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Nov. 23, 2025 - Stew Peters Show

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Truth Patrol: Stopping the Smear Campaign Against Vets

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	Earlier this week, we were all reminded, everybody in the world was reminded that members of the military are legally obligated to disobey orders that are deemed to be unlawful.
	Now, this isn't a secret.
	Of course, anybody who knows anything about the military, has ever served in the military, had anybody close to them that served in the military, obviously understands that disobeying a direct order that is lawful, even if we disagree or don't like it, is still a problem.
	And so is it really a huge issue that our lawmakers, our elected officials, the people that were elected to go to Washington and to do work and make things better for the constituency in which voted them in to said office.
	Is it right for them to even mention to soldiers that they don't have to obey orders?
	That these individuals and many other people around this country who don't have a firm grasp on reality, is it right that they tell members of the military, go ahead, disobey.
	Disobey any order that is not lawful.
	Well, today we're going to have a conversation about that.
	So stick with us.
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	Okay, so unlawful orders.
	What are unlawful orders?
	Why would any elected official have to remind members of the military that if they are given an unlawful order, that they don't have to follow it?
	Members of the military are very well trained and versed on this.
	They are explained in detail.
	They're talked to in detail about what these types of things mean.
	And if you're not aware what we're talking about here, there was a video posted on social media some days ago, and it was five or six members of Congress or the Senate, all of them Democrats.
	And they put out a video talking about how if you are a member of the military, you do not have to follow illegal orders, as if members of the military don't already know that.
	And of course, they're talking about President Trump.
	They're pissed off at him.
	The funny part was that they never really discussed what it is they're talking about, which orders are illegal.
	Are they talking about the president's use of the National Guard in American cities to help quell the violence and all the bullshit that's happening around there?
	Is that what they're talking about?
	Are they talking about the president's direction to take out drug boats that are on their way to American shores to peddle drugs and other things that destroy the lives of the American people, takes lives of the American people?
	Is that what they're pissed about?
	Which orders are they talking about that are unlawful?
	Now, I'm the first one to come out and say there are, of course, things, many things that the president has said in his time in politics, not just this current administration, but his time in politics in general, that I don't agree with.
	There are many tweets, there are many truths, there are many speeches, there are all kinds of things that Donald Trump has said that I don't agree with as a person that voted for him.
	But there are also many things that I agree with the president on, which is exactly why I voted for him.
	You see, the difference, in my opinion, the difference between a lawful and unlawful order is pretty clear.
	If you're a person who works in a job that is given orders, the military, and like in the instance of this story, we could talk about military members and people who work within the intelligence community.
	They're given orders all the time.
	And I'm fairly certain That if they were not following lawful orders, they would be replaced.
	They would be dismissed.
	Now, some will say, well, they won't if they're in on it.
	If they're in on what?
	What is it that President Trump has said or done that is illegal?
	Now, we can talk about his felony convictions for financial or tax crimes or whatever it is.
	I don't know personally.
	My opinion on those things are: I don't know that he got a fair trial.
	I don't know that he got a fair shake.
	I think that part of all of these things have been the witch hunt to stop him from regaining office, to stop him from having any kind of political clout or any strength, taking the strength away from his voice and his words.
	And do the few crimes, well, few, we could say 34, right?
	That's what everyone likes to throw around.
	Is it the belief of the people against Trump that he got convicted of 34 felonies and is walking free?
	And now the president, if they were really that serious, wouldn't he be in prison?
	And so, like, there's a lot of discussion, right?
	And I'm sure somebody will comment on what I just said and say, well, you know, you should do the research and this, that, and the other thing.
	Yeah, you're right.
	Maybe I should do the research.
	Maybe I should be better versed on every charge that he's been convicted of.
	And I will also say that maybe it's really not all that important.
	Maybe it's really not all that important.
	The things that we disagree with the president on, at a fundamental level, in my opinion, sometimes are kind of petty, right?
	Like, and I get it, right?
	He's the president.
	He should be held to a higher standard.
	I agree with that.
	But we also need to take into account the things that he has done, the accomplishments that the president and his administration have made.
	And I'll agree with a lot of people when they say that some of the people in his administration, maybe even him, are all shitbags.
	They're all on the take.
	They're all bought.
	They're all compromised.
	Maybe they are.
	Maybe they are.
	But what I do know is the numbers of illegal immigration, the infiltration that we were experiencing, that has diminished.
	They say almost to nothing.
	Numbers are extremely low.
	He did bring peace to the Middle East, although others will say that he's going to profit off of it.
	And maybe he will.
	But the goal that everyone else had laid out for that part of the world was to stop the killing, stop the violence.
	Well, that happened.
	Is he going to profit off of it?
	Maybe.
	Maybe he will.
	And so then the question is: what would you rather have?
	Would you rather the president profit off a war-torn land and build hotels or condos or shopping malls or whatever the hell it is?
	He aims to build, if that's the truth, in Gaza.
	Is it better that the war and the killing is over and he's going to build condos on top of the graves of dead people, men, women, and children?
	The homes of these people who are going to be ousted.
	They say that this is just another tragedy, just another catastrophe.
	But everyone was screaming for the violence to end.
	Are there other things to work out?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I believe there's a lot of things to work out in that part of the world.
	Did Netanyahu fucking redact his deal?
	Did he recant on his deal?
	Maybe he did.
	But there hasn't been bombs and missiles and all those things, not like there was before.
	Are the price, is the price of eggs lower?
	Some will say, nope, it's not.
	Some will say, well, barely.
	But is it lower?
	And so, like, all of these things, all these things that he said he was going to do, lots of them we have yet to see done.
	But he has been making good on some of the promises that he made the American people when he was campaigning.
	Are the people in his cabinet all clean, clean, and clear, and up to snuff?
	Maybe, but probably not.
	There's a lot of heat on Kash Patel and what he may or may not be doing and profiting and what he may be into or not into.
	There's a lot of discussion about that.
	But what do the numbers of the FBI say?
	How many people have been caught?
	How many pedophiles have been put in jail?
	How many sex traffickers have been stopped?
	How many dangerous people have been brought to justice?
	How many pounds of drugs that are killing Americans have been taken off the street?
	How many guns who are killing Americans and our children have been taken off the street?
	We can go round and round about it.
	There's so many things, and no matter what topic you pick, in anything in U.S. politics, in world politics, no matter what you pick today, you can find a reason to either support, not support, hate, love, be okay with, not be okay with, just about anything.
	And for whatever reason, nowadays, we concentrate.
	We concentrate on the extremely negative things.
	And anything that looks like it has just a shred of positivity in it, we as a culture now, for whatever reason, pick it apart and find a way to make it negative.
	And as I said, I believe that we can find a way to put a negative spin on just about anything that happens, no matter how good it could be.
	And we've lost that ability as a culture, as a group, it seems.
	And so now we have, what a goat trail we got down.
	But now we have members of Congress telling the soldiers that have wrote a blank check to this country for their lives that they don't have to obey orders that are unlawful.
	Well, we already know that.
	They know that already.
	But we know what they're getting at.
	We just don't understand exactly which orders they're talking about.
	I don't believe that Trump using the National Guard to dispel violence in the cities of America is an unlawful order.
	I don't believe that at all.
	If he was doing it unlawfully, he wouldn't have cared what any governor or any mayor or anybody had to say.
	He would have sent him in there anyway.
	He wouldn't have gone through the courts, been denied and tried again and been denied and tried again and maybe get granted this time.
	And then when he responds to this video and says things like the max penalty for sedition is death, then they all come back out of the woodwork and say, well, hey, look at the president is now calling for the public execution of elected officials in America.
	I don't think that, unless I missed it, I may have missed it, but I didn't see him calling anybody by name.
	Maybe it's safe to assume that he's talking about the people who were in the video, the five or six congresspeople or senators that were in the video.
	I believe that he was talking about them.
	But he's not calling for the execution.
	The max penalty for betraying your country in such a way could be death.
	So what is it that's so alarming?
	Is it alarming that he's telling the world or expressing his opinion about what the penalty is for betraying your country, for treason?
	Sedition?
	Is he just supposed to say, well, hey, you know, we really don't like those words?
	Or was he telling us the truth?
	That the law in this country outlines that the max penalty for such thing could be death.
	Could be 20 years in prison, could be a bunch of fines.
	In today's justice system, I wouldn't be surprised if they just got a slap on the hand and a kick in the ass as they walk out and send them home.
	Maybe pay a couple dollars in fines.
	What would make anybody think that we can just tell our troops they don't have to follow orders?
	Elected officials, of course, they have a little more power than the average American citizen, but that power was given to them by us, the American citizens.
	It's their job to uphold the law and the Constitution in the realm, within the confinement of their position and the extent of the power that that said position holds.
	And most everybody understands that structure, that breakdown.
	But why?
	Why would we want to tell soldiers to not follow orders?
	What orders are unlawful?
	I think it's a pretty bold, it's a pretty bold statement to make.
	It's a pretty bold video to put out in the ether without having any actual tangible content to enter in there to tell everybody what it is we're supposed to be looking at.
	Is it possible that this is just another attempt to cause widespread problems on the streets of America to get people all spun up to have people be more divided than we already are?
	Why would the people who are given the charge of taking care of America be trying so hard to put a split between the people that put him in office?
	Now, maybe all of these are maybe they're all rhetorical questions, right?
	Maybe we all know the answers to these already.
	And if you ask me, the answer is the same as usual: money, power, or control, or any combination of the three, or all three.
	Well, let's just kind of break this down, right?
	So I found an article on Time, it's Time magazine article about this topic, and I did some summarizing of it.
	So here's what it says: the article covers the controversy sparked when several Democratic lawmakers, all of whom previously were members of the military and/or in the intelligence community, they released a video addressed to members of the military and the intelligence community, and they told service members that they have the right and obligation.
	It's obligatory that you refuse illegal orders, including orders that violate the U.S. Constitution.
	Which orders?
	Which orders are we talking about?
	Now, as we said, in response to that, Donald Trump publicly condemned the lawmakers via his social media platform, Truth Social, calling them traitors for issuing a message and seditious, even saying this behavior was punishable by death.
	There's no mistruth there.
	That's all accurate.
	As far as I know, that's all accurate.
	You betray this country, you can be executed for it.
	And these guys all know that.
	I'm very certain that when you're elected to Congress or the Senate, there's quite an onboarding process.
	There's a lot of information given to you, both verbally and written, I'm sure, or electronic in this day and age.
	I'm pretty sure that it's explained to you: if you betray this country, if you incite an insurrection, if you display and are found guilty of treasonous behavior, you could be killed.
	That's the risk you take by doing such a thing.
	So they know that too.
	Not only do the soldiers know that they don't have to follow illegal orders, but elected officials understand what the punishment is for turning on your country.
	Now, I'm not here to say that they're guilty or they're innocent.
	It's here to give my opinion on the information that we have.
	But the question I have is: if these elected officials know that seditious behavior and treasonous behavior is punishable by huge fines, many, many years in prison, and/or the death penalty, why are they so emboldened in telling members of the military to disobey orders?
	And of course, there's the loophole, right?
	They never said disobey orders.
	They said you have the obligation to refuse to follow orders that are unlawful, that are illegal.
	Why are they so carefree about it?
	What were they promised?
	Whose idea was this?
	Is it meant for us to believe that they're so naive and ignorant and stupid that they're just speaking their mind on a social media platform?
	Do the powers that be really believe that the American people are that naive?
	That we're that ignorant, that we're that dumb?
	If elected officials understand the consequences of such actions, the actions that they are accused of being seditious and treasonous and all that stuff, they understand what the consequences for that are, why are they so nonchalant about doing it?
	Clearly, they're not scared.
	I don't know that anybody, well, I shouldn't say that.
	I'm sure there are some people around that believe that they're a thousand percent right that Donald Trump's breaking the law by telling people to do what it is he thinks is best in a lawful way.
	But it just doesn't make any sense.
	And it doesn't seem like any of these people really think about it and put two and two together.
	And maybe they do think about it.
	But if that's the case, who's directing this?
	Who's funding it?
	Whose ideas are these?
	These are all questions we probably never, we'll probably never get answers to.
	But I think that it's well worth the thought.
	It's worth the conversation.
	Do we think that it's possible that there's outside influence telling these people, hey, look, you guys are going to make this little video.
	It's going to be cute and all the crazies in the country, in our communities, are going to jump on board.
	They're going to like, they're going to comment, they're going to share, and they're going to talk about it.
	They're going to talk about it for a long time.
	And then we may even just spin up all these people in the military.
	We may just get people to do what we say and disobey orders and try to push in some kind of upheaval in the ranks of the military.
	They already got enough problems to deal with.
	They got enough shit going on.
	But it's okay.
	Let's add some more to the things that they got to deal with and navigate as if their jobs aren't hard enough already.
	I think we all know that there's a puppet master somewhere pulling all the strings.
	There's someone somewhere just funneling dollars into this, into these, these organizations and all of these things that people are saying and doing and putting together and carrying out.
	And the truth is, we'll probably never know who it is, really.
	We'll probably never, never have any idea.
	There's a lot of people who have a lot to say.
	There's a lot of theories out there.
	There's some really compelling theories about a lot of different topics going on in the world today.
	There's some very compelling things about Epstein, about Charlie Kirk, about Trump and what he's up to, about members of Congress, members of the Senate, all kinds of shit.
	There's a lot of stuff out there.
	And a lot of it is, a lot of the things you hear are very compelling.
	And some of them even contradict each other.
	And you find yourself thinking, well, shit, man, what if it's this?
	But it really couldn't be this.
	It's got to be that because this doesn't make as much sense.
	Well, but then this doesn't make sense.
	Well, then maybe they make sense together.
	How do you know what's real any longer?
	If we were a civilization, communities of people who took it upon ourselves and found it valuable enough to do our own research and draw our own conclusions and ask our own questions, maybe things wouldn't be so uprooted.
	Because I think that a large percentage of this country, even though they're watching, and then they'll participate a little bit online, you know, leave comments or likes or thumbs down or cross words with somebody on the poster, this or that somewhere.
	But I believe that most people see through all of this theater and all this bullshit, all this rhetoric and storytelling and finger pointing and all that stuff.
	And the real question is: when are we going to, as a country, get back to taking care of the masses?
	When are our elected officials going to quit acting like children and take care of their constituency, the people that put them there, that need their help, that need their position of power to do something positive for their community?
	The seemingly never-ending drove of money that's being spent in places and corners of this world that nobody in their right mind that isn't in a position of power would find it appropriate to spend your money on.
	And yet, all of us, down from the smallest little podcaster like myself, to the giants in the industry, the Joe Rogans and the Sean Ryans and the real big personalities in this space.
	There's so many stories.
	There's so many theories and finger pointing.
	And well, it's got to be this.
	And there's so much work and time and money and effort that goes into crafting these narratives and providing this content for the world to watch.
	And sometimes it seems that nobody has the right answer.
	There's just a lot of theories out there.
	And the people that really control the levers that can shed light on the truth are just sitting back, smoking a cigar, drinking some scotch, and being entertained by all of this.
	And now we're getting into the realm of telling members of the military: don't worry about it.
	If you don't like it, you don't got to do it.
	Basically, in my opinion, is what that message comes down to.
	Nobody in the military ever was told that you have to agree.
	No one in the military has ever told you had to like what you were told to do.
	But everyone in the military was told, do what the fuck you're told.
	And just about everybody, and maybe it's a pretty slim limb to go out on, but just about everybody that wears a uniform has an idea of what right and wrong is.
	They've all been explained to you at length the difference between a lawful and unlawful order, which makes me think the only reason that this type of shit comes out and stays out and it's okay is because there's ulterior motives.
	And of course, everyone's going to hide behind the First Amendment, which is a pretty serious thing.
	I almost gave my life for the First Amendment, for all of them, for the Constitution, for this country.
	But man, some people who never had the balls to put theirs up, some of them got a whole lot to say.
	And it's okay.
	It's okay because people do put everything on the line for their right to say whatever it is they got to say, no matter how good, bad, or indifferent it is, no matter how much we like it or despise it.
	But in this particular instance, as it's been said, told to us in multiple places, there could be some pretty hefty consequences for putting out videos like this as an elected official.
	But again, we all know we all know that they won't be prosecuted.
	We all know that they won't be held accountable.
	We all know that nothing's going to happen other than a bunch of words.
	And this is just yet another scenario in which we're not getting to solving real problems in our country.
	We're not getting to solving the real disdainment.
	Is disdainment even a word?
	I think so.
	We're not getting to solve the real disdainment, the real issues going on in our communities because we're fighting over some stupid shit.
	And we're getting enraged about people who are going to say what they're going to say anyway.
	And there is no consequence.
	I think we've seen it over and over and over again.
	Elected officials in this country that Don't have a very truly north-facing moral compass.
	They just get to do what they want.
	In the process of doing what they want, they get to make all the rules for you and for me.
	And we just got to abide by them or suffer.
	Even when you are following the law, even when you are doing the right thing, as an American citizen, there's many of them still suffering.
	And they're trying their damnedest to do the right thing, to be good people.
	But that doesn't seem to matter much.
	Here we started the show and we were going to have this discussion about these elected officials coming out and making this video and all this other stuff.
	And now we just get down the rabbit hole.
	But I think, you know, it's part of a very important ongoing conversation in our country that it's all cannon fodder, it seems.
	Every other day, once a week, every month, there's something new.
	Something new that's like bigger than the last thing.
	And all it is really is another distraction from the real problems that we're having.
	A lot of these problems, as we outlined, are being addressed.
	Some of this stuff is being solved.
	But we never really hear about the positive things that are happening in this country.
	All we hear is negative, negative, negative.
	Who's fighting with who?
	Who said what?
	Who's more treasonous than the other?
	What information is more damning than this person's information?
	And I guess it's true.
	I guess the words are true: that bad news travels faster.
	Bad news provides more money.
	Bad news provides more opportunity for people to put themselves in a position to make a lot more money than giving us good news.
	Long ago was the time when the media, when the media just reported the facts.
	Just reported the news, what's happening before putting a political spin or choosing a side.
	Now, I've never taken any classes on journalism.
	I'm not a writer, not an accomplished writer.
	But I always thought that the job of the press, their job was to just tell us what's happening.
	Unbiased.
	Just the facts.
	Hey, there was a car accident and two people in a truck were killed and two people in the van were maimed and one person is in critical condition.
	Not, hey, there was a car accident and three black dudes were in this vehicle and two white guys and a Mexican dude were in the van and they hit each other.
	It's probably was racism.
	They hit each other because they hate the color of each other's skin.
	Stupid.
	It's so goddamn dumb.
	And we as a country fall for it every time.
	Fall for it every time.
	And we make mountains out of molehills that really don't deserve that much attention.
	All it does is cause more distraction.
	I know that we see it all over the media.
	We see it all over social media.
	We see it when we hear the conversations in different circles in our communities.
	But I really don't know.
	I really don't know that America is as racist as everybody says.
	I don't know that there's this widespread hatred of black people.
	I don't know that there's this widespread, insatiable urge in white people to hate black folks.
	And insert any culture here.
	Take out white folks and put in Hispanics.
	Take out black folks and put in East Indian people.
	Take out black folks and put in Middle Eastern folks or British people.
	I mean, it doesn't matter.
	I really don't know that people are that ridiculous about it.
	I don't know.
	I seem to, in my travels around my community and places that I travel and go to, I see a whole lot more examples of people of different races having a good time, having conversation, being cordial to each other.
	Hello, excuse me, have a good day.
	Hey, thanks for holding that door.
	And I don't think that I'm blind to it.
	I think when it does happen and I do see it, I'm able to identify it.
	I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but I don't know that it's widespread everywhere in this country.
	I think it's absolutely ridiculous.
	Clearly, we've went way longer than I'm supposed to.
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	We don't have a whole lot of time left in the show, about 13 or 14 minutes left.
	But what I wanted to do was I really wanted to hammer on this idea of lawful and unlawful orders because I think that it's very important for people to understand what the difference is.
	What is the difference between a lawful and unlawful order?
	And so I created a little metric here, a little table or whatever, if you will.
	What is an unlawful order?
	As defined by the Uniform Code of Military Justice, for those of you who don't know, the UCMJ is the law for the military.
	There's a whole different book of law.
	When you talk about throwing the book at you, well, if you go to a military tribunal or court martial, the law that you are judged under is a whole different book.
	So when that book gets thrown at you, it's a whole different ballgame.
	What is an unlawful order under UCMJ?
	One, it violates the U.S. Constitution, a federal law, or UCMJ as a whole.
	Number two, it directs the commission of a crime, such as murder, torture, theft, or falsifying government documents.
	Three, is beyond the authority of the issuing officer.
	So outside the scope of this person's command.
	So if a, let's just say I'm a staff sergeant in a U.S. Army infantry unit and we're doing some training somewhere and there is a captain, a U.S. Navy captain that comes to me and says, hey, I need you to clean out this boat.
	I need you to go over here and clean out this boat.
	Well, technically, that's an unlawful order, right?
	I wasn't put in into his charge.
	He's not in my chain of command.
	That is something that I wouldn't have to follow.
	And it's usually always recommended that you use proper military customs and courtesies and just express to that person, I believe this is an unlawful order.
	I'm going to decline.
	Something of that nature.
	Not just a big, hey, F you, you're not my dad type thing.
	Number four, serves no valid military purpose.
	So in other words, not related to military duty, discipline, or the mission objectives currently that we have going on.
	And then, of course, lastly, number five, it is absurdly, I'm sorry, is arbitrarily given for personal gain or revenge rather than a legitimate military necessity.
	So if I go to, as a staff sergeant, if I go to one of my privates, say, hey, I need you to wake up 20 minutes early before everybody else, clean out my coffee pot, get everything ready, and then when the alarm goes off at 05, I need you to make sure that things are turned on.
	So when I'm done doing my shit shower and shave, there's a hot pot of coffee.
	So make sure you get that done in the morning.
	That is an unlawful order.
	And so the difference between that and any of those five explanations and the president of the United States, for example,
	telling some high-ranking officer who's in charge of whatever unit, hey, in three hours, our air assets, our drones, or whatever are going to show a boat cruising across the sea.
	We know this to be a drug boat.
	I need you to direct your people to take this thing out when they find it.
	Whatever you need to use, just make sure it's gone.
	That is not an unlawful order.
	Is it unpopular?
	Clearly.
	Clearly, it's unpopular.
	Do everybody involved have to agree with it?
	No.
	There's nothing that says everybody who is affected by such order has to like it or agree with it.
	But the UCMJ does say you need to do what you're told or there are consequences.
	The consequences are harsher than in the civilian world.
	Some say that that particular part of it is not fair either.
	But it is what it is.
	And so I think what a lot of this stuff boils down to, folks, is that people who don't like the orders they're given, people who don't see it the same way, who don't agree, they come up with a reason to try to just not do it because they don't like it.
	Well, in the United States military, that's not an option.
	If you're in and you're wearing the uniform and you've been through the training and you're doing all of these things, you don't get to make that choice.
	If it's truly an unlawful order, trust me, there are people in the military that would not have done it.
	But I think that we have enough information about all of these things that the president has ordered done, and we can assume that they're pissed off about the drug boats.
	We can assume that they're pissed off about the president using the National Guard on the streets of America.
	We can assume all of those things.
	We don't know exactly what they were talking about.
	But don't you think?
	Don't you think that if these orders that were given were so egregious and so awful and so illegal that somebody would have done it by now?
	See, what they don't understand, which is surprising to me because everybody in this video that these elected officials put out have served in the military or worked in the government as military, not military, but intelligence professionals.
	So it's not like this section of government work is new to them.
	This idea of following orders is not a new thing.
	But if these things were so crazy and so wrong and so insane and so hurtful and so hateful, don't you think anybody would have said, I don't know if this is for me.
	What these folks don't understand seemingly is that you're not going to post a short and get members of the military to go, hey, did you guys know we didn't have to follow orders that are illegal?
	I didn't know that.
	They know that.
	People who wear the uniform know that.
	They understand it.
	Is it possible that this is just another attempt to cause more division and upheaval?
	And now they're trying to cause it within the ranks of the United States military, where, in my opinion, these are things that cannot stand.
	Now, I don't know, I don't know what the loopholes are about death sentences for sedition and treason.
	I don't know if there's some kind of metric to show how treasonous you have to be to get the death penalty versus how treasonous you have to be to just get 50 years in prison and a hundred million dollar fine or whatever the hell whatever the hell it is Not sure the formalities on that.
	But anybody who tries to cause disruption in the ranks of the military, such as this, needs to be stopped.
	Kick him out of Congress, put him in jail if you have to, whatever the punishment is, the fair and just punishment.
	But these people having the ability to make laws, make the rules for you and me and everybody else who's a law-abiding citizen of this country, I think is a problem.
	Because the one thing that we really cannot stand to have happen is a civil war of sorts amongst members of the military.
	I mean, do people understand that in the event of some real catastrophic event in which we need our military to defend us, defend our borders, go somewhere in this world to stop it from coming to our soil, whatever it is.
	What we need those people to be able to do is be members of a team, to be a family, to work together, work hard, and be the most lethal force on the planet at the time that they need to be the most lethal force on the planet.
	And that need arises pretty abruptly when it comes.
	So we don't have a situation where we can give our military time to make up and be okay with each other just enough to go fight and then be productive.
	We can't have that, folks.
	In the event we really need them to defend us, to save us, we can't have them fighting amongst each other.
	So when we get elected officials who are calling for shit like this, it needs to be dealt with one way or another.
	Again, I'm not sitting here saying they all should be put in front of a firing squad.
	But I'm not a prosecutor.
	I'm not a lawyer.
	I'm not a judge.
	I'm not anything of that nature.
	So I don't know what the ins and outs are.
	And whether they get the death penalty or not is not up to me.
	And therefore, in this instance, I don't really care.
	I just think that these types of things need to not be allowed to be put out, need not be allowed to be said without consequence.
	If we want to talk about issues of national security, in my opinion, this is a big one.
	Now, hopefully, within the ranks of the military, there's enough people that are seeing this type of thing and going, man, those guys are just fucking idiots.
	I'm hopeful, fairly certain, but mostly hopeful that there are enough people watching this who serve in the military and they're saying, well, hey, screw you, buddy.
	I know.
	I know what orders I'm going to follow, what orders are not appropriate.
	And clearly, if they thought it was an unlawful order, those boats, for example, those boats would have brought drugs that killed Americans, not only adults, but children.
	Those bolts would have brought people that are putting our women and children into harm's way, selling them, killing them, slave labor, whatever it is, whatever sick and twisted shit goes on.
	If they would have thought that those were unlawful orders, those boats would have accomplished that.
	The stuff would have been here.
	And I don't know that those are things that the everyday person really thinks about.
	They think about what is it that I can see in the media or on TikTok or Facebook or X or whatever.
	What is it that I can find to criticize?
	What is it I can find to throw in the face of the opposition?
	And the shitty part about all of that is, folks, that that is exactly what the people who want to see this country crumble want.
	And we're falling right for it.
	They want us as a nation to be divided.
	They want us to hate each other.
	They want upheaval in the ranks of the military to decrease their lethality and effectiveness.
	That's exactly what they want.
	And we're just playing right into it.
	And in my opinion, it's a pretty dangerous game.
	In my opinion, we're better than that.
	Although we're not showing it very well nowadays, but I believe that it's in there somewhere.
	We have the ability to be better.
	So that's my call to action to you today.
	Whoever's listening, whoever's watching, find a way to be better.
	Find a way today or tomorrow or every day.
	Find a way to make your community, the circle in which you roll, your job, your business, your sports team, your family, your friend group, whatever it is, find a way to leave the world better than it was when you woke up today.
	And I think if we all do that, there'll be disagreements because we're going to all disagree at times about what would make the world a better place.
	But I think that if we consciously make a decision to just be better, do something every day that's better, things around here would get a lot would get a lot better.
	Anyway, folks, that's all the time we have for today.
	I want to thank you for being here.
	We'll see you all again next week.
	Have a great rest of your weekend and happy Thanksgiving.
	Good night.
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