December 7th, 1941, as we all know, the day that will live in infamy, Pearl Harbor.
On that day, at about 7.55 in the morning, there were 87,000 American service members on the island of Oahu in and around Pearl Harbor.
When the smoke cleared, the damage was assessed, the casualties were collected, and the day was over.
It came to light that 2,300, roughly 2,300 American service members lost their lives, which means that all the rest of that 87,000 were survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Today, this month, in December, as it sits, there are only 12 left.
That's it.
12.
It's a lot of dudes, a lot of ladies that have passed since.
And with them goes their stories, their experience, their leadership, and hopefully their legacy doesn't disappear with them.
But today we're going to talk about the impacts of Pearl Harbor, not just Pearl Harbor, but anything else like that as it relates to our culture, our country, and how it relates to now.
So with that being said, let's move on with the show.
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So Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor, as we know, and we said in the intro, was December 7th, 1941.
That's the day that it happened, about 7.55 in the morning.
And why do we bring this up?
We bring this up because just recently I had seen that the last known survivor of the USS Arizona was his ashes were laid to rest in the ship just recently.
And it was only a few years ago that I learned that as a survivor of things like the USS Arizona, you can choose to be laid to rest there with your battle buddies.
And I always thought that that was pretty cool.
I'm glad that they gave those guys that option.
I know that if it was me, based on my military service and the people that I served with and how close we got as brothers in the infantry, I probably would choose to be laid to rest with them as well.
So I think it's a really cool thing that they allowed all of that to happen.
But why do we bring this up today?
Other than it's December, January, December 7th wasn't all that long ago.
And also I saw an article that talked about how all the survivors are almost gone.
And of course, it's only a matter of time.
Time waits for no man.
In fact, every day we wake up, we're one day closer to death.
So live your life and do it well and be proud of it.
But it makes me think about the things that are currently going on in this country versus after World War II.
The differences, and I don't believe that they're very subtle.
I don't believe the differences are subtle.
I think they're drastic.
The way that we as a country just walk through life, the things that are important to us, the things that have kind of gotten off the rails, to a lot of people, they don't make a whole lot of sense.
You know, a good example of that is probably, in my opinion, this whole debate about transgender folks, this whole debate about immigration, this whole debate about elections, this whole debate about just social services, social programs.
I mean, here in Minnesota, we all know, we talked about it already, the Somali condition, as some people call it.
And how did it get that way?
How did we get to a place where we have lost complete control, seemingly as a country, have lost complete control of what's going on when it comes to our tax dollars, when it comes to law enforcement and public safety, when it comes to schools, when it comes to our roads, when it comes to just overall governance of our communities,
all the way up to the federal government.
How have we lost so much control?
And some people will say, well, it's greed.
It's this insatiable thirst for money and power and control that the people who are in charge seemingly have.
And I got to be honest, when these debates first started some years ago, I thought to myself, man, some of these folks are really getting off the rails with this stuff.
But as time goes by and And the perpetrators, the shitbags, politicians, the freeloaders, the illegal immigrants, the people that support the illegal immigrants, all of this stuff are what caused all of this.
It just seemingly slowly made this change to our society.
And I often wondered to myself also, for those of us who have never agreed with what's happening, as well as those of us who recently have started to pay attention and then start asking questions.
And then when we do our research or we do whatever it is we do to figure out what's really going on in a way that we can understand it, a way that we can digest it and have meaningful thoughts about it.
It's kind of a bell ringer, right?
When you start thinking and you do a little bit of research and you ask questions and you have conversation and you read and read some more and then you watch a couple videos and you take in all of this information, these opinions, you look for the facts, you find the facts, and then you start to digest and you think and you look and you go, man, none of this makes any fucking sense at all.
And then you hear, and then you hear different points of view, and some of them seem to be so way far off in the weeds.
They're just unimaginable.
Some of the conspiracy theories and some of the explanations that we hear from others on the internet and all that other stuff analyzing and putting their own opinions and their own thoughts.
And then sometimes the truth seems to be clouded.
Because we as human beings, we hear a narrative and sometimes we just want that to be true, whether it's good, bad, or indifferent.
We want that narrative to be true.
And it seems like whatever we're reading, whatever we're taking in, whatever we're digesting, well, it's got to be that way, right?
That's how it seems.
It has to be.
There's no other reasonable explanation.
And the problem with all of that is, and I shouldn't even say it's a problem because I think that it's a good thing that folks around our country are taking the time now when they see something or they hear something and it's a head scratcher and you find yourself going, man, it doesn't make any sense.
Well, let me look into this, right?
I think that it's becoming more of a everyday thing for people to look at what's going on, depending on what's important to you and where you live and what's presented to you the most.
But people are finally going, man, this doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense.
Well, let me look into this for myself.
And that's great because I think that's exactly what we need.
That's exactly what needs to be happening all around this country because we, I believe, are being lied to constantly.
And we're being lied to by the people who are trying to tell us what to do, who are taking our fucking tax dollars and frivolously throwing them down the drain.
So people are starting to say, well, hold on a second.
Let me check this out on my own.
And I think that's an excellent thing.
But the question is, how did we get here?
How did we get to this point?
And the reason why this article I saw about Pearl Harbor made me think of that is because these warriors, these men and women who served during that time, who served throughout the war and the campaign throughout all of World War II, and not just the people that served, not just the people that fought, not just the nurses that took care of the wounded, excuse me,
not just the frontline people, but everybody involved.
And remember that our communities were engaged in the war effort.
Our women and our children were massively engaged in the war effort.
The women and children are what kept America afloat at home, I believe.
They built the bullets, they built the bombs, the tanks, the planes.
They made the uniforms.
They made the boots.
They made everything.
Everybody was engaged in the war effort.
Was there some bullshit happening?
I'm sure that there was.
Was there fraud?
Was there thievery?
Was there corruption?
Was there all that bullshit that we talk about now?
Yeah, I'm sure that there was.
But on a granular level, at home, the families of the soldiers who were gone fighting were also engaged.
They were also contributing to winning the war.
And after the war ended, as America recovered, we started to slowly lose that initiative.
We started to slowly lose that pride.
And I don't think it was everybody.
I don't think it was everywhere.
But I don't think it was very long after World War II that things started to get a little wonky, right?
Like we had a president assassinated.
We had the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Vietnam came, the Cold War, Korea, all that stuff.
There was a whole lot of things that happened in between World War II and present day, of course.
But where was it when we as a country started to be money, power, control-hungry people?
And I would say that the elites in this country have always been in pursuit of that.
And maybe it's not okay to say that the folks who weren't elites that wanted that status, that power, and that money, maybe it's not okay to say that they sold out and went after it, right?
Because wealth and some power and some comfort, that's the American dream.
Get up every day, work your balls off, be humble, help your neighbor, live comfortably, have some walking around money in your pocket, have a home, have a vehicle, have the nice things in life that people like.
But in order to have it, you got to work your ass off, and you have to contribute.
And I think from the time of Pearl Harbor, when we were thrust into the war to when it ended, that narrative was running rampant in this country.
People were proud.
Ladies were proud to go to a factory and build tanks.
Why don't we build these?
We're going to build these tanks.
They're going to be great.
We're going to send them to the guys.
These planes, these trucks, these tanks, these bullets, these weapons, all of it.
Everybody had some vested interest in the success of the war.
Now, there was that whole issue with the war bonds and if the money was really going to support the war effort and blah, blah, blah, all that stuff.
Yeah, that's a whole nother conversation.
But I think part of what we are missing as a culture, as a country, is the buy-in.
The buy-in from the people who don't have any money, who don't have any power and don't have any control.
And it's not necessarily their fault, I believe.
I believe that there's some truth to these idea, this narrative that the federal government wants you to be dependent on them.
They want you to be dependent on WIC and EBT and food stamps and social programs, social welfare programs.
They want you to need it.
They want you to need it every month of every year for the rest of your life because then you have a reason to vote a certain way.
Then you have a reason to not work, to not contribute to all these things.
And if we need them, that means that those programs can't die.
That means that the money needs to be printed.
And as long as you need them and they need to print you money and they need to send you food stamps, they need to do this, they need to do that, there's always a reason for them to get bigger and more greedy.
Because you're going to have offspring, maybe.
And if our children are growing up in the cycle of poverty and don't have a way out, they're also going to be dependent on these programs.
And so we have over time, I believe, a society that every year that goes by, there's that many more, just that many more people that are dependent on social welfare programs.
We saw it here in Minnesota.
Now, I don't know that it was needy people, maybe some of them.
But it's no secret anymore that the vast majority of the Somalian community here in Minnesota were scamming the fucking system.
And they got caught.
And it's astounding to me that there's anybody that is sympathetic to them, to their cause.
Now, I'm not making these statements to say that all Somalis are shitbags, that they're all bad, because that's not true.
I've met Somali people that are wonderful, worked with some.
God dang.
Boy, there's a lot of junk on my desk.
If anything, this is a sign that I need to do some house cleaning here on my desk.
But yeah, I've met some great Somali people that are hardworking, that do the right thing, to take care of their neighbors.
They go to work, they contribute, they pay their taxes.
Do you have to agree with all that?
No, of course you don't.
There's many things about people I've met, whether they're Somali or any other cultural background that I disagree with.
But if you're contributing and you're a, excuse me, you're a decent person, well, then there's no problem.
I don't have to agree with you.
I don't have to like you.
But I certainly don't have a whole lot to bitch about if you're doing the right thing.
But we've seen over time that all of this upheaval, especially recently, when the president put out that these food stamps and all this stuff was going to be delayed because the government couldn't, our legislators couldn't come up with an agreement on opening the government.
Social media was flooded with shitbags who were saying, well, if you don't turn on my motherfucking EBT, I'm coming in to take my shit and don't try to stop me because there'll be smoke in the city.
What?
Fuck you.
These aren't, these aren't, these aren't things that are just given to you, right?
You have to apply.
There's guidelines you have to meet, or at least there should be some control measures, some guardrails.
And if you ask Gilhan Omar, well, some of the guardrails just weren't set up properly.
They were missed.
Well, bullshit.
That whole program was designed for you to fucking rob taxpayers.
And to your credit, it worked for quite a while.
It worked.
It just so happens that one of your kingpins, old dipshit Timmy Walls, he probably, he probably who knows how it got leaked.
Who knows how they found out?
Who knows?
But I would imagine that Tim Walz is guilty of being involved some way, somehow.
He certainly had to look the other way.
He certainly had to look the other way when massive amounts of money are gone, unexplainably gone in short time.
And so, again, how does this relate to the events of Pearl Harbor?
See, when the war was over and all the men came back, then life went back to normal, somewhat, as normal as it could be.
The women stayed at home for the most part and raised the kids.
The kids were doing what kids do, and the dudes went back to work.
Traditional families, you know, stay-at-home mothers.
I don't think that in the late 40s and early 50s that there were a whole lot of ladies out working in corporate America.
I'm sure there were some.
And if they wanted to, then great, go out and do it.
But everybody at that point, as we've discussed, had buy-in.
Everyone bought into the idea of the effort, the war effort.
And the lessons learned from that time, I believe, carried on to the post-war era.
People were still committed to getting up and going to work.
The dudes were happy to be home.
happy to go back to welding, happy to go back to shipbuilding, happy to go back to the, to be in a banker or a police officer or a firefighter or a store owner or a carpenter, whatever it was, school teachers.
But they didn't lose the initiative.
The women were working in factories every day.
They were building things.
They were also taking care of the kids.
They were doing all kinds of stuff.
And those habits and those lessons learned, I believe, stayed with that generation of people and then also was passed down to the generation of kids that they were raising during the war.
I'll tell you one thing.
My father-in-law was born in the mid-40s.
And still to this day, at 85 or 86 years old, the man is up at 4.30, between 4.30 and 5.30, getting his day started, doing his thing.
He doesn't have a whole lot of really pressing issues to go after anymore.
He's retired.
My mother-in-law, unfortunately, has passed some years ago.
And so it's just him.
But he was raised by people that grew up during the war.
He was raised by people that lived through World War I.
And that's just what you do.
You get up early, get your day started, get your goals accomplished, whatever those may be.
And by supper time, you're good to go.
You do whatever you need to do to relax.
There's no excuses for not going to work.
There's no excuses for not getting out of bed.
There's no excuses for being, I don't want to say poor because even my father-in-law at times was working his balls off and was still poor.
But there's no excuses for not at least putting forth maximum effort.
And as generations have gone by, those types of things that were ingrained and instilled in the kids that grew up during that time have gone.
And they talk about, maybe you've heard of the cycle, right?
Something about strong men and then it bleeds into weak men and then the cycle restarts itself and we get back to strong men again.
Strong men breed weak men, weak men breed strong men over time, however that goes.
I don't remember word for word.
But I think now we can see it more than ever.
And what's to blame for that?
And I guess I don't really know.
I think one of the big things that's to blame for the way that society is now and our younger generations are now, I think technology has a lot to do with it.
The internet, video games, and to be quite honest, weak parents, weak men, and weak women.
Long gone are the days of having your kids figure it out for themselves.
While they're living in your home, while they're under your tutelage, while you're supporting them and paying for them and supplying them with everything they need in life, for some reason, parents these days don't allow their kids to fall on their face to learn how to pick themselves up, knowing that in a drastic situation, I'm here.
Dad's here, mom's here.
But before you come to me to dig you out of a hole that you got yourself in, whether on purpose or not, what have you done to make it better?
What have you done to solve the problem for yourself?
And I'm not saying that parents should be letting their kids get hurt and go into financial ruin or, you know, God forbid, start families and have babies before they're 18 years old.
That is a, oh, that would be, that would really, that would really suck.
But it happens.
And I think that over time, these things for parents just got, they got easier, right?
It's easier to just kind of, okay, well, you know, here, let me just pay the bill for you, or let me call the teacher and get you out of trouble.
Let me talk to your coach and all this stuff.
And then when parents are presented with the problem that their children are just not doing their part or they're lazy or they're disengaged or they don't care and they're not going to put forth any effort, parents stick up for the kids.
And what's confusing to it, confusing about it to me is that that's not how I was raised.
And so if these things and these personality traits, I guess we could call them, if these things haven't been instilled through the generations, I wonder why.
I wonder why that is.
And as we started to see our society decline and things just get way out of hand as they are now, but it's been a long time.
Like there's been things that have happened in this country some years ago that were head scratchers and people never really answered for it.
The American people weren't given a lot of answers.
Maybe you, in any certain situation, there wasn't any answers.
There was no accountability.
There was no responsibility put forth on whoever it was that should have had the responsibility.
And now we're in a place where kids are in school beating up teachers, cussing them out, having babies, doing all kinds of committing crime, all kinds of shit.
And there's a lot of good kids out there too that aren't causing problems, but they're not necessarily doing anything to help themselves.
And then I think it's pretty rare nowadays to find young adults who are able to take care of themselves, have their own places, pay their own car note, things like that.
It just completely escapes some of these young people, it seems.
And I don't know if you've ever seen it, but I've been told many times about this movie, Idiocracy or whatever, where the dude's frozen and he wakes up 40, 50, 60 years later, however long it is, and everyone's just so stupid.
Everything's dumbed down.
Everything's dirty.
There's crime everywhere.
People are just dumb, not doing anything, not going to work.
I've not seen the movie.
I should probably watch it because I'm reminded of it often.
But it seems like that's where we're heading.
And then when we have people that come into power in positions of power to try to make a difference, they're ostracized for it.
And they're demonized and villainized for it.
And we'll get, we got to take a break, folks.
I went too long, but we'll be right back and then we'll continue on this road.
We're getting there.
We're getting to a point.
We're getting there.
Okay.
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Hey folks, welcome back here to the second half of the show.
Before the break, we were kind of just discussing, we got to the point where people that seem to be taking up positions of power are often villainized for their efforts.
And I think that that's an important thing to think about.
And I know that the president is losing support.
There's a lot of controversy around the Epstein files, a lot of controversy around drug boat bombings and Israel and the wars going on around the country and Pete Hegseth.
There's all kinds of shit to talk about these people.
But the one thing that I always come back to is people like Donald Trump, people like Pete Hegseth, no matter what you think of them or what you say about them, they talk about carrying a big stick.
And some of their actions Prove that they are carrying somewhat of a big stick.
Are they corrupt?
Maybe.
Are they shitbags?
Maybe.
But as we discussed on the show last week about the drug boats, for example, they're saving lives.
Every boat that's bombed and shot out of the water and sinks to the bottom of the ocean, along with the pieces of shit that are piling it, piloting it, saves lives.
Anything that is done to save lives of Americans, in my opinion, is at least worth acknowledgement.
We have to at least acknowledge it.
We don't have to like all the things that Donald Trump says.
We don't have to like all the things that he stands for.
In fact, it's okay if you hate him.
There's nothing that says you can't hate the president.
But when we get to places in the world where someone needs to make a decision and someone needs to bring the fight to the people that mean to do us harm, that needs to be acknowledged, in my opinion.
Are the drug boats shooting the drug boats out of the water and killing the people that are involved in bringing all those super dangerous drugs to our streets for our kids?
I saw a video on X the other day.
It was a montage of all these kids that have been killed by fentanyl.
Was it fentanyl that was brought on a drug boat?
Who knows?
Was it flown in?
Was it made here in America?
Who knows?
But the fact of the matter is that our kids, there was a couple kids on there under the age of 11.
Most of them were between 11 and 16, and they're all dead.
All of them.
And it was, I don't know, a two or three minute video.
And I would say there were 50, 60 children on it, pictures or videos from their families all put together in a montage.
And they're all dead.
So, so why don't we, as Americans, if you're an American that disagrees with something like the drug boat, the drug boat issue, why don't you take your disagreements to the parents of those kids?
Why don't you take your disagreements to the spouses of people who have died from overdosing on this stuff?
Why don't you take all of that anger and all of those things you have about drug boats, if you are one of those people, and ask yourself, how the fuck would you feel?
If you're a parent and you find your 12-year-old child dead in their bedroom because they overdosed on a drug that was brought here by narco-terrorists, how would you feel?
And it's astounding to me that anybody who's a contributing member of this society that cares about our youth, our elderly, are sick, Mentally handicapped or physically handicapped, that cares about your family, that cares about your children, that cares about the common man around you, whether you disagree with him or not, whether you support their efforts or not.
How would you feel?
And how can you be a person in this country that says you're an empath, that says that you just wish everything was better for everybody?
And there was no violence, there was no drugs, there was none of this, none of that.
All that's all well and good, but it's not real.
What's real is that there are people out there that want to kill you.
There are people out there that want to kill your children.
And maybe their goal isn't to murder your kids, but they certainly don't give a fuck if your kids die from their actions.
And then we have the audacity, some of us in this country, to be pissed at the president for making the decision to kill these people that mean to do us harm.
I believe that this whole narrative that Pete Hegseth talks about, this whole narrative of strength through power is an extremely, extremely beneficial point of view for our country.
Because if we allow the things and the people and the organizations that do have the power to flex that muscle when needed, within reason, of course, that we don't have to worry about narco-terrorists killing our kids.
We don't have to worry about people coming on boats or coming through the middle of the night through the border, whatever it is.
We don't have to worry about that.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could get back to the days in our communities where you could tell your kids, okay, tomorrow, it happened to me as a child, tomorrow at 10 a.m., you're leaving this house and you're not coming back in till I get home from work.
So figure out what you're going to do.
Get your bike ready, get your fishing pole ready, get your cleats ready, your glove, your mitt, your football, your soccer, but whatever it is, whatever you're going to do, it's not going to be sitting in this house in front of a TV all day.
What if we got back to that?
What if we got back to the place where our children had to use their imagination to figure out how they were going to get through the day?
How are you going to not be bored throughout the day without sitting in front of a screen or staring at your cell phone or playing video games or sleeping until three in the afternoon?
What if we got back to a place where everybody woke up every day and was thinking about how they can make their community a better place?
How are we going to support the cops?
How are we going to support our troops?
How are we going to stop beating up each other, killing each other in the streets?
Are we going to stop taking advantage of one another?
How are we going to coincide in our communities without a bunch of fucking drama all the time?
What if we got back to that?
And furthermore, what is it going to take?
And I think that some of these things that the administration and the people around it are doing could really help us get back to that, at least in the direction of that.
Is Donald Trump and his cabinet, are they going to solve it in four years?
No, probably not.
Is all the work that they did over their four years going to be voided out by whoever's next?
Maybe.
But just think about it.
How great would it be?
Well, how great would it be if we could tell our kids, go out and play?
How great would it be if here in Minnesota, for example, you could go to downtown Minneapolis for an evening out with your spouse to go to dinner, see a show at the theater, go to a game, have some drinks, meet your friends, have a good time?
How nice would that be if you could do all that again and not have to worry about your car being vandalized, you being beat up or accosted or robbed or anything like that because there's fucking shitbags everywhere that are looking to take advantage of your weakness.
And the people that don't ever go down there or the people that have never lived it, have never been in those situations, the people that have never seen that dark side of humanity just can't imagine it.
They can't imagine it.
And then they have comments like, well, that doesn't happen.
Are you sure?
Are you sure kids are getting killed by drugs being brought by foreigners?
Are you sure that that's happening?
Are we sure that our kids and women and men even, they're being trafficked and they're being ass raped?
Are you sure that our kids are going to school and being talked about chopping their dicks off and being pushed some propaganda?
What if we got back to the times where the news just reported what happened?
What if we got back to the times where our school system just taught history?
Whether it's good, bad, or indifferent.
Because we can't rewrite history.
We should use it as a learning tool.
America has many things in its history that we're not too proud of, and we probably shouldn't be proud of.
But it's important to make sure that those things don't go away from the history books, from the teachings of our children, because as they grow to adults, they need to know.
They need to know what happened, good, bad, or indifferent, so that the bad stuff doesn't come back.
And the good shit that we did is repeated and built upon.
And why is it?
Why is it that idea, those thoughts seem to be so foreign to Americans now?
Could it be because we now have a system that rewards laziness?
Could it be that we now have a system that really doesn't give a shit about the common everyday American, the regular guys, the regular girls?
Could it be that we now have a system that is so hungry for money and control and power that the people who are our leaders, All they give a shit is about their next votes, their next election, their next paycheck.
Could it be that we now have a system that has been infiltrated by people who don't want what's best for America, that don't want to serve the people of the United States, but want to serve their interests, want to serve their buddies so their buddies can make more money, and they don't care who they step on to get there.
And maybe you're going to tell me that, well, Richard, it's been that way since the beginning of time.
There's always somebody looking to take advantage of another person.
And maybe that's true.
But what is a fact is that at one time in this country, you could send your kids out all day and not have to worry.
What's a fact is that you could go downtown Minneapolis and have a night out with your wife or your husband and bring the family to a game and not have to worry about your safety.
I mean, I think that there's always a reason to have your head on a swivel.
There's always a reason to worry about the safety of yourself and the people around you.
But I think that if we're all being honest, that 20 years ago, 30 years ago, it wasn't as much of a concern.
The crimes that we hear about every day on the news or every day on social media or every day around the water cooler used to be rare.
And now it's everyday conversation.
In fact, it's a surprise for people when they turn on the news or they're reading through social media that there isn't some kind of fucking drama happening.
That's the surprise.
I remember five to ten years ago when conversations used to be, man, it's so shitty that now we can't even watch the nightly news without and see anything good.
Can't see any good, feel-good stories about what's happening in our communities.
It's always crime.
It's always tragedy.
It's always fraud.
It's always some bullshit.
And I think that people who have served this country in the military are disappointed.
Especially our older veterans.
What do you think?
What do you think would be the answer of the 12 remaining Pearl Harbor survivors if we asked them how they felt about America today?
Assuming that they have an idea of what's going on.
I mean, they're all centenarians.
They're all 100 years old or more.
So maybe they don't really grasp or aren't paying attention any longer to what's happening.
They just know that the bus for the casino is leaving tomorrow at 9 a.m. and that they're Salisbury steak for dinner in the cafeteria of the old folks home they live in.
Maybe that's all they know.
But if they were with it and they were following, what do you think the response of those people might be?
What do you think the response of all the warriors that have given their life for the flag that flies over all of our government buildings in our front yards at our schools at all of the stadiums and sporting events we go to?
The stars and stripes, anybody that died, Anybody that died defending that fucking flag, what would they say about what's happening?
Was this what they signed up to fight for?
I can tell you that when I thought about serving this country, it was a tough decision.
It was a tough decision.
I didn't really know if I wanted to do it.
Not because I thought that the country was going down the shitter and that America would let me down, but it's a huge commitment.
And I think that anybody that jumps into the military without giving it serious thought is doing themselves a disservice.
But we're not at a place, I believe, we're not at a place that we can be super proud of.
I don't believe that we're at a place where if we could go back in time, knowing what we know now and assemble a gaggle of World War II veterans that have passed 30, 40 years ago now, or the ones that died in combat.
And we get them all around a campfire and tell them about what's happening in December of 2025 and what the last 10 years have been like.
And if you ask them, is it disappointing to you?
Is it disappointing to you that we're teaching our kids to cut off their dicks?
Is it disappointing to you that we can't have any positivity?
Is it disappointing to you that we can't seem to help our neighbors?
Is it disappointing to you that our politicians, most of them are corrupt and only care about themselves and their special interests?
I would imagine that most of those people would be pretty frustrated and pretty disappointed.
I know that at times I am.
I can tell you that right about now, it's kind of embarrassing to be a Minnesotan.
The whole world is looking at the state of Minnesota in some way, somehow, and shaking their head and going, man, those guys are fucking idiots.
And the truth is that I believe that a large amount of Minnesotans are also extremely disappointed.
Are also somewhat embarrassed, if not completely embarrassed.
And it's astounding to me that anybody can hold up, that anybody can hold up their cellular telephonic device, record a video to put out on TikTok or Facebook or X and talk about how great people like Tim Walz are and Ilhan Omar and AOC and all of these and all these fucking morons.
I just don't understand.
I don't understand why we don't want to be better.
And when did we get to a place in this country where we don't care about the sacrifice of the people that came before us?
The only thing that seemingly today People really care about that aren't in support of the country that happened back in the day, the only thing that they seem to care about is slavery.
It doesn't seem like anybody ever brings up any positive shit that happened in this country.
And maybe that's just human nature.
You know, they say things like, bad news travels faster.
You're going to get a lot more attention.
You're going to get a lot more clicks, a lot more views if you're presenting drama.
It seems to be three things: either some drama, some bullshit happening politically or around the world or whatever, or it's video games and porn or sports.
And even sports is screwed up now.
Now they found out all these people are betting on themselves to make extra money.
Dudes who the minimum wage in their job is like $450,000 or something, whatever the league minimum for any of these professional leagues are.
That's not enough money.
You got to bet on yourself and then tank games to make more money.
I just don't.
I don't know.
Maybe my views are old school.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned that way.
But it would seem to me that we live in a country that has a dream, the American dream.
And if we all contribute and all really try to search out and seek relentlessly this American dream, prosperity, community, success, I think that this country would be a whole lot better place.
And most of us would feel better about what's happening and where we sit on the world stage.
But this manufactured division, this manufactured division that our government and all the other powers that be is what is thriving.
We have, as a country, have never been more divided.
And as time goes by, it seems to just be getting more and more and more divisive.
No matter how hard anybody tries.
And now that we have people in positions of power that are saying to the world, fuck around and find out.
And people have a problem with that.
We have a problem with telling the people all around the world that mean to do us harm, Americans harm.
We have a problem with telling them to fuck around and find out.
Go ahead, bring the fight.
You will lose.
If Donald Trump got on Truth Social or on X and told the world, anybody that wants to try it, bring it.
We will kill you.
He will be roasted.
And in my opinion, that's exactly what he should be saying.
He should be telling people: if you think you can, come on with it.
Knowing that as Americans, not even the military, not law enforcement, not the government, the American citizens, American citizens have more guns than any military force on the planet.
So if you are a country that wants to cross hundreds of miles of ocean or invade Canada or Mexico, fight your way through Canada or Mexico, and if you're lucky enough to make it to our northern or southern border after taking over two other countries, one of two other countries, and then think that you got a fighting chance to take out America.
Well, good luck to you.
It wasn't all that long ago where America was shaken to its core on 9-11.
And it hurt.
We had a black eye for a little while.
But we've come back, I believe.
We've rebuilt ourselves.
And then in the midst of all that, we found ourselves where we're at on some bullshit.
And so, again, now that we've gotten to the end of the show and I've completely lost track of Pearl Harbor, I've completely lost track of it, but I think that the point was made.
There's only 12 survivors left of the Pearl Harbor attack.
The greatest generation this country ever saw, World War II veterans, and the support system, the war effort, was an amazing thing.
Everybody had buy-in.
Everybody had a reason to contribute and to be proud of it.
And we've worked our way to where we're at.
And it's disappointing.
The men and women who made up the greatest generation are soon to be completely gone.
And along with them goes their stories, their stories of life, their stories of tragedy, their stories of success, their experience, their leadership.
And if you're a person who's middle-aged, this is something you should be thinking about because it isn't going to be long.
Time flies, as we all know.
It isn't going to be long before the people who are sitting on their ass, not going to work, chopping their dicks off, fighting in the streets, killing each other, whatever it is, those are the people that are going to be taking care of us when we reach the point that we need help to get through the day.
It's alarming.
But again, as I say all the time, we could be better.
So this week's drive to be better.
Whatever that means for you.
We'll see you next week.
Have a 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 rights to my property and to take away my God.
Go fuck yourself.
Will I submit to that?
And if you've got a foreign state, you've got dual citizens in your government, who do you think they're supporting?
God, right now, would you protect the nation of Israel and protect those of us, not just our church, but every church in the world and in this nation that's willing to put their neck on the lot and say we stand with them?
You go to Trump's cabinet.
You go to Biden's cabinet.
Spore Jews.
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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