November 13, 2024 • 38 mins
Pete Hegseth as our Secretary of War. Jesse was right. Trying to right the ship the polite way wont get you anywhere. What happened to our military? What we used to do to commanders that screwed up. Failure after failure in the military for decades and no one ever gets punished.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
This is a Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse
Kelly Show. Let's have some fun on a Wednesday, And
oh boy, what a Wednesday. It has been the amount
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of news that has dropped in the last twenty four
hours about the incoming Trump administration, the new Senate leader,
all that is just it's going to be difficult to
pack all this into the next three hours of The
Jesse Kelly Show, but we will do it. So that's
what we have on tap for tonight. I'm going to
address these things. I'll tell you what. I'm gonna address
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these things in order. I'm gonna give it to you
right now. How long I'm gonna take on each one,
I don't know. But we are going to talk first
and foremost about Pete hag Seth being potentially Secretary of Defense.
Remember all these are potential until they're confirmed by the Senate.
Then we're gonna talk about Matt Gates. Donald Trump appoints
Congressman Well, annoyance, I don't know what you want to say.
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Puts up Congressman Matt Gates up to be the next
day g again banking on a Senate process. And then
Tausea Gabbart for Director of National Intelligence. We will get
to a little bit of the Senate leadership race. That
ship has kind of already sailed. We'll get to that.
We will. We'll talk about the evils of the Biden
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administration and what they did DEI wise, what the future is. First,
I do think before we go any further and we
dig into this Secretary of Defense thing, a lot of
you love this stuff, a lot of you hate it.
I do think we should do something that's really, really,
really important. Let's make sure we're always keeping the most
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important thing first. The most important thing is acknowledging and
praising me when I call things ahead of time, as
only an oracle can do. You see what, Chris, it's fine, Chris,
it's fine. Don't quit. You see back in February of
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this year. February of this year, that's almost a year ago.
This guy, Jesse Kelly, who might be an oracle, he
said this, the list of potential replacements is really bad.
It is. Yes, there is a chance a more conservative
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upstart like Rick Scott can mount some sort of a
revolution within the Senate GOP and maybe takeover. That's probably
about the best we could hope for. But the truth
is there have been a couple guys who've been gunning
for this leadership spot for a long time, sucking up
to Mitch McConnell, proving to the DC swamp that they're
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team players, of course, that they all play ball. And
those two names are John Cornyn, he's much less likely,
and John Thune, John Thune, john Thune from the blood
red state. John Thune, who should have been primary forever ago.
But of course he's handsome and speaks very well on TV,
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so the moron GOP primary voter goes out and votes
for him every time. John Thune's probably going to be
our next Senate minority or majority leader. Ah, almost a
year ago. Feels good to be Chris. Is there anything
you'd like to say before we get into the rest
of the show to me or I hate my job?
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Is not what I was looking for, Chris? Do you
have anything any way to acknowledge your hero anyway? Let's
set that aside and let's talk about good things. Pete
Hank Seth, Matt Gates, Tulsey Gabbard talk about first Let's
let's set the table, shall we, and let's talk about disruptors.
Have you ever have you ever seen anything about these
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civilian boot camps. I'll tell you I actually went through.
I was talking to a guy about this recently. In fact,
the last fishing trip I did with my dad. You
remember I told you we went fishing the day before
he died. We actually got a guide to help us
get into some redfish. Now, not a fancy guide here again,
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just the local guys. Louisiana guy, a guy we already knew. Hey,
give you cup hundred bucks, get us out there, get
us into some red fish. Let the kids get some
red fish. Anyway, It's great, dude, But we're out there,
and we're friends with this guy. So we're out there,
we're just gabbing about life, and he started talking about
one of his sons. One of his sons lost his mind. Really,
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I don't mean lost his mind, lost his mind, but
he his kid hit his sixteen seventeen year old years
and really really lost his way, started abusing booze, running
around with the wrong crowd, getting super defiant at home.
Grades fell Off went from being an elite athlete to
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a bomb. He just was really blowing his life up
as young men are wont to do, and was turning
into a disaster. And then one night, believe me, all
this is going coming back to politics, stay with me.
One night he steps up to his father. He was
back talking his mom. His dad stepped in and said,
don't you talk to your mom like that, And he
bows up to his father and threatens to beat up
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his dad puts a finger in his chest. Okay, So
crisis situation in the family, right, crisis situation, you should note,
quick side note. I went home and promptly told my
sons if they ever stick a finger in my chest
or talk back to their mother, no one will ever
see them again. So they are very very clear on
how that works in my house. All that aside, that
family operated a little differently, and they were in a crisis.
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They didn't want their boy to lose his mom. What
do you do? Where do you go? Where do you turn?
They decided on a boot camp, not a military boot
camp per se. But I'm sure you've seen these behavioral
boot camps, I guess I'll put it that way. That
are always run by former military guys, and they're a
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living hell on the troubled young men and women. This
is for young boys and girls, oftentimes who got in
trouble with the law or whatnot. You take a troubled
youth and you yank them out of their environment, and
you put them through hell, the hell of boot camp,
and they come out the other end, not always but
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oftentimes completely turned around. It is, by the way, you
should know. I'll go and spoil the end of this
guy's story. His son straight a's elite athlete again on
his way to college. Girlfriend he's going to marry, doesn't
disrespect his parents boom, night and day. So what did
that look like? Well, three in the morning one night,
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Dad goes to the front door, unlocks it, and opens
up the door for two very very loud, very large,
very frightening men who stormed into his son's room, kicked
in his door at three am, screamed at him to
the point he was shaking in his underwear. They thought
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he was going to pee himself. And then they dragged
him out of that house in the middle of the night,
threw him in the back of a truck and carted
him off to a living hell of boot camp, where
he was screamed at, worked out where he was cleaning
toilets with toothbrushes. You know that old boot camp stuff.
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His life was made a living hell, and on the
back end of that, his life was turned around. In
order to change the direction of people, of organizations, of
nations that are on a bad path, oftentimes a disruptor
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is necessary. And the problem we have and the problem
we are going to have now as we try to
write this ship as a country is we want we
want the change right. We want things to turn around.
I want the military to do better. I want them
to be like they used to be. I want the
intelligence community to be like they used to be. I
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want the Justice Department to turn things around. Jesse, I'm
with you. I want to write the ship only I
want to I want to do it politely. Oh oh,
not with him. Ooh he's icky. Oh not not that guy. No,
that guy has a he has a tattoo. Oh gosh,
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this guy. Ooh he's got a criminal record. This guy. No,
we can't use that guy. He's too obnoxious. Oh, Jesse,
not him, not him, not him. Oh wait, not him.
We want the disruptor to fix things, but we don't
want the disruptor to disrupt. You don't change the young
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man's life. You don't change it forever. You don't improve
it forever politely. You don't do it by doing the
things you've always done. You don't do it by pouring
him an extra bowl of Captain crunch possibly with crunchberries
in the morning. If you want to change your life,
the life of your child, if you need to radically
change the path you are on, then you are going
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to need a disruption that is uncomfortable, uncomfortable. It is
time for you and me to get comfortable being uncomfortable
when it comes to Pete Hegseth, And I'm going to
be in there when it comes to Pete Hegseath. You
have all these people they're looking at it. Wait a minute.
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He was just a major. He wasn't even a general.
He was on Fox News on the weekend. He wasn't this,
He wasn't that. We need somebody who knows Jesse. He
doesn't know what he's doing, Jesse. He doesn't have the experience.
You know who has had the experience. You know who
was a general. You know who was an amirl. Every
single weapons grade loser who's destroyed the United States military
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for the last thirty forty years, they've all been generals.
They've all been abrals, they've all been in the defense industry,
they've all been over on Washington forever. They all knew
what they were doing. So do you want change? Radical change? Well,
radical change disruption is going to be uncomfortable and we're
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going to dig into a lot of that. In fact,
that'll be the show tonight on the world famous Jesse
Kelly Show. That and me bragging about myself who should
have been primary forever. But of course he's handsome and
speaks very well on TV. John Thune's probably going to
be our next Senate minority or majority leader. What Chris,
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seven seven three seven seven four three seven three. Now
let's address these things in order again. This is going
to be the order of business. Pete hagg Seth Matt
Gates for ag Tulcy Gabber Dni. But let's deal with
Pete hagg Seth first and foremost, because Trump announced him
last night. He wants Pete to head up the Defense
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Department Secretary of Defense. Big cheese, the big cheese. So
let's discuss what has happened to the United States military.
This has taken a long time. Yes, the Biden administration
put all the problems I'm about to lay out in overdrive.
But this has taken a long time for us to
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get where we are. The United States military over the
decades ceased becoming about something that was protecting the country
and started becoming something that was all about protecting the military,
namely the generals and admirals, the big shots who make
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the choices. A lot of this trace is clear back
to what you know what, let's do. Let's do a
big rewind on this shall we we have time. I
know you like to dig a little deeper into things
like I do. Let's go back to World War Two.
That just stay with me here, take a little bit.
Stay with me. Before World War Two, the United States
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military was very, very, very small, which is exactly what
it should be. It's exactly what the founders wanted. They
understood we needed a strong navy, because of our position
on the globe. But as far as a standing army goes,
it should be small. You should have a strong nco
Corps that is ready to train people up at a
moment's notice. World War two breaks out. Uh oh, we
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throw things into overdrive and boom, we start churning out
this incredible, incredible military. But something else happened during the
course of World War two. You know, the arsenal of
the world, the arsenal of democracy. All that stuff is
amazingly true. The United States of America. We turned to
our incredible economy, our incredible manufacturing base, and we turned
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it into a military factor. We had auto plants, making
tanks and planes. We simply turned to our economy and said,
you're in a wartime footing, now go And they did
their jobs well, and we should be proud and honestly
amazed by what we accomplished back then as a nation. However,
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something happened. Eisenhower himself saw it happening. Something happened. There's
a yin and a yang to things, right, a good
and a bad, a cause and effect. What happened during
that time is a lot of private sector companies and
big shots in the military figured out that war is
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really good business. It involves hoovering up a lot of
money for yourself. You know what's better if you're forward,
then people going out there and buying model ts. What's
better is the United States government writing you large tax
payer your back checks to make planes and trains and automobiles. Okay,
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not the automobiles. I was going off the movie, but
you get what I mean. It's a lot easier money
and there's a lot more of it. And post World
War Two, we started to reduce the size of our
military and mass again. But the private sector and the
military people never really lost sight of the fact that
war it's a lot of fun, especially when you're not
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one of the ones being shot at. War's a blest
when you're a general in the rear with the gear,
when you're a mogul boeing raytheon. War is a grand
old time. Then Korea kicks off, and because we had
reduced our military again, we once again had to ramp
it back up quickly. And remember we had marines on
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a boat on the way to Korea, on a way
to fight in Korea. We had marines on a boat
finishing boot camp we were so short on men. They're
grabbing marine recruiting glasses and finishing boot camp on a boat. Gosh,
that had to suck anyway. That's how it shortchanged we were.
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And then we watched half a million Chinese for over
the border and now we have cold war stuff. And
after that we looked around as a country and said, hey,
you know what, this whole reducing the size of the
military thing, we got a slow way down on that. Clearly,
we need to be cutting edge and we need to
be ready to go anywhere anytime. It was really Korea
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world War two in Korea that was really the sea
change for United States of America to change its foreign
policy from being very hands off you do what you
do into instantly, Hey, we need to be able to
be anywhere. If we have to be at Madagascar or Korea,
or the Soviet Union or Antarctica, we need to be
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able to be anywhere anytime and fight a huge war.
We totally changed our mentality there. And guys like I
mentioned Eisenhower, who would know saw this coming. That's why
he gave that infamous, infamous speech. I would ask you
to go listen to it yourself about what's known as
the military industrial complex. And what that pretty much is,
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it is an industry. It's not defense. It's become an
industry unto itself. If you're at the Pentagon, if you're
a general, if you're an admiral, if you're a flag officer,
you don't put your son in harms way. For the
most part, you yourself will never be in harm's way.
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You're a civilian with a better looking uniform, and war
is good for you. You get a new command here,
a new command there. If you're a huge defense contractor,
war is amazing for you. If you're a politician, especially
a Republican politician over the years, but this applies to
all of them, you look super patriotic standing in front
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of the troops and sending them into combat. This is
not unique to America. Unpopular politicians throughout history have gone
to war because the nation gets whipped up with patriotic fury,
and then off to war you go, and your popularity
numbers sore. War's been amazing for all these types, but
it hasn't been amazing for you, the taxpayer, and it
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hasn't been amazing for the men on the ground, and
it hasn't been amazing for the defense of this country.
I'll continue in a second, hang on fighting for your
freedom every day. The Jesse Kelly Show. John Thune, who
should have been primary forever ago, but of course he's
handsome and speaks very well on TV. John Thune's probably
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going to be our next Senate minority or majority leader.
That was me from back in February. I don't know
if i've played you play that for you yet on
the show, but that was me being right back in February. O. Right, stop,
We'll get to that in a while. Right now, we're
talking about Pete Haig Seth. We're doing a little backstory
on the United States military and what eventually happened to it.
So we were talking about the military, how it eventually
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became bloated, how it eventually became an industry unto itself,
with the politicians working with the defense contractors who are
working with the generals, and it just becomes one large club.
And what they're doing is blood sucking your tax dollars,
promoting each other, paying each other, having a blast on
the world stage. In the meantime, you're not any safer,
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only you are a whole lot poorer now. Vietnam comes along.
It went over the World War II Korean War thing.
Vietnam represented a completely different change that was equally, if
not the most devastating thing we have seen in Vietnam. Vietnam.
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It changed how the officer corps handled each other. It
changed how colonels and generals and admirals handled each other.
One thing, if you ever read any books on World
War II, the documentaries won't generally be that good at this.
I'm sure there are a good podcasts for it. But
if you read World War two books, whatever campaign it
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may be for Europe or Normandy or Italy or the
Pacific or any of those things, one thing that will
hit you hard is how often the commander was relieved
of duty, and relieved was about as good as you
could hope for lots of the time. Oftentimes these guys
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were court martialed, publicly humiliated. Go look what they did
to the big cheese at Pearl Harbor. That they will
destroy your career and your reputation if you, as a
commander fail, and sometimes it doesn't even have to be
your fault. And that was not unique to our military,
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that the history of the world was oftentimes like that.
And Rome. If you screwed up bad enough, they'll flat
out kill you. You'll go back and you'll have a
quick trial and they'll just kill you right there, is it? Sorry? General,
not acceptable? Gone dead? And in Vietnam for a variety
of reasons, that's when that changed. That's when the officer corps,
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all these flag officer types, all those fancy generals and admirals,
that's when they all got together with each other and
they said, hey, why are we doing this to each other?
Whenever we screw up, we have to resign, we retire,
and disgrace and whatnot? What if instead of accountability, what
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if we just protected each other at all times? Oh no, no, no, no, no,
the men and the dudes on the ground, the guys
out there getting shot. No no, there's still no no
grace for them whatsoever. The second day screw up, we
will just d their careers and we'll court martial them
and we'll completely wreck their lives. But us, hey, we're
the generals. Let's not do this to each other anymore,
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for we're on the same team, right, don't you agree, General,
don't you agree? And that poisonous culture continued past Vietnam
and it exists today in what I hope to be
its final form. Twenty years of Iraq and Afghanistan, twenty
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years of men and women dying, and the ones who
didn't die blown up PTSD all over the place missing
body parts. And that's just the American troops will set
aside what happened to others overseas, twenty years of failure.
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I know guys who watched their friends die so they
could put in a well in an Afghan village, a
well the villagers decided to never use. I know guys
who guarded the poppy fields, you know, Heroin. I know
guys who were put in charge of guarding the poppy
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fields in Afghanistan. Did you know that the Green Beret
in Afghanistan who caught a one of the Afghan security
forces viciously abusing a young boy. I won't go into it.
The Green Beret was punished for that. Failure after failure,
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disgrace after disgrace. How many generals and admirals lost their jobs?
How many had public trials resigned fired? How many? No? None? Really?
I mean, of course, if anyone offended Obama, they did,
but really none. They all went on and wrote books
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you can say betray us, but betray us didn't go
for military reasons. He went because he ended up having
a relationship with a young lady instead the kind of
military we have now, what the men and women on
the ground see at the highest levels, they see this crap.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
How does it strike you that no one is held accountable?
Because I know how it strikes a lot of people
around the world that you can get away with murder
and nobody's punished for it.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
I do understand that we appreciate that not everybody's gonna
support this decision. What I can tell you is we
looked at this thing very, very comprehensively, and again we
acknowledge that there were procedural breakdowns, processes were not executed
the way they should have been. But it doesn't necessarily
indicate that an individual or individuals have to be held
to account for that.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
But look, this is more discipline inside the Pentagon at all.
I mean, maybe they're no charges brought up, but is
anyone demoted or disciplined for what happened, then well.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
What we are going to do.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
There's not going to be individual discipline as a result
of this, really, but what we are going to do
is learn from this, and we're going to enact and
improve our procedures. In our process is to try to
make sure this doesn't happen again.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
A flag officer in Saipan was relieved of his command,
not because of cowardice, not because he really necessarily did
anything wrong. He was relieved of his command because his
troops weren't thought to be moving fast enough, and he
lost his command and lost his reputation. That was back
in World War Two. Here in the modern United States
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of America, we can send a Reaper drone to wipe
out ten completely innocent civilians, and the Pentagon will announce
publicly that nobody has resigned, nobody's even been reprimanded. In fact,
we don't even really think anyone did anything wrong. Best
of luck to you today. Did you know that the
United States military that they've war gained a war with China?
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Did you know that we've lost every one of those
wargames our capabilities. They know their capabilities, and so they
do these advanced level wargames to see, Okay, we're gonna
do this. That means they'll do this, So we'll do this,
and they'll do that, and they kind of walk through it.
It's a it's an exercise to see where you're at.
Did you know we get our lunch eaten by the Chinese?
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If at the war's fought over there? To know that
the United States military is in a state of crisis,
I can't even describe. The officer corps is so full
of losers, in politicians and idiots, the pentagons, full of traders,
the defense industry, the military industrial complex, the defense contractors.
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That relationship is a disaster. How they've bought off politicians
to continue things like Ukraine without end and exchange for
large campaign donations. Our United States military is in a
state of crisis, and I not only fear for my
country as a whole, for them men on the ground,
the ground pounders, the guys who actually see combat. I
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am terrified for them at the disastrous, poisonous, filthy leadership
we have in the United States Military. As of now,
I have email after email after email. Jesse, I'm getting out, Jesse,
I'm getting out, Jesse. I can't take it anymore. Jesse,
I'm not letting my son join. I fought in the
Global War on Terror, and I still speak to so
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many guys who fought in it. With me. Not a
single friend of mine, not one is encouraging his children
to join. Almost every single one of them, to a
man is telling his kids they're not even allowed. That's
a military in crisis, and that brings me to Pete
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hag Seth. Let's talk about the potential new sect deef again.
All these guys have to get through Senate confirmation. Some
may have more trouble than others. Before we get to
any of that, let's talk really quickly about people living
in a war zone constantly. Can you imagine living in
Israel and you're constantly in a war zone, That trip
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to the coffee shop on the corner might easily be
a stabbing or a bomb you at any moment, at
any moment you're picking up the kids from school, the
alarms might go off and you guys might have to
scramble and get to a bomb shelter somewhere because rockets
are raining down. This is what it's like for these
people every single day. You know how many of these
people don't have food, They need emergency food places to live.
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People don't know about this because it's ignored. The Ifcj's
on the ground helping these people, help them, help these people.
If you have a heart to do so, go to
support IFCJ dot org or call eight eight eight four
eight eight IFCJ. We'll be back truth attitude. Jesse Kelly,
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it is the Jesse Kelly Show on a Wednesday, a
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seven three seven seven four three seven three. Now onto
the Pete Hegseth pick and I need to make sure
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everyone understands. I'm gonna repeat this several times during the show.
He has to get confirmed in the Senate. There are
some positions that do not require a Senate confirmation, like
that wonderful Florida Rep. Mike Walls, former Green Beret. Donald
Trump named him as National Security Advisor. That is not
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a position that requires a Senate confirmation. Secretary of Defense
does require a Senate confirmation. What is a Senate confirmation? Well,
you need fifty one. You need fifty one votes. And remember,
if there's ever a problem with that, jd Vance can
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add a fifty first. So Pete Hagg Seth, I just
laid out all the problems in the military. They are vast.
We need a disruptor now, Jesse. He doesn't have the experience.
He's not a general. He thought of it. He served
this country for twenty years and led men in combat.
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I don't mean sitting back in the rear with the gear.
I don't mean staplan papers for a general. Pete haig
Seth had on a flak jacket and went out two
bronze stars and led men like a lion in combat.
He knows exactly what the men on the ground go
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through for this country and still cares. He didn't get
so separated from those men that it became a filthy
loser politician like Mark Milly did, who sold out every
ounce of honor he ever had. Pete Haig Seth, he
ended up getting out. Do you know why he got out?
Because they considered his rhetoric too extremes, so they ran
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him out of the National Guard. He told me that himself,
what kind of rhetoric was extreme? Oh, I don't know
wonderful things like this.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Well, first of all, you gotta fire, you know, you
gotta fire the chairman and joint chiefs, and you gotta
fire this. I mean, obviously gonna bring in a new
Secretary Defense, but any general that was involved, general, admiral, whatever,
that was involved in any of the DEI woke, it's
gotta go. Either you're in for war fighting that and
that's it. That's the only litmus tests we care about.
You got to get DEI and CRT out of military
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academy so you're not training young officers and to be
baptized in this type of thinking. And then, you know,
whatever the standards, whatever the combat standards were saying, I
don't know nineteen ninety five, let's just make those the standards.
And as far as recruiting to hire the guy that
you know, did top Gun Maverick and create some real
ads that motivate people that want to serve, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Does that sound good to you? Sounds wonderful to me.
And I should note that was from the Sean Ryan Show,
which is amazing. I love Sean. Pete sat down with
Sean Ryan, and Pete has been out there saying things, well,
a lot of these things you've heard on this show
for a long time, and things that may make you uncomfortable,
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might even make you squirm, might even offend you yet
things that are one hundred percent accurately.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Straight up just saying we should not have women in
combat roles. It hasn't made us more effective, hasn't made
us more lethal, has made fighting more complicated. We've all
served with women and they're great. It just our institutions
don't have to incentivize that in places where traditionally not
traditionally over human history, men in those positions are more capable.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Does that sound like somebody who wants to disrupt how
the military's conducting itself. You bet it does. He's somebody
passionate about fixing this military, and I have previously lacked
faith that we can get this done without someone like this.
I have dreamt of, yes, an experienced but outsider type
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of person who will step in and break up this
horrible flag officer network, defense contractor network, this network of
filth in the Pentagon, full of all kinds of garbage
people screwing things up. I have dreamt of a potential
outsider stepping in and saying no more, there's a new
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sheriff in town. And maybe, just maybe I'm not saying
this just because I'm friends with Pete. Maybe Pete Hegseth
is that guy, and he's not somebody that I knew
about ahead of time. I will tell you I had.
I had a dream of a concept, if you will
had I had a nameless, faceless person, and Pete Hegseth
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is basically exactly what I wanted, somebody who knows exactly
how to build a military, build a lethal fighting force.
And my phone has been melting from the grunts I'm
friends with who are still in and fighter pilots, I
should note, and they are all kinds fired up for
the potential to change things. That and the fact that
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these crazy libs hate.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Him for former and future president is moving quickly to
fill the clown car and round out his cabinet before
he changes his mind and fires them all.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
Moments ago, Trump announce to.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
It he has selected Fox Weekend Morning show host and
can't make this up.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Pete egsack to Service Secretary of Defence because why not.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Fox Weekend Morning show host, A tour in Iraq, a
tour in Afghanistan, two bronze stars, and they have him
reduced down to a Fox Weekend morning show host. Here
was Don Lemon, an.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Official statement from Donald Trump saying, I am honored to
announce that I have nominated Pete Hexseth to serve in
my cabinet as the Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
What at first, some.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
Of these folks, these nominations, I said, okay, or appointments,
all right, they're a little extreme.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
But there were some.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Normal people in there, kind of normally you know, like
Marco Rubio or Mike Waltz are a couple of you know,
just regular old Republicans in there. But the morning we
can host on Fox News, come on.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
That's exactly why I love it. And remember this, whenever
these people reference stuff, well, we had some normal options.
You notice how they always end up referencing the Republicans
who won't really oppose them in any significant way to them.
Those are the normal Republicans you could have had a
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reasonable Republican. Of course, reasonable Republican always and forever means
a Republican. He may oppose me on some things, but
I know when the rubber meets the road and I
really start with my rabbit animal communist ways, the reasonable
Republican will probably try to meet me halfway and moderate
(37:19):
and do things in a bipartisan fashion. That's what he
means by reasonable Republican. I love this pick. I am
so excited about it. Now we'll set that aside. There's
the petegg seth because we have a lot of news.
Let's deal with the Senate leadership thing, and then the
Matt Gates pick, which has half the people doing backflips,
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This is a Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse
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oh boy, what a Wednesday. It has been the amount
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of news that has dropped in the last twenty four
hours about the incoming Trump administration, the new Senate leader,
all that is just it's going to be difficult to
pack all this into the next three hours of The
Jesse Kelly Show, but we will do it. So that's
what we have on tap for tonight. I'm going to
address these things. I'll tell you what. I'm gonna address
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these things in order. I'm gonna give it to you
right now. How long I'm gonna take on each one,
I don't know. But we are going to talk first
and foremost about Pete hag Seth being potentially Secretary of Defense.
Remember all these are potential until they're confirmed by the Senate.
Then we're gonna talk about Matt Gates. Donald Trump appoints
Congressman Well, annoyance, I don't know what you want to say.
(01:16):
Puts up Congressman Matt Gates up to be the next
day g again banking on a Senate process. And then
Tausea Gabbart for Director of National Intelligence. We will get
to a little bit of the Senate leadership race. That
ship has kind of already sailed. We'll get to that.
We will. We'll talk about the evils of the Biden
(01:36):
administration and what they did DEI wise, what the future is. First,
I do think before we go any further and we
dig into this Secretary of Defense thing, a lot of
you love this stuff, a lot of you hate it.
I do think we should do something that's really, really,
really important. Let's make sure we're always keeping the most
(01:56):
important thing first. The most important thing is acknowledging and
praising me when I call things ahead of time, as
only an oracle can do. You see what, Chris, it's fine, Chris,
it's fine. Don't quit. You see back in February of
(02:22):
this year. February of this year, that's almost a year ago.
This guy, Jesse Kelly, who might be an oracle, he
said this, the list of potential replacements is really bad.
It is. Yes, there is a chance a more conservative
(02:45):
upstart like Rick Scott can mount some sort of a
revolution within the Senate GOP and maybe takeover. That's probably
about the best we could hope for. But the truth
is there have been a couple guys who've been gunning
for this leadership spot for a long time, sucking up
to Mitch McConnell, proving to the DC swamp that they're
(03:06):
team players, of course, that they all play ball. And
those two names are John Cornyn, he's much less likely,
and John Thune, John Thune, john Thune from the blood
red state. John Thune, who should have been primary forever ago.
But of course he's handsome and speaks very well on TV,
(03:26):
so the moron GOP primary voter goes out and votes
for him every time. John Thune's probably going to be
our next Senate minority or majority leader. Ah, almost a
year ago. Feels good to be Chris. Is there anything
you'd like to say before we get into the rest
of the show to me or I hate my job?
(03:48):
Is not what I was looking for, Chris? Do you
have anything any way to acknowledge your hero anyway? Let's
set that aside and let's talk about good things. Pete
Hank Seth, Matt Gates, Tulsey Gabbard talk about first Let's
let's set the table, shall we, and let's talk about disruptors.
Have you ever have you ever seen anything about these
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civilian boot camps. I'll tell you I actually went through.
I was talking to a guy about this recently. In fact,
the last fishing trip I did with my dad. You
remember I told you we went fishing the day before
he died. We actually got a guide to help us
get into some redfish. Now, not a fancy guide here again,
(04:32):
just the local guys. Louisiana guy, a guy we already knew. Hey,
give you cup hundred bucks, get us out there, get
us into some red fish. Let the kids get some
red fish. Anyway, It's great, dude, But we're out there,
and we're friends with this guy. So we're out there,
we're just gabbing about life, and he started talking about
one of his sons. One of his sons lost his mind. Really,
(04:53):
I don't mean lost his mind, lost his mind, but
he his kid hit his sixteen seventeen year old years
and really really lost his way, started abusing booze, running
around with the wrong crowd, getting super defiant at home.
Grades fell Off went from being an elite athlete to
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a bomb. He just was really blowing his life up
as young men are wont to do, and was turning
into a disaster. And then one night, believe me, all
this is going coming back to politics, stay with me.
One night he steps up to his father. He was
back talking his mom. His dad stepped in and said,
don't you talk to your mom like that, And he
bows up to his father and threatens to beat up
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his dad puts a finger in his chest. Okay, So
crisis situation in the family, right, crisis situation, you should note,
quick side note. I went home and promptly told my
sons if they ever stick a finger in my chest
or talk back to their mother, no one will ever
see them again. So they are very very clear on
how that works in my house. All that aside, that
family operated a little differently, and they were in a crisis.
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They didn't want their boy to lose his mom. What
do you do? Where do you go? Where do you turn?
They decided on a boot camp, not a military boot
camp per se. But I'm sure you've seen these behavioral
boot camps, I guess I'll put it that way. That
are always run by former military guys, and they're a
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living hell on the troubled young men and women. This
is for young boys and girls, oftentimes who got in
trouble with the law or whatnot. You take a troubled
youth and you yank them out of their environment, and
you put them through hell, the hell of boot camp,
and they come out the other end, not always but
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oftentimes completely turned around. It is, by the way, you
should know. I'll go and spoil the end of this
guy's story. His son straight a's elite athlete again on
his way to college. Girlfriend he's going to marry, doesn't
disrespect his parents boom, night and day. So what did
that look like? Well, three in the morning one night,
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Dad goes to the front door, unlocks it, and opens
up the door for two very very loud, very large,
very frightening men who stormed into his son's room, kicked
in his door at three am, screamed at him to
the point he was shaking in his underwear. They thought
(07:28):
he was going to pee himself. And then they dragged
him out of that house in the middle of the night,
threw him in the back of a truck and carted
him off to a living hell of boot camp, where
he was screamed at, worked out where he was cleaning
toilets with toothbrushes. You know that old boot camp stuff.
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His life was made a living hell, and on the
back end of that, his life was turned around. In
order to change the direction of people, of organizations, of
nations that are on a bad path, oftentimes a disruptor
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is necessary. And the problem we have and the problem
we are going to have now as we try to
write this ship as a country is we want we
want the change right. We want things to turn around.
I want the military to do better. I want them
to be like they used to be. I want the
intelligence community to be like they used to be. I
(08:38):
want the Justice Department to turn things around. Jesse, I'm
with you. I want to write the ship only I
want to I want to do it politely. Oh oh,
not with him. Ooh he's icky. Oh not not that guy. No,
that guy has a he has a tattoo. Oh gosh,
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this guy. Ooh he's got a criminal record. This guy. No,
we can't use that guy. He's too obnoxious. Oh, Jesse,
not him, not him, not him. Oh wait, not him.
We want the disruptor to fix things, but we don't
want the disruptor to disrupt. You don't change the young
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man's life. You don't change it forever. You don't improve
it forever politely. You don't do it by doing the
things you've always done. You don't do it by pouring
him an extra bowl of Captain crunch possibly with crunchberries
in the morning. If you want to change your life,
the life of your child, if you need to radically
change the path you are on, then you are going
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to need a disruption that is uncomfortable, uncomfortable. It is
time for you and me to get comfortable being uncomfortable
when it comes to Pete Hegseth, And I'm going to
be in there when it comes to Pete Hegseath. You
have all these people they're looking at it. Wait a minute.
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He was just a major. He wasn't even a general.
He was on Fox News on the weekend. He wasn't this,
He wasn't that. We need somebody who knows Jesse. He
doesn't know what he's doing, Jesse. He doesn't have the experience.
You know who has had the experience. You know who
was a general. You know who was an amirl. Every
single weapons grade loser who's destroyed the United States military
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for the last thirty forty years, they've all been generals.
They've all been abrals, they've all been in the defense industry,
they've all been over on Washington forever. They all knew
what they were doing. So do you want change? Radical change? Well,
radical change disruption is going to be uncomfortable and we're
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going to dig into a lot of that. In fact,
that'll be the show tonight on the world famous Jesse
Kelly Show. That and me bragging about myself who should
have been primary forever. But of course he's handsome and
speaks very well on TV. John Thune's probably going to
be our next Senate minority or majority leader. What Chris,
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seven seven three seven seven four three seven three. Now
let's address these things in order again. This is going
to be the order of business. Pete hagg Seth Matt
Gates for ag Tulcy Gabber Dni. But let's deal with
Pete hagg Seth first and foremost, because Trump announced him
last night. He wants Pete to head up the Defense
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Department Secretary of Defense. Big cheese, the big cheese. So
let's discuss what has happened to the United States military.
This has taken a long time. Yes, the Biden administration
put all the problems I'm about to lay out in overdrive.
But this has taken a long time for us to
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get where we are. The United States military over the
decades ceased becoming about something that was protecting the country
and started becoming something that was all about protecting the military,
namely the generals and admirals, the big shots who make
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the choices. A lot of this trace is clear back
to what you know what, let's do. Let's do a
big rewind on this shall we we have time. I
know you like to dig a little deeper into things
like I do. Let's go back to World War Two.
That just stay with me here, take a little bit.
Stay with me. Before World War Two, the United States
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military was very, very, very small, which is exactly what
it should be. It's exactly what the founders wanted. They
understood we needed a strong navy, because of our position
on the globe. But as far as a standing army goes,
it should be small. You should have a strong nco
Corps that is ready to train people up at a
moment's notice. World War two breaks out. Uh oh, we
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throw things into overdrive and boom, we start churning out
this incredible, incredible military. But something else happened during the
course of World War two. You know, the arsenal of
the world, the arsenal of democracy. All that stuff is
amazingly true. The United States of America. We turned to
our incredible economy, our incredible manufacturing base, and we turned
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it into a military factor. We had auto plants, making
tanks and planes. We simply turned to our economy and said,
you're in a wartime footing, now go And they did
their jobs well, and we should be proud and honestly
amazed by what we accomplished back then as a nation. However,
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something happened. Eisenhower himself saw it happening. Something happened. There's
a yin and a yang to things, right, a good
and a bad, a cause and effect. What happened during
that time is a lot of private sector companies and
big shots in the military figured out that war is
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really good business. It involves hoovering up a lot of
money for yourself. You know what's better if you're forward,
then people going out there and buying model ts. What's
better is the United States government writing you large tax
payer your back checks to make planes and trains and automobiles. Okay,
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not the automobiles. I was going off the movie, but
you get what I mean. It's a lot easier money
and there's a lot more of it. And post World
War Two, we started to reduce the size of our
military and mass again. But the private sector and the
military people never really lost sight of the fact that
war it's a lot of fun, especially when you're not
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one of the ones being shot at. War's a blest
when you're a general in the rear with the gear,
when you're a mogul boeing raytheon. War is a grand
old time. Then Korea kicks off, and because we had
reduced our military again, we once again had to ramp
it back up quickly. And remember we had marines on
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a boat on the way to Korea, on a way
to fight in Korea. We had marines on a boat
finishing boot camp we were so short on men. They're
grabbing marine recruiting glasses and finishing boot camp on a boat. Gosh,
that had to suck anyway. That's how it shortchanged we were.
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And then we watched half a million Chinese for over
the border and now we have cold war stuff. And
after that we looked around as a country and said, hey,
you know what, this whole reducing the size of the
military thing, we got a slow way down on that. Clearly,
we need to be cutting edge and we need to
be ready to go anywhere anytime. It was really Korea
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world War two in Korea that was really the sea
change for United States of America to change its foreign
policy from being very hands off you do what you
do into instantly, Hey, we need to be able to
be anywhere. If we have to be at Madagascar or Korea,
or the Soviet Union or Antarctica, we need to be
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able to be anywhere anytime and fight a huge war.
We totally changed our mentality there. And guys like I
mentioned Eisenhower, who would know saw this coming. That's why
he gave that infamous, infamous speech. I would ask you
to go listen to it yourself about what's known as
the military industrial complex. And what that pretty much is,
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it is an industry. It's not defense. It's become an
industry unto itself. If you're at the Pentagon, if you're
a general, if you're an admiral, if you're a flag officer,
you don't put your son in harms way. For the
most part, you yourself will never be in harm's way.
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You're a civilian with a better looking uniform, and war
is good for you. You get a new command here,
a new command there. If you're a huge defense contractor,
war is amazing for you. If you're a politician, especially
a Republican politician over the years, but this applies to
all of them, you look super patriotic standing in front
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of the troops and sending them into combat. This is
not unique to America. Unpopular politicians throughout history have gone
to war because the nation gets whipped up with patriotic fury,
and then off to war you go, and your popularity
numbers sore. War's been amazing for all these types, but
it hasn't been amazing for you, the taxpayer, and it
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hasn't been amazing for the men on the ground, and
it hasn't been amazing for the defense of this country.
I'll continue in a second, hang on fighting for your
freedom every day. The Jesse Kelly Show. John Thune, who
should have been primary forever ago, but of course he's
handsome and speaks very well on TV. John Thune's probably
(19:49):
going to be our next Senate minority or majority leader.
That was me from back in February. I don't know
if i've played you play that for you yet on
the show, but that was me being right back in February. O. Right, stop,
We'll get to that in a while. Right now, we're
talking about Pete Haig Seth. We're doing a little backstory
on the United States military and what eventually happened to it.
So we were talking about the military, how it eventually
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became bloated, how it eventually became an industry unto itself,
with the politicians working with the defense contractors who are
working with the generals, and it just becomes one large club.
And what they're doing is blood sucking your tax dollars,
promoting each other, paying each other, having a blast on
the world stage. In the meantime, you're not any safer,
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only you are a whole lot poorer now. Vietnam comes along.
It went over the World War II Korean War thing.
Vietnam represented a completely different change that was equally, if
not the most devastating thing we have seen in Vietnam. Vietnam.
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It changed how the officer corps handled each other. It
changed how colonels and generals and admirals handled each other.
One thing, if you ever read any books on World
War II, the documentaries won't generally be that good at this.
I'm sure there are a good podcasts for it. But
if you read World War two books, whatever campaign it
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may be for Europe or Normandy or Italy or the
Pacific or any of those things, one thing that will
hit you hard is how often the commander was relieved
of duty, and relieved was about as good as you
could hope for lots of the time. Oftentimes these guys
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were court martialed, publicly humiliated. Go look what they did
to the big cheese at Pearl Harbor. That they will
destroy your career and your reputation if you, as a
commander fail, and sometimes it doesn't even have to be
your fault. And that was not unique to our military,
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that the history of the world was oftentimes like that.
And Rome. If you screwed up bad enough, they'll flat
out kill you. You'll go back and you'll have a
quick trial and they'll just kill you right there, is it? Sorry? General,
not acceptable? Gone dead? And in Vietnam for a variety
of reasons, that's when that changed. That's when the officer corps,
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all these flag officer types, all those fancy generals and admirals,
that's when they all got together with each other and
they said, hey, why are we doing this to each other?
Whenever we screw up, we have to resign, we retire,
and disgrace and whatnot? What if instead of accountability, what
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if we just protected each other at all times? Oh no, no, no, no, no,
the men and the dudes on the ground, the guys
out there getting shot. No no, there's still no no
grace for them whatsoever. The second day screw up, we
will just d their careers and we'll court martial them
and we'll completely wreck their lives. But us, hey, we're
the generals. Let's not do this to each other anymore,
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for we're on the same team, right, don't you agree, General,
don't you agree? And that poisonous culture continued past Vietnam
and it exists today in what I hope to be
its final form. Twenty years of Iraq and Afghanistan, twenty
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years of men and women dying, and the ones who
didn't die blown up PTSD all over the place missing
body parts. And that's just the American troops will set
aside what happened to others overseas, twenty years of failure.
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I know guys who watched their friends die so they
could put in a well in an Afghan village, a
well the villagers decided to never use. I know guys
who guarded the poppy fields, you know, Heroin. I know
guys who were put in charge of guarding the poppy
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fields in Afghanistan. Did you know that the Green Beret
in Afghanistan who caught a one of the Afghan security
forces viciously abusing a young boy. I won't go into it.
The Green Beret was punished for that. Failure after failure,
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disgrace after disgrace. How many generals and admirals lost their jobs?
How many had public trials resigned fired? How many? No? None? Really?
I mean, of course, if anyone offended Obama, they did,
but really none. They all went on and wrote books
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you can say betray us, but betray us didn't go
for military reasons. He went because he ended up having
a relationship with a young lady instead the kind of
military we have now, what the men and women on
the ground see at the highest levels, they see this crap.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
How does it strike you that no one is held accountable?
Because I know how it strikes a lot of people
around the world that you can get away with murder
and nobody's punished for it.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
I do understand that we appreciate that not everybody's gonna
support this decision. What I can tell you is we
looked at this thing very, very comprehensively, and again we
acknowledge that there were procedural breakdowns, processes were not executed
the way they should have been. But it doesn't necessarily
indicate that an individual or individuals have to be held
to account for that.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
But look, this is more discipline inside the Pentagon at all.
I mean, maybe they're no charges brought up, but is
anyone demoted or disciplined for what happened, then well.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
What we are going to do.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
There's not going to be individual discipline as a result
of this, really, but what we are going to do
is learn from this, and we're going to enact and
improve our procedures. In our process is to try to
make sure this doesn't happen again.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
A flag officer in Saipan was relieved of his command,
not because of cowardice, not because he really necessarily did
anything wrong. He was relieved of his command because his
troops weren't thought to be moving fast enough, and he
lost his command and lost his reputation. That was back
in World War Two. Here in the modern United States
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of America, we can send a Reaper drone to wipe
out ten completely innocent civilians, and the Pentagon will announce
publicly that nobody has resigned, nobody's even been reprimanded. In fact,
we don't even really think anyone did anything wrong. Best
of luck to you today. Did you know that the
United States military that they've war gained a war with China?
(26:55):
Did you know that we've lost every one of those
wargames our capabilities. They know their capabilities, and so they
do these advanced level wargames to see, Okay, we're gonna
do this. That means they'll do this, So we'll do this,
and they'll do that, and they kind of walk through it.
It's a it's an exercise to see where you're at.
Did you know we get our lunch eaten by the Chinese?
(27:18):
If at the war's fought over there? To know that
the United States military is in a state of crisis,
I can't even describe. The officer corps is so full
of losers, in politicians and idiots, the pentagons, full of traders,
the defense industry, the military industrial complex, the defense contractors.
(27:42):
That relationship is a disaster. How they've bought off politicians
to continue things like Ukraine without end and exchange for
large campaign donations. Our United States military is in a
state of crisis, and I not only fear for my
country as a whole, for them men on the ground,
the ground pounders, the guys who actually see combat. I
(28:05):
am terrified for them at the disastrous, poisonous, filthy leadership
we have in the United States Military. As of now,
I have email after email after email. Jesse, I'm getting out, Jesse,
I'm getting out, Jesse. I can't take it anymore. Jesse,
I'm not letting my son join. I fought in the
Global War on Terror, and I still speak to so
(28:26):
many guys who fought in it. With me. Not a
single friend of mine, not one is encouraging his children
to join. Almost every single one of them, to a
man is telling his kids they're not even allowed. That's
a military in crisis, and that brings me to Pete
(28:47):
hag Seth. Let's talk about the potential new sect deef again.
All these guys have to get through Senate confirmation. Some
may have more trouble than others. Before we get to
any of that, let's talk really quickly about people living
in a war zone constantly. Can you imagine living in
Israel and you're constantly in a war zone, That trip
(29:09):
to the coffee shop on the corner might easily be
a stabbing or a bomb you at any moment, at
any moment you're picking up the kids from school, the
alarms might go off and you guys might have to
scramble and get to a bomb shelter somewhere because rockets
are raining down. This is what it's like for these
people every single day. You know how many of these
people don't have food, They need emergency food places to live.
(29:32):
People don't know about this because it's ignored. The Ifcj's
on the ground helping these people, help them, help these people.
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(30:01):
it is the Jesse Kelly Show on a Wednesday, a
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seven three seven seven four three seven three. Now onto
the Pete Hegseth pick and I need to make sure
(30:22):
everyone understands. I'm gonna repeat this several times during the show.
He has to get confirmed in the Senate. There are
some positions that do not require a Senate confirmation, like
that wonderful Florida Rep. Mike Walls, former Green Beret. Donald
Trump named him as National Security Advisor. That is not
(30:47):
a position that requires a Senate confirmation. Secretary of Defense
does require a Senate confirmation. What is a Senate confirmation? Well,
you need fifty one. You need fifty one votes. And remember,
if there's ever a problem with that, jd Vance can
(31:08):
add a fifty first. So Pete Hagg Seth, I just
laid out all the problems in the military. They are vast.
We need a disruptor now, Jesse. He doesn't have the experience.
He's not a general. He thought of it. He served
this country for twenty years and led men in combat.
(31:30):
I don't mean sitting back in the rear with the gear.
I don't mean staplan papers for a general. Pete haig
Seth had on a flak jacket and went out two
bronze stars and led men like a lion in combat.
He knows exactly what the men on the ground go
(31:53):
through for this country and still cares. He didn't get
so separated from those men that it became a filthy
loser politician like Mark Milly did, who sold out every
ounce of honor he ever had. Pete Haig Seth, he
ended up getting out. Do you know why he got out?
Because they considered his rhetoric too extremes, so they ran
(32:15):
him out of the National Guard. He told me that himself,
what kind of rhetoric was extreme? Oh, I don't know
wonderful things like this.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Well, first of all, you gotta fire, you know, you
gotta fire the chairman and joint chiefs, and you gotta
fire this. I mean, obviously gonna bring in a new
Secretary Defense, but any general that was involved, general, admiral, whatever,
that was involved in any of the DEI woke, it's
gotta go. Either you're in for war fighting that and
that's it. That's the only litmus tests we care about.
You got to get DEI and CRT out of military
(32:46):
academy so you're not training young officers and to be
baptized in this type of thinking. And then, you know,
whatever the standards, whatever the combat standards were saying, I
don't know nineteen ninety five, let's just make those the standards.
And as far as recruiting to hire the guy that
you know, did top Gun Maverick and create some real
ads that motivate people that want to serve, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Does that sound good to you? Sounds wonderful to me.
And I should note that was from the Sean Ryan Show,
which is amazing. I love Sean. Pete sat down with
Sean Ryan, and Pete has been out there saying things, well,
a lot of these things you've heard on this show
for a long time, and things that may make you uncomfortable,
(33:27):
might even make you squirm, might even offend you yet
things that are one hundred percent accurately.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Straight up just saying we should not have women in
combat roles. It hasn't made us more effective, hasn't made
us more lethal, has made fighting more complicated. We've all
served with women and they're great. It just our institutions
don't have to incentivize that in places where traditionally not
traditionally over human history, men in those positions are more capable.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Does that sound like somebody who wants to disrupt how
the military's conducting itself. You bet it does. He's somebody
passionate about fixing this military, and I have previously lacked
faith that we can get this done without someone like this.
I have dreamt of, yes, an experienced but outsider type
(34:18):
of person who will step in and break up this
horrible flag officer network, defense contractor network, this network of
filth in the Pentagon, full of all kinds of garbage
people screwing things up. I have dreamt of a potential
outsider stepping in and saying no more, there's a new
(34:39):
sheriff in town. And maybe, just maybe I'm not saying
this just because I'm friends with Pete. Maybe Pete Hegseth
is that guy, and he's not somebody that I knew
about ahead of time. I will tell you I had.
I had a dream of a concept, if you will
had I had a nameless, faceless person, and Pete Hegseth
(34:59):
is basically exactly what I wanted, somebody who knows exactly
how to build a military, build a lethal fighting force.
And my phone has been melting from the grunts I'm
friends with who are still in and fighter pilots, I
should note, and they are all kinds fired up for
the potential to change things. That and the fact that
(35:22):
these crazy libs hate.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Him for former and future president is moving quickly to
fill the clown car and round out his cabinet before
he changes his mind and fires them all.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
Moments ago, Trump announce to.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
It he has selected Fox Weekend Morning show host and
can't make this up.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Pete egsack to Service Secretary of Defence because why not.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Fox Weekend Morning show host, A tour in Iraq, a
tour in Afghanistan, two bronze stars, and they have him
reduced down to a Fox Weekend morning show host. Here
was Don Lemon, an.
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Official statement from Donald Trump saying, I am honored to
announce that I have nominated Pete Hexseth to serve in
my cabinet as the Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
What at first, some.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
Of these folks, these nominations, I said, okay, or appointments,
all right, they're a little extreme.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
But there were some.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Normal people in there, kind of normally you know, like
Marco Rubio or Mike Waltz are a couple of you know,
just regular old Republicans in there. But the morning we
can host on Fox News, come on.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
That's exactly why I love it. And remember this, whenever
these people reference stuff, well, we had some normal options.
You notice how they always end up referencing the Republicans
who won't really oppose them in any significant way to them.
Those are the normal Republicans you could have had a
(36:58):
reasonable Republican. Of course, reasonable Republican always and forever means
a Republican. He may oppose me on some things, but
I know when the rubber meets the road and I
really start with my rabbit animal communist ways, the reasonable
Republican will probably try to meet me halfway and moderate
(37:19):
and do things in a bipartisan fashion. That's what he
means by reasonable Republican. I love this pick. I am
so excited about it. Now we'll set that aside. There's
the petegg seth because we have a lot of news.
Let's deal with the Senate leadership thing, and then the
Matt Gates pick, which has half the people doing backflips,
(37:42):
half the people throwing up in the trash can before
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