The Almighty Military Industrial Complex

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All hail the mighty, the almighty military industrial complex. I wonder if there’s a chapel.

a chapel somewhere in Washington DC where they go and they pray down to the weapons and military industrial complex. Oh my God, that was, was that beneath the Planet of the Apes? Wasn’t that the one where they were, they had all these deformities? I remember I was a kid, I haven’t seen that in ages where they were worshipping the nuke underground.

I gotta go back and check that. But anyway, neither here nor there. Yes, the Senate passes $95.3 billion Ukraine Israel aid package. Taiwan as well. It’s funny that money go to Taiwan. Does anybody, does anybody in their right fricking mind? Okay, you may listen to these, I’m sorry.

these a-hole politicians on TV. All right, we’re gonna defend Taiwan. Have you ever looked, you looked at a map, looked at a map to see Taiwan and then you take a look at China. If China wanted to take Taiwan by force, they would have been doing it this week after watching Biden last week. They would have done it, right? I mean, it would have been done.

They don’t want to take Taiwan by force. They want to slowly but surely assimilate. They view taking Taiwan, I’m sorry, to all you China hawks out there, they view taking Taiwan by force as not a good idea. Not a good idea, it’s gonna cause too many problems. And they’re right. They’re right. Yeah, let’s view a billion of Taiwan. That’s gonna stop China?

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Anyway, anyway, so you get the 90, $95 billion. Right now we got House Speaker Mike Johnson said that it’s going to need changes. Going to need changes and any chance of becoming a law. And again, you can go through and you can take a look at these ridiculous Republicans. I mean, bipartisan because they love bipartisan 70 to 29. Ah, yes, it’s a critical moment for Ukraine.

which has been running short of supplies and manpower after a failed counteroffensive. Now, what is our money gonna do to increase manpower? Did you know, they’re not telling you this on TV, do you know that the average Ukrainian soldier right now is 43 years old?

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43. That’s the average age of Ukrainian soldier at this point in time. Do you think our billions of dollars? I think our billions of dollars is going to change that.

Anyway, here’s Chuck Schumer. It’s been a long night, a long weekend, and a long few months, but a new day is here. With this bill, the Senate declares that American leadership will not waver, will not falter, will not fail. I wanna throw up on my mouth.

American leadership To do you freaking kidding me, man? I Mean, it’s embarrassing you’re insulting our intelligence. You think that this in these billions of dollars you’re sending over there all of a sudden No, yeah, the world’s gonna view us differently at this point in time. Have you been Watching what’s taking place around the globe? We can’t handle who the rebels for crying out loud

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Anyway, anyway, we’re going to talk a little bit about this. We talked a little bit about foreign policy or lack thereof here in this country. Here is Senator Ron Johnson, Senator Ron Johnson talking about this. And he said he was actually doing an interview on X, Elon Musk. We all have to understand that Vladimir Putin will not lose this war. Losing to Vladimir Putin is existential to Vladimir Putin. Russia has.

four times the population and a much larger industrial base. Russia can produce 4.5 million artillery shells per year. We’re not even up to one million per year. And again, he talked about the age of Ukrainian soldiers, 43 years old. If you’re worried about the people of Ukraine, you have to understand that probably 100,000 of their soldiers have been killed. The only way this war ends is in a settlement.

And every day that the war goes on, more Ukrainians and more Russian conscripts die. More civilians die. More of Ukraine gets destroyed. Adding $60 billion is what? It’s like pouring gasoline on a fire. A stalemate fire that makes no sense. JD Vance pointed this out and it’s just pretty astute. He’s a

He’s a bright guy. Basically, what this deal does, they call it, it’s actually an impeachment time bomb. And it’s hidden in the text of the Senate Ukraine funding bill. If Trump wins. President Trump said that in regard to the war in Ukraine, we got to get that war settled and I’ll get it settled. He has stated that he would resolve the war in 24 hours.

The bill includes $1.6 billion for foreign military financing in Ukraine and $13.7 billion for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, whatever the hell that is. These funds expire on September 30th, 2025. That is what? It’s about a year into Trump’s term. It would be a second term.

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These are the exact same amounts that President Trump was impeached for pausing back in December of 2019. If Trump were to withdraw from or pause financial support for the war in Ukraine in order to bring the conflict to a peaceful conclusion, over of course the objections from the experts, top men, it would amount to the same fake violation of budget law from the first impeachment under different

circumstances and he says the Democrats would seize the opportunity to impeach him again. Rand Paul, again, he took to the Senate for about an hour yesterday blasting this. And again, I mentioned this before new listeners, full disclosure, was for Ron Paul when he ran and back in 2016 that Rand Paul was

my first choice. But again, you know, the media as well, they, they’re gonna, they love the wars and the military industrial complex too. And whenever anybody talks, everybody talks about, you know, changing the direction as far as foreign policy is concerned here in the United States, you know, you’re basically, oh, you’re a traitor, you’re a weak in America. Yeah, whatever. I’m

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This is, I mean, it’s going back to the 20 prior to this from 2011 from the Cato Institute talking about Ron Paul and what he wanted. He was doing well for a while. And again, media shut him up, put him out there as some sort of, you know, whack job that wanted to weaken America. And again, he talked about George Bush, 9-11, choosing.

I guess you want to call it, yeah, call it arrogance over humility as foreign policy. And basically that’s the been the direction of the Republican Party for some time. Yeah, I was thinking about it today. If you were you’re again, you’re in college at this point, I mean, talk about a generation. Talk about generation. My eldest son was born in, you know, 2000. You know, 2000, not 2002. So

You’re looking at this and I’m saying to myself, my son, if you really, if you wasn’t, if you’re a younger generation, weren’t paying attention to how the country is supposed to be run, you would automatically assume that the president operates our military as if he or she would be a king or queen. When it’s not supposed to work that way, but that’s what’s been done since 9-11. The president just sends troops.

here, there, wherever they want, invades anybody, hits anybody they want. Yeah, take out a leader here. Let’s do this. Let’s do that. They don’t consult with Congress anymore. And again, that’s not how our country is supposed to work. And Ron Paul, he would always challenge this ridiculous role that we seem to take it upon ourselves as trying to be some sort of empire, de facto empire. And Ron Paul always talked about how conservatives

enjoyed spending money just on different things. It’s like they like embassies and they like occupation. They like empire. They’d like to be in 135 countries and 700 bases. And again, I remember back at that election and it came down to the last three, it was Ron Paul. In the end, Ron Paul, it was Barack and Romney at the time. I remember Rick Santorum.

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All right, you’re gonna let Ron Paul, he’s gonna shut down our bases in Germany, he’s gonna shut down our bases in Japan. He’s gonna pull our fleets back.

And everybody ever think about why that would necessarily be a bad thing? Again, Trump getting flack, constantly putting pressure on the Europeans. You do realize that the European Union as a whole has a larger GDP than the United States. You do realize that they have a greater population than the United States. It’s been what now? What?

70, 75 years in around that. Then about time that maybe Europe start doing a little bit more to defend itself. What’s Japan now? Japan, the world’s third largest economy now. This is us, China and Japan. I think that they’ve got the wherewithal to, you know, take care of themselves, right?

Do we really need? I’ve asked this question before. I mean, the Korean War. Ron Paul joking about that. He said we’ve had troops there since I was in high school. What about 25, 30,000 troops on that border? How many times South Korea have what 45, 50 times the GDP of North Korea? They’re twice more than twice the population.

don’t think that, you know, they could figure that out. You know, take a look at all of our nation building exercises. I got it. We’re going to we’re going to go in and we’re going to. All right, we’ve got to get rid of al Qaeda in Afghanistan, but then we’re going to get we’re going to get rid of the Taliban. And then all of a sudden, we’re going to go to an area of the world that has never had any really sort of centrally run.

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government at all ever in its entire history which happens to be a hell of a lot longer than ours and all of a sudden They’re gonna do what we tell them to do Anybody actually think that through? And again, it might be a novel concept but kind of any precedent For that Anyway, you know we’re gonna I mean we’re gonna have to kill a lot of people We’re gonna do what the Roman Empire did in certain places by any stretch. So

I mean, how do you think you’re gonna make that possible? Iraq, you know, how did that work out? Right, took out Saddam Hussein, massive vacuum. Now, you know, the Iranians are moving in and basically running the place. How was that working? I can go on and on and on. And you know, you point out, well, this, that, and again, it’s all military industrial complex stuff.

It is. Again, I’m gonna say something that’s gonna, again, I’m gonna probably upset a lot of people out there. You know, what we’re told here, mainstream media will tell us here, is that they hate us because of our freedom.

That was probably, I think probably one of the bigger lies, bigger lies that was pushed by everyone post 9-11. They hate us because of our freedom. And it was pushed.

It was pushed. Um, nah.

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Nah, I don’t think so. Let me ask you a question. Do you think, throw this out there. Do you think that…

Do you think the Iranians took our embassy in 1970? Do you think they took our embassy because they were, didn’t like the fact that we had Studio 54 in disco dancing in the United States?

Huh? Do you think that that, I think that was their reasoning behind it? Or you think it might have had something to do with the fact that we installed the Shah back in the 1950s and they got tired of his rules and repressive government and we propped him up. Which do you think it was? Do you think it was the I think it was the disco dancing? No, I don’t. I don’t think so.

Again, it was a great point that was made even regards to 1983 when we, our barracks were attacked in Beirut, Lebanon, and Reagan figured it out. He’s like, all right, we got to get the hell out of here. Again, it was because we were getting involved in a civil war. And thank God we didn’t get ourselves involved in that.

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Um, what was that? Is that because, you know, the, uh, the Wahhabis there, you know, didn’t like the fact that, uh, didn’t like, I dunno, Madonna dancing on stage or whatever it may be MTV, or do you think it had more to do with the fact and they, they made it perfectly clear was the fact that didn’t want our troops stationed in Saudi Arabia. They made it perfectly. I said, you gotta get out of here. Even.

Paul Wolfowitz for crying out loud, admitted that the US military presence on Saudi soil was a grievance that animated Osama bin Laden, the same Osama bin Laden in his crowd that we financed and gave weapons to when they were fighting the Soviets. Madeleine Albright, remember when Madeleine Albright was being interviewed about the human cost, what it was doing.

the Iraqi sanctions, what was taking place over there and whether or not, well, that the death toll was worth it. And she says, yeah, we think the price is worth it. Again.

People read this stuff, they can find this stuff online. Don’t you think it might be high time to kind of rethink the way that we’re doing things? I’m sorry people, don’t tell me, oh yeah they wanna die, hate us because of our free, no. No, no. And I talked about this, you know, like I said, well it’s like I said, I’m dating myself. So you trying to change a.

Government, the way of life in Afghanistan? No! No, they have to figure that out by themselves. The best way to change people’s hearts and minds is quite frankly, by example.

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By example, by going out and doing.

good works and showing a country that’s able to build wealth and to do things for its people. Here, that’s how you change hearts and minds.

And again, I’m not going to get involved into scripture. Look at the Bible and possible what they were told to do when they were going out. There’s a better way of doing things than, you know, invading countries. I’m just saying. And I grabbed this as well. This was this actually from 2014, 2014. This is where actually this is where Rand Paul, Ron’s son, again, my favorite senator.

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He gave a foreign policy speech. He gave a foreign policy speech, which was his run up to try to run for the presidency. And he basically said, he’s not gonna do what Republicans want them to do. And his speech, he outlined four basic principles for conducting foreign policy. First, war is necessary when America is attacked or threatened. When vital American interests are attacked.

and threaten, and when we have exhausted all other measures short of war, but not otherwise. Second, Congress, the people’s representative, must authorize a decision to intervene. No more war without express authorization. Third, peace and security require commitment to diplomacy and leadership. That means expanding trade ties and diplomatic links around the world.

We are only as strong as our economy. The national debt and slow growth are national security crisis. Yeah, right, right. He’s right across the board. What has he been wrong on, on any of this? But no, no. Again, it’s like, like I said, it’s like those mutant people from, I think it was beneath the Planet of the Apes. I think it was, where they were worshiping the nuclear bomb.

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