Speaker 1: You're listening to the Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure
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Speaker 1: Sexton Show. In this episode, our friend Kurt Schlichterer is
Speaker 1: making an appearance, which is very exciting. He is a lawyer,
Speaker 1: a veteran, an author, a columnist at townhall dot com,
Speaker 1: and just general ass kicker and patriotic American. Kurt. Great
Speaker 1: to have you on, sir, Thanks for coming to hang out. Well, Buck,
Speaker 1: you forgot sexual powerhouse. I mean, you did tell me
Speaker 1: that at some point your wife is going to bring
Speaker 1: you a bottle of wine. So I figured we would
Speaker 1: have the you know, the life advice for the gentleman
Speaker 1: out there. Once we had. Once you had a couple
Speaker 1: of glasses of wine. Missus schlicht could tell everybody you
Speaker 1: know how the alpha dogs actually roll. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: that's what I've heard. Well, you've seen her, you know
Speaker 1: how hot she is. You and I like share this.
Speaker 1: We just will not tolerate women who aren't of a
Speaker 1: certain standard. Well, I will tell you that I have
Speaker 1: a we have a mutual friend who I don't want
Speaker 1: to I don't know if I have permission to give
Speaker 1: away his secrets, but you and I have a mutual friend.
Speaker 1: You probably know who it is. Just for me saying this.
Speaker 1: Who has a theory that you basically can't trust a
Speaker 1: guy who doesn't have a hot wife. Now, as long
Speaker 1: as the guy thinks his wife is hot, that counts, right,
Speaker 1: It's all about that. But you can't trust a guy
Speaker 1: who doesn't have a hot wife. That's or who doesn't
Speaker 1: believe he as a hot wife. That's his theory. I
Speaker 1: always think that's an interesting case study. Why would you
Speaker 1: Why would you settle for anything less than the best?
Speaker 1: You're a man, damn it, you're a man. There you go.
Speaker 1: So we could get into a dating advice for the
Speaker 1: younger male portion of the audience later on the program,
Speaker 1: Like I said, Kurt asked me. He's like, He's like,
Speaker 1: can I smoke? Can I drink? Can I drink a cigar?
Speaker 1: That would be crazy? Can I smoke a cigar? Can
Speaker 1: I drink some scotch? During this? And I was like, Kurt,
Speaker 1: you you roll however you want, buddy. This is Kurt's world.
Speaker 1: We're just trying to film it um and and we'll
Speaker 1: get into some of that stuff. I can I ask
Speaker 1: you about some real stuff though for a second first,
Speaker 1: because like there are a lot of people coming here
Speaker 1: that we want to have news content analysis. You're very
Speaker 1: smart man. You come from the old school, Cold War era,
Speaker 1: thump it out with the bad guys with tanks. We're
Speaker 1: talking order of battle stuff. We're talking about how many,
Speaker 1: how many, you know, millions of rounds and hundreds and
Speaker 1: thousands of gallons of fuel and you know, massive formations
Speaker 1: to fight the Soviet beasts. So you know you're not
Speaker 1: one of these fancy counterinsurgency guys. Oh. I speak multiple
Speaker 1: languages of the natives, and I read books and sit
Speaker 1: around and try to win the hearts and minds. You're like, boom,
Speaker 1: we're dropping bombs on you. Howsovo after nine to eleven,
Speaker 1: which you know, was a lot like a fireman instead
Speaker 1: of getting to put out the fire at the orphanage
Speaker 1: of the old folks. I mean, it's the cat out
Speaker 1: of the tree. What I was at coast of I
Speaker 1: was helping people, you know, start musher arms. It was
Speaker 1: it was. It was not a slam band. But I
Speaker 1: started out in the Cold War. I started out in Germany.
Speaker 1: I was part of NATO. I went to the Gulf Wars,
Speaker 1: part of seventh Corps, end up at seven Core Headquarters.
Speaker 1: I ran a heavily armed car wash at that time.
Speaker 1: After that, got out, went in the reserves, immediately went
Speaker 1: mechanized infantry, which is uh you know. And of course
Speaker 1: being the new lieutenant, I got to be the vehicle guy.
Speaker 1: I got to be the battalion motor officer for a
Speaker 1: heavy battalion. That was just a delight because they break
Speaker 1: all the time. How prepared are we for the possibility
Speaker 1: of a war with a country like either Russia or
Speaker 1: China where they have very large things that can go
Speaker 1: bang to you know what I mean. You know, we've
Speaker 1: been fighting We've been fighting wars for twenty years where
Speaker 1: we have absolute uncontested air superiority from day one, right,
Speaker 1: we have under air attacks and Korea right, absolute technological superiority.
Speaker 1: You know, in most cases, even our guys in Afghanistan
Speaker 1: at Rock had you know, night vision, goggless. Some of
Speaker 1: the you know we can get into like some of
Speaker 1: the Hakani network guys and everything would have. But generally speaking,
Speaker 1: you know, we had much better technology. Are we ready
Speaker 1: if we had to go, you know, Abram's tank muzzle
Speaker 1: to muzzle with Russian tank formations. Are we ready for this?
Speaker 1: I mean, just just to get an understanding of where
Speaker 1: we stand right now with military readiness for the wars
Speaker 1: we may be fighting. I'm not as worried about crew
Speaker 1: to crew fighting as I am about high level leadership.
Speaker 1: Leadership cures a host of illnesses. It is a solution
Speaker 1: to many, many problems, and we don't have it right now. Buck.
Speaker 1: We have a military that has not won a war
Speaker 1: unequivocally in thirty years. We have a military that is
Speaker 1: very concerned with nonsense. You know, I was talking to
Speaker 1: another guy who's associated with war colleges, and he was
Speaker 1: telling me that he would, you know, sit in briefings
Speaker 1: and you know, basic exercises. A bunch of colonels on
Speaker 1: Saturday will brief you on what America's greatest strategic challenge is.
Speaker 1: Then Sunday they'll brief you on what the solution is,
Speaker 1: you know, basic one oh one war collogey stop. Half
Speaker 1: the people will show up and say, our number one
Speaker 1: strategic challenges climate change. Okay, No, our number one strategic
Speaker 1: challenge is Chinese trying to kill US. I am not
Speaker 1: confident in our military leadership today. I think we have
Speaker 1: dropped our standards, taken our eyes off the ball, lost
Speaker 1: our focus. I think if we get into a high
Speaker 1: intense conventional conflict against a peer competitor, and I don't
Speaker 1: think the Soviet are the Russians got Soviets updating myself.
Speaker 1: The Russians are truly a peer competitor at this point,
Speaker 1: though after they rebuild their shattered army they probably will
Speaker 1: be UM. I think I think we're gonna find ourselves
Speaker 1: outgunned an outfought. I think we've milked our our past experience,
Speaker 1: particularly in the Navy. You know, we were the only
Speaker 1: military name of the British, the only Navy that had
Speaker 1: done massive worldwide combat operations. We did that World War Two.
Speaker 1: We lived off that legacy. I know, my family's all Navy.
Speaker 1: I'm the I'm the Green sheep, uh. And we lived
Speaker 1: off that for years and that that's just gone. Now.
Speaker 1: Our ships are running into each other. Are the officer
Speaker 1: corps is a disaster. There's no real focus on combat readiness.
Speaker 1: Soldiers do what commanders check. Commanders are checking wokeness, so
Speaker 1: you get wokeness and it's uh, it's a disaster and
Speaker 1: if we get into a fight, we're going to lose people. Well,
Speaker 1: this is you know, we saw in in a rocket
Speaker 1: Afghanistan excellence at the warfighter level continuously, but with the
Speaker 1: with the idea of a war, a conventional developed world
Speaker 1: conflict now right. I brought up things like ammunition, gasoline,
Speaker 1: because that's what actually matters. You know, who has who
Speaker 1: brings more guns that they can keep in the field,
Speaker 1: that they can fire accurately and feed with MMO and
Speaker 1: you know, all that component of it, which is not
Speaker 1: you know, really what we were doing in these other places.
Speaker 1: I mean I was reading about six months ago. I
Speaker 1: think it was maybe a little more than that. We
Speaker 1: were worried that our ability to provide munitions to Ukraine
Speaker 1: was outstripping our ability to make them. And that's for
Speaker 1: a war we're not even in. Look, the United States
Speaker 1: is one war since the Civil War with two things.
Speaker 1: First of all, our troops are generally excellent. They're generally
Speaker 1: pretty good. You might be able to say at the
Speaker 1: British Army, maybe the German Army Man for man, we're
Speaker 1: better trained, had a more focused professional military traditions. But
Speaker 1: the American soldiers are pretty damn good, but you put
Speaker 1: pretty damn good with endless artillery rounds. You know, the
Speaker 1: Germans would fight the Americans, and they'd be tactically very proficient,
Speaker 1: but every time they shot at Americans, they just get
Speaker 1: pummeled by one five finds. They just get blown to bits,
Speaker 1: and and you can't fight that. We win because we
Speaker 1: mastered logistics. We deliver steal on target. Steal on target
Speaker 1: is not just pulling the cord on a camp, it's
Speaker 1: building the shell, moving the shell. I remember in the Gulf,
Speaker 1: I was at seven Core, Maine, which was the city
Speaker 1: of Hafer Albatine is right off what's called Tabline Road,
Speaker 1: big road running over the north, and I was going
Speaker 1: back towards the town down in through a Waddy, which
Speaker 1: is a big valley, big valley, completely empty, nothing but rocks.
Speaker 1: In the occasion euromastic Lizard. Three days later, I drove
Speaker 1: through that same valley. As far as the eye can
Speaker 1: see was American military material. We moved a city of
Speaker 1: five hundred thousand men from America and Europe to the
Speaker 1: ports and then out in the middle of the desert,
Speaker 1: and then we fought it moving. That is a logistic
Speaker 1: achievement desert Storm, and frankly, we never I can't think
Speaker 1: when they're military that's mastered it. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: the Victorian Desert Storm was probably the height of America's
Speaker 1: undisputed power, but it was a power of logistics. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: what I was gonna say, I mean, by the way,
Speaker 1: there's you know, How to Make War, the book by
Speaker 1: William Morrow, which is now a multiple multiple editions, a
Speaker 1: good basis for our basics for people to get a
Speaker 1: sense of how to make war, what it actually entails,
Speaker 1: and and it is so much and over. Yeah, strategy,
Speaker 1: every strategy is sexy, right, you know, Sunsue and you
Speaker 1: talk about the clouds of wis to uh, you know,
Speaker 1: you talk about all these different people from from history.
Speaker 1: That makes everyone sound fancy and then look at there's
Speaker 1: a lot of insight and interesting stuff from that. But
Speaker 1: you really want to understand how people win wars. You
Speaker 1: look at the greatest military powers in history all had
Speaker 1: superior logistics. Superior logistics. I mean this is this was
Speaker 1: true of even though people don't think of it this way.
Speaker 1: The Mongolia. Mongolians were amazing at siege warfare, which required
Speaker 1: you know, enormous building and construction and coordination. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, as well as moving and feeding eighty thousand
Speaker 1: men or you know, whatever the size the military was
Speaker 1: that they were talking about on horseback obviously, the Germans
Speaker 1: moving guns that are like bigger than any guns we
Speaker 1: even see now for the First World War. They're doing
Speaker 1: it with some of it on trains, but a lot
Speaker 1: of it with horseback. Obviously, the British, the British Navy.
Speaker 1: I mean, most of the army that Wermark that invaded
Speaker 1: Poland was horse drawn. Its not me, Yeah, you can
Speaker 1: hear about the Parsers, but a ton of it was
Speaker 1: horse drawn. I mean, even when the Ottomans were at
Speaker 1: their peak too. What the Ottomans could do, the reason
Speaker 1: the Ottomans were the pre eminent Western world military power
Speaker 1: for certainly a few hundred years, was they could bring
Speaker 1: more men into the field, feed them with better material,
Speaker 1: better training, and better logistics support for them than anybody
Speaker 1: else by far, like no one else even close to
Speaker 1: being able. Now, you know, a lot of that was
Speaker 1: the logistics of or the the advantage of having Constantinople,
Speaker 1: which is the single probably most advantageous real estate you
Speaker 1: could have had in the entire certainly entire Mediterranean world,
Speaker 1: but of course it was the Romans who really built
Speaker 1: that up. And of course we still you can go
Speaker 1: swalk on a Roman road today. Yeah, and it's better
Speaker 1: than most roads in our third world cities in Blue America.
Speaker 1: And this is why, you know, as as I look
Speaker 1: again now at the future and what we'll be able
Speaker 1: to do. Um, Look, our economic pre eminence is really
Speaker 1: what drives our military preeminence, certainly in a conventional conflict.
Speaker 1: And I see what's happening in Ukraine, and I wanted
Speaker 1: to switch and get your sense of where we are
Speaker 1: in We're going to talk strategy now. We've been talking logistics,
Speaker 1: talking strategy here. Here's where here's where I think the
Speaker 1: right tends to be on this um and not including
Speaker 1: Lindsay Graham, who's just like blow it out of the sky,
Speaker 1: went with the Russian claims. I mean, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't understand how the Republican base. I want to meet
Speaker 1: these South Carolina Republican you know, rock solid Republican voters
Speaker 1: who are like Lindsey Graham is my guy. I guess
Speaker 1: it's just habit. But I sit here, I go what
Speaker 1: do you you know anyway, you know, these red states
Speaker 1: get soft because they don't have to fight. You know,
Speaker 1: Republicans in California are pretty hard because we're on our
Speaker 1: back foot all the time. But you get to like
Speaker 1: Texas and if you want to be electeds som you
Speaker 1: gotta be a Republican. Seeing it a lot of soft
Speaker 1: Republicans who should be Democrats in a normal state coming in.
Speaker 1: And then there are things like well, you know, we
Speaker 1: can't really stop groomers. Oh well, school choice is terrible.
Speaker 1: Oh well, ain't gonna be started? Yeah, no, I mean
Speaker 1: you want. I was thinking it's interesting, you know, the
Speaker 1: you could argue like three of the great and great
Speaker 1: I don't mean like good people, but most impactful. Although
Speaker 1: I hate that word. It's not really the way it
Speaker 1: should be used. Impactful. It's not even a word, but
Speaker 1: people use it all the time. Um. I think it's
Speaker 1: probably is considered a word now. But then again, so
Speaker 1: or is like, you know, there's all these things that
Speaker 1: they're changing all the time. Um. Yes, you look at Napoleon,
Speaker 1: sort of the greatest French nationalist of all time from Corsica,
Speaker 1: which is like I know, right, not really Frans like coming.
Speaker 1: You know, Wrench warriors were a delusional teenage girl and
Speaker 1: a Corsican dwarf. You know, he went back and forth
Speaker 1: between Italy and France, right, so it's like, is it
Speaker 1: really France. Um, you had Joseph Stalin, who came from uh, Georgia,
Speaker 1: which is on the frontier of the Russian Russian Empire
Speaker 1: at the time, right, and you have Hitler. Much of
Speaker 1: every of those things of Hitler's being German. Hitler is Austrian,
Speaker 1: which from from the from the sort of frontier, and
Speaker 1: and you know the nationalist ultra nationalist sentiments that came
Speaker 1: from some of these individuals and the way that they
Speaker 1: I just think it's interesting because you know, they grew
Speaker 1: up in places where there was that that friction of
Speaker 1: empire and holding all together. Yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at somebody like Trajan uh and
Speaker 1: uh he was I believe he was Spanish. He was
Speaker 1: born in Spain. Hold on, I'm gonna get honey, I'm
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Speaker 1: exciting or at least at hand. I love how you
Speaker 1: just swing right into a read. Yeah, of course is
Speaker 1: when I guess post for folks, it's the part I
Speaker 1: hate the most, but I'm I'm a pro man. That's
Speaker 1: you know, you got you got your space and the
Speaker 1: time you're dead no dead air, no dead air even
Speaker 1: on the podcast. That's how we roll. By the way,
Speaker 1: I heard a dog pizza because I heard wait, wait,
Speaker 1: I got a question. I heard a dog in the background.
Speaker 1: Do you have a dog? What do you what do
Speaker 1: you have? I have a rat like, uh, terrier and
Speaker 1: kind of like a little quarty. Okay, I mean, you
Speaker 1: know it's funny. Um, I'm looking at houses with the
Speaker 1: uh with the wife, you know, we want to actually
Speaker 1: get a house, gonna try to start a family, that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And because I've lived in just like
Speaker 1: tiny apartments my whole life, very bachelor style. Um, you
Speaker 1: know it was at one point, yeah, at one point,
Speaker 1: my my very small studio apartment in New York was
Speaker 1: described by a young woman as uh as as looking
Speaker 1: like something that was a shrine to uh, like my
Speaker 1: time in the CIA, and and a sword collection. And
Speaker 1: I was like, what guy in his early thirties who
Speaker 1: lives alone doesn't have a bunch of weapons on the
Speaker 1: wall anyway up there? See for every squad right exactly
Speaker 1: exactly why why why wouldn't I have a saber handy?
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you what's in some of these drawers
Speaker 1: around me. Yeah, but I will say that, she laughs
Speaker 1: to me. Because we go see houses, I always want
Speaker 1: to see the books of the person who lives there,
Speaker 1: like what books they have, and it's just I just
Speaker 1: feel like I can I look at the books and
Speaker 1: I get a sense. I'm like of who lives here
Speaker 1: right away every time. First of all, I know Democrat
Speaker 1: or Republican. And she thinks it's really funny. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've seen your books. We're gonna talk about Inferno and
Speaker 1: you're you know, you're an author, My man, here's an
Speaker 1: author who writes um thrillers. We call it? Is that?
Speaker 1: Is that what we would describe the matter? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I write The People's Republic was the first of the novels,
Speaker 1: and it's back there, and uh, I decided always bored
Speaker 1: right I board reading these novels. They seemed fairy cookie cutter,
Speaker 1: I want to write some of his action pack funny
Speaker 1: and talked about what was going on. So I'm at
Speaker 1: a world where America has a great divorce, half of
Speaker 1: its red, half of its blue, and a guy from
Speaker 1: the Red has to go into Blue America to do
Speaker 1: missions with guns and he carries a Wilson Combat forty five,
Speaker 1: which got me to meet Bill Wilson eventually, who's just
Speaker 1: a badass gunmaker. And then people buy this thing and
Speaker 1: they enjoyed it. Yeah, I'm a funny guy. I'm the
Speaker 1: only O six I know who was ever a stand
Speaker 1: up comic and how to write a joke. And they're
Speaker 1: funny and action packed and interesting. So I write a
Speaker 1: second one and a third one. I'm writing number eight now, Okay,
Speaker 1: Inferno is number seven. It's out and there's so much
Speaker 1: fun to read, and there's so much fun to write.
Speaker 1: And I've sold a tone of these things. They'll be
Speaker 1: in the top hundred of Amazon. And this is just
Speaker 1: I mean, this is just you know, a great use
Speaker 1: of technology because while I do do non fixed and
Speaker 1: frangory with these, I don't have to go and ask
Speaker 1: anybody if they want to publish it. I can publish it,
Speaker 1: and I sold on Amazon, and it's professional quality, and
Speaker 1: it's you know, people love these things, and it's finally
Speaker 1: making some conservative culture well, this is the thing. This
Speaker 1: is the thing that we have to do. I've been
Speaker 1: saying for a while and I to others say this too,
Speaker 1: but I think it needs amplification, right that. You know,
Speaker 1: you think about Tom Wolfe, who I think people would
Speaker 1: would put as a conservative or certainly a more traditionalist
Speaker 1: author Bonfire the Vanities. You can read Bonfire the Vanities,
Speaker 1: which is a great novel. I've actually got it right
Speaker 1: over here on my bookshelf which people can't see. But
Speaker 1: you know, I don't have my credibility shelf behind me.
Speaker 1: It's in front of me right now, but it's still there.
Speaker 1: I just want ever to know I'm not you know,
Speaker 1: I'm calling it out. It's still there. Bonfire the Vanities,
Speaker 1: great book, terrible movie, So don't ever watch the movie.
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks, Goldie not Goalie on um who is in it?
Speaker 1: Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis is in it. And I
Speaker 1: was trying to remember who the female lead was, but anyway, UM,
Speaker 1: not a good remember either. Yeah, the book was. The
Speaker 1: book is excellent though, but you you can read that
Speaker 1: book and you understand that we just sort of go
Speaker 1: through cycles here with with Democrat urban politics and the
Speaker 1: way the city machinery works, and the way the newspapers
Speaker 1: and the narrative and racial politics and all this stuff
Speaker 1: comes together. We need more people creating things in that space.
Speaker 1: And I say this is somebody who does like traditional
Speaker 1: news talk radio every day. Um, obviously I think I
Speaker 1: have a particular take on it. Or I've been good
Speaker 1: at it, so I you know, I love what I do. Um,
Speaker 1: but I do want to actually do some of that
Speaker 1: other stuff. I mean, if I had my brothers, I'll
Speaker 1: just tell you this, right, we nerd out together here
Speaker 1: for a second, just you, me and the you know
Speaker 1: the there's gonna be like hundreds of thousands of people
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Speaker 1: thinking Sarash from Beverly Hills, cop and anyway, Um, so
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember Bronson okay. I also
Speaker 1: was good friends with the sister of Lisa Ailbacher who
Speaker 1: was in there. She was a stand up comic and
Speaker 1: she would never tell her real name, but we figured
Speaker 1: it out. Good dude, you're also in LA. I would say,
Speaker 1: I'm a New York Conserva guy though even though I've moved.
Speaker 1: I've moved to Miami to join the Lord of Revolution.
Speaker 1: So and I love it here, by the way, and
Speaker 1: I I don't know what to say. It's awesome, Like
Speaker 1: I just went on. I went. I went and picked
Speaker 1: up an AAR fifteen recently, and dam of Defense, you'd
Speaker 1: be very proud. It's very, very excellent. I also also
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Speaker 1: the oh oh oh yes, oh yes. Papa Buck doesn't
Speaker 1: mess around, you know what I mean. If I'm getting firearms, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like the Lamborghini of firearms. Like I'm not playing
Speaker 1: games over here. But I walked out of the gun store,
Speaker 1: and I know this is gonna sound crazy to the
Speaker 1: people listening who are from like normal red states. For
Speaker 1: the Second Amendment, there was a part of me that
Speaker 1: kept thinking, like I'm gonna get arrested because in New York. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in New York, if you walk out of a gun
Speaker 1: store with an AAR fifteen, like that means somebody sold
Speaker 1: you something in the back they weren't supposed to and
Speaker 1: like you're in trouble. You know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 1: this is crazy. Yeah, here comes to slat team. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was up. I've got an a state concealed license.
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Speaker 1: in California, I was only a guy in charge of
Speaker 1: thousands of guys hearing automatic rifles on the streets of
Speaker 1: Los Angeles as a battalion commander during civil operations. But
Speaker 1: I can't be trusted with a concealed carry permit. No,
Speaker 1: some GS three has to decide for the colonel who
Speaker 1: whether or not I should be armed. So I'm I
Speaker 1: had a gun. I was carrying it, and it felt
Speaker 1: very weird. I know I carried guns a lot, but
Speaker 1: you have to recock your mind when you're doing it.
Speaker 1: You can't be allowed mouth, you can't drink a lot.
Speaker 1: You gotta behave yourself. And it was you know, normally,
Speaker 1: you know, gun three, I would be an as big
Speaker 1: an idiot as I want. Suddenly, you're you know, you
Speaker 1: got that glock and suddenly it's like, ah, I better,
Speaker 1: uh make sure I don't do anything stupid. It is remarkable.
Speaker 1: I mean I remember even when I was sent by
Speaker 1: the federal government to the NYPD to help the Intel
Speaker 1: Division the CIA, the federal government had trained me to
Speaker 1: use firearms, and I asked, I was like, so, is
Speaker 1: there any way, like can I get a permit here
Speaker 1: as as you know, a civilian essentially, you know, And
Speaker 1: they were like no, sitting. I was like, wait, but
Speaker 1: but I mean, I don't understand, like I have the
Speaker 1: Second Amendment and I've been trained. You guys knew you
Speaker 1: I have a top secret clearance And they're just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't. That doesn't that means nothing? Yeah, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that matters. Yeah, you know, the gang members, they get
Speaker 1: to have the guns and if by the way, and
Speaker 1: even if arrested with them in New York at least
Speaker 1: now and a lot of other Democrat precincts, you've noticed,
Speaker 1: there's a fascinating I like to tell everybody about this card.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've noticed this. There is a fascinating reality
Speaker 1: of firearms, uh law enforce or enforcing laws around firearms
Speaker 1: where they're always talking about how we have to crack
Speaker 1: down on guns, more background checks, ban AAR fifteen. So
Speaker 1: you know all this stuff right that Biden's still talking
Speaker 1: about it, you know this this week. I mean they're
Speaker 1: talking about the stuff all the time. Wow. You know
Speaker 1: that they basically don't prosecute gang members for a first
Speaker 1: defense with guns in Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles go
Speaker 1: on the list. So if you have a if you
Speaker 1: have a handgun that is totally illegal for you to
Speaker 1: have because you're a convicted felon. Anyway, a lot of
Speaker 1: district attorneys are just saying, you know, we don't want
Speaker 1: we don't like this is gonna make your life hard,
Speaker 1: So we're not gonna actually prosecute you for this. But
Speaker 1: they would totally charge me. I was gonna say, I
Speaker 1: guarantee you if you had an illegal r if you
Speaker 1: had you know, if you did something that even made
Speaker 1: if you had an sp let's do this. If you
Speaker 1: had an spr if you had a short bear rifle
Speaker 1: and you and they bagged you with that in California,
Speaker 1: even if every other firem you had was legal, you
Speaker 1: and I both know you're going to prison. You and
Speaker 1: I both know the disrict attorney is going to try
Speaker 1: to send you to prison or you know, the county
Speaker 1: attorney or whatever. Absolutely yeah, oh yeah. So this so
Speaker 1: the gang members who actually murder people, they get the
Speaker 1: pass right because you know, all social justice. But the
Speaker 1: guy that wants to you know, I'll actually tell you
Speaker 1: this is this is a true story. I knew a
Speaker 1: guy in New York who had the cops come to
Speaker 1: his home and they they to be fair, they didn't
Speaker 1: arrest him, but they confiscated his double barreled shotgun. Okay,
Speaker 1: like his Elmer Fudd. It wasn't an overunder. I mean,
Speaker 1: it wasn't a side by side, but it was in
Speaker 1: an over under. They confiscated a shotgun because he was
Speaker 1: a lawful permit holder for that long gun in New
Speaker 1: York City who had sent in the renewal check. Because
Speaker 1: you have to renew it's not even enough to go
Speaker 1: through the process and pay you know, seven hundred dollars
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, or five hundred dollars to get
Speaker 1: the permit the first time there's a renewal I think
Speaker 1: it's three years or five years or something. He sent
Speaker 1: in a renewal check, but it was a personal check,
Speaker 1: not a certified check. Do you think that they reached
Speaker 1: out to him to say, you know, hello, sir, we
Speaker 1: know you're trying to you know, the Licensing Division, the NAPD. No. No,
Speaker 1: they just put it all on a drawer with this file,
Speaker 1: waited until it came up, and then they paid him
Speaker 1: a visit. They confiscated his shotgun, and they said we
Speaker 1: could arrescue, you know, but we're not gonna do. They
Speaker 1: didn't do that because obviously I think people would have
Speaker 1: completely lost around. But that is the anti firearms regime
Speaker 1: in a major city. That's how they actually do things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's anti firearms for normal people, pro firearms for you know,
Speaker 1: preferred democratic constituencies. The one of the biggest problems in
Speaker 1: our country right now is the two tiered system of law,
Speaker 1: the two tiered system of everything. You saw it recently
Speaker 1: with a Silicon Valley bank. Do you think a bank
Speaker 1: that somebody else pointed out its brilliant, a bank catering
Speaker 1: a regional bank in Texas catering to the oil wildcatter industry,
Speaker 1: would get a Sunday night pass on the FDIC limits. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I'mocratic connected one in California. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we can. Here you go, there's free money. It's true.
Speaker 1: I mean the system, the ways in which the system
Speaker 1: are rigged are so multifaceted, but also so brazen at
Speaker 1: this point, but I think when people look into it,
Speaker 1: it can be overwhelming. I want to bring I want
Speaker 1: to bring this back to California though in a second,
Speaker 1: as you're a Californian Conservative, and I think that's fascinating
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Speaker 1: have you reached the tipping point? I mean, have you
Speaker 1: reached a sort of terminal velocity of crazy such that
Speaker 1: now even because this is what I always tell people,
Speaker 1: I say, you have to remember Democrat cities because they
Speaker 1: think that, first of all, the suffering of their stupid
Speaker 1: policies is mostly going to be confined to other people
Speaker 1: who are not important to them, right, So that's step one.
Speaker 1: And then there's another step though, and this is more
Speaker 1: places I think you see like Portland, Seattle, but similar
Speaker 1: where they believe that the suffering of their dumbass policies
Speaker 1: is a necessary, almost purification process to get to that
Speaker 1: better place. So it's like, Okay, we have more shootings,
Speaker 1: but we have more social and racial justice in this city, now,
Speaker 1: don't we. You know, Okay, we have a whole lot
Speaker 1: more you know, street crime, and people are overdosing on
Speaker 1: fentonel left and right, but the less class based system
Speaker 1: than it would otherwise be, you know, stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But eventually even the Nancy Pelosi Libs are like, I
Speaker 1: don't want you know, lunatics. Well, I mean half naked
Speaker 1: lunatic attacking her husband with a hammer for example, Right,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know stuff like that. Well, look, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna while we have to add some crime around here.
Speaker 1: I live in a rich liberal area. You think you
Speaker 1: think our cops are gonna let Hobo's Trump up and
Speaker 1: down our streets. Of course they're not. You know, the
Speaker 1: suffering in California is to the people who aren't connected,
Speaker 1: who aren't approved, who aren't loved U. For the rest
Speaker 1: of us, it's fairly comfortable. I mean, there's annoying things
Speaker 1: that happen, but otherwise it's you know, if you're I'm
Speaker 1: a lawyer in a blue state. This state was literally
Speaker 1: made for me, So it's not that bad, h you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's certainly some personal things. There's family here
Speaker 1: that I want to stay here, and I you know,
Speaker 1: at some point I can definitely see myself moving to
Speaker 1: the Free State of Florida. I you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of the nonsense is exhausting. The taxes are exhausting, h
Speaker 1: the idiotic policies are exhausting. At some point, you just
Speaker 1: want to breathe free. But I'm not quite ready to
Speaker 1: leave yet. I don't particularly like the idea of retreating.
Speaker 1: I don't know if California can be turned around. It's
Speaker 1: certainly be a hard fight. But you know, people are
Speaker 1: doing it. We're registering more and more conservatives out here
Speaker 1: and else, groups registering ten thousand a month, and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, I think a lot of regular folks are
Speaker 1: getting sick of the nonsense. We just hopefully they'll stop
Speaker 1: voting for idiots like Governor Hairstyle. I think you need
Speaker 1: to get some really desirable part of the state and
Speaker 1: make it the red stronghold and then kind of the
Speaker 1: ink blot of red grow out from there. Or I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, I know it used to be Orange County,
Speaker 1: but you guys need to get you need to get
Speaker 1: that back, because I think that can have a really
Speaker 1: a really profound effect. I mean, even just for example,
Speaker 1: I'm in Miami now and the fact that it was right,
Speaker 1: I mean it when you know more than fifty fifty
Speaker 1: for descantists. But the difference from being the difference in
Speaker 1: quality of life and policies even in a fifty fifty city, right,
Speaker 1: So a fifty fifty city. So let maybe what I
Speaker 1: mean here is like, can we get San Diego to
Speaker 1: be fifty fifty Republican on the because it keeps a
Speaker 1: check on the crazy in New York, in DC, in
Speaker 1: San Francisco it's nine ten. It's literally ninety ten in
Speaker 1: those cities. Now in DC it's more like ninety seven
Speaker 1: to three. Oh yeah, yeah. I just want DC to
Speaker 1: fess ear in its own sewage. It's h you know,
Speaker 1: boiling your own filth um. Look, I mean everything that
Speaker 1: the Blues touch turns to garbage. And I think normal
Speaker 1: people are seeing that. I think, Look, I think next
Speaker 1: year it's gonna be a very good year for Republicans
Speaker 1: if we don't blow it. I think, you know, and
Speaker 1: I wrote a town hall com has to do with
Speaker 1: Ukraine and Ron de Santis. I think that the Republican
Speaker 1: Republicans are going to nominate your De Santis or Trump.
Speaker 1: It's one or the other. I don't think anybody else
Speaker 1: has a chance. But they're effectively by next year, they're
Speaker 1: going to The Republicans are going to have the anti
Speaker 1: war candidate. The Democrats are not going to have any
Speaker 1: choice but be essentially the pro war candidate. And I think,
Speaker 1: by you know, another eighteen months, I think the American
Speaker 1: people are going to be firmly in the anti Ukrainian
Speaker 1: war camp. So I just don't see anything good happening there.
Speaker 1: This is perfect. It's almost like I see its static
Speaker 1: right now. I don't see the Ukrainians being able to
Speaker 1: build up the compact power to break the break the stalemate.
Speaker 1: I do see Russian history tells me that Russians come
Speaker 1: back from initial defeats. I think the Russians have the
Speaker 1: capacity to build up combat power. So I think a
Speaker 1: best case is a static war, which we're funding, and
Speaker 1: I think people will be sick of it. A worst
Speaker 1: case would be a Ukrainian collapse in the face of
Speaker 1: a Russian offensive, with American intervening to try and assure
Speaker 1: them off. So this is perfect, and I don't think
Speaker 1: the American people are going to be there. I think,
Speaker 1: and the Republicans, could you keep talking, hold on a second,
Speaker 1: hold on, I gotta ask you something. What should the
Speaker 1: position of the Republican party be on Ukraine right now
Speaker 1: because we're asking questions or raising concerns. We're saying a
Speaker 1: lot of money is going to this, but I never
Speaker 1: hear really, I mean, if i'm if I'm being totally
Speaker 1: frank about this, and you and I are two guys
Speaker 1: who are frank I mean you're Kurt on Buck, but
Speaker 1: we're being frankier and they never say, well should we?
Speaker 1: Just what would a Descantist or Trump administration if they
Speaker 1: were in charge now, which I know they can't be,
Speaker 1: But what would they want the policy to be? Is
Speaker 1: it just is it totally? Is it set limits to
Speaker 1: the funding? Is it set limits the aid? Or is
Speaker 1: it this is not our problem, not our fight. Zelenski's
Speaker 1: funding under a Republican administration, assuming this war still going on,
Speaker 1: goes down to basically zero at least for combat operations.
Speaker 1: Should that be the policy? What should the policy? Well, look,
Speaker 1: we have to have a strategy which requires objectives, and
Speaker 1: we haven't talked about any of that because the minute
Speaker 1: somebody responds to the reactive tactics, there's always seen our tactics.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen a strategy. Suddenly, you love Putin and
Speaker 1: I love being told I love Putin by a guy
Speaker 1: who is never in the Cold War, who actually went
Speaker 1: out and marched for the KGB's nuclear freeze, telling me,
Speaker 1: you know you love Putin. I you know, I literally
Speaker 1: trained Ukrainian soldiers. There were Ukrainian soldiers in our battalion,
Speaker 1: in our brigade in Kosova. I like the Ukrainians. I
Speaker 1: support them. I would like them to win. They're patriots.
Speaker 1: I understand why they're doing what they want to do.
Speaker 1: But I'm an American patriot, and my interest is my country.
Speaker 1: Our strategic interests as America right now is not Ukraine.
Speaker 1: It is to preserve American supremacy and make sure the
Speaker 1: Chinese don't supplant us. What would support that? That is
Speaker 1: the strategy. A strategy, A smart one would be to
Speaker 1: get Russia back in the Western Fold. I have long
Speaker 1: said that the greatest American foreign policy mistake in the
Speaker 1: last three decades was not a Rack or Afghanistan, but
Speaker 1: the failure to bring Russia into the West after the
Speaker 1: fall of the Soviet Union. It got botched, and then
Speaker 1: suddenly in the last eight years it's been like politically
Speaker 1: useful domestically to hate Russia. You don't have to like Russia.
Speaker 1: You just need Russia to be on our side against China.
Speaker 1: So that should be our strategy. And starting that process
Speaker 1: and it will be a process means making peace in Ukraine. Now,
Speaker 1: Ukrainians won't like it because they'll have to give up territory.
Speaker 1: Putin won't like it because he's not going to get
Speaker 1: everything he wants. But I think our strategy. You know,
Speaker 1: are you know to support our strategy? We should make peace,
Speaker 1: force peace down these guys throats, because it's non American
Speaker 1: interest for this war to continue. I know it's not
Speaker 1: just I know it reck it will recognize an aggressor
Speaker 1: will get some reward out of it. But I'm an American.
Speaker 1: I care about the United States of America. That's my priority,
Speaker 1: and that's what supports a meaningful objective which is much
Speaker 1: bigger than Ukraine. Kurt, we gotta let you get to
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Speaker 1: talk soon. Thanks for having me.