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Nov. 9, 2025 - Stew Peters Show
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OPERATION LAST STAND: RESTORING AMERICA’S WARRIORS BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE
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Well, we all learned earlier this week that there is now a new standard, a new standard for the United States military.
If you don't know, which I find it hard to believe you don't by now, Pete Negseth and the president spoke to all of the United States military top brass earlier this week.
And there was some, I don't know, maybe you want to call them fireworks, maybe you don't.
But it was a pretty interesting speech that Pete Hegseth gave, I believe.
And so today we're going to just structure our conversation around that.
I have some thoughts, of course, as usual.
And so that's what we're talking about today.
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So we have new standards.
And I guess we shouldn't say that they're new because they're not really new.
They're just the old school standard that went away for a while.
But according to our Secretary of War, Mr. Pete Hegseff, the old standards are coming back.
And I believe that he's caught a lot of flack for some of the things that he said.
And the media, of course, is picking this apart.
Not only him, but the president's speech as well.
Like, for example, you know, you heard people on all different platforms in the media talking about how Trump's jokes didn't go over well and nobody in the room said anything and they didn't clap or they didn't do this and they didn't do that and that they just weren't really interested in hearing him speak.
And so maybe that might be true for some of the folks sitting in that room.
But I believe that majority of them did not feel that way.
And for those of us who have never served in the military and or don't understand how military functions of that nature work, there is no clapping.
There is no cheering.
There is none of that.
When the room is called to attention, as it was when the president came on the stage, also when Pete Hexeth came on the stage, you get your butt up out of your seat and you stand at attention until whoever it is, in this instance, the president or the secretary, tell you to take your seats.
There's no fanfare.
That's not how these types of military operations work.
And so things like that, right off the bat, right when it was over, you heard people all over, not only just in the media, but of course in the social media cesspool of people out there that just want to cause problems, seemingly.
That's what it seems like.
But, you know, they just don't understand how these things work.
And so, you know, Secretary Hegseth had a whole lot to say about appearance.
He had a whole lot to say about physical fitness and having a professional look.
He had a whole lot to say about the way that the military as a whole is going to operate now.
And I think that some of it really made a lot of sense.
You know, for example, those trolls, those witches on the view came out and were confused about why the Secretary of War is addressing fat soldiers and why the Secretary of War is addressing beards and appearance.
And like these things aren't, they're not new, right?
I mean, I served in the military for most of my adult life.
And I got to say, as a person who has never been the most physically fit person in the world, I struggled with PT and height and weight and all those other things.
But I found a way to make it through.
And I had a pretty full career, I think.
But the idea that we want to have our soldiers in peak or prime physical condition is because if you're not and you have to go do your job in a real world scenario, fat, out-of-shape soldiers are going to die.
And not only are they going to die, but it puts everybody else who's out in the field with them in danger.
And so this rhetoric about how he's being unfair and this is attack on the American way of life and all this other bullshit, just, it falls short for me.
And it should fall short for all of you.
It should fall short for all of us.
I mean, just think about it for a minute.
Think about being in a situation where if you lose, you're going to die.
Think about being in a mall and somebody attacks you in the parking ramp and it's just you and them and you're in no condition or you are not aware enough to defend yourself and hopefully preserve your own life.
And then now imagine that you got your kids with you or you got your parents with you, your elderly parents or anything like that.
Well, the same principle, I think, can be applied to our military.
These are men and women, whether they're fat or skinny, male or female, no matter what their ethnic background, these are people who have agreed and volunteered to enter into an occupation into whatever organization within the Department of War you choose to number one,
be physically fit, to number two, be proficient on your weapon systems and your equipment and just be overall proficient at your job.
Whatever it is, you pick.
The days of people getting drafted and just assigned a position are long gone.
In fact, those types of things were not very long-lived anyhow.
You know, I suppose if you talk to some Vietnam veterans who were drafted and just thrust into the military or go to jail, they might have a different opinion and rightfully so.
But let's not forget that majority of the people, especially now, in this day and age, have volunteered, volunteered to join the military and signed on the dotted line, which also means I agree to uphold whatever standards this branch of service bestows upon me.
And so those things always have been look professional.
Make sure that you are in at least good enough shape to pass your physical training test and have some integrity.
And among other things, there's other things that will help you to chalk up a successful career in the military, of course.
But those are the basics.
And so for these people, like these witches on the view, they've never had to defend their life or somebody else, I'm guessing.
They've never been in a situation where if you lose, you die.
And of course, I could be wrong about that.
I mean, ladies get harassed and all that stuff all the time.
But I'm guessing that majority of them, especially the ones on this show, have not been in that situation per se.
And so for them to be able to cast judgment, for anybody, anybody at all, to be able to cast judgment about that type of situation, I think is out of line.
If you've never had to fight for your life or the life of the person to your left or right of you, how do you know what it takes?
How do you know what is effective or not?
But some of this is common sense, right?
I mean, we already know that people who are out of shape, overweight, weak, not physically strong, and probably for the most part, it's not mentally strong.
We know that if we put them in these situations abroad or here within our own borders, if necessary, they don't stand all that much of a fighting chance.
That's common sense, right?
I mean, does that really have to be explained to people?
The idea that the Secretary of War is hyper-focused on our soldiers acting and looking professional should not be a deterrent to anybody.
It should not piss anybody off.
If you're a business owner or you're a CEO of some big company or whatever the situation may be, and you are a leader of people, you're a boss, you're a manager, you're whatever.
Do you want the people that work for you to represent your organization in the best light possible?
I would sure hope that the answer to that is yes.
If not, I don't know that your business is going to last all that long.
But it goes, it's the same idea for our military.
When we send our soldiers anywhere around the globe to conduct whatever operation, whether it's fighting, whether it's peacekeeping, whether it's helping, no matter what it is, don't we want them to represent the flag that's on their shoulder as best as possible?
Don't we want other people from around the world or even civilians in the United States to look at our soldiers and go, yeah, I'm glad we got these guys and these gals fighting for us.
That guy's a brick shithouse.
Isn't that what we want?
Or do we want our citizens and people all over the world looking at United States military members and going, holy shit, that guy's a house and not in a good way a house?
Do we, I mean, I just don't, I don't understand the logic there other than wanting to try to start some bullshit.
I just don't, I don't understand it.
I don't understand the logic.
Pete X has also talked about getting back to standards for soldiers as it relates to physical training, of course.
He talked about re-implementing a combat readiness test.
The Marine Corps has had this for quite a long time, I believe.
If you are a person whose main jobs, so infantry, scouts, tankers, I would imagine, snipers, anybody, combat engineers, sappers, pathfinders, of course, rangers and without question, special operations people.
If you are somebody whose main duty is whatever you do involved in combat, you have another physical test that you must pass in order to keep that job.
And I guess I don't understand why that's a problem.
Let me ask you a question just to try to put this into perspective for people.
I am 6'4, 320 pounds-ish.
I was a lot heavier in the past, right after I got out of the military.
If we are in a forward area and I get shot in the hip and I'm laying in the middle of the street or on the sidewalk or wherever, is a woman, for example, who's 5'8, 140 pounds, probably pretty strong if she's carrying all that body armor and she's in the infantry.
Is she even going to be able to pull me to cover and render aid, patch up my wound, make sure I have some ammo to defend myself wherever I lay until the fight's over?
Is she going to be able to do that and then get back in the fight until it's over and do her part to return fire, to move and engage an enemy and destroy them?
Physically, probably not.
Mentally, maybe, maybe not.
And same goes for weak men, mentally and physically weak men.
It's not just women.
And that's why I believe it's probably a good idea that this combat readiness test that he was talking about is gender neutral.
It doesn't matter what you got between your legs.
It doesn't matter what your DNA says.
If you are a person that wants to have a job that is directly involved in combat operations in the field, in a forward area, fighting or doing whatever, you must pass the same test and meet the same standard.
Man or woman.
It doesn't matter.
And personally, I would have had no problem fighting alongside women if they can do the job.
In fact, sometime, some years ago, when the government took out the no women in combat deal from the military, we talked about this.
I believe it was just our battalion, maybe even our brigade level Sergeant Major, I thought it was probably battalion sergeant major, came around and got all of the all the infantrymen in the unit in one room and told us.
He said, hey, the military is lifting the ban on women in combat.
How do you guys feel about it?
It was an open discussion.
And of course, there were some that said, nope, don't think it's a good idea.
Don't want to do it.
Absolutely not.
And you're always going to have that.
But we had quite a few people who said, well, if they can do the job, then let them in.
And I think that there's a lot involved in mixing men and women in combat roles.
I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing.
I think that we have issues, for example, with size and strength of women compared to men.
And a huge part of the physical demand of combat is that you must be able to help your buddy should they go down Or they're going to die.
One of the oldest tactics in combat is to not necessarily kill everybody across from you.
Not right away, anyway.
If we can wound a couple people who are in the middle of a danger area, for example, somebody who's crossing an intersection in an urban area, if we can wound them and they're bleeding in the middle of the street, you start to play on the mental capacity of your enemy.
There isn't a whole lot of people who can be involved in a firefight, in an engagement, watch their buddy, their brother, people you've trained with, people you've become very close to, lay in the middle of the street, screaming in pain, bleeding out, and just ignore it.
Now, doctor and tells you that that's kind of the action that you need to take, right?
Stay engaged in the fight as long as you can.
But we know that human emotion takes over at some point for some people, and they're going to do whatever they can do to, in the hail of gunfire, get to their buddy to try to help them to make sure they're okay.
So now that we know that as soldiers, when we have these instances and we're in the middle of a gunfight and we're shooting it out, if my enemy is laying in the middle of the street bleeding and screaming in pain, I'm going to leave him there.
I'm going to leave him there.
And then if he's still there and he's still alive when the battle's over, according to the Geneva Convention, we must render our enemies who are unarmed and wounded.
We must render them aid.
Okay.
Well, if they're still alive and they're still there when it's over, then we'll render them aid.
But what we do know about human emotion and just the human condition is that people who are close are not necessarily always going to be able to concentrate, be effective in that situation while they can hear their brother 100 feet away from them or 20 feet away from them dying.
They're going to try to get there.
And so now this one soldier who's laying in the middle of the street wounded turns into one wounded and two or three who aren't paying attention really to the battle.
They're paying attention to their buddy.
And now you get a three for one.
And it may sound sick and twisted and demented or whatever, but that's what war is.
Not only do you have to be physically fit, not only do you have to be able to shoot straight, not only do you have to be able to communicate effectively, not only do you have to be able to move effectively, but you also have to be mentally tough.
And so all of that comes into play.
When I hear the Secretary of War talking about these standards for combat operations, it makes a lot of sense to me.
And it has zero to do with me or anybody else not wanting to fight alongside a woman.
That's bullshit.
That's stupid.
It has everything to do with whether or not they can do the job to the standard.
And part of the standard, even when I was in the infantry, was that you're proficient at buddy aid.
We all took combat lifesaver courses.
We all knew how to give each other IVs.
We all knew how to apply tourniquets, how to apply bandages, how to treat head wounds, how to treat sucking chest wounds.
If you have a collapsed lung and a bullet went through your chest cavity, anything like that.
Now, we weren't full-blown medics and we weren't super proficient at all these field medical things, but we are proficient enough to be able to keep you alive until we can finish the fight, get you on a truck or on an airplane, on a helicopter, and mede-vac you to a hospital, try to get you stable.
And so it makes a lot of sense.
And the idea that our military has gotten so pussified, just a bunch of sissies running around in some instances, not everywhere, not everybody.
He talked about no more beards, no more men in dresses, no more men in skirts.
All of that takes away from our unit cohesion a thousand percent.
It takes away from combat readiness and it takes away from combat effectiveness.
And so when he said things like there's going to be no more, no more clutter, I think he called it clutter.
None of these distractions.
And I'll tell you what, if you are somebody who served in the last decade and you're out now, or even if you're still in, it was music to my ears when he said, you know, we're going to really tone down this mandatory training.
So what does that mean?
No more SSD, no more online classes and multiple choice questions and no more death by PowerPoint.
None of this crap.
The Secretary's intent is that we are going to train.
We're going to train at our jobs, every aspect of them, whatever it is.
We're going to get extremely proficient, if not develop expertise, be experts at every piece of equipment and every weapon system that our job requires us to be able to know how to use.
And if we're not training, then the second main focus is to maintain our equipment.
When you train as you fight, things get broken.
Vehicles break down.
Weapons need new parts.
All of these things.
When we train as if we are going to combat today, shit happens.
Things break all the time.
Now, maybe the Secretary can do some negotiating here and there to get better made equipment that doesn't break down as often.
But I will say, for the most part, in my experience, a lot of the bigger equipment, you know, like the Bradley fighting vehicles that I worked in, some of our vehicles, some of our bigger weapon systems seem to be pretty well made in my experience.
And I understand that there's hundreds of millions of weapons that the United States military owns.
So there's probably some pretty shitty ones out there.
But in my experience, most of our equipment was pretty good.
None of it was excellent.
Some of it was dog shit.
But for the most part, it was pretty good.
And so if we're not training, we're not shooting, we're not moving, we're not communicating and doing all this real, real-world scenario training and proficiency training on our equipment and weapon systems, then we're maintaining it.
We're going to make sure that it's fixed.
We're going to make sure that it works.
And then after that, then we do the other stuff.
Of course, you got to keep time for admin, you know, making sure your paperwork's up to date, you know, all these things.
There's all kinds of admin tasks that you have to do.
And so I was watching him speak, and I thought to myself in the middle of a speech, boy, there's going to be some smoke in the city on this one.
The media is going to have a field day with this.
The Court of Common of Public Opinion is going to have all kinds of things to say and all kinds of opinions to render.
But then I thought, how many of these people who are going to talk trash, talk shit, maybe even just second-guess it or naysay it, which that's okay, right?
I mean, it's okay for people that have no idea to ask questions and feel a certain type of way because you don't know what you don't know until you know it.
But for people who have served or who are currently serving, I guess I don't know that, and maybe I'm wrong about this, but I don't know that a whole lot of them had negative feelings about what he said, especially those of us who have, which is a lot of, which is a lot of veterans right now in our country who have combat experience.
There's a lot of us.
And I don't know that any of those people, at least not a whole lot of them, are going to think that this was off base.
I mean, being in top physical condition and looking professional has been a standard in the United States Army as long as I served, as long as I was there.
It was always a thing.
Your uniform's not right.
If your uniform's fucked up, go fix it and come back.
If you didn't pass your height and weight, your physical training, then you better work on it and come back and we'll correct it.
Being a good leader, in my opinion, is telling your soldiers, your subordinates, when they're messed up, when they're not right.
Otherwise, you're setting them up for failure.
And so when we have these conversations and then all these people out in the world who have no idea what's what pass all this judgment and start these narratives that make zero sense, it's counterproductive.
Because from the word jump, they were doing things the way that the military does.
There's a reason why they call the room to attention.
And you don't say a word and you don't clap and you don't do this and you don't do that.
You stand at attention because when you're at the position of attention, you don't move your head, you don't look down, you don't talk, you don't sneeze, you don't fart, you don't burp, you don't, none of that shit.
You stand there and stare straight ahead.
That's what that means.
And so when the room is called to attention and the Secretary of War or the President of the United States walks on the stage, there is no fanfare.
And apparently, Donald Trump doesn't really understand all that all that much either.
He was surprised that the room was quiet, that he didn't get claps and applause and all this other shit.
So maybe he needs to be brushed up on how the military customs and courtesies work.
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One of the most important things, in my opinion, that the Secretary, Secretary Hagseth talked about in his speech was preparedness, right?
He muttered off the quote: Those who desire peace, prepare for war.
And I got to say, I was a little surprised that he pulled that one out just because I have that quote tattooed on my arm.
Those who desire peace, prepare for war.
And if you don't know, it was a quote taken from an ancient Chinese general or something like that, I believe.
But it always has rang true in my mind.
There are people and things, forces, or whatever you want to call it in this world that mean to do others harm.
There are evil people and there is just plain evil everywhere out in the world.
And if we are not a nation, if we are not a group of people that don't prepare to defend our peace, to defend our way of life, we will.
We will be subservient to somebody else or something else.
And so I will say that it seems as though, as of late, that all of these things, the American dream, this pursuit of happiness and this peace that we wish that we had, is slowly, day by day, slipping away.
And so it was kind of refreshing to hear him talk about this.
And I couldn't agree more.
People who take it upon themselves to be prepared for battle, for war, they do deserve to have peace.
In fact, in my opinion, they're maybe the most deserving people of peace.
Not that nobody else deserves to have it, but if we're going to stand in line and organize a group of people by who should live out the rest of their days in absolute peace, I agree.
I believe it's the people that are willing to sacrifice everything to ensure that that peace is brought upon this community, this nation.
Because it's not easy.
It's not a pleasant thought.
None of it is.
War sucks.
War is hell.
War sucks.
Violence sucks.
It hurts.
Like getting into a fist fight, man.
You may never lose one, but it still hurts.
Your hands hurt from duking it out.
Your face hurts because you're bound to take a shot or two in the chops.
You're tired.
All that stuff.
There's nothing, in my opinion, there's nothing glorious about extreme violence.
But that's what it takes.
And so when we have people in our society, American men and women who are willing to put themselves into that situation freely and openly by raising your hand and signing on that dotted line, they deserve peace because they are the ones who are going to have to face these monsters.
These are the people that when duty calls, they're the ones that are going to get up, kiss their families, goodbye, say goodbye to everything that they know, that they've worked for up until this point in their lives, with the idea that you may not ever see it again.
When these folks hug their husbands and wives and give them a kiss and tell them that they love them, and I'll talk to you soon, they know.
They know if they're going to a combat area, into a combat situation, they know that the chances of them seeing that person again and holding that person again and hugging their kids again is not guaranteed.
And so if you are a person who passes judgment on these people, but yet you're not willing to face the darkness when it comes to your doorstep, I don't know that you have a whole lot of reason to bitch.
Of course, you're entitled, everyone's entitled to their opinion.
But for most people who are war fighters, those opinions fall on deaf ears, especially if they're not helpful, if they're destructive in nature.
Those opinions fall on deaf ears.
Be like me telling the doctor, the doctor that put the stents in my brain, be like me telling him what to do and make sure you do this and do it like that and don't do this and make sure you get enough sleep and don't fight with your wife the morning that you're going to operate on my brain and this and that and blah blah blah.
He knows all that.
He knows what the cost is if he messes up.
He knows what he stands to lose, much like just about every soldier.
And I say just about because there might be some.
I mean, there are some that enter and they just don't quite understand what they're getting into.
There are those people, I'm sure.
But most people who enter military service and then pick a job that is one that's actively engaged in combat when the need arises, they know the cost and they do it of their own free will.
And I don't think that it's a foreign idea to anybody that nowadays in today's world, the chances that you may be called upon to pick up your rifle and go obliterate an enemy is a lot higher than it was.
Well, I can't say in the near past because we know that we just got done with the longest war in our country's history.
But in the past, I mean, there's been plenty of time in our country's history that was peacetime.
There wasn't really a threat of war.
There wasn't really a place where we were sending soldiers month after month after month after month to fight an enemy.
But we still had people that were willing to sacrifice everything should the need arise again.
And I agree with the Secretary.
Those are probably the people that deserve peace the most.
And ironically, ironically, those are the people that, even if they are in a peaceful place, a peaceful situation, a lot of them will never be at peace again.
The things that are required in a combat situation of human beings doesn't always go away.
Even if you have no physical injuries, sometimes it just doesn't go away.
In fact, the whole idea, the whole experience of the military, in one way or another, is a mind fuck to people.
The way of life, the structure, all these things that Pete Hegseth was talking about just four or five days ago, whatever it was, are not foreign ideas.
This whole experience of the military, and if you're not, when you go in, if you're not a person that is okay with this stuff, either you become a person that's okay with it and it changes you and it transforms you into a war fighter, or it doesn't, and you go a different direction.
Maybe this isn't the job for you.
And I think that there's plenty of people who get in the mix and decide that this isn't the job for them.
And either they ride out that first contract and then they leave with their discharge paperworks, their paperwork, and they get their thank you for your service letter and they go about their lives and start different careers and do different things.
And that's all right, too.
But I don't know that it's okay that all these folks all over the place have all these very, very strong opinions and things to say that are negative about the things he was saying.
But you've never lived it.
Looking professional.
Shave your face, cut your hair, make sure your uniform fits you right.
Make sure it's put together properly.
You got all your awards and your patches and your unit insignias and your rank and your name tapes and all that stuff is in the proper place.
It's properly measured.
Look professional.
It's always been a standard.
And why that's gone away in the last four or five years, I guess I don't know.
And I don't understand why.
And all these soldiers are threatening to leave the military because they're going to have to shave their faces.
Of course, there's troops out there that get religious exemptions for whatever religion it is that requires you to have facial hair.
And I'm sure there's some out there.
Clearly, there's some out there.
I don't know enough about it.
I don't know enough about my own religion, let alone somebody else's.
But this has always been a standard, or at least it always was.
Again, this idea that we just, you know, we have to be politically correct and we can't hurt anybody's feelings.
And, you know, we can't tell soldiers when they're fat.
We got to be nice to them.
That's bullshit.
Being nice doesn't win war.
It doesn't win these battles.
Do you think if the boys who fought in World War II when they were being trained up, do you think that if they weren't called pieces of shit and scum and whale shit and all this other stuff that drill sergeants like to say and old gristly weathered NCOs who have a long history of experience in the military and a lot of combat experience,
if they're not very nice to you?
Do you think that these boys in World War II that fought the Germans and traipsed all over Europe to get the job done?
If they got to complain every time their feelings were hurt, I don't know that we would have won that war.
I mean, you have to be able to understand that your main focus is the mission.
The mission doesn't care about your feelings.
The mission doesn't care about what you want and what you don't want.
And furthermore, neither does your enemy.
You have to understand that you are going to be in a situation that somebody is going to do everything within their power.
They're going to fight like hell to kill you.
And if you've never been in a fight for your life, you can't begin to understand.
But this is what we ask of our troops.
Be ready to be in a situation where the person in front of you or behind you or wherever means to kill you.
And it's not like a suggestion, it's a fact.
The Middle East, for example, they've been fighting and killing each other since the beginning of time all over land and religious beliefs and all this other stuff.
And it's still going.
The war between all of those different races of people and religions and all this other stuff, that war rages on.
Just because we're not involved doesn't mean that it isn't happening.
And those people, when they decide that they want to take the fight to us, why would we want to be ill-prepared for that?
Because I don't know that it's a question of when.
I think it's more of a question, or not if, but when.
It's more of a question of when.
When are we going to have to defend ourselves?
When are we going to have to take the lid off of this can of whoop ass and let the boys do what they need to do to win?
Warfighting.
Warfighting is the way to ensure our survival.
When the situation dictates.
Of course, I am not a proponent of going out and starting wars and picking fights with people around the world just to keep ourselves at war.
Because when we go to war, we are going to lose American soldiers.
There isn't a situation where the United States of America enters a conflict that involves combat operations that we don't lose soldiers.
It just is what it is.
But these are the things that we sign up for when we join.
We know the cost.
Maybe, maybe I would agree that we don't quite know what the effects of that cost are going to be just yet.
Not at the time that we're raising our hand and we're getting new uniforms and we're getting excited about being a soldier or a Marine or an airman, whatever it is you pick.
But we all know that there is a very strong chance that when and if we have to be engaged in combat operations, that somebody's going to get either severely injured or killed.
Hopefully not.
But if we go into it thinking that everyone's going to just be okay and these fairies are going to come down from the sky and shield us from everything bad because we're going to be nice to them.
We're going to be nice to each other and we're just going to have relaxed standards.
And we're going to put soldiers into a situation that they're not prepared for.
And then everything is then going to be okay.
Well, folks, I don't know that that's true.
I think that's a pretty ignorant point of view.
So all these witches at the view, you guys don't know shit.
You don't know what you're talking about.
A lot of people in the media have no idea.
No idea what they're talking about.
Most people cannot even fathom What it's like to be in the middle of a gunfight.
Most people can't even fathom what it's like to be in a vehicle, an armored vehicle, and be in it when it's blown to pieces.
And when and if you survive to see the aftermath.
And for many, for many veterans and many soldiers that survive these things, then they have to clean up their buddy's body parts.
They got to go into the wreckage and go, hey, can you go grab so-and-so's leg?
Can you go get their foot?
Yeah, we got him in the body bag, but we didn't find his hand.
Can we go look for his hand?
All kinds of shit.
Nobody can fathom it unless you've been there.
Or unless you are a caregiver or a wife, or you're very close to a soldier that's been in that experience.
How can you even begin to understand and let alone pass judgment?
So when we, you know, maybe it was a mistake.
Maybe it was a mistake to publicly televise this speech to the whole world.
Not because he needs to hide anything he's saying, but because now there's all kinds of people all over the place that think that they have a good, strong opinion and a good, understanding of what Pete Hegseth and the United States military is about.
But, but it's not true.
They don't have the understanding.
They don't know.
But yet they're still going to pass judgment because it fits some narrative.
So, I mean, I don't know.
I don't want to beat up the dead horse, which is this topic, but I just think that in closing to this topic, having soldiers that are fit, that look presentable, that are well trained, that are extremely lethal if their job requires it is very important.
Having soldiers who have mental toughness to be able to get through these things is very important.
Where I think the military falls short, amongst a lot of other things, is helping to is helping these soldiers after they've done this work, helping them to get through it, to cope with it, to find help if they need it.
Helping them understand that no matter how you portray it outwardly, how you think of it, none of that stuff, these experiences change you.
And I don't know about now, but way back then, that wasn't part of the conversation.
Like when we did our six-month train up to go to Iraq, we didn't have anybody talk to us about what it might be like after.
If you get into this scenario, then this is going to happen maybe.
And these are the places that you should be able to go to find help if you need it.
So I think that as we're recrafting how the military operates, maybe that should be some training that is put together, that is offered, that is hopefully mandatory, especially for warfighters.
That would be pretty sweet to see.
That would be my recommendation if I had the opportunity to sit at the table and ask questions and give my two cents, which I'm sure Pete Hagseth nor Donald Trump gives a flying shit about what it is, I think.
But that's my take on it.
And so what else do we got going on?
Our government is shut down.
And just real quickly, I guess I'll give my opinion on that.
I think that if this whole thing, this whole government shut down, if this whole thing is all about health care to illegal immigrants, then the Democrats are wrong.
This idea that we need to preserve health care for everybody is off base.
Healthcare for Americans?
Yeah, I can get down with that.
Socialized health care for all Americans.
I don't know if that's going to work.
I know some people say it works well in Canada, but it doesn't seem like that's true.
I don't know enough about it.
But there absolutely is zero reason why when our economy isn't getting better like we thought it would, and maybe it just takes more than six to eight months for that to happen.
Things are expensive.
Groceries are expensive.
Car insurance got super expensive.
Homeowners, all this stuff, all these things that we need to pay for every month to live and make sure that our shit is protected some way, somehow, it's all gotten very expensive.
And if our taxes are, listen, man, we pay about half of our income, most people pay just about half of their income to the government in tax.
And then we watch it be sent all over the world in aid.
Thank God Doge found all that stupid bullshit that we were paying for, tax dollars.
I think every week there's more things that are uncovered or that we as a community stumble upon that our tax dollars are going to that we don't quite agree with.
And so if we're already paying all that money on top of being taxed more on everything else that we do, let alone our income tax, it's pretty fucking frustrating to watch it be sent all over the world and then watch our government get shut down because one side wants to make sure that illegal immigrants have health care for free for us to pay for.
And I suspect it's because their whole world is falling apart and the only people they can ensure that will vote for them in the next election are the illegal immigrants that are getting free shit.
And what these illegal immigrants and everyone else who's leeching off the government don't understand is you are a slave to them.
They want to keep you in poverty.
They want to keep you dependent on these benefits and all this other shit so that you'll vote for them, but you can't get ahead.
Those systems aren't designed for you to get ahead if you're there for the wrong reasons.
If you're motivated and you're willing to work, then those systems probably work out pretty well for you.
But when you flock here from a different part of the world because you can get a bunch of free shit, you're never going to get ahead.
And maybe part of the problem is that a lot of folks, maybe not just illegal immigrants, but a lot of people in general who are using these programs and these benefits, they don't care to get ahead because they don't want to put in the work to get ahead, maybe.
They're fine being dirt poor and living on food stamps and shit like that for the rest of their lives.
Hopefully that's not the case.
But I suspect that it's the case for a large amount of people.
So we've run out of time.
New standards for the military, I think, is a good thing.
Let's get back to the old school where our soldiers look professional, they're proficient, they're lethal, they're helpful to the community, all of these things.
Before we pass judgment on things that we don't know anything about, why don't we ask questions and try to learn?
Not just jump off the cuff with our first emotion, knowing that we don't know what we don't know and are going to spout off some dumb shit.
Anyway, you guys have a great rest of your evening or your day.
We'll see you next week.
Good night.
I can control what I put into my mouth.
I can control what I feed to my child.
I can control how I grow my food and if I want to spray pesticides or not, but I cannot control the experiments over my head.
Within an hour, it spreads out.
It creates a blanket.
We're in a war.
This is a war against me, you, our children, our grandchildren, and generations to come.
This is war raged upon us.
These programs consist of spraying tons of patented aerosol pollutants into our skies without public consent.
This includes aluminum, barium, strontium, and more.
It's targeting your food, your water, and it's coming in multiple different ways.
If people want to know if this is a real thing, states have bills to ban it.
I think there are now 32 states that have taken an attempt at this.
This has become a huge issue.
If your average citizen knew the truth of what's going on and what they're being exposed to without their consent, they would be outraged and they would take action.
I don't want some creep, ramming chemicals down my throat without my permission.
We need to prosecute those people that are doing.
Do we stand in one spot and say enough is enough?
And if they don't listen, we take it to the next step.
You've been doing this for a while?
Yep.
Long time.
People do care.
Yep.
We care deep.
I know that.
So we're now getting really involved.
and now we're gonna bring something legal against your company.
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 side of Israel.
Look at the site of Tel Aviv and look at the site of Philadelphia.
You tell me where this money's going.
You tell me who's benefiting from this.
I am prepared to die in the battle fighting this monstrosity that would wish to enslave me and my family and steal away any rights to my property.
And to take away my God, go fuck yourself.
Will I submit to that?
And if you've got a foreign study, 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 lot and say we stand with them?
You go to Trump's cabinet.
You go to Biden's cabinet.
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 just like to say that, you know, in our Bible, it says that you're like animals.
The Jews crucified our God.
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