, better deal type person?
Well, they'll be all in on this, that, and the other thing, and then the second the bigger, better deal comes along, whatever that may be.
Well, there we go there.
Then we lose sight of all these things that we've built, maybe relationships that we've fostered, career milestones that we've reached, whatever it is, I think it's important to always remember where you came from.
Remembering where you grew up and how you were raised, what led you on the path that you were on.
For people who served in the military, what led you to the military?
I mean, I think that the reasons are, there's a plethora of them, and they're all out there.
You'll find them everywhere.
It's my patriotic duty.
I joined so I could get free college.
I don't know, grew up in a small town, didn't really have anything better to do.
If I stayed there, I'd be a drunk.
Get those people too.
And everybody, no matter what.
You get the people that...
I served with a couple guys in my basic training platoon.
Well, it was one guy.
It was military or jail.
I think he came from Alabama or Georgia or something like that.
So the military was his last chance to stay out of the Huskow.
And I don't know what happened to him after basic training, but...
I remember that he was a pretty damn good soldier.
He was running in the best run group.
He was an ace at land nav.
He did well.
He didn't seem like a criminal to me.
He just seemed like a guy who was probably in a place where he was bored.
Being older now and looking back, he was probably bored.
And wherever he came from, causing trouble was like what you do for the day.
Let's see how much trouble we can cause, or if we can just cause some trouble and see if we can get away with it.
We'll be good.
Well, he didn't get away with it very often, it appeared.
Because it was either the United States Army or the Huskow.
And so there he was.
And he did great.
So there's all kinds of reasons.
Everyone has them.
I'd like to know, from these guys, who decided to pick up everything and go to Ukraine and fight, what led you to that?
Other than the reason, well, you know, when I committed to my service, I committed to ridding the world of tyranny, evil, and whatever they outlined in the article.
Okay. Alright, that's cool.
If that's your stance, and that's your mission, that's your mission, man.
Fucking Charlie Mike, dude.
I'm in on it.
I got you.
I'll support you.
But that doesn't mean everyone has to agree.
And certainly, our government isn't going to agree just because we have U.S. military veterans that chose to fight.
This narrative that America forgot about us, I can't get down with that.
You chose to go, man.
You chose to bounce.
And so here we are.
We've got to take a break.
We'll be right back.
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We ended the last segment just kind of...
I don't really know what that was.
Just kind of my thoughts on people choosing to fight a war that they're not part of the military.
They're foreign fighters, right?
And then get upset and say their country forgot about them.
I just...
It's a narrative I can't understand.
The other thing that kind of has been weighing on my mind a little bit is it seems to me that we have been seeing veterans and veterans issues in the media a little more prominently than we used to.
Of course, it's not taking over the news cycle.
I think that between Elon Musk and Doge and everything else going on, There's certainly enough to talk about in the news cycle.
The biggest attention that veterans are getting in the news, of course, is the VA layoffs.
And we've discussed that already.
But there's...
I mean, if you just...
If you Google U.S. military veterans...
In the news, or just hit US Military Veterans, hit search, and then click the news button.
Or use DuckDuckGo, or Edge, whatever browser you use.
Does anybody still use Firefox?
If you use Firefox, fire up your Firefox and check it out.
I wonder sometimes what that's about.
Is it one of these things where...
Because now there was this uproar about Pete Hegseth apparently legitimately leaking battle plans and war secrets on Signal.
Should you use Signal for that?
No, probably not.
But what was the real story?
According to them, they were discussing...
Other things and nothing to do with battle plans.
And someone perceived that as information that was pertinent to this actual mission.
But then some say, well, there was mission dates and times and this and that and the other.
Okay. At the end of the day, Signal's probably not the appropriate place to be talking about any kind of government business.
Not just for Pete Hegseth, but anybody.
Especially military people.
There's things for that.
We have the SIPRnet, right?
Which is like this super secret squirrel deal to use between agencies, between services.
It doesn't go out to the external world.
The circle inside there is very small.
If you have an email address in there...
Comparatively speaking, to the rest of the military email system, the secret email system is pretty minuscule.
So, I mean, there's those types of things.
But we're just being also flooded with other stories of veterans, which I'm not saying that it's a bad thing.
Because there are some positive stories in there.
There's new museums opening up.
There's veterans, Vietnam veterans, Korean War veterans, current day G-WAT veterans being recognized for things they're doing in their communities.
There are positive stories out there that are being told.
But it just seems like there's a whole lot more.
And I think that there's something to it other than just outlining the positive things, the negative things that are happening in our communities.
I think that it possibly is somewhat of a tool.
I think it's possible that that could be.
I mean, what are veterans for people that really don't understand the veteran culture?
It's a subject, it's a topic that kind of tugs on your heartstrings.
Everyone loves veterans.
Everyone wants to support veterans' issues.
And I believe that there is a lot of...
I believe that there's probably, if I had to guess, there's a lot of bureaucrats and politicians and...
Who knows?
Maybe even judges.
Who knows how deep the swamp goes, right?
We talked on Three Clicks Media recently about this pond of turds and how deep it might go and how murky that dookie water could be.
And I think that we don't throw out the possibility of anybody being a turd in the turd pond.
We may not know who they all are, but I don't think you throw out the possibility of anybody.
And so, with that being said, along with it comes things like military budget.
The largest portion of the United States government's budget.
The military.
Military affairs.
I think it's like 46% or 42% or something like that is what they reported a few months back when Pete Hexeth was taken over.
That's a lot of money.
There's a lot of contractors, a lot of NGOs, there's a lot of people providing a lot of services to The federal government in the form of military stuff, whether it be clothes, equipment, training, sensitivity training, there's all kinds of stuff, guys.
And so I think that when we start throwing this subliminal messaging, let's throw veterans at people, and then when there's this buzz-stirred about...
There's a war on veterans.
I pulled up the article on the break, and I wanted to just highlight this ridiculous statement made by Bloomingthal.
I don't want to spend my time looking for it.
I should have had it queued up.
He started off by saying, there's a secret war.
Inside the halls of the federal government, there's a secret war against veterans.
Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, Doug Collins, they don't like veterans.
They hate veterans.
And they want to steal from veterans the things that they've earned in blood, sweat, and tears.
They want to take it all from you.
And by God, we're not going to let them.
And meanwhile, meanwhile, Doug Collins and the president, and even Pete Hegseth, I don't know if Hegseth has spoken out on VA issues, but even for the military, they're all saying, yeah, we need to do some work here.
And just recently, if you're interested, Doug Collins, the VA secretary, was on the Sean Ryan show.
I want to say it was earlier this week.
It might have been Monday or Tuesday or maybe even the week before.
Maybe I'm a week behind.
His stuff is pretty dope, man.
But Doug Collins was talking about how he wants to get back to 2019 numbers like we talked about.
And the thing that he said that I thought was interesting was He said, I thought that we were all here to accomplish the same goal.
I thought we were all here to help ensure that veterans of the United States military get the health care, they get the benefits that they earned and deserve, and the health care they deserve.
And whatever else, as far as programs go, education, prosthetics.
Medication, other equipment.
Veterans can get uniform allowances or clothing allowances if they have conditions that you need ointments or lotions and it wrecks your clothes.
So the VA will help you to get some clothes here and there.
It's not a lot of money, but they give you some to help out.
There's a lot of programs to help.
But what he said was, it doesn't seem like anybody is on the same page with getting veterans better care.
Of course, everybody thinks that they know better.
But the biggest issue as far as care goes that he talked about was the sex change operations.
You will now no longer be able to change your sex at the VA.
He says, this is not a service that our medical facilities offer.
Plain and simple.
If you want to do that, okay.
But you can't get it done at the VA.
And so, like, that news comes out, and then the legacy media talks about how, well...
The VA's cutting off sex changes for veterans, and now all these people that are in the process are going to get left out in the cold, and they're mid-transition.
Well, but see, that's not true either.
Because the budget has already allotted money for the care for people who are already in the process, so they don't abandon people.
In a medical time of need that can be hazardous to their health.
Not that going through that operation isn't hazardous to your health already.
But nobody's going to be left out in the cold.
And so I know that we spend a good fair amount of time here talking trash about the VA and the military and the government and this and that.
But again, you have to, I believe, you have to give credit where credit is due.
Is Mr. Collins going to save the world?
Is he going to solve all the problems of veterans and all the communities across the country?
No, probably not.
In fact, no, he's not.
First of all, I didn't have enough time.
The best he can do is hope to start this transition.
And if it looks like it's going well, those of us who use the stuff need to hope and pray that it continues to transition after he leaves.
Because, see, now that's the interesting part about all of this, in my opinion, is you start to see the differences, right?
Like we're seeing, I think now is one of the, between this election and the last election where Biden beat Trump.
Or Biden stole the election from Trump, however you see whatever the narrative is today.
But before that, there wasn't, I mean, like this stuff wasn't as polarizing.
And I don't think that, I don't recall a time where our elected officials are using Using narratives and they're saying things just out of spite.
And so I wonder sometimes about that too.
Like, is that these officials extending the words of their constituency?
Are these the calls that they're getting?
Are these the letters that they're getting?
The emails they're getting?
Is that what we're hearing out of the mouths of our elected officials?
Or are we hearing narratives that are what the lobbyists want us to hear?
Are we hearing narratives of the people who stand to make millions and billions of dollars on contracts?
Are we hearing those narratives?
I'm willing to bet you that we're hearing narratives not of.
The constituency of these elected officials.
I don't think that happens all the time.
I don't think it happens most of the time, to be honest with you.
I think it'll happen when the narrative fits.
The lucrative goal that maybe Washington, D.C. has.
See, I think that a lot of this is about money.
I think a lot of this is about power and control.
The same things that we've been talking about forever.
And I think that they throw veterans in the faces of Americans because these are our heroes, right?
Veterans are our heroes.
They're going to come and they were the ones that were there to save the day when tyranny was about to strike or had stricken.
Had stricken?
Had striked?
When tyranny struck us.
How about that?
When tyranny struck us, these were the people.
These were the people that stood up and defended us from them.
So we're going to throw them in your face.
Good, bad, indifferent.
Doesn't matter.
We're going to throw veterans at you.
Veterans issues.
Veterans stories.
And then when things come along that aren't necessarily great for anybody involved, Because it's not just veterans who are losing jobs in job cuts.
There's a lot of people all across the federal government losing jobs.
It ain't just vets.
So now we can go back to, hey, we threw all these in front of those people.
We got them on the side of doing whatever's best.
Whatever's best for the veterans.
Let's go and finish the job.
You see, because if they lose 80,000 employees, like, here's another fact that was shared on the Sean Ryan show by Doug Collins was the hundreds.
of contract um what do they call them they're contract specialists the va has hundreds of them if not thousands of them all across the country their only job every day at work is to manage contracts outside of the va Whether it's for janitorial or transportation or medical supplies,
cleaning, medications, payroll, whatever it is.
Whatever contracts that the VA has, there's a contract specialist that manages each one.
And they all have a caseload.
Well, now there's thousands of them, according to the secretary of the VA.
That means that the VA is spending massive amounts of money in contracts.
So if we lose 80,000 people, and as he outlined, Mr. Collins, nobody that's providing direct care or benefits adjudication services, benefits stuff for disability and other programs.
None of those people will be affected.
He's already said it numerous times.
But yet we still have people on the mountaintops screaming about how this is such a huge injustice.
I don't know.
It's not just at the VA, folks.
I mean, the military contractors, those are probably going to get axed for sure, a ton of them.
There's so many that are redundant.
There's so many that are on good old boy terms, good old boy system.
And so these shadow hearings and all these backdoor conversations are all being had.
Why? Because they're going to lose money.
The money's going away.
And they're panicking.
And so now they've gotten to the point where they're just going to latch on to whatever they can make the hot topic for the day.
It seems like it's a strategy where they try to keep people pissed off just long enough.
Like maybe the strategy is let's keep them all pissed off for another four, I don't know, four and a half years.
Keep everyone pissed off for four and a half years.
By that time, they think they'll have it all figured out and they'll have their power back.
Whatever that looks like.
House and Senate and the Oval Office.
This big, huge struggle for power all the time.
And so now it seems as if our elected officials, people we chose, our government, the ones that we put in charge to take care of us, to make sure that we have the things that we need or at least access to the things that we need without pounding our dicks in the dirt all the time.
Now, to me, it seems...
Like, here's just another plan.
We can't let these things go away because now we lose money.
We lose money out of our campaign funds.
We lose money out of our pockets.
And again, people are making money on the backs of veterans.
They're making money on the backs of the men and women who chose to sacrifice everything for what they believed.
What they believe this country was.
And for many people, is.
And so, to these veterans who went to the Ukraine to fight, you're not the only one fighting, bro.
There's a lot of folks here that need assistance that are...
That are being overlooked or put out in the cold.
And not because we're laying people off, but because we're worried about money and power and control.
I don't know.
In my opinion, it's been, what, 10 weeks, 11 weeks, something like that?
We're still in the first quarter of the game.
Early first quarter.
And the whole world is turning upside down.
Like, I know that people really hate and disdain Donald Trump, but the man got elected, he's there, he's doing a lot of things he promised he was going to do.
Let the guy cook for just a little bit before you start bashing his wiener in the dirt too.
Think about how much more effective he could probably be if he didn't have to defend himself all the time.
We didn't have to worry about all this other bullshit.
All this political fallout that's unnecessary.
I don't know.
One of the most successful men in the world.
It seems.
Been around a long time.
Made a lot of money.
Made a lot of mistakes.
But he's made a lot of money.
And who knows?
Maybe this really is the beginning of the golden age.
Maybe we're all going to be rich soon.
I'll tell you what, I'll be watching closely for that news.
But I think that at the end of the day, if we segregate the issues and everyone who has any kind of power to help from them, we're shooting ourselves in the foot.
The people that really need the help, the veterans in this case, They're never going to really fully get the help that they need because there's political red tape that's at the door.
Can't get through it.
Can't get past it.
All because they have disagreements.
So because our politicians have disagreements, we the American people suffer.
Seems like a rerun, I think.
But I don't know.
We'll see.
Gotta give it some time, I suppose.
Anyway, that's all we got for this week.
Yeah. Take care of yourselves, folks.
Be good to each other.
We'll see you next week.
Good night.
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!
You go to Trump's cabinet, you go to Biden's cabinet, it's full of 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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