Episode 157 LIVE： Biden's State of Panic (feat. former Green Beret John Frankman) – Firebrand with Matt Gaetz
Summary
Learn English with Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Representative) in response to a report that the Obama administration is considering draining $200 million from the U.S. Army reserves to send more money to Ukraine to fight the war in Ukraine.
Transcript
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matt gates the biggest firebrand inside of the house of representatives you're not taking matt
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gates off the board okay because matt gates is an american patriot and matt gates is an american
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hero we will not continue to allow the uniparty to run this town without a fight i want to thank
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you matt gates for holding the line matt gates is a courageous man if we had hundreds of matt gates
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in dc the country turns around it's that simple he's so tough he's so strong he's smart and he
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loves this country matt gates it is the honor of my life to fight alongside each and every one of you
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we will save america it's choose your fighter time send in the firebrands
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i was so furious but not surprised when i saw the bloomberg news report that the biden
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administration is now considering draining 200 million dollars out of army reserves to send more
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money to ukraine the move would target reserve funds that this house has authorized and appropriated for
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this particular purpose a purpose that is worthy certainly more worthy the continuing involvement
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in the conflict in ukraine that could lead to tragic escalatory accident and i i can't even believe this
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is a controversial view to take on this floor but i believe that the u.s army reserves should actually be
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for the u.s army and by the way it's not as if we don't have needs for our army how about the families
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of our soldiers right now child care is a real problem we've got army soldiers that are driving
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an hour and a half or more each way just to drop off their kids at child care we could invest that
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money in our military families i could take you to the army town of crestview florida in my district
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where the school counselors who are still helping army families deal with the lingering effects of
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just deployment after deployment after deployment they could use more resources they tell me
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congressman if we had more resources for these army families they could improve quality of life
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and improve mental health and not for nothing but the army was taking a leading role in hypersonics
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for our country where we have fallen behind china if we've got an extra 200 million dollars laying around
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the army how about we invest it in making sure that with hypersonic weapons we can hit a moving target
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i don't know like china can but no indeed we see this attempt to drain resources away for ukraine
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when joe biden talked about campaigning for the soul of the nation i just assumed it was our nation
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not ukraine and ukraine is no garden of eden for democracy senator lee pointed out in a report that
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the cia had to directly confront zelinski about his own personal corruption in ukraine they've canceled
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the presidential elections call me old-fashioned but i actually prefer democracies that hold elections
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rather than canceling elections and while there were many concerns about the death of navalny
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appropriately people forget the fact that zelinski jailed a journalist gonzalo lira and that journalist
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died in a ukrainian prison so tonight you will hear president biden come into this house and the one
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thing that president biden has in common with the american people is that both were far better off
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four years ago joe biden physically and the rest of us economically now as a member of the house armed
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services committee i will call for any for an investigation of any efforts to drain u.s reserves
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to go and fund this war in ukraine and i would invite my fellow members of the armed services
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committee to join me and democrats you know what this reminded me of when all the democrats were crying
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alligator tears about president trump using dod money to go fund the wall and you may accuse me
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of hypocrisy now because i supported president trump in that endeavor but i don't like the biden
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administration going beyond what we set forth with our article one powers but at least if i'm being a
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hypocrite i was doing so for the defense of america's borders and america's interests to stop an
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invasion that is killing hundreds of thousands of people through the introduction of fentanyl
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and an invasion that is diminishing the economic prospects of working people in this country when
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they're hypocrites mr speaker they serve as hypocrites so that they can go and fund the pensions of
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government workers in ukraine and not for nothing but it wasn't that long ago that we found a person
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connected to the defense industrial complex in ukraine exiting the country with a million dollars in u.s
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cash in a shoebox the corruption is real america's interests are illusory and we should never drain
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200 million dollars out of our family or out of our army that should go to military families that
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should go to soldiers and that should go to america's capabilities it is america's capabilities
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that will define whether or not we hold the high ground not which guy in a track suit is running
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crimea i yield back welcome back to firebrand we are alive i just stepped off the house floor moments
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ago to give that searing critique of the effort from the biden administration to drain our army to drain
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our reserves and our resources to go and facilitate whatever fantasy they believe they're fighting for
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in the donbass region and in crimea adjacent to really what should be a european solution to this
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problem so i want to thank everyone for tuning in it's state of the union day and do you think it's a
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coincidence that on state of the union day when there's so much news and so much information that they
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chose this band of time to announce this illegal violation of our article one powers to reappropriate
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these funds to ukraine it is not a coincidence they're trying to do this while you're not looking and folks
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on the live stream are fired up judy on facebook says no more money for foreign countries kelly on
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facebook says no more money for ukraine shut down the border or shut down the government william on
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youtube with my favorite comment so far if politics were a western matt gates would be clint eastwood
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well we've got a real live hero joining us on the program captain john frankman is from florida's
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first congressional district he served as a green beret and he's one of the thousands of americans
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who have been negatively impacted by the vaccine mandate and he is my guest for the state of the
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union tonight because in northwest florida the issues around our military are kitchen table issues
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and when military families are harmed it is my obligation as their congressman to see that their
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issues are pushed to the top of the list and i will not rest until this vaccine mandate is not only
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just repealed but there's accountability to the people for the people who did it and there's reparations
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back pay and restoration of rank for our patriots who did nothing wrong they did everything right
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their leaders failed them again john frankman served as a green beret he's become an activist on this issue
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now in private life and our great team here on firebrand made a little video to introduce you to him
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but now that you see how personal medical decisions are will you call for the re-recruitment
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restoration of full rank and back pay for the 8 600 service members who were vax mandated out of
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the military uh no i won't yeah it's just kind of appalling that uh total double standard
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from the sec def i don't know a decision that lloyd austin has made that's helped strengthen the military
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and uh rep gates is right to talk about the 8 600 who were forced out
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so it was a special forces green beret who was assigned at seven special forces group in 2020
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i joined the military because i wanted to um use the gifts god gave me to glorify him and to serve
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my country and first and foremost i'm a catholic and i knew that these these shots used aborted
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fetal cells and i did the testing and production so when that came out i saw no no need for the
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shot whatsoever it went against my religious beliefs it's involved in the murder of the unborn child
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it's involved in the continued theft of his body part and the fact that we're still using this in
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order to create this shot it the fact that i mean another definition for sin is an act against
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reason and even if you take the aborted fetal cell piece out there is no reason to take this thing
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if you have natural immunity if you're young and healthy if you've already had covid so it's very
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spiritual especially when you're just going against reality as god had made it after i put my religious
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exemption in i lost out on deployments my team time got cut short and wasn't able to advance my career
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by going to grad school and teaching at west point an assignment i was accepted to so
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decided to leave and got out july 1st of 2023 which is when my additional duty service obligation
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the three-year commitment was up for my special forces training no matter what happened if i had
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stuck around even when the mandate was rescinded i couldn't my i couldn't recover my career i was
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congressman gates and his office have been incredibly helpful in in giving me a platform and in speaking on
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behalf of service members his office originally got my op-ed published in the floridian and i had made
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a relationship with him a couple years ago when he had visited seven special forces group and i was
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able to tell him in person the kind of persecution that was happening to my team and to service members
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around the country who were refusing the shot or didn't want to get it and he's now speaking on behalf
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of service members by bringing it up into different congressional hearings and him choosing me as his guest the state of
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the union it's not just me he's choosing he's also doing this on behalf of other unvaccinated service
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members other service members who've been coerced into getting this this shot and are now medically
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injured the state of this country is everything is worse the military the economy and i expect to hear
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nothing but lies from joe biden you don't kick out 8 600 service members 50 000 plus because of covid shot
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mandate while there's three wars going on in it not being intentional and i would just ask him like
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what are you doing for this country like why are you basically destroying it who owns you
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our military leaders need to be held accountable they need to be held accountable to the oath that
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they take to protecting those service members under them to only carrying out orders that are that are
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legal and that support and defend the constitution and if we don't get the spiritual peace right
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we're not going to win this we can't win this by just voting in the primary and in the general we
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need to really reform our lives turn back to god come back to the faith come back to the sacraments
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we're back live and joined on the live stream by fellow veteran impacted by the negative vax mandate
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jordan carr also from florida's first congressional district on our youtube page there appears to be
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a spirited debate breaking out about whether or not i should be vice president mr rude boy correctly
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points out that the presidential nominee and the vice presidential nominee cannot be from the same
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state so constitutionally ineligible sorry and i'm never leaving florida i'm a florida man for life
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we're joined now by john frankman and john it is such an honor to have you here on firebrand and really
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to have you as a representative for so many of our service members who are negatively impacted by this
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fax mandate i want to get into how all that impacted you but just first to introduce yourself to the
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folks who keep up with these updates tell me a little bit about where you grew up what life was
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like for you and what led to your decision to join the military yeah so thanks so much for having me i
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appreciate it and was born in los angeles grew up in the dc metro area and then went into the military
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so kind of just moved all over the place and big impacts for my life was my conversion to the catholic
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faith became catholic when i was in high school later on pursued the priesthood for about four years but had
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also loved the military and wanted to use the gifts god gave me to glorify him and serve him
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and after i discerned that i was not called to the priesthood i still owe the army four years of active
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duty service from my rotc scholarship so went into the infantry so did infantry school ranger school
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airborne school decided to try out for special forces so went to the selection and got through special
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forces qualification course military free fall and ended up down at seven special forces group that is a
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that is a rapid journey through an incredible military career but i i want to zero in also on
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that decision to go special forces because you're talking about the tip of the spear the best of the
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best i have a special place in my heart for the seven special forces group bed down in crestview florida
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as i made mention in my remarks on the floor what was that test like going through the rigors and the
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selection to become a green beret it was incredibly difficult and special forces assessment and selection
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is kind of the big point where if you make it through there you have a good chance of making
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it and you have to try out to before you even start the training so there's a lot of fitness
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tests iq tests personality tests what was the hardest for you what was the one thing when going
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special forces when you're like man i really got to study a little extra work a little harder to land
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navigation i was nervous about land navigation i tried to do orienteering in colorado to get myself
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ready if i didn't get one more point i probably wouldn't have got this like follow the north star
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you know look which way the winds blow i wish sun rises in the east sets in the west
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all kinds of stuff so it's it's night into day you're supposed to find five points each day
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it's like 10 hour blocks you start at what one in the morning so five hours of night time five
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hours of daylight and you're just trekking and you're carrying your rucksack you're carrying your
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rifle so um just very grueling experience and you know i was able to make it work so happy to
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have been selected and then end up at seventh group uh and your colleagues at seventh group these
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are folks from all over the country every racial and ethnic background different religious
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backgrounds tell me a little bit about your teammates and you know what kind of life was
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like day in day out as a team guy yeah i i loved it so i got to seventh group june of 2020 so
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obviously covid was a weird time but i could always already tell the freedoms from florida versus north
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carolina were amazing but i had just an amazing team and i love the guys still love the guys and
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day in and day out is tricky it's easier to go off of what does the year look like and it's from
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some individual training or language training to uh going out to the range and firing to getting
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to more um complex kind of unconventional warfare planning training things of that nature and so then
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like bring us to the moment where you first get notice or first start to believe that you're going to
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face a binary choice in your life you're going to take this experimental vaccine or you know what
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you've worked toward what you've trained toward what you've accomplished is going to be taken from
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you when in january of 2021 the shot was coming out and it was made available for special forces
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service members and all soldiers and we had a sign up a voluntary sign up before it was ever mandatory
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and i saw that i was the only officer in my company who didn't get it and there was a lot of downward
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pressure from the top saying that this is the important readiness issue if you don't do this you are a bad
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leader and group commander even telling that to different company commanders even before it was
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mandatory then i saw that policies were changing in order to punish those who didn't get the shot
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even before the mandate was out such as having to quarantine for longer extended period of time
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my team we were easily the least vaccinated team in all of groups we were known as the tinfoil hat team
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team sergeant getting harassed by that and ultimately it turned into first special forces command making it a
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policy where you have to be vaccinated in order to deploy this is before the mandate came out this was to a
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country that did not even require the uh covet shot and when my team lost that deployment um it was just
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culminating into just bad experiences happening and this is even before the mandate and did you know
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right away this was something you weren't going to be able to do or did you go through some sort of
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deliberative process because i talked to a lot of people who would say congressman i don't want to do this
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i don't want to ruin my military career though and they would seek a health exemption they would seek a
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religious exemption valid according to law they would get form letters back they'd be enraged but
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i mean i do know people who were coerced into taking the shot who never wanted to but weren't
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willing to give up their military career how did you wrestle with that how much time did that take
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um what did you do to arrive at the decision you did that's a great question and you know first and
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foremost i'm a catholic and when i found out that these shots use aborted fetal cells i knew i couldn't
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just rush in and get them i had to at least wait until it was a mandatory thing in the military but
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as i continued to kind of form myself through moral theology through studying and understand kind of
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the horror of abortion the horror of these shots that it's human embryo kidney 273 that implies that
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there were over 200 attempts to harvest these kidneys from these children and there's machines to
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keep them alive while they am heart they are harvesting this part that a disease that has over 99.99
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chance of survival does not merit me being involved in the sin of abortion so i knew by probably june of
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2021 i was never going to get the shot no matter what they can throw me in jail they can kill me
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whatever i'm just not going to do it because i would view that as a mortal sin for myself i tried to
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seek a religious exemption my whole team we were talking about medical exemptions because the military
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in addition to violating our religious rights and or issuing an unlawful order for a shot that was never
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fda approved available they also violated their own medical policy because typically if you've already
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had something and you can show you're inoculated that you already have the antibodies you can do
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that test and you can just show that and get a medical exemption and my whole team that was there
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in october after we all you know we're not vaccinated 10 to 12 and we're saying what's the deal
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uh we have this natural immunity and also what's the deal you said that comernity is fda approved
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there is no comernity there is only pfizer you can't sec def cannot mandate to us to take that shot
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so it was a deliberate process i tried to use whatever legal means were proper whatever religious
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exemption medical and the decks were just stacked against people who who didn't get the shot for
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whatever reasons what what did the mandate do to cohesion and unity within these elite teams
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it absolutely destroyed it and you have leadership that's pressuring guys to get this and if you're
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special forces green beret you know we we do unconventional warfare we are taught taught to ask
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those critical questions and to think critically when we're asked to do something oftentimes we ask
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why or should we or is there another alternative and we were kind of told to turn off that critical
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thinking piece and to just go along because it was important for readiness and it did i came for i
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love my unit and i love my leadership and i think i had a lot better than many others but for other
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units it was even worse where you'd have battalion sergeant majors in front of their entire unit saying
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if you've had the shot you have the day off if not put a rucksack on we're going through a
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grueling ruck march which is complete absolute illegal coercion but yeah it destroyed trust we don't trust
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leadership right now that's that's the basic thing they said it was the big thing now the mandate's gone
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we saw the shots don't work we know people have been injured and i've met so many vax injured people
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so yeah trust is completely gone and it erectly harmed the country i don't even know that all vax
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injured people know that they're vax injured i know people who took every shot took every booster
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would have gargled johnson and johnson if they were told to and and i've seen negative health
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consequences emerge with some of those people and it's just sad to see that they're able to
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suspend disbelief regarding the potential of vaccine injuries you've gone on to really build
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a community around the desire for accountability for this vaccine mandate and and i want to talk
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about what inspired you to do that was there you know you have another job you're going to have a
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great life but i know there are people who lost their marriages whose families were negatively
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impacted uh and who really didn't land on their feet after this to be honest with you you know are
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you you know what who are the i guess what are the stories you think about that inspire you to
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continue the activism for accountability in terms of the harm caused i think about carolina stancic who
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is a 23 year old uh national guards woman who got two midirna shots and for that has had three
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heart attacks and multiple other health issues i think about drew outstanding who um he got the shots
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he was doing tough mutters beforehand and now he is paralyzed with gay and bar syndrome i think about
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my my soldiers who did not want to get it and were coerced into doing it and the kind of pressure that
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i saw that was pushed on them between their families with their own mental health right now the military
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it's going through unfortunately a huge suicide crisis and i don't know how how putting this kind
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of mandate i think about brianna cespedes who was an air force vet who's also involved in this
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activism and she was put into quarantine for 140 days over the course of two years this is
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essentially jailed oh i mean you call it quarantine but when someone confines you and you're not allowed
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to leave to a civilian that that sounds like a version of imprisonment absolutely and then she's
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kicked out with a general discharge fortunately just got upgraded but kicked out with a general
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discharge which means that she can't get her gi bill to go to school that it affects her future
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employment opportunities and just from like a pride point of view is put there with like sexual
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offenders and other people who don't get honorable discharges which it's very hard not to so i think
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of all of these these stories um i think about the great harm that's being done to our country and i love
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this country i love the military i miss the guys i ran into my old company commander my flight up here
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it was great still love them but what was done to the military and even them trying to protect me as
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much as they could it couldn't outdo the harms and the policies that were put in place from the top
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and for that reason we have the declaration military accountability which is yeah talk a little bit
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about that yeah that there you know if you're a former service member if you're someone who believes
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that we have to rally veterans around this cause you guys have created a platform for that folks can
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find it at militaryaccountability.com right that's correct okay great well so so share a little bit
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about that project so the declaration of military accountability was written by an active duty
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commander rob green he also wrote the book defending the constitution behind enemy lines which greatly
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outlines kind of the problems and struggles that we've gone through through this fax mandate
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and what that letter outlines is that the military hasn't held themselves accountable our civilian
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leadership in congress for the most part has not held them accountable we are going to do everything
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that we can in order to hold leadership accountable we name names in the letter and we basically
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promise that there are people who are running for for congress and running into those political
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positions if we get to that point we are going to take your retirement pay away and we're going to
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make sure you can't serve under senior executive service so that we can just stop this kind of filth
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and we're trying to work and let the next president please god president trump know that he can appoint
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service secretaries that can bring these generals who broke the law off of retirement and put them
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onto active active duty so that they can be court-martialed and we're not calling for violence
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we're calling for within legal process legal process between the legal everything proper legally morally
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in order to hold the military accountable and i don't get the sense that it's vengeance that
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motivates this it's that if there's not accountability this will happen again if you're able to issue
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illegal orders if you're able to send back form letters to people when they are laying out sincerely
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their religious objections to an experimental vaccine we will we will be right back in this
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position and we'll be destroying thousands of lives going forward and i i hope that is the motivation
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for the signatories here 100 and you know the military is just our line of effort that's just our piece
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of the pie but in reality covid19 and the policies in order to prevent the spread was the biggest
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infringement upon our personal rights within our lifetime upon our liberties and i know it's tough
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to go back to these dark places in these dark times and think about it but if we don't go back
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and address the issues of what happened and learn from our mistakes it will not be long until more
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and more of our freedoms are taken from us until it's pushed for whatever globalist agenda and more
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federal power is given to them and taken from the people it lloyd austin issued this order the congress
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corrected that mistake joe biden signed a national defense authorization act that literally reversed the
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decision of lloyd austin but the pain from that decision is so real and so present if you had a
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message to share with the secretary of defense what would it be i would say just repent and try to fix
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whatever situation you have like as a catholic i believe in forgiveness but there has to be atonement
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for it so it's not too late to come back to the right side to reinstitute all these service members
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to automatically raise their discharge statuses from general to honorable to institute back pay to
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a number of reservists they missed out on years of drill that means that they can't retire late as
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soon as they would have so there's a number of things that are within his purview that he can do to fix
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this and what he did harm the military make up for it redeem yourself um i don't know if he will
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but that path is forward for him so it's not to be like we win and you lose we want the country to win
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we want service members to win and there was real harm that was done and uh there needs to be some
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real fixing for it in order for our military to be back and the strong fighting force that it once was
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what a gracious message repent resolve remediate i oftentimes use a bit of a different message i don't
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always portray that grace because my blood boils when i see these people with the great lives that
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they get to lead and the millions of dollars that they're going to make and all of the adulation
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that they undeservingly receive in these positions and i and i think about those folks some of whom i
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know who you mentioned who have experienced this harm and on morning joe they actually think i'm too
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mean i'm too insistent i'm too cruel to the top officials at the pentagon take a listen
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how many times did you go to a military ceremony especially in the armed services and you saw these
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young men and women that have committed their lives and their families have gone along and committed
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their lives to protecting and defending this country and yet donald trump trashes them you have that coach
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from alabama that says they're weak and woke you have ted cruz saying he'd rather us have russian
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troops than american troops than american troops all the insults from republicans you have matt gates
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going out of his way to trash leaders in the united states military all of these people
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trashing our men and women in uniform it's disgusting
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oh joe my predecessor don't conflate those things do not dare conflate criticism of the senior
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officials at the pentagon who are selling out our service members with the men and women of the
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military who we celebrate and we honor and john i am you know i did not serve in the military i have i
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have such respect and admiration for those who do uh and so when i get to ask questions of these senior
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leaders i really try to take a moment and think what would the service members in my district what
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would the not just the them but their families what would a military spouse ask who's seen uh their
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their loved one negatively impacted like this and uh i don't know you think i mean too mean you showed
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a lot more grace than i do so i did show grace but i you know that's that's the kind of uh i don't know
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what do you say the the cookie or that's trying to get the carrot and you're using the stick but the
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stick is necessary when they're not doing that's the gracious message but if they're not willing to
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accept that they absolutely need to be held accountable and i don't think that any line of
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questioning that you're giving them you know sticks and stones will break bones but your words
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shouldn't hurt them to that extent and it's totally deserved it's i can't think of a thing
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the sec devs done to help the military in fact it seems like there's some intentional destruction of
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the military with dei and woke policies and kicking out service members right so you know if he wants to
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if morning joe wants to know what's harsh what's harsh is uh putting my career on ice where i can't
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deploy go to career enhancing schools i can't ironically go teach ethics at west point that's the job it was
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prevented from doing was pcsing to go to grad school and teach ethics at west point and that's
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just my story but for the vaccine injured people for those who've been kicked out with general
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discharges who've had their marriages disrupted from the pressure uh for the disgraceful withdrawal
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from afghanistan without a single person getting fired it's insane and leaving billions of dollars
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of equipment i'll tell you what if you lose a small piece of equipment within any kind of battalion you
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have a flipple you have an investigation and people are charged money for it but i haven't seen that for
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the billions of dollars of equipment left out there so no you are not being too harsh we need more
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people to be harsher on them because if it's a military that is under civilian control we want
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our representatives to actually exert that civilian control to keep them in line and i feel the burden
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of that because frankly some lieutenant or captain or sergeant there's there's a limited envelope as to
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what you can do to upward manage and to put pressure on those above you and so those folks are my bosses
00:29:49.040
who are the you know the junior officers the enlisted folks the majors lieutenant colonels and
00:29:54.860
colonels who oftentimes just get smacked down by insane policy that is ill-conceived out of the
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pentagon and the social justice warriors that run around this town and so you know because so many of
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the service members we love are limited and what they can legally do to push back i feel a deep
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obligation to be their representative to be their voice and to do those things and you know it's not
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just you who lose out like when you're unable to go teach that course at west point i think about
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all the people i nominate to west point who get an appointment and then they don't get the benefit
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of that teaching final question for you uh john is the vaccine mandate just part of a bigger purge
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you know because i look at the dei i look at some of the wokeness i look at uh just the incentive
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structure for promotion in the military and i worry it's this bigger thing to try to get anybody who's
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independent thinking or traditional or conservative in their worldview to make a different choice than
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the military and then i wonder what we're left with i think that's absolutely the case within the
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military but i think it goes beyond the military that right now we're having in mainstream media
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in you know through the big search engines and things of that nature just a kind of controlled
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speech where to have conservative thought is is not allowed anymore and there really isn't freedom of
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speech so yes it's a purging of the military but it's a fundamental shifting of what we believe as a
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country and we're making up new things like communists like to divide based on certain lines
00:31:21.140
of race and gender and we're making up genders and other things to be divided about so yeah i think
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there's an absolute purging going on not just within the military but within the country of what is
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deemed as acceptable speech and and it's a shame i don't want that i actually don't want to purge the
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left from the country i think we engage we debate we win we showcase that our policies help people
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that make people more secure more prosperous and they seem to want to avoid that and they want to
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seem to actually do harm to people who are not willing to conform and i'm honored to have you here
00:31:53.660
as my guest i'm honored that you got a chance to spend some of your time in service in florida's
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first congressional district do all of us a favor in passing along our gratitude to the community that
00:32:04.320
that you represent and serve among those who've been negatively impacted well thank you so much for
00:32:09.100
having me and having me i know it's not just for me this is for service members who've been impacted
00:32:12.480
so where can folks follow you online and stay up to date i know you're you travel around the country
00:32:17.880
you work to elevate a lot of the voices around these issues we're discussing and how can folks
00:32:22.620
stay plugged sure i mean well before you follow me i like to tell people follow jesus christ but
00:32:26.100
if you still want to follow me after that you can find me at johnny underscore franks i'm on twitter
00:32:29.980
i'm on instagram and you can go to the declaration military accountability's website sign the petition
00:32:34.520
you don't have to be in the military sign it that's at military accountability.com
00:32:37.840
military accountability.com we would ask that you go there and review the great work
00:32:41.920
that these patriots are doing again it is state of the union day and we expect president biden to
00:32:47.740
tell a lot of lies about the border we were just debating border policy in the house judiciary
00:32:51.600
committee this week when we were discussing a bill that would require the detention and then
00:32:57.280
deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for robbery we figure if there if there are illegal
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aliens engaged in robbery they should not just be paroled back into the country under the
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fictitious legal status that joe biden and alejandro mayorkas have created for them take a listen to that
00:33:13.860
debate the problem with my colleagues debate is after these people are apprehended they are paroled
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into the country and so yes indeed it's 5 000 people that we would allow to be apprehended paroled
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throughout the united states and that's where you are seeing this wave of migrant crime that's where
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you are seeing jurisdictions like new york new york city think about their sanctuary status i mean i
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recall vividly a few things i recall uh at the presidential debate when the question was asked
00:33:45.900
who would provide free health care to illegal aliens coming into the country we all saw president
00:33:51.920
biden raise his hand he was a candidate then but that is a pull factor when you tell desperate people
00:33:59.140
that you're going to give them benefits and you're going to give them cash and you're going to give
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them shelter and you're going to give them food i don't particularly blame the illegal aliens who are
00:34:09.200
crossing the border to get those things i blame the choices we've made in government to allow it and the
00:34:13.980
underlying legislation here at least says i don't know if you're arrested for robbery that there is
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detention and then there is deportation that we don't have to invite all of the third world's
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prisons across our border into our nation and then allow the people in this country to be to be
00:34:32.880
victims of that crime that occurs i also vividly remember secretary myorkis sitting right here in
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this committee room acknowledging that these people who are being paroled out into the country
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would indeed commit crimes and the victims of those crimes have to be the collateral damage
00:34:50.220
so that the biden administration can allow the border to go unchecked to go uncontrolled and as we
00:34:57.440
as we now try to create some deterrent to that illegal entry it's interesting to hear my democrat
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colleagues talk about just the need for more resources oh if we just gave the biden administration
00:35:09.960
and mr myorkis more money that would solve this problem they are lawless in their use of the money
00:35:16.940
they already have they are taking what has already been authorized and appropriated it and they've
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they've used it to disperse illegal aliens into these sanctuary jurisdictions all over the nation
00:35:28.240
and so giving them more money is is sort of like saying if you have a busted fire hydrant you can solve the
00:35:35.800
problem with buckets you indeed cannot you have to shut off the flow you have to shut off the flow of
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the people into this country and this legislation has the very humble objective of ensuring that
00:35:49.520
people commit robbery do not stay here to do additional grave harm to all our fellow americans
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we're back live and we have breaking news reporting from barack ravid breaking biden will announce at a
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state of the union speech that he ordered the u.s military to conduct an emergency mission to establish a
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temporary port in gaza that would open up a maritime route for humanitarian assistance from cyprus this
00:36:17.840
reporting from barack ravid well here's the next phase now we're nation building in gaza we're building
00:36:26.880
ports in gaza as the united states has become less economically resilient as we've become more reliant on
00:36:34.420
foreign countries and their medicines and their uh and their medical equipment now we're building ports
00:36:41.480
in other countries this is how this flawed vision of nation building that frankly has been been shared by
00:36:48.240
a lot of these boomers from george bush to bill clinton to joe biden they all believe america is at our best
00:36:57.540
when we are we are languishing economically and we are building up the capabilities of other places
00:37:04.460
this port that we're supposedly building how are things going to go there is that going to be the
00:37:10.220
subject of terrorism are we going to be inviting people into into more grave harm these middle eastern
00:37:18.380
monarchies have so much money and they have so much capability they are able to get humanitarian aid to gaza
00:37:27.240
okay this is their neighborhood by the way we're ignoring a lot what's going on in latin america
00:37:32.420
in our sphere of influence we're ignoring a lot about what's going on in the western hemisphere more
00:37:37.380
broadly but we've got now this ambition to go build a port in gaza this is not good this is not going to
00:37:45.640
lead to better conditions there we also have a an exclusive report on some of the work that we're doing
00:37:51.400
to have some oversight and constraints on the power of special counsel jack smith and his election
00:37:58.000
interference campaign this exclusive to the daily wire matt gates calls on doj inspector general
00:38:03.480
to investigate jack smith and specifically the springboards off of the analysis that we saw from
00:38:09.740
justice amy comry barrett in the supreme court decision that disallowed colorado from removing president
00:38:16.580
trump from the ballot in that decision amy comry barrett noted that we are in the political season we are
00:38:22.720
in the political calendar and it is not appropriate for this to proceed as an election interference endeavor and
00:38:30.660
undeniably what was going on in colorado was painted that way there's not much more severe election
00:38:37.440
interference than you can engage in throwing someone off the ballot but jack smith's getting pretty close
00:38:42.260
and it's clear from his filings that his intent is more driven by the upcoming presidential
00:38:48.500
contest than it is the application of the facts or law in a just criminal matter it's just not
00:38:55.860
that and it's something that the inspector general ought to look at and we are indeed calling on them
00:39:01.560
to do just that and they should a final note and and i want to i want to preface this as
00:39:09.220
not a dunk but as a learning opportunity and look we we all can benefit from those
00:39:15.980
but i saw a press release that came out in support of this spending bill
00:39:20.720
that we need to dive into so the spending bills
00:39:24.620
are way over the amount that we ought to be allocating
00:39:32.820
put on the floor when she was speaker of the house
00:39:36.120
but if some members of congress are able to get some pork barrel spending some money from their
00:39:43.400
district if they're part of cooking up the deal that's a bad deal for the rest of the country but
00:39:50.320
good for them then they take credit for it and they hope that the macro economic collapse that
00:39:57.320
they're contributing to that they're financing that they're underwriting they hope that people and
00:40:06.500
this press release from congressman jerry carl of alabama's first district he says i'm proud to
00:40:14.600
deliver results for south alabama and bring our tax dollars back home to reinvest in our communities
00:40:21.080
wow isn't isn't that code for what's coming next and the release continues today i secured
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30 million dollars in funding for alabama's first district while saving american taxpayers more than
00:40:34.320
200 billion over the next 10 years so so let's let's go with that savings window whenever congress
00:40:41.140
tells you that they're saving something over a 10-year window it is your obligation to assess how much of
00:40:47.060
that is front loaded because here's what happens they'll write a 10-year budget and it'll say well
00:40:51.580
over this 10-year window we're going to save 200 billion by the way that's not saving 200 billion off
00:40:56.000
of current spending that's saving 200 billion off of some anticipated increase so it's always still
00:41:02.440
going up and here's how they do it they put all the pork they put all the spending they put all the
00:41:09.880
nonsense on the front end of that 10-year window and then all of the cuts all the savings well you know
00:41:16.980
that's that starts in year 7 8 9 10 it's a joke and it's insulting and so for someone to say well
00:41:25.400
because i got 30 million for my district that justifies selling out the country paving the way
00:41:33.820
to 50 trillion in debt during that very same budget window it's not something that i think voters will
00:41:40.760
abide it's not something the country should abide and it's noteworthy that on tuesday despite having
00:41:48.720
considerably more resources for campaigning despite being geographically advantaged jerry carl was
00:41:57.040
defeated in the primary for alabama's first congressional district by fellow congressman blake moore
00:42:02.940
who had been redistricted into alabama one and even on the heels of that defeat to see congressman
00:42:10.380
carl a republican from alabama touting the 30 million being deceptive about the cuts over the
00:42:19.560
course of some illusory 10-year window it's exactly why candidates like this are losing even when they
00:42:26.120
have more money even when they have more advantages because the american people are able to distinguish
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the true fighters from the sellouts and the fakes and the phonies thanks for being here with us to help
00:42:37.380
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