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Oct. 12, 2025 - Stew Peters Show
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Deployed and Discarded: The Price of Serving a Sleeping Nation
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Recently I was approached uh on X or Twitter uh with some questions about veteran issues and and I thought that this might be a good time, a good time for us to maybe have these discussions.
Maybe it's a good time to talk about some things that maybe, and and of course, all of this is really just my experience and then my experience in my professional career in the past working in the veteran service industry, uh, so my opinions and the things that that I feel and think about some of this stuff is not just keyboard warrior stuff.
It's actually lived life experience.
And the question that I was asked uh amongst many, uh, but the one that stuck out or or the one that kind of sums up all of it is why do veterans have seemingly such tall hurdles to get over when getting out of the military or coming home from war.
And the question kind of surprised me because I feel like I feel like these discussions have went on quite a bit over all the years.
I mean, we just got out of the longest war in our country's history.
And so these types of things have been talked about publicly a lot.
But it made me realize that maybe there aren't um really all that many people that paid all that much attention uh or didn't retain it or whatever the case may be, but these questions still come up.
And and this individual wasn't the the first and only one uh to ask questions such as this.
Uh, but I thought maybe this is something to talk about.
I've of course I have some views and opinions on it, and I think maybe right now uh might be a good time to have these discussions.
Um with all the polarizing shit going on in our country, um, maybe it's time to talk about some of this stuff.
So um that's what we're going to discuss this evening.
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Okay, so why do excuse me?
Why do soldiers, veterans, of all branches, of all ethnic backgrounds, um, of all ages, of all sexes, of all genders, whatever it is.
Why do American soldiers in general have such a difficult time at times, and that's not everybody, and it's not all the time, uh, have a difficult time reintegrating, getting out of the military, and then leading what what I guess we don't really know anymore what normal life is, but get back to something that's recognizable to them, get back to something normal.
Uh, and I think that the answer to that is most multifaceted.
I think there's a lot of a lot of things at play.
I think it also depends on the individual.
But this also plays into the whole idea I've always had.
Always had the idea that there is a massive gap.
It's a massive gap between the veteran culture, the warrior culture, and civilian population, and and that culture.
Now, a lot of aspects of them seem to meld together, but there are significant things that do not.
And a lot of it boils down to, in my opinion, a lack of understanding.
Interesting.
And I think that we've come to a place in our history that a lot of people just don't give a shit.
They don't care.
And to me, that's that's that's sad because there are a lot of great things that America has to offer its people and the world, and all of that has been defended by men and women with weapons with speed and violence of action, and they've paid for it in their blood, sweat, and tears, and in many instances their lives.
And so when we when we see that sacrifice or that decision to serve is kind of stomped on by the actions of others in the community or our leadership, anybody, anywhere for that matter, it's extremely frustrating.
And I think that most veterans come from a place where it's not necessarily about respect.
Or I shouldn't say that because it is about respect, but it's not necessarily about agreeing.
It's not necessarily about agreeing with the things that have happened or are going to happen or are happening now.
But to uh to just in some way, shape, or form, and I'm not out here saying that people need to like bow down to veterans and and you know do all of these super extravagant things.
But a little bit of respect would be nice for the people that have chose to sacrifice everything.
And there are many people that will say, well, you know, especially veterans of my era and the current era, you know, you guys have been led blindly into death, into battles, into altering the rest of your life in a negative fashion.
You signed up for it, and they took advantage of you.
And there are many people that ask questions like, well, when are soldiers going to turn the guns around on the people that are sending them to die?
Well, I don't know that that's ever going to happen.
I think that's uh absolutely ridiculous question.
Um because people people sign up, in my opinion, people join the military mostly for a couple reasons.
One, a sense of patriotism, a sense of love of country, a call to service.
And some people just join to get an education paid for.
Which is fine too.
It is a it is a great way to a college education.
If you come from a from a family or a place where college isn't necessarily in the cards for you, but you really want to do it.
So those types of things are great.
And it's not just college, but any kind of professional training, trade schools, truck driving school, whatever it is.
And so I think that veterans have problems reintegrating or coming home.
Because they see and they feel that nobody cares.
We talk a lot in many different circles in this country about America first.
We talk about the sense of national pride.
There's all kinds of things of a patriotic nature that we talk about in many different circles.
And then when it all comes around full circle, then the veterans of this country or the soldiers in this country are told that they're stupid and they've been duped and all these other things.
And I don't know that I agree with that sentiment.
I think that there are certainly things that have happened in this world that the U.S. military has been involved in that aren't the, they're probably not the best thing to hang a hat on.
I mean, people are human.
They make mistakes and they send people to places.
But there's also treachery afoot.
I think there are many instances in which people could point out and say, well, you know, we went there because these people are going to make money or they're going to gain power or control, and all those things that we talk about often.
And even if all of that's true, why ostracize the men and women that have decided to strap up this uniform and have decided to try to defend this land by whatever means necessary?
You know, back in the early 2000s when we went to war and then creeping up into 05, 06, 06.
You know, up to like 2010, there was this big push.
And you heard people say all the time, well, you know, we don't have to support the war, but I support the troops.
I don't necessarily support why we're at war.
But man, we gotta we gotta at least give it up for the the men and women who are are fighting it.
And sometimes I think that that that idea is kind of screwy, right?
Like if we're gonna support the men and women fighting the war, but we don't support the war, so uh does that mean we just feel sorry for the men and women that are fighting the war?
Maybe that is the case.
So I've never quite understood that, and and maybe it's just because I'm a simple infantryman, but the idea, the idea that we have all been led blindly to our death or to life-altering situations and circumstances that will forever change our lives and illnesses and burn pits and amputations and you know,
bullet wounds and blast exposures and chemical exposure and and just all of this stuff, the the jerk the the impact on on people's mental health.
I mean, we all know at this point of our in our nation's history and the history of the world what intense combat does to the human psyche and it does to the human body, even if you never get hit, but you're out there fighting, man, it takes a toll on people, and and And it does creep up on you later.
But I think that all of this is something that has never really been, and I think people have given it a good effort over the years, but I don't know that it's ever really been talked about and dissected in a room at a table with people on both sides on the civilian side and on the side of military people and talk about the questions,
talk about what it was like, what the what the military experiences is like.
And I'm not, and I don't mean the war experience necessarily.
I don't think that there needs to be all these discussions about how many people you killed and how did it go and blah blah blah, and was it hot over there?
But there's so many things about the military experience that I don't know the civilian population will understand.
And for example, we've talked about on the show before, all these young men and women who are being deployed, who are going to war.
I mean, imagine being 20 years old.
Join the military, uh, and you're getting deployed, and then they tell you, hey, man, here's this here's this form here.
Like, here's this piece of paper.
Um, this is your obituary.
Whatever you put on here, whatever you write down on this piece of paper, is what we're gonna print in the papers at home.
We're gonna put on the news, we're gonna do whatever.
So make sure you write something good.
And so we're already at this point for many soldiers who are young and it's their first experience.
We're already asking them to decide what it is they want their death to look like.
What do you want life after you die to look like?
Who are you leaving behind, what was important to you?
All that's almost like almost like the things we write in our senior high school yearbook on our senior year, when you have to, you know, you put your picture up and then you get to write a paragraph that they publish in the yearbook and to talk about your memories and things of that nature.
And then now, 25 or 30 years later, you look back if you still have your yearbook and you read about what you wrote, what you liked, you read about what you liked, where you went, what your memories were.
And then you and then you get to your picture and you read that you were you wanted to marry your the the girl you were dating at the time, which maybe you didn't even last past the time the picture was taken very long, and now shit, now it's in the yearbook.
I mean, you don't know what you don't know, right?
And so what I mean is that just this one activity alone is something that most people don't think about having to do.
Most people who are 20 years old, even 25 years old.
I mean, I guess it doesn't matter how how old or young you are, of course, as you get old you understand that that life is going to end someday, and you need to be prepared so you don't leave a mess.
But these young kids, they never thought about it.
I would be, I would I would go out on a limb and say there's probably many kids that are 20 to 23 years old that that don't quite know exactly what an obituary is and what you put in it and and how to write it and things like that.
People of that age don't have to do that.
Now we're asking them, because of the dangers of your job, we need you to write this obituary about yourself.
And not that it's a huge deal.
I think most people knock it out, but it certainly is something that you think about after the fact.
It's certainly something that you have conversations with other soldiers in your platoon or your your unit or whatever.
You have conversations about that, like, hey man, what'd you write on your obituary?
Who are you leaving your dirty underwear to, and who are you leaving, you know, your dog to, and blah, blah, blah.
And so just putting that in the psyche, I think changes things.
I don't know that it hurts anybody, uh, especially initially, but those are experiences that change you.
Because it's inevitable that once you get deployed, even if you're not in combat, that you're going to have these thoughts about man, this really sucks here.
Even if you're at a place that never gets hit with mortars or rockets or V beds or anything like that.
You still think about it, like this really sucks here.
You know, and as you're there and this experience is happening to you, your whole view on life changes.
And not that it hasn't already at that point, because I'm sure it has the whole experience as a whole.
I mean, basic training is shocking to many people's systems, or at least it was at one point.
But all these little these little activities, they change you.
You know, for example, again, when when uh when we deployed, we had to get a smallpox vaccine.
Well, what the hell is smallpox?
If you didn't pay attention in history class in high school, or you didn't really like search out information on it, if you weren't interested to research it at all, you don't really know what smallpox is, and they tell you what it is and how dangerous it was, and and this and that and the other thing, and the reasons why you need to have the vaccine.
And and in order to be vaccinated, you actually have to be injected with the virus.
And then there's this scab on your arm, and if you touch it, you're gonna infect the whole the whole fucking county.
They make it seem like don't touch it when it scabs, do not touch it.
If the scab breaks, everyone's gonna get smallpox.
Well, shit.
I mean, I didn't really know what smallpox was, and and now I now I learned how um infectious it is and how dangerous it can be, and and shit, you're putting that in my body?
Well, all right, well, this is what I gotta do to go to war and or or continue my career or do whatever this is what's required.
All right, well, I'll do that.
The same thing with the the anthrax vaccines, the whole series of shots that many people were very uncomfortable taking, but it was mandatory.
If you're gonna serve in this uniform, you gotta get this vaccine and all of them.
Well shit, man, I don't know about that.
I don't, you know, we would have we had conversations about it.
Well, what is it, what's in this stuff?
And and like we knew that anthrax was a thing in the early 2000s, people were sending in the mail and it was dangerous and all that other stuff, and well, so wait a minute, are we going to a place where they're using anthrax?
It's possible maybe.
Well, should we gotta take all these vaccines and nobody really knows what's in it?
And I don't know about all this.
Well, yeah, but you better take it.
Or, you know, we you can't deploy and you can't do this and that and the other thing, like it's required of you.
All right, all right.
So, I mean, soldiers just did it.
And so, like all of these little small minute activities and requirements, they change the way that you see the world, they change the way that you see life, they change the way that you see what's important, what's maybe not as important.
What things can we live with, you know, like do we really need to get up in arms about the price of eggs?
And and and of course, a lot of these things have a lot deeper meaning outside of the the cranium of of veterans who are questioning it.
But these are again are the experiences that change our perceptions, they change the way that we see the world, the way that we interact with people, the way that we just live out our lives.
You know, like it's probably not an uncommon thing for people who are in the know about what's going on in the world to lock their doors and windows at night.
Maybe even give it a second glance, you know, once you're really gonna bed down for the evening and and go to bed.
But even those people who do those things, which I would argue probably isn't an overwhelming amount of the population, they don't do them three times.
They don't do them incessantly.
They're not constantly thinking about what's gonna happen if someone kicks in my fucking door tonight.
And I don't even know that it takes uh intense combat experience for somebody to start having those thoughts.
But the way that you're trained to walk through life in a uniform is just a it's a whole lot different.
You're constantly preached security, security, security of yourself, of your of your battle buddies, your unit, your equipment, your sensitive items.
The base is secure.
Everything is secure.
And so when people have these conversations and veterans start talking about, well, you know, I I sweep my house for potential avenues of approach and egress and entrances and exits from my place.
I have to walk I walk around and I make sure all my windows are latched my doors are locked they install extra locks and from the time they get home maybe at 5:30 or 6 o'clock in the evening till 10 or 11 when they go to bed they've checked the doors five or six times I mean, I've I've had I've had veterans sit in my office and tell me, like, this is this is my routine.
And I don't really question it.
I get it, I understand.
I don't necessarily do those things either, not to that excess, but I you know, I think about things.
For example, at my house, at my house, our living room windows are pretty low to the ground.
So if there's nobody home or there's nobody sitting in the living room, and I notice that the windows are open, I instantly close them, and then I instantly talk to anybody in our house about leaving windows open when they're out of this room.
Because even though we live in a somewhat seemingly safe neighborhood, we're not safe.
We're not exempt from bullshit happening.
If somebody wants to walk up to our house, cut the screen, and just step right in our window, they can do that.
And so if you're in the crapper or you're upstairs or down in the basement and there's nobody sitting in here, and we've leave left the windows open, that's a that's a potential threat.
And so again, this lifestyle of military service where they preach security.
Even in the field, whenever you stop, 360 security.
Everyone's facing out.
The leaders huddle in the middle, the rest of the unit pulls security.
We have to be secure on all sides at all times.
And they drill it into you.
Because now in a combat situation, if you stop to reallocate ammo, to make sure everyone gets some water, uh, patch up some wounds, maybe whatever the case may be, and there's somebody not not looking out from the center of whatever's going on, well, that's a threat.
And so these things transfer over to our civilian lives quite easily because you can you can apply it to pretty simple stuff.
The one thing about the military, I will say is that there isn't a whole lot of stuff that's super advanced.
I mean, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to be able to understand what's happening and how you need to do what whatever task it is.
And all the all the basic stuff is pretty simple to understand and to carry out.
And then, and then, you know, I mean, so those are just some examples of like basic everyday military life, how that transfers into not necessarily what the rest of society is like, not the things that the rest of society really worries about or cares about as much.
And then we then we can talk about the the implications of combat and returning home.
Because once you've once you've tasted that, the game really changes.
And the way that you deal with people and and their and their their issues or their gripes or their bitches or even their successes in happy times is different.
And in some respects, depending on where you're at and what you're doing, the difference isn't always welcomed.
And it isn't always something that is just observed and ignored, and we'll move on.
We don't necessarily have to talk about it.
We don't have to roll our eyes.
We don't have to do a lot of these things.
We just see it, have our thoughts, and then keep going.
Sometimes they're identified, and that's and that can be a problem for people.
But that's why I'm saying these round table sit-downs or something of that nature would be helpful, I believe, to the civilian population in our country, who don't quite understand what it's like.
I mean, the the as we've discussed recently on the show, the the the veteran suicide problem is just that.
It's a big problem.
And there are implications from combat and otherwise, I believe, of military service that help lead people to this.
Clearly, or the numbers wouldn't be so high.
But one of the biggest things that I I think uh that doesn't really get talked about a whole lot is this idea of moral injury.
This idea that while we were wearing a uniform in the course of our actions, we had to do something that goes against my moral compass, and the amount of shame that veterans feel, the embarrassment, the idea that I can't come back from this, even if you did the right thing, I believe I believe drives people to that point.
It drives them to the point where there's really no other option in their mind.
They don't deserve to live out the rest of their days in comfort and in peace.
And maybe this is just part of being that person.
Maybe for people who put in long careers in the military, even short careers in the military.
Anyone who has put in some time, maybe maybe at some point we just have to identify that this is who we are.
I mean, there's a reason why less than less than like three percent or less than two percent, whatever that number is, choose to serve in the military.
Well, maybe that's just embedded in us.
Some people would call it a gift, some people would just call it a God-given trait.
That we are we are going to accept that the the line of work that we choose for ourselves is dangerous, it's fast-paced, sometimes, well, most of the time, depending on your job, it's dangerous, and it will forever change who you are.
Or some people would argue that it will help you to realize who you really are.
And so maybe that's part of the answer to to this to this conundrum that veterans find themselves in to feel accepted or to feel like what they did mattered, like it made a difference.
Maybe just accepting that this is who we are would help.
Maybe we are just people who who understand the the sacrifice that we are going to or have made and why we did it.
Everybody has their reason, everybody does it for a different purpose.
But maybe the answer isn't to to fight it, to try to change it.
Maybe the answer isn't to to go and try to get all of these therapies to get these thoughts out of our minds to get these feelings off of our chest.
Maybe a better answer is to learn how to understand and identify that I was born, I was born a warrior.
I was born a gladiator.
I was born a person that was that was meant to fight, to defend.
And maybe we just need to accept it.
Learn how to manage it and learn how to keep the the um the aggression and the violence and the intolerance and the frustration and all these things, learn to keep them at bay, and just understand that we are less than two percent of the population of this country.
Maybe we just need to own it.
Maybe we just need to be okay with the idea that we're different.
Maybe we just need to accept the fact that some days I just need to stay in this house, because if I leave this house, I'm gonna have a problem, or someone else is gonna have a big problem.
Maybe we just need to get used to the fact and accept the fact that there are people out there that think we're brainwashed idiots, and that we've we've given up and sacrificed our lives for some lie for someone else to make money on and on our backs.
But I think that it's a it's a it's a double-edged sword.
Because either you get either you you accept it and you try to learn how to harness it, let it out what it needs to be out, and you miss out, you miss out on stuff, you miss out on relationships with people that might be great friends of yours, that that might have answers for you.
but maybe you don't the problem is that you never really know what the outcome is going to be but for most of us probably i think well for me anyway i'm not frustrated with my military career not pissed off about where i was asked to go
do i have some regrets do i have some issues do i have some turmoil in my life because of it yeah Yeah, I do.
And I just had to accept the fact that me wearing a uniform that said U.S. Army on my heart cost me some things.
And who knows what else it will cost me.
But for the purposes of the greater good, to be part of something that was bigger than myself, I believe it was worth it.
I'm willing to accept what it is I got right here and right now, and whatever illnesses or whatever injuries I may have incurred that may get worse.
I understood that.
I understood that when I signed that paper and rose my hand.
And I made the decision long ago that my family, my children, my friends, my community, the people I went to school with, the people that I that are close to me, everything that I hold dear, my dog Gus, all those things, they were all worth it.
The relationships I made, the brotherhoods formed, the the impact I got to make on other veterans doing the work that I've done, and and the impact I hope to make moving forward and work I'm I'm doing and currently Working on was all worth it.
And so, yeah, it might be true that we were we were led to our own slaughter and we're dumb and we've been bamboozled and we've been brainwashed and we've been all these things.
And when are we going to turn our guns on our leadership and tell them this is bullshit?
We should be here defending our own borders only.
Well, I think it's easy to say for people who have never had the opportunity or the balls to put on a uniform and defend something.
I mean we can't all be retarded, can we?
We can't all be wrong, we can't all be stupid.
And maybe maybe people joined and did it just for the seer the sheer satisfaction of just trying to help.
Just trying to be patriotic and provide something that has been fought for and bloodshed for for years and years.
This idea, this idea of America, this idea of the pursuit of happiness, the idea of this proverbial blanket of freedom that our our our soldiers provide us.
And to me, it's not an idea.
Yeah, we have corrupt politicians, we have corrupt people, we have assholes, we have we have people that mean to do us harm, and we have do gooders, we have the stat people who are just status quo, and we have people that are over the top.
We have people in all gambits.
And all of them.
All of them.
All of them are afforded the same rights, the same freedom.
They all get to relish in this idea of America and what it stands for and what it is because of men and women who chose to put on a uniform with the United States Army or Marines or Air Force or Navy or Coast Guard or Space Force, even to where those words on their chest mean something to them.
And seemingly to a whole lot of other people in this country, and across the world.
I mean, I know that there's some real polarizing shit going on right now in our in our country.
And I know that there's a whole bunch of politicians who are probably corrupt, who are pedophiles and fucking scumbags.
I get it.
But maybe the wholesome the wholesomeness of America is still alive in the people that choose to serve.
Maybe it's still alive in the people who support.
It's not alive in the people who are swarming law enforcement officers and swarming these cities and destroying property and hurting other people and destroying communities and all this other stuff.
Destroying lives.
Because they don't agree.
We'll get into that in a minute.
We gotta take a break.
We'll be right back.
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Hey folks, welcome back here.
Um let's just continue.
I went a little too long on our on our on our first segment, so we only got about 15 minutes left.
But uh before the break, we were starting to get into these people around the country that don't agree with things that are happening.
Um probably the most obvious one that pertains to the military, anyway, um, is what's going on in Chicago and what's going on in Portland.
And the president uh sending National Guard soldiers to Chicago and this outrage that people are having because the president is sending the National Guard in to assist to assist in protecting ICE agents for doing their job to assist local law enforcement to try to keep some resemblance of normalcy and peace.
And I know that there's laws and acts and all this other stuff that prevent the United States military from being used on its own people.
I get that.
I understand.
But some of the shit has just gone way too far.
It's gone way too far, and it's gotten way out of control.
My question is, and this the thing that seems to be missing from these this narrative is the voice of the members of these communities who are law abiding, who are doing the right thing, who are giving back, who are going to work every day and contributing to society in a positive way?
What about what about what they want?
What about what they are asking for?
I think that if you if you scroll through X, for example, or other platforms, or start reading social media posts and things from people who live there or who are there?
I think that we'll see that there are quite a few people.
That are very grateful that there is there is an increased presence of law enforcement, and there are soldiers that are ready, that are ready to deploy.
I know that some judge stopped Trump from sending the National Guard to the streets of Illinois.
But the last I heard, they were there and waiting.
At least at the time that we're recording the show, they were there and waiting for the call to go to work.
Why does nobody ever take into account the voice of the of the people who are asking for this?
Because they live there and they see that their community is being snuffed out by crime and and many times by by other folks who don't even live in that community.
Not even from there.
When does their voice matter?
Why does the voice of a bunch of blue-haired fuckheads and the voices of a bunch of people that are just around to cause problems and chaos, why are their voices louder than the members of these communities who just want to go for a walk?
Go for a walk in their community and not be hassled and not be scared.
What about them?
No one ever seems to talk about that.
The narrative is always focused on Donald Trump and the federal government and the administration and their overreach and it's illegal and it's bullyish and this and that.
Well, I don't know that it's an overreach, and I don't know that he's being a bully.
Not to the people who have to deal with this shit.
Not to the not to the people who have children that are leaving their houses to go to the bus stop or walk to school or do whatever.
Go out and play.
Why should any law-abiding American have to be nervous about walking down the block to the corner store for a pack of smokes?
Thanks.
Why should the why should parents have to be nervous about letting their kids go to the corner store to get some candy and a and a and a pop or go to the park and play basketball?
Why why why is that okay?
But we get all wrapped around the axle about President Trump.
And as it relates to this particular situation in this particular topic of sanctuary cities and this and that and the other thing, well, furthermore, these people wouldn't be in your community scooping up illegals.
There wouldn't be an increased level of law enforcement.
This overwhelming presence that people talk about seeing in their own communities.
None of that would be happening if we didn't allow millions of illegals into this country over the last however many years.
If that wouldn't have happened, well, you would have just had normal police presence in a place where you guys all want to kill yourselves anyway.
This fighting and violence and gang violence and all this other bullshit.
Eventually, hopefully, all the idiots will kill each other.
And our streets won't be as violent and chaotic.
Let all these assholes kill each other.
But the problem with that is that in the course of all these idiots killing each other and taking each other out, innocent people are greatly affected.
They're hit by stray bullets, they're robbed, their property is destroyed, business owners are losing everything because folks decide that they don't like they don't like something and go into these shops and start throwing shit off the off the shelves and destroying the property of these stores.
Nobody ever talks about them.
The folks that are affected by the violence that are just trying to do the right thing.
But most of us, most of us content creators and things of that nature, we're not going to talk about that, right?
Because that's not what gets us views and that's not what gets us clicks.
It's not the popular thing to talk about.
It's not controversial enough.
It's not extreme enough.
But in our little circles at our barbecues or at the gas pump or wherever, the grocery store where you see your buddy or your neighbor or something like that.
Well, we'll talk about it then.
But there isn't a whole lot of people amplifying the voice of the common man in these communities that's getting their asses handed to them and all of their shit destroyed.
And then when law-abiding citizens have had enough, and they've completely lost trust in our judicial system, they've lost trust in our law enforcement, they've lost trust in all of the things that were put into place to help them to not have to deal with this shit.
When that time comes, and they and they lose the trust, and they decide to take matters into their own hands because they're they're nervous about the safety of their children or their family or their property.
Now they're the monsters.
They're the criminals.
Because nobody else was talking about what's happening to them.
Therefore, no one is helping.
And then when the president finally comes up with a plan to seemingly help these communities and help these people that I'm discussing, he's a racist bigot.
And a large amount of people just go along with that narrative.
The president's a piece of shit, and so all of these people should just be able to run amok in these cities and violate law-abiding citizens.
So what are they to do?
What are they to do?
Do they sit and watch their lives be destroyed and their children scared?
Their businesses burned down or vandalized so bad they can't afford to keep the doors open and replace the shit that got damaged?
Just think about it.
Think about everything that you've ever worked for.
Everything, all the money you've ever made in your life.
You have it sunk into this small little business.
And then it's destroyed by some scumbags that disagree with the president.
And then it's destroyed by some scumbags that disagree with the president.
Or don't want federal law enforcement to arrest people who have committed federal crimes and get them the fuck out of here.
And now it's gone.
These vandals walk into your place and destroy your shop.
They destroy your place of business, whatever it may be.
And yeah, we got insurance, but insurance is pretty tough to come by for a lot of things nowadays because insurance tech companies are tapped.
Who knows?
They've probably gotten some bailout or some bullshit now to keep money in their pockets, and maybe that's a good thing because all these law abiding people who are getting their shit destroyed deserve to have it have it replaced.
But for the people who can't afford it or whatever the reason is and can't keep their businesses open and open and thriving.
Well now they're out.
Now they've lost everything.
Because of some political fucking game.
And then we have all these folks super up in arms that the president has said, well, wait a minute.
If you're not gonna, if you're if you, Governor Pritzker, if you're not gonna protect your people from the illegals that are here killing and raping and destroying property and all this other shit, as well as all the other crime.
It's not like Chicago was a crime-free city before illegals started flooding it.
Chicago's been a fucking war zone for years.
But again, we don't ever hear those those stories.
We don't hear the narrative of the law abiding person that's just has to deal with it.
And the easy answer is to tell folks, well, you should remember this the next time an election comes around.
And that's true.
That's true.
Remember the way you feel now.
So when that dirt bag runs for re-election, that you don't vote for him.
And then you have people talking about, well, it doesn't really matter who you vote for.
It doesn't matter, they're gonna put whoever they want in anyway.
And there's a lot of people that claim, well, there's overwhelming evidence that elections are fake.
Well, I don't know.
I don't know that any of that's really been presented on a on a on a grand stage for all to see.
There's a lot of talk about it.
A lot of people talking about what's happening behind the scenes and what's going on.
And they could be right, but the fact is that nobody really knows.
It's all conjecture.
Yeah, there are folks out there that are really good at putting two and two together and coming up with a likely scenario.
But I don't know that we that we know for sure what's happening, and we probably will never know.
So conjecture might be all we have to go on.
But at this point, me personally, I a thousand percent support having National Guard soldiers in these cities to protect law enforcement as they do their jobs.
I understand that the military duck can't have arrest authority.
They can't do that.
It's against the law.
Unless all these acts are enacted and and there's all this, all these levers that need to be turned on for that to happen.
Yeah, I get that.
But maybe just having them there walking the streets and Humvees on the street and and soldiers with rifles walking through neighborhoods, conducting patrols, making sure people people are not violating the law or violating innocent other innocent citizens in other places maybe we're at a point in this in our country's history where that's exactly what
need.
Maybe we need soldiers with rifles walking our streets, as sad as that may sound.
Because if we don't, what's going to be the thing to change it?
What are other ideas?
How else do we stop this madness?
We can't just step up law enforcement.
There's only so many of them.
And if there's not law and order in our communities, innocent people are going to be affected the most.
But those aren't the people that we're going to hear about.
Those aren't the folks who are going to get the attention that something needs to be done.
And if there's one thing I do agree with President Trump on, it is that these people in our communities that mean to do us harm, these folks all across this country that are siphoning and sucking money out of our system that's meant for American citizens who have paid
taxes, who have contributed, who have woke their asses up every day and went to work and contribute something, a contributing member of our society, they're the ones that are going to go without.
But yet we're too hung up on what Donald Trump is doing because we hate him so much.
Well, whether you love him or hate him, he is the president.
And at some point, something needs to be done to bring order back to our communities.
And there are people out there that need to be dealt with.
Maybe the worst of the worst need to be dealt with in a public square for everybody to see.
Maybe that shock of watching these dirtbags take their last breath because of the crimes that they've committed.
Maybe that maybe then other criminals will think about that for a long time before they commit other crimes against people.
Maybe they'll think about that before they snatch up some little kid in a park and then sell them to some pervert to ass rape.
Maybe they'll think about that before they decide to walk up on some elderly person on the street and sock them in the side of the head from behind and steal everything in their pockets or purse.
These fucking people should swing in the public square.
If we're going to get extreme, let's get extreme.
There's a reason why in other places in this world, people don't steal fucking pomegranates from the local market.
Because when you do, they cut your hand off.
There's a reason why in other places in this world, people are very, very careful about who they rape and kidnap and all this other stuff.
Because if you get caught, they cut your dick off.
And then send you home.
eventually either people are going to learn not to fuck around and find out or there's gonna be a whole lot of dickless and handless people around our communities and then at least that way us law abiding citizens will know who the dirt bags are all they'll have is a nub they don't understand anything else but what they deal that's the one thing I a thousand percent agree with the President on.
All the other stuff we could have conversation about, but these folks do not understand anything but the extremes in which they operate.
They're desensitized to regular uh regular consequences.
They don't give a shit.
So anyway, um, I could probably go on for uh uh a whole lot a whole lot longer about the whole thing, but we've run out of time, uh out of time for the day.
Um Thanks for joining us.
Uh we'll be back next week.
Hopefully, hopefully next week is a brighter 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 site of Israel, look at the site of Tel Aviv and look at the site of Philadelphia.
You tell me where this money's going, you tell me who's benefiting from this.
I am prepared to die in the battle, fighting this monstrosity that would wish to enslave me and my family and steal away any brights to my property, and to take away my god, go fuck yourself.
Will I submit to that?
And if you've got a foreign study, you go Jewel citizens in your government, who do you think they're supporting?
Not 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 lot and say we stand with the Trump's cabinet?
You can Biden's cabinet, old 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 just like to say that you know, in our Bible it says that you're you're like animals.
The Jews crucified our God.
The Jews crucified our God.
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