Summary
➡ Elon Musk’s recent statement that manned fighter jets are outdated in the drone era has sparked debate. The outgoing Air Force Secretary, Frank Kendall, suggested that Musk, despite his engineering prowess, needs to understand more about military operations before making such claims. This article also discusses public apprehension towards autonomous vehicles, using the example of Waymo’s driverless cars. The author questions how autonomous technology, like drones or driverless cars, can gain public trust, especially when it comes to military applications.
➡ The text discusses concerns about potential wasteful spending in the military and the need for budget scrutiny. It also mentions a proposed bill to fund the government for three months, which has caused disagreement among lawmakers and could lead to a government shutdown. The text also talks about the future of the Air Force, with plans to integrate unmanned fighter jets controlled by pilots, a process that is still years away from being technologically feasible. Lastly, it mentions the loss of sponsorships for the Stu Peters Network and asks viewers for financial support to keep the network running.
➡ The text discusses the potential use of drones as wingmen in air combat, questioning the necessity and risks of this technological advancement. It highlights concerns about the reliability of the technology, the ability of pilots to control drones while flying their own aircraft, and the implications if communication with the drones is lost. The text also mentions that pilots are currently testing this system in flight simulators and are optimistic about its potential. However, it questions the rush to remove human involvement from such operations.
➡ The text questions the rush to develop advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and automated systems, particularly in military and job sectors. It expresses concern about the potential loss of human involvement and the implications for decision-making, pride in work, and societal interaction. The author also worries about the potential dehumanization of warfare and the loss of personal motivations and sacrifices that human soldiers bring to the battlefield. The text ends by questioning the true motives behind this push for automation and AI.
➡ The speaker emphasizes the importance of unity and shared goals in the military, urging listeners to reflect on these values during the holiday season. They express frustration about perceived foreign influence in their government, specifically mentioning Israel, and voice readiness to fight against perceived threats to their freedom and property. The speaker also mentions their relationships with people of different races and religions, expressing some controversial views.
Transcript
Probably not the drones that we’ve been seeing in the news that the government has not answered about, but drones nonetheless. So, so let’s get to it. Stick with us. Don’t go away. We start now. Hey everyone and welcome here to the next installment of the Richard Leonard Show. I want to thank you as always for joining us. All of us here at the studio are extremely grateful for your presence, whether you’re new here, thank you for joining us, or you’re a repeat offender. We thank you for coming back as usual. Just, it’s very humbling every week to see the participation from you guys, the fans, or maybe you’re not fans, maybe you maybe a check in with us to see how full of shit maybe we are.
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We are all at the network, going to take some time off and, you know, enjoy family, enjoy some downtime and kind of recharge, reset the batteries a little bit. And I think it’s important, it’s important to probably point out that everybody, everybody should be doing that. And hopefully you are in the place or in a place right now that you can, that you can do things like that and take advantage of the holiday season. I think it’s important, especially this time of year. And if you’re up north where we’re at here in the, in the Midwest, enjoy, enjoy the cold and the wind.
We’ve gotten some snow recently, so I mean, enjoy all of that. It’s great. You folks down in the south will never, will never fully appreciate the winter months. Not like the Midwesterners do. So at any time, come on up, check us out for a weekend. I think you’ll enjoy it. It’s not that cold anyway. Drones. Drones. We’ve seen in the news, we’ve seen above our own homes. We’ve heard people talking. We’ve seen it on social media, certainly on X. If you scroll through X at any point in time of the day, especially in the last month and a half, you have seen a lot of talk about drones.
You’ve also, you’ve also heard a lot of denial or just silence about the topic from our very own government. And I’m not here to dissect that. I think that that has been done. And all of us kind of have our own opinion about what’s really going on. And hopefully, hopefully we’ll get an opportunity to learn what the truth about all these mysterious drones or manned aircraft or whatever the hell it is. Aliens even read some of that. It’s not drones. It’s not manned aircraft. They’re aliens. There’s also some talk about, about Weapon X. Weapon X got out of some facility and the drones are tracking him at night or.
It’s all kind. There’s all kinds of shit out there. But the alarming part of it all is that our President elect, Donald Trump, had come out and said, the government knows, government knows where they came from, the government knows what they’re doing, and the government knows where they’re going. If they are said drones, they need batteries, they may need fuel, they need something. And he claims that they know, but they’re not saying anything to us. They’re not saying anything to the American people. Now, let’s get down to the drones that we did gather here today to talk about.
The Department of the Air Force apparently has been starting down this path of autonomous wingmen. And recently, I want to say Wednesday or Thursday or something like that, Elon Musk and the outgoing Secretary of the Air Force. I don’t want to say they got into it, but of course Elon has a different view of aerial warfare than the Secretary of the Air Force. Elon seems to think that the days of manned aircraft, especially air combat in aircraft that have a crew, meaning pilots and any other crew members on board, depending, depending on the aircraft, those days are over.
The era of the fighting drones are upon us. And that anybody who is still buying into manned aircraft and the idea that this is the best course when it comes to air combat, air superiority, which turns into overwhelming fire superiority. And any of us that have served, especially any of us that have served in combat, will know with beyond the shadow of a doubt that the only way that you’re really going to win any kind of gunfight, any kind of firefight or any kind of skirmish or anything like that, any kind of war, is overwhelming fire superiority.
Of course we see movies and we hear stories and fairy tales and things of this sort of, of extreme heroism and soldiers who were up against extreme circumstances where they were written off, we were, those guys are, they’re heroes, but they’re never going to make it. Thank God that we have men and maybe even women that are so, so dedicated. They’re patriots beyond any definition that we can come up with that we can find. These are the patriots. Patriot. And they’re, they’re, they’re against overwhelming odds and they’re going to pull it off and save the world.
It makes me think of that, that movie Armageddon, right, where they took all of these, these oil rig workers, these oil drillers, put them in spaceships, shot them onto a, a meteor, an asteroid or whatever that was plummeting towards the Earth at alarming speeds. And it’s a race against time and space and human error to drill down into the middle of this thing and put a nuclear bomb in it and blow it apart so that both sides will miss the. Missed the, the planet, thus saving the whole entire war. And here, these misfits, these misfits are against all odds, but they’re going to pull it off.
And they do. Great story, great movie, really good soundtrack also, by the way. And I, and, and so like, maybe this is all far fetched, right? This is, I’m going over the top, but These are, these are real. These are real views. And, and I found, I found a little presser, a little article about this, this back and forth that Elon and the Secretary of the Air Force have had, or it’s not even them going back and forth. It’s just these guys talking to the media about what was said and, and why and this and that and the other thing.
And we’ll go through it. But before we get to that, I want to preface it by, by talking about my thoughts on Elon Musk. And, you know, I think that. I think that Elon is a very smart guy in many ways. I think he’s innovative and I think that he’s going to do a lot for humanity in the ways of space travel. And maybe, just maybe even this whole Doge thing that he’s doing with Vivek is going to turn out to be beneficial for the American people. I mean, at this point, we’re in it, right? We’re, we’re here.
We either have to, we either have to embrace it and, you know, do somewhat, somewhat support it some way somehow, or we can fight it and we can be against it, but we got, we’re gonna live with it for four years anyway. So I guess I choose to be optimistic and hope that it’s going to work and, and we’ll see some kind of positive results out of this whole thing. But on this one, on this one, Elon, I don’t know, man. I don’t know if, if putting fully autonomous aircraft armed to the teeth with, with bullets and cannons and missiles and bombs and EMPs and God knows what else, rail guns, lasers, who knows what the hell they’re.
They’re gonna put on these things on an aircraft that’s unmanned and then expected to take direction from another pilot in another aircraft. I just, I guess I’m not, maybe I’m not educated enough on like, drone autonomy. Maybe I’m not educated enough in the area of aerial warfare and fighter jets and pilots and aircraft at all. But this one kind of seems very Skynet ish, if, if I can. But let’s go through this and let’s see what, let’s see what other, what other thoughts and emotions that this, this drums up. So let’s just read through this thing quickly.
The outgoing Air Force Secretary, Frank Kendall on Thursday downplayed Elon Musk’s recent pronouncements that crude air, crude fighters are obsolete in the era of drones, and suggested the billionaire industrialists learn more about the military. So here we go, right? We’re already, we’re already shooting shots. We’re already throwing jabs at, at, at old Elon. He went on to say, I have a lot of respect for Elon Musk as an engineer. He’s not a war fighter, however, and he needs to learn a little bit more about the business, I think, before he makes such grands. Announced grand announcements as he did in November.
Elon Musk wrote that man, fighter jets are obsolete in the age of drones, and called those building jets like the F35 idiots in a series of posts on his social media platform X. Okay, so here’s the thing, right? Like Mr. Kendall, the, the Secretary of the Air Force, I kind of see where it’s coming from. You know, like Elon Musk is going to make all these, all these accusations and put out all this stuff about crude aircraft being dead and those that are still buying them and building them and believing in them are idiots. But I got questions about that.
Why? Why does it make any of them idiots? Why does it make any of us idiots that have questions or are apprehensive about signing on to drone aircraft in our Air Force? And, and I think that, like, we have to also recognize that this is new for a lot of people, this whole AI thing, this whole autonomous vehicle thing. I’ll tell you this. During Thanksgiving, I went to visit my sister out in Southern California. My mother and I flew out there to spend Thanksgiving with her and we were out doing some shopping. Well, some. I’ll tell you what, you get my mother and my sister together and you give them 72 hours, you’re going to do about 67 hours of shopping.
So you better find something to, to relax yourself or occupy your mind because you’re going to lose it shopping with those two. Anyway, we’re out doing some shopping. We’re moving around town, and I noticed these cars on the top of these cars are all SUVs. You know, I think one was, I seen one that was a Lincoln. There was a Jaguar. I believe there was a couple that were Tesla SUVs, but they got this big bubble on the top. It almost looks like a old school police car, like an old school bubble light on an old police car.
And then on all four corners of this car, it has these sensors that are spinning and everything’s spinning super fast. And then I asked my sister, what’s up with these, these cars? You see them, you know, you see them everywhere. I mean, it’s not like you see a million of them, but you see one, you see at least one Every hour, if you’re out and about, you know, it’s not, it’s not out of the ordinary to see four or five of them in a day. And she said, oh, those are the Waymo cars. Okay, well, what’s Waymo? Well, Waymo is driverless cars.
And it’s like an Uber, right? So you, you get on the phone app just like you would Uber or Lyft, you set your pickup spot, you tell it where you want to go, and it tells you a price, and it shows you where the nearest one is. And this car navigates its way through traffic to pick you up wherever you’re at, and there’s nobody driving it, and it shows up there, and you get in the back seat, you shut the door, and you buckle your seatbelt, and you’re sitting in this car all by yourself. And these things go on the highway, on the interstate.
They’re all in the traffic. If you can imagine, in California, it’s quite heavy. And it’s navigating traffic, it’s changing lanes, it’s making turns, it’s stopping for pedestrians to go to and fro. I mean, the, the thing, the thing seems to drive pretty well from what, what you can see just being a bystander passing by or whatever, but it’s pretty freaky. My mother, bless her, my mother was, was very freaked out by the whole thing. Every time we saw one, she had 20 comments about how, how weirded out by this she was and how scary it would be to, like, who.
You got to be pretty trusting to get in a car that’s piloted by nobody with these spinning sensors everywhere and then just sit back, relax and hang out while this thing takes you down the highway to the, to the local Whole Foods. And so, you know, I mean, like, these guys come to find out Waymo is owned by, I believe it’s owned by the dudes that started Google. So, I mean, they got their smart guys, they got a shit ton of money. I want to say that their company is worth like $2.3 trillion or something, you know, so they got money for insurance and research and all this stuff, and they seem to work great.
But the question is, how do you gain the public’s trust? And so now here we’re talking about autonomous fighter jets. And we know, as. We know as a community, especially a military community, but the American people as a whole, we already know that, that our air superiority is pretty vast. I mean, I’m sure there’s a country or two that, that can hold a candle to the Equipment we have. There may even be one or two that has better aircraft than we have, but not many. And so the United States of America is pretty high on the, we’re going to open the can of whoop ass in the sky on you should you want to play the air combat game.
And so the idea that, and I’m sure that, that Elon Musk has, has read up, has done a lot of reading. He’s talked to a lot of people. I’m sure he’s done his research. I mean I, he doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who’s going to get in front of a group of reporters or a group of people even, especially if they have some influence and just start telling them, hey, the era of the fighter jet over, these guys are stupid. We’re going to these drones. But I think that it raises eyebrows amongst the communities of people who fly these planes and who build them and who sell them and who maintain them and who use them for the defense of their borders.
Because if they go away, well, that’s a lot of money. I mean they’re expensive. That doesn’t say in here anywhere what the, what the, the autonomous fighters cost or what they will cost or whatever, but they’re all expensive. Anything that can fly that fast and do those kind of dipsy doodles and flips and turns and loop de loops and all that stuff and then lock on a target and destroy it, obliterate it from the earth is not a cheap piece of equipment, in my opinion. Let’s continue. SpaceX founder and billionaire Musk allied himself with President elect Donald Trump this year and has become a key confidant to the incoming president.
With growing influence, Trump named Mosque, along with entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to run a task force dubbed the Department of Government Efficient Efficiency to examine ways to slash federal spending. Okay, so is this a way that they’re going to try to cut back on the national debt? Are we going to just stop building and buying military aircraft and see? So I think like this is going to be a sticking point for people because, well, now we’re going to, we’re going to stop buying equipment to protect the American people and fight the wars that America may find themselves in or helping out with.
But we’re not going to have the equipment that we should because now here’s some billionaire who turns out to be friends with Trump who by the way, in the media they’re calling President Musk, which is stupid. He’s calling the shots is what people are saying. Oh, What, Why is he calling the shots? What makes him. What makes him so damn special? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, if his job is to cut dollars from going out the door unnecessarily, I think everything needs to be looked at. Now. I would say that maybe the defense budget should be one of the last.
One of the last things cut, because we do know that the military seems to be one of the places that. And I shouldn’t even say that they’re one of the places that’s last for funding, because I don’t know that to be true. In fact, I think they probably get most everything they ask for and maybe even then some. But I would say that there’s probably some fraud, waste and abuse happening in the military. And I think that as time goes by, we are going to learn a little bit more about how that is happening in the halls of the Pentagon, amongst units all over the military.
And I think people are going to start questioning it more. You see, this. This whole transition I think that we’re about to go through in January is going to bring a lot of. A lot of information to light, possibly. There’s also a chance that we learn nothing and not much changes and there’s a whole lot of empty promises that’s possible. But I’m hoping that that’s not the case. I think all of America is hoping that that’s not the case. Let’s continue. Um. Musk made multiple scathing posts Wednesday about a proposed continuing resolution bill funding the government for three months that Congress was set to vote on.
And his stance was soon echoed by Trump. And this prompted Republican lawmakers to reject the CR throwing fund the. The funding process into uncertainty and raising the specter of government shutdown over Christmas. Okay, so here’s some truth right now. We got some truth. If we remember, earlier this year in the summertime, there was a lot of talk about the budget, government shutdown. Members of Congress were going on, On. On. On break or whatever the hell it was, and they weren’t staying in D.C. to do the work to keep the government open to, to, to fund. To fund anything in the government.
In fact, I believe that when that happened, we did a show here on the, on the channel about how veteran benefits weren’t going to be paid. Hundreds of thousands of vets were not going to get their benefit payments because there was no money to pay them. So they were just going to go without. And maybe, maybe next month, if they figure it out, they’ll get a double payment. And so I can see how this brings up concern by people like the Secretary of the Air Force, because in a certain way, this almost seems like a way for them to cut spending, cut programs that they are not necessarily excited about, and start new initiatives that may in the long run be cheaper.
But it would seem that there’s a whole lot of work to do to turn the whole United States Air Force autonomous. But they have a plan. They have a plan to slowly integrate unmanned fighter jets into the Air Force while also being controlled by pilots. And I think that it gets to be pretty sticky. Gets to be a pretty sticky situation. But we got to take a break. When we come back, we’re going to talk about just that. So stick with us. Don’t go away. Be right back. Hey, folks, real quick. Before we get back to the show, it’s no secret that we have been experiencing a loss of sponsorships.
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I think we should just continue on down the road with the, with the drones here. Let’s go back this article, we’ll finish it up and then we’ll, we’ll finish our thoughts. We only got about 24 minutes left of the show, so here we go. Elon’s dig at crude fighter jets isn’t the first time he ruffled Air Force feathers over the topic. Back in 2020, he appeared in an Air Force association conference and declared that the fighter Jarrah the fighter jet era has passed. But while Musk’s star may be rising in the new Trump administration, Kendall said Musk’s idea of of a drone air force that can take the place of the current crude fleet is still years away from having the necessary technology to work.
It’s proactive. It’s interesting, said Kendall. I can imagine at some point, I don’t think it’s centuries away. I think it’s more like decades when something like he imagines can occur. But we’re not there yet. It’s going to take a little while before we get there. The Air Force is rapidly moving towards adopting autonomous drone wingmen known as Collaborative combat aircraft, or CCAS, which would pair F35 fighter pilots, possibly the services future next generation air dominance fighter. So what this means, probably because I muffled it up a little bit, what this means is that autonomous air Fighter jets will be paired with piloted aircraft, F35 Alpha pilots, and they’re going to have to control these things while flying their own plane.
And there isn’t a whole lot of information out there. Excuse me, there isn’t a whole lot of information out there about how they’re supposed to control these jets. Now, I’m no, I’m no pilot. I didn’t serve in the Air Force. I certainly don’t know anything about aircraft and what it takes to keep it in the sky. But not only that, I’m no pilot that is familiar with flying fighter jets. And if I had to guess, I would say that the population of people in this country who are able and are qualified to fly fighter jets is a pretty small group of people.
I mean, yeah, we have a lot of jets, but there ain’t. There isn’t a whole lot of people that know how to fly them. I think there’s a fair amount, but I would imagine that it’s a pretty delicate process. I would imagine that there’s a lot of checklists. I would imagine there’s a lot of things to be paying attention to. There’s a lot of things to do in that cockpit. And then now add on the responsibility of hitting a target with some kind of payload, whatever that is, bombs, missiles, rockets, cannon, fire, emp, rail gun, whatever the hell it is they got, laser beams, whatever they got.
And now let’s discuss adding on. I don’t know if they’re flying it, it doesn’t sound like they’re flying it. But also being responsible and giving command and control orders to a drone who’s supposed to be flying right next to them as their wingman. And I will also say, as far as air combat is concerned, the only thing I know about being a good wingman is watching Top Gun or maybe back in the day playing some kind of flight simulator on a computer or something like that. Other than that, I’m completely unqualified to pass judgment about what it takes to fly a plane and then also control the drone that’s supposed to be my wingman.
And it, it causes me to wonder why this is a thing apart from the usual wondering, right? I mean, like, we know that times, times are a changing. We know that, we know that, you know, as, as time goes by, you have to do things to either keep up or stay ahead of your adversaries and stay in line with your allies. Like, I get, I get all that. I get that game, but I feel like this is a big jump. There’s a Big jump for America. This is a big jump for the world. The idea that we are going to send our fighter jets that cost maybe a couple billion dollars a piece or something like that, and then send them up into the sky into potential combat with a pilot that knows how to fly said fighter jet.
Seems risky. And then I would like to know when was the last time that Americans in the air, in air combat, we’re getting shot at, we’re getting shot out of the sky, or we’re at risk of such things. And that might be the answer to that. Might be a lot more prevalent than we can imagine. Maybe it’s recent, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say probably not. I mean, there might be some country, Middle Eastern countries that have some of our old Stinger missiles, but I would like to think that our old Stinger missiles may not have as much technology in them to be able to keep up with or catch up to modern day aircraft.
In fact, when I first got in the army, my first job was a 14 mike, which was an air defender. And my job was to shoot shoulder fired Stinger missiles at aircraft, both rotary wing and planes. So helicopters and planes and anything in between. And so I wonder, is this something that we really need to be worried about and that’s why we’re looking for advancements in this? Is this a common threat on today’s battlefield? That we’re looking for advancements in air combat to take the pilot out of the plane to save human lives, or are we just looking for a technological advancement? Either way, I can see the benefit, but I don’t know that I agree that this should be the way that we, that we, that we go about this.
I think having this discussion that piloted fighter jets are a thing of the past might be a little premature. I might have to agree with the Secretary of The Air Force, Mr. Kendall on this one, but let’s, let’s keep going. Kendall said CCAs show the growing importance uncrewed, uncrewed platforms are paying, are playing in Air Force’s arsenal, but that crewed fighters can’t be abandoned yet. When the air force flies CCAs into battle, he said it will be important to have a human battle manager nearby to control them as a unit with a highly secured communications feed.
Okay, so here, now we’re getting to hear a little bit about this. Pilots and simulators are already starting to learn how to manage large numbers of CCAs while continuing to operate their own jet, Kendall said, and are enthusiastic about the new possibilities and new ways to safely accomplish their missions. My vision is that our operators are going to embrace this, they’re going to move it forward, and they’re going to deploy it in a cost effective way. I was a little unsure as to how our operators would react to this, but when I asked them the question, how do you feel about this? Their response was, sir, these things, these things are going to save our lives.
Kendall said the military should continue to buy F35 planes, which he called a state of the art system that’s continuously being upgraded and in high demand from allied militaries around the world. The Air Force plans to buy 1763 F35 S’s, but Kendall said the final number could change depending on how well CCAs work. Okay, so pilots are testing this system in flight simulators. And so I guess my question about this more is who is controlling these things? Who is this flight manager, this battle. What did he call it? This battle manager that is controlling these things in the sky? A battle manager nearby to control them as a unit with a highly secured communications feed.
Is this like the second guy in the airplane? You know, like, is this Goose’s job? You know, there was Maverick and Goose. Is this Goose’s job, the guy sits in the back who works the targeting system and helps be the lookout, whatever else that guy in the back does? Or is this the job of the pilot to manage all these systems? And what kind of autonomous system is this? And so like this thing is. And I know that this is going to be a shitty reference, but if any of you have ever seen the movie Stealth, I believe Jamie Foxx was in it.
It was back in the day and it was about these Navy pilots who were doing missions and they were, you know, combat pilots. And they were introduced to this drone. They introduced this drone into their team as a fourth aircraft of the three. And it started to think for itself and did all this crazy. Now, I don’t know that we’re gonna get into like Skynet stuff here and that these drones are gonna start doing their own thing and having their own thoughts and all this type of thing. But maybe that’s where it gets to at some point.
And maybe right now that conversation requires a tinfoil hat. But I don’t know that any of it really should be off the table because this is certainly waters that we’ve never, we’ve never tread in before. And so my question, I guess, is, how do you feel about it? How do you, as the audience sitting there listening to this information and hearing my thoughts on it, with the understanding that I’m no expert, I’m just a talking head on the Richard Leonard show over on the Stu Peters network that just so happens to be on Rumble. That’s just one man’s opinion based on his service in the military, which wasn’t in the Air Force and wasn’t as an aviator.
But let’s talk about some other things that we do know pretty well about being in the military. Let’s just talk real simply about electronics. Now it’s common knowledge that in the United States Army, United States Marine Corps, in the United States Navy, and I would imagine that in many corners of the United States Air Force and certainly in the Coast Guard, the, The electronics game is not spectacular. I’m sure that it’s better than it used to be. Seeing how everything now is web based, everything now is electronic. Everything now requires a charger or batteries or some kind of Internet connection or satellite feed or, or something like that.
But how, how dependable, how dependable are these secure communications feeds that these pilots will have with these drones and how dependable are these things? And maybe the American people should be asking questions about that type of thing because I think it’s really easy for us as a society, as a culture to get real wrapped up in how cool this is or how scary it might be for some, or how big of a waste of money this might be. But I think we also need to be asking questions about how is this really going to work? How are we going to ensure that this secure communications feed remains secure? How are we going to ensure that it continues to communicate throughout the whole mission? And what happens to these drones in the, in the event that the pilot, the piloted plane on this team gets shot down, has a malfunction, has to pull out and return to base? Do they all just follow? The plane has a malfunction and plummets towards the earth and, and the pilot or pilots have to eject.
What are these drones doing? Are they gonna, are they gonna climb high like Chappie said? Just climb, climb, climb high and just hover or circle and try to use these super high tech cameras and all this technology to pinpoint the location of the pilots that ejected? Where are they? Are they okay? Are they going to get vital readings? Is this going to be like some Star Trek type? Why are we, why are we in such a hurry? Why are we in such a hurry to take, take the, the humanity out of everything? Why are we in this hurry to develop bigger, better, faster AI? Why are we in a hurry to have vehicles that are not driven by people.
Why are we trying to have fighter jets fielded to our military members that aren’t piloted by anybody? And are these jets making their own decisions in flight? I understand that we’re going to have battle managers that are going to be up there to control these things while in flight. But if, if the human pilot is, let’s just for conversation sake, say that the human pilot is engaged in aerial warfare, like a dog fight maybe, or trying to release a payload on a target. And he’s got to concentrate on that because, I mean, that’s his job. And there’s specific ways to do that and do it accurately and correctly to ensure that you hit your target and you don’t hit any other target because it may be not a target.
How do we ensure that these things are doing the right thing? I mean, it wasn’t very long ago that you were able to scour the Internet and find video of some dude and I think it was in China or Japan or somewhere that developed all these robots or whatever that could play a soccer game. And as some somebody said it was actually entertaining and the score was close and it was a good game, but these robots were making decisions about where to pass and how to pass and when to shoot and aiming and, and you know, how to lead their.
Lead their people. And apparently it was an entertaining game to watch. It just looked wonky because the robots move funny. They don’t move like humans. Why are we in such a hurry? You know, for hundreds of years now, the human race has done some pretty amazing things. The human race has done some pretty vile things and some pretty ridiculous things that we probably shouldn’t be proud of. But human beings have done some pretty amazing things all the way back to whenever it was we started keeping track of time and keeping track of events and keeping track of our accomplishments.
That’s just the ones that we know about. Who knows what really happened before we started keeping track? Why are we in such a hurry to take ourselves out of it? What’s the benefit there? Why are we in a hurry to take ourselves out of jobs that could pay us money to eat, to put a roof over our heads? Why are we in a hurry to take ourselves out of things that require thought to make a good decision? Decisions like dropping the right bombs on the right place and killing the right people? I guess I don’t. I don’t really understand it.
And if we are going to say that this is behind the disguise of saving human life, I’m going to call bullshit. I’m going to call bullshit on that because we haven’t really done a good job at that. And if this is the way that we’re going to start doing that, it’s a pretty extreme start. And it seems to me that it may be a way to just further, further the taking out, if you will, of more human beings. Maybe not. Maybe that’s my tinfoil hat thought about this whole thing. But you see, like, we’re in a time right now, especially where we’re waiting for January 20th or whatever it is to come along so Donald Trump can take office and make all these changes to make our country better and put money in our pocket and make us healthier and put checks and balances back in place in our government, try to bring down this debt so we don’t default on it.
And we’re gonna deport a bunch of people. And rightfully so, we’re gonna get rid of thousands and thousands and thousands of illegal aliens. And rightfully so. If you came here illegally, you committed a crime, and so you need to answer for your crime. And if you want to come back, there’s a pathway to do that. But that’s not what this show is about. But when those people leave, because everyone else on the other side, and even people on our side with our way of thinking, they’ll say things to you like, well, who’s going to, who’s going to do all these jobs? Well, we are, but we’re not going to if we keep taking ourselves out of them.
And maybe this talk about fighter jets and pilots and this and that, maybe that’s not the time for this particular conversation because all of these people aren’t going to just step in and be fighter pilots. But I think it goes along with everything else that we’ve talked about. It goes along with everything else that we do as just plain old American citizens, just the regular guy. We’re taking people out of all kinds of stuff. You can go to McDonald’s now and their skeleton crew, because you can order from a screen, you can pay your bills from a screen, you can do it online.
There’s all kinds of things you can do from your phone, from a computer, from a screen provided at wherever the place is that you’re going to pay or conduct your business. We’ve just taken people out. And why? Maybe it’s because business owners and big corporations don’t want to pay paychecks. They don’t want to pay people because if they stop paying people, well, then their profit margin is higher. And I guess as A business owner. I can understand that logic. But there probably are some things, some things that we should keep people doing. One, to keep them active, keep them thinking, keep them moving and keep them earning, working for the things that they want and need.
Keep them in a position to be prideful of the things they have and the things that they’ve done with their lives. To be able to sit back and say, yep, I did that. Whether you, whether you built a bookshelf, mowed your own lawn, set up a computer, whatever it is, whatever the job may be, the idea of just taking the human element out of a lot of these things that we’ve talked about and continue to talk about over time, I think that we’re going to regret it. I think that we’ll regret it soon enough. I think we’ve come too far.
We’ve done too much work as a civilization of people, as a race of people. And this isn’t just country by country, globally we’ve done a lot of work. And I know that the world is burning in many corners right now. And for people, people, things are grim and dark and gruesome and maybe it seems like all is lost. But if we keep taking the human element out of things and we limit social interaction and we limit the ability to go to work and be prideful of a good, honest, hard day’s work, what is that going to do for our civilization, for our people, for our society? If nobody’s proud of the things that they’re doing and what they have, I feel like they’re going to be a lot, going to be a lot more apt to let it go or give it away and not be as protective of it.
If we replace war fighters of any kind, pilots, soldiers, people that are operating tanks, artillerymen, intel analysts, armors, enter, enter military occupation here when it’s time, when it’s time to open that can of whoop ass and it’s primarily robots and drones that step through the smoke and they don’t care, they don’t care about what they’re defending. They don’t have their reasons about why they’re there fighting. They don’t have kids at home to defend. They don’t have generation after generation after generation of military member to build on, to build a legacy on. Is it going to mean as much to them or are they just programmed? If we take the humanity out of our war fighters, we take away the why from our military.
And the why is what made our military amazing, what made it great. Because we all had something to fight for. We all had a reason which made the passion, the integrity, the big balls that it took to stand, knowing that you were entering, you were entering a pit of hell. You knew. You already knew before you got there, but you were going to go anyway because if you did it, maybe your kids wouldn’t have to. Whatever your reason was, I don’t think that it’s right that we take that away from our war fighters. I think that’s a big reason about why.
That’s a big reason as to why we were so great. Did we have casualties? Yes. Collateral damage? Yes. Is it horrible? Yes. But so did the enemy. And they had more. They had more collateral damage, they had more death, they had more destruction. They had more, they had more to weep for. And we came home with our heads held high. Yeah, we brought home some flag draped caskets. And it hurts. Hurts right in your chest. But we’ll never forget, we’ll always honor those men and women for the sacrifice that they made. Drones. Drones don’t care. And for some, maybe that’s the whole point.
But when it comes down to why our military was great, it was because we all had one common goal. Maybe it was a couple common goals, maybe one of them was the mission. But I think what’s more important was to make sure we all come home. We all come home together or die trying. I don’t know. That’s about all I got to say on that. So take, take the next couple weeks and reflect, Reflect on, reflect on all of this. But also take time to remember the humanity that we all share in the time that’s so polarizing.
That can be extremely frustrating. Take the time. Have an amazing Christmas. Have a, have a great new year. We’ll see you in 2025. As Christians in a Christian country, we have a right to be, at minimum, agnostic about the leadership being all Jewishly occupied. We literally should be at war with Israel a hundred times over and is. Instead we’re just sending them money and it’s fucking craziness. Look at the state of Israel. Look at the state of Tel Aviv and look at the state of Philadelphia. You tell me where this money’s going. You tell me who’s benefiting from this.
I am prepared to die in the battle fighting this monstrosity that would wish to enslave me and my family and steal away any rights to my property and to take away my God. Go yourself. Will I submit to that? If you’ve got a foreign state, you’ve got dual citizens in your government, who do you think they’re supporting God right now, would you protect the nation of Israel and protect those of us, not just our church, but every church in the world and in this nation that’s willing to put their neck on the line and say, we stand with them.
You go to Trump’s Cabinet, you got Biden’s cabinet. It spoiled juice. I have a black friend in school. I have nothing against blacks. She has nothing against me. She understands where I’m coming from. Excuse me. I’m a Jew. And I just like to say that, you know, in our Bible, it says that you’re. You’re like animals. The Jews crucified our God.
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