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DONKEY: Pete Hegseth Seeks To Reshape The Culture Of The Military After Making Cuts · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 3: Donkey of the day for Thursday, October 1st. The first
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  Speaker 3: of the month goes to the Secretary of Defense, a.k.a.
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  Speaker 3: the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth. If you haven't heard,
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  Speaker 3: Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon is cutting the number
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  Speaker 3: of generals and admirals by 20%. Let's go to CBS
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  Speaker 3: News for the report, please.
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  Speaker 1: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth talked today about the state of
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. fighting force on the same stage where a
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  Speaker 1: year ago he called for things like no more beardos
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  Speaker 1: or fat generals. Today's speech was similar in tone, but
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  Speaker 1: came with another major cut to the ranks of U.S.
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  Speaker 1: admirals and generals as well. Here's senior national security correspondent
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  Speaker 1: Charlie D'Agata.
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  Speaker 2: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth began the day with what he
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  Speaker 2: called PT at the Pentagon. on the warpath before gutting
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  Speaker 2: one in five of America's most experienced generals and admirals
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  Speaker 2: across the services.
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  Speaker 3: The media calls that a purge. I call it accountability
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  Speaker 3: and long overdue.
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  Speaker 2: Hegseth has previously pushed out nearly 20 senior officers plus
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  Speaker 2: the secretaries of the Army and Navy and blocked several
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  Speaker 2: women and minorities from being promoted. Former Air Force Secretary
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  Speaker 2: Frank Kendall served under President Biden. He said it will
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  Speaker 2: take a generation to recover from Hegseth's moves.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have an excess of generals sitting around with
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do, and we don't have overly inflated positions.
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  Speaker 1: So what he's doing is a political stunt, frankly, that
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  Speaker 1: is going to have very negative impact.
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  Speaker 2: Hegseth boasted about ridding the Pentagon of what he called
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  Speaker 2: woke culture.
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  Speaker 1: No more diversity quotas, no more gender pronouns, no more
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  Speaker 1: identity months.
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  Speaker 3: Only the warrior ethos. Now, every time I hear about
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  Speaker 3: Pete Hexeth making these cuts to the military, the YouTube
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  Speaker 3: conspiracy theorist in me says, my God, they're purging the
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  Speaker 3: military because Trump only wants Trump loyalists in the military
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  Speaker 3: because he plans on using the military to steal the
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  Speaker 3: midterms and to stay in power in 2028. But then.
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  Speaker 3: the common sense fact-based individual in me says, hey, hey, stop. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: the available evidence doesn't support that theory, so let's think
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  Speaker 3: more logically. Well, what's logical, Thick Muffin? Well, what's logical
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  Speaker 3: to me is the Trump administration is removing senior military
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  Speaker 3: leadership while also openly talking about getting rid of people
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  Speaker 3: associated with wokeness, which is an ideology it opposes. Now, that,
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  Speaker 3: ladies and gentlemen, creates a dangerous message inside the military,
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  Speaker 3: and that message is simply, Loyalty to the Constitution may
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  Speaker 3: not be enough anymore. OK, so officers might start believing
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  Speaker 3: that loyalty to the president is how you survive. And
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  Speaker 3: once people in uniform start making career decisions based on
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  Speaker 3: what they think one man wants to hear. Oh, you're
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  Speaker 3: not just changing military leadership. You're changing what loyalty means
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  Speaker 3: inside the military, period. And then that's when the YouTube
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  Speaker 3: conspiracy theorist in me comes back and says, yes, that
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  Speaker 3: loyalty to the president and not the Constitution is what
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  Speaker 3: will cause them to steal the midterms and help Trump
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  Speaker 3: stay in power in 2028. Look, look, look, stop. Stop,
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  Speaker 3: YouTube conspiracy theorist inside of me. OK, maybe the military
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  Speaker 3: is top heavy. Maybe you don't need that many generals, okay?
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  Speaker 3: Governments restructure all the time, but we know this administration,
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  Speaker 3: so we know. Whatever story we are being told isn't
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  Speaker 3: the whole story because Pete Hexuff... isn't simply talking about
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  Speaker 3: restructuring the military. He's talking about reshaping the culture of
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  Speaker 3: the military. Okay. He wants to get rid of what
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  Speaker 3: he calls woke culture in the military. You just heard
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  Speaker 3: the news report. Okay. He's been openly hostile toward DEI programs.
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  Speaker 3: He announced new partnerships with colleges. He considers more aligned
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  Speaker 3: with the values he wants the military to represent. Listen,
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  Speaker 3: I can't tell you. I know exactly what Pete Hegseth and,
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump's intentions are, but I can tell you what
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  Speaker 3: my eyes see. Okay. And what my eyes see is
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  Speaker 3: the administration is systematically changing senior military leadership while openly
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  Speaker 3: talking about eliminating an ideology it opposes. And it goes
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  Speaker 3: back to what I said earlier. It creates a dangerous
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  Speaker 3: message inside the military, a dangerous mentality inside the military
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  Speaker 3: that And that mentality is loyalty to the Constitution may
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  Speaker 3: not be enough. OK, officers could start believing loyalty to
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  Speaker 3: the president is how you survive. It knows, my friends,
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  Speaker 3: the two completely different things. OK, President Trump, whether you
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  Speaker 3: like it or not, is the commander in chief and
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  Speaker 3: the military follows the lawful. orders of the commander in
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  Speaker 3: chief okay but our brave and bold military officers they
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  Speaker 3: don't take an oath to donald trump just like they
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  Speaker 3: didn't take one to joe biden or barack obama george
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  Speaker 3: bush none of them they swear an oath to support
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  Speaker 3: and defend the constitution of the united states of anxiety
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  Speaker 3: I mean America. Presidents come and go. The Constitution is
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  Speaker 3: supposed to remain the same and this is why I
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  Speaker 3: don't even need to accuse anybody of planning some grand conspiracy.
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  Speaker 3: I don't need to say they're getting the military ready
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  Speaker 3: to keep Trump in power. I can't prove that. But
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  Speaker 3: what I can say is that America should be extremely
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  Speaker 3: uncomfortable Anytime political ideology starts becoming part of the conversation
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  Speaker 3: about who belongs in military leadership, because that's how institutions
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  Speaker 3: get politicized. It don't start with someone walking into the
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  Speaker 3: Pentagon talking about a from now on, everybody has to
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  Speaker 3: pledge allegiance to Donald Trump. It's way more subtle than that. OK,
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  Speaker 3: one general gets fired. Another officer gets pushed out. Another
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  Speaker 3: officer realizes speaking up might cost them a promotion. Somebody
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  Speaker 3: else decides it's probably smarter to keep their mouth shut.
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  Speaker 3: And eventually people start learning what behavior gets rewarded and
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  Speaker 3: what behavior gets punished. And that's how hoes become loyal,
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  Speaker 3: regardless of what Chris Brown has told you. OK, when
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  Speaker 3: you create an environment where people figure out for themselves
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  Speaker 3: that loyalty is good for their career, man, watch out. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: once people in uniform start making career decisions based on
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  Speaker 3: what they think one man wants to hear, you're not
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  Speaker 3: changing military leadership. You're changing what loyalty means inside the military.
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  Speaker 3: And trust your uncle, Sharla, you do not want armed
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  Speaker 3: institutions built around loyalty to individuals. OK, I don't want
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  Speaker 3: the United States military personally personally loyal to any president. OK,
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  Speaker 3: I want them loyal to the Constitution. And I know
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  Speaker 3: all of us got short memories. It's a lot going on.
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  Speaker 3: So we might have forgot. Last year, Pete Hextech gathered
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  Speaker 3: all the senior commanders around and he told officers who
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  Speaker 3: didn't support his agenda, they should resign. Let's listen.
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  Speaker 2: But if the words I'm speaking today are making your
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  Speaker 2: heart sink, then you should do the honorable thing and resign.
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  Speaker 3: We would thank you for your service. You don't agree
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  Speaker 3: with where we're taking this institution. Maybe you shouldn't be here.
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  Speaker 3: Fast forward a year later, we're cutting 20% of generals
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  Speaker 3: and admirals. While continuing to talk about cleansing the military
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  Speaker 3: of ideas the administration doesn't like. What happens when a
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  Speaker 3: general tells the president something he doesn't want to hear?
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  Speaker 3: What happens when a military officer believes an order crosses
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  Speaker 3: a legal or constitutional line? Does that officer feel empowered
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  Speaker 3: to say so? Or does that officer look around at
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  Speaker 3: everybody who got removed and think to himself, damn. I
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  Speaker 3: got a mortgage. OK, that's how institutional independence disappears. America,
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  Speaker 3: one personnel decision at a time. OK, look, the YouTube
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  Speaker 3: conspiracy theorist in me is saying, tell them, tell them
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  Speaker 3: that HECSF is building Trump's personal military. I can't prove that.
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  Speaker 3: I can't. But I can say. When you're restructuring America's
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  Speaker 3: military leadership while also declaring war on an ideology inside
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  Speaker 3: that military, you create a legitimate question that needs to
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  Speaker 3: be asked about what kind of loyalty you're rewarding. And
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  Speaker 3: I just want to tell you, America does not need.
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  Speaker 3: a trump military okay america needs the united states military
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  Speaker 3: a military where the president gives lawful keyword lawful orders
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  Speaker 3: okay all right the military follows lawful keyword again lawful
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  Speaker 3: orders and everybody involved understands there is something above all
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  Speaker 3: of them and that something is the constitution okay presidents
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  Speaker 3: serve terms the constitution does not Please give the Secretary
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  Speaker 3: of Defense, a.k.a. the Secretary of War, Pete Hexseff, the
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  Speaker 3: biggest hee-haw. All right. What a crazy world we're in
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  Speaker 3: right now. So crazy. And that audio that he said
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  Speaker 3: is just unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Well, thank you for that donkey today, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And hoes are loyal. I just want y'all to know that. Now,
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  Speaker 3: when we come back. It depends on who you are.
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  Speaker 3: As long as they're getting something out of it. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: all right. See what I'm saying? If their loyalty depends
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  Speaker 3: on what you can do for them, they'll pretty much
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  Speaker 3: be loyal. That's how you define a hoe. See what
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, military personnel out there, don't be hoes. There you go.
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