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All right, happy Monday, everybody. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And it is the first weekday of June. Of course, today being June the 2nd, yesterday being Sunday the 1st. And the year is rolling by. So I’ve got several things, of course, to cover today. As always, today’s impossible question or answer of… The days to Fridays, I should say. In the movie Inception, what was the name of the device used to enter and navigate the dreams of others? It was a dream machine or the portable automated… Somnason? Am I saying that right, Charlie? I can’t remember the movie. Intravenous device, the P-A-S-I-V, the passive device. That is the answer of Friday’s impossible question. Today, what are, Charlie probably knows this one, what are the names of Kim Kardashian and Ye West’s kids? You know them all, Charlie? He’s thinking. Yes, you got that one right. Charlie’s got one right so far. I’ll give you a hint. One is north, and then you’ve got to figure out the other three. Yeah, Charlie said north, so that’s one right. You guys will have to figure out the other three, so I gave you one hint. They’re all from surrogates, Charlie said as well. Oh, didn’t want to ruin the figure. Gotcha, Charlie. Yeah, we wouldn’t want to do that. So speaking of which, side note, her mom, Chris, right, Chris Jenner, was reading over the weekend. Don’t ask me why, but it was reading over the weekend that she just got a facelift, which, by the way, I will say top-notch. Whoever did it, it is like something that you’ve probably never seen in an older lady like her ever done before. You know what the cost was, Charlie?
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$350,000. $350,000.
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for chris jenner came charlie said money well spent money well spent well and they were talking about how anyways don’t get off into details they talked about how they did it and all this different stuff it’s pretty intriguing actually when you when you listen to how they actually did it and the changes in it and here’s the thing as just side note like any other quote-unquote technology or things that come along The early adopters always spend the most amount of money for things even along those lines. And then as other surgeons, plastic surgeons and so on, start learning that, oh, if it worked for them, then I guess I could do the same thing. And as with any other technology, including surgeries, as they start figuring out, oh, that’s the way to do it pretty soon, whatever an average facelift costs, which I have no idea, Charlie, what that magic number is. I’m guessing $20,000, $25,000 range is typically what one would cost, I’m guessing, just knowing what some cosmetic surgery costs are. I would think that that’s probably in the ballpark. So as other surgeons start figuring out that, oh, that’s the way to do it, and that came out so much better than what they typically look like, you’ll probably start seeing others doing the same thing. on on down the road so anyways just a side note so i read that over the weekend charlie i thought you would be i was thinking of charlie when i was actually reading that because normally things that charlie follows up on more so than even i do so uh at any rate uh in not so good news because you guys all saw most likely unless you live in under a rock somewhere The I guess they’re calling it the firebombing. You know, I’ll get into some of the details of what this particular nut job did yesterday in Boulder. I didn’t watch it live. You know, wasn’t there, wasn’t near it, but could see the news coming out really relatively quickly after it came out. And yeah, this this guy was a. Terrorists, there’s no other way to look at it. Nobody has died yet, and hopefully nobody will, although some of the folks that were burned by this particular gentleman, I will just tell you that it is life-altering. I don’t know any other way to say it. There’s going to be things that they now have to do and pain that they will go through and things that they will suffer through from this point forward. I saw some of the images that were coming out yesterday and some of the descriptions of what happened at that particular event. This was a Jewish event. It was in remembrance of those that were held captive, kidnapped during the Hamas situation that happened over a year ago now. And reality is, and you guys all know my feelings, Andy’s feelings on that. Those of us here at KLZ, frankly, I think I can speak for everybody here. Yeah, we are on the side of Israel in this. We you guys already know my feelings on everything straight up right after it happened. I made it very apparent had I been in charge, we would have carpet bombed the entire place, wiped it off the face of the earth. I’m talking about Gaza, the whole strip. I did just carpet bomb the place, wiped it off the face of the earth and been done with it. That’d been me. So I’m way less kind than those that are actually in charge of things. So you guys all know my opinion of things and all of that, and I really struggle with conservatives and also Christians that look at it differently than what I just said. I totally look at it, and some would come back and say, well, John, what about all these people that are there, the innocents? Andy and I have talked about this numerous times. I don’t see there as being any innocents there. You voted for those knuckleheads to take over. You’ve now stayed around in that country long enough to let these terrorists rule you, and you’re there? That’s you. That’s on you. In my opinion, there is no innocence. Now, the kids and so on that have no choice, okay, maybe there’s an argument for the kids and all of that, but I’ve already told you how I would have done that. I would have dropped leaflets out of the sky telling everybody they’ve got 72 hours to leave because we are going to literally wipe that place off the planet and start over. That’s what I would have done. So you guys all know my feelings, and I have no sympathy for those individuals whatsoever. I’m on the side of the Jews, 1,000%. So this nonsense that happened in Boulder yesterday, let’s just say this. This guy won’t meet his maker soon enough. That’s my feelings on it. He will not meet his maker soon enough. And he did things that, again, I don’t think most people even think about doing. He ended up being burned himself, which I don’t appreciate, by the way. Just a side note, those of you that are up in Boulder, Boulder Police Department and so on, the mug shots that you’re showing of this particular individual where his face is burned and he’s got a big bandage on it, I don’t think you should show that shot. I’m sorry. That, to me, gives this guy too much sympathy. And that’s one of the things in all of this story that I completely disagree with is you showing us that mugshot. In my opinion, that shouldn’t be shown. So you’re trying to get sympathy for an individual. If that’s what you’re trying to do, it’s not working with me. You’re giving this guy far too much sympathy, in my opinion, by showing that shot. And that one now is being showed in all sorts of other news agencies as well because Boulder PD released that. So a lot more to talk about there. I’ll take a break and come back. If you guys have any thoughts or anything along those lines, or if you don’t agree with me, feel free to call in 303-477-5600. This guy used Molotov cocktails, which you all know what those are. There’s descriptions of that in a lot of the news articles. I’m thinking if you don’t know what that is, you haven’t watched a movie in your entire life. Second of all, he used, believe it or not, he disguised himself as a landscaper and used a backpack sprayer basically full of gasoline. And that’s what he was using as the quote unquote flamethrower and getting into the crowd and so on. So just so you know kind of what happened, I’m not going to get any other gory details on that. But eight people were killed. uh injured in some cases severely injured nobody has died yet and i hope nobody does we’re praying that nobody does so that was all yesterday afternoon coming out of boulder and it literally takes a complete utter madman to do that but the other parties plural that i’m going to blame on this the news media and the left, the Democrat Party. You guys are as much at fault for this as anyone else. You encourage this behavior on and on and on. You let this garbage go on college campuses. You continue to feed the beast, if you would, and this is what you end up with. You guys have blood on your hands as well as anyone else does. So those of you that are on the left listening to me, you’re as much to blame in this as anybody. I’ll leave it at that. I’ll come right back. Roof Savers of Colorado coming up next. And Dave Hart wants to take care of you, your roof, your commercial roof, your residential roof, you name it. It’s all under one roof. And do not let the storm chasers with some of these storms that have come through. Don’t let the storm chasers in. Talk to Dave first. And for some of you that may be waiting until all the storms are over. You know, you can do that, of course. That’s your option. 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All right, back to the quote-unquote firebombing. That’s kind of what news media and such is calling it out of what happened in Boulder yesterday with the walk. This was by, of course, those individuals, the majority of the crowd. And I don’t know if all of the crowd walking. There could have been some supporters of Jews that were not Jews themselves that could have been in this. So I don’t know exactly if all of them were or were not. I don’t know if that was part of the requirement for this particular event. walk. And all I can say is this. Those of you in Boulder, my hometown, I grew up there. That’s where I was born. Some of you know that. Maybe some of you don’t. But that’s where I was born and raised. And all I will say is that town and your tolerance, quote unquote, of utter nonsense at times you guys are known for this. You’re not helping the situation is my point. I’m not saying you’re the cause of it, but your tolerance of certain things kicks the door wide open for these things to happen. I’m just going to say it straight up. You are partly to blame in that regard because you’re so quote unquote tolerant, but yet you’re not. You claim to be, but you’re really not. And these sorts of things happen. Now, I don’t really want to go down this path. I probably will do this in a few days. And I’m always, you know, fortunately nobody has passed, but there’s some people that are severely injured in this. I’m always, you know, I want to always recognize that and be aware of those particular individuals and definitely don’t want to step on any of their or family’s toes in any of this. But it’s funny. If this had been a shooting… All you hear today about is gun control, gun control, gun control. That’s all you’d hear. But in this particular case, it’s a Molotov cocktail and backpack sprayer that this guy rigged up to basically turn into a flamethrower. Are we going to now try to outlaw those things as well? And you guys understand where I’m going with this. That’s how ludicrous you guys sound after there’s any kind of a shooting. And I always go back to it’s not the device that’s the problem. It’s the person and their heart condition that is. We have lost in this country the respect for life in general. And I mean that sincerely. That’s part of the problem. And then in turn, we wonder why we have loose cannons like this nut job running around. Now, keep in mind, this guy’s core belief is Jews and all the rest of us, by the way. We’re infidels and we should be killed. Now, I don’t know his exact belief when it comes to Islam, but don’t be surprised if what I’m saying comes out down the road. That is one thing that I will predict. Don’t be shocked if that does. And by the way, don’t be shocked if that gets buried. You won’t hear that in the Denver Post or some of the more mainstream media that are around our particular area. You won’t hear that from Nine News and Kyle Clark and the like. No, no, no. You’re not going to hear that from them. But you will hear it, I’m sure, at some point. It will come out. They won’t talk about it. They won’t announce it. But this guy’s a nut job at that core. And this is where I also haven’t talked about this for quite some time, but some would say, well, you know, all religions, you know, they’re protected here in the United States of America. I don’t look at Islam as a religion. I’ve said that numerous times on this program as well. It’s a political ideology. It’s not a religion. At its core, it is not a religion. Facets of it are, yes. But really, it’s about changing the world to fit what they want, what they want only, by any means possible. That’s what it is. That’s not a religion. That’s a completely different way of life and forcing what you believe upon everyone else. And if you’re not going to conform, then we’ll just wipe you out. That’s really at their core. Now, are there some Islam followers that aren’t that nutty? Sure, just like there is with a lot of different religions. belief systems. Sure. I’ll give you that. And I think you even take some countries, for example, some of the wealthier Middle Eastern countries whereby oil is their main way of making money. Will they act like this guy? No. Now, they might fund the way this guy acts and do it kind of behind the scenes, but they’re not going to come out openly and do it because there’s too much money at stake. And I know I’m talking about some subjects that nobody ever wants to talk about, by the way. Very, very few other talk shows in this town will even discuss what I’m talking about right now because they’re not allowed to. And I mean that when I say that. They are not allowed to. Their network will not allow them to talk about that, period. Am I right, Charlie? He agrees with me. Rarely, if any, will you find any of the major broadcast ownership groups allowing what I’m talking about to be said. goes against their core in what they actually believe in and amongst themselves. But you guys know me. I don’t mince any words. I tell it like it is, and this guy was on that side of the fence. Yeah, it’s too offensive, Charlie just said. What I just said is too offensive to too many people. Wow. If there’s one thing that I’ve learned behind this microphone is I probably offend somebody every single day, one way, shape, form or another. And you know what? It is what it is. I don’t I don’t pull back from saying anything, whether you like it or not. And that’s why a lot of you will say, you know what, John, I believe about 90 percent of what you say. Well, yeah, there’s always that 10 percent that you don’t agree with me on. That’s fine. I have loved ones that probably feel the same way. That’s okay. We can get along at 90%. Rarely do two people agree on 100% of certain things, even husbands and wives. They will differ on certain things. That’s okay. I can deal with that. That’s not a problem. And that’s, by the way, isn’t that way it’s supposed to work in America, where we can agree to disagree on certain things and still get along at the end of the day? That’s how relationships are supposed to work. Unfortunately, we’ve entered into a day and age where especially one side of the aisle, the left, if you don’t agree with them on every single point, you’re just dog poop. Sorry. You’re not worthy of speaking at all. If you don’t agree with them on every single thing, you should not have a voice. That’s how they look at it. And those of you that are on that side of the aisle, shame on you. Just a side note, by the way, if you’re still on that side of the aisle, why are you? Really, why are you? Look at what your side believes in. For example… I’ve got to throw this in just because it’s Boulder also. It was already in the top of my notes for today, and then what happened yesterday just added to it. So you saw the news. Maybe you didn’t. Maybe you did. But the abortion clinic in Boulder that was run by Dr. Hearn, which was one of the most well-known abortion clinics in the country for late-term abortions, up off of Alpine and Broadway in Boulder, It was just one of five, keep that in mind, folks, 50 states, one in five in the country that offered late-term abortion care. So when I said earlier that Boulder is a town that doesn’t care about life, I’m proving it by what I’m saying here. Boulder, very well known for having a late-term abortion-slash-murder clinic in its town. And yeah, I’m putting that word in there on purpose because what they’re doing to babies is complete, utter murder. Literally, their take, I mean, abortion is murder, period. But when it gets that late, it’s, I mean, it’s murder across the board and it’s not any good whether it’s a month or two or three or four. But when it gets all the way into the 10th month, yes, I know everybody says pregnancies are nine months, but they’re not, they’re 10. When you get all the way down to the wire and you’ll still perform an abortion, you’re a butcher, you’re a murderer, period. So given that this facility, by the way, he retired, decided to shut down his practice, well, guess what? Guess what? And that practice, by the way, had been there more than 50 years. So the employees of that murder clinic… have decided to form a new clinic calling it the RISE Collective, which stands for Reproductive Integrity, Safety, and Equity. Now, I’d like to know whose safety they’re talking about because it’s not the safety of the baby that’s alive. It’s not equitable to that particular baby. There’s no integrity in killing a baby that could live on its own. And how are you standing up for reproductive anything when you’re killing the reproduction? So really, I have to just shake my head and or laugh at the name of this, the Rise Collective. And if any of you that are involved and that are listening, you’re probably not, but maybe somebody can send this to them. You ought to all be ashamed of yourselves because you’re just flat-out murderers. There’s no other way of saying it. You’re not doctors. You’re not nurses. You’re not caring for a particular individual. You’re murdering a baby, period, plain and simple. There’s no other way to look at it. I’d say that about all abortionists, but in this particular case especially, it’s even worse. So when I go back a moment ago and talk about how Boulder is a town that doesn’t regard life, I’m proving it by what I’m saying. They don’t. They don’t care about life. Now, you’ll hear a lot about that here in the next few days coming out of Boulder because of the events that happened yesterday. But all in all, at its core, Boulder, the town, the city, does not care about life. They give a lot of lip service. They act like they do, but they don’t. This new clinic, by the way, will have 15 staff members with an average of 17 years of experience, and I’m going to add this to the phrase here, in murdering babies. So they have 17 years of experience in murdering babies. So one of five clinics in the country that work in this space. Folks, There will be a special place for these individuals on down the road, and they will be held accountable for this. Mark my word. That I can guarantee you. There’s not too many guarantees that I can give people in life, but that one, unless they have an about face and they somehow repent of what they’re doing. and they get right with the Lord, they will definitely give an account for what they’re doing here. That I can guarantee you. So, yes, I already had this in my notes for today, not knowing that yesterday was going to happen. And it’s just ironic that you’re now going to hear all about Boulder and how much it’s for the rights of this and for the rights of that, and what happened, there was a tragedy, and blah, blah, blah. And I hate to say this, and I’m not trying to be mean against any of those that were involved in this, any of the victims, but Boulder’s giving you lip service. Sorry, they’re giving you lip service, because if they really cared, they wouldn’t allow these things to happen inside of their city. They wouldn’t allow late-term abortions in their city if they really cared about people and human rights. So I’ll leave it at that. This stuff gets my blood boiling, as you can tell, because of just that. And I’ll say this straight up. As a business owner myself, there’s only been a few times in my entire career that I’ve refused to do service with another business. His was one of them. There are certain things that I will draw the line on. That was one of them where I said, you know what? 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All right. Thank you, guys, for text messages as well and agreeing with what I’m talking about. I appreciate that greatly. Charlie was saying that he was actually watching, tried to watch some of the news and different things on this late last night. Didn’t really hear much about what had gone on because wasn’t really plugged in until late last night. And even this morning, just some of the responses from media, on this particular topic proves everything I just said, by the way. It proves it. So if you don’t believe me, just take a peek at some of that, and you’ll know exactly what I mean. But our next guest, Ammon Blair, joining us. Ammon, welcome. How are you? Good. How are you, sir? I’m very good. Talk to us about the National Guard. I’ve actually got somebody that works for me that’s a part of the Guard. In fact, I think he’s gone right now doing his annual duty, as you would, of course, know. But talk to us about the National Guard. I think there’s a lot of misconceptions about the National Guard and what they actually do.
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Yeah, sure. Great. Yes, the National Guard has two components. One is under the Air Force, and then the other one is under the Army. And really, they are a combat operational reserve. So they work part-time, you know, one week a month or two weeks in the summer. But now, due to global demands and also domestic demands, they’ve had to ramp up the amount of times that they’ve actually been activated or the amount of training they have. So each unit, so like here in Texas, we have the 36th Infantry Division. And so you get to select what type of job you want. And it’s all Army-related or Air Force-related. So I was infantry, which are the ground pounders that go in in combat. And so really that’s what it is. It’s a combat reserve of regular Air Force and regular Army, which is somewhat different than the State Guard, which we have in Texas and 23 other states have as well.
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Okay. And then I think that’s where some of the confusion gets in is there will be people that will say, well, you know, the National Guard can only be activated by the governor and there’s no, you know, there’s nothing federally speaking that can happen along those lines. And that in and of itself isn’t true either because you just explained why.
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Yeah, 100%. So even on drill weekend, so your employee that’s probably on drill weekend or away, the majority of that money is actually from the federal government. So every time your reservist or your National Guard soldier goes to drill one week in a month or two weeks in the summer, that’s actually paid for by the federal government. In fact, almost 95% or above of everything from equipment to pay all comes from the federal government. And so there are three ways that a soldier or an airman can actually be activated, and that’s going to be Title X orders, which is federally commanded and federally funded, Title 32, which is federally funded, and then state-commanded, so they allow the state to control their actions, or state active duty, the third one, which is state-funded, and then state-controlled. So like the Army National Guard, the Texas National Guard that’s on the border in Texas, they’re actually on state active duty orders. So it’s coming from state money and state-controlled. The rest of the National Guard soldiers on the border are actually on Title X, so they’re federally controlled and federally funded.
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Now, when that’s going on, and you gave a great example, by the way, where you could have both sides of the equation still doing the same thing, do they work together or is it pretty much, hey, I’ve got these orders, we’re going to do our thing, you have your orders, you do your thing, or do they work together in this case?
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No, that’s a good question. It all depends on the joint task force. So you could have them work together. You could, under U.S. NORTHCOM, U.S. NORTHERN COMMAND, But there are some times where you may have differing mission sets. We can all go back all the way to the 1992 riots, right, where originally it was the National Guard that was selected, and then the regular military came in and were giving different commands. On the border, it’s the same thing. The Texas Army National Guard, when I was on Operation Lone Star as an officer— We had very different commands than the Title X soldiers that were on there on the mission itself under the Biden administration. So you could have two National Guard units, one Title X, one State of Active Duty, completely different mission sets.
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Okay, that’s something that I’m glad you explained, because I’m not sure I even understood that part would go on. And I guarantee you, if I didn’t understand it, there’s a lot of folks listening, unless they’ve been active in that area like yourself, probably wouldn’t understand it as well. And I think for those of us that are civilians, you know, we see somebody in uniform, and we just think, oh, you guys are all in this together. We haven’t the foggiest idea how this works.
SPEAKER 15 :
Correct. Yeah, unfortunately, that’s the case, especially if there’s I feel like there’s a president that really doesn’t get along with the states, which we saw for the last four years, where the Biden administration was working against Abbott. So the soldiers, even though they were both National Guard, had completely different mission sets.
SPEAKER 11 :
Interesting. I could see where that would be, depending upon what mission set you’re involved in, could get a little dicey.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, it could get a little dicey. I mean, you have some disagreements on the ground, we’ll say, between company commanders and commanders of the units, as one unit has a different ideology than the other or a different mission. They may even believe in the mission but are not allowed to do it, which, I mean, for the last four years, even Border Patrol agents, they believed in border security but were not even allowed to do it. Right, right, right.
SPEAKER 11 :
Makes total sense. When it comes to the Guard, Amman, what – or Amman, I should say – When people join up, when men and women join up, usually young, doesn’t have to be, because sometimes older folk will as well, but when they join, do they know which one of those sections they’re joining into? Do they get a choice, or is it just sort of you are what you are?
SPEAKER 15 :
No, it’s just like regular Army. So you go in and you go to a recruiter, and they say, hey, these are the jobs. that we currently have available based off of your ASVAB, based off of your physical capabilities as well. They do a pre-test, a pre-screen, especially now that Pete Hexeth is saying they want fit people, not fat. And so they’re going to screen that, and based off of your current capabilities, you’re going to be afforded certain, what we call an MOS, Military Occupation Specialty, or a job. Yep, know what that is. Yep. And so you select that job, and then you get to select what component really. I mean, you work with a National Guard recruiter, but any civilian can be like, you know what, I’d rather be active component than just do it part-time in National Guard. But they’re all sent to the same basic training or boot camp. They’re all sent to the same training for AIT or whatever tech school in the Air Force. Everyone gets the exact same training, and then when they get done with training, that’s where everything changes.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 15 :
You either go back to your command and active component, or you go to your command for your National Guard. Got it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. Where are we at right now when it comes to the amount of people? Do we need more people to apply? Are we low? Are we high? Where are we at in that regard, or do you know?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, so we’re actually, in the last few months, we’ve actually steadily increased the amount of people on National Guard. And that is because, look, even my son, my son is about to turn 17. He finally feels a sense of a country worth fighting for.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, American pride, absolutely.
SPEAKER 15 :
American pride. And so my son is sitting there talking, hey, Dad, can… I would like to join up just like what you did when you were 17. And so that national pride. And so we’re seeing ever since January, we’re seeing a great uptick in the amount of personnel. Before, yes. After component, it was very difficult. And that’s why they were keeping, quote, unquote, fat people in because they couldn’t meet those numbers. As it stands, over 70% of the kids that go to recruiting, they don’t even meet the qualifications. They’re either too fat or too stupid or they’re on drugs. And so they’re having to keep people inside the active and National Guard component. It didn’t matter if they could meet the physical requirements while there. And so obesity really was one of the largest or one of the main reasons that they were being discharged out of the military.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, learning something again today from you that, I mean, I guess I could have guessed some of that knowing, you know, where we’re at as a country, young people and so on, but I had no idea it was 70%. Holy cow, that’s a shocking number, by the way.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, even in the military itself, right now at about 68% are either obese or obese. um or fat or overweight in fact we were assisting the texas legislature in a bill bill number house bill 4993 carried by rep isaac to try to bring maha into the texas military department or to the texas national guard um just because uh the the level of fitness is even worse than the national guard than an exact component because there’s no oversight right you see if you’re a company commander you see your soldier or airman once a month and then you have all these training requirements. A lot of times they don’t even get to do physical training. And so it’s very difficult to try to maintain those standards, especially try to maintain those numbers.
SPEAKER 11 :
Makes sense. I mean, not to get off target or whatever I’m on, but I look at some of the – and not to be critical, so I’m not trying to stir anything up. Any of you listening, sorry, I’m not trying to step on toes here – But as I look at a lot of the police forces and so on, it’s the same thing there, Amon. I don’t see it being any, or I keep saying your name, I’m so sorry, Amon. I don’t see much different on that level as I do to what you’re talking about in the military.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, unfortunately, because we have, gone are the days of accountability. Yeah. All across the board, where the DEI stuff and and the hurt feelings, if you even make a certain statement. And then the repercussions for those who actually do say, hey, you’re unfit for this position. And so now we’re trying to bring that back in the military. We’re trying to bring it back where we can actually speak the truth. Like, hey, here are the standards. If you can’t meet those standards, then we’re going to call you out on those standards. And regardless of your feelings. And so that’s kind of where we’re at in the military itself. And That House bill completely failed in Texas, and we’re still trying to help the Trump administration in bringing Maha back into the military.
SPEAKER 11 :
And really quick, you think – I mean, you’re Texas. I mean, of all places you would think that would pass, it would be where you are. Are you thinking that it’s not passing just because, again, we have enough – politicians that just feel like we’re being too hard on the people that are there right now, not wanting the excellence that, by the way, I as an American think we should have in not only military, but in our police forces as well. Do you think that’s what we’re just we’re being we’re being too hard on people? Is that what it amounts to?
SPEAKER 15 :
You know, I honestly don’t even know why they would even vote it out of a committee.
SPEAKER 11 :
I mean, this is common sense to me.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, it was common sense. I even wrote an op-ed. The Daily Wire picked it up. We were trying to get PXF to come out and say, hey, we are the only state to provide legislation to try to bring health back into our National Guard system. and we couldn’t even get a vote out of the hearing.
SPEAKER 11 :
And really quick, I mean, even on the cost side, because I’m sure some of that would be thinking, well, you know, it’s going to cost us more to do this. We’ve got to bring different foods in, different kinds of things, blah, blah, blah. But when it’s all said and done, and you care for these folks on an ongoing basis, which militarily speaking, you know, we do through the VA and so on, I would think in the end, this is that old, you can either pay me now or pay me later. Isn’t it cheaper on the front side?
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, 100%. They even showed that there was a recent study that just came out, and that’s what Pete Hexeth was coming out on. He said the cost because of inaction and allowing this rot to happen inside the military is costing more than the upfront cost of providing good nutrition, good physical fitness, accountability, and transparency. So the cost in the front is is way, way, way less than it is at the back end by all the health issues or surgeries, diabetes, you name it.
SPEAKER 11 :
To me, again, this is a no-brainer. This ought to be something we should be pushing on a national basis because the more healthy our servicemen and women are, and again, I know you can’t dictate this when you get down to the police force level and so on, but the more healthy our men and women are serving our country in this regard, the better off we would be across the board. I’m shaking my head at this makes no sense whatsoever.
SPEAKER 15 :
That’s what we said. We were shaking our head, too, where they wouldn’t even vote it out of the committee. Amazing. It was kind of, I guess, unbelieving is a word we would describe here.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and I guess, and not to get completely off topic, Ammon, but you look at other forces around the world, and you look at what we’re trying to compete with when it comes to other countries or adversaries, if you would, and you look, and I see videos, and granted, you’re seeing videos, and I get some of that can be very much propaganda and so on, but I’m guessing when it comes to You know, you look at the Russian forces or Chinese forces especially. I look at those two in particular, and I look at the men and mostly men. There’s a few women, but mostly the men that are fighting in those particular armed forces. I’ll just say it this way. They’re one up on us right now.
SPEAKER 15 :
I mean, we even saw that. We saw that when I was in as an officer. We saw that at Infantry Basic Officer Leaders Course at Fort Benning. We would constantly have officers from around the world. And they would look at our PT standards and be like, you guys are a joke. And that is because we really lost the way. We really lost the understanding of what a military is for. That’s right. At the end of the day, the military is to close with and kill the enemy. That is it. That’s right. And we’ve been taught in the last decade or so that, no, we need to rebuild nations. That’s not what a military is for. The military really has a specific job. And anything that gets in that way, and really we have, I mean, I was a drill sergeant back under the Obama administration back in 2008, and we started seeing it then. We started seeing that when we were… trying to shape citizens into soldiers back in 2008 to 2010, we really saw a seismic shift on what we could try to, and that’s when we were hot and heavy in both Iraq and Afghanistan still, too.
SPEAKER 11 :
Interesting. That does not surprise me. That one you’re not shocking me on because that does not surprise me. I mean, we’ve become a country where we’re more worried about paying for a gender reassignment for our military men and women than we are how well they can go and kill the enemy, to your point. Correct. I’m sorry to say, but that’s where we’re at.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, and unfortunately we’re seeing it where they’re also – I think the lack of understanding of what our military is and then also the National Guard, also to the interior. So really at the end of the day, a military exists so that we are free and process here in the United States. And so the idea that the National Guard can’t – and in my op-ed I wrote about the National Guard protecting the borders but also the interior borders. I mean, right now, as you can see, what’s happened with the ICE raids, they’re being attacked. And the level of information, what we call information warfare or information operations against ICE, calling them terrorists, domestic terrorists. And then we’re starting to see that physically. I originally wrote that op-ed saying that the 20,000 that the administration wants to deploy on the interior is mostly for logistics. But it may turn out that they may have to be used like they were in the 1992 riots, and that is to protect the law enforcement agencies themselves and the citizens that are going to get caught up in this warfare against ICE. Interesting.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s been a joy talking to you, as you can tell, Am, and I really appreciate it. Really quick, before I let you go, I know you’re a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. How do folks find what you’re doing, the things you’re writing on, and so on?
SPEAKER 15 :
Sure. Yes. One, thanks for having me. And two, if you just go to TexasPolicy.com and look up our initiative, it’s the Secure and Sovereign Texas. You’ll find all of my and my colleagues’ information there. You’ll find all of our research, our testimonies, both in Texas and in Congress. And that’s where you can pretty much keep up with us.
SPEAKER 11 :
Before I let you go, you’ve also got two decades of experience as a U.S. Border Patrol agent. What is the average agent now under this administration? What’s their whole attitude and feeling, if I can say optimism? What is their feeling now versus what it was even a year ago?
SPEAKER 15 :
Just imagine trying to push a boulder off a cliff, and the boulder is now over the edge. They are now free. They are now free to actually do their job. They’re free to go out and go after the smuggling organizations, those that are bringing in the illegal aliens, those that are working for the cartels, go after narcotics, everything that is devastating us. They’re actually able to do our job instead of facilitating the evasion.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. Sorry. I said I had one last question. I have one more, just because it’s fascinating, all of this, and you have a lot of experience that I don’t get to normally talk to people that do. We’ve heard this. It’s been in the press. I go to Mexico every now and again. It’s even in their press down there to where the cartels talk about how, you know, the U.S. needs to be careful, be careful in what we’re saying. If we want to start a war, they’ll be the ones to finish it, this, that, and the other. I mean, Ammon, I just have to laugh at that because if there’s any cartel, I don’t care how much the cartels think they have and how much power they think they have. They are not even a pimple when it’s all said and done, or am I wrong?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, it is. So how they operate inside the United States is what we call a gray zone conflict. So there’s actually very few actual, quote-unquote, cartel members as they keep that close hold. So they utilize a lot of intermediaries, contractors, and subcontractors inside the United States. So they’ve actually built a pipeline since the early 90s inside of every single one of our communities. And when the PRI started losing their power in the late 80s and early 90s, they became an insurgency against the formal Mexican state. And so when they did that, they operate, of course, differently in Mexico than they do in the U.S., But the problem with the pipeline that they own is it’s direct access to you, me, and our family. And that means that that is one of their top commodities that they sell to all of our state and non-state adversarial adversaries. So the CCP, the Iran Hezbollah Hamas, the Russian mafia, you name it. They – I’m sorry. That’s ringing in my ear. That’s okay. They – Because of that access, that’s why the CCP has completely weaponized the Mexican cartels inside the United States. They’re the ones who utilize them to bring about the fentanyl inside of our communities. They’re also the ones who are laundering their money through Chinese banks, you name it. So every one of our nation’s adversaries now can gain access to you, me, or your family. All because of the cartels. And that’s why they’re so dangerous. It is because of the access that they provide. And then another thing is they’re actually also in 65 other countries, not just ours. So they’re a network of networks. is really where they shine. And so we would be able to completely wipe them out. If Mexico were like Colombia when we were going after Pablo Escobar, if we had that relationship, unfortunately we’re dealing with a country that is like a rich Afghanistan. It is not Colombia like it was in the 90s. The cartels have completely corrupted all the way from the bottom to the top. and everything in socioeconomically as well, from avocados to narcotics. You’re correct. You can control it all.
SPEAKER 11 :
You’re correct. You’re correct.
SPEAKER 15 :
And so, man, dealing with Mexico, really, Mexico is the cartel.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 15 :
And so when we say that, that’s why it’s so difficult. So that’s why, really, if we want to affect change, we need to look at what our feelings were in Afghanistan and apply that to Mexico.
SPEAKER 11 :
I’ll leave it at that. That is awesome. Thank you so much, Ammon. You’re welcome any time, by the way. I’ve enjoyed our conversation very much.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, thank you so much for having me, sir.
SPEAKER 11 :
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