Department of WAR

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now the news that I'm going to get to here,
I wanted to talk about this the Department of War. Man,
that just sounds manly, doesn't it. A few weeks back,
when the announcement was made that the Department of Defense
is now the Department of War even though we're not

(00:20):
in a war, I said, this is kind of a
dumb thing for us to care and worry about. And
I said that, you know, truly believing it. You know,
what the Department of Defense can do is the same
thing as the Department of War can do. It's about
the people that are in there and the leadership that exists.

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It has nothing to do with the actual name. Right.
We talk about this all the time. Now. I know
this may not be a perfect analogy because the Benson
Bunnies haven't actually won a whole lot in football over
the last several years. But just because they're called the
Bunnies doesn't mean that they're not like capable of being
really good at sports. Right. He's like, just because a

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team has a sissy sounding name doesn't mean like they
can't be really good at the sport in which they play.
The Chicago Cubs are a good example. The Cubs just
want a playoff game against the Padres. Now, neither of
those things are like that formidable. A cub is a
baby bear, a Padre is a friar. He's like a

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Catholic priest guy, right, like of Spanish heritage. These are
not like I hate to be this guy. But it's
just like the name means nothing, Like we don't associate
with the name as much as we associate with the
actual product on the field. Now, use that analogy for
the Department of War, Department of Defense is still to

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me like it didn't make sense. But Secretary of War
Pete haig Seth today did a big, big speech at
the Marine Corps based Quantico, and based on what he
is saying, and again, I don't care about Pete haig Seth.

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I didn't care about Pete haig Seth before the whole
bit happened to him being suggested as the Secretary of
Defense and now Secretary of War. Right, he's a TV
guy and there are a lot of people that had
a problem with him because he's been accused of you know,
sexual misconduct, alcoholism. He's been pretty open about some of

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the things that he's battled with in the past, but
I care now because he is the Secretary of War, right.
So what the story is here is I think I've
changed my mind on this, not that I still don't
think the name doesn't really matter, but the name matters

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if you're going to try to change the way are
looked at from the people who are involved in this department.
I say this as like, think about being at a
school and your principal leaves, and then all of a sudden,
like a new principal comes in the old principal. Maybe
this happened to me in elementary school. The principal was

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a female. She was blonde. She was very nice. She
you know, didn't do anything that you know, like she
felt when you're a nine year old third grader. She
felt like somebody you could talk to. She didn't feel
super intimidating. By the time I got to fifth grade,
she was leaving and going to her next adventure, whatever

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that was. The new principal was this guy who was
a football coach and he was bald, and he was
he could be really loud, and there was a moment
there was just like, man, I felt like I was
already a good kid, but man, we better shape up
as like a class, because the last thing I want
is this guy to be mad at us, and even
me already being when I thought a good kid, the

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last thing I wanted was to get sent to the
principal's office and have to talk to this guy. Right. Well,
that's kind of what is happening here in the Department
of War. Pete Haygseth here's a quote from today. We're
training warriors, not defenders. We fight wars to win, not
to defend. Defense is something you do all the time.

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It's inherently reactionary and can lead to overuse, overreach, and
mission creep. War is something you do sparingly on our
own terms and with clear aims. I mean, that's Pete
Hayseth was in broadcasting, so he can speak. But the
articulation of this all of a sudden makes you seem like,

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you know what, I kind of like the approach. Here.
Here's another thing that he said. We fight to win.
We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We
also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie
the hands of our war fighters to intimidate, to moralize, hunt,
and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically

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correct and overbearing rules of engagement, just common sense, maximum lethality,
and authority for war fighters. Now this can be controversial,
right because you're talking about I think the rules of
engagement war crimes, doing things that might be frowned upon
as far as the rest of the world may be concerned.

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I don't think it's a smart thing to just actively
be looking to try to defy those rules. But you
do have to in some way empower an aggressive and
assertive mindset if we do, in any way, shape or form,
find ourselves in a combative war directly, something that I
still hope that Pete Haigsith and everybody in the administration

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would be looking at all costs to avoid. But the
idea of hey, if we're going to be utilizing war
and we are going to be fighting, we want people
to be intimidated by it. And this goes back to
him talking about we don't want people who are transgender
to be in the military, right, which, if you want

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to volunteer and you want to volunteer and be a
part of this military, everybody's like, well, you should be
allowed to do that. It's like, Okay, what kind of
military do you want? To have. I want to be
a professional football player too. You think if I lined
up as a tight end or a wide receiver, you
think the guy on the other side look at me?

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Or if I was a defensive player, do you think
they would be super intimidated. Not a chance. They'd laugh
at it. That put in their mind like, I'm going
to win this. Why would people mess with us because
they think they might be able to win? If you
don't have the cajones to stand up and say, if
you mess with me, you're gonna get to horns. Just

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by the way that you carry yourself, you could actually
avoid through strength, and just the optics of strength, you
could avoid all sorts of conflicts in the future. Actually
makes some sense when you articulate it this way. He
also said every member of the Joint Force at every
rank is required to take a test twice a year,
as well as meet height and weight requirements twice a

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year every year of service, and members of the Joint
Force will be required to do physical training every duty day.
And this is a standard that a lot of units
already have, but this is going to be across the board,
and he said he's going to do it too. His
quote today, if the Secretary of War can do regular
hard pt that's physical training, so could every member of

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our joint force. So basically, you got to be in shape.
You got to be ready to go, no matter what
your rank is, no matter what your job is, you
have to be in shape and ready to go. Man,
I wish the country kind of went back to that.
Remember your gym classes when they used to make you
be physically shaped in shape and you had to climb
ropes and do pull ups and all that stuff. They
haven't done that because they don't want kids to feel
bad anymore. I think country probably be in a better

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place if we had kind of made that a thing
that people had to worry about. Send stuff in our
faces with carbs and caalaries and not caring about what
physical shape that we're in, even if we're not in
the military. Maybe it would be a good example for
our military to show the rest of America. We want
to be a country that acts and looks like this.
And this isn't to say people who are out of

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shape or anything there's anything wrong with you, but it
would be good for our kids to have goals to
set us up for future success, not just in war
and military wise, but just to be a healthier country.
RFK Junior is trying to do his work in the
Health Human Services Department. Guess what Pete Haik says, trying
to do that work within the military. It's hard for
me to be upset about it, honestly, and the standards

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that are being elevated. It's kind of like that bald headed,
big robust football coach taken over as the principle of
an elementary school. All of a sudden, you feel like
you have to be even more in line