May 1, 2024 • 36 mins
It’s never been easier to be politically informed yet millions of good people have no idea what’s going on. A good plan violently executed now. Leticia James is trying to shut down every single pro live pregnancy center in New York. Our side is trying to repeal abortion bans. Who do you think is winning? Amber Smith and what's going on in the Air Force?
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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 Tuesday, and
it's gonna be a huge Tuesday. Tonight. We're gonna discuss
the naivete of a portion of the right, not you,
(00:34):
but you know people like this. Will discuss that Democrats
running cover for Mike Johnson. New York Attorney General Letitia
James is on the attack and I admire it. I
will explain what I mean by that.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
We have well.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Problems on university campuses and the country promises for Democrats. Ay,
very cold administration. Ah. That's so much more coming up
tonight on the world famous Jesse Kelly's Show. But I
actually want to begin here with a story that you
probably haven't heard about today unless you read the Post Millennial.
(01:17):
The story's out there, but the post millennials the one
who ran the headline. But I realize it's not on
everyone's tongue. What's everyone talking about today? The protests still protests,
and you see what's happening at Columbia. Did you a bit?
I know, I know that's all anyone can talk about
right now, but not here. I'll get to that in
a little bit, but not here. I saw this headline
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and it bummed me out. The headline was this conservative
Christian family shocked to find a trans woman playing the
evil queen after paying three hundred dollars for dinner with
Disney characters. Right, So what happened there? Well, at Walt
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Disney World. In fact, I went to We took the
kids to Disney World. I think ten years ago. It
was bad, but it was before it got really really bad.
We took the kids down there and I remember they
had a breakfast you could sign up for. You could go,
the kids could go, sit down, and you have people
running around and mickey and mini costumes and all that crap.
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You know, you know how it is. Okay, So conservative
Christian family shows up and they think it's going to
be some evil queen, and you would think it would
be a woman, but no, it's some training dude, just
helicopter in his way around the dinner, okay, and they're
shocked about it. Pause on that for a moment. Let's
pause on that. I would say three or four years ago,
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a guy I know, I was lightly acquainted with him,
lightly acquainted with him. He was a pastor. He was
a pastor at a church. It was a big church.
Down here, a guy who I knew, and it was actually,
you wanted to talk about some kind of business thing related,
It doesn't matter what it is. But he said, hey,
you want to go out, Hey, let's have a cup
of coffee talk about this this business thing. Yeah, sure,
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that's fine. His pastor, right, his pastor. We go out
and I sit down with this pastor and he was
the pastor of I didn't go to it, but it
was a big church. There were a lot of people there.
I think couple thousand people. It was big church. It's
big people. And this is a guy who had his doctorate,
you know, just doctor this. This was a man in
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his fifties, late fifties, so well read. This dude reads books.
This dude is highly educated, extremely eloquent, good at speaking
in front of people, outstanding values. And we got the
conversation got political as we were sitting there, and this
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man was sitting in front of me, and again we
were there to talk business, and he knew a lot
about that too. So I'm sitting in front of this
guy in fifties and that's when you're really really, you're
really starting to get wise, I'm years away from that,
obviously accomplished in his career. In his career as being
a pastor, successful at that wonderful man, well thought of
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in the community. And when the subject turned to politics,
we were actually discussing a border issue at the time.
It was like I went from talking to an adult
man who was wiser than me provided guidance we were
discussing issues. It was like I went from talking to
that guy to speaking to a child who lived alone
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in the wilderness his entire life. He knew everything about
everything if you wanted to know about Matthew, Mark, Luke,
and John and the Old Testament. Chris. He knew all
kinds of things about business, depreciation, interest rates, courtly. He
knew so much fifty some years on this planet. And
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as soon as we got political, and it went deeper
from there, we kept going. He was like an innocent
little baby who had never heard of politics before. I
look at a headline like this and it makes my
jaw drop how disengaged so many people are. And I'm
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not gonna call him out by name, because they don't
deserve that or anything like that. If you're a quote
conservative Christian family and you're taking your child to Disney
World and you're shocked that Trina the Tranny is coming
out playing Ariel the Redhead from Little Mermaid. If that
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shocks you, you're stunned by that? What are you doing?
What are you paying attention? Why are you disengaged? Why
don't you know? I will tell you I left that
meeting with that pastor, And it's not that I didn't
have rammense respect for him still, it's not that I
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didn't want to do some business stuff with him, and
it's not any of that. And it's not that I
wouldn't have attended his church. I would have attended his church.
It's not that. But I'll be honest with you, my
view of him from that point on.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
It was.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Lower. A little of that shine was off because I
remember thinking then the exact way I think now. Forget
your age, forget your leadership role as a pastor or
a manager, or a dad or a husband or a
father or whatever it may be. As an American citizen,
as a human being, and as someone who cares about children, family, community, culture.
(06:54):
How do you not know what's going on? You never
read anything? I mean today today information if you want
it is available everywhere. You can turn into a political
expert in this country while driving a truck. I'm talking semis.
(07:21):
How many truckers are listening right now, nodding their head
as I just said that too. You could become because
of the wealth of information available in the palm of
your hand, podcast radio, my goodness. When you get where
you're going, you can sit in stream information on your
iPad in the parking lot, endless options, read books on tape.
(07:43):
Chris can't even read, and he consumes books.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Information is just dying to be pumped into your eyes
and ears and your brain now, and we have all
these good people who don't have a dag gone clue
what is going on, and it blows me away.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
And it's killing us. Honestly, that's what's killing us, the
good people. Because they're good people. They don't want to
get involved in the icky business, in the divisive business,
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the anger causing business of communists, of politics, of Republicans,
of Democrats, because politics is an ugly business, always has been,
always will be good people in this country, in an
effort to stay quote good or whatever that whatever however
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you want to classify, that have divorced themselves from the process,
and as a result, it's made the politics of this
country ten times dirtier than it would have otherwise been.
We need the good people to engage, We need them involved,
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We need them in the very least knowledgeable about what's
going on in this culture, in our government, in our
federal government, state government, local governments. We need good people
to care enough to spend ten minutes a day. Who
doesn't have ten minutes a day. You're in a car,
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you're on a treadmill.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Whatever you're doing.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
You're waiting for the kids to finish soccer practice with
some earbuds in your ear. How in the name of
everything holy, is it possible for an entire quote conservative
Christian family to be stunned that you ran into a
tranny at Disney World. And I'm doing the best I
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can to be merciful right now, I am, But man,
h at some point in time, if you don't know,
that's on you, man, If you don't know it's intentional.
At this point in time, you're a fifty some year
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old pastor and you don't know anything about politics, you're
a conservative Christian family, and you don't know that Disney
is rantsid phil Why all right, all right, enough, I'm
about to shock you, and maybe that did it. I'm
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about to praise Leticia James, New York's dirtball communist age
Latsia James is about to get a big old salute
from me. Hang on, this is the Jesse Kelly Show.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
It is that Jesse Kelly Show. Reminding you you can
email the show, and you should email the show of hate,
death threats, whatever you want. Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com.
Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. Yes, I'm gonna get
to the latest and greatest on the protests and the
hostage situation and all this stuff here in just a
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few I just want to point something else out. We've
been talking a lot about the ratchet right, the cultural ratchet.
Why why we've never seen the pendulum as much as
we love to lie ourselves about lied to ourselves about
that that. Ah man, they've gone too far this time, guys.
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It's getting ready to swing back to the right.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Whoa, it's gonna swing to the right hard. Yet it's
never really swung to the right. Oh, they've lost an
election here or there, but culturally it's only gone left.
Why is it a ratchet and not a pendulum. Why
is that. Well, one of the reasons is they use power.
They use power, and they don't lick their finger and
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stick it in the air and see which way the
wind is blowing, because they understand naked aggression accomplishes a lot.
There's a wonderful saying. One of my favorite quotes of
all time is this. You ever heard this quote? This
is a patent quote. He might have stolen it from somebody.
I don't care if he did. I say it's a
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patent quote, but it's a great quote. And here's the quote.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a
perfect plan tomorrow. A good plan violently executed now is
better than a perfect plan tomorrow. What's he mean by that?
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How's this supply to politics? I'll explain in a moment.
Before I get to that, I almost forgot to tell you.
Amber Smith joins us in like ten minutes from now.
She is a wealth of knowledge about what's going on
in the military. So we're going to grab a hold
of her and get some of that knowledge in about
ten minutes from now. But let's go back to it.
The communist understands that he just has to march forward
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at all times, and in the end, even if he
ends up being stopped at some point, if he ends
up being slowed down significantly, in the end, if he
just keeps his head down and keeps destroying and keeps
destroying and keeps moving forward, that in the end he
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will be in a better position than he was when
he started. He does not do what the Republican Party does.
You want an outstanding example of this one you'll probably
hate and yet completely true. Remember we were ranting and
raven recently about the GOP and their new stance on abortion.
Ah roversus, way, he got overturned. I'm glad it's going
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back to the states. That's fine. What is it is?
The state's issue. And then Arizona, their Supreme Court comes
out and says, okay, it's banned here. And then immediately
the GOPI, oh my gosh, we're gonna lose elections.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
What if we lose.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Elections and you got Carrie Lake out there, Why they
need to address this. We gotta get more abortions. And
Trump jumps in there too, Yeah, they got we need
more abortions. This is crazy, just panicking the culture. The
elections what if we lose? Guys, you know what they do.
Here's a headline for you. I just so respect this
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and I would kill for these people on our side. Headline,
New York Attorney General Latitia James is trying to shut
down every pro life pregnancy center in New York State.
Letitia James, she didn't take her position as New York
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ag sit her tubby butt down in the chair and
take a big old lick at that fat finger of
hers and stick it up in the air to see
which way the wind's blowing on life pro life. I'm
not really sure have we pulled tested it? Guys. I
don't want to make these people uncomfortable. What do we
do here? Latitia James doesn't have time for that, because
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Letitia James is too busy worrying about winning. She wants
to win. So Letitia James is going to spend every
waking moment she sits in that office marching forward with
her demonic plans. And she's gonna chew up and spit
out every good thing that gets put in front of
her face. And that's the things she doesn't swallow, and
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that's a lot of things. And she's just gonna keep
going and going and going and going, because Letitia James
wants to win, and Letitia James understands real power, not
poll tested power. Now, well, I don't know. Have we
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checked with win between the ages of twenty two to
twenty six if we focus on the top marginal rates.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I don't want to lose to have a You never
see it, You never see it from them. You know,
it's not popular with anybody. Dudes beating up women in sports.
Nobody thinks that's popular. Nobody thinks that's good. You look
out on the female rugby course or the field, I'm sorry,
and you have some dude out there knocking women's teeth out.
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Every American looks at that and he's disgusted and he
knows it's wrong. Men, women, children, they look at it
and they know what's wrong, and they're gross. And yet
one hundred percent of the Democrats in this country will
push forward with that policy. Why because they want to
win and they understand what it takes to win. They
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find an issue and no matter what the polls say,
the popularity numbers say, with this group, what about it?
Is this popular with hispanics? Have we pulled tested liberal
white women here. I don't have none of this mealy mouthed, lame,
spineless crap. They find out what they believe is right,
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and it's full steam ahead. Where are mine? Where am I? Fighters?
Like that? This is what we got here. We desperately need.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
The country needs clear moral authority.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Mike Johnson, That's what we got, pathetic. This is why
I joke about giving them all male vitality stacks from chalk.
They seriously need them. They do. They need them badly
because there is a testosterone crisis on the right. Forget
about the dirty comedies. We don't want them reproduced in
any way. The right is so scared, scared of its
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What about Congrie wid Well? Why don't you find some
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we get to the Columbia protests and stuff, let's deal
with Amber Smith. What's happening in the military. How bad
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is it? Hang on, I've got on animalisin't mean Jesse Kelly.
You're listening to the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the
Jesse Kelly Show on a Tuesday. Amber pick that song.
Chris Fleetwoodbeck figures she's a pilot. Pilots that are generally
have good taste of music. I don't know why that
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is anyway, joining me now, author of the new book
Unfit to Fight Amber Smith. Amber pilots in general are
a cocky bunch, as you probably know, but they do
have good taste in music. Why is that?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
I mean, we have to do something to pass the
time of like hours and hours in the cockpit.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I guess, I guess apparently that's it. You know what,
Let's actually begin there on hours and hours in the cockpit,
because one of the things I hear consistently from people
who are in the know now is that our pilots
across the board do not have the time in the
cockpit they used to have. For some reason, we have
this huge military amber and all this money and all
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this budget, but there's not enough fuel, there's not enough
hours in the day. What's happening.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yeah, I've been seeing the same reports that the flight
hour budget is sort of getting sacrificed for other priorities.
And you know, my flight hours came from a time
when we were heavy into the post nine to eleven wars,
and so we did get plenty of flight time. But
even back when I was flying, you know, our flight
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hour minimums and in terms of how many hours you
had to fly to stay current back here in the
States in like a six month period was extremely low.
If you were flying those numbers, it was yeah, maybe
you could still pick the helicopter up and fly, but
you were not at like an expert level. And when
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it comes to flying, especially where you have like multi
systems with weapons, systems, navigation, you know, you're listening to
five radios at once, it is something that you need
very consistent and a lot of flight hours, which cost
money in order to be the best at your job.
And yeah, we've seen the modern military taking some of
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those flight hours away, and we're seeing an uptick in accidents.
We're seeing the morale in the aviation branches just being
at an absolute low. People walking away from coming and
people wanting to get out because they're saying it's not
worth it, and to the point where they're saying it
is not safe.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Amber, can you speak to the accident and we'll get
to this. We have so much we have to get
to about the military, but it's one of the things
we do consistently on the show. When people die in training,
we try to read their names, play taps for them
at the beginning of the show. And gosh, Amber, it's
happening a lot anymore. It feels like it's increasing.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Why I think it's exactly what we hit on is
those flight hours.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
It is.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
The flight hours that they normally see are they're not
being prioritized anymore. And just like I said, flying is
a perishable skill, I say the same thing about shooting.
Like in my helicopter we had a fifty cal machine
gun and rocket pods, and you know, the more you shoot,
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the better you get. And so I think the military
does need to wake up to the fact of like
how many how many more pilots soldiers have to die
before they seem to get it. There have been ten
people have been killed since October in twelve class A accidents,
and class A means that it was more than two
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point five million dollars or a fatality. And so it's
like they are quick to blame the symptom of the problem,
throw the pilot skills under the bus. But the reality
is is they're not getting the training they need, the
hours that is absolutely necessary. So as a result, we're
seeing these these crashes.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Amber, can you explain it to the American who doesn't
understand the inner workings of the military. How do you
have a budget this size and yet the guys on
the ground, I mean, I know, I know plenty of guys.
They don't have the weapons they need. We don't have
the artillery rounds, the one fifty fives are disappearing. We
already talked about the flight hours. So if the budget's big,
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where or where Amber is the money going.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
So the if the Department of Defense was a private
you know, civilian, public sector or private sector business, it
would be out of business. The fiscal mismanaged there is grotesque.
They have never, like absolutely never been able to pass
an audit. So you go thin. Think at the commander level,
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they have to do their inventory inspections. If you have
something that's missing, it is like a like catastrophic event
for that commander. But you go up to the top
level of the Department of Defense, they can't account for
billions of dollars, like where is that money going? And
then when they get audited and they can't pass, Washington
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DC does what Washington d C does, which is look
the other way, and they're like, hmm, okay, just another year.
We get to add one more year to that audit
that's never been passed. But there is no accountability and
no consequences. And sadly, as with everything that comes with
poor leadership and playing politics with the Pentagon, it is
a lower level soldier that pays the consequences because of it.
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And just like we're seeing in aviation right now, they're
no longer it's no longer safer than to fly because
it is the conditions that they are pushed into without
having the experience level that they need and getting those
hours on a monthly level is causing these accidents.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Speaking with Amber Smith, veteran, she has a new book
out called Unfit to Fight, you might want to pick
up if you want an inside look on what's going
on in the military and actually, let's nail down on
something before we get to leadership and accountability and things
like that. Although these issues are connected, retention obviously, recruiting
numbers get all kinds of headlines today and it is
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a big deal. But Amber, we're not retaining people, retaining
people with wealth of knowledge rattling around in their heads.
We're losing them, and we're losing them quickly. I know
several Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I say the retention crisis is quieter, but it is
absolutely worse than the recruitment crisis. And it's because it
is going to be ongoing. They're not just going to
be able to throw money at the problem. And why
are they getting out Because they are getting an inside
look into the reality of what the Department of Defense
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in the military has become. And it's ugly and it
is a shift away from mission priorities to chasing you know,
social sort of popularity to a very small demographic. And
they are losing some battle tested patriotic Americans because of it.
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We saw it with the COVID mandate purge. They did it.
It was self inflicted with the Afghanistan evacuation in terms
of losing the Afghanistan veteran demographic, in terms of being
pro military encouraging people to serve. The Department of Defense
has for decades now relied on the veterans demographic being
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a sort of organic recruiter. And it's to become a
family business where if you had like a parents or
grandparents serve, you were much more likely to serve. And
veterans often promoted service to their kids. That's not happening
for every single Dozens of active duty and recently retired
or ets left the military recently in the last few years.
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Of every single person that I interviewed for this book,
the last question that I asked was would you recommend
military service to your kids or someone you know in
your influence your community. Not one person said yes. In fact,
they immediately said no. One said they would consider the
Air National Guard, but not even in its current states.
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So that is absolutely like the effects of that we
will see and it will be disastrous military moving forward,
and the all volunteer force that everyone's gotten used to.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Speaking with Amber Smith, Amber, I haven't even had a
chance to get to the leadership stuff and we're kind
of running up against a break here. Do you buy
chance that I should have asked you off the or
do you have time for another segment ten minutes so
we can go over some of the leadership and accountability
and where we've fallen short there.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Yeah, absolutely, okay, speaking.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
With Amber Smith, veteran, her book is Unfit to Fight.
You need to go pick up that book. It really
is important to understand what the problems are because those
problems are going to come to the forefront whenever things
get a little spicy out there. The average person doesn't
see it. Now you will see it, though you know
what else you're going to see? Saw it today? One
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point five trillion dollar farm bill gonna start making its
way through Congress. Trillion with a t. These people really
are not slowing down, so it doesn't they hear things
like this and they don't give a question. Clair Murray
has been renting for almost a decade. The thirty year
old pharmaceutical researcher says she can afford to buy a home,
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but isn't sure it's the right investment for her.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
I have seen the economy change, I have seen the
house market really blown up in a way that kind.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Of Please tell me you're taking steps to protect yourself
from these people by some tangible things you can hold
in your hands that have value. Nothing lasts like precious metals.
You don't have to take my word for it. Go
open up a history book. Nothing will last like that.
It's not subject to the whims of Chuck Schumer or
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Mitch McConnell, Carl Oxford Gold Group eight three three nine
nine five Gold and let them take care of you. Okay,
all right, we'll be back with Amber Smith. Hang on,
this is the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse
Kelly's show. Well on a Tuesday, speaking with veteran author
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Amber Smith, she wrote the book Unfit to Fight about
just how bad it is in the military and that
leads me to military leadership. Now, Amber, full disclosure. I
was just a stupid, very average four year grunt, and
I did not care for officers present company excluded. But
what I've seen from the Flag Officer Corps, both in
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my time in and now when I've gotten out, has
only reinforced that belief. I'm mortified by the high ranking
officers in the United States military.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Well, I will clarify that I was a warrant officer.
And then second of all, I guess the officers that
we see today have evolved from World War Two where
they had to prove themselves on the battlefield, actually win
in combat, or they got fired, and that was common
standard practice. If you fast forward to Vietnam, that's when
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things started to change at the Pentagon where they didn't
like that black eye that they viewed is what they
were perceived as when they fired a general for lack
of performance, for their inability to conduct their job, and
they circle the wagons. And now you know, decades later,
that culture wrought has only gotten worse, and today it
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is extremely rare to see a general get fired for performance.
They may get fired for personal conduct, but they do
not get fired for doing a bad job at being
a leader that our lower troops rely on. They have
their yes men. That's how you fail up in the
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military today. If you become a yesman at the rank
of you know, six and above, you are a politician.
And that's a hard pill for a lot of people
to swallow, but that is what happens. They learn you're
going to think or swim, and if you stand on
principle and you know do what is right in terms
of following the constitution, what's right for the military and
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those who are your subordinates below you, and not you know,
chasing these these politicians agendas. You know, you get silenced,
get you don't get promoted. If you nod your head
yes a lot and toe the line, you find yourself
moving up. And that's you know what we're seeing in
the senior officer corps today.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Aber how much do the academies have to do with
this stuff? Not that I was ever welcome on any
of those campuses. I never had the grades, but the
academies are important. It's important to have outstanding military academies.
And the things I hear out of all of them
now are it's bad. It's really bad. And that's where
so much of the senior leadership comes from.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Well that's what I taught. When I often talk about
how do we fix this? It's going to be extremely
hard because the military academies have been infiltrated you and
those are our future military leaders. So they get four
years of you knowical race theory that pushes the agenda
that somehow America is an oppressor and has all of
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these problems, that these you know, young adults who are
tasked with defending our nation and leading troops in combats
are saying, wait, why am I serving my country? What
am I doing? And putting that sort of doubt in
their heads where they focus on uniqueness and individuality and
really taking away from the teamwork and the cohesion that's
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absolutely necessary for trust between that commander and subordinate relationship.
And so you thought from the top, one of the
worst you know, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
that America has ever seen, General Mark Millie, testifying on
Capitol Hill about white rage and how he thinks that
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critical race theory should be taught at the academies because
he's white and he wants to learn about what white
rage is. And then you know, you have the Secretary
of Defense say like full deniability, saying he doesn't even
know what any of this is and it's not taught
at the service academies, when it doesn't take that much
investigative work to find out that they have classes on whiteness.
(33:14):
So it's just the fact that this these woke policies
and this woke agenda has infiltrated the service academies is
going to have lasting effects. You know throughout this military
generation that we're seeing in terms of how they are
going to lead the military moving forward, and it's not
it has very negative effects.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Amber if we were to as we wrap this up here,
if we were to get a president who wanted it
fixed and he started to dig into these problems, and
you lay a lot of this stuff out in your book,
how long until we can have it fixed? That's what
I'm worried. How deep the rot has gone? If I
could explain my question and a little bit of a
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better fashion, I'm worried that it's so rotted that we're
facing fifty years of fixing it. Am I wrong?
Speaker 4 (34:04):
I don't think you're wrong. I think it's in for
the long haul. I think it's not gonna be something
that's going to be reversed, you know, with up with
a new president, he'll be able to, like, you know,
rip up the executive orders that are pushing some of
the woke policies. But in terms of the culture, that's
what's going to take forever to change. But I mean
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they have to start somewhere, and that starts with leadership
pushing the military to get back to a meritocracy. With
all of this DEI push that they've had, it's taken
away from the meritocracy, and it has to if we
want good Americans to serve in the military, they have
to get back to the best person for the best
for the job gets selected, not because of characteristics that
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someone is born with, or you know, a political of
a president wanting a military that looks more like America.
That's not going to work. That's going to lead to
failure time and time again. The other thing is accountability.
As we've talked about, there is none in the modern
day military. There is at the lower ranks. The lower
ranks will still be held accountable, but it is a
two tier justice system. There are double standards running rampants
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up at the top where you know, look at Secretary
of Austin going a wall for a week, not telling
his deputy, and he went under the knight he had
surgery who was running the Department of Defense while he
was incapacitated, And the answer is no one. He was
not held accountable. If a private did that, he would
face UCMJAY action, which come with legal consequences. So soldiers
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see that and they see exactly how they're getting treated
to one set of standards and leadership is treated to another.
So accountability has to make a comeback in the military
if we want to see any changes as well, along
with the meritocracy.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
She is Amber Smith. Her book Unfit to Fight is
available everywhere you track down books. Amber, thank you so much.
I appreciate you as always. I'm sure we will talk
again soon. All right, now, there were some speeches given today.
Mike Johnson gave a speech, Oklahoma's governor, Kevin Stitt gave
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a speech, and these speeches were about hate speech and
college campuses in Colombia, the anti Semitism that's going on.
And look, none of this is good for America. None
of it is, and I mean none of it is.
What's happening on the campuses is bad. The GOP's response, Surprise, Surprise,
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is equally as detestable. And we will discuss all of
it and the ratchet of the cultural shift next
This is a Jesse Kelly show. It is the Jesse
Kelly Show. Let's have some fun on a Tuesday, and
it's gonna be a huge Tuesday. Tonight. We're gonna discuss
the naivete of a portion of the right, not you,
(00:34):
but you know people like this. Will discuss that Democrats
running cover for Mike Johnson. New York Attorney General Letitia
James is on the attack and I admire it. I
will explain what I mean by that.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
We have well.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Problems on university campuses and the country promises for Democrats. Ay,
very cold administration. Ah. That's so much more coming up
tonight on the world famous Jesse Kelly's Show. But I
actually want to begin here with a story that you
probably haven't heard about today unless you read the Post Millennial.
(01:17):
The story's out there, but the post millennials the one
who ran the headline. But I realize it's not on
everyone's tongue. What's everyone talking about today? The protests still protests,
and you see what's happening at Columbia. Did you a bit?
I know, I know that's all anyone can talk about
right now, but not here. I'll get to that in
a little bit, but not here. I saw this headline
(01:42):
and it bummed me out. The headline was this conservative
Christian family shocked to find a trans woman playing the
evil queen after paying three hundred dollars for dinner with
Disney characters. Right, So what happened there? Well, at Walt
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Disney World. In fact, I went to We took the
kids to Disney World. I think ten years ago. It
was bad, but it was before it got really really bad.
We took the kids down there and I remember they
had a breakfast you could sign up for. You could go,
the kids could go, sit down, and you have people
running around and mickey and mini costumes and all that crap.
(02:23):
You know, you know how it is. Okay, So conservative
Christian family shows up and they think it's going to
be some evil queen, and you would think it would
be a woman, but no, it's some training dude, just
helicopter in his way around the dinner, okay, and they're
shocked about it. Pause on that for a moment. Let's
pause on that. I would say three or four years ago,
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a guy I know, I was lightly acquainted with him,
lightly acquainted with him. He was a pastor. He was
a pastor at a church. It was a big church.
Down here, a guy who I knew, and it was actually,
you wanted to talk about some kind of business thing related,
It doesn't matter what it is. But he said, hey,
you want to go out, Hey, let's have a cup
of coffee talk about this this business thing. Yeah, sure,
(03:09):
that's fine. His pastor, right, his pastor. We go out
and I sit down with this pastor and he was
the pastor of I didn't go to it, but it
was a big church. There were a lot of people there.
I think couple thousand people. It was big church. It's
big people. And this is a guy who had his doctorate,
you know, just doctor this. This was a man in
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his fifties, late fifties, so well read. This dude reads books.
This dude is highly educated, extremely eloquent, good at speaking
in front of people, outstanding values. And we got the
conversation got political as we were sitting there, and this
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man was sitting in front of me, and again we
were there to talk business, and he knew a lot
about that too. So I'm sitting in front of this
guy in fifties and that's when you're really really, you're
really starting to get wise, I'm years away from that,
obviously accomplished in his career. In his career as being
a pastor, successful at that wonderful man, well thought of
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in the community. And when the subject turned to politics,
we were actually discussing a border issue at the time.
It was like I went from talking to an adult
man who was wiser than me provided guidance we were
discussing issues. It was like I went from talking to
that guy to speaking to a child who lived alone
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in the wilderness his entire life. He knew everything about
everything if you wanted to know about Matthew, Mark, Luke,
and John and the Old Testament. Chris. He knew all
kinds of things about business, depreciation, interest rates, courtly. He
knew so much fifty some years on this planet. And
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as soon as we got political, and it went deeper
from there, we kept going. He was like an innocent
little baby who had never heard of politics before. I
look at a headline like this and it makes my
jaw drop how disengaged so many people are. And I'm
(05:27):
not gonna call him out by name, because they don't
deserve that or anything like that. If you're a quote
conservative Christian family and you're taking your child to Disney
World and you're shocked that Trina the Tranny is coming
out playing Ariel the Redhead from Little Mermaid. If that
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shocks you, you're stunned by that? What are you doing?
What are you paying attention? Why are you disengaged? Why
don't you know? I will tell you I left that
meeting with that pastor, And it's not that I didn't
have rammense respect for him still, it's not that I
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didn't want to do some business stuff with him, and
it's not any of that. And it's not that I
wouldn't have attended his church. I would have attended his church.
It's not that. But I'll be honest with you, my
view of him from that point on.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
It was.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Lower. A little of that shine was off because I
remember thinking then the exact way I think now. Forget
your age, forget your leadership role as a pastor or
a manager, or a dad or a husband or a
father or whatever it may be. As an American citizen,
as a human being, and as someone who cares about children, family, community, culture.
(06:54):
How do you not know what's going on? You never
read anything? I mean today today information if you want
it is available everywhere. You can turn into a political
expert in this country while driving a truck. I'm talking semis.
(07:21):
How many truckers are listening right now, nodding their head
as I just said that too. You could become because
of the wealth of information available in the palm of
your hand, podcast radio, my goodness. When you get where
you're going, you can sit in stream information on your
iPad in the parking lot, endless options, read books on tape.
(07:43):
Chris can't even read, and he consumes books.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Information is just dying to be pumped into your eyes
and ears and your brain now, and we have all
these good people who don't have a dag gone clue
what is going on, and it blows me away.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
And it's killing us. Honestly, that's what's killing us, the
good people. Because they're good people. They don't want to
get involved in the icky business, in the divisive business,
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the anger causing business of communists, of politics, of Republicans,
of Democrats, because politics is an ugly business, always has been,
always will be good people in this country, in an
effort to stay quote good or whatever that whatever however
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you want to classify, that have divorced themselves from the process,
and as a result, it's made the politics of this
country ten times dirtier than it would have otherwise been.
We need the good people to engage, We need them involved,
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We need them in the very least knowledgeable about what's
going on in this culture, in our government, in our
federal government, state government, local governments. We need good people
to care enough to spend ten minutes a day. Who
doesn't have ten minutes a day. You're in a car,
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you're on a treadmill.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Whatever you're doing.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
You're waiting for the kids to finish soccer practice with
some earbuds in your ear. How in the name of
everything holy, is it possible for an entire quote conservative
Christian family to be stunned that you ran into a
tranny at Disney World. And I'm doing the best I
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can to be merciful right now, I am, But man,
h at some point in time, if you don't know,
that's on you, man, If you don't know it's intentional.
At this point in time, you're a fifty some year
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old pastor and you don't know anything about politics, you're
a conservative Christian family, and you don't know that Disney
is rantsid phil Why all right, all right, enough, I'm
about to shock you, and maybe that did it. I'm
(10:37):
about to praise Leticia James, New York's dirtball communist age
Latsia James is about to get a big old salute
from me. Hang on, this is the Jesse Kelly Show.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
It is that Jesse Kelly Show. Reminding you you can
email the show, and you should email the show of hate,
death threats, whatever you want. Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com.
Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. Yes, I'm gonna get
to the latest and greatest on the protests and the
hostage situation and all this stuff here in just a
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few I just want to point something else out. We've
been talking a lot about the ratchet right, the cultural ratchet.
Why why we've never seen the pendulum as much as
we love to lie ourselves about lied to ourselves about
that that. Ah man, they've gone too far this time, guys.
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It's getting ready to swing back to the right.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Whoa, it's gonna swing to the right hard. Yet it's
never really swung to the right. Oh, they've lost an
election here or there, but culturally it's only gone left.
Why is it a ratchet and not a pendulum. Why
is that. Well, one of the reasons is they use power.
They use power, and they don't lick their finger and
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stick it in the air and see which way the
wind is blowing, because they understand naked aggression accomplishes a lot.
There's a wonderful saying. One of my favorite quotes of
all time is this. You ever heard this quote? This
is a patent quote. He might have stolen it from somebody.
I don't care if he did. I say it's a
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patent quote, but it's a great quote. And here's the quote.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a
perfect plan tomorrow. A good plan violently executed now is
better than a perfect plan tomorrow. What's he mean by that?
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How's this supply to politics? I'll explain in a moment.
Before I get to that, I almost forgot to tell you.
Amber Smith joins us in like ten minutes from now.
She is a wealth of knowledge about what's going on
in the military. So we're going to grab a hold
of her and get some of that knowledge in about
ten minutes from now. But let's go back to it.
The communist understands that he just has to march forward
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at all times, and in the end, even if he
ends up being stopped at some point, if he ends
up being slowed down significantly, in the end, if he
just keeps his head down and keeps destroying and keeps
destroying and keeps moving forward, that in the end he
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will be in a better position than he was when
he started. He does not do what the Republican Party does.
You want an outstanding example of this one you'll probably
hate and yet completely true. Remember we were ranting and
raven recently about the GOP and their new stance on abortion.
Ah roversus, way, he got overturned. I'm glad it's going
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back to the states. That's fine. What is it is?
The state's issue. And then Arizona, their Supreme Court comes
out and says, okay, it's banned here. And then immediately
the GOPI, oh my gosh, we're gonna lose elections.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
What if we lose.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Elections and you got Carrie Lake out there, Why they
need to address this. We gotta get more abortions. And
Trump jumps in there too, Yeah, they got we need
more abortions. This is crazy, just panicking the culture. The
elections what if we lose? Guys, you know what they do.
Here's a headline for you. I just so respect this
(14:34):
and I would kill for these people on our side. Headline,
New York Attorney General Latitia James is trying to shut
down every pro life pregnancy center in New York State.
Letitia James, she didn't take her position as New York
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ag sit her tubby butt down in the chair and
take a big old lick at that fat finger of
hers and stick it up in the air to see
which way the wind's blowing on life pro life. I'm
not really sure have we pulled tested it? Guys. I
don't want to make these people uncomfortable. What do we
do here? Latitia James doesn't have time for that, because
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Letitia James is too busy worrying about winning. She wants
to win. So Letitia James is going to spend every
waking moment she sits in that office marching forward with
her demonic plans. And she's gonna chew up and spit
out every good thing that gets put in front of
her face. And that's the things she doesn't swallow, and
(15:38):
that's a lot of things. And she's just gonna keep
going and going and going and going, because Letitia James
wants to win, and Letitia James understands real power, not
poll tested power. Now, well, I don't know. Have we
(15:59):
checked with win between the ages of twenty two to
twenty six if we focus on the top marginal rates.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
I don't want to lose to have a You never
see it, You never see it from them. You know,
it's not popular with anybody. Dudes beating up women in sports.
Nobody thinks that's popular. Nobody thinks that's good. You look
out on the female rugby course or the field, I'm sorry,
and you have some dude out there knocking women's teeth out.
(16:30):
Every American looks at that and he's disgusted and he
knows it's wrong. Men, women, children, they look at it
and they know what's wrong, and they're gross. And yet
one hundred percent of the Democrats in this country will
push forward with that policy. Why because they want to
win and they understand what it takes to win. They
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find an issue and no matter what the polls say,
the popularity numbers say, with this group, what about it?
Is this popular with hispanics? Have we pulled tested liberal
white women here. I don't have none of this mealy mouthed, lame,
spineless crap. They find out what they believe is right,
(17:13):
and it's full steam ahead. Where are mine? Where am I? Fighters?
Like that? This is what we got here. We desperately need.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
The country needs clear moral authority.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Mike Johnson, That's what we got, pathetic. This is why
I joke about giving them all male vitality stacks from chalk.
They seriously need them. They do. They need them badly
because there is a testosterone crisis on the right. Forget
about the dirty comedies. We don't want them reproduced in
any way. The right is so scared, scared of its
(17:50):
own shadow, scared of saying unpopular. What about this election?
What about Congrie wid Well? Why don't you find some
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(18:12):
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we get to the Columbia protests and stuff, let's deal
with Amber Smith. What's happening in the military. How bad
(18:36):
is it? Hang on, I've got on animalisin't mean Jesse Kelly.
You're listening to the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the
Jesse Kelly Show on a Tuesday. Amber pick that song.
Chris Fleetwoodbeck figures she's a pilot. Pilots that are generally
have good taste of music. I don't know why that
(18:57):
is anyway, joining me now, author of the new book
Unfit to Fight Amber Smith. Amber pilots in general are
a cocky bunch, as you probably know, but they do
have good taste in music. Why is that?
Speaker 4 (19:12):
I mean, we have to do something to pass the
time of like hours and hours in the cockpit.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
I guess, I guess apparently that's it. You know what,
Let's actually begin there on hours and hours in the cockpit,
because one of the things I hear consistently from people
who are in the know now is that our pilots
across the board do not have the time in the
cockpit they used to have. For some reason, we have
this huge military amber and all this money and all
(19:41):
this budget, but there's not enough fuel, there's not enough
hours in the day. What's happening.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Yeah, I've been seeing the same reports that the flight
hour budget is sort of getting sacrificed for other priorities.
And you know, my flight hours came from a time
when we were heavy into the post nine to eleven wars,
and so we did get plenty of flight time. But
even back when I was flying, you know, our flight
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hour minimums and in terms of how many hours you
had to fly to stay current back here in the
States in like a six month period was extremely low.
If you were flying those numbers, it was yeah, maybe
you could still pick the helicopter up and fly, but
you were not at like an expert level. And when
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it comes to flying, especially where you have like multi
systems with weapons, systems, navigation, you know, you're listening to
five radios at once, it is something that you need
very consistent and a lot of flight hours, which cost
money in order to be the best at your job.
And yeah, we've seen the modern military taking some of
(20:50):
those flight hours away, and we're seeing an uptick in accidents.
We're seeing the morale in the aviation branches just being
at an absolute low. People walking away from coming and
people wanting to get out because they're saying it's not
worth it, and to the point where they're saying it
is not safe.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Amber, can you speak to the accident and we'll get
to this. We have so much we have to get
to about the military, but it's one of the things
we do consistently on the show. When people die in training,
we try to read their names, play taps for them
at the beginning of the show. And gosh, Amber, it's
happening a lot anymore. It feels like it's increasing.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Why I think it's exactly what we hit on is
those flight hours.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
It is.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
The flight hours that they normally see are they're not
being prioritized anymore. And just like I said, flying is
a perishable skill, I say the same thing about shooting.
Like in my helicopter we had a fifty cal machine
gun and rocket pods, and you know, the more you shoot,
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the better you get. And so I think the military
does need to wake up to the fact of like
how many how many more pilots soldiers have to die
before they seem to get it. There have been ten
people have been killed since October in twelve class A accidents,
and class A means that it was more than two
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point five million dollars or a fatality. And so it's
like they are quick to blame the symptom of the problem,
throw the pilot skills under the bus. But the reality
is is they're not getting the training they need, the
hours that is absolutely necessary. So as a result, we're
seeing these these crashes.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Amber, can you explain it to the American who doesn't
understand the inner workings of the military. How do you
have a budget this size and yet the guys on
the ground, I mean, I know, I know plenty of guys.
They don't have the weapons they need. We don't have
the artillery rounds, the one fifty fives are disappearing. We
already talked about the flight hours. So if the budget's big,
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where or where Amber is the money going.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
So the if the Department of Defense was a private
you know, civilian, public sector or private sector business, it
would be out of business. The fiscal mismanaged there is grotesque.
They have never, like absolutely never been able to pass
an audit. So you go thin. Think at the commander level,
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they have to do their inventory inspections. If you have
something that's missing, it is like a like catastrophic event
for that commander. But you go up to the top
level of the Department of Defense, they can't account for
billions of dollars, like where is that money going? And
then when they get audited and they can't pass, Washington
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DC does what Washington d C does, which is look
the other way, and they're like, hmm, okay, just another year.
We get to add one more year to that audit
that's never been passed. But there is no accountability and
no consequences. And sadly, as with everything that comes with
poor leadership and playing politics with the Pentagon, it is
a lower level soldier that pays the consequences because of it.
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And just like we're seeing in aviation right now, they're
no longer it's no longer safer than to fly because
it is the conditions that they are pushed into without
having the experience level that they need and getting those
hours on a monthly level is causing these accidents.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Speaking with Amber Smith, veteran, she has a new book
out called Unfit to Fight, you might want to pick
up if you want an inside look on what's going
on in the military and actually, let's nail down on
something before we get to leadership and accountability and things
like that. Although these issues are connected, retention obviously, recruiting
numbers get all kinds of headlines today and it is
(24:52):
a big deal. But Amber, we're not retaining people, retaining
people with wealth of knowledge rattling around in their heads.
We're losing them, and we're losing them quickly. I know
several Yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
I say the retention crisis is quieter, but it is
absolutely worse than the recruitment crisis. And it's because it
is going to be ongoing. They're not just going to
be able to throw money at the problem. And why
are they getting out Because they are getting an inside
look into the reality of what the Department of Defense
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in the military has become. And it's ugly and it
is a shift away from mission priorities to chasing you know,
social sort of popularity to a very small demographic. And
they are losing some battle tested patriotic Americans because of it.
(25:47):
We saw it with the COVID mandate purge. They did it.
It was self inflicted with the Afghanistan evacuation in terms
of losing the Afghanistan veteran demographic, in terms of being
pro military encouraging people to serve. The Department of Defense
has for decades now relied on the veterans demographic being
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a sort of organic recruiter. And it's to become a
family business where if you had like a parents or
grandparents serve, you were much more likely to serve. And
veterans often promoted service to their kids. That's not happening
for every single Dozens of active duty and recently retired
or ets left the military recently in the last few years.
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Of every single person that I interviewed for this book,
the last question that I asked was would you recommend
military service to your kids or someone you know in
your influence your community. Not one person said yes. In fact,
they immediately said no. One said they would consider the
Air National Guard, but not even in its current states.
(26:53):
So that is absolutely like the effects of that we
will see and it will be disastrous military moving forward,
and the all volunteer force that everyone's gotten used to.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Speaking with Amber Smith, Amber, I haven't even had a
chance to get to the leadership stuff and we're kind
of running up against a break here. Do you buy
chance that I should have asked you off the or
do you have time for another segment ten minutes so
we can go over some of the leadership and accountability
and where we've fallen short there.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Yeah, absolutely, okay, speaking.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
With Amber Smith, veteran, her book is Unfit to Fight.
You need to go pick up that book. It really
is important to understand what the problems are because those
problems are going to come to the forefront whenever things
get a little spicy out there. The average person doesn't
see it. Now you will see it, though you know
what else you're going to see? Saw it today? One
(27:47):
point five trillion dollar farm bill gonna start making its
way through Congress. Trillion with a t. These people really
are not slowing down, so it doesn't they hear things
like this and they don't give a question. Clair Murray
has been renting for almost a decade. The thirty year
old pharmaceutical researcher says she can afford to buy a home,
(28:09):
but isn't sure it's the right investment for her.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
I have seen the economy change, I have seen the
house market really blown up in a way that kind.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Of Please tell me you're taking steps to protect yourself
from these people by some tangible things you can hold
in your hands that have value. Nothing lasts like precious metals.
You don't have to take my word for it. Go
open up a history book. Nothing will last like that.
It's not subject to the whims of Chuck Schumer or
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Mitch McConnell, Carl Oxford Gold Group eight three three nine
nine five Gold and let them take care of you. Okay,
all right, we'll be back with Amber Smith. Hang on,
this is the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse
Kelly's show. Well on a Tuesday, speaking with veteran author
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Amber Smith, she wrote the book Unfit to Fight about
just how bad it is in the military and that
leads me to military leadership. Now, Amber, full disclosure. I
was just a stupid, very average four year grunt, and
I did not care for officers present company excluded. But
what I've seen from the Flag Officer Corps, both in
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my time in and now when I've gotten out, has
only reinforced that belief. I'm mortified by the high ranking
officers in the United States military.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Well, I will clarify that I was a warrant officer.
And then second of all, I guess the officers that
we see today have evolved from World War Two where
they had to prove themselves on the battlefield, actually win
in combat, or they got fired, and that was common
standard practice. If you fast forward to Vietnam, that's when
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things started to change at the Pentagon where they didn't
like that black eye that they viewed is what they
were perceived as when they fired a general for lack
of performance, for their inability to conduct their job, and
they circle the wagons. And now you know, decades later,
that culture wrought has only gotten worse, and today it
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is extremely rare to see a general get fired for performance.
They may get fired for personal conduct, but they do
not get fired for doing a bad job at being
a leader that our lower troops rely on. They have
their yes men. That's how you fail up in the
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military today. If you become a yesman at the rank
of you know, six and above, you are a politician.
And that's a hard pill for a lot of people
to swallow, but that is what happens. They learn you're
going to think or swim, and if you stand on
principle and you know do what is right in terms
of following the constitution, what's right for the military and
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those who are your subordinates below you, and not you know,
chasing these these politicians agendas. You know, you get silenced,
get you don't get promoted. If you nod your head
yes a lot and toe the line, you find yourself
moving up. And that's you know what we're seeing in
the senior officer corps today.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Aber how much do the academies have to do with
this stuff? Not that I was ever welcome on any
of those campuses. I never had the grades, but the
academies are important. It's important to have outstanding military academies.
And the things I hear out of all of them
now are it's bad. It's really bad. And that's where
so much of the senior leadership comes from.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Well that's what I taught. When I often talk about
how do we fix this? It's going to be extremely
hard because the military academies have been infiltrated you and
those are our future military leaders. So they get four
years of you knowical race theory that pushes the agenda
that somehow America is an oppressor and has all of
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these problems, that these you know, young adults who are
tasked with defending our nation and leading troops in combats
are saying, wait, why am I serving my country? What
am I doing? And putting that sort of doubt in
their heads where they focus on uniqueness and individuality and
really taking away from the teamwork and the cohesion that's
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absolutely necessary for trust between that commander and subordinate relationship.
And so you thought from the top, one of the
worst you know, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
that America has ever seen, General Mark Millie, testifying on
Capitol Hill about white rage and how he thinks that
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critical race theory should be taught at the academies because
he's white and he wants to learn about what white
rage is. And then you know, you have the Secretary
of Defense say like full deniability, saying he doesn't even
know what any of this is and it's not taught
at the service academies, when it doesn't take that much
investigative work to find out that they have classes on whiteness.
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So it's just the fact that this these woke policies
and this woke agenda has infiltrated the service academies is
going to have lasting effects. You know throughout this military
generation that we're seeing in terms of how they are
going to lead the military moving forward, and it's not
it has very negative effects.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Amber if we were to as we wrap this up here,
if we were to get a president who wanted it
fixed and he started to dig into these problems, and
you lay a lot of this stuff out in your book,
how long until we can have it fixed? That's what
I'm worried. How deep the rot has gone? If I
could explain my question and a little bit of a
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better fashion, I'm worried that it's so rotted that we're
facing fifty years of fixing it. Am I wrong?
Speaker 4 (34:04):
I don't think you're wrong. I think it's in for
the long haul. I think it's not gonna be something
that's going to be reversed, you know, with up with
a new president, he'll be able to, like, you know,
rip up the executive orders that are pushing some of
the woke policies. But in terms of the culture, that's
what's going to take forever to change. But I mean
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they have to start somewhere, and that starts with leadership
pushing the military to get back to a meritocracy. With
all of this DEI push that they've had, it's taken
away from the meritocracy, and it has to if we
want good Americans to serve in the military, they have
to get back to the best person for the best
for the job gets selected, not because of characteristics that
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someone is born with, or you know, a political of
a president wanting a military that looks more like America.
That's not going to work. That's going to lead to
failure time and time again. The other thing is accountability.
As we've talked about, there is none in the modern
day military. There is at the lower ranks. The lower
ranks will still be held accountable, but it is a
two tier justice system. There are double standards running rampants
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up at the top where you know, look at Secretary
of Austin going a wall for a week, not telling
his deputy, and he went under the knight he had
surgery who was running the Department of Defense while he
was incapacitated, And the answer is no one. He was
not held accountable. If a private did that, he would
face UCMJAY action, which come with legal consequences. So soldiers
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see that and they see exactly how they're getting treated
to one set of standards and leadership is treated to another.
So accountability has to make a comeback in the military
if we want to see any changes as well, along
with the meritocracy.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
She is Amber Smith. Her book Unfit to Fight is
available everywhere you track down books. Amber, thank you so much.
I appreciate you as always. I'm sure we will talk
again soon. All right, now, there were some speeches given today.
Mike Johnson gave a speech, Oklahoma's governor, Kevin Stitt gave
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a speech, and these speeches were about hate speech and
college campuses in Colombia, the anti Semitism that's going on.
And look, none of this is good for America. None
of it is, and I mean none of it is.
What's happening on the campuses is bad. The GOP's response, Surprise, Surprise,
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is equally as detestable. And we will discuss all of
it and the ratchet of the cultural shift next
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