Battleground LIVE: The Trump Effect w/Savage Rich Baris

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
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Speaker 3 (00:14):
Good evening, America, Welcome to Battleground Live. This is the
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From Sea to Shining Sea and everybody in between. Welcome
Patriots on this Savage Wednesday. We've got Savage Rich Barris
on deck. It's gonna be an awesome show. We have

(00:35):
so much to talk about. Savage Rich is actually he's
got his show inside the Numbers, but now he's doing
something that's called between the Numbers. I think it's a
very good thing because Rich is not only is he
the best pulster in the business. I was talking to
him earlier today and I said, he's actually got he's
actually insanely entertaining, he's got great takes. He should do

(00:57):
more shows, and so really awesome, really awesome to see
that he's doing that. But folks, yeah, let me just
tell you, I am sorry about missing Monday and Tuesday.
I did not have to. I didn't expect to have
to be in DC as early as I did. And
when I got the asked to come down to d C.

(01:19):
I realized that the timeline with the show just wasn't
going to work.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
So I had to put.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
That video out on Monday and then drive down to
d C to get there for a meeting, and then
go into the Hegseth hearing, which we had to show
up for super super early to prep and then go
into the actual hearing itself. Let me tell you, folks,
we are going to get into that and a lot more.
All of Trump's cabinet nomination hearings that are going on today.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
There's a lot of them. We're going to talk about
all of it.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
But right off the top rope, let me tell you
that there was a hostage deal reached and it looks
like if everything stays low target, that Americans who are
held hostage by Hamas will be coming home. And the
funny thing is, it's not funny. I mean, this entire
situation is tragic. A defining hallmark of the Biden administration

(02:16):
has been their willingness to leave Americans behind in hostile areas,
whether it's Afghanistan or in this case, hostage is held
by our enemy Hamas, and that is disturbing and it's
concerning on a great many levels, of course, you know,
because as Americans, we just we don't leave people behind.

(02:37):
But the Biden administration has just gotten too comfortable with it.
So Trump said a couple of weeks ago, he said,
you know, I'm not if a hostage deal isn't done
before I walk into the Oval Office, all hell is
going to break loose. Well, it's five days before Trump
walks into the Oval Office, and what happens we see

(03:00):
a hostage deal that is that is that's been reached,
and the media narrative, I mean, clearly, everybody that has
been paying attention to this situation knows that Trump going
back to the White House, and Trump himself is Transition
Team UH and a special.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Envoy to the Middle East.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
They were critically important for getting this done, if not
the main reason why we were able to bring these
hostages home. Now, you know, there are other questions that
I have about the condition of these hostages, how many
are alive, I mean, all of that stuff. All those
questions still have to be answered. But everybody knows that
Trump got this deal done. But the media is trying

(03:44):
to create this narrative between Trump and Biden. And trying
to give Biden the credit versus Trump. But listen to
this question that was asked of Joe Biden at a
press conference today.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Thank you looks credit for this, mister President? You or truck.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Said Joe, Oh, thank you?

Speaker 3 (04:05):
So what Biden is doing there when he says who
deserves The reporter asked a question who deserves credit for
this hostage deal? You or Trump? He stops, turns around
and says, is that a joke, implying that he and
he alone was responsible for bringing these hostages home? And again,
anyone with a functioning brain, which I suppose would remove

(04:27):
Kamala Harrison Joe Biden from that equation. But anyone with
a functioning brain realizes that Trump is five days from
the White House from walking back into the White House.
They realized that Trump already made several statements about the hostages,
one of which all hell will break loose if we
don't get these people back. Everyone knows that Trump going

(04:47):
back to the White House was the driving force behind
these American hostages being released. And the sad part about
it is is that the Biden administration has been so
pathetic and so weak on the world stage that they've
created a black market in almost a currency, for an
incentive for foreign countries to take Americans hostage with for

(05:11):
no reason whatsoever, not because they're not spies, not working
for our intel community. They're just American tourists who happened
to be traveling through this through through countries, whether it's
in Venezuela or Russia. And I was glad to see
during Marco Rubio's confirmation hearing a question asked by Dave
McCormick to Marco Rubio about Mark Fogel, And of course,
Mark Fogel is a Western Pennsylvania teacher who was captured

(05:35):
going through Russia. He had some marijuana or something in
his backpack, but it was medical. It was medically prescribed
for a legit spine, something wrong, a debilitating condition with
his spine, and Vladimir Putin has thrown him in jail
for three years. He's been languishing in a Russian prison
for three years. His health is very, very poor.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Well.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
The Biden administration has done nothing to try to bring
this home, to try to bring this man home, and
I mean nothing now here. The Biden administration worked overtime
to bring Britney Griner home who who is a WNBA
hardcore liberal fit the political agenda of Joe Biden was
able to bring her home, but has left Marked languished.

(06:18):
And the reason why he's left Marked a languished is
because there's no political capital in it for Joe Biden.
He just simply doesn't care. This is ideological to him.
In fact, the State Department didn't even give him Mark
Fogel wrongly detained status, which which would have released all
sorts of extra assets and resources that the US could
use to bring this guy back. So the Biden administration

(06:40):
has done nothing. But now that Trump is going back
into office, Republicans are on offense about bringing Americans who
are held hostage all around the world home.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
And that is a very very good thing.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Okay, So we got lots more to talk about it
when we're going to break down the hegseth hearing here
in a second, I've got Savage Rich Barris on deck.
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many of you all probably knew, I was in the
hearing with Pete Heeksas sitting behind him, with Commander Melanie
sitting right next to me. It was, it was I

(08:42):
was really glad to be there because it gave me
an opportunity to witness firsthand. And I mean, this just
how I can't really think of any other way to
say this, so I'm just gonna say it. Just how
dumb these Democrat senators are. And the truth is, there

(09:03):
were probably ways that the Democrats could have questioned Pete
that could have put him in a tough spot. Ask
him about foreign policy, ask him about how you're going
to evolve the army, you know, having been you know,
having been locked down in this brigade combat team stuff

(09:23):
for a long time, how are you going to evolve
to face conventional threats? What do you think of maritime
operations into Pacific against the rising tide of China? Like,
what do you think about Russia dominating maritime shipping lanes
north of Green I mean, they could have asked all
of these deep substance of questions and made it very
difficult for Pete, but they didn't because they're idiots. And

(09:46):
I can own this is the I honestly believe that
the Democrats are so insulated from reality, so insulated from
the American people, meaning they don't really care about the
plight of the American people that they have absolutely positively
no idea why they got their asses handed them handed

(10:10):
to them this last election cycle, none whatsoever, because they
relied on this, on this ridiculous line of questioning that
they relied on the same old, same old they they
they they went after Pete's personal life, they went after
his character. To be to be fair, they started out
with some policy questions. Let me tell you about their

(10:32):
strategy was let's first attack on policy, to see if
we can get any anchor points there. That's where they
raised questions about the Geneva convention. That's where they raised
questions about the attack on women, out attacking Pete has
attacked women in combat, which which gave way to Pete's
misogynist and Pete hates women, Pete's hat pete ATE's mom.

(10:53):
The American people don't take this shit seriously. The American
people think that's a joke, okay, And then that dovetail
into an attack on anexperienced Pete's leadership and an organization
called Vets for Freedom Pete's leadership and an organization called
Concerned Vets for America. Oh, you didn't manage that many people. Oh,
your budget wasn't that much. Meanwhile, Pete managed more people

(11:18):
than any one of those Democrat senators that were sitting
up there on the dais that day. But nevertheless, when
Natt failed, they moved to attacking his personal life. And
that's when Tim Kaine, who's a Senator from Virginia, who
looked like a disgusting slob that day, looked like he
just rolled out of bed. I remember, Commander Melanie looked
at me in the actual hearing and said, Tim Kaine

(11:40):
looks like an unmade bed because he just looked like
a total slob. And he's asking questions with Pete's wife
and parents sitting right behind him about anonymous accusations about
Pete's personal life. It was horrifying. And I've got to
tell you, I think that that's going to backfire majorly.

(12:01):
In fact, I think it did backfire majorly on the
Democrats because and by the way, this is also part
of the reason why that room was filled with so
many combat veterans, because Pete's a war fighter. Pete knows
what it feels like to have a bullet.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Cracked by his head.

Speaker 3 (12:16):
He a combat veteran of Iraq, Afghanistan, worked at Gwantanamo Bay,
fully understands the fallout from the Global War on Terror,
fully understands the intelligence mistakes that got us into those
wars in the first place. I mean, believe me when
I tell you this guy gets it. He also fully
understands what it means to come home from those conflicts

(12:37):
and really really struggle. It isn't easy for veterans to
come home. Sometimes we make mistakes. Sometimes those mistakes are
pretty damn big. Sometimes we're not proud of those mistakes.
But Pete's story resonates with a million other combat veterans
who have fought these wars. And by the way, the
dynamic that was set up that day in that hearing

(12:58):
is you have a bunch of privileged senators. I'm not
talking about the Republicans because they were great up there
in the day is yesterday, But these Democrat senators height
of privilege. These combat veterans, American warriors do things that
those Democrat senators would never ever do, would never send
their children to do.

Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yet they looked.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Down their nose at Pete Hegseth, who was an actual
warfighter who fought their wars for twenty years, and treated
him like garbage. And that's why that room had as
much energy as it did. That's why that room was
channing USA USA when Pete came into that hearing. That's
why that room was clapping when heg Seth said things
even though they weren't supposed to. It's because his story

(13:42):
of struggle fighting these wars that American elites sent us
to fight. His story resonated with millions of American veterans
all across this country, including his failures. And that's why
I think Tim Kaine's line of questioning will ultimately fail
and pave the way for his confirmation. So Pete did

(14:03):
what he needed to do in that hearing. These hearings
are about a lot of things. Showing that you got
the chops to answer policy questions. The Democrats made that
easy because they're all. They didn't ask many policy questions.
Show that you have the temperament and comportment to face
tough questions and keep your cool. Pete did that as well.
And part of these hearings, folks, you know, it's just
to give it's just to be able to take your

(14:24):
licks and not fire back. Pete did great, and in
so doing he got Jony Ernst to confirm to vote
to vote for him, and that's the critical point. So
Pete's going to get voted out of the Armed Services Committee,
which brings him to the jen to the Senate for
another vote, and that vote will take place on January
twenty first, and if nothing changes between today and that day,

(14:47):
Pete will cruise to confirmation. And there's no question about
that because with Jony Ernst, he's got the numbers.

Speaker 1 (14:53):
Now.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
Any number of things can happen between now and then.
His stuff changes pretty fast. But it's going to be very,
very difficult now for the Democrats to change the trajectory
of not just Pete's confirmation but everybody else. Pete went first.
President Trump could not have asked for a better leadoff
hitter than Pete. Hegseth in that hearing, because Pete's responses

(15:17):
to those questions paid the way for Trump's nominees today
to just steamroll, as Savage Rich said earlier on a
show today, steamroll these Democrat politicians and the moronic questions.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
So with that said, let me Bring on Savage.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
Rich Barris, welcome, my friend, host of Inside the Numbers
and now Between the Numbers, also the top rated poster
in twenty twenty four. Welcome back to the show here
on Savage Wednesday. Hey, wait before we get into any
of this stuff. So you did your ear Between the
Numbers yesterday.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
Yeah, You're like, oh, I.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Gotta find my People's Pundit hoodie and you put it on. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
It was We were like listening and Melanie was watching
and it was like a snowstorm. So I'm like driving
in the looking out of the corner of my eye.
You're talking, and I could have swore it looked like
you put on a cape because the lighting wasn't there
was some proper real yeah, and it looks like you
put on a cape. And I'm like, damn, this guy
dressing up as Dracula even when it's not Halloween.

Speaker 4 (16:18):
I was thinking Batman, but we can go with Draculas.

Speaker 5 (16:22):
Someone put up the People's Pundin signaling Gotham and I
saw it and I.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
Had is it just your profile?

Speaker 4 (16:30):
Like yeah, I think it's the the P and the
P you know, like.

Speaker 5 (16:35):
You know, Pepe, like a P and a P with
a wrapped in a d.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
This is not going in a direction that I'm comfortable with. Awful. Yeah,
what what is going on here?

Speaker 5 (16:49):
Maybe that's why, like eighty percent of my audience is female.

Speaker 4 (16:52):
I just realized that, And it's true.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
It's actually true.

Speaker 5 (16:57):
I analyze it every year, and I'm glad there are
more men, But for years it's been the the ladies
who were the most active, who are the most I'm serious.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Is that savage Laura in the background?

Speaker 6 (17:10):
It is?

Speaker 4 (17:11):
He's over here, you know she's over here.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Does she have the glitzy wrist?

Speaker 4 (17:16):
Of course she does want to. She wants to show
you her new present.

Speaker 1 (17:20):
Oh look at it. Oh my, look at that.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
I did not buy it with the bedazzled I bought
it with the king. I guess that was some kind
of like accessory or something. Yeah, I think I told
you this two years ago. My daughter was like, I
want an Apple Watch and my wife wanted an Apple Watch.
So I couldn't like, I couldn't do both without one knowing.
So Laura had to wait a year before she could

(17:47):
get her Apple Watch, and then it would be a surprise.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
Yeah, you don't want to outshine your own kid.

Speaker 5 (17:52):
Like, oh, she also got an Apple Watch, so you
just gotta wait things parents do.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
But yeah, let me just say, uh, Pete's the second death.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
He yeah, going to deal with it.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yeah, yeah, you were texting me and I was in
the hearing yesterday.

Speaker 1 (18:07):
He did you texted me?

Speaker 4 (18:09):
Oh my god, Jilla Brand, she's so awful.

Speaker 5 (18:13):
I mean, listen, I watched these hearings like she is awful.
And by the way, somebody just did a meme and
I'll leave it alone because that's just probably I'm gonna
get called the massage in this year.

Speaker 4 (18:25):
But I mean, I'm just wondering. It's never mind, I'm
gonna leave it alone.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
What what I.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
Was gonna say? I don't know.

Speaker 5 (18:33):
You got like Pam Bondy and you got Kurston jili Brand.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
You want to live in? Which world did you want
to live in?

Speaker 5 (18:43):
And I actually have a big beef with Kirsten Jilibrand
because years ago she ran as a conservative Democrat for
the district that included big parts of nine w and
Bear Mountain in a part of right when you get
into the Hudson Valley, which is apposolutely gorgeous, and she
pretended to be Republican light in the era coming out

(19:05):
of Giuliani. She never would have gotten elected any other way.
That part of New York was not like that yet,
and she's a scam artist. And then the next thing,
you know, you know, it wasn't a few years and
Bear Mountain was flooded with illegals and newspapers all over
the place, and it was tragic to watch.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
The place was a.

Speaker 7 (19:26):
Christmas a magical Christmas place, mecca. You could ice skate
on the prettiest skating rink, ski on the most the
most beautiful slopes.

Speaker 5 (19:38):
Thank god now, you know, even though corporations are evil,
thank god now a resorts corporation came in years ago
and bought Bear Mountain and basically locked everybody out. It
was a gorgeous place that she turned into a slum
and couldn't care to you know what's less, you know,
and it's sad to watch for those of you, you

(20:00):
who were up in the mid Atlantic, you know what
I'm talking about the seven eleven era when there was
like two hundred people in every parking lot of a
seven eleven. We'll want to work for four fifty an
hour taking your job, you know what, I'm talking about.

Speaker 4 (20:12):
So it was awful. And you know she.

Speaker 5 (20:17):
Did when many Democrats back then did masquerade as somebody
who was common sense. Oh, I just I'm only a
Democrat because I want to look out for the little
guy too.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
And it's all bull it's all all love.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
She was raging on Pete yesterday, man like she was,
I mean, and she wouldn't even give Pete a chance
to respond. Why do basically asking him the question but
not giving me a chance to answer. Why do you
hate women in the military. Why are you denigrating the
two hundred and fifty thousand women that we have? And
why do you hate moms? What's wrong with being a mom?
And like Pete, Pete's just like and what they did,

(20:53):
and Elizabeth Warren did this as well, did Herono just
she was just I'm sorry, just so dumb.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
She was on another level. We'll get to her in
a second.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
Idiot, but I mean we'll get we'll put a pin
in that. We'll talk about that one in a second.
But Kirsten Jelibrand and Elizabeth Warren, they were basically manipulating
what Pete was saying. We said, Pete, oh, why don't
you want women in combat. Okay, but Pete didn't say that.
Pete said, I don't want women in combat roles, right,

(21:26):
So that means in the infantry, for example, where you
could find yourself fighting in a hand to hand combat
situation like I did many many times in Afghanistan.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Now here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
If you're a conservative and people were listening out there
and watching this show, if you believe that men should
not compete in women's sports, then how could you possibly
support women in direct combat roles when they could find
themselves fighting hand to hand with a man. They would
have a distinct disadvantage in those scenarios. And and you know,

(22:04):
if you fail, it's not like you just lose. If
you fail, you you're wounded, your friend dead.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
So to your battle buddies, by the way, yes, your
battle falcon.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
So is this like an acceptable Is this like an
an acceptable risk that America wants to take? And so
beyond you know, the argument buying large rich was about
the standard and one standard for everybody and I and
I agree with that on principle.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
But if if the policy.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
Makes it makes it more dangerous for women to where
they could get seriously wounded or even killed in combat
with the enemy. And now listen, men could get combat
too and get killed in combat too, But we all
recognize that men are bigger, faster, stronger, and if it's
a hand to hand fighting situation, which does happen in
the infantry, I just I'm not this is this is

(22:56):
a tough one for me because you know, if a
woman meets the standard, and because I have certainly served
with women that have run me into the ground, they're
just like physical specimens. Yeah, they meet the standard, but
even when they meet the standard, the risk is higher
for them because in a hand to hand situation it's dangerous.
But then there are also all sorts of command leadership

(23:17):
challenges that follow in the wake of that as well.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
And for example, we had a I'll just say this,
when you go outside.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
The wire and you're getting shot at every day, and
you've already convinced yourself, hey, I could go outside the
wire and be dead five hours from now, And there
are women on the base that are thinking the same thing.
Believe me when I tell you they throw caution to
the wind. They live life like it could be their
last moment on earth.

Speaker 4 (23:43):
I know how I know exactly what you're trying to.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
Say and as it creates challenges. I mean, for example,
on our brigade headquarters in Salerno in Afghanistan, there was
one lieutenant male and female lieutenant that would patrol in
the middle of the night, all night to the bump
just to make sure soldiers weren't having sex in the bunkers.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
I'm sorry, is that the best you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (24:06):
Had a major, major, major problem. Without getting too much
into it, and unfortunately it involves someone who was responsible
for men, so like I'm the lives of men and
he was distracted, let me put it that way. And
because there's certain times when, like you said, it's just

(24:29):
we're all human and you think, uh, yeah, maybe you
even got a wife at home, you know, which he did,
uh you know, but I mean they were both thinking,
like you said, that you could be dead on your
next patrol, so let's try.

Speaker 4 (24:43):
To live it and live it to the fullest while
we can.

Speaker 5 (24:47):
But honestly, that leads to not doing it even at
the appropriate time. Sean, It's just a really bad idea.
Like I try to explain this to people, uh. And
then there's another element to this which I always wait
into which I know other people are uncomfortable doing, but
it's true.

Speaker 4 (25:02):
Okay, So for instance.

Speaker 5 (25:04):
And by the way, let me just say this as
a preface that what I'm about to say with this,
this drops a bomb on everybody when I say this.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
But it's true. Americans don't like this.

Speaker 5 (25:13):
It's a They are smart enough to separate the difference
between a woman in a combat.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
Role, which is let's say a fighter pilot.

Speaker 5 (25:21):
She is in a hornet or she's in whatever, a
mile off the mile in the air, dropping a bomb
on somebody, that is very different than somebody who wants
to try out for SFAs.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
Exactly right, that's exactly right.

Speaker 5 (25:37):
Let's try Let's get real for a second. And by
the way, I searched Pete's statements in preparation for the
show on Monday and knew they were going to do
that to him, you know, so like and then on
Tuesday and Wednesday today I told the audience I could
not find where Pete said something that like Jilli Brown
was trying to make it into, and Pete never said,

(25:59):
I dis I disapprove, and I don't support women in
like any combat role whatsoever, like we support.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
Women in the military. I mean it's not to be
a ship.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yeah, you rise to be a ship captain in the navy,
be a general. You know they're but it doesn't mean
that you should be on the front lines of combat.

Speaker 5 (26:20):
And sewan that there is the other side of this. Well,
first of all, Americans don't support that. They don't, all right,
they don't. Of course they will support a woman being
a fighter pilot or something like that, but they don't
support it all. They simply don't. And number two there's
another thing, uh.

Speaker 4 (26:37):
The lack standards.

Speaker 5 (26:38):
Okay, so when I joined and you know what the
I'm sure you do what the AT and X ray
program is, they already like moved SFAs from X number
of days to like twenty one days, and then you
got to do stop C, which is special Operations, preparatory
and conditioning. And if you can get through that, you
can also do SFAs with twenty one days, which allow

(27:00):
a lot of people a lot of people who were
already in already didn't like and as a result, they
would put one eighteen X ray on a team one.

Speaker 4 (27:09):
So you could go in there with the regulars.

Speaker 5 (27:11):
You could go in there with the guys who already
went through traditional SFAs traditional Q course, and you didn't
just load a team up with eighteen X ray guys.
And they kind of resented it, like, look, you just
came off the street. They shortened your selection process. You
got to earn this spot on the team just because
you're here. You still have to earn it. And it
was fine by people who got there. They understood everyone.

(27:32):
We all understood. I kind of got a free ride
because nine to eleven. Now, of course I busted my
butt to get here, but I still didn't do what
you did. I'm gonna watch caim my mouse shut pay attention.
Make sure I'm just as good as a battle to
you as you will be to me.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
Like that's the way it was.

Speaker 4 (27:47):
Now that selection process has.

Speaker 5 (27:50):
Been shortened even more during the Obama era when they
wanted to get a woman through, they absolutely.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
Changed the standards. And what Pete has said in the.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
Past about that is like completely valid, folks.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
You're reducing the quality.

Speaker 5 (28:05):
It doesn't matter if it's for a woman or if
it's for a man who's off the street and they're
trying to do a new program, You're still reducing the standards,
which will create which will result.

Speaker 4 (28:15):
In a less effective unit.

Speaker 5 (28:17):
I mean, without of doubt, this is no, this isn't
rocket science. Guys, like this is very simple. Like in
the Navy Seals, if we came in and decided we
wanted to run a social experiment and you're in your
branch and you're you know, of your branch's service, would
you be okay? If I was like, you know what,
I want to get this woman through budds is now
twelve days? Come on, you'd be furious, Like you would

(28:41):
flip your you know what, get over it, you know,
so like there is an uncomfortable conversation, and like you said,
you've met women who would steamroll you, you know, and
steamroll make in fact to bring to bring like a
personal story into this. Israel had already experimented with these
kind of things back in the day when I was
in when you were in the same thing, and they

(29:01):
brought in like Krav Magon instructors.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
The one that I had with a.

Speaker 5 (29:04):
Badass, it was a woman and she was not in
her unit anymore in Israel because in the IDEF she
was not in her unit because they were going through
changes of like phasing out women like her, and she.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
Kicked the hell out of me. But that's like.

Speaker 5 (29:18):
And it was like scary, bro, this was a mean woman.
She scared every one of us. But that's not the norm.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
You know, She's an exceptional soldier.

Speaker 5 (29:29):
And there are gonna be men who are very are
very feminine and uh and lack performance, you know, lack
in their standards of performance, and then there will be
women who exceed them.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
But it doesn't mean we have to ignore that.

Speaker 5 (29:40):
There is of course the standard, and there are like
you said before, generally speaking, Uh, that's nature. Men are faster,
they're stronger.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
Yeah, to that point, let me show you ignore that.
It's stupid.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Yeah, it's stupid. Listen.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
I I just want to say before I show this video,
nothing that I'm gonna say here is taking away from
this woman's grit, her determination, her resolve. Like her doing
this is an amazing thing, and I mean that. But
I want to show you something. This is the part
of the standard of being in the light.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
I know where you're going here.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
It's doing a twelve mile road march in three hours.
That's the standard.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
And maybe it's a twelve mile road march in three hours,
and this is a woman who completes it in three
hours and that is an amazing, amazing accomplishment. But I
want to show you the video and I'm gonna explain
to people why.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
We should be this.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
This is also it's an amazing accomplishment, but it's also
dangerous in real life.

Speaker 8 (30:34):
Check this out.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
Okay, so amazing accomplishment. Twelve mile road march is supposed
to be twelve.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Mile road march.

Speaker 4 (31:42):
They're ruling never done.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
Yeah, it's really difficult, but in the light infantry like,
that's the standard just to get you to the objective.
And once you're on the objective, you still have to
be able to fight. You have to perform like like
that march. The reason why that march as simulated, it's
twelve miles to the objective and then the fight just begins.

(32:04):
So here we have a situation where a woman met
the standard, and God bless her for doing it, because
that is an amazing accomplishment. I'm not attacking that, but
this isn't.

Speaker 4 (32:13):
The Boston Marathon, seane when it's not over.

Speaker 3 (32:18):
So here's that was an example of somebody meeting the standard,
but she there's nothing left in the tank to fight
onto the objective and be effective on the battlefield.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
And that concerns me.

Speaker 5 (32:31):
And here's here's what Look, here's the real world play
out of how that works. So she meets that standard
in training, she gets sent to the field. Who knows, man,
maybe she goes to the eighty second and they drop
her out, you know, they drop her out of a
plane somewhere a little bit, you know, ten miles, twelve miles.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
From the objective. When they get to the objective.

Speaker 5 (32:51):
Instead of what the guy's doing and setting up and
getting a position and doing what they're supposed to do,
they're going back to help her or you know, they're
cheering her on to get her the twelve miles.

Speaker 4 (33:00):
Sean, that's not how it works in real life. You know,
laurd just can't.

Speaker 5 (33:04):
I can't no, no, no, I have to say what
she gott don't I don't know?

Speaker 4 (33:09):
Go ahead, good, good, good, No, Okay, she says she
did a great job. Don't get me wrong. It's tough.

Speaker 6 (33:15):
They're hard now, everybody is, you know, they just ran
their twelve miles and instead of everybody being where they
need to be, he gets caught and then now all
of the men have to listen to her get reaped.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
No beaten or killed you know, I'm.

Speaker 6 (33:34):
Just due to men. Men have the innate nature to protect.

Speaker 4 (33:38):
They don't want to hear that though. They don't want
to hear that.

Speaker 5 (33:40):
They don't want to hear that because I've been down
this road before, and they don't want to hear that,
like listen the because I've actually, you know, I've been
down this road. So I did raise objections and said,
what do you expect men to do if you're in
a position where we you know, you take along so
and so with you and Jane Doe, okay, call her

(34:02):
Jane Doe. You take along Jane Doe with you? What
do you expect us to do if Jane Doe gets
snagged up?

Speaker 4 (34:10):
Like I would be expected to.

Speaker 5 (34:12):
Leave my friend behind, which is already bad enough. Okay,
and complete the objective you think I'm gonna let you
think I'm just supposed to turn off human nature and
continue on and like, let Jane leave Jane Doe behind,
Like I feel like that's a harder task. And when
you say that, though liberals are like, well it shouldn't be.
You should just consider it the same. But you can you,

(34:34):
I don't know, can you?

Speaker 3 (34:36):
And here's honestly, here's another thing to consider. I mean,
we talk about people and I've experienced this too. Okay,
so it's so it's about meeting the standard. We just
showed a video of somebody, a woman, meeting the standard. Again,
kudos to her for doing it. But just because she
met the standard doesn't mean she'll be able to fight effectively.
That's one thing. And then the other part of it
is that even if they do meet the standard. So

(34:58):
we talk about men and women throwing caution to the
wind right. I was a commander in a rear detachment
command while while I was in the process of being
medically retired after I got wounded in Afghanistan, and we
had some of the support units had men and women.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
They were integrated units, and the.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Unit deployed and I was back to My job was
to train new troops to go over take care of
wounded when they came home, and then knock on the
doors when families loft loved ones.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
It was the worst job in the world.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
But in some of our Special Troops battalions where there
were integrated units. Over time, and this isn't popular to say,
but it's the truth and people need to hear it,
women would come home and come home pregnant because no
one wants. Combat is the worst thing in the world.
And if you end up getting pregnant in combat, first

(35:46):
of all, you're immediately non deployable, and then they put
you out on it. I think they call it. Back
in the day, it was a chapter eight pregnancy chapter
because you couldn't. You've got another life inside of you,
and that life didn't volunteer to serve. But the other
part is did no special troops battalions. If twenty women
get pregnant, Well, guess what, that's.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
Ineffective.

Speaker 4 (36:05):
You're ineffective. Now you're completely in fact, and this is.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
This is like, this is not I'm not trying to
unduly place the burden on women and say that they're
the problem, because part of me, hey, this is an
all volunteer force. You know, I've got three, three amazing daughters.
If they kick ass and they take names and they
meet the standard, theoretically speaking, they should be able to
do what they want to do. But even if they
meet the standard, there are a litany of other challenges

(36:31):
and problems that arise. And again, I'm not trying to
blame unduly women for this, but you know, men can't
get pregnant, and it's.

Speaker 5 (36:41):
I I also, I really have to like challenge this
idea about meeting the standard.

Speaker 4 (36:45):
You just showed an example there.

Speaker 5 (36:47):
Another one is a friend of mine, Like a lot
of us, it depends what happens to you.

Speaker 4 (36:50):
Maybe you're just getting older, so.

Speaker 5 (36:53):
They you end up being like a you know, a
sergeant that's like a rain sergeant or something like that.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
Or you get sent to like.

Speaker 5 (37:01):
JFK Special warfare like my one body, and now you're
going to be in the selection process on the other
side of it, And.

Speaker 4 (37:09):
I mean, how could I put this?

Speaker 5 (37:11):
All?

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Right?

Speaker 5 (37:11):
So take that for instance. Selection is that it's not
like buds. When you get through Buds, you're done and
you have earned the right to continue in selection. You
can finish the entire course and the sergeants will still
say sorry, go through it again or try again next year.
Like you're not selected simply because you made it through
the entire time. And once upon a time, that's the

(37:34):
way it was. And what I was what was being
conveyed to me is there was a political pressure that
if they just made it through Sean through the twenty
one days, then that's it. They've been selected onto the
Q course with you. Well, that's not how this is
supposed to work. And so what wound up happening to him,
He just found up taking his twenty and going and
he was like, I just don't want to watch this anymore,

(37:55):
you know. So they lost him, even though he would
have spent forever as long as he was physically able,
he would have spent forever there and new soldiers would
have benefited from the knowledge he had. And now he's
gone because he's like, just you know, I just don't
feel comfortable with this.

Speaker 4 (38:10):
I feel like it's like an army. I it's not
my army anymore.

Speaker 5 (38:14):
And you know, once upon a time, you know, they
could shoot us down.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
You know, we could go through the land nev you
could do anything and.

Speaker 5 (38:22):
Do it what you think. You think you did it well,
but maybe I don't know. A week and a half
ago they saw you falling asleep before log pet and
you got marked off for it, and they're gonna make sure.
I think you're you're good, but you're not quite ready yet.
That's the standard. That's the real standard. It's not some
arbitrary thing where if she gets through in twenty one days,
she's in. It was never like that and now it is.

(38:45):
And there's there's like external pressures, you know, to to
kind of like turn a blind eye, and.

Speaker 4 (38:54):
That's not a quality anyway.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
We're just we're just denying reality. And yeah, and I
think when is on the line, we shouldn't do it.
And so much of what the Trump election, this this
historic election, was like let's let's let's bring back sanity,
bring back reality.

Speaker 4 (39:11):
Three times? Did Jason get recycled three?

Speaker 1 (39:14):
I got?

Speaker 5 (39:15):
I'm just thinking about my my buddy Jason, who got
recycled in SFAs three times.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
Nobody wondering s FAS means special Forces.

Speaker 4 (39:26):
Sorry, I'm talking to you.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
Yeah, he got.

Speaker 5 (39:30):
He was a great soldier, but he just couldn't get
land knapped down.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
He just couldn't do it all right.

Speaker 5 (39:36):
And they loved him so much that they let him
do it three times in a row, like.

Speaker 4 (39:42):
A two week hold over or something, you know.

Speaker 5 (39:44):
So like everybody, he was used to, you know, because
back then you went into basic, it was part of
one station unit, tracing the unit training what's called ohs it,
and then from osit you would if you weren't in
bending already, which most of them were you were. Oh,
I'm sorry, didn't they renamed Benning?

Speaker 4 (39:59):
My god.

Speaker 5 (40:00):
Anyway, you go from os It, you know, like sand
Hill or something up to you know the other side
of the base, which is where Airborne school is, and
then from Airborne you would go to Brag, so like
you would all go together and poor Jay, you know,
because he kept getting left behind.

Speaker 4 (40:15):
Everyone went on.

Speaker 5 (40:17):
From you know, you stay in Brag, but you leave
that part of the pipeline. And they liked him so much.
He was just such a nice guy and by all
accounts a great soldier every other way. Just had a
little bit of a kink with land nav and it's difficult.
A lot of people fail because of land nap and
there's no ranger beads. You don't get to like you know,
you have to do it. And they let him go through.

(40:39):
It was like unheard of back then. But I'm just
trying to think in my head, like the standard they
held Jason to, you know, which is not it does
it doesn't even exist anymore, you know. I mean that
was already a ridiculously high standard.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
You could.

Speaker 4 (40:55):
Let them through and say all right, but they they
didn't do it.

Speaker 5 (40:58):
To be me, They didn't compromise, thank you.

Speaker 4 (41:02):
That's what I'm looking They didn't.

Speaker 5 (41:03):
He was a great guy. Everyone liked him. He's a
good soldier every other way. He'll never drop the log.
He's got ingenuity, three tires on the jeep, nothing, he'll
stop him everything, you know, he does it all the
count the camel box carry for X number of miles.

Speaker 4 (41:17):
Whatever you throw at him, he's gonna do.

Speaker 5 (41:19):
But he just needed more time on land Nev and
they just didn't comprom They would not compromise that.

Speaker 4 (41:25):
And I just feel like, you know, Pete saying, we
got to get out.

Speaker 5 (41:28):
Of this idea where it's everything's a social experiment, everything's
about wokeness, and we.

Speaker 4 (41:33):
Got to get back to the warrior ethos.

Speaker 5 (41:35):
He didn't begrudge anyone for saying you're not selected this time.
He was like, I get it, I need more help
on land Nev. Well, you know he got ex warriors Ethos.

Speaker 4 (41:43):
That's worries.

Speaker 1 (41:44):
The hearing got.

Speaker 3 (41:45):
Really stupid when Herono started talking, I want to play
two pieces of sound. Yeah, my guy, I'm telling you.
It took everything. And I'll just say this. People in
the crowd, people in the press behind me were laughing
at her and the liberal press because it was just like,
it was surreal.

Speaker 1 (42:06):
The veterans.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
It took all the combat veterans that were sitting in
the back, they were all stunned by the level of stupidity.
You could hear you could hear their re I mean,
it was just one. You can hear them thinking how
dumb she was.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
So listen, listen, check out, would you use our military
to take over Greenland? Or an ally of Denmark?

Speaker 4 (42:35):
Senator.

Speaker 9 (42:35):
One of the things that President Trump is so good
at is never strategically tipping his hand, and so I
would never in this public forum give one way or
another direct orders the president in any context that.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Sounds to me that you would contemplate carrying out such
an order to basically invade Greenland and take over the
Panama Canal.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
Smiling just like Pete himself is trying not to laugh.
And then this one, this one, I'm telling you people,
people people like came this close to losing it. And
by the way, when you're in those hearings, you're not
allowed to make any you're not allowed to make any sense.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
I mean, it's a big deal. So listen, listen, listen
to this this is the next piece. It's just insane.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
In June of twenty twenty, then President Trump directed former
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to shoot protesters in the
legs in downtown d C. An order Secretary Esper refused
to comply with. Would you carry out such an order
from President Trump?

Speaker 4 (43:36):
Senator? I was in the Washington, d C.

Speaker 9 (43:39):
National Guard unit that was in Lafayette Square during those.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Would you carry out or to shoot protest in the legs?

Speaker 9 (43:46):
I saw few service agents to get injured by writers
trying to jump over the fence and say church on
fire and distruber.

Speaker 4 (43:54):
That sounds to me.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
That you will comply with such an order, you will
shoot protesters in the in the leg.

Speaker 5 (44:06):
My brother in Christ, this woman is one of the
stupidest people ever to be elected to the United States Senate.
She's like hank over there wondering how many troops it'll
take the tip over gwam.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
Let me start.

Speaker 4 (44:24):
Let me start with the first clip. There's no such
thing as an invasion of Greenland.

Speaker 5 (44:29):
Like I'm sitting there thinking, you will.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
Use the troops to invade Greenland and the Panama Canal.

Speaker 5 (44:39):
You know, it's so funny. A high ranking member of Parliament.

Speaker 4 (44:43):
Uh just told Fox.

Speaker 5 (44:45):
Earlier today that he's super stoked that Trump wants to
take Greenland, Like, yeah, the.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
Prime Minister of Greenland, Like they took a poll.

Speaker 4 (44:55):
High ranking member of parliament.

Speaker 5 (44:57):
It's like, you know what, we haven't gotten this much
attention years.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
This is great.

Speaker 4 (45:01):
I'm so glad he wants to talk to us.

Speaker 5 (45:04):
They're ridiculous, they are, I mean, they're just unseerious people.
So it's gonna be hard for the American public to
take them seriously. You know, I told people this today
on the show, Like the Democratic donor class and those
who fund their salaries are in total disarray. And I

(45:24):
feel like Democrats are usually very good at being opposition
and because of this chaos that's going on right now
behind the scenes with Democrats, which is not being reported
that much and really.

Speaker 4 (45:36):
Should be because it's huge.

Speaker 5 (45:38):
I mean, we have bundlers fleeing the Democratic Party to
raise money for Trump right now, trying to get inauguration invites.
I'm not kidding, like that's happening. But also they're just
a lot of very angry people who were told to
give lots of money because Florida was gonna be close. Like, so,
nobody's really doing what is normally done, and they're a
well oiled machine. And I feel like even the staffers

(45:59):
in DC, you're not preparing the senators. Well they're not,
you know, doing the gotcha moments.

Speaker 3 (46:05):
And then there's another I mean, listen, those those questions
seemed like they were written by twenty something staffords, and
they were. They were honestly so dumb and like lit's
so I got to show you Tim Kane, who don't
know why they.

Speaker 4 (46:19):
Lost the election, by the way, which is an important and.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
Absolutely absolutely so, Tim Kane. Tim Kane comes in, Melanie
looks at me and she goes. He looks like an
unmade bed, Like he looks like he did.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
You see what I wrote?

Speaker 5 (46:31):
Comb your hair, Senator for crying out loud, comb your hair.

Speaker 4 (46:35):
You're a freaking disgrace.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
So listen, listen.

Speaker 3 (46:39):
So the policy stuff, the inexperienced stuff, none of that
was working. So Caine trots out this stuff completely cleared.

Speaker 10 (46:46):
Can you so casually cheat on a second wife and
cheat on the mother of a child who had been
born two months before and you.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
Tell us you were completely cleared? So how is that
a complete clear.

Speaker 9 (46:57):
Senator heard the child's name is Gwendolen Hope, heg Seth
and she's a child of God and she's seven.

Speaker 10 (47:03):
Years old and she was and you cheated on the
mother of that child less than two months after that
daughter was born, didn't you.

Speaker 9 (47:11):
Those were false charges. Well, no, fully investigated and I
was completely cleared.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
And he was so first of all, shame on Tim
Kad for keeping his cool.

Speaker 5 (47:21):
Yeah, because as a man, I'll tell you, God bless Pete.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
Well, I'm telling you, I mean, it was it was
a ridiculous line of questioning. It was out of line.
I mean, because Pete's exactly right. There were out of
line anonymous allegations. It was absolutely ridiculous. This is what
the Democrats do. This is right out of their playbook.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
You know.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
They just they have nothing else against an America first
effective conservative.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
They just character assassinate Obty skated that.

Speaker 5 (47:49):
Story, like the facts of that anonymous story, how he
was obvious skating that he was just out like cheating
as opposed to this one who accused him of sexual assault.
And it's like whatever they're throwing, you know what against
the wall to see what sticks. And let me just
see this This is a man who accepted the nomination
for vice president from Hillary Rodham Clinton, and he.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
Has the audacity to talk about infidelity.

Speaker 5 (48:17):
You know, you gotta you gotta give it to some
of these Republican senators of course.

Speaker 4 (48:22):
Mark Wayne McMullen, Oh, let me play that.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
Mark Wayne mullin, Mark Wayne Waller's response to this, check
this out. I mean, I know, and folks listen, who
are listening. I know we're spending a lot of time
on the hexeth here, but we had we got to
so it's it's just it's just so important. So okay,
check out Mark May Mark waynemullin, who is, by the way,
the highlight of the day for me in there him
responding to what Tim Kaine.

Speaker 11 (48:43):
Did getting some advice from my command. But I'm just
I'm just making a point because there's a lot about qualifications.
I think it's so hypocritical of senators, especially on the
other side. I'll be talking about his qualifications not going
to lead the secretary or be the Secretary of Defense,
and yet your qualifications aren't any better. You guys aren't

(49:05):
any more qualified to be the senator than I'm qualified
to be the Center except we're.

Speaker 1 (49:08):
Lucky enough to be here.

Speaker 11 (49:10):
But let me read you what the qualifications of the
Secretary of Defense is, because I googled it and I
googled it and went through a lot of different sites,
and really it's hard to see. But in general, the
US Secretary of Defense position is filled by a civilian.

Speaker 1 (49:23):
That's it. If you have served in the.

Speaker 11 (49:25):
US Army Forces, and I've been in the service for
you have to be retired for at least seven years,
and Congress can can weigh that. And then there's questions
that the senator from from Massachusetts brought up about serving
on a board inside the military industry, and yet your

(49:49):
own secretaries. You all voted for Secretary of Austin. We
had to vote on a waiver because he stepped off
the border raytheon. But I guess that's okay because that's
a Democrat secretary of Defense. But so quickly forget about that,
and then Senator Kane or I guess I better use
the senator from Virginius starts bringing up the fact that

(50:10):
what if you showed up.

Speaker 4 (50:11):
Drunk to your job?

Speaker 11 (50:14):
How many Senators have showed up drunk to vote at night?
Have any of you guys asked them to step down
and resign for their job. And don't tell me you
haven't seen it, because I know you have. And then
how many senators do you know have got a divorce
before cheating on their wives? Did you ask them to
step down?

Speaker 3 (50:35):
No?

Speaker 1 (50:36):
But it's for show, you guys.

Speaker 11 (50:38):
Make sure you make a big show and point out
the hypocrisy because the man's made a mistake and you
want to sit there and say that he's not qualified.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
Give me a joke. It is so ridiculous that you.

Speaker 11 (50:51):
Guys hold yourself as this higher standard and you forget
you got a big plank in your eye. We've all
made mistakes. I've made mistakes, and Jennifer, thank you for
love him through that mistake, because.

Speaker 1 (51:03):
He really did.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
He just called out their dishonesty and hypocrisy. And it
was necessary because you know, there was just a canteena
that was opened in Congress where they can have bottle
service delivered to their offices. These senators, I mean, look,
it's not even like a controversy. After hours, they go
they go to events, they've got fundraisers, there's beer there. Oh,

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they get called back to the floor for a late
night vote. And they're voting while they're.

Speaker 4 (51:30):
Drunk, and some of them have drinking problems. All right,
let's not pretend like they don't. This is Jimmy Swagger
level hypocrisy. My friend and Tim.

Speaker 3 (51:40):
Kain campaign with Doug Emhoff who got a nanny pregnant
and made her get an abortion. Yeah, didn't have any
problem with any of that. Tim Kaine also backed Bill
Clinton when he ran for president, and we all know
about Bill Clinton. So Mark Wayne Mullen is right. This
is all ridiculous hypocrisy. And the only reason and they're
doing it is because they're trying to what they wanted

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out of this rich was they wanted to sink Pete
Haig Seth and and immediately in the aftermath, they're they're
focus grouping.

Speaker 5 (52:10):
This is that's yes, Yes, because they're gonna go to
next grouping.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
Yeah, they're focus grouping what works and what's not.

Speaker 3 (52:17):
And and you know what the audience is reacting to
is what a Democrat senator saying backfiring. And then they
choose whether or not to ratchet up the attacks against
subsequent cabinet nominees. And that's why Pete hitting it out
of the park paved the way for everybody else, like
am Bondy who's hearing today?

Speaker 1 (52:37):
Ratcliffe?

Speaker 3 (52:38):
Who's hearing was today? Marco Rubio, I think Walker the
Secretary of Energy. I mean a lot, but there was.

Speaker 4 (52:43):
A lot of hearings, all knocked it out of the park,
by the way.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
All killing it. Rich, They're all killing it.

Speaker 5 (52:48):
And I gotta you know, I gotta tell you, it's
not easy to do what Mark, just what the senator did.
It's not easy because they hate it when you call
at like you're supposed to keep these secrets.

Speaker 8 (53:03):
I swear he was.

Speaker 4 (53:04):
Channeling the people's punnit with that stuff. Man, you're to
eat these secrets.

Speaker 5 (53:09):
You are not supposed to tell the American public let
them peek behind that curtain. And he did and it
was just like, you know what, forget you know for
this is a show. And that was like probably my
favorite line because he said it is, guys, this is
a show at home. And that ultimately is what hexick

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nomination is about as well. It's that if you are
a member of their club, then they will look the
other way with everything. If you are not, they will
try to as hypocritical as it is, it doesn't matter
that they live in a glasshouse. They will throw those
stones and they will derail you and somebody. I mean,
eventually that show has to be put to an end.
Like that show. Someone's got to close that show down.

(53:53):
And that's what's happening here, which is great because you know, frankly,
this is why good people don't serve. This is why
no one you're right thought, he is perfect. If you
know what I know of one perfect person. He died
two thousand years ago. Nobody is perfect aside from him.

Speaker 4 (54:10):
And that's it.

Speaker 5 (54:11):
I mean, so you know, to hold each other up
to those standards. Like he said, well he's the Democrat,
so we're all supposed to look the other way. He
gets a waiver because he was on braytheon there was
really one thing that every senator should be concerned about,
and it never even made it to light, and that
is there's he reads out the qualifications for the Secretary
of Defense. There's one thing that should be disqualifying. Do

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you believe in civilian control of the US military. She's
over there talking about whether or not Pete wood Or
would not disobey the sovereign executive the civilian power.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
That's a great point of course you.

Speaker 5 (54:49):
Of course we don't want somebody disobeying the sovereign. He
is the extension of the sovereign. Voter or she if
she is elected one day, their decision, their dicta is
what matters. If we have a Mark Esper running around
disobeying the sovereign, then we don't really have a representative government.

Speaker 4 (55:12):
So what is she? She's totally backward with her thinking.

Speaker 5 (55:15):
And that's how somebody likes like Lloyd Austin not only
on raytheon needing a waiver. This is a man who,
on multiple occasions throughout multiple times of his professional career,
has stated, without even worrying about blowback, that he doesn't
believe in civilian control of the military. That is the
only thing that we should be asking people like first
and foremost when they're nominated to be Secretary of Defense,

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do you or do you not believe in civilian control?

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Coveraged on this?

Speaker 3 (55:42):
You know, lots of people have lots of coverage on this,
heg seth hearing. I think that was the best point
I've heard anybody make. And you know, when I heard
her talking about that, I recoil because intrinsically, I well, God,
what she's asking is like, will you disobey a direct
order from a president?

Speaker 4 (56:01):
Yeah, like where you engage in sedition?

Speaker 1 (56:04):
What are you asking?

Speaker 3 (56:05):
I mean if the president, if the president, you know,
the president sets all foreign policy and all national security.
He's the commander in chief. If he thinks that by
acquiring Greenland through diplomatic means, or if he thinks just
acquiring Greenland as in general, is what is best the
best thing to do to keep America safe. And by

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the way, Greenland is critically important. Scot Tons natural resources,
the maritime shipping lanes north of Greenland, Russia, China, they're
operating there. We can't afford to have the Russian and
Chinese navy control those shipping lanes this close.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
To our northern border.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
So I'm just saying there are a million reasons why
Greenland is important. And if the America, if an American
president in this case Donald Trump, says we got to
have that, well, guess what the American people voted for
him put.

Speaker 1 (56:53):
It off direct that that's the directive.

Speaker 5 (56:56):
And by the way, the last time, Senator somebody did
the way that you are suggesting, you would like to
see Pete Act Joe Kent's wife was killed because.

Speaker 4 (57:06):
They didn't end the damn operation.

Speaker 5 (57:09):
When the executive elected by the public, the sovereign voter,
gave Madis and the rest of them a directive, they
ignored it, and that little side war they were running
continued until Joe Kent's wife was killed in action.

Speaker 4 (57:24):
She would have been home safe with her children, safe.

Speaker 5 (57:27):
With her children if this government, which is totally out
of control, didn't think that it knew.

Speaker 4 (57:34):
Better than you.

Speaker 5 (57:36):
And that is ultimately a terrifying thing to hear come
out of the mouth of a Senator Sean Jemmy.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
Terrifying. Did you notice what we did with the letters?

Speaker 3 (57:44):
Because what we knew that there were going to be
We knew the Democrat angles of attack. You knew it
was going to be about inexperience and via financial mismanagement
of these nonprofits. So what we did was get letters
from say, the CFO of Vets for Freedom, where a
Democrat would make false allegations against pete OI financially mismanaged
Vets for Freedom and drove them into debt. Blah blah blah,

(58:06):
basically echoing all of these crazy radical leftist media hit
jobs that are all anonymous, by the way, and then
a Republican senator would pick up a letter that was
damped and notarized and signed with the name attached to
it and say I was the COO or the CFO
for Vets for Freedom. And there Pete was actually fantastic.
There was no financial mismanagement. After every one of their

(58:27):
lines of attack, there was a letter by a Republican
senator refuting that on the record, the dams had nothing.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
They had nothing. They didn't land a single punch.

Speaker 5 (58:38):
My friend, and Wicker said something that was just so brilliant.
It seems to me that he has more experience running, uh, you.

Speaker 4 (58:47):
Know, as an executive than anybody in this room.

Speaker 5 (58:49):
And yet they hold themselves, they hold themselves as you know,
the job that they have. Let me put it this way, folks,
they themselves see as like a prerequisite to run the presidency.

Speaker 4 (59:02):
All right, Barack Obama didn't run a lemonade stand before.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
He was an That's another great point.

Speaker 1 (59:09):
That's another give.

Speaker 4 (59:11):
Me a break, and they handed him the keys to
the White House.

Speaker 5 (59:14):
I have no problem forty something years old, go to town.

Speaker 1 (59:18):
It's a great point.

Speaker 3 (59:20):
That's what you show, it is, my god, that's another
great point that I haven't heard anybody else make This
is why we have you here, man.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
This is why you gotta do the between the numbers stuff.

Speaker 3 (59:30):
You can't listen, man, this is this is like whether
it's with you or Brian Dean Wright or Daniel Turner.
I only have like the same and maybe Steve Friend,
I think Steve Friend now, but I very rarely have
the same people on. And I don't like to just
pigeonhole you talk about the polls like you offer a
lot more than that. So between the numbers is really

(59:50):
it's a great idea. I mean, to the extent that
you can manage it. I think you should do it,
because you've got some good takes.

Speaker 1 (59:56):
Man.

Speaker 5 (59:56):
I appreciate that, and I did by the way I
saw in that earlier today.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
I do.

Speaker 5 (01:00:02):
I just think a lot of this stuff falls through
the crack sean, you know, and we get hung up
in some of the not some of like the most
unserious elements these discussions, and it just slips the All
of the things that we should care about just slip through,
you know. And I think that even I'm getting a
little worried that some even like alternative media, are starting

(01:00:24):
to do someone.

Speaker 4 (01:00:25):
It's it's an easy trap, you know, it's it really is.
It's an easy trap.

Speaker 5 (01:00:29):
It gets it gets showy after a while, and people
want to entertain. But it's like, guys, the real danger
for a Secretary of Defense is not some guy who
may pull a bottle of bourbon out of his desk
at four o'clock or five o'clock. I hate to tell
you all, but they basically all did that and do
that all right, I want to break anybody's bubble here, Okay.

Speaker 4 (01:00:52):
That's not the danger.

Speaker 5 (01:00:53):
The danger is not whether or not somebody winds up,
you know, having an affairs. The danger is whether or
not a man who is now in charge or a
woman who is now in charge of the biggest bureaucracy,
the biggest behemoth like bureaucratic structure ever in the history
of the world, listens.

Speaker 4 (01:01:12):
To the president who's elected by the people.

Speaker 5 (01:01:15):
That is what is at stake here, Or is it
somebody like Mark Esper who turned out to be professionally
unethical and somebody whose loyalty did not lie with the
American public, but in fact lied with that bureaucracy. The
fear here is that a agency of bureaucracy, any of

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these departments. They have grown so big that if we
want to continue to have the quality of life that
we have, if we want to continue to have the
freedoms that we have, we have to have people in
these positions who understand that the president is the extension
of you. And if they think they know better, their
bureaucracy puts so much pressure on them and they start

(01:01:56):
to do.

Speaker 4 (01:01:57):
Stupid shit, folks, like we have been doing for decades.
This all falls apart.

Speaker 5 (01:02:03):
That is at its core why we are having the
problems that we are having. And I'm not going to
bring it up, but you know, Trump is going to
be president here in a couple of days. I hope
to God that he goes through with some of his promises,
and it's going to be ugly for the country to learn.
But I think the country needs to confront how bad
this government has been and acted in the last six

(01:02:25):
and a half decades, you know, seven decades, like we
have got to confront it because we have to make
sure that we start to roll it back and it
doesn't happen again. You know, they got to a point
where they knew better than you that they could run
this thing without directions from you, without your input, without
whether they don't care whether or not you elect somebody

(01:02:46):
they disapprove, they try to get rid of them.

Speaker 4 (01:02:48):
They don't care.

Speaker 5 (01:02:49):
They just go on and can know what, start another
war without your authority? How many wars have been started
or conflicts have been started without your consent? I mean,
this is a very important question.

Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
And is he going to do that? That's it? Is
he going to behave like them?

Speaker 10 (01:03:05):
You know?

Speaker 5 (01:03:05):
And that's I think too, very important that this battle
was that important because you need somebody to like Pete,
to tell the American public that, Okay, you elected me
to do this, and look, I'm serious. Look why I
appointed as a Secretary of Defense. And I'm standing behind
him and I'm going to make sure he gets in
there because I'm serious and I will carry out what

(01:03:25):
I said I'm going to carry out.

Speaker 4 (01:03:26):
That's why this fight was so important, guys.

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
Really, that's why we're spending so much time on it.
It's everything.

Speaker 4 (01:03:32):
It's huge, It's so big.

Speaker 5 (01:03:33):
I mean, is there anything more important in the MAGA movement?
You know, anything more appealing to all of these voters
Republicans cannot win, then this idea that the ruling class
cares more about like oversea wars, overseas wars, and the
interest corporations and big behemoths, right, more than they care
about you.

Speaker 4 (01:03:53):
Right, bad trade deals. So basically Trumpet said something many
years ago.

Speaker 5 (01:03:58):
You know that they ship your jobs overseas and or
they ship your kids overseas and your jobs to China,
and that is like, it's guys, I really you can't
send make one statement that encapsulates why Trump appeals to
and his agenda appeals to the American public better than that.

Speaker 4 (01:04:19):
That really is it? So one huge part of that.

Speaker 5 (01:04:22):
Shown is the war policy, is foreign policy. It's a
huge element of that message.

Speaker 4 (01:04:29):
And you just can't. You cannot have a repeat of seventeen.

Speaker 5 (01:04:32):
It had to be somebody like Pete and he had
to be He had to get through, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:04:37):
I mean, it's that's it. He has to It's like
there is no other option here. It's that important.

Speaker 1 (01:04:43):
Yep. I agree. So what's your prediction for the rest
of his cabinet picks?

Speaker 5 (01:04:48):
I think that uh Gabbard probably would be the one
who has the most difficult time. But I got to
tell you, as time goes on, these nominations act like snowballs,
and when they're punching, don't land and.

Speaker 4 (01:05:01):
More than they look ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (01:05:03):
You may even get a Democrat, by the way, who
peels away and votes for one of them here and there.
You know, it gets more difficult for them to mount
this resistance because there's something going on too that I
tried to tell the view of this viewers this earlier.
There was something Democrats understood that I think a lot
of Republicans didn't in twenty seventeen, they understood.

Speaker 4 (01:05:22):
Okay, they voted for change, but I don't think they're
ready for it.

Speaker 5 (01:05:24):
Change comes with instability, comes with volatility, and I think
if we rock the vote enough, we could hurt this guy,
you know, and we can install them.

Speaker 4 (01:05:32):
And that's what they did this time.

Speaker 1 (01:05:34):
It's different.

Speaker 4 (01:05:35):
The public knows exactly what they voted for. They understand
what they voted for.

Speaker 5 (01:05:40):
So you have the only question about why you would
ever challenge these people. Is the president of the judgment
to make the right decision with these posts. And Pete
did him such a lovely going out there and acquit
himself the way that he did, because it just took
away all that entire argument you know, the President's judgment

(01:06:01):
was right. This guy can do this job, you know,
so it'll get more difficult for them to object to
that going forward. So, I mean, anything can happen, like
you said, but I think he's gonna steam roll them.

Speaker 3 (01:06:12):
I'm doing you too, my friend, I do too, So
Savage Rich, tell us, tell us where we can find you,
my friend.

Speaker 5 (01:06:19):
As always, the best place, folks is on locals People's
punyin locals dot com.

Speaker 3 (01:06:24):
All right, give my best to Savage Laura and all
those always right. It was great to get Savage Laura's opinion.
We should have another microphone for so when she wants
to jump in, you can, you can, you can.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
We can hear it. We don't have to see her,
but we can hear her.

Speaker 5 (01:06:39):
You notice she's she's getting more antsy.

Speaker 4 (01:06:44):
It's working, it's working.

Speaker 1 (01:06:46):
Give her a microphone and look out you.

Speaker 4 (01:06:49):
Five days is inauguration day, folks. Don't let her forget
about the promise she made to you if Trump is elected.
She's popping on well, that's true, that's true. Inauguration day.
Don't let her forget. She's looking good too. She's got
no excuse.

Speaker 5 (01:07:06):
Here's she comes she's in her cooking, apron, I love
this woman. She's so a horrible You should show them
the cooking.

Speaker 4 (01:07:18):
It's horrible. Oh you're the best, Laura, you really are.

Speaker 5 (01:07:22):
We need to microphone, Sean says, what do you think.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
She's obviously she says, I'll take a microphone. But you
can't handle me.

Speaker 5 (01:07:34):
She says, she's gonna be Dailly content every day.

Speaker 1 (01:07:41):
Maybe you know, tells me that she's right.

Speaker 4 (01:07:44):
Probably I'm a little scared. I'm a little scared.

Speaker 5 (01:07:50):
But yeah, I just think though that she just said
she was looking forward to Tulsie too, because this is
a woman who absolutely demolished Kamala Harris's entire run for
president and too so true.

Speaker 4 (01:08:01):
She made a good point earlier, like they think they're
gonna lay a glove on this woman. She roasted Kamala
Harris on the debate stage. What are they gonna do?
Make her a Russian turner into a Russian agent?

Speaker 5 (01:08:11):
Yeah, and she does being a Democrat. Yeah, it's a
good point. Maybe wasn't she the co chair or under
w Washerman Schultz? She was like the vice chair of
the Democratic Party. You know that maybe that's what they're
really afraid of Laura. Maybe that's what they're really save
her for last, for last.

Speaker 4 (01:08:37):
Yeah, they did great.

Speaker 1 (01:08:38):
They were all amazing, man, they were all amazing. So
see you next.

Speaker 5 (01:08:42):
Week as always, my friend, best to you and your staying.

Speaker 4 (01:08:45):
Warm over there.

Speaker 5 (01:08:46):
Throw a snowball for me, buddy thrown.

Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
We will all right, Savage Ridge Bears, Thanks brothers, see
you later. That's Savage Rich Bearris the best polster in
the business. We're really lucky to have him on the show.
He's always very gracious.

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With his time.

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