Foaming for War: When Influencers Cheer Conflict and Forget the Cost

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Ahead of Trump’s speech, right-wing influencers worked themselves into a frenzy over rumors of a new war with Venezuela—treating the prospect of conflict as something to celebrate. In this commentary, Chris calls out the disturbing enthusiasm for sending young Americans to fight and die, the hypocrisy of self-proclaimed Christian values, and America’s endless addiction to “wars” we never seem to win. From Afghanistan to the so-called wars on terror, drugs, and poverty, the lesson is clear: we were promised restraint, not reckless escalation. The question is simple—when will we finally stop cheering for war?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
I was little nervous yesterday afternoon because I saw all
of these right wing influencers foaming at the mouth, foaming
at the mouth in excitement that Trump in his speech
was going to announce that we're going to war. We're
going to war in Venezuela. Oh. When they were fired up,

(00:36):
they're putting out little tweets and messages and all sorts
of stuff. And these are again, these are right wing
them today they claim to be good Christians. Foaming at them,
I could I kill. It's gotta be great. Trump's good
announce we're going to war? Are you kidding me? That's
a good day. That's something that excites you that you're

(00:59):
fired up.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
About out sending young people out to go kill and
maybe be killed.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
You're you're fired up about that? Again. It kind of
shows who these people are. I don't know who gave
them that information. They're supposed to be in a no,
I don't know if the Trump administration purposely threw them off,
uh yesterday afternoon. But what does that? What does that
say about these influencers? What is it what to say

(01:34):
about what's in their heart? Getting excited a week before
Christmas about going to war again? We again, we're in
a nation. I don't know what it is about wars.
We we love them and we again, we love them
so much. We love them so much. We name every

(01:56):
we name policies after them. Yeah, war on terror, war
on crime, war on poverty, war on drugs. And I
mean one thing, when one war after another that we
continue to fight, we don't win any We don't win
war in Afghanistan twenty years, Taliban with Taliban. When are

(02:23):
we gonna stop with our wars? And again, I know,
I know he got a you know, military, good old
Eisenhower military industrial complex that he warned us about. But
we voted for Trump to keep us out of wars.
I want to mind everybody that that was. That was

(02:45):
one of the one of the salesboa were he wanted
to keep us out of conflict and out of wars
and praying, praying that we're not going to be getting
involved anywhere else. Watch talk on Wall street dot com,