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E5: U.S. Special Forces vs. Mexican Cartels, DOGE, Constitutional Carry · The Junto Podcast

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Music.
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Welcome to the Junto Podcast, where we promote the practical applications of
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critical thinking and bold creativity.
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I'm your host, Edgar Mills.
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Music.
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Hello, America, and welcome to Episode 5 of the Junto Podcast.
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So, on this episode, there's going to be a number of topics.
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There's a lot of things I've been pondering lately based on conversations with friends,
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social media stuff, and a great number of my friends have hit me up on my opinion
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of Trump's plan to use U.S.
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SOF, U.S. Special Operations Forces, in combating the Mexican cartels and the
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drug influx. and not just drug influx, but human trafficking and all the things that the cartels do.
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And I wrote a paper on that and posted it up on the website,
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thejuntopodcast.com. And I thought it was pretty damn succinct.
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However, I'm going to break down just smaller, smaller pros and cons on that
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and see what you guys, hopefully what you guys think about it.
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But tactically speaking, I absolutely believe U.S.
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SOF could go down and just kill a great many cartel members and even the leadership
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and make a significant dent.
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But there is so much more to it than tactical level stuff.
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There's so many authorities and the buy-in from the Mexican government and all those things.
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I don't think that we would ever have the conditions...
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Set for us to be victorious in that long-term.
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I mean, hell, we've been in the war on drugs since, I want to say,
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Ronald Reagan, and it's been a colossal, epic failure.
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So what's different now? Well, yeah, Donald Trump is essentially big dick in
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everyone in the world, which is just, you know, whatever, that's America, right?
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But we have to have the conditions and the long-term conditions to make that successful.
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And that's, in my opinion, one of the problems that America has as a country
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is we simply do not play the long game, not in the way that other,
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well, especially Eastern countries do, but we just don't have it in us to play the long game.
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Everything is short-term gratification.
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And you can't, in a long war, we spent 20 years refighting the same war every
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six months, every time a new group would rotate in or a new task force or whatever.
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So, yeah, ultimately, I think it's a lose.
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Ultimately, I think it's a lose. What are some short-term benefits?
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Yeah, we would disrupt. We would put a significant dent in their operations
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in the way that they're doing things.
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But if history tells us anything bad guys are adaptable
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and so they would figure a way
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around and because we don't have the long game they
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would just figure a different way around that we would be
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bound by some obscure legal processes or whatnot short term yeah we would disrupt
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their operations we have the expertise and the ability and the equipment and
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to do all those things efficiently.
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I believe we could probably, if the gloves were completely off right now,
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we could probably go drone and take out every head cartel member.
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Right now, if the gloves were off completely, which they'll never be.
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And then what? What's another pro of us going head to head with SOF and cartel?
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Yeah, it would send a signal to the world that we're deadly serious about protecting
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borders and those sorts of things.
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And it might suppress cartel activity for even several years.
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But that's it. It would just suppress. I don't think it would ever end it.
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Should we go into this haphazardly? Now, understand this, folks.
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I'm not a strategic mind.
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I said this in my paper. My strength lies within my ability to operate at a
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tactical and operational levels,
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leadership, make things happen, to get a small group of men,
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anywhere from four up to 200 men, to go do things that need to be done in an efficient way.
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That's not strategy, folks. That's operational, that's tactical level stuff.
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So this is purely opinion, purely opinion.
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But should we get into that fight, assuming that it's going to be a short-term
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fight, Well, what do we have to deal with?
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Well, once again, we have to get all 100% buy-in from Mexico.
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And if we do not, there's going to be a big problem there.
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Sovereignty issues, international treaty issues, just all sorts of things that
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will create a strain in the Western Hemisphere altogether. together.
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And then I wrote of a very detailed, gruesome incident that nobody in America wants to see.
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That's a very real risk, folks, is the retaliation and innocent people just
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being brutally murdered by cartel.
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They have no such rules as we have. No such.
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Even with our gloves off, we, they, they are so much more gruesome than we could ever imagine.
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So imagine that coming to our, our doorstep, to our soil, nevermind the border
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States, Texas, and then Arizona and down around that way,
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inner inland America, right?
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You don't want cartel members murdering your, your children just as a show of retaliation.
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And that's a very, very real thing. Very real possibility, very real possibility.
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And then resources folks. I'm a bitter jaded person.
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Libertarian. And I spent about four and a half years in combat zones of the
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20 years that America was in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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And the very first rotation I did as an 82nd Airborne infantryman was about 11 months.
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And it was what I imagined war would be.
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Yep. It was, it was crazy. And I was in the Eastern border country over there, a place called Skin.
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At any rate, it was what I imagined war would be.
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And I believed we were over there doing just things. That was in 2003.
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Well, you know, after much examination, and I want you to think about this for
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a minute, we essentially,
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between the CIA and the 5th Special Forces Group, the war was won before 2003.
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The Taliban had been decimated.
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And all we had to do was support, hand over and support to the current leaders there.
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Well, who were the current leaders? Oh, they were warlords.
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That word is thrown around in a very derogatory way.
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They were regional strongmen, especially the Northern Alliance, Dostum and Audenor.
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And, oh, we couldn't do that. We had to usher in some democracy and give her and all that shit.
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So what really I think, because again, I'm jaded, is that once the regular conventional
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forces get involved, you know, every commander wants a, wants a combat command.
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Once Bagram was built, you can't have an airfield without airmen who have,
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you know, air conditioners.
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And a PX to go to and a Cinnabon and a Burger King. You can't have it.
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Those people need to be living well so that they can fix aircraft so that warfighters
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can get on those aircraft and go do things, allegedly.
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By the way, you can buy a Harley-Davidson tax-free while you were deployed.
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So once the conventional forces get involved not
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that you don't need them look there there's different types of war and
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there's there's different types of warfare but my
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my point is that the focus was lost at that time now again i was there in 03
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almost all of 03 and it was the wild west there was still stuff going on and
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there were still pockets of bad guys mostly they were coming from Pakistan,
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from what I saw because I was in the East.
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But my point is, essentially, Afghanistan was one in late 2002.
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So what I'm going here with this is the pros and cons against the Mexican cartels.
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Resources. Folks, how many billions was spent in Afghanistan and Iraq?
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How many billions? Do we want to get into that again?
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Do we think there's the chance if that's what it would become.
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Oh, no, no. Everybody will say, no, we're not going to let that happen.
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But people were comparing Afghanistan to Vietnam in like 2007 or 8 or whatever.
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And up until that point, Vietnam was our longest war, I'm pretty sure.
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So, yeah, it not only became like it in certain aspects, but exceeded it by
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far. I happen to believe that our U.S.
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Military forces should secure our borders. I think that's right.
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However, picking a fight with your southern neighbor because of the crime coming
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out of their country, that's not addressing, you know, real root causes.
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Now, we may compel Mexico to act more harshly against their cartels,
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but I think we'll find out in reality. I've never been to Seventh Group.
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The realities down there, I believe, are that the cartels probably own more of the government.
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Than we imagine. So the resources that we would have to put into that would be enormous, enormous.
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And that's just Mexico, folks, nevermind Colombia and all the drugs going on in South America.
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They all touch each other. It's not like an isolated Mexican cartel,
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one and done, boom, America's drug free.
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And nevermind drugs coming from China and elsewhere.
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So that's a big bite it sounds cool and everybody says oh what do you think
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special operations can beat cartel yeah yeah toe-to-toe of course absolutely
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100 i don't care how brutal they are,
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i'm i'm old and slow and i would put my my tactical skill against any cartel guy i know men who who,
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just will not be beat in a tactical situation. It is just the way it is.
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America is highly trained special operators.
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We would defeat in a tactical game. We would defeat anybody.
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That being said, I think it's probably a bad, bad call.
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It's on the table. It's on the table and it should be on the table.
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The president has a lot of Tools,
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And a lot of different Weapons in the arsenal And he should be able to Call
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on those as needed I just hope that the strategy Backs up the Tactical plan,
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Again I'm a bit of a libertarian I'm a full blown libertarian And I'm a bit cynical.
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At any rate,
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That's my thoughts on it, kind of in a nutshell.
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That was 14 minutes, 15 seconds of my thoughts on the cartel and special operations.
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So the next topic I want to talk about is the Doge, the hatchet,
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the killing machine Doge Department of Government Efficiency.
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Now, I like it. You can poo-poo me on programs. My grandpa don't get his medicine, whatever.
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I think the vast majority of the government needs to be cut,
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and I think they're doing it.
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I don't think it's being done willy-nilly. I think it seems that way because
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everything Trump does seems willy-nilly just because of the personality and
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the caricature that he presents.
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I think Elon Musk is probably much more thoughtful than he's given credit for
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and probably way smarter than he's given credit for.
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So, why is it good?
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Look, they've already uncovered literal billions of dollars of waste.
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Fraud, waste, and abuse.
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That's literal fraud, waste, and abuse. Money that is just being pocketed by
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politicians and lobbyists.
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So.
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Cutting off the lifeline to these friggin' leech politicians,
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these bureaucrats, is only going to help us in the long term.
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If you're one of those among us who feels that we need the U.S.
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Bureaucracy to help us live in an orderly and safe life, you're wrong. That is all.
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Streamlining the government if we can get rid of
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all the and look there are people that say doge is unconstitutional well what
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about the epa where in the constitution does the epa or or the consumer protection
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agency or name it name an agency and and try to find it in the constitution,
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well precedent and executive order
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blah blah blah under president so-and-so well
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doge is an executive order just like everything else has been an executive order
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it gets codified into some kind of law maybe whatever but i don't think it will
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i don't think it needs to be it's a short-term hatchet to come and cut the fat
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get the government down to a manageable.
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Accountable size, and then continue on.
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Streamlining the government, I think, is critical. Government operations.
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The government has its fingers in everything. It just doesn't need to.
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If you think it does, again, you're wrong.
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Essential functions of the government, folks. What is the number one essential
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function of the U.S. government?
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To defend our rights. That is it.
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To defend our rights and to protect our borders and to make regular commerce.
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Yep.
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And also, it says it right in the Constitution, to make regular naturalization
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and immigration. That's Congress's job.
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They haven't done that since I've been. Opening the gates doesn't make it regular.
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That's not naturalization and citizenship. That's just opening the gates.
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Now, I am a libertarian, but I don't believe in just wide open borders either.
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I've had this discussion before. But the fact that our electoral votes and our
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number of representatives are dependent on how many citizens are physically living in America,
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the fact that we have millions and millions, tens of millions of undocumented
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citizens puts an unfair balance or unfair imbalance in that number.
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And if you want to argue about the Electoral College, we can do that in another time.
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Accountability accountability these numbers this money has to be accounted for,
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that when we say 50 trillion i really can't conceptualize that that that's such
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a huge number that i can't really conceptualize it's just insane it's a big
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number i don't it's it's so difficult to like put pictures to that.
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How many aircraft carriers is that? Or how many cities?
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I mean, can I take $50 trillion and go build Atlanta all over again?
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Probably. Probably multiple times over again.
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And this is money that's just out there doing nothing but padding pockets.
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Padding pockets of not just our leech bureaucrat politicians,
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but leech bureaucrat politicians all over the world.
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Accountability. That's what's up. That's what we need. We need accountability.
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So what's the downside to Doge? What's the downside?
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I see none. Nah, that's not true. I'm a critical thinker a little bit. I see some.
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However, one that you're going to hear crying about a lot is gaps in the services, right?
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Gaps in the entitlement programs.
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Well, when you look at some of those programs and determine whether they're
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constitutional or not, you got to wonder like, well, is that a, is that a con?
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Is that, is that, there's something
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wrong with that, that, that program shouldn't have existed anyway.
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What about the poor Edgar? You're, you're such a, so you just want to let poor
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people die. No, I don't want to just let poor people die.
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I don't think it's the government's job to keep every human on life support though.
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I don't think health care, education, and these are the three big ones,
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and these are the things we've heard about over the past, I don't know, several months.
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Health care, education, and then what's been one of the most recent, disaster relief.
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I think the federal government has dropped the ball in an epic fashion on disaster relief.
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So why do I need FEMA to suck up millions of dollars and then go just bungle
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an operation in North Carolina, for instance, or California?
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Now, I tend to write California off. I love Californians. I think California
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could be the greatest state in the union.
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And at one point, it probably was the greatest state in the union.
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Um, it's the, the topography, the geography, everything they,
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they've got it all from, from skiing, rainforests,
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the redwood forest, all the way down to the Baja desert, surfing,
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Hollywood.
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I used to be so enamored with Hollywood and movies and all that stuff. It was awesome.
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And now it's just a gigantic piece of garbage that still has all those things.
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But all those things are costing more and more money and being less and less
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taken care of California.
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This isn't just a rant, folks. I'm trying to throw out some actual good points
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here. Hopefully it doesn't come off as just a rant.
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But services. Education, Department of Education, what do you think?
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Do you think we need a federal Department of Education?
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What if we don't standardize education across the nation? Then what?
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But is education standardized across the nation right now, even with the federal department?
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Was it Philadelphia or Baltimore? One of those major cities over there on the
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east had something like zero passing scores and reading and writing and arithmetic,
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the three R's.
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So ever since what Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education,
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the statistics don't lie.
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And it's not about lying with statistics, folks. Yeah, you can manipulate numbers.
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But all the metrics of success in education since the creation of the Department
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of Education have tanked.
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Steady decline. Steady decline. And still declining, by the way.
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It's time for alternatives yes
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private schools but i don't just mean bougie ass rich people private schools
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i mean homeschool collectives montessori schools alternatives i don't need federal
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government sending the law out to make sure my kids aren't truant all right that's not.
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That's not what needs to be happening what needs
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to be happening is our kids need to be learning in an environment
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one that is conducive
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to their learning abilities and
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learning style we all remember elementary school and middle school man i i barely
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graduated high school with pre-algebra i don't even know how i graduated i didn't
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get math i didn't get it I still don't get it, for that matter.
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Anybody who's worked with me knows that.
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I didn't learn math. Am I just a dummy? Maybe. What if I'd have been in a different environment?
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What if I'd have been in a different learning environment? I don't know.
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Creativity does not get fostered in the current systems. The current system
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herds your kids into school.
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You react to the bell, and then you get up and move from class to class on the bell.
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The teachers some yeah look i'm not bemoaning all the teachers some people have
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a genuine love for children and want to and want to educate them the best they
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can but even good teachers still,
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complain about what they are and aren't allowed to do based on some bizarro
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ideology whatever district you're in if you're in an extremely conservative
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district yeah i can't read this or I can't read that.
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If you're an extremely liberal district, now you got frigging bizarre reading
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material, it's pornographic and whatnot.
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Make schools more community-based. Make schools more community-based.
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And if the federal government wants to be involved in that, if the Department
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of Education must exist, then let it exist only to dish out money.
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But even then, the government don't work that way. The government's like a mafia.
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If they give you money, you are beholden.
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That money comes with conditions. Now, that money comes with conditions when
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it's to American states, right?
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When it's to foreign countries, it comes with zero conditions.
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Well, there's some background conditions, but we don't see what the real money goes to.
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All right, I'm ranting again. I'm ranting.
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Department of Education. Yeah, I think it needs to go away. I think FEMA.
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I've never been a Trump fan, but over several of the past 15,
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10, 15 years, I've had sort of a list of running, a running list of what would President Mills do?
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If I got in office, what would be some of the first things that I did?
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Well, before Trump ever came along, one of my very first things was to cut foreign
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aid. Yeah, all foreign aid.
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That's to include Israel. That's to include any country that's getting a dime of U.S. money.
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And then I would start taking phone calls country by country.
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And then based on what their
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need was and based on their sales
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pitch on what we would get for that money because it's
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not about giving them money and just watching them we give money to south honduras
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gets i don't know a couple million few million a year what do they do with it
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where does it go we get there's no there's no accountability there's no tracking
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it we still get Honduran immigrants coming across illegally.
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So what's going on? I just saw a thing today. I think we were spending $50 million
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to do circumcisions in Mozambique.
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Does that, does that scan? Do, is that critical?
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Do we need to be clipping dick skin of little Mozambique children?
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I don't know man What are we selling that as Is that a health issue Making sure
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they're They're clean and what not,
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I want I'd like to see the The books on that I'd like to see the,
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Financials on that So yeah I would cut foreign aid,
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Trump seems to be Working on that I You know I don't know if the world Would
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come to a screeching halt If you just cut the Spigot completely Maybe not I
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would cut the spigot Completely Now you may say Oh Edgar that's short sighted
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You're just trying to get,
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wins for your base. Nah, nah, nah. It's not about any base.
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It's about stopping all outgoing money until we figure out where everything's going.
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That's... Sorry, folks.
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Had a technical difficulty there.
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My engineer, who happens to also be named Edgar Mills, is marginally trained.
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At any rate, where'd I leave off? Where'd I leave off? Cutting the Department of Education up.
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Cutting foreign aid. Yeah. cutting foreign aid, everybody.
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What are you going to give me for, for what we're giving you?
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There needs to be a trade-off. It doesn't need to be free money.
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Parents, how often do you just give your children free money?
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Business owners, how often do you just give your employees free money? Probably none.
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So why would you give anyone else free money?
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All right, where was we at? Foreign aid. Oh, the list of things that President
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Mills would do. Yeah, I would cut foreign aid.
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Also, I would abolish the income tax.
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And I know people think, oh, you can't do it. Bull crap, you can do it.
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It didn't just happen. And the income tax didn't always exist.
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It was meant to be temporary from the get-go and was just taken advantage of.
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So, damn, I'm sorry. Technical issues here. All right.
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Income tax could go away. I think that would change the face of politics.
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I think if you flattened or if you flatten the tax, however you want to do it,
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get rid of it completely.
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Even just a base tax. Even just taxes on goods, folks, there shouldn't be an
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income tax. You shouldn't get taxed for working.
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You shouldn't get taxed for working.
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So, well, people complain, why don't rich people pay their fair share?
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Well, if you look at who pays taxes, you'll see that rich people pay somewhere
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in the neighborhood of 80% of all taxes.
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Well, what about the rich people who get away? What about Elon Musk hasn't paid tax and whatever?
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Hey, if the loophole exists, they're going to use it. And guess what?
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If you knew where that loophole was, you would use it.
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If you have, if you make under a certain amount of money and you have a bunch
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of kids, you get a child tax credit.
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What about people who don't have children?
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Is that unfair to them? Do they say, well, you're using the child tax credit to get more money back?
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Well, yeah, yeah, that's right. So if you get rid of all this stuff,
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all this convoluted bull crap and get out, get rid of all the stuff that the
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government is using to pick winners and losers or to choose who gets what,
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when, based on, I don't know what, being a good citizen, I guess.
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If you get rid of all the stuff, then it won't be there to be abused.
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Then it won't be there to be abused.
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Folks, I'm having all sorts of technical issues. Please bear with me. I do apologize.
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I will get more proficient as time goes. All right.
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Income tax loopholes. Get rid of it. So where was that? Cut foreign aid.
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President Mills, cut foreign aid. Get rid of income tax altogether.
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Term limits. Now, a lot of people tend to agree with term limits.
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One of my favorite people out there is Ron Paul.
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And I listened to Ron Paul argue against that.
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And he's exponentially more educated, more intellectual, more experienced,
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all those things than I am. But that's the one thing I disagree.
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I think term limits are critical. Right.
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The way you amass power, I believe in any criminal organization,
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is that you hang around long enough that you get secrets and favors in your pocket.
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And the longer you're around, the more secrets you amass and the more favors you amass.
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And 30, 40 years into it, you are now a mighty, powerful person with a whole
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bunch of secrets and favors stacked up.
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That's how corruption works.
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Dirty pictures in a box. I got them. I got, I got dirty pictures of you with
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a 12 year old boy. That's how, that's how corruption works.
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So if we cut the term limits down, look, I'm, I'm talking about six years max.
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I mean, the term itself and then term limit, then you was a president get two
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terms. Then, then a congressman should get two terms.
31:49
Well, well, you need to have people who you need to have continuity,
31:53
right? And then the president just kind of comes and goes, figurehead.
31:57
That's kind of true, I think, but it needs to be true with the representatives as well.
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I don't believe our founders intended for politics to become a profession, a career.
32:11
I believe that they intended for it to be a short-term thing and,
32:17
But then again, they left it open so that there were no limits.
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So were they flawed? I don't know.
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I think that was a flaw for sure.
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The longer you're there, the more you can amass the secrets and the favors.
32:34
And I'm completely against that.
32:37
So foreign aid, cut foreign aid, cut income tax, term limits.
32:44
And then there's other little small things. campaign finance reform.
32:49
I don't think the government should be, for instance, I don't think the government
32:54
should fund NPR and PBS, but they do.
32:57
So check it out. That means that is government operated programming.
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However you want to say, you can think that they are unbiased or whatever, but they are not.
33:08
And therefore it is government ordained programming.
33:14
Well, all the campaign dollars to get spent on what commercials and airtime
33:20
and all these things that needs to be out. That needs to be out the door right now.
33:25
There's no way a network should charge however many millions of dollars for
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a five minute spot or whatever.
33:32
All campaigning can be done via PBS and NPR.
33:36
If you want to ask old Edgar, and then guess what? Everybody gets equal time.
33:41
Yep. I I don't care how many candidates are running. Everyone gets equal time.
33:45
So there you go right there. That takes out money. Well, we got to travel around
33:49
the country to campaign.
33:50
Well, then do that. That I don't
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believe that that that is necessary in today's world. This is just not.
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That's where you can go glad hand people and make back backroom deals for sure.
34:04
But I don't think it's necessary in today's today's world.
34:08
Anyway, several other little things that we could go into, but I'm not going to go into it.
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The gist, I believe with Doge, I believe if we could cut the IRS or a minimum cut income tax.
34:21
Cut foreign aid. And I mean, the vast, the mass of it, I would say all of it,
34:27
but that's not going to happen.
34:29
Uh, and then if we could find some term limits, then we, I think we would change
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the face of politics forever.
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So the cons, that's what I was talking about.
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The cons of the, and then I went into the pros like, well, we got to do to make
34:41
it good service gaps, right?
34:44
People think, Oh, I'm not going to get my check. I'm not going to get my check.
34:46
I'm not going to get my stamps. I'm not going to get this. I'm not going to get my EBT.
34:50
That needs to be state-level stuff anyway.
34:53
The federal government doesn't need to be in the welfare business, period.
34:58
The federal government can't make decisions for 360, 370 million people.
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The states need to be making those decisions. All right.
35:09
Oh, the government job losses. Yeah, that's what's next.
35:13
Everybody's moaning and groaning about the government job losses.
35:16
Now I thought Trump posed a pretty good severance package there for,
35:20
for any government employee that wanted to take what eight months of salary
35:25
and, and whatever the job losses, get the F out of here.
35:31
There there's too many government jobs, period, period.
35:36
You can't tell me now you go to the DMV, right?
35:40
The local DMV and it's a madhouse. Well, we're understaffed.
35:45
That's their universal answer is we're understaffed. But you look at the way they do business.
35:52
Now, I'm going to tell you right now, I live in Rome, Georgia,
35:55
and our tag office is an absolute delight.
36:00
The ladies are always there. There may be one desk empty out of the,
36:06
I think, five desks that are there.
36:09
They're an absolute delight, and they'll get you in, get you out.
36:13
There's no, there's no trying to herd you, herd you around to the next one,
36:18
or, oh, you don't have this piece of paper, that one. They'll work with you.
36:22
I've never had to wait more than a couple minutes to go do tags.
36:26
Now I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to do the opposite of that.
36:30
Colorado Springs department of motor vehicle down by the airport.
36:34
Oh my God. it's an absolute madhouse absolute madhouse they've got employees they've got plenty,
36:44
but if you don't have the right piece of paper they're not and that's on you
36:50
to have the right stuff i get it but man they they would just send you on man
36:54
they even got like a bouncer at the door who checks your stuff and sends you back.
37:01
At any rate, government jobs, you know what, and that's a state job anyway.
37:06
What federal job do you need in the state of Georgia? Tell me, please.
37:11
I mean, email me. Text me. What
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federal job do you need in the state of Georgia? What do we need here?
37:17
Now, I know we got some offices for feds like FBI, for instance.
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There's an FBI office, and we got a federal prison here, for sure,
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down on Constitution Avenue.
37:30
Close to the Zestos in the Starlight Theater.
37:34
I guess federal pen, yeah. If you're going to have federal pen,
37:38
you got to have federal guys working that, I guess.
37:42
What other federal jobs are we worried about? The IRS employees?
37:48
Are we poopy? Because instead of hiring 80,000 new IRS agents to audit,
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they're now firing agents. Are we poopy about that?
37:59
Go get another job. Go work in the civilian market.
38:03
Now, that's big words coming from a guy who spent 25 years in the Army.
38:08
But, hey, I signed a contract. They signed a contract. We did it. It was done.
38:15
Yeah, job losses. I don't think that's legit.
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I think if you've got experience, if you've worked for federal government for
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20 years and you get offered a good severance package, and I don't know what
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they're offering on retirement,
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like your long-term benefits, but let's back up and look at Congress for a minute and term limits.
38:37
I think if you go and serve one term in Congress, you have your benefits for life.
38:43
I'm pretty sure that's the case. If you go serve 25 years in the Army,
38:49
you've got health insurance for the rest of your life and your retirement,
38:53
your wee little retirement compared to Congress.
38:57
And then, yeah, if you got broke up some, you'll get your VA rating.
39:02
So F that, jobs. Go get a job on the civilian market.
39:07
Make more money. Be happier and negotiate your value.
39:12
Become more valuable. That's the problem with government jobs is you don't have
39:16
to prove your worth. You just have to take up space.
39:20
All right, job losses. Is that a con? Yeah, that's what most people will call
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a con. But again, I don't say so.
39:29
And then, I don't know, are there any other unintended consequences from all
39:34
this rapid cutting of businesses or agencies?
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I don't know. People will think they'll probably use something like regulations
39:46
on food and environmental protection agency.
39:51
If that got drastically cut, now we go, oh my God, now the environment's going
39:56
to go to hell because no government is there to regulate it.
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I point you to the Los Animas River.
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I want to say in maybe New Mexico.
40:07
The government does more damage than it does good. I will stand by that.
40:12
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
40:13
The government does more damage than it does good.
40:17
The government does more damage than it does good.
40:22
That's it and that's all. I mean, look, I don't want to get heavy into this
40:28
vaccine mandate stuff, but all the facts are now coming out.
40:32
All the evidence is now coming out.
40:36
That the shots were more harmful than helpful. That's just the way it is.
40:39
The government did more damage than good.
40:44
You can email me. We can argue it.
40:47
All right. That was Doge. So now I want to segue into, we talked about very
40:54
specific government action, right?
40:56
Special operations forces being used against the Mexican cartels.
41:00
That's a very specific, very all government sort of thing. Then we talked about
41:05
Doge, about getting rid of government agencies and trimming the fat on government.
41:12
So if we trim the fat on government, inevitably, the next thing I want to look
41:18
at is the future of liberal arts in America.
41:21
All of these universities who benefit from government largesse,
41:29
who have these ridiculous tuitions, they get backed by government money, I guess, or subsidized.
41:41
And as we go on in the future here, so what about liberal arts?
41:47
Yes, I think any college you go to, they'll talk about critical thinking,
41:53
and we'll learn how to do critical thinking, and we'll learn the steps of how
41:58
to take in all the information and all that.
42:01
And that's a very college thing. That's a very academic, intellectual thing to do.
42:07
But the application of that critical thinking into the practical workforce is
42:13
a whole other thing that I think college misses.
42:16
What else do you get in Higher education.
42:20
I took art appreciation and not because it was just an easy, it wasn't easy.
42:28
Well, it wasn't easy really because there was a lot of art history involved as well.
42:33
I happened to like art and I thought it was a very interesting class.
42:36
I needed an elective sort of course to fill out whatever program I was on.
42:43
And I thought it, I thought that was a good one. I loved it.
42:46
I think we need things like that, but not at the cost of what we're paying for them right now.
42:52
I think knowing history is very important in the humanities.
42:56
All these things are very important in a way.
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But practical application of these things, what's the future look like in the
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practical application?
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We're living in a modern tech-heavy world.
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The modern and tech heavy world where all this intellectual nonsense it only
43:17
it only flies i don't know really in politics doesn't it we're stem dominated
43:24
right science technology.
43:27
Electronics mechanics and things like that that's what's going on in the job
43:33
market in the future of, of just development of societal development.
43:40
I, that being said, look, I'm creativity to me is, is very, it's critical.
43:46
It's, it's at the utmost importance, but if you're just going to school on these
43:52
very soft liberal arts degrees and you're not making yourself valuable in a,
43:59
in a skilled market what what
44:03
good are you it's going to go away i mean you can become an artist of some sort
44:07
and and try to sell your your wares as a luxury meanwhile you're eating ramen
44:14
and you got people who make money looking at your stuff deciding whether or not it has value or not.
44:22
So it's very important that we have the creativity. It's very important that
44:27
we have critical thinking taught to us how to solve problems,
44:32
big ideological problems, conceptual problems.
44:36
But when it comes down to solving practical problems, can we do that? It's very important.
44:43
I think the modern day college, I think the degrees, they don't really have any direct career path.
44:53
Unless you're doing law or medicine, is there a really direct career path?
44:59
What are you going to do for a living? What is your job going to be?
45:04
Are you just going to go off into some other field?
45:08
Is college only good for showing an employer that we can stick to something for four years,
45:14
that we have the discipline to get up and go to school every day well does that
45:17
require that much discipline i mean for some people it does but also you know
45:22
for a good segment of the college students out there that's a good you get up
45:26
and you go hang out with friends you party it up you drink it up and then you
45:31
sit with your friends do a little study and go pass tests.
45:34
So even then, the degree doesn't necessarily say much about,
45:41
depending on the type of degree it is, obviously.
45:43
Like I said, I could barely do math. So I'm talking kind of loose here, talking kind of loose.
45:49
But is there a real direct career path for you by getting one of these soft liberal arts degrees?
45:57
Because we already know, and this has been the case for the past several
46:00
years is that there's folks out
46:02
there with these very expensive college degrees that not only are not working
46:08
in their field but don't have a job now you're out door dashing and stuff like
46:14
that trying to try to pay your bills the benefit cost benefit ratio there.
46:22
Perfectly happy. If my daughter wants to go finish school at a local college,
46:28
Georgia Highlands, I'm perfectly happy, especially if it's focused.
46:33
If her degree is focused on a thing, whatever that thing is,
46:36
and she has a clear, yeah, I want to go do this. This degree is going to help me with that.
46:40
And it's at Georgia Highlands College.
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Drive on. It doesn't have to be University of Georgia or frigging Harvard, right?
46:50
Because the value, the more, now there's different kinds of value.
46:55
If you're walking out of Harvard with a degree, you got the handshakes and the
46:59
secret societies and all that.
47:00
I'm talking about your average, normal people, regular middle-class folks.
47:06
I think the, the, the, the, the cost benefit ratio is very, very cattywampus
47:13
when it comes to higher education, Maybe the cattywampus doesn't jack.
47:18
Now, on the other end of that coin, vocational training, the cost-benefit ratio is very high.
47:28
You can go spend a fraction of the dollars on a vocation, on a technical skill.
47:35
Spend, I don't know, eight weeks, 16 weeks learning a technical skill.
47:40
Go get a ground-level job. and in three years, you're making a solid living, solid living.
47:47
So that's been a topic of conversation out there in recent years.
47:53
Then it just kind of faded away because there's so many other big things to be talking about.
47:59
And I don't know what the current numbers are as far as enrollment numbers in
48:04
these big institutions.
48:07
I'm not 100% sure if they're on. I think they're kind of on the decline,
48:12
but there are pros and cons.
48:17
I think the future of liberal arts is kind of shaky, and I think some of these
48:22
higher education institutions maybe need to come a little bit off of the politics,
48:28
and start focusing a little bit more on practical application of the things
48:33
that they're teaching and kind of get back in the game of making people truly
48:40
prepared for the workforce or entrepreneurship,
48:44
but truly preparing people for the workforce, not indoctrination of some political
48:50
ideology and whatever else.
48:53
So the future of liberal arts, I think that that, I know it seems loose, right?
49:00
But I think that that ties in with, with the Doge stuff, because if there's
49:07
no money to cover all these,
49:10
these subs subsidizing all these unpaid for college degrees,
49:16
what's going to happen?
49:19
Are they going to drop off or grants and scholarships going to drop off?
49:25
They're going to have to revalue them, right? They're going to have to evaluate
49:28
the degrees differently.
49:31
College tuition, I think, eventually is going to have to change because it seems
49:36
like it's reached kind of a peak.
49:40
Like, Jesus, can it get any higher? And who can afford it if it does?
49:45
So you know whatever about harvard and princeton like if you can't afford to
49:50
go to kennesaw state university i mean god dang what what are we saying about
49:56
our nation we only want the elite,
49:58
ruling class children to go to school and everybody else just what whatever
50:03
so think about those things i think that ties in with the the future of the
50:07
the government here with the cutting, cutting departments and whatnot. I'm not saying it's bad.
50:13
I'm saying higher education needs to be reevaluated and, and then,
50:18
and the government needs to be taking away,
50:22
taking away from that equation and the true value of a degree is what we need
50:28
to be paying for when we send our children to school.
50:31
All right. Final topic, folks. Final topic in this, this setting here.
50:37
You guys know I'm a firearms instructor and I train leadership and teamwork
50:42
development and those types of things.
50:44
A lot of people ask me, well, there's people who have moved to Georgia recently
50:49
who've come to train and expecting to get a certificate for concealed carry
50:54
so that they can go then apply for a concealed carry permit.
50:57
You don't need one in Georgia, folks. It's a constitutional carry state.
51:02
That means the Constitution covers your right, right?
51:08
It outlines and protects your right to carry a firearm.
51:13
I don't think we're in any fear of losing that, at least anytime soon,
51:20
especially if we can get rid of the ATF. Yeah.
51:24
All my homies hate the ATF. If we can get rid of ATF, sure, whatever.
51:29
Individual liberty. First of all, I'll look through the individual liberty lens
51:34
when I look at anything, no matter what the topic is.
51:40
Constitutional carry jives with individual liberty.
51:45
Constitutional carry is just a state or a federal acknowledgement that the Constitution
51:51
protects our natural right to keep and bear arms against a tyrannical government.
51:59
Now, two years ago, people were like, oh, no, you can't keep arms against the government.
52:04
There are scores of left-wing.
52:10
Leftist organizations popping up who are
52:12
who are defending the right to
52:16
carry to carry openly carry without
52:18
a permit just the second amendment because
52:22
now whether rationally or
52:25
irrationally now that donald trump is in office they believe that that that
52:31
now we have a tyrannical government and now the tyrants are going to come after
52:36
them and that somehow they have a right to defend themselves against tyrannical
52:40
government. Well, guess what? Yes, you do.
52:43
That's exactly what the Second Amendment says.
52:46
So welcome to the club. Welcome to the club.
52:51
Self-defense, yeah, that's a no-brainer, right? Everybody has a right to self-defense,
52:57
unless you're in New York or California.
53:00
Then they question it. But the Second Amendment specifically addresses your
53:07
right to protect yourself against a tyrannical government.
53:12
What's another pro of constitutional carry? I believe that an armed society is a polite society.
53:20
If you're walking the streets of America and potentially everyone walking those
53:27
streets could be armed, And I certainly believe a bad guy would be less apt
53:31
to get squirrely, would be less apt.
53:34
He would have to then have to go take further, deeper measures on how to figure
53:40
out who would be an easier target because it would be an unknown.
53:45
Right now, it's kind of a known.
53:47
You can assume that somewhere in the neighborhood of 90% of people walking the streets are not armed.
53:54
But I believe if more people carried, that would be a deterrence to crime if that were known.
54:01
Not that anybody specifically knows you're carrying a gun. I also believe in
54:05
concealed carry, not open carry.
54:07
Not that they need to know you're carrying a gun. They need to assume everybody's carrying a gun.
54:14
And we'll talk about that in a minute when it comes to law enforcement.
54:18
So I believe that that would create more polite society and ultimately a safer society.
54:24
And it gets rid of silly laws for politicians to play with. Gun ownership is meant to be accessible.
54:33
It's our right. It's our right protected, not stated, protected by the Constitution.
54:41
Now, what are the cons? Everybody, oh, common sense gun laws,
54:45
more guns equal more death, blah, blah.
54:48
Yes, there's a safety risk. Any adult who chooses to carry a firearm should get trained, period.
54:57
It's a responsible thing to do. Carrying a killing machine implies that you're responsible.
55:03
If you're irresponsible and you're a fire brand, crazy,
55:09
wild guy, and you like to go around shoulder checking people and you're a tough guy,
55:13
and you carry a gun and you think that's just going to add to your tough guy
55:18
persona, You're going to F around and get shot or you're going to F around and
55:22
shoot someone by mistake.
55:25
It's you have to be and you're held at a slightly higher standard when it comes
55:32
to law enforcement and the law.
55:35
So, yeah, it's a safety risk for just everyone and anyone to be carrying a gun,
55:39
unless they behave responsible.
55:44
If everyone in the streets were carrying a gun, or it could be assumed,
55:50
now we got a law enforcement issue.
55:52
Law enforcement, too, in my opinion, is wildly under-trained.
55:57
Now you've got, let's imagine you've got a 23-year-old cop walking the streets
56:02
and he's stressed out because he thinks everybody's got a gun.
56:06
And in some agencies, they literally teach them that everyone out there is the
56:14
enemy and that everyone is suspect.
56:17
Now, that's a very cynical way to look at citizens. But in the later issues
56:28
here, we'll talk about law enforcement and community and that kind of thing.
56:31
But yeah, one of the cons of everybody caring is that it's hard for cops to
56:37
now know who's legal and who ain't.
56:40
Well, they automatically assume everyone's illegal when they should be automatically
56:44
assuming everyone is legal until something else drives them the other way.
56:51
And then there's the public, right?
56:54
The general public, the extreme left-wing Karen type out there who sees a bulge on your hip and loses it.
57:06
I read something where a lady said, if I see someone carrying a gun,
57:11
no questions asked, I'm going to pepper spray them and try to subdue them until a cop gets there.
57:19
Well, that's a good way to get shot. That's assault.
57:26
People have irrational opinions when it comes to guns.
57:30
But I think right now in the current environment, firearms constitutional carry is catching on.
57:37
I want to say it's in 28 or 29 states right now and catching on.
57:41
I think with some of these government agencies going away, and I think we're
57:46
seeing sort of loosely organized protests going on from liberal people,
57:55
Trump haters specifically.
57:57
These loosely organized protests.
58:01
And then we're seeing that the politicians, the representatives,
58:08
they're ramping up the rhetoric to dehumanize the other side,
58:16
to dehumanize the Republican and the Trump thing.
58:21
So Trump's a Nazi. Elon Musk is a Nazi. They're trying to take over the world.
58:28
It's all a ruse, you know, whatever.
58:32
So I think everyone should be carrying a gun just for their own personal safety for sure.
58:38
I think you need to be responsible when you're carrying that gun.
58:41
I think you need to use critical thinking when addressing, not even addressing,
58:49
when thinking about other issues, issues that are hot, hot issues right now.
58:55
If we talk about cutting the Department of Education, don't just jump on your
59:01
political bandwagon and start spouting off talking points.
59:06
How married to you are you to the Department of Education?
59:12
How important? Look at the pros and cons. Look at the numbers.
59:18
Has it done great things for you and your community?
59:21
Or not? I don't know. Look at it critically and be honest with yourself.
59:27
If you're a full-blown patriot,
59:31
America, and you think that Donald Trump should deploy all of 7th Group and
59:39
5th Group and Delta and everybody down to the border and start doing cross-border operations,
59:46
you know, what's the limit of your expertise?
59:51
What do you think the potential fallout might be? I shared a little bit of my thoughts.
59:57
Are you ready for that? Do you think that would affect you in Atlanta, Georgia?
1:00:03
Do you think that there's probably some cartel who reside in northeast Atlanta
1:00:11
or in McDonough or in friggin' Douglasville?
1:00:17
If you want to see some gruesome shit
1:00:20
that that's that's where we go start we start doing these cross-border incursions
1:00:25
look it's not off the table there's ways to do things i'm just telling you think
1:00:31
about think about it how bad do you want that to happen do you have kids in
1:00:35
middle school and high school in florida.
1:00:40
Think about how bad you want that kind of thing to happen. Think about that. All right, folks.
1:00:47
What's coming up? What do we got? February. We got Liberty or Deathmatch coming
1:00:52
up. That's a two-gun. It's a one-day.
1:00:54
That's coming up in March. I
1:00:56
want to say 23rd or so. And then two big things we got going on in April.
1:01:00
April 5th, we have the OSS Challenge, OSS to Green Beret, two-gun,
1:01:07
tactical, two-man team match.
1:01:11
So you're going to be out there hustling with a homie.
1:01:15
It's going to be good. We're supporting Special Forces Foundation for that,
1:01:21
and it's going to be a great time.
1:01:22
It's going to be a bit of a smoker. You don't have to be a frigging professional-level
1:01:26
athlete to do it, but you're going to get smoked.
1:01:30
And then later on in April, We have what I'm calling the special mission skirmish.
1:01:36
Purely for fun, it's going to be a good time, force on force, same objective.
1:01:42
Two teams are tasked to hit the same objective. I mean, you're going to have a planning period.
1:01:48
I'm going to look at your plans and make sure that they're, you know, reasonable.
1:01:53
And then we're going to launch each team at the same time. And then you guys
1:01:58
are going to do your thing.
1:02:00
And then we're going to have some catered food for that and it's going to be a little high tempo.
1:02:07
It's going to be an opportunity for you to see that real tactics versus paintball
1:02:13
style tactics are completely different and you're getting there's there's completely
1:02:19
different things you must do you know because it's not just to go out and kill
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the other team by the way it's to go.
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Capture and, and exfil high value individual.
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So there's a very specific mission there. It's going to be a good time.
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I'm very excited about it.
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I know I'm dragging on about it, but I'm very excited about it.
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I think it's gonna be fun. It's the first time we're doing anything like this.
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And yeah, I think it's just going to be cool as hell. So check out the website for that.
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So I got three different websites. I got ospreyshootingsolutions.com.
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That's where all the shooting stuff is.
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We have twoteamguys.com. That's the number two.
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And that's where the special mission skirmish and all of the adventure-based
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teamwork and leadership stuff is, land navigation, search and rescue,
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mountaineer, and those types of things.
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And then we have thejuntopodcast.com, which is where you can find this podcast
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and you can find all our blogs.
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And yeah that's it just the podcast and the blogs it's just for me to get my
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thoughts out there to get people i'm always looking for a potential guest the
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last couple weeks ago we had kurt finnell who's my buddy he's a pro shooter
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i mean he's out here this year trying to hustle and then just win all the tactical games.
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I'm going to be on a podcast pretty soon. The Danny Burnham here in Rome,
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the Burnham project, I think it's called.
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So that's coming up pretty soon. So listen for that. That'll be up on the website as well.
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And I'm always, I'm always interested to hear from you guys on various topics
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that you'd like to hear discussed,
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various arguments you may pose against anything that I say. I'm happy to answer those things.
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And so please do email me at
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edgarmills at ospreyshootingsolutions.com to share those things and then finally
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if you like to write please do if you have a well-written essay that you would
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like me to put on the website I will do that it's got to be well written,
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and when we may edit it not edit it for content but edit it for you know grammar
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and things like that. It needs to be semi-well written.
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And obviously, you know, you can use bad words, but let's keep it professional.
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And beyond that, yeah, I'm always interested to see what my listeners or my
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followers, what they're thinking about and what their deep thoughts are.
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So follow the Junto podcast on all your, whatever your favorite,
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And I appreciate the numbers that we're slowly pushing up on our podcasts.
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And, again, I appreciate you guys. Thanks for listening.
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Music.