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The American tradition of sacrifice in a just cause · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  We are faith and fury.
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  Love and fire.
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  This is the human equation.
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  Where every voice counts and every truth cuts deep.
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  With your host, Joseph Packard.
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  Good evening, everybody, and welcome to the human equation.
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  Well, I guess there's no way of getting around all of the things that are going on right now.
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  Would I like to talk about some personal human things, uh, things that I I know bother a lot of people or make people happy?
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  Sure.
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  But I don't think we can I don't think we could turn our attention away from what's going on in the Middle East and how our uh politicians are handling this mess and what's going on.
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  So we see Again, we see Trump derangement syndrome front and center for our friends on the left.
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  Uh if Trump wants to do it, they're against it.
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  Doesn't matter what it is, they will fight him about it.
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  Uh here he is, he attacks Iran, who has been who has been attacking us in the United States and the West for 47 years, almost 50 years.
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  And when they finally get to the to the tipping point that one of their one of their delegation told uh our delegation when they were negotiating last week before all the uh the attacks took off that they have enough material for eleven bombs and uh nuclear bombs, and they could put them together pretty quickly.
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  Well, um you know what they could do with eleven nuclear bombs.
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  So I had this conversation with a young man the other day.
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  He he considers himself a democratic socialist.
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  But unlike many people on the left, and I have to say this honestly, unlike many people on the left, he's a thoughtful young man who has some good ideas, and he actually articulates his point very well, and he's willing to listen, which that's how I do things.
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  I say to him all the time, you know, we have these conversations, and they say, okay, well, well, tell me what what where do I have this wrong?
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  And he will make his point.
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  Uh and sometimes he's got a good point, and sometimes he doesn't.
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  So when I was talking to him the other day, he his big thing comes down to, and this is not just one conversation.
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  This was multiple conversations him and I have had, because he's a good source for me to hear what people on the left are thinking.
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  He's he's really he's really in that world.
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  And like I said, he's easy to talk to.
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  And he says, uh all of his conversations come down to they're just afraid of Trump.
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  They're afraid because of the things he says.
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  Uh the things he said historically, the things he says now when he's speaking off the cuff, or when he's making a a flippant comment or something like that.
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  And this fear that they seem to have is the guiding force behind being against everything that he does or everything that he wants to do.
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  And I said, Well, what do you mean you you're afraid?
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  You're what what are you so afraid of?
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  Well, well, uh you he could he could uh he could start a World War III with the things that he does.
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  Look what he's doing.
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  He's going into uh he's going into Venezuela, and now he's in uh in Iran, and then you know, where's he gonna go next?
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  Was he was he gonna attack Poland next and take that over?
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  And I could see, and like I said, he's a reasonable kind of guy, but this fear that him and and many on the left seem to have.
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  There's two things on the left I think that's problematic for them.
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  One is they have Trump derangement syndrome.
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  So anything that Trump does, they're against it.
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  Doesn't matter what it is.
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  I'm gonna save babies.
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  Those babies didn't want to be saved.
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  How dare you save those babies, right?
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  Leave them alone.
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  Um they're standing up now to support, they're they're in the streets marching to support the dead Ayatollah, who would kill you and me and our families in two seconds if he could.
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  So our friends on the left are supporting them.
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  So this fear that he has.
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  And I say, well, don't you understand we've seen Donald Trump in the first term.
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  And he didn't start World War III.
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  He didn't he didn't kill us.
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  He didn't round up all these people that were all these fringe left wing groups that were scared to death that he was gonna round them up and uh put them in concentration camps and beat them and you know, ridiculous.
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  I said, Don't you see that the guy says things sometimes to to get the goat of these people that are that are commenting about him?
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  Don't you see how he says things and it it's he he sees how they react and they lose their minds, right?
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  And he's like, Well, I know, but I j I I'm just scared to death when he said and I said, then that's the problem.
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  You're scared to death.
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  Take a deep breath and stop being so scared to death.
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  What is he what has he actually done?
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  Okay, so he went into Venezuela.
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  Why did he go into Venezuela?
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  Because he wants the oil.
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  That's always the answer.
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  He wants the oil, he wants the oil, as though he's gonna get it himself and fill his car up or take billions of dollars from it.
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  I said, Well, let's look at Venezuela.
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  The leader there is a narco-terrorist, right?
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  He's a narco-terrorist helping to send uh tons and tons and tons of illegal drugs into our country that are killing hundreds of thousands of our citizens.
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  He was indicted for his crimes.
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  He wouldn't turn himself in, Maduro.
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  He refused to turn himself in.
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  So Trump sent our military in to go get him.
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  Did we blow up the buildings?
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  Did we knock down their city?
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  Did we kill all their citizens?
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  No.
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  They swept in, they grabbed Maduro and his wife, who were indicted, and they pulled them out of there.
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  Okay, seems pretty reasonable thing to do.
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  Why?
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  Because that's in our hemisphere.
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  And i talking with him, when he when he hears that, he goes, Okay, well, he didn't blow up all the buildings like he's doing in Iran.
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  I said, he's not blowing up all the buildings in Iran.
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  He is over there attacking their military assets, their uh secret police assets, their terrorist assets, the leadership that is radical uh fundamentalist Islamic terrorists.
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  He's going after them.
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  He's not blowing up uh the local library, right?
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  And he just the sphere thing is just really it's really surprising to me, because I get it.
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  People say things off the cuff, but you have to look at what they do.
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  How do they actually uh how do they actually function?
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  I told everybody uh in a previous show, a very, very good friend of mine has two boys, the age of my two older boys.
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  And when they were younger, we used to go on camping trips and we, you know, we would go golfing together, the four of us, and um, you know, the kids and me and my buddy, and we were very close with them.
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  You know, he was a drinking buddy, cigar buddy, and our boys were very close, they were all friendly.
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  Well, you know, as as it happens, the kids get to high school and you're not you're not together as much as you used to be, right?
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  You know, when they were younger in sixth, seventh and eighth grade, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade.
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  We were together all the time.
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  The wives were friendly, they would come here for dinner, we would go there for dinner, um, we would go out together.
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  We were we were a close group, right?
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  That's two families.
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  And as high school came along, the kids got into all kinds of different interests, you know, who was doing this sport, who was doing this club who was into whatever.
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  And his oldest son, my friend's oldest son, um seemed to kind of pull himself away from everybody.
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  He was getting kind of reclusive, and nobody could see what was going on.
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  I remember talking to his dad about it, and he's like, I'm not sure what's going on with him, but you know, he seems to have something bothering him, and I can't get to him, and we all felt bad because we really like this kid.
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  And uh about two years goes by, and yeah, and believe it or not, there was a two-year gap.
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  Once the kids, you know, separate and everybody's running in different directions and and doing things, it it can easily turn into that, right?
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  So our in our case it did.
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  You know, we saw each other once in a while, where we used to be together two times a week, at least, the two families, right?
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  So time goes by and high school's over, and I hear that his son is moving to New York City.
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  He's moving to Brooklyn.
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  And I'm like, wow, well, that's pretty cool, you know.
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  That's not something I would have expected from him.
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  He seemed like a homebound kind of guy, you know, he very smart kid, I'm telling you, very, very smart.
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  Um I have an interest in astronomy.
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  This kid had an interest in astronomy.
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  We would talk about uh the stars and origins of life and all that kind of stuff.
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  He was really a really a nice young man, um, really was.
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  But he's moving to Brooklyn.
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  And my oldest comes to me and goes, hey dad, and I'm not gonna use the kid's real name.
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  Um let's call him Larry.
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  He goes, hey dad, did you see what's going on with Larry?
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  And I said, No, what are you talking about?
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  He goes, uh on Facebook, he he has um he's changed his name to to uh Tina, right?
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  Again, that's not the name he's using.
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  He's changed his name to Tina, and he moved to Brooklyn, and he announced to everybody in the world that that he's gay and he he wants to be a woman.
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  And I was like, are you sure that we're this is our Larry you're talking about?
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  And he goes, yeah, he goes, I I was I was just as surprised.
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  Like I I saw a message from him and I reached out and he said, Listen, you know, this is what I was struggling with, you know, through high school, and I finally
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  Figured out who I am and this is who I am, and I'm happy now and I'm living my life and this then the other thing.
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  You know what?
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  Okay.
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  You figured yourself out.
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  All right.
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  It's it's not something that I would do, but this is what he was happy with.
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  That made him happy.
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  And I said, okay, well, you know, you you love your kids, you you accept them however they are, right?
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  And and I have always said that.
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  Um I would try and guide my children to what I think is the best thing for them.
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  But they're gonna make their own choices.
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  And this young man made this choice, and his parents were they were upset because they didn't understand it.
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  They didn't understand what it meant.
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  Um they didn't understand what the future was, you know, because it changes everything.
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  There's going to be no no wedding, no grandchildren, you know, all that kind of thing.
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  So it's a hard thing, I think, sometimes for families to deal with.
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  And they were pretty open-minded about it.
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  They didn't hate the kid, they didn't disown the kid, you know, none of us would do that.
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  You know, he he was he was a good young man, everybody loved him.
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  But I remember right before the election in 2016, I got a text message from this young man from Larry.
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  And he says, Hey, I'm just checking in, you know, I'm uh, you know, I know we haven't talked in a long time, and and I'm just, you know, I I got this uh I got some concerns about this upcoming election, and and I wanted to reach out to you and and and see what you think about the election.
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  I said, okay, let's talk, right?
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  So we got on a phone call, and we start talking, and you know, of course, Chichet, how you doing, what's going on?
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  Hey, I seen I see you changed your name to Tina, and you know, what's going on with that?
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  And you know, he was honest, is this is who I am.
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  I just I it was hard for me to figure it out, and I figured it out, okay, that's great.
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  I'm happy for you.
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  I'm happy that you are happy and you're no longer uh in such angst.
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  I said, Well, what about this this election?
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  Um what can I help you with?
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  And he goes, Well, I know, you know, you and my dad are uh uh you're more conservative, and obviously I'm not, and I'm like, well, just because you're gay doesn't mean you're not conservative.
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  Conservative is is uh understanding of a lifestyle, it's understanding of how you view the world, what's right and what's wrong, right?
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  So um nobody's saying you're wrong about anything you're doing, you know, you believe in God, you believe in country, you believe in this, Danny, and he went to church all the time, right?
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  Well, he starts telling me that he's concerned about Trump.
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  That a matter of fact, he's scared about Trump, scared to the point that he can't function.
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  And I said, Okay, well, what exactly are you scared of?
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  And he just he he he went off.
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  The kid went off, he starts there he's going to come around, he's going to put us all in concentration camps, he's going to take all of us and make us go straight, he's going to uh put our our our loved ones in jail, and he's gonna and I'm saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa there, Tina.
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  Um what makes you think the rest of us would allow that to happen?
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  I said, Do you think I would allow somebody to take you and put you in a concentration camp just because you're gay?
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  He goes, Well, it's not you, it's not you, it's this Trump guy.
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  He's gonna do it.
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  You don't know, they're not coming after you, they're coming after me.
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  And he spiraled out of control and he hung up.
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  And I was in shock by that.
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  Well, the reason I'm telling you this story is that it kind of matches this young man that I'm talking about all the time now, because him and I have these conversations, and he's scared.
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  They're scared, they're scared about what Trump's gonna do instead of looking at what Trump's doing.
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  So I find that it it just seems more more radical than it's ever been.
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  This fear, this, you know, this this tugging between two different sides and and who we are as a country, and uh it it's just it's disturbing.
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  It's disturbing.
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  And as we start to go through these things, um I see them that they're stuck, right?
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  They're stuck in their beliefs.
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  They are stuck in um their understanding, and they can't break away.
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  Um they can't break away from their beliefs or what they're afraid of, and and it led me into thinking that and I think I told you recently we did an episode where uh I'm writing a book called Unstuck.
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  And it's my my latest work called Unstuck.
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  It'll be out in a couple of months.
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  I'll tell you about how to get it and all that.
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  But it's all about when people get stuck in life, right?
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  We all get stuck sometimes, right?
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  Uh some people get stuck at a job they hate.
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  Some people and they they don't feel they can move on.
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  Some people get stuck uh in a relationship that's bad or it's toxic, and they don't feel they can leave, they don't feel they can change their lives in any way.
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  Well, I also looked at um grief, you know, people get stuck in grief.
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  As you all know, I've been very open about it.
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  I'm I'm grieving.
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  I lost my wife last summer, unexpectedly out of the blue, and I'm grieving, and I'm trying to learn how to survive and how to move forward, and that was one of my impetus, impetuses for for adding a whole chapter section on on grieving and being stuck.
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  But I think I'm gonna have to add in there this fear, being stuck in this irrational fear of things that you you can't control.
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  And believe me, it's um when I talk to a lot of these people, and I've I've interviewed a lot of people, I do a lot of research when I write a book, and I've been doing a lot of research on this, and and that fear thing on the left comes up over and over and over again to the point that they can't function.
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  You know, my friend uh Tina, you know, he can't he can't get beyond it.
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  Um he can't he can't change his life because he's he's such paranoid fear.
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  This this young man I've been talking to recently and uh discussing world politics and everything that goes on, he's afraid of what Trump's gonna do, Trump's gonna get him killed, or Trump's gonna put him at the all have this irrational fear.
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  They're stuck where they're at.
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  And they can't seem to recognize it, right?
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  Um I've recognized that the grief had me stuck.
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  Uh I procrastinated the last six months.
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  All I never procrastinate.
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  But all of a sudden I felt every day was a challenge to do my do a project or to reach out to a client or to do something, and I realized that the procrastination.
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  I was stuck in it because of the grief, and I had to work my way through it.
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  So I can only imagine that all of these people that have these fears of Trump, these this like this blood-curdling fear that he's gonna do something to them, or or or you know, gonna kill everybody.
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  Look, you know, I uh there was uh a friend of this young man.
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  I I gotta give him a name.
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  Let's call him Bob, this young man I've been talking to, Bob.
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  And Bob uh Bob has a friend in one of these conversations, and she's also a left-wing Democrat socialist, and she's like, Well, look, look what's happening in Iran.
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  They're killing all these protesters.
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  I said, Yeah, you see what happens when you have a tyrannical government.
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  Well, they're doing that, ICE is doing that with Americans.
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  They're killing Americans left and right.
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  I said, what do you what are you talking about?
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  Killing Americans.
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  They killed 30 or 40,000 people in Iran that were protesting for their freedom.
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  What are you talking about?
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  Well, uh Renee Good and uh and and that guy, Mr.
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  Pretty, you know, they they were gunned down in the street because they were protesting.
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  I said, Wow, um, there's a lot more to it than that, right?
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  And I lost their mind.
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  Trump's coming for all of us.
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  If you disagree with him, he's gonna lock you up.
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  He's he's under Iran right now, he's doing Iran's bidding, he's doing Iran's bidding, that's all they're can do.
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  I mean, he's doing Israel's bidding.
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  They're they're they're telling him to do it, and he's doing and spiraled out of control.
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  She had to leave the room.
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  She had to leave the room.
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  She couldn't continue the conversation.
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  Like, wow.
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  That young lady is stuck in her mental illness.
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  Um, right?
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  What happened with the two people in Minnesota has nothing to do with the Ayatollah and his tyrannical regime gunning down thousands and thousands of civilians in the street because he feels that they're coming for his power.
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  Apples and oranges, apples and oranges.
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  So I found that to be a very interesting connection.
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  And then, you know, here it is on a on a nice Friday night.
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  I figured we would talk about it for a couple of minutes.
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  All right, so what else is going on?
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  There's there's a lot of other craziness going on out in the world that we're trying to we're trying to figure out how to how to deal with all these things.
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  So we saw the House of Representatives had a vote.
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  Our friends on the left, uh, they've kind of they've kind of deviated from the past traditions of there's an election, and then one person or one party wins the election, and then we all kind of accept, well, okay, that party or that person won, they're gonna do the things they campaigned on, right?
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  That's how it usually works.
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  What did Barack Obama say?
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  Uh he was doing some things that conservatives and right wing people didn't like, and he came out and he goes, Hey, elections have consequences.
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  I won, I'm gonna do what I want to do.
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  And you know, we didn't protest in the street, we didn't vote against every single thing he did.
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  He, you know, we didn't we didn't behave the way they're behaving now.
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  But I think this current behavior on the part of uh our left wing politicians has changed the paradigm in how politics is done.
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  There's no longer that, well, they won, so we will come up with better ideas, we will make our case for doing it a different way.
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  We'll try and convince the American people that.
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  Our way is a better way, and then we will have another election.
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  And if we win, we'll do it our way, right?
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  Now it's just it's resist at all costs.
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  It is go against anything that Trump wants to do or the conservatives want to do.
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  Protest, protest, protest, disrupt, uh, resist as much as you possibly can.
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  So President Trump makes this decision that it's time it's time to stop the uh the Ayatollah and the mullahs in Iran who have made it very, very clear that they want to destroy America and destroy Israel.
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  And they are looking for uh to to lead the new caliphate.
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  Now it's a lot of people don't know these words.
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  We just, you know, it's not disparaging to anybody, but we don't always understand.
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  What is a caliphate?
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  Well, a caliphate is uh is worldwide um government under Sharia law, under Islamic rule.
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  That is what the Ayatollah and his people want.
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  That's why when they took over Iran uh when they deposed the Shah back in 1979, Iran was a uh a more modern country.
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  Women were doctors and lawyers and and physicians, and they they could go to school and you know, they dress normal and they looked like women.
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  When the Shah was deposed, and Ayatollah Komenee back in the day, nineteen seventy-nine, the leader who was exiled to France, he came back and took over, and he turned Iran into a uh sixth century hellhole for the people.
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  He he he instituted Sharia law, which are Islamic rules and laws of how to live.
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  Uh it is very, very much um a patriarchy-based kind of you talk about women in this country that are complaining about it's a patriarchy, it's a patriarchy.
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  Uh over there, it's a patriarchy.
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  We talked about this the other day.
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  Uh that is that's a patriarchy.
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  Women have to cover themselves, you can't see them, they have to have a man with them at all times.
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  Uh if you get raped, they can they can kill you, right?
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  Because you got raped.
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  It's your fault.
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  Right?
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  So it's it's it's it's really in depth, and people we don't understand it.
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  We don't understand that kind of a mindset because we don't live there.
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  So when I was talking to Bob, my socialist uh Democrat socialist friend, we were talking about these things, and I said, what you're trying to do in his comments, you know, he was trying to compare the people of Iran, the government of Iran with the United States.
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  And I said, I I think what a lot of people make a mistake is that as Americans, we are we are used to our kind of lifestyle.
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  Whether you like America, you don't like America, where you know, it doesn't matter.
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  The reality is this is the greatest country on the planet.
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  You have more freedoms here than anywhere else in the world.
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  Uh you have the Constitution to back you up.
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  Um it's really the best place ever to be as a human being in the history of human beings.
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  And I know people argue with me about that.
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  Well, America's a set.
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  You know, pack your bag and leave.
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  Why don't they leave?
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  Because there is no place better.
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  Uh, you know, uh, all these actors are gonna leave.
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  They're I'm gonna leave if he wins, and then they don't leave.
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  A couple of them did, but they're coming back, aren't they?
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  Right.
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  Because it's not it's there's nothing better out there than America.
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  But anyway, we see this, and the Iranian government wants to spread um their understanding of Islam around the world, and that's what they've been doing.
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  That's what all these groups, these terror groups that are associated with them are to do.
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  Destroy Israel, then take over the West.
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  Now, this is uh this has been pushed.
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  And and I there's an article, there's an article out today.
• 23:54
  I I don't have the woman's name, but um maybe I can look it up on the break.
• 23:58
  And she says there's a an alliance developing, a red green alliance, a red-green alliance that's very dangerous.
• 24:06
  What is red green alliance?
• 24:08
  Well, the red represents radical Islamists, right?
• 24:12
  Like Iran, those kind of people, right?
• 24:15
  Uh not the regular Muslims who just live in your neighborhood and they're they're Muslim and they're they're raising their family and they're they're they're not radicalized.
• 24:23
  Right?
• 24:24
  So we're talking about these radical Islamists, uh, like in Iran.
• 24:29
  And the greens are the far left parties, which we see everywhere, all across the world.
• 24:34
  We see the governments, you know, we see all these uh left-wing governments all over Europe and open borders is one of their things, you know.
• 24:43
  Uh change the demographics by letting everybody in, and that'll change the culture.
• 24:47
  And it's really all just about power, right?
• 24:50
  It's not about taking care of people.
• 24:52
  But she's in her article, she's saying that there's this connection, uh, this red-green connection that the Islamists see the far left as people they can work with to do what they want to do, and the far left sees the Islamists as an opportunity to forward their agenda, so they're connecting together to uh uh uh uh attain both of the agendas that they both have, which are not freedom and liberty and justice and all that kind of stuff, no matter what they say.
• 25:25
  It's uh it's an advancement of power for the left, it's an advancement of power for the Islamists, and eventually we know you can put a uh a scorpion and a tarantula in a bucket and they won't bother each other until one the somebody wants that little piece of food and then they will fight and kill each other, which is normally what happens with these negative uh groups.
• 25:46
  You know, you had the uh the Nazis made an agreement with the Soviets, they wouldn't fight until Hitler felt strong enough, and then he turned on them, right?
• 25:54
  Uh oh, yo, Chamberlain's waving his piece of paper, oh, we're good, we're good until it suited him.
• 26:00
  When these people on the left and these tyrannical groups make agreements, like Iran.
• 26:06
  Iran makes an agreement, they're not gonna do this.
• 26:08
  The only reason they make agreements is to buy themselves time to continue doing the bad thing that they want to do without being bothered.
• 26:16
  So they make an agreement, shuts everybody up.
• 26:19
  Everybody's so happy, they're waving around their piece of paper like Chamberlain.
• 26:23
  And then when the moment's right, they strike.
• 26:27
  Okay?
• 26:28
  We'll be back in a minute to talk some more about this, and let's pray for our troops that they be safe in the world.
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  Okay, we are back.
• 31:00
  I want to thank you all for being here.
• 31:02
  You know, the uh the human equation is it's it's our lives, it and that's what it is, and that's where you know I like to talk about how how we interact with each other, what goes on with each other?
• 31:13
  How do we how do we come to some consensus between us?
• 31:17
  How do we understand each other without calling each other names?
• 31:21
  Right?
• 31:22
  So recently, I'm gonna go back, I don't know, five or six shows ago.
• 31:25
  I had talked about some people who wrote to me, and you know, the the the left wing people, they they start out okay and then they lose their minds, screaming, hollering, foaming at the mouth, calling me names, blah, blah, blah, going on and on.
• 31:36
  You can't have a conversation with people like that.
• 31:38
  That's why my friend Bob, and I'm gonna introduce you to him formally.
• 31:41
  I think I'm gonna have him come on here because I think he he has value in what he says and how he thinks.
• 31:48
  I may not agree with his points of view, but I have seen some of the things that he talks about in a different way, because he sees it differently than I do, and he brings that information to the table, and that's what we should all be doing, I would think.
• 32:03
  Listen to each other, right?
• 32:05
  Listen.
• 32:05
  What's the saying uh about conversation that they said we don't not listen as people?
• 32:10
  We do not listen to understand the other person.
• 32:14
  We listen to respond.
• 32:16
  Right?
• 32:16
  So I have a point of view, and I'll listen to you, uh, and I'm uh oh well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 32:21
  And then it's my turn and I'm gonna attack, right?
• 32:23
  I'm not listening to what you said.
• 32:25
  I'm just listening so I can respond to you and cause a problem or or prove you wrong, or win the argument and get stuck in my position.
• 32:33
  See how I'm trying to connect all these things together?
• 32:35
  Isn't that something?
• 32:37
  All right, so here we have this conflict going on in Iran.
• 32:42
  Now, when I was talking to Bob, and Bob is very nervous, scared of Trump, and he says, you know, why did we have to go in there?
• 32:50
  They had an agreement and Trump tore up the agreement, you know, and we it would have been good.
• 32:55
  And I said, Don't you see don't you see how these these um Axis kind of powers, the Iranians, uh Putin, uh North Korea, these kind of you know, negative uh groups, tyrannical groups.
• 33:12
  Don't you see that when they make an agreement, if it's not what they want to do, then the purpose of the agreement is simply to buy them time to continue to do what they're doing.
• 33:24
  I said, We watched North Korea, and they were not gonna get a nuclear bomb, and they kept making agreements, and we kept uh, oh, that's good, we have an agreement, and there's an agreement, and next thing you know, okay, we got a bomb.
• 33:35
  Now, if they decided to go after South Korea, they decide they're gonna roll troops over that uh 38th parallel.
• 33:43
  They're gonna go down there and they're gonna take, you know, twenty square miles.
• 33:47
  What are we gonna do about it?
• 33:49
  What are we gonna do about it?
• 33:51
  Because Kim Jong-un is nuts enough to light up a nuclear bomb on Seoul.
• 33:57
  He's nuts enough to do it.
• 33:58
  Right?
• 33:59
  So what do we do?
• 34:00
  So what do we do?
• 34:01
  Do we do do we send uh uh a nuclear submarine over there and we light up a couple of nukes on uh on him before he can do what's the purpose?
• 34:10
  Well, the reality is we can't we can't we're limited in what we can do now because he has nuclear weapons.
• 34:17
  He has that ultimate weapon now.
• 34:19
  So we have to do things differently.
• 34:22
  Why don't we why don't we get rid of Putin and end this war?
• 34:26
  Because Putin has a ton of nuclear weapons, and he has said, I'll use them.
• 34:30
  I'll use them as tactical battlefield weapons if I have to.
• 34:33
  Why, if anybody does anything to me, I will light you up with a nuclear weapon.
• 34:37
  This is a guy who's crazy enough to do it.
• 34:41
  So therefore, we have to deal with him differently.
• 34:44
  Iran had a couple of things that are dangerous to all of us, to every one of us.
• 34:50
  Even you in your basement in your underwear taking notes about what I'm saying.
• 34:55
  These people have a religious belief that says they are the true leaders of the world, and you should either follow their religion or they're justified in killing you.
• 35:10
  Right?
• 35:10
  And they're justified in killing you.
• 35:12
  And they do this all over the world.
• 35:13
  They've done it in these lone how many lone wolf Catholics are going around and uh and shooting up places?
• 35:20
  How many lone wolf Catholics are running down people in um in parades?
• 35:26
  Right?
• 35:27
  How many lone wolf uh Protestants are out there doing this?
• 35:31
  It's just it's not it's a it's a radical religion and political movement, uh the radical Islamist.
• 35:39
  And they're dangerous.
• 35:40
  When you have Iran, you have that mentality, that religious mentality, that desire to create a col uh uh uh a new order in the world where they're in charge of it, and they're not afraid to die.
• 35:54
  Uh they have a culture of death where we have a culture of life.
• 35:58
  We believe in life and loving each other and find and no war and let's find peace, let's find an answer.
• 36:04
  And they say, no, they would rather just kill everybody.
• 36:06
  You know, uh look what they did with their own protesters.
• 36:10
  Oh, the protesters are out there, we were they killed twenty to forty thousand people in the streets.
• 36:16
  And where was all the uh where was all the the protesters out there protesting for you know innocent people being killed by their government?
• 36:25
  Not one word from our friends on the left.
• 36:28
  Did you see them out there in the streets arguing and fighting and protesting over what the uh Ayatollah did?
• 36:35
  No, how come?
• 36:36
  You know, you talk about they get upset over over things and they want to protest the you know oppression.
• 36:43
  Well, what about this oppression?
• 36:44
  Where's all the women's groups that can come out and say uh, you know, honor killings?
• 36:49
  We've had them here in America.
• 36:51
  That is a that's a real thing.
• 36:53
  You see a daughter decides here in America she's gonna wear the clothes that contemporary young women wear, and her parents are embarrassed by that, and the father or the brothers will kill her.
• 37:04
  That's oppression.
• 37:05
  Where where are we we're fighting now?
• 37:07
  So I find our friends on the left are very hard to get along with because they don't follow any logic.
• 37:16
  You know, they don't follow any logic.
• 37:18
  Uh they go by feelings and they hate one group for this reason, and the another group does the exact same thing, but they don't hate them, they support them.
• 37:26
  Right?
• 37:27
  So where's all the women's groups that should be out in the street every single day saying, Look how great look what Donald Trump did.
• 37:33
  This is great.
• 37:34
  He freed all of these women in Iran from the yoke of this religion that subjects them to unbelievable treatment, right?
• 37:42
  Freedom, they can go back to being free.
• 37:45
  Have you seen any of those protests?
• 37:47
  I have not.
• 37:49
  I see people waving the Iranian flag.
• 37:52
  You know, how dare Trump kill the Ayatollah?
• 37:54
  He's just a he's just a uh uh a nice dictator, and you had no right to go in there and do that to him.
• 38:01
  Make that make sense, right?
• 38:03
  Make that make sense.
• 38:04
  And if that's how you see it.
• 38:07
  We talked about this yesterday, right?
• 38:08
  If you go back and listen to to yesterday's show, when I talked about it, I said, look in the mirror and ask yourself, what's wrong with me?
• 38:15
  Why do I think like that?
• 38:16
  You know, why would I think that that's that's okidoki?
• 38:19
  So we have this this conflict.
• 38:21
  I think President Trump had to look at Iran historically, see what they have done.
• 38:28
  It's not like these people have never done anything to us.
• 38:32
  This is not something that happened last week, and Trump just woke up and said, I think I'm gonna start a war with Iran, because I want their oil so I can be rich.
• 38:41
  This has been going on for 47 years.
• 38:43
  They've been attacking us either directly or through proxies.
• 38:48
  So you have the Houthis.
• 38:50
  They are they're not Iran, they're their own government in Yemen, but they attack Israel, they attack American assets, they go after us.
• 38:57
  You've got Hezbollah who attack American interests, you have uh Hamas who attack Israel and they're all proxies, they're all they're all supplied financially from Iran.
• 39:08
  So when I when I said this the other day, my friend Bob says to me, Well, they're not Iranian.
• 39:12
  That's nothing to do with Iranian.
• 39:14
  They're paying for it.
• 39:16
  The Iranians are supporting it.
• 39:18
  Why do you think they call them proxies?
• 39:20
  What's a proxy of?
• 39:21
  Well, it's not the Iranians, but they're proxies of it.
• 39:24
  The Iranians supply them with money, ideological help, weapons to go do the work that Iran wants to do, which is take over everywhere.
• 39:33
  Vanquish their enemies, their enemies.
• 39:36
  America, the big Satan, Israel, the little Satan.
• 39:40
  When people tell you what they're gonna do to you, what they want to do, you need to listen.
• 39:44
  And my friend Bob listens to this, and he says, he goes, Yeah, but but you know, uh those are thro those are three different things.
• 39:51
  Those are three different things.
• 39:53
  And uh what uh what about uh the Israelis throwing a bomb into a school killing a hundred and sixty kids?
• 40:00
  And I said, okay, I heard that story.
• 40:02
  I heard that story too.
• 40:04
  We don't know if that's exactly what happened, because we know during the Gaza conflict recently, there was a hospital that was blown up, and everyone blamed the Israelis.
• 40:14
  They blew up a hospital.
• 40:16
  Can you imagine they killed all these people in a hospital?
• 40:19
  They're horrible.
• 40:19
  And it turns out it wasn't the Israelis.
• 40:22
  It was a uh Hamas rocket that went off course, and instead of hitting the Israelis, it hit their own hospital.
• 40:29
  You know, so you can't believe these kind of things.
• 40:32
  We know that Hamas will take a bunch of people, civilians, and they will have their weapons, they'll shoot from the roof of apartment buildings.
• 40:40
  So because they know the Israelis will respond, and they'd go to take out that uh artillery or whatever it is on the roof, and of course it kills civilians.
• 40:49
  Now, why would Hamas put their guns and their weapons, and we saw it when they went to these hospitals, right, during the the uh altercation in the basement of the hospitals, they found tons of weapons and explosives and they got tunnels everywhere.
• 41:01
  Why would they do that?
• 41:03
  It is part of the game.
• 41:05
  It's part of a game so that when that building is blown up and civilians are unfortunately killed, they can go, look what the Israelis did.
• 41:12
  They're just uh they're just slaughtering people.
• 41:15
  Well, here's the here's the easiest answer for all of you that are probably some of you probably spitting right now and and and freaking out and you know, whatever.
• 41:26
  That war could come to an end.
• 41:28
  All of this destruction and killing could come to an end right this minute, as you're listening to me.
• 41:35
  Before the show is over, this whole thing could come to an end.
• 41:38
  How would that how and how would that happen?
• 41:40
  Well, let's go to uh let's go to Gaza.
• 41:43
  Hamas can put down their weapons and say, we want peace, we want to live in peace with the Israelis, and we want to turn our area, Gaza, into a paradise.
• 41:59
  And the world would pour billions and billions of dollars in there to create hospitals, schools, hotels, and turn it into a beautiful place.
• 42:07
  That would happen by the end of the show if they would drop their weapons.
• 42:11
  In Iran, the Iranian government, these radical Islamist nuts that are still running around shooting rockets, killing civilians, fighting back.
• 42:21
  That would come to an end immediately if they would say, well, uh America wiped out all our leadership, and the people don't want us here anymore.
• 42:32
  So maybe we should just put our weapons down and figure out what are we going to do going forward?
• 42:37
  How do we how do we live going forward?
• 42:39
  This is over now.
• 42:41
  Well, they're not going to do that.
• 42:43
  Adolf Hitler falted fought to the end.
• 42:46
  He fought to the end till he ended up in a bunker as the whole world came around down upon his head while lots and lots of Germans uh civilians were destroyed in the war that he started.
• 42:58
  This story has been repeated over and over and over and over again, and we're just seeing it again.
• 43:05
  These negative people the people of Iran, the majority, the huge, I think what do they say?
• 43:10
  They have 90 million people, eighty million of them don't want to live under Sharia law as though it's the fifth century.
• 43:18
  They don't want to do that anymore.
• 43:20
  They want to live normal lives, raise their family, love their kids, and have a life that doesn't include living under Sharia law.
• 43:27
  Women want to be able to be doctors and lawyers and go to school and run businesses and dress the way they want to dress.
• 43:35
  As Americans, I would think we should support that.
• 43:39
  But we don't, do we?
• 43:41
  How come?
• 43:42
  How come we don't support that?
• 43:44
  How come we're out in the streets in America protesting what Trump is doing to free the people of Iran who they want to be free?
• 43:55
  How come we're not supporting them?
• 43:58
  They're oppressed, oh, they're oppressed.
• 44:00
  You know, uh my friend Bob says, well, you know, uh in Gaza, they're living under occupation.
• 44:05
  I said, occupation.
• 44:06
  The Israelis left Gaza completely in 2006.
• 44:11
  He goes, well, they still control the borders and trade and when Yeah, that's not the same as occupying the land.
• 44:17
  They left the land.
• 44:18
  Here you go.
• 44:18
  Here's your land.
• 44:19
  Matter of fact, the Israelis moved a lot of Jewish people who were living in Gaza out.
• 44:24
  You have to leave.
• 44:24
  Had to leave their homes, get out of there.
• 44:27
  They dug up their dead and moved their dead to different places.
• 44:31
  They completely gave it over.
• 44:32
  Here you go.
• 44:33
  Here's your land.
• 44:35
  Prosper.
• 44:36
  And instead of prospering, instead of creating a paradise on the Mediterranean for their people, where they could live free, they could worship their God as they feel fit.
• 44:46
  They could raise their families.
• 44:48
  They can have peace and love.
• 44:50
  Instead of doing that, they took all the money that came in to build terror tunnels, they could go kill Jews.
• 44:57
  Now, if you can't see that as you run around with your Palestinian flag, I have nothing against the Palestinian people.
• 45:03
  These people just want to live a normal life.
• 45:05
  But you have to look at what they're willing to do.
• 45:08
  They're not willing to be peaceful.
• 45:10
  They're not willing to come up with a solution.
• 45:12
  They want to kill the Jews.
• 45:15
  Well, you know what?
• 45:16
  That's not it's it that hasn't worked since the 1940s when Israel was established.
• 45:21
  It's not going to happen now.
• 45:22
  It's just going to be more war, more bloodshed, more suffering.
• 45:28
  I don't want them to suffer.
• 45:30
  I want the people of Gaza to be able to raise their children as they see fit to enjoy their families, to live a good life, right?
• 45:39
  To prosper and be good.
• 45:41
  But that's up to them.
• 45:43
  They have to decide to stop fighting, to stop hatred.
• 45:47
  And all of you people running around with Palestinian flags, they're occupying them.
• 45:52
  No, they're not.
• 45:53
  They're not occupying them.
• 45:55
  Israel doesn't shoot rockets into Gaza indiscriminately day and night, day and night.
• 46:02
  But they do that.
• 46:03
  Hamas does that to Israel.
• 46:05
  Thousands of rockets.
• 46:06
  What's the purpose of shooting rockets into neighborhoods?
• 46:09
  What's the purpose of crossing the border early in the morning and going and killing a thousand young people at a concert, going through little neighborhoods and and murdering and raping and dismembering babies, women, and children?
• 46:24
  What what what's that all about?
• 46:25
  Where were you to protest that kind of horror?
• 46:31
  That kind of horror.
• 46:32
  Where were you to protest that?
• 46:33
  And again, run right into that bathroom, open your eyes wide, look in the mirror and go, gee, why am I not protesting that?
• 46:41
  Why am I saying that that's okay?
• 46:44
  Why am I why am I saying that that's all right instead of going, let's have peace.
• 46:48
  Let's let's stop the violence.
• 46:50
  Let's stop the violence.
• 46:51
  All right.
• 46:52
  So that brings me to my point.
• 46:56
  We can say, you can agree or disagree, that this moment in time, the Iranians say they had enough for eleven or twelve nuclear bombs.
• 47:07
  Their goal, even after having their facilities destroyed, their nuclear facilities destroyed was to dig out the whole rebuild and to build nuclear bombs that they're going to use against you and me and everyone else.
• 47:20
  And they're still not getting it.
• 47:21
  That they're not going to be allowed to do that.
• 47:23
  They're not going to be allowed to kill us.
• 47:25
  So this moment, President Trump made an evaluation.
• 47:30
  Just like North Korea, if we wait too long, and now they have one, two, or five nuclear weapons.
• 47:39
  Now it's going to be much more difficult to stop them from doing the bad things that they want to do to everyone.
• 47:44
  So this was the moment to prevent that from happening, to free the Iranian people from this dictatorship, this theocracy that is crushing the people of Iran.
• 47:56
  This was the moment to knock that government out of its power and let the people take over.
• 48:03
  Let the people go in and create some kind of a government where they can have some kind of a normal life.
• 48:09
  This was the moment, and Trump saw it coming.
• 48:12
  He made the decision to go.
• 48:14
  So you can agree or not agree, but if we waited a little bit longer, that decision is out of our hand once they have nuclear weapons.
• 48:22
  Right?
• 48:22
  Then they can light up Israel.
• 48:25
  They can light, they can put one of those things on a ship and launch it into New York or Boston.
• 48:30
  What are you going to do back then?
• 48:31
  You can say, oh, we should have done something back in the yeah, you should have done something when you had the chance.
• 48:36
  When people tell you what they're going to do to you, believe them.
• 48:40
  And if you have the opportunity to stop them, that's the right thing to do.
• 48:45
  All right.
• 48:45
  So the House, the House of Representatives in the United States.
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  Republicans, Democrats.
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  We see our military is out there, they're fighting.
• 48:54
  They're trying to knock out the military assets of the uh the tyrannical Iranians.
• 49:01
  And we see our friends on the left.
• 49:02
  We're gonna we're gonna impose our will on the president.
• 49:06
  We're not in power, but we're gonna say, no, we're gonna resist.
• 49:09
  It's Trump, we're gonna resist.
• 49:10
  We can't have him looking good.
• 49:12
  We can't have him solving another problem.
• 49:14
  We can't have him protecting us again.
• 49:16
  We're gonna have to have him look bad.
• 49:18
  So how do we do that?
• 49:19
  Let's take away his ability to do what he's doing.
• 49:23
  So they want to have uh they want to invoke the war powers act, which every every president, Democrat and Republican, uh has said it's unconstitutional.
• 49:33
  It has not been tested in the courts.
• 49:35
  Uh this is another one of those things where our Congress can do a lot of things and they choose not to do anything.
• 49:42
  Our immigration problem, right?
• 49:44
  Instead of fighting and fighting about immigration and going back and forth funded, defund it, do this, instead of doing that, get in there and come up with some laws that say this is how we're gonna handle immigration and turn it into law.
• 49:57
  But they don't do that, do they?
• 49:59
  No, because it's a
• 50:00
  A political tool.
• 50:01
  It's a weapon.
• 50:01
  You and I sit here thinking it's about immigration.
• 50:04
  And it's not about immigration.
• 50:06
  It's about wielding power.
• 50:08
  It's about having control over us.
• 50:10
  And they do that.
• 50:11
  They could simply go in and go, listen, uh, you know, what if Biden said?
• 50:15
  We can't, well, the border's closed.
• 50:16
  The border's completely closed.
• 50:17
  Meantime, it was 10,000 people a day coming over the border.
• 50:21
  That wasn't a closed border.
• 50:23
  But what did the media say?
• 50:24
  Oh, the border's closed.
• 50:25
  Here's our cameras.
• 50:27
  They wouldn't show you pictures of it.
• 50:28
  Only Fox News would show you pictures of thousands of people coming over, you know, the secure border.
• 50:32
  It's secure.
• 50:33
  It's it's never been more secure, they told us.
• 50:36
  Did you agree with that?
• 50:38
  Did you see the pictures of thousands of people coming over and say, well, I guess the border's closed.
• 50:43
  Were you were you that stupid to say, hey, don't, hey, my lion eyes, my eyes are lying to me.
• 50:51
  Well, we can't cl we can't do that.
• 50:53
  We need it's up to their Congress.
• 50:54
  Well, did you see the Congress run in and come up with a bill that this is what we're going to do for uh immigration?
• 50:59
  This is how we're going to handle it.
• 51:01
  No.
• 51:02
  Neither side has done that.
• 51:04
  Why not?
• 51:05
  Because as a as a topic, it has value for them.
• 51:10
  As something that they can fight over and argue over and get money and power and whatnot.
• 51:15
  So the House is going to vote to limit what the president can do under the war powers act.
• 51:21
  Well, it lost.
• 51:22
  Alright, you had some Democrats come over to the side of the Republicans.
• 51:27
  Almost all the Republicans voted no, you can't limit what the president's doing.
• 51:31
  The president is the commander in chief.
• 51:34
  Congress declares war.
• 51:36
  And I think that's good.
• 51:37
  I think that's good that Congress declares war.
• 51:40
  This, while it is combat, it's not a war.
• 51:44
  We're not sending in troops.
• 51:45
  We're not taking over the ground.
• 51:47
  We may end up doing that.
• 51:48
  I don't know.
• 51:48
  You know, things have a way of changing.
• 51:50
  But if we're going to be in war where we're going to send in troops and we're going to try and take over that land and this, that, and the other thing, then Congress should decide, you know, if they're going to support it or not.
• 51:59
  But right now, it's a police action, for better or worse.
• 52:02
  The President of the United States, who is tasked specifically with keeping us safe, sees this danger, and he's doing what he can to prevent danger, to save us down the road by preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons.
• 52:20
  They do not they do not negotiate in good faith.
• 52:25
  And if you think they do, and you're sitting there going, well, we had an agreement.
• 52:29
  You don't understand the world.
• 52:31
  And I and I hate to say it so bluntly like that.
• 52:34
  But this goes with my theme the last couple of weeks where I've been saying the adults need to step up and say, these people that see things through rose-colored glasses, they see things through, you know, let's hope it works out, and you know, believe in other the rest of the world is not America.
• 52:49
  Right?
• 52:50
  The rest of the world plays by totally different rules than we do.
• 52:54
  And the adults understand the rules, and we have to play by those rules.
• 52:59
  We can't just say, well, we're doing the American way, because people in the world see appeasement as weakness.
• 53:08
  They see people backing off.
• 53:10
  Fear, like they fear Trump.
• 53:12
  They fear everything he's going to do.
• 53:14
  They see that as weakness and they take advantage.
• 53:16
  Evil and bad people do not change their way because you want to play nice.
• 53:23
  Sometimes you gotta punch them in the face.
• 53:26
  Right?
• 53:27
  Sometimes you gotta punch them in the face.
• 53:29
  And I hate to say it like that, but it's true.
• 53:31
  If you have somebody constantly harassing you, threatening you, coming after you, and you keep throwing words at them, I'm gonna sue you, I'm gonna make a report about you, and they keep coming over and harassing you, hitting you, doing things to you.
• 53:45
  At some point, you have to defend yourself from people like that.
• 53:49
  Because they do not go home and go, you know, gee, uh Joe is Joe is right.
• 53:54
  You know, he's he's saying that he might sue me.
• 53:57
  I don't want to get sued, so I think I'll stop behaving.
• 54:00
  No, it emboldens them to do more, whether it's on an individual case or on a nation case, especially when you have people like the people in Iran who run that government.
• 54:10
  Not the individual people.
• 54:11
  I think the Iranian people are brilliant, they're good people, they're very smart.
• 54:16
  They are being they're being oppressed.
• 54:19
  You talk about oppression, they're being oppressed by their government, how they're being treated, what they do to women, and why you're not supporting that, I don't know.
• 54:28
  For those of you who are, good for you, because you see the world as it is.
• 54:33
  Now, one thing I want to address what we have some time here is so far we have lost six service personnel.
• 54:41
  And I saw their pictures, I saw their names, they look like beautiful young Americans who dedicated their lives, their very lives, to our country and the protection of our country.
• 54:52
  And they laid their lives down at the altar of freedom.
• 54:56
  That is not to be taken lightly.
• 54:58
  That is not to be dismissed as, oh, well, that's what happens.
• 55:01
  Those sacrifices by those individual people who were killed, they're gone now, and their families have to deal with their loss.
• 55:11
  As a nation, we have to deal with the loss of our service personnel.
• 55:16
  And it's a terrible thing that that happens.
• 55:19
  But when I was a police officer, I knew that every day I went out the door, every single day I went out the door.
• 55:26
  I could end up dying, performing my duties to protect my community.
• 55:31
  I accepted it, my family accepted it.
• 55:33
  We hoped it didn't happen.
• 55:35
  But we knew it, and cops get killed all the time.
• 55:38
  Well, these military heroes that are over there, they are doing their part to protect you and me.
• 55:45
  And we owe them the greatest debt of gratitude spiritually, financially, whatever we can do to help them.
• 55:52
  They are doing what they were meant to do, and it's unfortunate that they lost their lives in this.
• 55:58
  We can't let them lose their lives in vain.
• 56:01
  We can't do what we constantly do in the modern era, is we we get involved with something righteous as it may be, and then we lose our stomach to finish it.
• 56:11
  Well, by not finishing it, by not completely wiping out everything about the mullahs and their ability to wage war again, then we do not honor those soldiers who lost their lives in this conflict so far, and there probably will be more.
• 56:27
  We're dealing with radical terrorist killers who would do the same thing to you and your family if they had the chance.
• 56:36
  That's why we're there.
• 56:38
  That's why we have to stop them.
• 56:41
  So I want to say thank you to those gold star families.
• 56:44
  I pray for them, I pray for those soldiers, the men and women who lost their lives.
• 56:48
  They are absolute heroes.
• 56:51
  And they will go down in history as some of the greatest among us.
• 56:57
  They're protecting our country.
• 57:00
  They are doing their duty.
• 57:03
  And I hope no one else gets hurt or killed.
• 57:06
  Hope no more civilians are hurt or killed.
• 57:07
  No one.
• 57:08
  I'll hope there's peace in the world.
• 57:10
  But you don't get to peace through weakness.
• 57:14
  You get to peace through strength.
• 57:16
  So God bless America.
• 57:18
  God bless all of you, and thank you for being here.
• 57:20
  I appreciate it.
• 57:20
  And we will see you down the road.