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Speaker 1: Kelly Show. Let's have some fun on a Tuesday, and

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a huge Tuesday. Tonight. We're gonna discuss

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Speaker 1: the naivete of a portion of the right, not you,

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Speaker 1: but you know people like this. Will discuss that Democrats

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Speaker 1: running cover for Mike Johnson. New York Attorney General Letitia

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Speaker 2: We have well.

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Speaker 1: Problems on university campuses and the country promises for Democrats. Ay,

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Speaker 1: very cold administration. Ah. That's so much more coming up

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Speaker 1: tonight on the world famous Jesse Kelly's Show. But I

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Speaker 1: actually want to begin here with a story that you

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Speaker 1: probably haven't heard about today unless you read the Post Millennial.

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Speaker 1: The story's out there, but the post millennials the one

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Speaker 1: who ran the headline. But I realize it's not on

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Speaker 1: everyone's tongue. What's everyone talking about today? The protests still protests,

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Speaker 1: and you see what's happening at Columbia. Did you a bit?

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Speaker 1: a little bit, but not here. I saw this headline

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Speaker 1: Disney characters. Right, So what happened there? Well, at Walt

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Speaker 1: You know, you know how it is. Okay, So conservative

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Speaker 1: Lower. A little of that shine was off because I

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Speaker 1: remember thinking then the exact way I think now. Forget

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Speaker 1: How do you not know what's going on? You never

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Speaker 1: read anything? I mean today today information if you want

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Speaker 1: it is available everywhere. You can turn into a political

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Speaker 1: How many truckers are listening right now, nodding their head

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Speaker 1: your hand, podcast radio, my goodness. When you get where

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Speaker 1: iPad in the parking lot, endless options, read books on tape.

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Speaker 1: Chris can't even read, and he consumes books.

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Speaker 3: Information is just dying to be pumped into your eyes

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Speaker 1: And it's killing us. Honestly, that's what's killing us, the

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Speaker 1: good people. Because they're good people. They don't want to

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Speaker 1: the anger causing business of communists, of politics, of Republicans,

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Speaker 1: We need the good people to engage, We need them involved,

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Speaker 3: Whatever you're doing.

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Speaker 1: You're waiting for the kids to finish soccer practice with

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Speaker 1: At this point in time, you're a fifty some year

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Speaker 1: about to praise Leticia James, New York's dirtball communist age

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Speaker 1: from me. Hang on, this is the Jesse Kelly Show.

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Speaker 2: It is that Jesse Kelly Show. Reminding you you can

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Speaker 2: email the show, and you should email the show of hate,

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Speaker 2: Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. Yes, I'm gonna get

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Speaker 2: to the latest and greatest on the protests and the

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Speaker 2: Why why we've never seen the pendulum as much as

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Speaker 2: It's getting ready to swing back to the right.

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Speaker 1: Whoa, it's gonna swing to the right hard. Yet it's

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Speaker 1: all time is this. You ever heard this quote? This

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Speaker 1: She is a wealth of knowledge about what's going on

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Speaker 1: in the military. So we're going to grab a hold

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Speaker 1: The communist understands that he just has to march forward

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Speaker 1: You want an outstanding example of this one you'll probably

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Speaker 1: hate and yet completely true. Remember we were ranting and

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Speaker 1: Ah roversus, way, he got overturned. I'm glad it's going

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Speaker 1: The state's issue. And then Arizona, their Supreme Court comes

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Speaker 1: Elections and you got Carrie Lake out there, Why they

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Speaker 1: Trump jumps in there too, Yeah, they got we need

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Speaker 1: more abortions. This is crazy, just panicking the culture. The

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Speaker 1: elections what if we lose? Guys, you know what they do.

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Speaker 1: Here's a headline for you. I just so respect this

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Speaker 1: New York Attorney General Latitia James is trying to shut

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Speaker 1: With Amber Smith, veteran, her book is Unfit to Fight.

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Speaker 1: what else you're going to see? Saw it today? One

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Speaker 1: point five trillion dollar farm bill gonna start making its

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Speaker 1: way through Congress. Trillion with a t. These people really

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Speaker 1: are not slowing down, so it doesn't they hear things

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Speaker 1: like this and they don't give a question. Clair Murray

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Speaker 1: has been renting for almost a decade. The thirty year

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Speaker 1: old pharmaceutical researcher says she can afford to buy a home,

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Speaker 1: but isn't sure it's the right investment for her.

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Speaker 4: I have seen the economy change, I have seen the

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Speaker 4: house market really blown up in a way that kind.

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Speaker 1: Of Please tell me you're taking steps to protect yourself

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Speaker 1: from these people by some tangible things you can hold

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Speaker 1: in your hands that have value. Nothing lasts like precious metals.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to take my word for it. Go

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Speaker 1: open up a history book. Nothing will last like that.

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Speaker 1: It's not subject to the whims of Chuck Schumer or

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Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell, Carl Oxford Gold Group eight three three nine

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Speaker 1: nine five Gold and let them take care of you. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, we'll be back with Amber Smith. Hang on,

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Speaker 1: this is the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse

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Speaker 1: Kelly's show. Well on a Tuesday, speaking with veteran author

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Speaker 1: Amber Smith, she wrote the book Unfit to Fight about

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Speaker 1: just how bad it is in the military and that

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Speaker 1: leads me to military leadership. Now, Amber, full disclosure. I

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Speaker 1: was just a stupid, very average four year grunt, and

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Speaker 1: I did not care for officers present company excluded. But

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Speaker 1: what I've seen from the Flag Officer Corps, both in

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Speaker 1: my time in and now when I've gotten out, has

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Speaker 1: only reinforced that belief. I'm mortified by the high ranking

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Speaker 1: officers in the United States military.

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Speaker 4: Well, I will clarify that I was a warrant officer.

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Speaker 4: And then second of all, I guess the officers that

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Speaker 4: we see today have evolved from World War Two where

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Speaker 4: they had to prove themselves on the battlefield, actually win

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Speaker 4: in combat, or they got fired, and that was common

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Speaker 4: standard practice. If you fast forward to Vietnam, that's when

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Speaker 4: things started to change at the Pentagon where they didn't

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Speaker 4: like that black eye that they viewed is what they

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Speaker 4: were perceived as when they fired a general for lack

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Speaker 4: of performance, for their inability to conduct their job, and

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Speaker 4: they circle the wagons. And now you know, decades later,

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Speaker 4: that culture wrought has only gotten worse, and today it

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Speaker 4: is extremely rare to see a general get fired for performance.

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Speaker 4: They may get fired for personal conduct, but they do

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Speaker 4: not get fired for doing a bad job at being

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Speaker 4: a leader that our lower troops rely on. They have

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Speaker 4: their yes men. That's how you fail up in the

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Speaker 4: military today. If you become a yesman at the rank

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Speaker 4: of you know, six and above, you are a politician.

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Speaker 4: And that's a hard pill for a lot of people

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Speaker 4: to swallow, but that is what happens. They learn you're

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Speaker 4: going to think or swim, and if you stand on

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Speaker 4: principle and you know do what is right in terms

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Speaker 4: of following the constitution, what's right for the military and

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Speaker 4: those who are your subordinates below you, and not you know,

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Speaker 4: chasing these these politicians agendas. You know, you get silenced,

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Speaker 4: get you don't get promoted. If you nod your head

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Speaker 4: yes a lot and toe the line, you find yourself

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Speaker 4: moving up. And that's you know what we're seeing in

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Speaker 4: the senior officer corps today.

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Speaker 1: Aber how much do the academies have to do with

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Speaker 1: this stuff? Not that I was ever welcome on any

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Speaker 1: of those campuses. I never had the grades, but the

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Speaker 1: academies are important. It's important to have outstanding military academies.

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Speaker 1: And the things I hear out of all of them

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Speaker 1: now are it's bad. It's really bad. And that's where

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Speaker 1: so much of the senior leadership comes from.

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Speaker 4: Well that's what I taught. When I often talk about

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Speaker 4: how do we fix this? It's going to be extremely

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Speaker 4: hard because the military academies have been infiltrated you and

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Speaker 4: those are our future military leaders. So they get four

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Speaker 4: years of you knowical race theory that pushes the agenda

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Speaker 4: that somehow America is an oppressor and has all of

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Speaker 4: these problems, that these you know, young adults who are

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Speaker 4: tasked with defending our nation and leading troops in combats

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Speaker 4: are saying, wait, why am I serving my country? What

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Speaker 4: am I doing? And putting that sort of doubt in

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Speaker 4: their heads where they focus on uniqueness and individuality and

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Speaker 4: really taking away from the teamwork and the cohesion that's

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Speaker 4: absolutely necessary for trust between that commander and subordinate relationship.

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Speaker 4: And so you thought from the top, one of the

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Speaker 4: worst you know, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

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Speaker 4: that America has ever seen, General Mark Millie, testifying on

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Speaker 4: Capitol Hill about white rage and how he thinks that

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Speaker 4: critical race theory should be taught at the academies because

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Speaker 4: he's white and he wants to learn about what white

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Speaker 4: rage is. And then you know, you have the Secretary

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Speaker 4: of Defense say like full deniability, saying he doesn't even

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Speaker 4: know what any of this is and it's not taught

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Speaker 4: at the service academies, when it doesn't take that much

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Speaker 4: investigative work to find out that they have classes on whiteness.

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Speaker 4: So it's just the fact that this these woke policies

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Speaker 4: and this woke agenda has infiltrated the service academies is

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Speaker 4: going to have lasting effects. You know throughout this military

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Speaker 4: generation that we're seeing in terms of how they are

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Speaker 4: going to lead the military moving forward, and it's not

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Speaker 4: it has very negative effects.

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Speaker 1: Amber if we were to as we wrap this up here,

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Speaker 1: if we were to get a president who wanted it

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Speaker 1: fixed and he started to dig into these problems, and

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Speaker 1: you lay a lot of this stuff out in your book,

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Speaker 1: how long until we can have it fixed? That's what

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Speaker 1: I'm worried. How deep the rot has gone? If I

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Speaker 1: could explain my question and a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: better fashion, I'm worried that it's so rotted that we're

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Speaker 1: facing fifty years of fixing it. Am I wrong?

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Speaker 4: I don't think you're wrong. I think it's in for

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Speaker 4: the long haul. I think it's not gonna be something

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Speaker 4: that's going to be reversed, you know, with up with

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Speaker 4: a new president, he'll be able to, like, you know,

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Speaker 4: rip up the executive orders that are pushing some of

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Speaker 4: the woke policies. But in terms of the culture, that's

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Speaker 4: what's going to take forever to change. But I mean

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Speaker 4: they have to start somewhere, and that starts with leadership

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Speaker 4: pushing the military to get back to a meritocracy. With

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Speaker 4: all of this DEI push that they've had, it's taken

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Speaker 4: away from the meritocracy, and it has to if we

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Speaker 4: want good Americans to serve in the military, they have

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Speaker 4: to get back to the best person for the best

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Speaker 4: for the job gets selected, not because of characteristics that

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Speaker 4: someone is born with, or you know, a political of

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Speaker 4: a president wanting a military that looks more like America.

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Speaker 4: That's not going to work. That's going to lead to

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Speaker 4: failure time and time again. The other thing is accountability.

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Speaker 4: As we've talked about, there is none in the modern

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Speaker 4: day military. There is at the lower ranks. The lower

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Speaker 4: ranks will still be held accountable, but it is a

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Speaker 4: two tier justice system. There are double standards running rampants

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Speaker 4: up at the top where you know, look at Secretary

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Speaker 4: of Austin going a wall for a week, not telling

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Speaker 4: his deputy, and he went under the knight he had

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Speaker 4: surgery who was running the Department of Defense while he

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Speaker 4: was incapacitated, And the answer is no one. He was

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Speaker 4: not held accountable. If a private did that, he would

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Speaker 4: face UCMJAY action, which come with legal consequences. So soldiers

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Speaker 4: see that and they see exactly how they're getting treated

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Speaker 4: to one set of standards and leadership is treated to another.

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Speaker 4: So accountability has to make a comeback in the military

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Speaker 4: if we want to see any changes as well, along

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Speaker 4: with the meritocracy.

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Speaker 1: She is Amber Smith. Her book Unfit to Fight is

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Speaker 1: available everywhere you track down books. Amber, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you as always. I'm sure we will talk

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Speaker 1: again soon. All right, now, there were some speeches given today.

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Speaker 1: Mike Johnson gave a speech, Oklahoma's governor, Kevin Stitt gave

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Speaker 1: a speech, and these speeches were about hate speech and

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Speaker 1: college campuses in Colombia, the anti Semitism that's going on.

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Speaker 1: And look, none of this is good for America. None

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Speaker 1: of it is, and I mean none of it is.

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Speaker 1: What's happening on the campuses is bad. The GOP's response, Surprise, Surprise,

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Speaker 1: is equally as detestable. And we will discuss all of

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Speaker 1: it and the ratchet of the cultural shift next