Medals, Bullets, & BS: A Veteran's Raw Take on Trump's SOTU
Richard Leonard dissects Trump’s SOTU, spotlighting veterans like CW-5 Eric Slover (shot down in Venezuela) and Staff Sergeant Wolf (headshot survivor), while mocking theatrical interruptions. He contrasts Trump’s "peace-through-strength" doctrine with Obama-era rules—like taping rifle magazines to prevent loading—calling it disciplined but divisive. The episode ties military resilience to global dominance, warning of threats like Zarutska’s murder, before veering into anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and tangential health claims, leaving veteran recognition overshadowed by partisan rhetoric. [Automatically generated summary]
Well, folks, earlier this week, we all saw it, I'm sure, we got the State of the Union.
And I know that it's Sunday and the State of the Union was last Tuesday, so you're probably full of State of the Union talk.
But what I would like to do today is talk more about how the State of the Union affected veterans or what it means for the veteran community, at least my take on it.
So today we're going to just kind of go through a few points that were made in the State of the Union by the president as it pertains to the veteran community and why I believe it's important and what we as a veteran community and culture may have taken from it.
And I believe it's probably a little bit different than what non-veterans took from it.
I think we all saw, I think we all saw that it was, it got wild at times.
So we'll get into it.
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State of the Union.
Standard Union was long.
It got pretty wild at times.
And then what's his name?
I forget his name.
The old fella on the side of the stay-seated crowd, I think he was gone.
He was gone in the first three or four minutes.
And I'm sure that that was planned.
He had all that planned, some kind of political theater there.
But we heard a lot of stuff.
The state of our union, according to the president, is strong.
The economy is strong and getting better.
Inflation is going down.
Americans are going to have money in their pockets.
401ks are getting just fucking amazing.
All these things he talked about.
And what I will say is that my bank accounts and the little bit of investment accounts that I have that I've been trying to squirrel away money for some years now.
I mean, they're growing, but they haven't doubled.
And they're not, I mean, it's not like they're doing extraordinary performance.
They are growing, though.
And so that is a good change over the last year that we were able to see is our money is growing.
And so it helps to give you a little bit better feeling about how you're going to be when it is you decide to quit working or can't any longer.
But the veteran community, right?
Like this State of the Union address was not full of military and VA policy.
We didn't hear about any kind of new legislation or any new laws or any new policy changes for the veteran community in this country.
And maybe that's all right.
You know, I mean, at least we didn't hear that things were going to go away.
We didn't hear that, you know, the VA is going to cut benefits to 500,000 veterans or anything like that.
Lead Pilot's Courage00:11:22
What we did see and hear were stories.
What we did see and witness was the people who have lived some of these stories that we heard from the president.
And we can take things like CW-5 Slover, Eric Slover.
Eric Slover was the lead pilot for the operation that happened not long ago to get Maduro out of Venezuela.
And the story of what happened to him, how he overcame, put mind over matter, and finished that mission, his part of it.
And so if you didn't hear or you didn't understand, Eric Slover was the lead pilot.
He was flying a Chinook full of soldiers, taking them to Maduro's compound, where they were going to then offload the Chinook helicopter, go do their thing, and get the hell out of there.
In the process of dropping these troops off, Eric Slover took several rounds, machine gun rounds, to the leg, decimated his legs, or at least one of them.
He has a very long road to recovery.
I did a little more research on him.
Allegedly, they don't know if he'll ever fly a helicopter again.
But you know what?
American soldiers of any branch, especially ones who are actively engaged in combat operations when necessary, have pulled through some pretty amazing shit.
So maybe CW-5 Slover will fly a helicopter again.
Maybe he will recover.
What I found really interesting about his story, however, is that this guy took machine gun fire to his leg while operating a Chinook helicopter.
And if you don't know, a Chinook helicopter is a transport helicopter.
It's a big helicopter.
And to the best of my knowledge, and I could be wrong about this now, I've been out for some time, but the Chinook helicopter, as big as it is, they say when I was in the Army, they would say that it is the fastest rotary wing aircraft in the United States military.
Straight line.
So just get up in the air, straight line, it's the fastest one.
Now, that was probably before the Osprey came out.
The Osprey is a rotary wing plane type thing.
You know, it's that plane with the propellers that rotate up and down.
That thing looks like it's pretty fast, but I don't know for sure.
But what I do know is that Chinooks are big, they're fast, and they're pretty badass.
So not only does this guy take machine gun fire to the leg while flying several, several soldiers in the back of his aircraft, not only does he just find a safe place to land, get some care,
get medevaced out to recover, he continues on to the drop-off point, hovers, spins this helicopter around while hovering so his gunners can take these assholes out, which I'm sure they did in short order once they had a line of sight of him, and then proceeds to spin the thing back around, get to the drop-off point, land the helicopter,
get everybody off safely where they could go complete this mission and get Maduro out.
And it's just a wild story, right?
It's amazing.
And clearly it's not made up.
There were so many people there, flight recorded, all this stuff.
Like this, these stories really can't be made up anymore, especially if you're telling them to the people that were there.
And so if it isn't true, you're going to get called out right away.
But this just goes to show not only are our American service members pretty fucking brave, but for veterans hearing this story, it's a little more respectable, I guess I could say.
Because I think the average person will hear this story and they'll say, holy shit, man, that's pretty crazy.
He was flying a helicopter, spun it around, landed it, blah, blah, blah.
And then clearly they completed the mission we all know.
But if you're a person who has served in the military and whether you've been a part of combat operations directly or not, the procedures are still usually the same.
The planning, the preparatory procedures are usually all the same.
And so when I heard this story, I went right to, holy shit.
Well, the first thing I heard was that he was the lead pilot, which means he is in charge of the flight crews.
Not only is he in charge of the flight crews, but he planned it, decided the formations, the movement speed, the catch-up speed, all the planning with the maps and everybody else, where you're going to be, when we're going to leave, what are our intervals?
What do we need to take with us?
What do we need to make sure we leave room for to take out?
I mean, there's just so much that goes into planning a military operation.
And Eric Slover didn't do it by himself, but he's in charge, so he's responsible.
If anything, any part of that mission that had anything to do with transport and helicopters and getting people out or getting them there, keeping them safe, what are the contingency plans?
If we're flying in, and I don't remember exactly how many aircraft were in there, let's just say that there's five.
So if we're flying in and two of our five aircraft get shot down, well, now what?
Because now our force multipliers, our number of people are cut by however many.
But everybody on each one of those aircrafts has a job.
And everybody who has a job is essential for mission success.
And so then I start thinking about the planning.
What weapon systems do you take?
How many people?
What formations do you move in?
What are your intervals?
What are we doing silenced weapons?
Are we doing loud weapons?
You know, just all of those things.
There's so many things that go into it.
Does everybody have their water?
Does everyone have their medical kits in case they get hit?
You know, I mean, there's just so many things.
And then to hear, not only did he plan this thing, not only was he the leader of this part of the mission, I imagine once everybody got off and they went to the next phase, Mr. Slover was not in charge of that part, right?
That's not his job.
His job is to get you there and maybe even to get you out, although he wasn't flying anything out.
And so when the president is telling these stories, I believe that anybody with any knowledge of how this stuff works, whether you're a veteran or not, there's a lot of people who are military supporters and enthusiasts that kind of know how operations work.
They study, they read, they watch.
I go right to thinking about that because to me, that makes what he did there, whether he got shot in the legs or not, it makes what he did there in my mind even that much more impressive.
The fact that he took all those rounds in his legs and then continued the mission as if nothing happened is amazing.
And so I appreciate that when the president is giving the State of the Union, amongst all the other chaos, the people sitting down, the other people screaming, and to be quite honest, every now, I believe that President Trump was egging these son of a bitches on every chance he got.
And so amongst all of that, he still incorporated some feel-good stuff, some things about how our country operates under adversity when the odds are stacked against us.
Although I think many people, especially Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth and folks in the cabinet, would say that we're never at a disadvantage.
We're always the best.
And I think that many times it proves to be true in the end.
But I think if you go into missions that way, it's a recipe for failure or disaster or death.
I think that it's important that every time you go into any kind of mission, such as this one, you humble yourself and just assume that the people that you're fighting are just as knowledgeable, have the same or similar experience, and also know how to fight.
I think that we learned during the early years in Iraq that we don't underestimate any of these people, no matter where they're from.
You know, it was my opinion when we were over in the Middle East, especially the first time, 05 to 07-ish.
Going in there, I can say that we had conversations amongst each other about how stupid these people might be, how inept they might be tactically.
And it proved not to be true.
The enemy that we were fighting was formidable.
They did some pretty smart shit.
A lot of American soldiers were wounded for sure, but a lot of American soldiers were killed.
So once we got there and we started running our missions and doing our jobs, we learned that if there was a bunch of whole dumb ass people over there that we were fighting, well, the dumb ones die early, right?
The dumb ones are taken out in the early stages.
The longer you get through combat operations in one area, in my opinion, the longer that you are operating there and fighting and trying to do whatever it is you're trying to do, the better your enemy gets, right?
Dumb Asses Die Early00:15:28
Just like anything else.
The more that you're around it, the more you're operating it, the more you're doing it, the better you're going to get, the more proficient you'll be, the more efficient your people will be.
Everything will just get better.
And so as we approached 15, 18, 20 years at war, there were some pretty smart people out there, I'm sure.
And so it makes all of these things even more important when we're hearing these stories.
And then the other story that the president told us about was, I believe it's Staff Sergeant Wolf, one of the guard members who was shot in downtown D.C. by the Afghani guy that just turned a corner and shot two military members in the head.
The girl, unfortunately, passed away.
I believe they said she was dead on site.
But her partner, Staff Sergeant Wolf, I believe his name was Staff Sergeant Wolf, survived.
He took a shot in the head and he survived.
And he was there.
He was there in the gallery.
Man, it was a really good, for me, it was a really good part of the whole production.
I mean, and then to see him stand up, engage the crowd.
He was awarded a Purple Heart by, I believe it was a four-star general.
These are the types of things that I believe are valuable in these settings, right?
Like, of course, the president could have trolled less.
He could have talked about himself less.
But I don't believe that that's new.
It's not new just for the state of the Union.
I think every time he gives a speech, they go kind of long.
And then we always, every time, think to ourselves, well, maybe he could have went without saying that.
You know, even though I believe that some of the things he said was very calculated and I thought were entertaining and I agreed with.
And furthermore, on a side note, does anybody else want to give props to the cameramen that were in the chamber?
I chuckled.
I chuckled for about 30 seconds when he started talking about, when he started talking about the Somali pirates, and the cameras instantly went to Ilhan Omar and zoomed in on her.
That was awesome.
And then as he was going through his speech and talking, they would find other members of Congress who were sleeping and then zoom in on them.
So now it's on the record.
And the whole world, the whole world saw it.
So props to the cameraman.
I'm sure he'll never see this.
But if you do ever, sir, or ma'am, good work.
Because that brought some entertainment value, right?
And it's in a time where this is supposed to be serious, tensions are very high.
We're extremely polarized in our communities right now.
That might have just been what we needed to kind of break the ice, to just hear all of the things going on and to listen to this for two hours.
And to be quite honest, I was engaged the whole time, the whole time.
But anyway, Staff Sergeant Wolf, Staff Sergeant Wolf is a great story for American military resilience.
I'm sure that with the brevity of his injuries, I'm sure that at any time, if he would have decided to just quit fighting, to recover or quit fighting to get through it, things could have got a whole lot worse.
I mean, the guy took a bullet to the head.
I just think it's great.
And I guess I don't know what else to say about it.
I was really happy to see him.
And I just think it's a great feel-good story.
We also saw a couple Medal of Honors be handed out.
Medal of Honors, Medals of Honor handed out.
The one thing, the one story that really kind of hit me in the Fifies was Royce Williams, the Korean War pilot.
And I'm sure you all know, but Royce Williams, for many, many years, held his promise, kept his promise to keep his mouth shut about what he did in Korea.
The dogfight that he was in, the enemies that he got rid of.
The actions that he took that day were classified for a long time.
Royce Williams never even told his wife or his family what happened there.
I think that they knew he was in the military.
I think they knew that he was a pilot.
But he wasn't able to talk about what he did.
And it took, man, it took since 1952 is when his actions, this air battle that he was involved in, happened in 1950, was it 52?
It happened in 1952.
And it wasn't long ago that the files were declassified.
He could talk about what he did.
His actions were re-evaluated.
And he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
And in a time where we have all these discussions about how shitty the VA is, how shitty the government is about taking care of veterans.
I think that this is a highlight of that.
The government knew for all these years what Royce Williams did that day.
And why was it classified?
Who knows?
But yet another example of resiliency amongst the ranks of American service members.
I think that anybody, no matter who you are, if at any time in your life you're so inclined,
but if any time in your life you find yourself in the cockpit of a fighter plane and you take off and you do some pretty amazing shit and you extinguish multiple enemy aircraft and multiple enemies in general.
And the actions you took saved multiple American lives in combat.
And then they tell you, you can't ever talk about this.
Classified.
Can't say a word to nobody.
In my opinion, I mean, I get it.
I understand, you know, their operational security is a thing for a reason.
But it's just a really shitty thing.
Right?
If we are in the midst of World War III, whenever that pops off, if ever, hopefully not.
And our sons and daughters are doing amazing shit to keep our country afloat, to keep us free, to keep us safe, to expel an enemy or an invade, whatever it is, whatever action it is.
It's a real test of your resilience.
It's a real test of your integrity, your moral compass to keep that secret for so long, 50 plus years.
Just another testament to the resiliency and the professionalism of American military people.
Now, of course, there's good reasons for keeping things secret.
But I think we've also seen as of late, there's not always great reasons to keep things secret.
Sometimes we got to come up off of that bullshit.
I think we're seeing it with the Epstein files.
I think we were seeing it earlier this week with the Clintons being deposed.
What a nothing burger that seemed out to be.
What a nothing burger that seemed to be, turned out to be.
So what are we to do?
What are we to do about Making sure that our soldiers, when they feel accomplished, and maybe as a society, maybe our government doesn't owe it to the military members.
That maybe it doesn't owe it to them to give them the ability to feel good about what they do on the outside, right?
Like you can always remember what you've done.
You can always remember where you've been.
You can always remember what happened.
But when you're a person like Royce Williams and you're saving multiple of your battle buddies and extinguishing the lives of multiple enemies, one person, usually it's celebrated, such as Audi Murphy, the most decorated U.S. Army soldier ever.
Now, some of the things he did was pretty fucking gnarly.
If you're not familiar with Audi Murphy, I suggest you look him up, watch some of his movies.
There's a movie called To Helen Back, which is his story of his military career.
And he played himself.
Yet another example of a strong military person.
Now, if you've seen the movie, you understand a little bit about what Audi Murphy did.
But the biggest thing that you'll see in the movie, in my opinion, was the time he got on the tank in front of enemy fire and took out a bunch of people all by himself, just this little guy.
He was just a little guy.
But he had people telling him he couldn't do it.
He wasn't going to make it.
He was too small, whatever.
And he did it and became the most decorated American Army soldier in the history of our country.
Maybe even the most decorated military member, period.
If you find pictures of him online and look at his chest, it's no wonder his jacket isn't like this from all the weight on the left side, on his left side of his chest.
But yet another example.
And so what I mean to say by bringing all this up is that in a time at our state of a union where, like I said, we're polarized, we're separated, we're divided, I believe we are experiencing calculated division, manufactured division by our government, by the two sides of our government that can't get along, that want us to hate each other because they hate each other.
Or it's some big fucking op where they want us to hate each other, so we're divided and who knows what they got going on.
But the president, in my opinion, did a good job at throwing these things in there intermittently to kind of break up the bullshit.
And I think that a lot of it was calculated also.
I think that Trump knew that these assholes weren't going to give him the satisfaction of agreeing with anything he said.
And they're certainly not going to give him the satisfaction of standing up and clapping for anything he said.
I wasn't surprised at all.
And to a certain extent, I was kind of surprised that he was surprised, that he was upset that they weren't going to.
You should know that for sure.
These are the people who have been trying to throw you in jail.
They've been trying to kill you.
They've spent how many years dragging your name through the mud, attacking your family, attacking you, attacking the people that support you, the majority of this country that voted for him.
What did we expect?
Of course they're not going to, of course, they're not going to oblige you at all.
And so in retrospect, I do believe there was like one or two things that he said where some of the Democrats got up.
I don't think that there was one time where the whole audience agreed on anything.
And furthermore, side note also, how fucking stupid is that?
How stupid is it that we need to speak and then give 30-second pauses to see who agrees and stands up and claps?
I mean, it's a good telltale sign for us as the constituency watching to see what our members are supporting or not, or the other people from our state or the other side, whatever it is.
But why can't, and it's not just Donald Trump, it's every president.
I just, I don't understand that tradition of standing and clapping and then, in 30 seconds, standing and clapping again and then a minute later doing it again and 10 seconds after that doing it again.
Why don't we just let the president say what he's got to say?
Why does it have to be a political theater of sorts?
Why Clap So Much?00:03:00
I've never understood it.
I've never agreed with it.
Doesn't matter who's in office, who's standing there giving the state of the union address.
It's, it's frustrating that everyone's got to fucking get up and clap all the goddamn time.
In my opinion, everyone should sit in that audience, much like the Democrats were doing anyway, but everybody should sit, just like the Supreme Court justices sat.
You don't clap, you don't fucking take a side, none of that.
Let the man talk and then, when it's over, go out to wherever you go and do your little deal, your little shindig, and give your reactions and and talk about how it was horrible or talk about how it was good or whatever your narrative is.
But do we really need to keep the whole, the whole constituency of America in front of the tv for for two hours, for a maybe an hour and 10 minute speech?
If we don't, if we don't got to clap and we don't got to point out that these people are crazy.
All that stuff, I just I don't.
I don't really understand it.
I think it's stupid.
But the one, the one positive I will say about it, even though I think it's dumb, is that you do get to see who who kind of is in what camp, although in this year in particular uh, with the, with the Trump administration, we all kind of already know who's in what camp.
So, if you were watching it and trying to have some clarity about what's happening, what's coming, what we did last year, you know, it's probably better to like let it happen and then get the footnotes version on YouTube or something.
And also, it's pretty crazy to me how fast how fast people are getting these reaction videos out.
I mean, they must be recording them as the speech is going and to hear a point, hit record and give their reaction because some of these reaction videos were out minutes later.
So I give people props.
I know that I do a podcast.
I shouldn't be surprised, but man, it's impressive because we understand what it takes to record and edit and post and type out something creative and all this other stuff.
So it's pretty amazing.
I've gotten off on a tangent.
I've went over time.
Stick with us, folks.
We got to take a break.
we'll be right back.
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What these researchers found was that vaccinated children had 4.29 times the rate of asthma, 3.03 times the rate of atopic disease, 5.96 times the rate of autoimmune disease, and 5.53 times the rate of neurodevelopmental disorders.
A number of different diagnoses, including diabetes and ADHD, and a number of them, in the unvaccinated group, there were zero.
In other words, all these chronic diseases that we're accepting, the reality is maybe 99% of it don't have to exist.
And children, that's not the way God made us.
They looked at over 47,000 Medicaid claims between 1999 and 2011.
Those who are vaccinated versus unvaccinated, I could say an odds ratio were like 2.81.
2.81 to 1.
So that would be 181% increase.
Epilepsy seizures, 252%.
Learning disorders, 581%.
If you look at all these different diagnoses, they're all higher.
For example, I'll just give you one example.
Learning disorders in the full term is 581%.
In the preterm, the ones who are vaccinated, 884% increase.
Every single vaccine has an excipient that is a human toxin.
Human toxin.
Give me five.
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Believe in Strength00:17:52
Hey, folks, welcome back here.
Let's just continue going.
What I wanted to talk about now is this idea that the president, in my opinion, during his speech, did a pretty good job outside of outlining the stories and introducing us to the guests and handing out medals of honor and purple hearts and things like that.
I think one thing that I kind of took from the other context of his speech was this theme of tying national strength and like the economy, for example, to military stability and strength.
And what I mean by that is this idea that we were told about in the beginning of the administration, especially when Pete Hegseth came on board, was this peace-through-strength idea.
And operations like Venezuela, I believe, is a show of that strength in order to restore peace globally.
Now, many people will say, well, you know, Trump only did that for the oil.
Trump only did that for his own self-gain, blah, And I suppose I believe that some of that might be true.
But the other thing that we know about Donald Trump is that his ego is fed mostly by his success.
Right?
Every time he speaks, we hear him talk about what he's done or what he's doing and how it's better.
And sometimes you can't help but agree.
Sometimes you wish that he would just talk about what it is he's there to talk about.
But I think that this peace-through-strength mentality, in the long run, will get us to a better spot.
I think right now, as we're going through it, as it's new to us, it doesn't seem like a great idea because we are, in order to achieve that, we are going to have to send our soldiers into harm's way.
But we can do that knowing and believing that they have the best tools possible and hoping that they have rules of engagement, for example, that are indicative of mission success.
Because I can tell you for a long time, under President Obama also, that the rules of engagement for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom and all that other bullshit were pretty wild, right?
Around the 2010 to 2012 era, there was rules of engagement that were not at all something that makes anyone think about soldier safety and dominance on the battlefield, right?
Just for context.
When soldiers were leaving the wire back then, they weren't allowed to load ammunition in their rifles.
It was the wildest thing I had ever experienced.
Now, I shouldn't say ever, but in the course of that second deployment I was on, that was one of the wildest things I was ever told, one of the wildest orders I ever heard.
We were told to take electrical tape and put it across the top of our magazine.
So even if you loaded a magazine into your rifle, the electrical tape wouldn't let a round oops excuse me, wouldn't let a round enter your chamber to load your weapon.
This is how restrictive Obama's rules of engagement were.
In order for an American soldier outside the wire, outside a base, an American base, in Kuwait and Iraq, you weren't allowed to load your weapon.
We were at war, mind you.
And what I will say is, Kuwait was a lot safer than Iraq at the time.
I mean, 2011-12 was kind of when they announced mission success.
And our brigade was stationed in Kuwait in 2011 and 12 with the mission of closing Iraq.
In fact, the 34th ID Red Bulls were one of the units represented as the very last piece of American equipment crossed the border out of Iraq into Kuwait, signifying that we left the AO.
That was in 2012.
But even if we believed everyone was safe, there were no enemies out there, none of that shit.
Why would we send our soldiers outside the wire of any base outside of America, especially in a region where we've been at war, actively engaged in combat for a number of years, even if it was the end?
Why would we send our soldiers out into harm's way and not let them load their weapons?
Why would our rules of engagement be that restrictive when in America, for example, our police officers carry loaded weapons everywhere?
Because it's their job to have a loaded weapon ready and able to be used as a tool if necessary.
But Iraq 2011 and 2012, American soldiers weren't even able to have a magazine in their rifle when they were driving up a highway between Kuwait and Iraq.
So these types of things is what I'm getting at when I talk about this peace through strength thing.
I believe that it's a great idea.
If you think about when you were a child, back when the world was a whole lot more simple, right?
I don't know about you guys, but I used to get my ass whooped by my parents because I was cutting up.
My aunt, my aunt spanked me when I needed it.
And some people will say, well, you were abused as a child.
I don't see it that way.
I was raised in a family where a little healthy fear of your authority figures goes a long way to keeping you in line and doing the right thing, being a good kid.
I can say that people in my past that had very passive parents and let their kids get away with murder, a lot of them are not in very successful spots.
I believe that having a healthy fear of people like your parents allows you to learn a little bit on your own through trial and error what it means to respect your elders to honor your mother and father And be a sponge and learn how to be a contributing member of society.
Now, that's assuming, that's assuming that the parents that we are referencing right now are actually interested in raising their children to be contributing members of society.
I think we have a lot of parents that if we were to force people to apply for a license to procreate, I think there's a lot of parents out there that wouldn't be parents.
And of course, it's not up to me to be the baby licensed police.
But it's important to me, and I believe it's important to many other people in the warrior culture, in the veteran community, that these types of things, if that's the commitment as a country we're going to make, if peace through strength is a commitment that we're going to make as a country, and we're going to agree with our leaders that that's a good idea, I do, but I'm not the majority, I'm just one voice.
If that's what we're going to do, I believe it's a great idea.
And so, things like successful missions in Venezuela, things like what CW5 Slover did driving that helicopter, veterans showing up, Staff Sergeant Wolf showing up to the State of the Union where he had to have known that he was going to be traips in front of the whole world.
The president was going to tell his story to the whole world.
I believe that helps build a peace-through strength narrative.
Like, look, you shot our fucking guy in the head, and here he is, standing tall with a whole lot of support behind him.
Here's Eric Slover, an elite helicopter pilot.
You can shoot this badass motherfucker, you can shoot his legs up.
Guess what?
He's still going to land that helicopter, and you're still dead.
We're still going to get you.
You throw your best at us, but we're coming.
And I believe that if that happens enough times, the whole world is going to think twice about fucking with the stars and stripes.
And I have a hard time understanding how any American can not support that.
Like, don't we want our communities to be safer?
Don't we want to be able to go to the airport, get on a plane, and go to Orlando and take our kids to Disney World or take them fishing or take them to the ocean to swim or whatever, whatever it is.
You go camping, go see Mount Rushmore, go do whatever it is.
Don't we deserve as citizens of America to be able to move around freely and not worry about whether or not we're in a whole heap of danger?
Of course, there's crime, of course, the bad things happen.
But I think that we can agree that in the last five to eight years, we as Americans have slowed down a little bit, or at least thought twice about where we're going and where we're bringing our families.
Our communities aren't safer now than they were some years ago, five years ago, ten years ago.
We're not safer.
Now, I believe that we're doing the work to try to clean it up, although there's a lot of pushback from the other side.
And probably, I mean, of course, you're going to get pushback from the other side.
So, like, it's not a, it's not a, it's not a surprise to anybody.
But don't we want to be, if possible, if we have the ability, if we have the knowledge, if we have the people that have the skills, don't we want to be the biggest dick on the block on the globe?
Since when is it a bad thing to be the top of the food chain?
And if we have the ability to do it, then why wouldn't we want to do that?
Don't we want to ensure the survival of our culture, of our communities?
Now, I'm not saying that we got to hang everybody that does wrong or doesn't agree or whatever.
I'm not saying that.
What I'm saying is it'd be a huge surprise to me if the majority in this country didn't want a peace-through strength narrative, didn't want to feel safer, didn't want to see that we are bigger and badder than anybody that might want to do us harm, that might want to come and kill us.
And not necessarily always by invasion and guns and bombs and bullets and violence.
But what if it is true?
I'm not saying that it's untrue, but a lot of people think that it's untrue.
So what if it is true that we're in danger of not being a superpower any longer?
And I think that we're pretty close to that.
What if it is true that we're in danger of being a third world nation?
I believe that all of this great thing, all these great things that we have, access to, all the great freedoms that we have, access to, I believe it can go away if we fuck it up.
If we let someone else come in here and change what we got going on, I don't think that that's impossible.
And so why would anybody not want to be strong?
Why would anybody not want to flex on somebody else in the world when they deserve it and when we have the ability to stop it?
And so then this goes into that whole, why does America need to be the world police?
And I agree with people that say we don't need to be the world police.
In fact, I don't think it's a good idea for America to be the world police.
But in a time where we're trying to grow this peace-through strength narrative and we can see atrocities happening somewhere else in this world and we're able to understand how it affects us as Americans on our soil, then yeah, I think we should take action.
I think that we'd be stupid not to.
It's just like the bully in the schoolyard, in my opinion.
If we are not going to build a narrative that says you're not going to come in here and just openly fuck with us and we're going to lay down or you're going to let you win or whatever that narrative is, I'm not sure because I think it's preposterous and I think it's stupid.
Why would anybody be okay with that?
Anybody else, anybody understand?
Anyone have a good reason why that seems like a good idea?
I mean, I think that it's possible for us to be the biggest dick on the block and then leave everyone else alone.
But while we're trying to build that narrative, while we're trying to show the world, hey, we're peaceful, we can be helpful, but don't fuck around.
What's wrong with that?
I think it's just, it's astounding to me.
It's astounding to me that people are so disconnected with what the world really can be like and what the darkest side of humanity can really be like and how quickly it can show up right on your fucking doorstep.
There are so many, I believe, I believe that there are so many people, organizations, groups, but many, many people that would love.
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They're just sitting back and watching the show and hoping that America fails and falls.
And they don't care.
They don't care what happens to you.
These people that mean to do us harm, whether it's physical harm, violence, fraud, financial harm, whatever it is, they don't care about what happens to you.
They want what we got.
And if they got to kill you, they'll do it.
If they got to destroy your life, they'll do it.
And they got to sneak in into your bank accounts or hack into whatever.
I don't know how all that shit works, but if they got to do it, they're going to.
And they don't care how it affects you.
But yet we still have masses of people that are contradicting that whole narrative.
Like they don't believe that it can happen to them.
And I think over the last couple years, we've seen how people who don't seem to be bothering anybody are killed, are destroyed, their lives destroyed.
And the perpetrators, they don't give a fuck.
President Trump at the speech talked about Irina Zarutska.
Even showed her mom.
Her mom was sitting right next to that weird, weird, creepy woman, Erica Kirk.
That woman is fucking weird.
And that girl was not harming anybody.
She's just going home after making some pizzas and fucking stabbed in the neck and killed right there.
The last thing she saw was the fucking monster that ambushed her and put a knife through the side of her neck.
Do you think he gives a shit about her mom who was crying on TV?
Do you think he gives a shit about that girl and what she had going on, where she was on her way to, what her career was going to be, and something, who knows?
Maybe she was destined for greatness.
Maybe she would have been the next mother Teresa, or maybe she would have been the next Lady Gaga.
Who knows?
Maybe she'd have been the next AOC.
Who the fuck knows?
But the point is, he didn't care about her and her life or anything like that.
So what makes anybody else think that all these people across the world that mean to do us harm, that want to kill you, give a shit about the outcome of their actions towards us?
I don't believe that there's fairness in survival.
And I do also believe that in this country, we're going to be in survival mode at some point.
Maybe not in my lifetime, but I think we're close to it already.
But maybe we'll figure it out and it'll get better.
We don't need to be fucking fair.
We need to be strong.
We need to be stern.
And we need to be helpful when and where it makes sense.
And we need to be strong, stern, and helpful to fucking America first.
It's just my opinion.
We kind of got off the rails of the State of the Union, but we've run out of time.
But the thing I want to leave you with in closing is sometimes, sometimes there is a point, there's an inflection point.
And I believe that we're at it.
I agree 150,000% with Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth when they talk about this peace through strength vision narrative, whatever it is.
If the rest of the world has a healthy fear of American power, then we can certainly globally respect each other.
We can help each other out.
We can import and export back and forth on tariffs and all that other shit.
Okay.
But as long as in every corner of this planet that the masses know, don't go there fucking with those people.
There'll be some smoke in the city, buddy.
As long as they know it and they believe it, I believe that things could get better.
And in the chances, it's not even a chance.
It will happen, I'm sure, at some point.
But when somebody decides to challenge it, all the gloves need to come off and reinforce a peace through strength narrative where we can go and refer people back to history.
Remember when so-and-so thought they could do so-and-so and America stopped that shit?
I believe that that's a good position to be in.
So just my thoughts.
If you have anything to add, please leave it down in the comments.
Like I said, we like to have some engagement and conversation, all that stuff.
So yeah, that's it.
It's all we got for today.
Of course, we're over time.
So we'll see you next week.
Take care of yourselves.
Have a great evening and rest of your weekend.
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 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.
full of jews i have a black friend in school I have nothing against blacks.
She has nothing against me.
She understands where I'm coming from.
Excuse me, I'm a Jew, and I'd just like to say that, you know, in our Bible, it says that you're like animals.
The Jews crucified our God.
There's nothing we wouldn't do for our pets.
They're like our children.
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