Soldiers Reflections: Life Death and Duty
Summary
➡ The text discusses the responsibility of soldiers who carry out missions that later turn out to be unnecessary or wrong. It questions whether the soldiers, who were just following orders, or the command staff who gave the orders, should be held accountable. The text also explores the idea of death, particularly in the context of soldiers who lose their lives in service, and the acceptance of mortality. Lastly, it touches on the idea of complacency in society and how people can be oblivious to the harsh realities of the world.
➡ The text discusses the disconnect between people who live comfortable lives and those who understand the harsh realities of the world, like veterans. It criticizes those who are uninformed yet voice strong opinions about political matters. The text also talks about a network called the Stu crew, which provides extra content for a fee, and encourages viewers to support it. Lastly, it delves into the mindset of military personnel, acknowledging the risks they knowingly take, and questions whether the commitment to serve the country is still considered noble.
➡ Many people join the military out of necessity, as it provides structure, a steady income, and a sense of team. The potential risks, such as finding oneself on a battlefield, are known but often joked about to lighten the mood. Despite the hardships, the military experience can be rewarding, especially when the team comes home together. However, the transition back to civilian life can be challenging, with some veterans struggling to cope, which may contribute to high suicide rates among this group.
➡ The text discusses the challenging and dangerous tasks that military personnel undertake, emphasizing their love for their job and the sense of accomplishment they feel. It also highlights the harsh realities of war and the difficulty of understanding these realities for those who haven’t experienced them. The text ends by questioning the accuracy of commonly accepted historical narratives, suggesting that they may be manipulated by powerful figures and that we might be living on the remnants of a hidden advanced civilization.
Transcript
And I think that that’s an interesting topic to talk about because just in the wake of suicide prevention awareness month, and we have talked about suicide on this show many times, but we don’t often talk about mindset. We don’t often talk about things that might get people to those points or not. We don’t talk about the way maybe the other, the other percentages, whatever those percentages are veterans and how they see the world and how they see death and how they see their own lives, whether they’re coming to an end or not. And so today we’re going to have a discussion around that, if that makes sense.
I feel like maybe I talked in a circle there, but it will clear it up. It’ll be more clear as we progress. So stick with us. Don’t go away. We start now. Hey, everybody, and welcome here to the next episode of the Richard Leonard Show. I want to thank you, as always, for joining us. It’s always a very humble experience, of course, as always, to, to have you here and to talk about sometimes very difficult issues. Like, I think today will be somewhat of a heavy, it’ll be a heavy topic, but I have a perspective. We’re gonna see the perspective of another fella.
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And for many years, the Delta Force. I know there was a Chuck Norris movies about the Delta force, but for many years, the United States government didn’t acknowledge that the Delta force even existed. And these guys are supposed to be the tip of the spear type thing. And maybe I, maybe even my view of it is not correct. But as far as I know, these dudes are the best of the best. And when missions seem impossible, these guys, along with people like the Navy Seals and the Green Berets, I’m sure that they all work together in some capacity.
Maybe not. But they’re the ones that they call to do the seemingly impossible missions, the most dangerous, the most super secret squirrel stuff. These are the guys that get the call. And so with that being said, we should also keep in mind when we’re listening to him speak, that these guys have. In my opinion, they’re just different. Not different in a bad way, not necessarily different in a very good way, but they’re just different. The way that they see the world is different. The way they see things like war is very different. And they’re not shy about talking about it.
They’ll tell you straight up exactly what they’re thinking and how they feel. And if you don’t like it or don’t agree, well, that’s fine, but that’s not going to sway them at all. They are going to stick to their guns, and, and they should. They should. At the end of the day, in my opinion, these are the folks who do the jobs that not many other people in our society can even do. It’s not even a question of desire or want at that point. It’s a. It’s a question of ability. They are physically capable. They’re capable of suffering for.
For days on end without complaining. And they’re very mentally tough, or at least that’s how they come across. And I’m sure that they have their demons, and I’m sure that they have their struggles, but they have, through their training and life experience and military experience, they have figured out how to put on a good show, so to speak, if they’re not in a good place or the other. The other side of the coin is true. They are very good at just telling you, leave me alone. I’m not in a good place. And they’re not shy about it.
And so let’s just listen to him quick. It’s like two minutes and 37 seconds or something. Again, this is a Delta for ex Delta Force operator x. I think he may still be operating. I guess with these guys, you never really know who’s who and who’s doing what, but he gives some good information here to us. So let’s check him out, and then we’ll come back together. All right, here we go. Do you think we should have ever been there in the first place? I think there’s no benefit to fucking taking Saddam. Huh? I also thought there was no benefit.
You know, Afghanistan. Mullah Armar came out years later and said, george Bush gave us 48 hours and invaded at hour 40. He said if he would have gave me full 48 hours, his answer was, give up bin Laden. No shit. I did not know that either. The shit the fucking media doesn’t like to put out could have avoided years, no more. Because I read what it. Where did you read that? Oh, man, I don’t even remember. Yeah, he wanted to give up bin Laden, and we attacked too soon. And he was like, fuck him. Interesting. It’s almost like we wanted the war.
Imagine that. No, I wanted the war, too. Don’t get me wrong. I was 100% for that shit. Rocket, mortars. Fucking send it. Let’s go. No one dies on brag, you know? So I was all for it. But strategically, man, you believe in your bosses, sometimes they get it wrong. You know what I mean? So that was an interesting point. Let’s just pause there for a second. Just like the nonchalantness, right, is. Is something that kind of caught me, you know, saying, hey, you believe in what your bosses tell you? They can’t get every decision right? So they.
They tell us what to do. They lay out the mission. We plan it, we prepare, we rehearse. We execute. We come back, mission accomplished, and then we find out that it was the wrong decision. Now, in their mind, uh, mission was accomplished. The court of public opinion makes no difference to these fellas. They’re doing what they were told. And the point of all this is that we, we are here to do a job. Um, I believe that many veterans, uh, not just these top tier operators, they kind of subscribe to the same mentality, right? When I.
When I get in, everyone tells you, everyone tells you, when you first join the military, when you’re going to basic training or you’re going to ocs or whatever your path into the military is, some military academy, whatever that is, they all tell you that at some point, you’re just going to have to shut up and do what you’re told. Don’t ask questions, don’t have an attitude. Don’t guess, don’t do your own thing. Whatever you’re told to do, just do it, and everything should be fine. And so whether or not we should have ever been in Iraq and whether or not we should have searched as hard as we did and all the things that caused this capture of Saddam Hussein, this guy says, oh, there was no really value to it.
And maybe he’s right. Maybe he’s right about that. And let’s just say for a second, for conversation sake, that he is right. And, I mean, I guess I’m not also sitting here saying that he’s wrong, but let’s just say for conversation’s sake, that without a doubt, he’s right. Should, should this fellow and his and his teammates, should they be held responsible? They were the ones that, whatever this, whatever these missions were, they the ones that got flown in in the middle of the night. They’re the ones that did a halo insertion or an amphibious insertion, whatever.
However they got in there, who knows how many, how many people they merc down the way in, on the way out. They found the guy they were supposed to bring back and capture, or they killed the target they were supposed to kill, or they secured the intel. They were support. Whatever the mission is, they did it. They did it effectively. And now here they are standing in your office, mission accomplished. And now it becomes very widely known that this was unnecessary. The decision to go in was wrong. We shouldn’t have been in there in the first place.
Everything that we did here today was the wrong answer. Who’s responsible for that? Are the guys who were the trigger pullers? Are they responsible? Is the command staff that put out a warning order? Or is the command staff that put out this, all these orders for them to go in and do what they did, to provide them the equipment necessary to provide them the ammo, the rations, the water, all that stuff, and then get them there, whatever, by whatever means they needed to render them a salute and watch them walk off into the desert, the jungle, the woods, down the street, whatever the case may be.
Are they the ones responsible? Or does the command staff also pass the buck? Who is responsible for these men and women? Mostly these men, these top tier operators in this case, who’s responsible for sending these men in here to sacrifice everything for what they’re told is for democracy, because they’re patriots, but yet someone is also here to tell them that they did the wrong thing, maybe. Who’s responsible for that? And is his attitude about it? Is it just, is it appropriate? And I think that many people who have seen this clip, it’s been viewed over 2 million times.
I believe that many people are going to say, well, it’s, it’s, it’s a, it’s a. It’s a tricky. It’s a tricky scenario. It’s a complicated situation. These men know that they’re, they’re killing people, and maybe they’re innocent people or maybe we shouldn’t be in this war anyway, and this and that and the other thing. And then there’s. There’s also people who will say, well, whoever made that decision up in Congress or in the White House or in the Pentagon, those are the people responsible, because everyone else was just doing what they were told to do when they were told to do it.
And how can we hold any soldier responsible for accomplishing a mission that was put on their plate? And they did so without. Without failure. They did so without losing any men, any equipment, as little collateral damage as possible. And hopefully, no, no innocent people were injured or killed. So the people in the Pentagon are responsible. Everyone else did what they were told to do, and apparently they did it right, because here they stand, mission accomplished. And I guess. I don’t know what the answer is. I don’t have the answer. But it’s just a. It’s a question.
It’s a good conversation point, I think something to make you think. My personal opinion is that the men who are out pulling the triggers are at 0% fault. I would agree with what is probably the court of popular opinion, 0% at fault. Because if we go by this idea that you don’t ask questions, you just shut up and do what you’re told to do when you’re told to do it, and do it to the best of your ability and you’ll be fine. Well, that’s what these men do. But the real interesting part is coming up here.
Let’s check this out. Did you experience loss of a teammate ever? Yeah. Fuck yeah. All the time. Even in training, man. Like, man, the guy was partnered with in Bosnia all the time. Fucking rotor Blade took the top of his head off one night. Like, Thursday night. Live fire, you know? Holy shit. Yeah. Yeah. People die. Did that affect you at all? No. Fucking. You died doing what you love. I fucking high five you for that. I’d high five myself for that. You know what I mean? Like, you died doing the one thing you’re here for, not a better death.
How many teammates have you lost? Fuck, I don’t know, Mandy. And so many now. Fucking cancer. Cancer. If you’d have told me. Join the Delta Force and be fighting cancer the rest of your fucking time, or your buddies are gonna die of cancer. I made a state in South America banging colombian girls, you know what I mean? So lots of guys. Everybody dies. I’m gonna die. I’m not gonna let it ruin my day, you know? Mm hmm. Mm hmm. Where did you. That’s pretty profound, in my opinion. I think that we live. I think that we live in this.
In this space where there are. There are these things that we just don’t talk about. We don’t talk about because they make us uncomfortable. We don’t talk about them because they might not be appropriate. It might not be the right conversation. And we should save that for the right time, but there really is never a right time. And I think that the difference between that mentality and what we seen from this guy who was a Delta force operator, is a person who has come to terms with the idea of death. They’ve made peace with this, with the fact that the end is coming.
Every day. Every day that we wake up is one step closer to the end. Now, many people in my family or close to me would say that this is a doomsday way of thinking. And I can see how. I could see how anybody would think that, but I. But I. But I share this guy’s opinion on it. Excuse me. I share his opinion on the whole topic. And, I mean, he didn’t really go into detail, but I think that we can get an idea of what his opinion of. Of things like our own death, our own mortality, really is.
And I think that if we can all collectively agree on one thing, it would be that life is very short. Time passes so damn fast. That. That you don’t really. You don’t even really see things like death coming for many people. You don’t see your kids turning 40 just around the corner like those things just for whatever, for whatever reason, those things just don’t compute to us in a sense of time is short. I think that many people have this idea that, well, we got time. And then the old saying as well, you know, it’s going to take a little bit of time.
I got nothing but time. Or you hear older folks say, well, take your time. I’m retired. Like, I get it. I understand where they’re coming from. But maybe the cynic in me also thinks, I don’t know, man. I don’t know if you. I don’t know how much time we really have left. And so then I start thinking about the things that are going on in this world, the things that are going on around us and how evil people are to each other and how crazy this world can be. I mean, all you have to do is turn on any legacy news station or watch your local news when it’s on, and you’ll have a great example.
You’ll have all kinds of examples, as a matter of fact, of how crazy this world is. And unfortunately, I believe that we have many, many pockets, if you will, in our communities, where people don’t like to go outside their comfort zone, they don’t like to go outside their little bubble. And so we have communities. We have community. There’s one here by close to. Close to me where I live, that has everything you could need. The only thing that this town does not have in it is a, a car dealership. As the. Whatever. The. The city ordinances don’t allow for car dealerships for whatever reason, but there’s many not too far away.
But once you got wheels, man, you’re straight, you’re good. You can go grocery shopping. You can go to target, you can go to Walmart, you can go to Nordstrom’s. You can go to. To Costco. There’s restaurants and bars everywhere. There’s. There’s parks. There’s. There’s all kinds of activities. There’s all kinds of things to do. So people don’t really need to leave this one particular town where we’re at anyway. And what happens to folks in these. In these little pockets, I believe, is that they get comfortable and they get complacent and they don’t ever really have to witness firsthand how outright nasty and mean and vile people can be to each other for whatever reason, for something apparently as, as trivial or elementary, as misgendering somebody.
It’s unbelievable. But these are also the same people who will get up on a soapbox and have some crazy argument to pose to you about how crime isn’t as big of a deal and how inflation isn’t really that bad, how the state of our communities, they’re not that bad. Of course, everyone can improve, but it’s not that bad, is it? Meanwhile, they’re sitting in their little pocket and they’re comfortable. They can go to their whole foods for, just for lunch, and then they can go to the coffee shop, and then they can go shopping, and then they can go to happy hour, and then they can maybe go to dinner or stop by the whole foods again for some, some halibut to go home and throw on the George Foreman grill or in their air fryer, whatever the hell it is, and just not have, and have no idea and no awareness what’s really going on in the world and then be able, in their opinion, to have a meaningful, informed, adult conversation about something.
For example, about something like this election coming up. These are the same folks that would say that Donald Trump is a, is a, is a monster. He’s just a monster. And all he cares about is himself and he’s a pig and he’s this and he’s that. And meanwhile, they’ll be the first one on their knees to suck Kamala Harris’s toes. Well, you know, she’s great. She’s great and she’s a lady. And, oh, by the way, she’s, she’s black. And so that’s good. And, but meanwhile, have no idea, other than some dei bullshit about why she’s so great.
And, like, I would be a whole lot more apt to have these conversations, particularly, particularly around our candidates, if there was, like, an evil, level headed way to have the conversation, but there’s just not. And so you just don’t have those conversations. But this guy, this guy in the video, I believe, is, I believe, check this out, is unburdened by what has been. How’s that for a word salad? This guy has been all over the world. This guy has been through to, been, been to hell and back probably multiple times. He’s watched his buddies get killed in training exercises in combat.
He’s probably carried them out the battlefield dead already, and doesn’t affect him. So he says. And did you catch what his reasoning was? Hey, man, you died doing something you loved. There’s no sadness in that. I’d high five you. Hell, I’d high five myself. Why should I be sad about that? If the man didn’t love doing what he was doing, given the stakes of the game, why was he here? Because nobody and I believe that all veterans across the board for the most part can agree on this one. We didn’t join to be rich folks, certainly didn’t join for the money.
There’s a lot of reasons that people join the military and I don’t believe that any of them are for the money, especially once they get in. We’ve run long on the segment as usual, so we got to take a break, but we will be right back. Don’t go away. Hey, folks, we just have a very short break here because we’re running short on time. But I wanted to talk to you quickly about joining the Stu crew. If you have watched the network in the last few weeks, you will have probably seen this already. But if not, this will be new to you.
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You see, like this guy who had said, you know, Sean Ryan had said it was almost like we wanted the war. And this dude said, imagine that these are things that the media doesn’t want to tell you. But then he goes on to say, let’s be clear. I wanted the war. We’re talking about rockets and mortars. Nobody dies at Bragg. So let’s go. And what he means by that is he must have been stationed at Fort Bragg and it’s a safe spot in the US, which means nobody’s dying there. We’re not fighting there. So let’s go where we can fight.
And so let’s dissect that part, because what’s often not talked about is the idea that we make, we the proverbial we when people join the military, especially if you’re joining to participate in a combat arms capacity. So infantry or mortars or tanks or something like that, that is out on the battlefield. You know, you know what the cost is? There’s no secret. There’s no secret about what the cost of this job may be. The cost isn’t just I might get injured. I might throw out my back. I might, I might sprain my ankle. But the cost is also I might get shot.
I might get shot in a place that doesn’t necessarily kill me, but it changes my life forever. Maybe I can’t walk again or maybe I lose a limb. Maybe I lose multiple limbs. And those are all things that if they’re not, if I’m wrong about this, then I owe a lot of people an apology. But I believe that for the most part, these are things that we as adults joining the United States military, we know. We know for sure what this occupation could cost us. We know that there is a chance that we come home maimed, injured, without limbs, or in a box draped with a flag.
And so to a certain respect, you have to. You have to find a way to. To swallow that pill. I don’t know that you have to necessarily be okay with it. I think that if you. If you join and you go into the experience just being all right, well, you know, I might. I might get smoked. And it is what it is. I don’t know if that’s the correct mentality to have, but I think that if you go into the. If you go into the opportunity with the thought process that I’m gonna fight my ass off, I’m gonna work my balls off, and, yeah, there’s a chance that I lose an arm or I lose a leg.
There’s a chance I lose my. My wiener. I met a guy. A couple guys lost their. Their wieners, lost their. Their butt cheeks, parts of their legs, parts of their faces. They knew. They all knew. We all know what the potential cost is. The question I have is, is it noble? Is the commitment to this country made by so many men and women, to serve this land against all enemies, foreign and domestic? Is it still a noble thing to do? Are we still getting young people to join who are doing it because they love this country and they want to see it prosper, or are we getting people joining that are doing it out of necessity? We do have people in our society, in our communities, that the military is just a good option for them.
It’s a good way forward. It provides structure. It provides a steady paycheck. It provides a team like situation. And there’s people that need that. They need that to be successful. And for me, that was probably partly true. I think the structure was something that I needed when I first joined. But there was no secret to me. There was no secret about what the potential cost could be when and if I find myself someday a battlefield. And I did. I did find myself on a battlefield. Millions of us found ourselves on the battlefield. And to be able to say that I didn’t know what the potential cost was.
For me, being in the battlefield or on the battlefield would be a bold face lie. In fact, as a team, we used to somewhat joke about it, right? Like, all right, we’re going out in an hour. Uh, ikemen, you’re coming back with, uh, bouncy legs. Today. It’s your turn. Son of a bitch. And thank God, nobody. Nobody got any bouncy legs. Nobody on our team was killed at all. I mean, nobody was really even injured that bad that they can’t live out the rest of their days. So we got lucky in that respect. But we were also good and proficient at the job that we were given.
And so I think that we carry this with us after our time in a uniform is over. This is a conversation, for example, that my wife and I have had on more than one occasion about death. And she doesn’t like it. She gets very frustrated with my view, because my view is that we should live like we’re dying, because we are dying. And that doesn’t mean that we walk away from our obligations. It doesn’t mean that we don’t work hard. That doesn’t mean that we don’t take care of our. Of our. Of our family and our neighbors and our friends.
But what it means to me is to never forget that at the end of the day, none of this stuff, none of this stuff that we have, none of the places that we’ve been, none of the material possessions, none of that shit’s gonna mean anything. And so, although it’s nice, it’s nice to have. It’s nice to have a nice, beautiful, safe home, and it’s nice to have nice vehicles that work. It’s nice to be able to be able to have some kind of recreation activities that you can put a little bit of money into here and there and enjoy yourself, enjoy the fruits of your labor, so to speak.
But when it’s all over, when it’s all said and done, how much of that shit are you gonna wanna have there? How much of that stuff are you gonna want to see again? How much of that stuff are you gonna want to touch and sit on and feel and operate? How much of it. I don’t believe we’ll give a shit about any of it. I think that if I’m in a position at the end of my days, that I’m still with it, because there’s always that possibility. I’m going to want my kids, my wife, my good friends, my grandkids.
By the way, a few days ago, probably a dark time to bring this up, but maybe it’s a little light that we need. Just a few days ago, I became a grandfather. So I was pretty excited about that. This little thing is. She’s about the size of a football. It’s insane to me, the miracle of childbirth is crazy. It’s crazy just to think about how that little peanut grows inside of a lady and then just, I don’t know, four days ago, she was breathing liquid in the womb of her mother. Now, she’s been breathing oxygen for four days, the first four days ever.
For her. It’s pretty awesome. But those are the types of things that I’m going to want around me. These are the types of things that I want to go out appreciating that I want to go out seeing, that. I want to go out holding their hands and. And. And hugging them one last whatever. Whatever it looks like. And. And I. And I think that this mentality of live like you’re dying, man, because you are to a certain respect is kind of. It’s kind of freeing, right? It kind of. It kind of just takes a little bit of weight off your chest because you don’t have to be.
You don’t have to be terrified. Or at least I don’t have to be terrified. I’m not terrified. I’m not terrified of death. I think that it’s possible that you are scared at the time of your passing, but it doesn’t scare me to get there, especially, as this fella said, if you’re doing something that you love. And so I think that this can be hard for veterans. And maybe, just maybe, this is one thing that might contribute to some of the suicide numbers. Maybe there are. Maybe there are veterans that. That just can’t. Can’t let it roll off their backs.
Like. Like this fella said, this is the one thing you were put here for. If you. If you die doing the one thing you were meant to do, we’re. Where do you lose? Especially when the one thing you were meant to do was to. Was to fight, was to be a warrior and fight your people’s enemies. And some would argue that the people we fought weren’t necessarily our enemies, maybe, but for us. They were for us. Anybody who laid an IED on the road, I’m traveling with the intention of blowing me and my. And my buddies and my truck up.
They’re enemies to me. My enemy included anybody who shot rpg’s at us, anybody who shot AK 47s or any other kind of small arms at us. My enemies were anybody who threw bottles of piss at us or the ones that made homemade explosive accelerant to make sure that when and if they hit us with ieds, that we would burn to death. My enemies were the ones who were stringing up wire, that bridge overpasses to decapitate United States service members who were in the turret of vehicles behind a gun. Those were my enemies. Now, should we have been there? Who knows? It’s not for me.
To decide. But what I do know is when I got there, we had enemies. What I also know is when we figured out who those enemies were, we sought to destroy them by any means necessary, with all the tools of war that were at our disposal. So all these discussions about whether or not we should have been in Iraq in the first place, whether or not we should have been in Afghanistan in the first place, I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know if we should have. Maybe nothing. But the fact of the matter is that we were, and back then, in the early two thousands, I was there from zero five to zero seven, we weren’t going to lose whatever the mission was that we were told, okay, yeah, we’ll do that.
But the real mission, the real mission became very clear. Maybe it was just even hours after we got into country. The real mission was that we all come home together. And so coupled with the idea that you just do what you’re told to do and don’t ask any questions, just shut up and do it and then go about your business. Okay, well, we did that. But in the course of completing that mission, the real mission for us was to ensure that we all came home together. And we did. And I think that it’s important to keep these things about mindset in the back of our minds when we’re talking about these things, such as veteran suicide and just the veteran condition as a whole.
There’s so many things that are. That require a different train of thought. And for some people, I believe that it’s a way for them to cope. It’s a way for the. For them to cope from being away from home. It’s a way for them to cope with this idea that they’re in a. They’re in a situation that they don’t want to be in. They’re questioning whether or not they. They even want to be in the military. This is hard. I’m cold, I’m wet, or it’s super effing hot out here. The water’s hot. Even. I can’t even have cold or room temperature water to drink.
I’m sore, I’m tired, I got bug bites everywhere. Where in the hell does anybody see the fun in this bullshit? But then it all comes to an end for the day, whatever the day’s activities were. And for me, those were the parts that I really enjoyed the most when the duty day came to an end, other than being able to have a cold beer. But when the duty day came to an end and being able to reflect on all the shit that we did that day. That is where I drew my positive power from. Because there were as many things, both in training and in combat that were probably not all that easy to accomplish alone, for sure, alone, but also with this one or two guys, not super easy, but when you have the ability to come together as a team and accomplish a goal and finish a mission, that feels pretty good.
And so for these guys who are top tier operators, their daily goals, excuse me, their daily goals are astounding accomplishments. These dudes are rescuing hostages. These guys are taking out high value targets. These guys are collecting intelligence. These guys are taking out who God knows who from God knows where. They’re doing all, they’re doing all the stuff that you see in the movies. That’s their life. But for them, it isn’t a movie, it’s a job. And they love their job. Well, the regular guy veterans are no different. They got, they got some pretty gnarly shit to do sometimes as well.
And they love their job. The United States army infantry, boy, they love their job. That sense of accomplishment at the end of the day, why, it’s something. So when we, when we move on from today’s, today’s show and all these thoughts, and I apologize if it seemed jumbled and scrambled, but I just had so many thoughts running through my mind, but as we move on from it, I challenge you to just kind of keep those things in the back of your mind when you’re confronted with, with things that you know are going to be shitty, with things that you know may not have an absolute positive outcome.
You have to, you gotta roll with the punches, man. You got to. And let the chips fall where they may. Like, like this guy. Well, my, my partner I had for forever lost the top of his head to a helicopter rotor. Shit. Well, I guess we’ll start over tomorrow, but this is what it takes. These are the people that make it happen. You see how we were talking earlier about the pretty folks that live in their pockets? Those folks can’t even comprehend what this guy that we listen to has seen or has lived or maybe even still living.
And I think that that is part of the reason there’s such division in this country. When it comes to things like our border, when it comes to things about our military and war, war is ugly, war is scary, war is destructive. But war apparently, as we’ve seen through all stages of time, war necessary. The only way to win it is to be bigger, badder, more brutal than your enemy, more proficient, better prepared than your enemy. That’s what it takes. But nobody that want, nobody wants to see that. Nobody wants to know that. Nobody wants to talk about that.
And this idea that we don’t want to fight wars on our own land, I think is a valid one. Because if you haven’t seen it and you haven’t lived it, you can’t possibly fathom what it would be like on your own block. Anyway, we’ve run out of time for today. I want to thank you guys for being here. And again, sorry if I’m a little jumbled, but this topic has me going in all kinds of different ways. Maybe, maybe I should await it. A little bit of time to record today, but please get down in the comments.
Let’s further this discussion, because I think that this is important. The atrocities of war and what it does to the human psyche is something that we don’t talk enough about. We don’t talk enough about how all these snowflakes, if you will, for lack of a better term, maybe, uh, just can’t fathom it. They can’t fathom it. They can’t even watch violent movies on tv, let alone live through it in their own communities. Uh, and so I think that we should further this conversation and maybe we will do that. Uh, but anyway, for this week, that’s all the time we have.
Uh, thank you for joining, and we will see you next week. Take care of yourselves. Good night. There’s a whole bunch of stories that have to be dug into, rethought, reconsidered, and I, in some cases, completely discarded. As modern Americans, we’ve been spoon fed this dumbed down, cartoonish, simplified version of history. It’s all fake. It’s all bull. Everything that we have been taught is part of a self serving narrative written by the people who will say and do anything to keep us on a leash. This version of history, some big name corrupt families like the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds and their many associates, are credited over and over and over again with propelling human development.
Throughout the late 18 and early 19, hundreds, almost every major american city, was burnt to the ground. What if we really are quite literally living atop the ashes of an advanced civilization that’s been hidden from us for our entire lives?
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