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Pete Garcia: Airlines, DEI, U.S. Military Comeback & Recruiting Surge · Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo

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  Welcome to World View Matters, discussing controversial issues, discerning current events, defending biblical Christianity.
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  No topic, off limits.
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  And now, here's your host, David Firazzo.
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  Hey friends, you have an idea what part of our conversation is going to go like today based on that video with our guest, Pete Garcia.
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  He's back with us for those of you that are not familiar with his ministry.
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  His website is rev310.net.
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  That's rev310.net.
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  He's a retired military combat veteran and aviator.
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  He's a writer, researcher, speaker, and teacher of Bible prophecies and apologetics.
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  He teaches that too.
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  He's got a BA in international relations and a graduate.
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  He is of the US Army's Command and General Staff College.
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  Pete, thank you so much for being on World View Matters again.
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  Brother, good to see you.
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  Let me back on here with you, David.
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  So let's get your comments read off the top.
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  The sole program is not about DEI today, but I didn't realize how much of a push there has been for women and minorities in, I'm going to cross the board, but we're talking aviation.
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  We're talking about the airlines.
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  Share your thoughts in whatever you'd like to with our audience, please.
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  Yeah, so most of my audience knows that I was retired military, a Medevac pilot.
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  I did 22 years in the Army and as I was getting out of the army, I was getting ready to retire in January of 2020.
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  I had considered going to the airlines for a commercial pilot position.
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  And so about 2019, I began really looking into it.
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  And by fall of 2019, I was able to do a training program in the last couple of months in my retirement to go fly, fix wing, get my fixed wing ratings.
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  So I got my pilot license and then I got my instrument rating and I was working on my commercial multi-engine by the end of January going into February of 2020.
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  And I had interviewed with a number of different airlines and mostly the regional airlines.
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  But like for instance, Endeavour is a regional airline to Delta, but there's a whole number of regional airlines smaller.
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  And this is where all the newer, lower time guys go into generally speaking into the regional airlines.
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  Now there are some people that stay in the regional airlines as senior pilots because they do that for lifestyle.
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  They like living where they live. They don't want to have to approve their family.
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  They like the commute or they like the airport, whatever it is. There's a number of them that do stay on.
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  But one of the things that I noticed early on back then was that there was a huge push to promote diversity.
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  This was 2019, 2020.
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  And I just remember being at one of these regional airlines they had brought in all the people that were going through the interview process.
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  They brought us all there at Utah and they were talking about how great diversity was.
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  And I was like the only guy I just I raised my hand and I said, look, we should not look at diversity as a strength like diversity in and of itself as a strength.
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  What we should consider a strength is we are unified by something. We're unified by a faith. We're unified by an ideology. We're unified by a vision or a mission.
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  And that draws in people from all backgrounds. And that's where that diversity actually happens. But we're unified on that.
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  And I said that and there was a bunch of younger, you know, these are kids coming out of high school getting ready to graduate going to these some of these pilot programs through different flight universities and whatnot.
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  And everybody looked at me like that was just like saying something so crazy. But it's, but it's true.
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  And I think we've seen here in January, just here in January and February of 2025, four major crashes. And I would not say that all of them are attributable to DEI policies.
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  But I certainly think that there's probably some mix of it in there somewhere that that probably needed to be fared it out.
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  And I think much of the FAA is pretty antiquated when you compare it to other sectors of society. So I do think that overall these crashes, although there are tens of thousands of flights every single day.
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  And the fact that we have one crash or two crashes or in this case, you know, four pretty big crashes in the last two months is still a low percentage, but they're so spectacular when they happen in terms of the media footage and the coverage that you can't help but be shocked by it.
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  The January 29 DC helicopter crash was incredibly shocking. And so I just, I remember a couple of days ago, I know a lot of people have put their thoughts out online, whether on YouTube, Facebook or Instagram or other places, you know, an ex.
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  I just did my own summary based off of my understanding of aviation and everything that had gone on with that from is about a neutral sites as I could look at.
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  And I, and I, if I can, I'm just going to read to you my summary here. I will go through any of the specifics, but I did post this all on my Facebook page. The summary begins with this. It says around 8.30 p.m. on January 29.
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  A cascading series of errors began to occur that culminated in a catastrophic disaster. You had an inexperienced UH 60 Lima. And that's important crew conducted a rushed night check ride in a Clint a dense classy and restricted airspace.
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  With altimeter discrepancies between both the left and the right seat pilots in the Black Hawk, there was miscommunication with air traffic control that led them into the path of a oncoming CRJ flight, which had been
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  initially slotted to land on on runway one, but then they did a the ATC asked if you want to do a circle to land a three three whatever reasons the pilot said yes will take three three and that's the runway there and read.
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  So they were initially going into the closest runway that's almost vertical straight up and down and then they they gave them some alternate instructions.
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  So they took those alternate instructions and that unfortunately led them into the path of this oncoming UH 60 Lima helicopter now the it does not seem that the helicopter crew had any knowledge that they were about to hit this giant plane coming at them.
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  But it but from the CRJs perspective from the commercial airliners perspective, they did see them at the last second, they begin to do a base of maneuver in terms of pulling back to go nose up and then pitch left so that they're turning left like this, but they was too late.
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  They ended up colliding with the rotor system of the Black Hawk and that's what caused that catastrophic disaster that cost the lives of 67 people in that night and I you know when you look at it when you break it all down step by step, it's not any necessarily any one thing, but when you start putting all those errors on top of errors on top of errors.
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  At a certain point you get to this point of no return where you it's almost unavoidable and and without a miracle happening it was going to happen.
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  Well, in that particular case, there were the pilots didn't have as many flight hours and experience from what you described and at the same time, the the air traffic controllers were on they had a shortage of personnel am I correct in saying that.
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  Yeah, so that for the UH 60 crew, I think the instructor pilot who's conducting this check right so all all a military aviators have to do a annual.
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  Check ride procedures in order to maintain their flight pay and their flight proficiency status and so for me might you max out I think at flight pay back when I was in it was like $840 a month so it's not it's not jump change it's definitely worth keeping your your you know your minimum.
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  Requirements met medical you might have to do some type of exam both written or oral exam if you're in a flight unit or you have access to aircraft that you can get onto their assigned onto their books where you can find their their flying program flying our program.
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  Then you are required to do a day night a day flight night flight a night aided which is with your night vision goggles and they take you through a number of procedures.
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  And then as well as doing some approaches which it seems like.
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  I don't know if they were doing I think tonight was like their unaided night so they were flying via far just looking at the the window.
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  I don't know if they had something I don't know the rest of their flights their flight route or anything I don't know if they had come off an instrument flight or whatever but.
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  What we noticed is that on a UH 60 Lima helicopter it's all analog so you're thinking about like those steam gauges of of you know airspeed altimeter.
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  So yeah all sort there's if you know if you can pull up a cockpit of a UH 60 Lima I mean it's just like hundreds of little gauges you're looking at and stuff so that's that's one of the big things that I think that.
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  Did not help their pilots in experience so you're your instructor pilot had about.
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  Anywhere from a thousand to fifteen hundred hours which I had a thousand hours when I retired as a commissioned officer which is not that high I would at a thousand hours I would have been incredibly incredibly uncomfortable flying through this kind of space.
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  In black Hawk and then secondly the pilot who was getting her.
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  Check right done and she had about four hundred to five four hundred fifty hours to five hundred hours which is is literally.
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  That's kind of the worst place to be in because you're just you know just enough to go out there and get yourself killed I mean so it's like wow it's it's a really.
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  So and not only that but they had one crew chief so they had one crew chief that sits in the back behind them that's supposed to act as their eyes.
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  On up down as far up as they can see far down far from forward and far after they could look and and usually you would have one on each side of the aircraft and I think if they had had another.
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  Crew chief on board on the other side I think that this could have been avoided them because a crew chief could have said hey you've got an aircraft coming at your 12 o'clock what are you guys doing.
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  And then that would immediately they could have seen that a ways off.
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  But apparently I think the crew chief and I don't know where he was sitting at but apparently he was not able to see the the on coming aircraft so.
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  Briefly briefly where the pilot is sitting we have this idea of helicopters being like the glass the visibility being pretty good pretty far back how could the pilot not see if I'm correct over to her left.
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  This plane coming through the window there my misunderstanding the the black cock helicopters that design differently where there's not as much glass and you know plexiglass or window to look out of.
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  They have plenty of visibility generally you're you're most if you think about like you're sitting on the right side this your blind spot would be kind of.
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  At your 45 degrees because that's where that the console kind of comes to a sharp edge and then drops down but it sticks out a little bit but it ends up being kind of a little bit of a blind spot.
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  And I had plenty of room I think the problem that and I didn't know this and that this wasn't until it was released much later was that they were flying with their night vision goggles on so you have your helmet on.
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  And then you bring you flip these goggles down on your eyes and that really limits your field of view to about 40 degrees.
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  And then if you fly in a city like Washington DC or any city at night where there's a lot of lights night vision goggles work by amplifying ambient lights so when you have a lot of city lights and artificial lights out there it washes out a lot of your 40% that you are looking through so.
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  It absolutely gives you tunnel vision and so they were flying apparently we call it aided with with goggles tunnel vision there are their altimeter is a hundred feet off from the left seat to the right seat meaning that their instruments were off which is something they should have caught on pre flight.
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  Or you know at least updated throughout the course of the flight there it didn't look like they did that so they're a hundred feet off and in reality they're almost at 300 feet so they're almost a hundred feet above the ceiling that they're supposed to be at they're not supposed to be any higher than 200 feet.
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  AGL there or excuse me MSL with mean sea level and they were apparently a hundred feet above that and that put them right on the path with this with this plane which is absolutely tragic and I don't say any of this kind of cold heartedly I'm just kind of laying out the facts is that they have been released to us so.
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  Yeah so we're going to take a brief pause with Pete Garcia when we come back we'll talk a little bit briefly about the Toronto crash I everybody survived with the plane flipped upside down just fascinating what happened there and also we're going to talk about military recruiting under Trump and Pete Hegseth when we come back on world view matters.
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  That's God and and you so thank you for that Pete Garcia's our guest almost said when I was teasing this next segment of Pete with military could almost said military recruiting under Trump and Pete Garcia I mean Pete Hegseth but anyway before we get to that and there's some encouraging numbers if you want if you believe in the defense of America and a strong military and to uproot the wokeness you're going to be encouraged friends but before we do that the crash in Toronto Pete.
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  What can you tell us about that were evidently that something happened on the landing and then it just flipped just just another astounding thing and that was the video we played at the very beginning of the podcast with all the female pilots and employees and they were putting a really concentrated push toward these DEI initiatives I don't know if that's a factor I would love to hear your thoughts when you comes to Toronto.
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  So that's endeavor which is the subsidiary of Delta Airlines Delta is the major airline and endeavors the minor they were the regional airlines so yeah they were they're trying to go unmanned which means no men on the flight so it would be all female crew I don't know if this flight was like that for Toronto they have not released the names I've seen some names and I've seen some things on X which leads me to believe that one at least one of the pilots was a female.
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  But quite possibly both could now that's not to say that women can be pilots that's not what I'm saying I'm just saying that's from what we can tell right now it seems at least one of the pilots was female the other one we don't know but what other season the aviation experts have noted on their on their various videos and it's it's generally kind of been the accepted answer right now is that they're the rate of descent was too fast that they couldn't recover so that when that plane came down
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  it hit the runway so hard that it smashed in the landing gear which I don't know for a CRJ 900 I don't know what the the the G rate is like how hard they can land on it without breaking the struts.
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  But they apparently it was hard enough to smash it down because you see it hit the runway and then through wind gust or whatever the aircraft turns a little bit and one of the wings catches breaks off and then it flips over and then ends up on its on its ceiling and I just was amazing out of that is that there was no fatalities they were they were able to get everybody off of off the flight there was some injuries but.
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  You talk about just a I mean that is a almost unheard of survival of a crash like that as catastrophic as that was you know just less than twenty twenty four they had the the Korean Airlines J.J. crashed over there in South Korea killing all hundred seventy nine people I mean generally when you have these big planes coming down and crashing it's usually doesn't turn out well.
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  Yeah I mean it's quite amazing with a few in critical condition when we we recorded this podcast last week and so we don't know if any news came out on any the the couple including a baby from what I understand in critical condition but.
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  So Pete let's move on unless you have anything else to share about the recent plane crashes I think just because of the media as you said we're hearing about them more but the the fraction of the massive numbers of flights every single day let's talk about military recruiting and very important and we're already running out of time Pete headsets doing a great job I'm so thankful for him and Trump appointed him and it went through just looking over at the Navy put out a poll.
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  So I think that's the most where their numbers have increased and it's really encouraging during the first four months fiscal year twenty twenty five but you have some numbers there on what they were so break those down slowly for us so we can understand the recruiting process.
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  So quickly just to put it in context you got to remember in July and August of twenty twenty one we had that disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal and that cost alive a thirteen service members and who knows how many Afghans that were trying to flee the country that had a huge impact on the psyche of most of us who have served over there or you know we to the point we were not even telling our own kids hey don't join like you don't want to join the army right now.
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  But in but at least by twenty twenty three the army fell short by fifteen thousand recruits the Navy had missed its mark by seven thousand in twenty twenty four the army set a goal for fifty five thousand soldiers or recruits and only exceeded it by just a few hundred but then by the time you take out the people that don't make it through basic training et cetera et cetera you end up with just barely breaking even and that's including the delayed entry program so if you're a
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  high school junior going into a senior you can start drilling with a national guard reserve unit and that's called a delayed entry but basically you're kind of just quasi attached to a unit as a civilian high school or into your old you're eighteen and then you can go to basic training and et and then you show up so.
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  So we were barely scratching barely making it at that point and then we get to two January of twenty twenty five just in January of twenty twenty five by January twenty twenty five so from November to January you had a thirty thousand new soldiers so already meeting half of the annual number which they set for sixty one thousand I guarantee you they'll get to sixty one thousand yeah probably by May or earlier so they'll have an excess this year.
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  And I'm assuming that's going to cascade across the branches but I think the reason is is because they finally see strong leadership coming back into the executive branch.
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  Hexeth is a great example of what the secretary of defense should be not some crusty retired general who hasn't seen the the front lines in twenty years and now has been on various boards of military industrial contract you know companies and organizations et cetera that all seems very shady and stuff but
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  his hit me just repeat Hexeth simple vision and I'm just going to read the first that the three sentence from from he says he wants to revive the warrior ethos restore or revive the warrior ethos and restore trust in our military.
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  The next one is he wants to rebuild our military by matching threats to capabilities and the third one is we will establish deterrence by defending our homeland.
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  And then he puts it all together in this final sentence he says all of this will be done with a focus on lethality meritocracy accountability standards and readiness.
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  Man that's what people have been screaming in the military for the last twenty something years thirty years maybe longer to stop focusing on on DEI stuff and start focusing.
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  Is this person competent should this person be this rank and I do plenty of people that outrank me there were absolute idiots I wouldn't trust them to you know watch my pet goldfish or anything like I they're just I don't know how they made it I know how they made it to that rank in that position it's because.
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  This right time I place any of the right people but had no business being in a leadership position where they're entrusted with the lives of america sons and daughters so.
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  I like Pete has a headsets vision for the for the DOD I think he's going to work hand in glove with with doge to help.
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  The fair it out corruption and all these insane contracts that are hundreds of billions of dollars that have absolutely nothing to do with our national interest our national security I think he needs to I think their focus even though they said in recent days in Europe that their focus is going to be shifting away from Russian Europe to a Indo Pacific.
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  The focus on China as the main threat they are also equally applying that seriousness to the borders both the northern southern borders as well as interstate in regard you know just here today or I think today yesterday calling our.
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  We're officially recognizing these 13 gang members or the 13 gangs and cartels as terrorist organizations and that does free up the United States military the DOD and all the intelligence agencies to conduct far more defensive and offensive actions against these organizations to cripple them or to destroy them all together so.
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  I think there's a serious nice now that we have not seen yeah in a long time and I think i think the world is also recognizing that that in terms of the big stick america is back so.
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  We'll see we'll see all that turns out but i think i'll meet all their numbers this year and then it'll kind of just keep going and when you mention doge i mean why hasn't anyone been able to do this before they didn't have the will.
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  But the doge effect the trump effect i just want to read something now this is i think it's applicable in a way in in concept here from the gospel of john chapter six i'm sorry chapter three this is verse nineteen and think about doge in the corruption in the fraud and.
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  It says this is the judgment that the light has come into the world and men love the darkness rather than the light for their deeds were evil verse twenty says for everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
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  But he who practices the truth come to the light so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in god the key thing there when you we're supposed to shine a light for christ as ambassadors sometimes the darkness gets exposed and the deeds get exposed and the people who are doing or were in this case when the comes to government whoever was doing those deeds they hate it you hear the media and you hear the left just just complaining about all this they're not celebrating the savings to the tax pair.
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  People see they're not celebrating the fact that corruption fraud is starting to be exposed and rooted out your final thoughts in the last minute and a half.
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  I think I think it is it's like turning on the lights and watching all the cockroaches scramble for the dark shadowy corners and so now i can't remember i think it was this congressman or senator birchell from Tennessee was saying that you're going to start seeing a lot of these politicians start to.
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  Just like the DC housing market is is exploded with all a bunch of new houses up for sale i think there's going to be a lot of open seats come the midterm so i don't think it's i think it's going to stay a red wave of things keep going the way they're going as far as the trump effect across the world.
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  Look at how many other nations other regions of the world are crying out for their own kind of version of Donald trump so i think we're going to start to see the rise of these new a new style of politician that comes out that's very bold very aggressive.
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  And and and has a message like Donald trump and Donald trump's team JD vance that amazing speech on free speech and in in front of the EU that was going to be steady for a long time but yep i think that trump effect is having this global appeal and that it's it's changed the dynamics and politics.
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  As they merge in artificial intelligence and all these other systems to bring in efficiency and levels the world's never seen before so thanks for having me on day but i definitely appreciate your time well i love just oh p you just are wealth of knowledge and expertise when we talk about these particular issues so such a blessing that i can call on you and go p we got to talk about this come on and so friends go to rev 3 10 dot net we will be in touch and guys just thank you for sharing the podcast god bless you.
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  And as always keep speaking the truth about things that matter.