The Great America Show - ROB O’NEILL SAYS WAR IS BIG BIZ- MCCLOSKEY FIGHTS RINOs

00:00:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Great America Podcast with Lou Dobbs,

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00:01:00.000 will listen. Let's turn now, though, to a number of news developments today. Let's begin with the

00:01:05.680 U.S. Special Forces raid against the Islamic State leader in Syria. First, the Pentagon says none of

00:01:12.660 our troops, thank God, were killed or wounded in the raid and that ISIS, that ISIS leader is dead.

00:01:20.340 Today, the Pentagon, however, did confirm early reports that there were women and children killed

00:01:26.440 in the attack. But the view is that they were killed when the ISIS leader set off his suicide

00:01:33.240 best. In a separate development, President Joe Biden's approval rating has fallen, fallen below

00:01:39.880 that of President Donald Trump at the very same point in their presidencies. Now there, I am sure,

00:01:46.280 there is no relationship to geopolitical events and his polling situation. And in other White House

00:01:54.460 news, President Biden says the Constitution is always evolving slightly in terms of additional

00:02:00.080 rights or curtailing rights. Based on that remark, it's incredible that Biden only wants to pack the

00:02:07.160 Supreme Court with more justices and make the justices term limited. There's no telling what else he has

00:02:14.120 in store. And as to that little remark about expanding rights and taking them away, which way would you

00:02:21.240 bet? That Joe Biden wants to expand our rights or limit them more? I think we probably agree about the

00:02:29.360 limit them more. I want to turn to our guest now. He is a terrific American. And he is, without question,

00:02:38.920 an American hero. He's Robert J. O'Neill. And if you don't mind, Rob, I'm going to introduce you based

00:02:47.460 on your profile on Twitter. He is a minor, M-I-N-E-R. He is a SEAL, all caps, S-E-A-L. A breacher, MFF

00:03:00.380 jump master, tandem master, shot a bunch of dudes. One was famous, beer guy, speaker. And with that,

00:03:10.840 Rob O'Neill, welcome to the Great America Show.

00:03:14.120 As always, thanks for having me, Lou. It's an honor.

00:03:17.240 Let me start with this raid in Syria. A lot is being made in some quarters of civilian casualties.

00:03:25.100 Early reports are that the leader of ISIS was wearing a suicide vest and blew them up.

00:03:33.600 Your take on the way in which you've seen it reported and your thoughts about that?

00:03:39.720 Well, initially, it was eerie because I started to hear from some of my former teammates from SEAL Team

00:03:45.540 Six that this was a lot like the bin Laden raid with a helicopter having issues and going down,

00:03:52.340 needed to be destroyed. And then guys slowly trying to work their way to the third floor.

00:03:57.400 That's where we found bin Laden. And my personally, when I was going to the third floor of bin Laden's 0.94

00:04:02.460 house, I knew we're going to blow up. I don't know why he didn't. Sometimes these big leaders don't.

00:04:08.560 But these army special operators, they went up there and this guy did set off either

00:04:15.680 a vest or the room or the floor was rigged with explosives. And when you get into places like that,

00:04:24.500 it's very, very uncommon to just find the bad guy. There's going to be a wife or wives and children with him.

00:04:32.060 And if he blows himself up, he's going to kill the kids and the family. That's just he made the decision. 0.99

00:04:37.320 And it's amazing. The reports are coming out that none of our guys were hurt, which is tells you how

00:04:42.540 incredible they are after what I heard was a two hour gunfight where I'm assuming and again, I wasn't

00:04:48.900 there, but they're they were trying to do what's called a call out, which is something like almost like a police

00:04:54.400 tactic where you let them know, look, you're surrounded. You need to come out. But but they decide they,

00:05:00.240 you know, in this case, being the the martyr to be they're going to try to suck as many people in as

00:05:06.440 they can before they ignite. And and the mindset behind these, especially the high of ISIS leaders

00:05:12.860 is as soon as I detonate this, not only will I go to heaven immediately, so will my family.

00:05:19.720 And they really, really believe this. I mean, they're horrible people that were taught horrible

00:05:24.260 things growing up and their ideology is so twisted. You can you've seen it all over the Internet 0.94

00:05:28.280 when ISIS came to power. A lot of them are just psychopaths that knew they could murder people. 1.00

00:05:32.840 This guy did you know, he acted like a lot like bin Laden, where he would only leave the house. 0.97

00:05:36.840 I think it was to go on the rooftop to to bathe. And that's that's I'm I'm assuming that's how

00:05:42.620 intelligence found him because they were looking for him for a while. And I think that the special

00:05:46.420 operators were planning this for months. And I mean, other than losing a helicopter, if that's all

00:05:51.540 you lose in an operation like this with suicide bombers, it's a success because as we've proven, 1.00

00:05:55.560 we don't really care if we give away helicopters. There you go. It's it is a terrible trade when

00:06:02.940 someone is when we have to report casualties rather than a helicopter down. And I have a feeling that

00:06:08.700 the White House isn't too concerned about the cost of a helicopter. Hell, they left 167 of them in

00:06:16.120 Afghanistan at one fell swoop. Well, the White House likes it and the Pentagon likes it because 1.00

00:06:24.960 the more stuff they lose, the more their buddies at the big time contractors get to make. And that's

00:06:29.760 more money for them. And that's the root of a bunch of evil right there. But we can get into that later.

00:06:34.960 Absolutely. Well, we are right now. I mean, not a bad segue.

00:06:38.880 You're setting us up here. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. The idea that Biden's approval

00:06:47.820 rating dropped below Trump's at the same point in their presidencies and a rate is carried out.

00:06:55.720 You know, so many of us of a certain age keep remembering a movie called Wag the Dog.

00:07:01.540 Oh, yeah. And I think this is just really too coincidental for words, this way I'll put it.

00:07:07.380 What do you think? Well, it's almost like with Wag the Dog, which is excellent, by the way,

00:07:12.040 Hollywood kind of knew what was going on anyway. And you got to figure, well, Trump's approval rating

00:07:18.540 was down at the same time as Biden's. But that's with a media that would do anything,

00:07:24.660 cut their own teeth to destroy Trump. And they would give Joe Biden a sponge bath.

00:07:28.500 It tells you how bad Joe Biden is doing. And just the it is both sides of the aisle that like,

00:07:39.100 you know, when I grew up, I, you know, as American, American flag and apple pie,

00:07:43.740 and we're doing the right thing around the world. But I've realized there are a lot of people,

00:07:48.000 Republicans and Democrats that have big donors that make big tanks, that they're kind of pushing that

00:07:54.280 we need a big defense, forward defense, big ships, because, you know, you don't you don't make as

00:08:00.140 much money as a four star admiral as you will as soon as you start working for Lockheed Martin.

00:08:04.760 And it's all it's a good old boy network. And war is big money. Look at Ukraine now. No interest in 0.66

00:08:10.460 Ukraine. But we'll send some troops there. And everybody, you know, get the get the lines rolling,

00:08:15.280 because we're making some more gear so we can help our friends in Ukraine, which isn't even part of

00:08:19.500 NATO. So it's everything from which lobbyists can get the big money, just because they can open the

00:08:25.620 door to this congressman. And you see that, you know, they call themselves war hawks. You've never

00:08:29.880 been to war. Everyone that I know who's been to war is not a war hawk. It's like it's like when I

00:08:34.480 on Instagram or see someone, you know, at a theme park wearing a shirt that says I like to kick down 0.99

00:08:40.660 doors and shoot guys in the face. My response is no, you don't, because you've never done it. You don't 0.88

00:08:45.740 know what it's like. And so these guys, you know, it's a small circle that we call the belt

00:08:49.480 way. And then, you know, dudes in suits, lawyers and lobbyists around them, and then the media in

00:08:53.940 New York, and they're running this whole thing. And I'm convinced everyone's everyone's getting

00:08:57.700 paid. It shouldn't be you shouldn't enter Congress as a former bartender and instantly become a

00:09:04.740 millionaire driving a Tesla, something sideways. Right. Although that seems to be a common practice.

00:09:10.800 And there are some people who really exceed even those targets for remuneration and net net worth.

00:09:17.560 I mean, it's incredible. I mean, look at the Clintons didn't have anything to go see. And

00:09:25.780 suddenly, they're worth 150. I think 109 million in the first 10 years after they were out of the

00:09:32.580 White House. You see the same thing with the Obamas. I mean, for crying out loud, Bush,

00:09:38.500 Bush was born into money. So he started with a good start.

00:09:45.880 Yeah, I was going to say, like, the Obamas now have that huge mansion in Martha's Vineyard. It's

00:09:50.600 like, I didn't know that a community organizer's salary was that big. And it's like, people always

00:09:58.560 ask me, hey, if you could go back in time, because then they want like a Navy SEAL answer. If you can go

00:10:03.240 back in time and tell 15 year old Rob what to do, I would say I would tell my father, do whatever

00:10:09.600 Nancy Pelosi's husband is doing. Make those bets.

00:10:14.880 And she's, by the way, gotten lucky again. You know, I love people who get lucky when they think.

00:10:20.180 And there's some people who just get lucky by the way in which they time their stock purchases.

00:10:26.140 And here we go again. She's got her husband's got a windfall with everything that's going on in

00:10:33.000 China. So it's incredible. And by the way, you notice that the Congress and the Senate,

00:10:40.640 they love to pass bills and make big moves and whatever it costs. But they really don't like

00:10:48.100 to ever, ever regulate themselves and say, end insider trading for Congress and for the Senate.

00:10:56.700 Well, they're the lawmakers. That's why we don't have term limits, because guess who votes on the

00:11:00.700 term limits? And they never miss a beat on on getting promotions, raises for themselves. And

00:11:07.620 not one of them didn't collect a paycheck when everyone else is locked in their houses.

00:11:12.280 You know, when you were when you were talking about apple pie and the flag and everything else,

00:11:18.260 obviously, I was raised in the same circumstances. Well, I don't know how obvious it is. It was the way

00:11:24.380 things were when I was a kid. And and now we're looking at a country and I was surprised, by the

00:11:33.760 way, to find out we're looking at a country that won't throw a parade for a military or throw a

00:11:39.860 parade, military parade for ourselves. And I was kind of surprised that you were opposed to the idea

00:11:46.180 of a military parade and reading your, you know, reading you over the course of time. Why is that?

00:11:52.680 Now that I took that more to the micro level, because I mean, parades are cool. But a lot of

00:11:58.440 these men and women, they've been in two wars for a long, long time since, you know, September 11,

00:12:03.940 2001. And they were talking long deployments at sea long deployments in the desert and the mountains

00:12:09.540 of Afghanistan. And if you need a parade with people marching, you got to pull that from from

00:12:15.120 these people that you know what, because my thing was, you know, I'm not against parades, but I really

00:12:20.080 want the troops to have morale. That means be home with your kids and your wives and husbands for for

00:12:24.580 a while. It would take weeks to train and, you know, 15 hour days to march and all this stuff when we

00:12:31.140 really didn't need it at the time. My suggestion was simply if you need to show something we we do have

00:12:36.880 the the Blue Angels and we have the Navy Leapfrogs and the Army Golden Knights, the military shouldn't

00:12:43.520 be used as a proving ground. It shouldn't be used as a look at me type thing. So I disagreed with the

00:12:49.120 parade then simply because you're wearing these guys out. Yeah. The reason I like the idea of a

00:12:56.740 parade is because the Pentagon general staff doesn't like them. And and Donald Trump had an idea that I

00:13:04.940 thought was very good. And that is to have military parades and the and the people that you draw from

00:13:09.500 there, typically in communities around the country are the the reserves, the National Guard.

00:13:16.760 And I don't I don't want to see anybody that's been had four deploy. I actually I don't want to see

00:13:22.740 people with four deployments, period. We should have a military large enough that we could do far 0.98

00:13:28.040 better in the way in which we take care of our warfighters. But that's another well, maybe it's not

00:13:33.400 another issue, but it's part of the issue. You've got to figure that a lot of people fighting on the

00:13:37.840 front lines were National Guard troops like we were we were spread thin on, you know, one of the big

00:13:42.320 things is never fight a two front war. And we were on a lot of different fronts. And it's just I think

00:13:47.800 you're just adding too much to it. I mean, there's so many patriotic people in this country, too, that

00:13:52.660 I mean, you see the Trump rallies even now, I just got off like an eight day road trip. And it was just to

00:13:57.700 talk to thousands of people personally and hear how they feel about the military.

00:14:01.500 Yeah, they're out there. It's just that the very, very minimal loud people that are angry about

00:14:09.760 everyone, everything tries to ruin it for the rest of us. The majority of the people are good,

00:14:13.220 and they love it, they want it. And you know, I mean, if people are willing to do it, fine. I just

00:14:17.400 don't think you should order people to stand around like that scene in stripes where they're falling

00:14:21.440 off jeeps trying to get some sleep. Yeah, I like that. I like the imagery. Yeah, it's a great movie.

00:14:27.100 The schools right now, well, first of all, we're about four years away, five years away now from

00:14:37.020 Trump's urging to do that. And the reason I bring it up today is because we're looking at polls that

00:14:47.160 show the military has never been less respected than it is right now. And there's a reason for that.

00:14:54.520 It has nothing to do with our rank and file in the military. It has everything to do with four-star

00:15:02.400 generals who don't make the salary of a senior vice president, one of the big defense contractors,

00:15:07.680 you say. But they fly around in a $50 million aircraft, just like they were big shots with a

00:15:14.320 big salary. It's time for, I think, the country to sit back and say, you know what, it's okay to have

00:15:20.280 a parade. It is okay to show children what our military is. And by the way, how is this volunteer

00:15:28.580 military working? I don't think it's working too damn well. What do you think?

00:15:34.000 It works. And the issue, though, is the senior leaders. Like you said, the four stars flying

00:15:40.860 around in the Lear jets and stuff like that, because they're trying to make it a proving ground.

00:15:45.200 Once you get to a certain level, it's all political. And you need to say the right thing,

00:15:49.780 be politically correct in order to, because everyone that has one star wants their second

00:15:53.340 star. And so then just because of the woke movements and stuff like that, and all this,

00:15:58.840 we need this type of person here. And we got to put these people there. And the troops don't care

00:16:05.220 about anything. And I'm talking about, they don't care about gays in the military. They don't care 0.88

00:16:09.620 what color your skin is. As long as you can meet the standards, you can be on my team. That's all

00:16:15.020 they care about. And that's all that we need to do. Like Marines don't need to be in Afghanistan

00:16:19.600 trying to build schools in the Shuriak Valley, in the Korengal Valley, because they don't want them.

00:16:24.860 And you're just going to get shot at for no reason. Let the military do their jobs, and it'll be

00:16:29.320 fine. But now that it's everything from, you know, they're teaching critical race theory, they're

00:16:33.500 pushing all the transgender stuff. And they're making that important. It started, I saw it 1.00

00:16:42.200 starting when I got out in 2012. I was actually in Afghanistan with a room full of Navy SEALs. And

00:16:47.220 the push then was repealing, don't ask, don't tell. And I'm looking around a room full of dudes,

00:16:55.180 knowing some of them are gay. And I'm like, does anybody care if another Navy SEAL is gay? I'm like, 0.97

00:17:00.020 no. Why does the media? I don't know, talking points. Because it all goes back up the chain to

00:17:07.060 who wants to get their third star and who wants to get reelected as a congressman. Because I need to

00:17:10.720 say the right thing, because the media is all over me. And there's so much behind it that doesn't need

00:17:14.060 to be done. And so much repetition of nonsense. Yeah, you know, it's interesting. I think that there's

00:17:19.980 a period of about 20 years there where the issue of don't ask, don't tell, gay rights, gay marriage,

00:17:28.040 we had friends who told us who are gay, that they oppose gay marriage. We, my wife and I,

00:17:38.560 you know, we said, why would we care? Why would we care? Now, we have friends, too, who are so

00:17:44.500 religious on that issue. And it's part of their religious belief system that, you know, they think

00:17:51.340 it is absolutely terrible. And I respect, I respect both views. But for me personally,

00:17:57.120 you know, I agree with you. I just don't see the point with you're sitting, whether you're sitting

00:18:02.840 in Afghanistan, or whether you're walking down the street on Fifth Avenue, what's the difference?

00:18:07.860 No, I agree, too. And I'm kind of a libertarian, as far as, like, any, you know, gay marriage,

00:18:13.460 transgender, you do what you want. Don't as long as you're not negatively affecting anyone else,

00:18:18.000 do whatever you want. And I'm also a capitalist, when that, like, the dude that didn't want to make

00:18:22.820 the gay wedding cake, it's like, who cares? You're, you're going to make money, make the damn cake, 1.00

00:18:27.560 who cares? Well, see, I, I'm a conservative, not a libertarian. And I'm so daggum conservative. 0.99

00:18:34.040 And I believe in every man's right, and every woman's right to make those decisions. And if you

00:18:40.180 don't like the fact that he didn't make your cake, go down the block and get your damn cake. 1.00

00:18:46.620 Yeah. Do they want to make an issue out of it? Cancel him, because I don't like him. 0.99

00:18:51.100 The LGBT groups have made a 10-year crusade against that man, who refused to bake that cake. 0.96

00:18:59.100 This isn't about rights. This is about destroying somebody who disagrees with your point of view.

00:19:04.580 And most of these people, you know, are just in it for the ideological high that they get

00:19:12.660 from destroying somebody who has an opposing view, particularly on the left.

00:19:16.960 They're in it for the high, but they also like the check from George Soros.

00:19:20.920 Yeah, well, I guess, you know, it's sometimes it's hard to see that was a very capitalistic thing

00:19:26.540 you said there, marrying incentives and remuneration that values. I want to get I want to get back to

00:19:34.620 the parade just very quickly. Sure. In this sense. How many of those folks out there in the country

00:19:42.820 that you've talked to as you go around speaking to groups all over the country? How many of them

00:19:48.020 are veterans? Would you speak? I can't find too many veterans.

00:19:54.160 Well, late last week, I was at like blue collar type convention. So like HVAC people, air and cooling 0.97

00:20:03.580 and roofing guys. So there's quite a few veterans in there. There was actually like a Semper Fi roofing

00:20:10.060 company for the Marine Corps veterans. So there's I run into a lot there. And, you know, generally the people

00:20:15.840 who hire me to speak are conservative. So I do see vets and I'm in touch with a lot of veterans. I talk to

00:20:22.440 veterans every single day. Understandably. But I mean, just in general audiences you speak with,

00:20:28.380 I see a military that's changing, not because it's the way to go, but because it's really their

00:20:35.420 last resort to get a quote unquote volunteer. Are you a volunteer if they put a $50,000

00:20:41.660 signing bonus in front of you and you're 21 years old or 18, whatever it may be. I mean, I get pretty

00:20:49.560 excited if somebody had done that to me when I was 18.

00:20:53.560 Yeah, my bonus wasn't that high either. So yeah, it's a good question. I don't know if it's

00:20:57.260 if it's a volunteer that it's a heck of an incentive. But again, it's coming from the

00:21:03.560 government that doesn't really care how they spend your money anyway. So they'll just keep

00:21:07.020 throwing money at things.

00:21:07.940 And I think it's about time that people started figuring out one of the problems in this country

00:21:12.340 is that we don't have people who've ever put on the uniform. And they, you know, and I'm not

00:21:18.280 talking about combat veterans, and I'm not talking about American heroes like you. I'm talking about

00:21:23.840 men and women used to go through the military. It was a rite of passage for many men, not most,

00:21:31.840 but a huge percentage. Now we have less than 3% of the population ever putting on the uniform.

00:21:39.020 It's hard to talk about equity is the left wants to do when it comes to critical race theory or,

00:21:45.520 you know, EID and corporations of government around the country. They talk about equity,

00:21:51.300 but have no idea what it means. It means proportionality as well, in all things, including

00:21:56.560 service to the nation.

00:21:57.700 See, I see where you're going. You're kind of getting me to your side on the parade here,

00:22:01.720 because that is exposure to a lot of young people, because the more I think about it,

00:22:05.680 we used to have recruiters, I went to a private Catholic high school, and we had recruiters come

00:22:10.300 in every year. And now they can't, they can't get on campuses. They can't like college kids can't

00:22:15.860 learn the benefits of ROTC, which is a great program. That's free college. You know, I had a buddy

00:22:21.580 that I grew up with that enlisted, and then he got a ROTC scholarship to Tulane, which is in,

00:22:26.700 you know, New Orleans. And I'm like, wow, that's a sweet deal. Free New Orleans for four years.

00:22:31.560 But I was thinking about academics, aren't you?

00:22:34.280 Yeah, yeah. When I think New Orleans, I think school. They, but yeah, they don't get the exposure.

00:22:41.100 And they're actually told the opposite by a lot of these leftist teachers that the military's racist, 0.97

00:22:45.860 the military's bad, the military's a bunch of baby killers, which is not the truth. Because, 0.97

00:22:49.840 you know, I've seen the bad guys up close and personal. I know damn well who the good guys are.

00:22:53.360 And I've seen guys, we talked about kids earlier in that raid on the ISIS place. Those guys did

00:22:58.340 everything they could to save every single woman and child in that house. It just so happened the

00:23:01.860 father of a bunch of them blew them all up. But America's good. And like, it's, it is a rite of

00:23:07.960 past. It's like, have you ever seen a Marine who made it through Marine Corps bootcamp not be

00:23:12.920 so proud of being a Marine? Because it's so hard, but it's such camaraderie. And so, and they're the

00:23:18.060 once a Marine, always a Marine. Don't ever call a Marine an ex-Marine. It's a former Marine,

00:23:22.200 or just a Marine. And, you know, the army is the same way with, with their bootcamp and then like

00:23:27.320 Ranger school and airborne and then Ranger school. It's something there that you just learn how to,

00:23:32.840 like little things like being in the Navy, learning how to fold a shirt and you know,

00:23:36.780 how to be at sea once you get done being seasick, stuff like that. It's just very, very cool. But

00:23:41.220 yeah, kids aren't getting a lot of exposure and the media has no interest in portraying that.

00:23:45.000 Yeah. Yeah. You know, one thing about being a seal, it sort of ends the conversation,

00:23:49.920 doesn't it? When somebody says, you know, I'm a pretty tough guy and you say you're a Navy seal.

00:23:55.400 I just don't see the conversation going very far after that.

00:23:59.320 No, I just, they don't recognize me. I just tell them I'm a minor and a beer guy.

00:24:02.500 And, uh, and I do notice that you've got a soft spot in your heart for the, uh, for the Marine

00:24:10.060 Corps. Oh yeah. And that brings me to the subject of this new book that you've got coming out and I

00:24:15.080 am anxious to see it and I am ordering it today. I'm urging everyone listening to us to order it

00:24:22.920 today. It is called the way forward. It's coming out, uh, March 1st. I, and you can pre-order it

00:24:29.200 through every bookseller in the country. And I urge you to do so it's by Robert O'Neill and a fellow by

00:24:35.720 the name of Dakota Meyer. Now, as I recall, he was something of a Marine. Yeah. Dakota is an

00:24:43.720 incredible story. Um, he, you know, he grew up in Kentucky, joined the Marine Corps and ended up

00:24:49.800 receiving the medal of honor. And he'll tell you, you know, the, the, he'll tell you first that he,

00:24:55.180 he was awarded the medal of honor for the worst day of his life. Um, and, and, you know, he didn't

00:25:02.080 expect to be there and now he's, he's here. He's who he is. I was never supposed to be a Navy SEAL.

00:25:06.760 Now I am who I am. And the way forward is about now, what, what do we do now? And the point is

00:25:11.920 whether you're the guy that went into bin Laden's bedroom or the guy that was awarded the medal of

00:25:16.760 honor, or you're the CEO of a, of a major company, we've all had our first day. And then we've all

00:25:21.120 had our next day and like it or not, we've all been scared. And so it just kind of lessons learned

00:25:25.300 this one, this one's funnier than my last book, the operate a lot of good humor, but it's, it kind

00:25:30.140 of, uh, normalizes everyone. The realization that most of us are the same. Most of us are good. And

00:25:34.180 it's a, I'm excited to work with Dakota. He's like, his story is so funny because he's just a wonderful

00:25:39.360 human being. Uh, you think bad-ass Marine, but you don't know that he was a cheerleader in high

00:25:45.860 school, stuff like that. Like just fun stuff. Oh, that bootcamp is there for a reason. Yeah,

00:25:52.540 I think so. They had to beat the pom-poms out of his hands. So I could imagine, uh, that you guys

00:26:00.920 had a lot of fun, uh, with this, uh, book, but at the same time, there's a, there's a lot of hard,

00:26:08.380 serious work goes into any book. What was the most difficult part of the tales you tell?

00:26:13.800 Um, the, the most difficult part, not difficult, but the most time consuming is, is reading the

00:26:20.420 audio. Um, when I did my last book, the operator, my, my, I didn't want to read it. It would take

00:26:25.420 days and weeks, uh, especially for me. And, but my wife, Jessica said that, uh, you only, you can tell

00:26:31.280 your story. So I read the first one and then Dakota and I both read our parts in this one. So that was the

00:26:36.500 most time consuming just because, um, you know, you got to sit in the studio, every little, you got to be

00:26:41.380 careful how much coffee you drink. Cause every little gurgle in your, in your throat will come

00:26:45.340 soon. You got to reread it. So you read your book out loud, essentially four times just because you,

00:26:50.040 uh, so much noise, but it's, it's fun. We, we wrapped up the, the, the, the, I think the hardest

00:26:54.420 part is getting it approved by the Pentagon. Uh, I'm a, if you're, if you're from the military and

00:26:59.660 you write a book, put it through the Pentagon, just to make sure you're not putting any tactics in

00:27:03.860 there, anything they don't want out there. So I've done that with both my books. It's proved by

00:27:06.860 all the agencies that took a long time. The publishers for some reason, don't understand

00:27:11.240 that they were saying, uh, cause once I, once I submitted it, the Pentagon says, uh, don't,

00:27:16.380 don't even think about your publisher's deadline for this to be printed because it's not up to them

00:27:20.440 anymore. It's up to us. And, um, you know, and I'm kind of controversial with some of my statements.

00:27:24.700 So I'm like, you know, to the publisher, um, uh, I said, you know, they could have this for a few

00:27:30.220 years and I was right. They had it for almost a year. Good grief. Good grief. Well, I, I do want to,

00:27:36.360 you know, you raise that point, uh, as you're talking about reading each of your parts in this,

00:27:42.420 how, how does the reader, how do we, uh, tell, uh, whether we're hearing, uh, reading, uh, Dakota

00:27:50.000 Meyer or Robert O'Neill? Well, I was saying that, um, mine's going to sound pretty normal and well-spoken.

00:27:55.040 His will be a little slower and written in crayon. Oh, I would never have denied you that opportunity.

00:28:02.740 I saw you, I saw you set me up for that. Oh man. Well, I, I look forward to seeing it. Uh,

00:28:11.420 the way forward is the name of the book folks. It's by Robert O'Neill and Dakota Meyer. Uh,

00:28:16.960 I can't wait to read it, Rob. And I know, uh, thousands of thousands of folks, uh, bestseller

00:28:22.360 levels of thousands and thousands of folks, uh, will be eager to read it as well. Uh, I want to say

00:28:28.340 it's been great to talking with you. I hope you'll come back soon and best of luck with a book. And on

00:28:34.000 this broadcast, this podcast, uh, we always give our guests the last word, and this is your

00:28:40.100 opportunity. Take it away. Well, uh, Lou, it's always an honor to talk to you. I always have a

00:28:44.720 great time and I love not having talking points because we never know where we're going to go.

00:28:48.380 Um, but yeah, so the, the way forward is available on my website, robertjoneal.com.

00:28:53.460 And, uh, you got to check out the swag there. My front toward enemy, uh, hoodies and shirts are

00:28:58.400 on fire. And it just, uh, it's a, that's a front toward enemy is what they put on claymore

00:29:02.500 mines because we keep it simple. It reminds you to this front goes towards enemy. So this is on

00:29:06.800 the front of the shirt and it's how to take, take, take on life's hardest decisions front toward

00:29:11.880 enemy. And on the back of the hoodie, it says back. So it's kind of an instruction manual on how to

00:29:16.820 wear a sweatshirt. I love it. I love it. And, uh, I'm going to, I've got to get the family,

00:29:22.800 uh, we're going to have it for all the kids, the grandkids. Uh, it's, uh, I'm going to have

00:29:29.280 to think about which kids I have to be careful with about that might invite somebody to want to

00:29:34.540 fight. We'll see. Uh, uh, several of, uh, our kids, we know how that fight will end poor victims, 0.94

00:29:43.420 uh, the way forward. And Rob, it's been a delight talking with you. Uh, I really,

00:29:50.760 really appreciate your time and, uh, we'll talk soon. I hope. And I wish, wish you all the best.

00:29:56.700 Thanks. Thanks. And God bless Rob, uh, for all he's done and all he does for the country.

00:30:03.780 This year, 15 Republican Senate seats are open 13 democratic seats. There's a heck of a battle

00:30:11.580 shaping up in the great state of Missouri. That is in part because there's no incumbent long time

00:30:18.660 establishment Republican Senator Roy Blunt is retiring and there are nine count of nine

00:30:25.740 candidates who are running for the Republican nomination running in the Republican primary

00:30:32.180 for the opportunity to run against the Democrat candidate in November. And by the way, there

00:30:37.280 are a few Democrats running in primary as well. There are seven at last count. So it is busy in Missouri.

00:30:44.900 The latest polls for the Republicans are close. They have the state attorney general, Eric Schmidt

00:30:51.860 in the lead one point ahead of Eric Gritens, the controversial, Eric Gritens followed by

00:30:58.160 Vic Hartzler, then Billy long and Mark McCloskey. But the race is in early days to say the least.

00:31:06.200 The primary election is August 2nd, six months away. And with us is a man who's going to make the most

00:31:13.000 of those six months and Mark McCloskey. He's attorney, not a professional politician. And he doesn't

00:31:19.880 have a lot of, uh, well, establishment, uh, GOP rhino money behind him. Uh, welcome back to the show,

00:31:29.480 Mark. Uh, we're, we're checking in with you to see how things are going and, uh, how are you doing?

00:31:35.000 Well, thanks for having me on Lou. You know, we're out there working as hard as we can possibly work.

00:31:40.120 We're hitting every event we can go to. Most of the other candidates don't show up at these events.

00:31:45.000 Uh, but we are, you know, hitting a different county virtually every night. And it's a, it's a big

00:31:50.280 state. We've got 114 counties in Missouri. We've had about 57 of them, I think, as of yesterday.

00:31:57.160 And, uh, we've got a, we've got a ways to go, but, uh, I've got this kind of unique idea that

00:32:03.160 I'm going to be representing the people of Missouri and I've never been a candidate for anything before.

00:32:07.560 I ought to go out and talk to as many of them as possible and see what they want.

00:32:11.480 Well, I think that's a great idea. Uh, and, uh, and I, I know you have a, a John Deere tractor on

00:32:18.360 your place. Uh, do you also have a pickup? You know, I, I don't own a pickup truck here. You know,

00:32:24.360 I'm so I'm, that's my one, uh, detriment is as a true American. Uh, I don't have that F one 50. Um,

00:32:31.800 but I, I do, I do have a gator that we call Swiss cheese because it's got too many holes

00:32:37.080 routed through it. Yeah. Oh, I've got one of those too. And I, I, I don't know how old it is,

00:32:42.840 uh, but it's held up through thick and thin. We got to, you know, we got a little,

00:32:47.960 a little farm here. Uh, we got a couple of those that we, we use from time to time. Uh,

00:32:53.640 they're great little vehicles. I just, uh, you know, I think I, I wouldn't want to,

00:32:58.440 I don't think I'd want to traverse the entire state of Missouri on one, but, uh, I, I, I'd hold

00:33:04.760 out for that Ford one 50, I believe if I were you, I, you know, I've just heard too many candidates,

00:33:09.880 I guess over the years, use a pickup to, you're talking about talking to everybody in Missouri,

00:33:15.160 uh, you know, it's, it's one way to do it. Uh, I, I guess the days of trains and whistle stops are over.

00:33:23.400 Uh, it's a tough thing if you don't have that, uh, that big money for that television advertising,

00:33:28.760 isn't it? Well, it is. And, and I think that, uh, the two big candidates, uh, the two Erics, 0.94

00:33:35.000 we call them Will Eric and Big Eric, Eric Reitens and Eric Schmidt, uh, have tons of money in reserve.

00:33:39.960 They've gotten millions of dollars from billionaires and from the, uh, the big corporations. But if you

00:33:45.960 want to have politics as usual, if you want to just keep electing career politicians or people

00:33:51.160 that don't really have a political philosophy, but just have political ambition, then, then,

00:33:55.960 then vote for guys like that. The, uh, the, if I say this every night, there is no longer time in

00:34:02.760 this nation for politics as usual. This country is so close to being lost. Our liberties are so

00:34:08.680 close to being taken completely away. Our constitution is so close to being completely ignored and decimated

00:34:15.000 by the, by the deep state and the mainstream media that there is not time to elect politicians as

00:34:21.400 usual who want to argue fine points of, uh, of the midline, because that's not going to save this

00:34:27.320 country. And, and that's, that's why I put my life on hold to do this because I don't think there is

00:34:33.000 time if we don't take back a government in this election, if we don't remind the powers that be that

00:34:38.840 this is the government by consent of the government, then we're not going to have a, uh, free republic any

00:34:44.280 longer. You know, I think that all of the, all of the folks listening to you, uh, in Missouri and

00:34:49.800 the United States, and I think everybody around the world watching American democracy at work

00:34:56.120 would be real interested to hear how you're, you're going to go about getting your name out there,

00:35:02.680 getting your ideas out there and building popular support, uh, in the great state of Missouri

00:35:08.520 without a pickup truck and without, uh, all of that money for television advertising.

00:35:14.600 Every place we go, people recognize that our civil liberties are not just at risk,

00:35:20.200 but being decimated by the current administration, that the current administration does not respect

00:35:25.240 the rule of law, doesn't respect the rulings of the Supreme court. And in fact, the, uh,

00:35:30.200 president of the United States in his, uh, state of the union address last spring

00:35:35.160 talked about how he has the, uh, the power to determine what is information and what is

00:35:40.600 misinformation. And just two weeks ago, he reiterated that saying that the tech corporations

00:35:46.760 should assist him in censoring what the American people are allowed to hear and not hear. And

00:35:52.920 this is not a, this is not a free country when you've got the, the president of the United States

00:35:58.760 declaring that he can censor what we're allowed to say here and think. Yeah. Well, it's, uh,

00:36:04.360 it's right now, it seems to be the way of America, uh, the big tech social media deciding that even a

00:36:11.400 president, uh, can be banned. Uh, it's, it's outrageous and no one responds to it. I mean, that's,

00:36:18.120 what's to me, it's just crazy. Uh, the Republican party doesn't say, well, you SOBs, here we come at 0.61

00:36:25.000 Twitter, uh, uh, Facebook, whomever it may be. They just say, you know, okay, fine. Uh, because

00:36:32.120 they sort of, the establishment types sort of drool into their soup bowls and, uh, say, you know,

00:36:38.600 we'll benefit from this at some point. And so we'll let it go. And pretty soon, uh, you know,

00:36:43.800 we're going to be in, as you say, one heck of a mess. And who are these Republicans? When the

00:36:50.600 president does something wholly unconstitutional, when the federal government imposes unconstitutional

00:36:56.360 mandates, when they open the borders to illegal immigration, how come there are 50 Republican

00:37:01.080 senators standing on the steps of the Capitol building screaming in the megaphones that if

00:37:05.400 we permit this to happen, this is the end of our democratic Republic. It's the, it's the abolition

00:37:10.440 of the constitution. Uh, where is, where are all the Republicans who should be standing out there

00:37:15.640 screaming? Why do we have political prisoners being held in solitary confinement

00:37:20.200 in DC for crimes of what trespass parading on Capitol grounds or no charges at all?

00:37:26.760 People have been sitting in solitary confinement for 13 months with no hope of a jury trial. 0.71

00:37:32.760 Anytime in the near future for crap, for minor misdemeanors or no charges at all. 0.91

00:37:37.800 Those are just political prisoners. And why isn't there outrage? Why aren't the senators screaming 0.98

00:37:42.840 about that every day? But no, it's as you say, Lou, everybody thinks that if they hold their breath

00:37:48.520 and go along with a status quo, that at some point they'll come out the other end with a nice lobbying

00:37:53.640 job and an extra million bucks, and everything will be just hunky dory. And that's, that's how the

00:37:58.760 left destroys us. By, by preying upon our civility, our, our honesty and our God-fearing nature and the

00:38:06.760 hope that things will get better if we just, if we just go along and get along. Well, that's just not

00:38:11.160 going to work from now on that that has got us to the brink of disaster. Yeah. Going along and

00:38:16.360 getting along is sort of the, uh, mantra of the Republican establishment, the GOP, the rhinos, uh,

00:38:25.000 and who behave as if they were card carrying Democrats, but they wouldn't have the guts to actually

00:38:31.960 carry a card that, uh, gave them the correct label. Uh, the, the, the rhinos are a false flag

00:38:38.440 operation period under themselves. Uh, it's really disgusting, isn't it?

00:38:43.640 It really is. And, you know, we see it from the lowest level of government to the highest level

00:38:47.640 of government. I mean, just with the redistricting here in Missouri, although we have a, uh, a vast

00:38:53.480 majority of Republicans in this state and legitimately a, uh, uh, a seven to one Republican

00:38:59.880 to Democrat ratio in the house of representatives, the Republicans in the Missouri house of representatives

00:39:06.040 just voted for a plan. That's going to eventually be a five, three bill. They call it a six, two bill

00:39:11.400 because, and I've heard 20 different representatives say this when I've been on the campaign trail

00:39:16.840 since they took their vote that, oh, you know, we have to be reasonable because these, uh, uh, the

00:39:23.000 Democrats have these, the sources of these places of interest and they need their fair representation.

00:39:29.240 I'm saying, boy, if they were in charge, they're never fair to us. They never play honestly.

00:39:34.200 They'll take everything they can get. And if you, if you bow down to them, if you try to appease them,

00:39:41.080 it'll only come back to bite you in the, you know, where, you know, I get a kick out of Republicans,

00:39:46.680 Mark, it's such a disadvantage to the Democrats because Republicans, I don't think they're innately

00:39:55.160 dumber than Democrats, but they do tend to act like it, uh, because they are absolute gentlemen.

00:40:03.240 Whenever, uh, particularly in the Senate, the, that august body, which you, you want to, 0.99

00:40:09.960 to join. I mean, they really don't quite get it. Democrats stick together. Republicans figure out

00:40:17.320 ways to kind of slice each other up in the, in the dark of night, uh, in smoke filled rooms, uh, in,

00:40:24.840 in alleys and shadows, uh, all over the country, uh, and then pretend red daylight that they're,

00:40:31.960 you know, uh, just perfectly fine gentlemen, uh, doing the Lord's work. It's amazing to me,

00:40:39.720 the frauds, the rhinos, uh, and I'm going to just tell you straight up. I mean, it Susan Collins,

00:40:46.200 Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, uh, I mean, you go through the list of these people. It's disgusting. 0.93

00:40:53.800 It is. And there's two categories in my mind. There's the people that are, that are cowards,

00:40:58.600 and then there's people that are actively working against us. But the problem is that the fighting

00:41:04.280 for freedom is difficult emotionally. If you're ostracized from traditional society, uh, I like it

00:41:11.880 when, when, when Alan Dershowitz, who I always considered to be an extreme liberal until he

00:41:16.280 started to, uh, uh, uh, participate in Fox broadcasts. Now, now he's not invited to any

00:41:21.560 parties in Martha's Vineyard because he's, uh, he's now not just doing, you know, a lock step with a

00:41:29.000 left. And, uh, it just, it's, it's so humorous to watch these people self-destruct constantly.

00:41:34.120 And yet the Republicans let him get away with it. Yeah, I, I've got to answer your question.

00:41:38.760 It occurs when you're running for the Senate, uh, national office and the representing the

00:41:45.960 good people of Missouri. How do you balance the, the issues of your state and the national issues

00:41:54.360 that confront, uh, America in my campaigning? Well, my, my perspective, it's, it's really

00:42:01.880 simple and, and maybe it's, maybe it's overly simple, but this is what I really believe. If you

00:42:07.000 approach every question from the perspective of does it benefit America's vital interests,

00:42:12.920 does it tend to increase the freedom and liberty of the individual, or does it tend to aid our

00:42:18.840 enemies, weaken the United States and, and tend to centralize power and not only just in the United

00:42:25.400 States, but centralize power in a globalist economy and a globalist worldview. And I'll go ahead and use

00:42:31.400 a phrase of great reset. Um, if, if it tends to be in the interests of the United States and the vital

00:42:38.440 interests of the United States and in the interest of individual freedom and liberty, whether it's on

00:42:43.160 a state level or a national level, that should be the basis upon which your decisions are made.

00:42:48.760 And if it tends to increase the power of government, increase the control over the individual, decrease

00:42:55.320 the individual's liberty and work constantly towards that, that goal that the communists

00:43:00.440 have been working on for over a hundred years of creating a single world socialist government,

00:43:05.160 then that has to be defeated and fought against with every ounce of blood and effort.

00:43:10.520 Let me ask you, uh, I, another way, what I'm trying to get out here, uh, is, is a Senator,

00:43:17.080 you're going to be asked to, to obviously serve the nation, but at the same time, you're serving your

00:43:24.520 state, uh, you know, to think about all that money that's behind, uh, many of your, uh, rivals,

00:43:32.360 opponents in that primary race. I mean, they've, they're pretty well loaded up with establishment

00:43:38.040 money, aren't they? They are. And they're going to be expected to, uh, return dividends. And that's

00:43:43.800 the problem. Of course, that's, that's the problem with our government is that it takes so much money

00:43:49.480 to get there. Well, I used to have this cartoon up on my office wall of a man talking to his school

00:43:55.320 age daughter. And he says to her, who does a Congressman work for? And she says, the people,

00:44:01.080 and he says, let me rephrase a question. Let's take a job that pays $174,000 a year,

00:44:06.760 but it costs $50 million to get that job. Now, who does a Congressman work for? And she says,

00:44:12.120 the highest bidder. Yeah, it's, you know, it's, it's a tough, uh, metric, but it's,

00:44:19.720 it's also very, very true. The role of big money, big business and people have to understand. And I,

00:44:27.240 and I think that's one of the great services that candidates can make in this election is to point

00:44:33.240 out that the, uh, the media in this country is owned and controlled by corporate America.

00:44:38.520 Uh, there, if they don't own the media, uh, then they're advertising on that media.

00:44:44.120 Uh, it's, it's just to me, stunning to see the terrible, terrible, uh, twist, uh, in the,

00:44:53.400 in what was America as a result of the awesome oligarchy that's been created in television,

00:45:02.440 uh, in big newspapers, Jeff Bezos, the, one of the richest men in the world owns the Washington

00:45:07.800 post, Carlos Slim, one of the world's billionaires owning a big chunk of the New York times and a

00:45:13.960 billionaire family owning much of the rest. Uh, it is just sickening to see that money without,

00:45:21.880 by the way, any embarrassment, Disney owning ABC news, Comcast owns NBC news, uh,

00:45:29.000 uh, you know, AT and T CNN, the list goes on. Most of the news is corporate

00:45:36.360 and the corporate news is sanitized homogenized to the point that it isn't news in a longer

00:45:42.840 and a heavy, heavy hand, uh, is placed on the political preference of those corporations. And it's

00:45:50.440 not, it's not the Republican party. It's not conservatism. It's, it is in some instances when

00:45:57.400 corporations are supporting black lives matter, it's a straight out Marxist, uh, but it is certainly 0.98

00:46:04.040 in other cases, radical, uh, Dems who are the beneficiaries of that corporate news media.

00:46:10.840 And you know, the, the speed with which the entity that calls itself black lives matter has, has come 1.00

00:46:18.440 across this country and been supported by the mainstream media and academia and government has

00:46:24.920 just been shocking. And these folks are, as you mentioned over at communist, uh, and to have

00:46:30.600 them supported with hundreds of millions of dollars, billions of dollars, probably by now corporate

00:46:36.200 money, totally unaccountable, totally without any, any of actual impact on the, on the black community

00:46:43.480 or any evidence that they've done anything to improve the lives of the average African American

00:46:47.960 in this country. Um, but now universally accepted and you're considered to be an evil and bad person. 0.98

00:46:53.960 If you don't agree, it's, it's, it's, it is so shocking how fast they have transformed a, a, a concept

00:47:01.320 which was abhorrent to everybody just a couple of years ago, all the, the Marxist dogma of this

00:47:06.360 organization and now made it such you can't argue against it for fear of losing your job, your career,

00:47:13.720 your, your social respectability. And I can't tell you how many people in, in, in my campaign

00:47:19.560 have said, I'd love to, I'd love to support you, but I'm, I'm afraid of how it will affect me socially.

00:47:24.840 I'm talking people from everyday lawyers in St. Louis to well-respected billionaires whose names you

00:47:30.760 would know saying even ones that are up there in the years saying, I'd love to support you, but I can't

00:47:36.200 take the, uh, the, the, the social repercussions. Yeah. Is that a free country? No. Well, it's,

00:47:43.960 it's, uh, it's a free country, but those souls are a point of fact being held hostage, uh, by something.

00:47:50.040 And it may be their own fears and their own, uh, uh, desires, which may not align perfectly with the

00:47:57.640 country. I, I believe, and, uh, I've tried to live this throughout my whole life. Uh, I will speak the

00:48:03.880 truth and I will take the consequences straight up. Uh, but until a person understands that you

00:48:09.720 have to make that deal with yourself, it's very hard to, I think for some people to understand,

00:48:15.320 you've got to speak the truth. You've got to support the truth, uh, in every way. Oh,

00:48:19.800 I want to ask you real quickly as we're wrapping up here, a couple of questions, uh, on, on the law

00:48:25.560 itself. Uh, we've got, uh, the George Soros, uh, funded and appointed DAs around the country. I mean,

00:48:32.840 they're running these, some of these democratic cities right into the ground with their refusal

00:48:37.240 to prosecute, uh, and, and they're doing just further damage to what's left of our justice

00:48:43.320 system. Your thoughts about what could be done about those, uh, the DAs and the interference,

00:48:51.800 if you will, of, uh, big money. Well, first of all, we have to remember that the legislature makes the

00:48:58.200 laws legislature passes the laws and they're signed by the governor and then they become laws.

00:49:03.320 And the legislature has decided that certain things are criminal. However, the Soros funded

00:49:09.480 prosecutors say, we're not going to enforce entire categories of crimes, including drug crimes and

00:49:15.640 sex crimes. For example, here in St. Louis, they don't have that power within a category of crimes.

00:49:21.480 They can, they have prosecutorial discretion to say which criminal we're going to prosecute based on

00:49:26.520 the evidence based on how, how successful we might think the prosecution will be.

00:49:31.400 But they don't have veto power over the legislature. They can't say, for example.

00:49:35.640 And how are they getting away with it?

00:49:37.000 I, you know, I, I, I spoke to a prosecutor from a rural county two nights ago. I spoke to a

00:49:43.240 state senator this morning on this topic. Uh, there needs to be legislation passed that would deprive

00:49:49.240 them of their power or replace them with the power of the attorney general's office if they refuse to

00:49:54.680 enforce the laws. But you just said they don't have the power. Uh, so why would they, why, why

00:50:02.360 aren't state legislatures governors saying, are you out of your mind and going to court and saying

00:50:09.720 you will enforce the law? And if not, you're out of there.

00:50:12.840 Once again, where's that outrage? I mean, that's, that is a major theme of every presentation I give

00:50:18.040 is where is the outrage? How is this being allowed to happen? How can there be DAs like in Los Angeles 1.00

00:50:24.040 and New York city now in Chicago and St. Louis and so many other places? I think maybe the number is

00:50:29.240 something like 28 different major jurisdictions, right? Soros funded, uh, district attorneys or

00:50:36.600 circuit attorneys. And where is the outrage as our cities burn and, and, uh, record numbers of people

00:50:42.120 are murdered and, and this pillage, open pillage of, of retail establishments going on in broad

00:50:48.360 daylight. And where is the outrage? Where, where is the government? Where, where are our friendly

00:50:53.080 winers? But that's like, but that's in this case, I, Mark, I really think that may be just a little too

00:50:58.360 much blaming the victim. Uh, you know, people are victims of their government. Uh, when it's January 6th

00:51:05.160 committee, uh, Americans right now kind of be looking at that and seeing what's being done to their

00:51:09.960 fellow citizens and nobody says a word, not the media, the corporate media is in on the deal.

00:51:15.240 Uh, you know, they have these George Soros DAs. They're in on the deal. The justice department

00:51:21.960 calls parents who get excited at a school board meeting, domestic terrorists, who the hell are 0.65

00:51:27.240 the people supposed to trust? If not, they're elected officials and nobody, you know, if everybody

00:51:33.560 sits around waiting for the other guy to get an outrage, nothing's going to happen. Uh, and I think,

00:51:39.960 we, we've got to look honestly at what is happening to our cities. They're being destroyed

00:51:44.680 by this left wing money. That's going there in, in tons. Let me ask you another thing,

00:51:52.520 starting out with a Supreme court, uh, justice, um, that by deciding that, that, that justice will 0.79

00:51:59.640 be female and she will be black. Uh, that sounds a lot like just group and identity politics, 0.92

00:52:06.840 not a meritocracy seeking excellence. Well, it's, it's, it's illegally and, uh,

00:52:12.120 unconstitutionally racist. I mean, to, and this whole concept, and, you know, I was the first

00:52:17.400 lawyer in the country to file a lawsuit against the school for critical race theory, but this whole

00:52:22.120 nonsense that the way to fight racism is by identifying each of us by race and treating

00:52:26.440 us differently is so crazy. I mean, it would make George Orwell smile. Um, but I mean, for the

00:52:32.920 president of the United States to say, I'm going to only consider black women in the role of my next 1.00

00:52:38.600 Supreme court justice is, is so openly racist that this is shocking. And it's, and once again,

00:52:44.120 I go back to the same thing, where's the outrage? I mean, how, how can even the media, how can even

00:52:49.880 the mainstream media not scream about this as being racist, but, but now in the last two or three years,

00:52:57.160 we've been sold this concept of equity rather than equality, that we don't want to have equality under

00:53:03.000 the law. What we want to have is a government government administered policy of equity where

00:53:08.280 people are treated disparately in order to correct, um, fictitious or, um, exaggerated claims of lack

00:53:17.160 of equal treatment in the past. And a lot of people are buying it. I mean, I, I, uh, I testified in front

00:53:23.800 of the Missouri Senate this morning on a, on a capsule doctrine bill, and every person that stood up

00:53:29.160 identified their subclass. I'm a black man. I'm a gay man. I'm a, I'm a transgender man or a woman.

00:53:37.400 Um, and each person had to play on the heart string, heart strings of racial division and, and, and, um,

00:53:46.680 tribal politics before identifying their political position on anything, because it, it's a way that

00:53:52.360 they can bootstrap themselves into credibility by identifying themselves as a, as a minority group,

00:53:58.680 which has been inequitably treated in the past. And therefore we need some kind of special advantage.

00:54:05.000 And it, it, it, it has permeated every aspect of our society in such an amazingly short time.

00:54:10.520 Yeah. You know, I, I hate to say this, but another way of putting it is this country's now,

00:54:18.600 uh, you know, we're a gathering of damn fools, uh, to put up with it, uh, to have, uh, this, this nonsense, 0.99

00:54:25.640 overwhelm judgment and to color, uh, reason and understanding of, of the, of life itself and 0.99

00:54:35.640 community. Uh, it's, it's, it's ignorant as it's ignorant as hell. And I cannot believe that a country, 1.00

00:54:42.760 uh, that is the world's greatest melting pot has devolved to this level of, uh, woke nonsense.

00:54:50.840 The problem of course is that people are afraid to stand up and because for example,

00:54:56.760 the department of justice created a task force recently to identify and track people who resist

00:55:02.680 authority. They've already identified moms and dads that want to have some input into their kids'

00:55:08.440 education as domestic terrorists. We heard recently that the Capitol police are spying on members of

00:55:14.840 Congress and their visitors and their constituents, even though they don't come to this. I mean,

00:55:20.520 we have a country now where our, our federal police are no more than the KGB, uh, gathering

00:55:26.840 information to the use to control the population and the, and the quash dissent. And that's a very,

00:55:31.880 very frightening thing. The FBI right now is functioning as a, as if it were the, uh, the, uh,

00:55:38.840 the activist, uh, police arm of the democratic party. And it is a, it's a pitiful and shameful thing to

00:55:45.800 witness, uh, for all Americans, uh, Mark, uh, it's great talking with you. Come back, let us keep us

00:55:52.120 posted on how you're doing. Uh, and let me know if you buy that Ford one 50, will you?

00:55:57.160 I will. And you know, for all your listeners, if they really want to save this country, if they want

00:56:02.200 to stop politics as usual and stand up for individual liberty, stand up against this government,

00:56:08.520 stand up against things like the federal police, the FBI, and the department of justice being the

00:56:13.640 enforcement arm of the woke left, then, then contribute to my campaign. Uh, it's McCloskey

00:56:19.400 for Senate, F O R McCloskey for Senate.com. Uh, we need all the support we can get, but more than that,

00:56:26.120 the people of the United States just need to stand up and cast off this new form of tyranny,

00:56:31.160 cast off the monopoly that the federal government and big tech wants to have on thought and political

00:56:36.760 discussions and what you're allowed to think, what you're allowed to do, where you're allowed to go

00:56:41.320 and what you're allowed to inject in your own body. And ladies and gentlemen, this is our last

00:56:46.120 chance to pull back our freedoms and restore these United States to a genuinely free place.

00:56:52.680 Mark McCloskey for Senate. And, uh, we appreciate your time and thanks for joining us, Mark.

00:56:59.800 Uh, an interesting conversation. Appreciate it. Well, thanks for having me on Lou. All right. Thank

00:57:04.760 you so much. Good luck to you. And, uh, we, uh, we wish everybody, uh, a great, uh, a great

00:57:12.280 evening. And on the morrow, we'll see you right here on the great America show. Thanks for being

00:57:18.680 with us and God bless you. Join us again tomorrow for the great America podcast. Stay in the fight.

00:57:24.680 Truth, justice, and the American way will prevail against all enemies, against all odds.

The Great America Show - February 08, 2022

ROB O’NEILL SAYS WAR IS BIG BIZ- MCCLOSKEY FIGHTS RINOs

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