Kump - Ep. 266 Trump's War Slaves

Episode Date: August 17, 2026

https://www.patreon.com/raykump Support the show + get bonus episodes every week.President Trump says the USS Abraham Lincoln’s record deployment was “not nearly long enough,” as sailors’ families report supply problems, broken toilets and serious mental-health concerns. Ray examines what the crisis reveals about the Iran war, military logistics and treating American troops as disposable.

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running AI shell games and barely edible fast casual restaurants, as the notion of keeping up with the Joneses has been replaced with showing whole on the internet, just to keep up with your Jonzing. Police were still running out of ammo. Family accounts is worried. describe food and water problems, mold, broken toilets, plumbing backups, and more. But Donald Trump, the courageous chicken hawk commander-in-chief who never served a day in his life,

thinks they're just a bunch of winers. The head of U.S. Central Command visited the Lincoln and acknowledged there were hardships, but said that mental health reports were among the lowest reported number of mental health cases of all ships, which sounds to me like he's threatening that if these families don't shut their mouths, he'll send an aircraft carrier full of even more severely mentally troubled servicemen to the front line

so we can finally lose this war once and for all. And then see what happens to your precious economy. Go ahead. Try me. I've got an endless supplier of broken down men. I can throw down the clogged toilet of American exceptionalism. Jump in, boys. The water is fine. And that's not a direct quote, just a general vibe I perceived. Welcome to the toilet.

Welcome to Kump. That ship is moving. No, they're not. That ship is moving right now, or very shortly, and it's being replaced with another very similar ship. No, no, no. Not nearly long enough. Thank you, everybody. What's that even mean?

I mean, that right there, ladies and gentlemen, is the art of the deal by Donald Trump. Hey, families are saying this. No, they're not. Nine to nine that happened. They're not saying. Shut up. Shut up. Hey, what do you say that there's like,

yo, there's water problems on the ship and the toes are backed up. People are jumping over. Shut up. Hey, no one's saying that. This ship is perfectly great. These kids aren't crazy.

No one's being driven crazy. Totally fine. Totally fine. Just sending a new ship, but I shouldn't. There's deployment. It's not even lost. It's 260 days should be 640 days.

What's the difference? I'm just trying to get some more. I'm trying to bite into the private island. It doesn't make a lot of sense what's going on. If we have this other ship, why does this ship, like, what has this ship been doing? The sending the George, let's just take a look at this. They're sending the George Washington. Another aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington has made its way towards the Middle East as of Thursday to replace the linking.

the Lincoln multiple news outlets reported president Trump appeared to confirm reports so it's like you know look they're not even denying it they see it seems to be in reaction to the outrage right so why we have another ship like what is going why are we fighting this war on the cheap where is this money going is the second week in a row where it's like the basic fundamentals of warfare seem to be going out the window. They seem to be kind of, we're losing the threat here.

We used to be one of those countries where it's like, you know, oh, what would happen if China, like with this massive military trying to retire. We would destroy China. We would, I don't know what we do. We launched the, the AWACs, the fucking B-52s.

I don't know what is supposed to be our competitive edge, where we can't even provide soap to soldiers. you used to watch MREs and like you know like these programs but MREs meals ready to eat and um you know like they they pack these things that you know they're made to last forever or whatever you know multiple years and they try to shove in as much comfort as possible I mean other countries need to have nicer ones but I get they're expensive they don't actually go to war maybe we you know we send people to war so we can't afford to give them our caviar rations

like the French troops I guess I don't I've seen guys like it's never it's never like it's always like guys who are out in Alaska like ice fishing who like buy these MREs and compare them on YouTube but whatever but I mean points we we but they do try to give them little comforts right they give these like you know Hershey bar things these chocolates soldiers in the past they try to give them things that make them feel at home now in more modern days you see these documentaries we're like they have a sabarro on the ship or something you know they had they have they have a buffalo wild wings in the fuselage

next to the nuclear missiles, something like that. Creature comforts. You know, if you want people to not question you when you tell them to blow up Alaska, you kind of have to pry them with a little bit of beer and a little bit of, you know, maybe a few skittles. Hey, the rifle tower, just nuke it. Well, can I, can I get a clock bar? Is that on the table?

You're not even getting these people toilets. Apparently these toilets are all clogged up. I mean, I'm not, you expect me to go to a war of, of, I don't know, I wouldn't call us a war of conquest, because we're not conquering. It's hard to call this a war of conquest, if you ask me. That might have been the intent, I guess. I don't, I mean, it seems to be a war of like, just a war of pissed your pants. I don't mean, like, in a scared way, more like a, like a dribbled pant, piss down your leg and stumble down the stairs. as in the metaphor for the for the for the American Empire itself I'm not question anyone

soldier anyone anyone can ban or that's not the point in my analogy is to say that it doesn't seem it seems almost like a cell phone like an intentional like you know collapse of I don't know what you called them the American hegemony with that whatever you know the great the great American Empire which is like you know what What is that gotten us? I guess it's got this, you know, cheap petrochemicals. Cheap, you know, flour that's poisoned. Can I, am I, can I be one of those people who blames the fact that I'm fat on, on American

flour? It might be true. You know, God like me, you think I'm just eating a little time. I'm just eating American flour, right? I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I'm eating salads there with these processed vegetables. If I was in Europe, I would lose 50 pounds just by, you know, by bowling, apparently. those people say and you know maybe they're right so why what am i getting out of this is my point

dana sit down the cats acting up you're biting wires i might have to you know since you want a 260 day deployment dana speaking of last night we did a patreon episode uh featuring dana about you know the future of of human basically human con humans will fight in the future to become cats for the wealthy it's a very interesting a lot interesting angles to it. Stop playing with the battery, please. She's got a little double-A battery. You like this?

You like this? Imagine Dana was on a ship and I put her in the middle of the straight and four moves where Donald Trump wants to claim. I'll show you the clip in a second. Stop playing with the wire. Donsense.

He wants to claim it for America. I don't know what good, you know. How about we don't we don't own it? and we just ship oil through it. That's an idea. Wouldn't that be better? What have we gained from this? Is Iran not doing terror anymore?

Iran was the number one sponsor of state terror, but now we've reclaimed the title. Good bully for us. It just seems, look, if you can't even, and look, don't get me wrong. I was reading an article recently, and I don't know if this is adjut prop or propaganda or fake, you know, whatever news.

But, yeah, I was reading, only tangentially connected to this, that Russia, the Russian troops, if you're a Russian infantryman, which I don't know, this is, this seems very, uh, sketchy. It might be true. I mean, you know, but if you're in Russian infantrymen,

you get basically a draft into the army, you have like, well, like a 16 hour, a 30 hour window, like most of you, most of them die with it. It doesn't seem, I know they haven't been doing as well as they're supposed to, but I feel like they don't die in 30 hours. The article may seem like they get trained in two weeks and die in 16 to 30 hours for the most part,

which seems like, but if that's the case, but look, whether that's a case of propaganda, it does seem like our troops are better supplied for than the Russians, if that's worth anything, which I don't think it is. I don't think that's a usable metric. Even in World War II, when they, you know, a lot of people claim they,

you know, and state that they won World War II for, for the allies. They definitely lost a lot more people, you know, and, you know, but a lot more fighting with substandard weapons, I guess, and, you know, but the point is, it's not, that shouldn't be your goal. That shouldn't be, you know, we're, we're the premier army of the world. We're supposed to be the, the, the cops of the world. And we got guys, I mean, you imagine you're jumping off a ship into the straight of Hormuz?

Is that, I mean, it's in the Strait of Hormuz, right? or near it. I mean, aren't there a landmine? I mean, I'm not good. Are these guys geniuses? I mean, I'm sure they know their jobs better than me, but I'm a fairly educated guy. I guess they know where they are.

But I'm only defending my statement just now. Maybe they're in a place where if they jump off the ship, there aren't mines. But I keep hearing about mines and ships hitting mines. And I'm like, if you're jumping off a ship in that situation, it seems sketchy. It seems like the alternative. I mean, you just can't.

put people here's the thing you're supposed to drive people crazy like towards the goal with the Marines you we keep hearing these stories of the Marines how like no we they basically break you down they build you up as a killer and you're just kind of a sociopathic killer and I'm not seeing all Marines are but that's kind of the the vibe right it's like you know they they drive they drive you to the edge in a war and it's why we it's why we you know don't really uh the war crime thing it's like you know within reason we kind of allow it we don't tend to try to prosecute your own soldiers because you know you got a job done but we drove you a little crazy right you have little shell shocks i mean shell shocks the the least useful end of the spectrum i guess right when general

patent slaps you in the face and says you know why don't you go out and die from me why aren't you dying in a pit what you're a shell shock sir it's remember patten but the point is uh you're supposed to be like you're just drive people crazy to the point of like uh you know because they their toilet is clogged this isn't a fucking trench get some plumbers on their ship what i mean like you where's all this money get some task rabbits you're telling you can't get task rabbits in america there's so many guys on task rabbit i i had them install amount uh for my my hair light, whatever you want to call it, my side light. You know, I could have done it myself.

Well, this apartment has like plaster, cement wall. I don't have a hammer drill or something. It's possible, but I didn't want to make a bunch of holes in the wall. My level of handyman ability is such that I can get things done, but it's messy. I wish it wasn't. But let's just be honest, you know, and I'm trying to keep things nicer. So I hired a task rabbit. And there's plenty of them.

and you tell me not one of them could have gone to the Abraham Lincoln and unclogged the toilet said a bunch I'm sure these guys a lot of these guys are like eager they're they're hungry for it you know they're very hard workers they're very conscientious they bring the bits and the mounts themselves I thought I don't have the proper anchors but I have anchors that's really that I tipped them you know I try to tip these people well you tell me we can't do that in the ship we can't bring some task rabbits clunk clock the toilets do you know what it's like to be told to go to another country and like just bomb it or and like shoot down and it's this drone and fucking you know for 260 days better part of a year and you i mean i don't even like shitting in like someone else's apartment you know i don't like shitting when like someone's in the hallway it's a it's a straight i mean i know they're soldiers i know they went through basic training and all but it's just like you know this is not like you know if you're gonna do this do it like desert shield if you're gonna if you're gonna if

you're gonna screw with the toilets do it like a blitz the blitz creek right no one can complain in the blitz creek about the toilets because they did it fast that's just a reality that's just that's just good soldiering you make it quick and people don't complain about this applies and i mean do we have a more detailed list here like you know what is it lincoln how as long as have been deployed. It's been deployed more in 260 days. It works as a mobile air base and command center with its own defense systems.

It's the length of more than three football fields that has a crew of roughly 5,000. Right, so it's a little city, basically. It feels like the people in charge. I don't like to question people in charge. I like to respect authority. I feel like if you're running things, this must be your reason for it.

That's my, I tend to assume. But it does, so it's starting to see. like perhaps they were pushed into a war or like jumped head first into you know into into and instead of having a good plan they just kind of like well we have these

like aircraft we're just sending the aircraft carrier and the guys who like worked there can kind of figure out the little nitty gritty of it all you know it feels like you like when you work at like a if you work at TGI Fridays

let's just say and you got a bunch of like line cooks who know their job. They know how to put the Jack Daniel sauce on the salmon. They know how to make the jalapeno poppers. They know how to make the Santa Fe chicken burger or whatever hell all this shit is. You know, the Tuscan spaghetti with prima vera.

You know, a lot of this stuff is microwave. But you know, still, you can always screw things up more. They tend to, they know their jobs. The waiters come and go. They give you the free refills typically. places that's all you I mean that's the only reason you go my opinion and that's fine but then you have a new new district manager comes in and he starts fucking trying to talk a lot of shit he probably lied to get the job he's talking like I went I went uh maybe maybe he's he's

lied that where we were at school maybe he said he was a Harvard and you got Harvard MBA he really went to the fry you know one of those like you know fake business school I don't know a slander to fry I'm sure it's a fine business school um but you know in a harvard i guess at least it doesn't have prestige whatever point is the guy you know he he lied about being in deca because what i try to do when got a job mcdonalds i like lie i did i went to a deca meeting once that goes like a business club uh in high school and yeah and like you know i went to the like a meeting and i just didn't like the vibe so i just never went again and like the kids who were there and the teacher was annoying

and so I technically went to Deca. So it wasn't technically a lot. It's like, what activities are in school? My McDonald's application. I was 15. I put Decker. What's the difference?

And the guy who was interviewing me was, like he was in Deca. Oh, I was in Deca. What'd you do in Deca? What was your project? I'm like, I got to be honest.

If you, I only went to the first meeting, which is like, it's like saying you went to the first practice of a football team. What does that mean? So I got caught. I still got the job because it's McDonald's.

You know, an award tie. You know, I mean, I'm not saying that McDonald's has their standards, but I wore a shirt and tie. So I feel like that got me the job. And the Deca thing was just like, well, you know, you're a liar. You're branded as a liar. And it's kind of, and I bring up that point to bring up, you know, in a similar way, the people who run the Pentagon now are kind of like that. They were like, well, like the people, Trump and his cronies, you know, Hegg says.

Hex says his main thing. I think he wants to fight a crusade. like he wants to fight like that he thought he would actually be able to I think he really thought he he'd get like the troops to like carry swords like I mean I don't think he like he I think he actually like wants like he doesn't he he's like when he talks about like having a holy war and a crusade against Islam he really means like like a knights of the round table kind of thing I mean he doesn't literally think that but that's kind that's a vibe these guys are all kind of they feel white knuckly they feel like they're just kind of winging it and so you know i know i know he was in the

army or whatever i'm not saying he's you know i'm more qualified in him but i wouldn't expect anyone to let me plan a battle but it feels like they just send over an aircraft carrier and said hey you know guys you know what you're doing right it's it's fine let us know let us know if you need anything well the toilet's clogged and guys are jumping off the ship no they're not shut up we'll set another ship when we can but shut the fuck up

which is you know it's a one way to lead a war it's one way I mean if you join the military I guess on some level not to like take the administration's side you should be a problem solver

did you guys look up how to unclog a toilet on YouTube did you look up how to you know treat your own mental health cases you can probably did you watch you know maybe watch them

rogan stuff you know like you get some alpha brain maybe he just ain't alpha brain I took alpha brain at one point and it felt good years ago I should get back on it I liked it it's not an endorsement by the way I just the Lincoln has played a key defensive role

in the war against Iran having shot down hundreds and hundreds of missiles and drone attacks that targeted the vessel according to Hexeth every single one of those shots easily shot down miles and miles away from the ape lincoln he said in april they were blowing ammo into fantasy land so that's hexs that was hexsets of the lincoln so he's saying that when i ran shot missiles they were blowing ammo into fantasy land i think it's what he's saying which is a weird

thing in the context of we're out of ammo but you know i guess you know they were blowing ammo into fantasy land and i'm blowing goofy and dizzeland quote unquote the ship has also had a part in enforcing the u.s. blockade of iranian ports why can't stop in iran's ports are you telling me if these soldiers got because this thing i mean it's supposed to like go into different ports every 30 40 day i mean i guess is this what they're saying um link's deployment was expected to end in may was extended indefinitely the report ship swap with the washington company comes as trump has reinstated a blockade against they ran.

I don't know why if you have the ship, why was the ship not deployed before? I guess there was reasons. I guess they forgot. Several ports of detail, poor conditions aboard the linking according to MS now,

which interviewed, I mean, a dozen, that used to be MSNBC. Not the most respected that way, but I mean, the family, interviewed a dozen family,

I mean, I believe family members. And if you did a dozen family members of crew members, those aboard the ship have been dealing with moldy shouts, and we're gonna have key toilet trees.

I mean, to be fair, did you, do you guys open up the, the, the, you're supposed to do, I forget, you're supposed to leave the, the, the, uh, shower curtains open or closed? I mean, you got, you got, you got to meet Pete Hexas halfway. If you, if you, if you're going to, like, you know, leave a bunch of moldy, you know, toothbrush, like, you know, if you're, like, you know, if you're going to, like, lose your toothbrush every night. Yeah, how many toothbrushes you're supposed to send to Iran for you? You know, how many care packages is Pete Hexasb is supposed to send you?

I get it. Don't, hey, Pete, Pete, I get it. It can get frustrating, but still, this is kind of your job. A spouse of a service member on the Lincoln told CBS News that sailors had previously experienced food shortages. Another reporter from USALA contains photos of rationed meals served the crews aboard the carrier. Let's see. This is a meal The picture of guess of the

Rationed meal It looks It's not great It's a tortilla A picture shared by U.S. Marine deployed on Tripoli Of a meal service members This is a

Pretty different But whatever this is Both the Navy and Pentagon Chief Pete Hex has denied reports of food problems My team conferring logistics stats From what to Lincoln and Tripoli It's a different This is a

This is from April This year So I guess it was related in similar way you know these they're getting served as kind of loose meat and tortillas um i don't know i mean is this the most compelling or i don't you know are these are these guys maybe maybe these guys just trying to make like you know if they get served buffet style that would be i mean i'm not trying to question a soldier but would be funny like hey look like i like it's just well you could have took it more like i don't know i mean that's a speculation but yeah

I'm an honest broker here, is what I'm saying. An unnamed U.S. official confirmed the CNN. A crew member went overboard and was rescued last month, and then there was viewed as a mental health incident for Navy. Or 200 families of crew members attended. I mean, this is no way. Maybe this is all, like, coordinated. That's the thing.

Maybe this is supposed to be, look, we're so crazy. We'll jump off this ship. Imagine what we'll do to you. imagine what happens if you don't give over the straight-of-war moves you know we don't even fix our troops toilets what do you think we'll do we love our troops we don't shut the hell we don't shut our mouths about our troops support the troops we love the troops rah rah rah and we treat them like dog shit we don't think they like you iran imagine what we'll do to you i mean i feel like it's kind of and we did kill their leader uh months ago

at the beginning of the war. I feel like that was a bigger intimidation move. But yeah, you got to try different things. You got to try out. More than 200 family members of crew members attended a meeting in San Diego last week with acting secretary of the Navy, Hung Chow. I think it's how you pronounced it.

Many of the families were raised a litany of concerns at a later virtual meeting, including about the crew's mental health. So, you know, I mean, this is not just horses, it seems like. A lot of the family members are like, our kids are getting fucking shitty water. Can you do something about this?

Hung Chow is like, well, I'm not sure when Chow was unable to specify during the meeting when the crew of the Lincoln would return home. So that's not a great response. I guess Hum Chow was kind of unhelpful in that way. The U.S. military has strongly pushed back

against reporting about mental health concerns. We have not increased in the, we have observed an increase in ideations or attempts aboard the ship, adapting to life at sea can be difficult so we've learned how to provide resources and help sailors. I mean, if I'm in charge of the Pentagon,

I'm just going to say, I'm going to blame this on TikTokers. You know, and YouTube, it's just these influencers. I would create this whole myth of Davey influencers. And like, you know, I would actually make my own. So, again, this is another example of why I, I'm allowed to kind of keep my integrity because they won't pay me off.

But, you know, if they want to hire me, I can make this go away. I'm a smart guy. I've out of the box ideas. I would create a, because here's what I would do. I would hire some guys of back page or these actors or whatever or find an influencer. And I would dress them up like a Navy man. And I have them start making these kind of really obnoxious, like TikToks and YouTube shorts and stuff,

Instagram Reels about like, you know, kind of like, a la COVID dancing nurses, right? But it's Marines, not, you know, look at my troop, like, just kind of whining and like making it, kind of, you know, you have to false flag

these, these mental health concerns, kind of, and make them seem less, um, you know, look, right now there's doesn't seem to be a big face on it, right? Like, I don't see the guys complaining.

I have to imagine it to a certain, The families are front and center. If I'm running the Pentagon, again, this is, this is not like something I believe. It's just a little, it's wrong, right? I feel like it's a little unethical, but you know, I'm just trying, I'm trying to get a pool for my family. So, you know, I'm just saying this is an idea. You, I, again, I don't use, if you use this now, I'll know, I'll sue. But I would make really obnoxious TikToks, where they're, again, guys who aren't even soldiers.

and then that's what we'll be that would that's what you have that's all you have to do now that's all you have to do to get people people are so annoyed by like um any kind of influencing you just but you just make like really tedious AI slop like reels and ticotx and you and and about any subject that's that should be how they should have done that to get us on board with the iran war if i was if i was if i was part of this administration, I would have made a bunch of TikToks with a bunch of Iranian kids, you know,

these American Persian guys, whatever. Pretend they're Iranian. You go, oh, this is why Iran's so great. Just make it really, really, I mean, annoying music. Just fucking, you know, like, you make the most annoying skits. People are really, people are ready to turn on

people online now. I feel like it's, it's not, this is not the era of like, we love Jake Paul and Logan Paul. We love, we, where these people kind of like made their bones, these influencers. And a lot power too. I'm just saying, but people are a very tenuous time. Even if you get big, like you're, you're, you're, you're ready to collapse in a week.

And, you know, you need to use that power. You now it's kind of, that's like you can kind of, if you give people 15 minutes of fame, you're almost like ensuring that they get turned on. And that's almost like a directed energy weapon. I would make people viral, make a subject viral, and that's what I would do. So I would just have a bunch of noxious kids in the world. Yeah, young people, whatever, not kids.

It would be funny. Like, like, whatever. Our military is full of little kids. The official has not provided information regarding the ongoing deployment of these. The sales of Marines of the A. Prem Lincoln strike group remain resilient and resolved. As we're in 260 days at sea, 10,000 aircraft carrier, and one and a half million pounds of ordinance expended. I mean, why are you always telling me the amount?

I hate this shit. One half million pounds of ordinance. What does that mean to me? I don't really understand what that means. How many people were killed with that? That's a useful metric, I guess. How many people did you kill? We use a hundred million and a half pounds of ordinance.

It's just things to tell you like how many Cheetos, like, you know, if you laid cheetos out one after another, all the way the moon how many it would be six billion Cheetos was like I don't know

cheetos are on a useful reference point for me just coming to miles I guess um Democrats push for answers in a letter

to Hexeth and Chow Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut remember the Armed Services Committee know the vessels crew members have not been to port and a record said in 200 plus days

I mean what port would they go to I don't I guess this ports Kuwait is there a port in Kuwait they can go to? I mean, could they go,

the aircraft carriers, I guess they go to the ports because they have to come from a port. Where are these ports? There's an aircraft. I guess they land like, I mean, if they came to New York,

or they land on the East, on the Hudson River? These ships are so big. Three football fields, so big. I'd love to have a ship that big and it's just like, I don't know, it's just a bunch of rocks.

I don't know what you're doing it. I can't, I have no imagine. Asian for this. I mean I'd be terrible being a rich guy like what do you want what do you want on your super yacht and I'm like I don't know like we make it like just put a hundred like geodes and rocks like just kind of like nice looking

rock like wouldn't that look cool like a big yacht that has just like you know like you'd be like a rock wall I guess if you want climbing you can but I feel like it would be cool to have like a floating like a ship that just looks like a floating rock numbers look like an island

but not like one you can like you'll live on like you know what I mean but like and then no one else would see that no one else would like that I would have like a six billion dollars 20 billion dollars and other rich people would think I'm an asshole and why you know this is my yacht it's like it's this is this giant rock and it doesn't is it like it's a facade does it have no it actually is rock the giant rocks on it and they would just not understand I would not get invited the parties and I would become I probably betray the country I don't want to I love America but I mean

there's so much abuse someone can take there's a this friggin where's this the top admiral praises sailors but concedes hardships after visit to the Lincoln so Brad Cooper the head of US Central Command which that's different than the Pentagon I guess I don't know how any of this works

acknowledge a difficulty of the carrier's nearly nine-month deployment but said mental health issues were lowered than other vessels. That's not exactly, I mean, by the way, this is the Lincoln. Look at this. This is a big ship.

What a nice ship this is? You wouldn't think you're looking at this, you go, like, you know, wait, this is the US's Lincoln Industry for a Moose on 2019. So what was it doing back then there? I guess we go back and forth, whatever. Service at sea for long periods isn't for everyone.

the head of the United States Central Command on Sunday the latest American aircraft carried to report living conditions and poor morale. The Lincoln, the San Diego based carrier. I mean, you're from San Diego. It's the other thing. You're normally based in San Diego. Now you're just in the middle of fucking nowhere. Any toilets full of shit. You better bring plumbers. I mean, if I'm going to see, I'm assuming the first thing you fucking worry about is the toilets. You know, I'm clogged.

these things the last thing i want the last thing that you need like these guys can't be you're in cramp quarters right it's not a submarine but i don't think it's particularly spacious and and you're smelling each other's shit all the time and his mold how are you expected to shoot down you know drones or whatever the fuck if you're smelling your friend's shit you're smelling his nasty tortilla with beef that I was thrown in that picture. You think that you think I don't see any vegetables there. His shit's coming out all black

and dry nasty. And you clogging these toilets with these nasty shits. Give these guys some fiber. Give them some why did you give them some goddamn pumper nickel bread? I've been eating this pumper nickel bread. Do I mention this in the time? It doesn't matter. Pumper nickel bread's high in fiber.

Really it really is a I think it's going to change my life. It's just German bread is made like a traditional rye bread really nice and it's like um it's just I mentioned before the flour in America the diet we get yeah again you know some of you not everyone gets fat on it but it's still not good for you and you need to America runs on Duncan and also runs on toilets

this is the number one thing like you you think about what you wouldn't give, like, what would you give up to live to live in a different past or whatever? How much would you have to have to be, uh, to live in like, you know, I was talking about this last night in the page, like, how much would you have to get? What level of society would you have to get to live like, you know, without normal? Like, if I offered you an English manor house, you couldn't have a toilet. And the English manor house is a great. Would you accept it, you know? I think most people would be

like it's a very lower middle class you wouldn't want to be a king if you didn't have a toilet what would be the point you're shit in the woods you shouldn't in a box I mean I guess you should I mean I guess they bring you a box

and you shouldn't do it when you care if flushes away I guess at the end of the day would you care if flushes away if someone else is taking it I guess they had in the old days they had toilets and someone would just take the bowl out

and replace it I guess that goes away I guess it doesn't matter I'm really under I'm too empathetic is the problem and you wouldn't think that based on how I'm talking but I have too much empathy because I wouldn't want so I mean but I guess if you're going to become the king

it's your job that's the way Trump thinks like it's your job to take away my shit it's your job to go crazy on a boat and to be a war slave Trump thinks soldiers are war slaves that's the thing that's why that's how we've used them

He's like, you're a war slave. Nothing wrong with it. I'm in charge of the war slaves, and you're a war slave. So why would he care? Like, he thinks his view of machoism is, it's a certain view. It's like he expects people,

some people want to lead by example. He's more like, oh, I'm the, he believes in the divine right of kings, I guess. And go, well, what God would get? God gave, in his mind, in Trump's mind, God gave him the right to command war slaves. And there's no, like, there's no vibe. If I was telling some soldier, hey, go do this.

Why are you complaining about a toilet? I would never say that. You know, like, oh, it seems like, I guess if you're shooting at people, if you're blowing up schools, whatever happens, I'm not saying these guys did it. But you're blowing up a girls' school, whatever happened, right? you know you you wouldn't have to worry about plumbing while you're doing that that seems wrong

so I'm saying so you know but Trump is not like that Trump Trump and to his credit I mean sometimes not not humility is always a good thing for power sometimes you have to put people second and put the the country first and so you view these men as your war slaves these soldiers right and there's no like hypocrisy in his heart in his mind or his heart and like so yeah i mean whatever it's just it's he doesn't give a shit is my point this doesn't care i already care where's this article about him fucking there's something it was interesting watch this hold on yeah watch this is uh i know it's all not disconnected it's all disconnected now the dana knocked this out what she did well whatever

Trump Iran to find on straight on straight as Trump tells Americans to accept high gasoline prices So he basically said he's gonna Try make the straightforward moves On American territory Which is like you look

I mean He's like Lawrence of Arabia He'll maybe he'll make it happen You would think like how is he gonna make a territory that he can't even like really control A part of America The country that you can't even win a war again how is he going to take the street and you know and he can he won't but the fact that he

believed I mean he's the thing if Trump admitted that he can't like what would it be better you think it'd be better if Trump at this point just said by we we're hopeless I mean because he he look in hindsight he should have not gotten in at all and he'll probably admit that if you got if you if you had a drink with him I guess he doesn't drink if you had a like McMuffin with him behind closed doors he might admit to you like hey I probably should I probably should I probably shouldn't have felt this war the best not looking great but yeah I admit that but now that he has what's he supposed to do like just kind of admit to say that the the world will eat us alive so he has to put bravado on it and say I'm

gonna take a straight-of-all-moos we're making it I'm gonna make it into a part of New York me great did me so great he's just crying he's shitting out of his own asshole i suppose who else is this asshole whatever you get um it's it's a it's a what the animal's comments different from those of his boss president trump there you go doesn't mean that all is perfect animal cooper acknowledged a day after his visit he said that along the point i mean that c is uniquely challenging and tough and every single one of us including me reacts to stressors in different ways. Well, it sounds like you're calling people possees.

I don't think they're possees. I'm just saying that's a fucking shitty thing. Hey, like, some people react differently. Some people do the right thing. Why? And complain. That's what he's saying. He's trying to, fuck you.

I'll say that. How about you say, hey, we'll look into this. If our soldiers that were putting in harm's way, can't even get a fucking decent, you know, toilet the shit into, that's not right. And we're going to fix that. I'm going to look at it in that. I don't like the idea that these soldiers are, you know,

we're a modern military. We can afford toilets. That would be me. If I'm the ad, the men would love me. Hey, look, I'm a coward who never served. I'm not even sure how I got this job or was legally allowed. I was appointed by the president.

I don't think I'm allowed to be an admiral, but I am. But I'll say this. I mean, our soldiers deserve toilets. And I'm sorry, you know, if this is true and there's toilets aren't working, I'm sorry. I'm real, I mean, I would, I would off myself in a heartbeat if I didn't have a toilet.

So I get it. And I swear to God, they can, if I, I'll make this promise to you, if these men, if I can't fix your toilet, you can use me to toilet. And, you know, they may, they may, look, that might rub them a wrong way. I'm not saying it's great for morale. I was trying, you know, it was in the moment.

I was riffing. All right. I just want, hello. Please calm down, calm down. I like to just address my remarks I made earlier today about the men using me as a toilet.

I meant that as a metaphor. I mean, I'm obviously going to try to, I don't want that to happen. It's not something I like. I'm not into that. I meant it as a way of, you know, it would be a terrible thing for me.

If that were to happen, I would hate that. And that's why I said it. It's the way of saying, you know, I mean, I don't want, I'm not trying to get. I mean, the fact that I have to explain that, this is sick. I think it's sick. But I guess I have to apologize. I mean, it should be clear what I'm saying. It's the troops deserve toilets, not that I want to be there toilet.

That wasn't the point. You know, maybe this is what's wrong with the military, right? This is right here. This is interaction. I shouldn't have to explain this even though I'm not an admiral I mean I am but I mean I shouldn't be President Trump made me one

by Fiat can you do that if you can make me an admiral well speaking of Lawrence of Lawrence Arabia from earlier he did say you know he quoted I guess the mysticles the Greek I cannot fiddle but they can make a great state out of a little city I don't know the context

of that original quote but the movie's great wants to Arabia and uh the vibe is that you know look i'm not a soldier but yeah if you put me in charge of a bunch of shit like this i'm not saying make me the main admiral but you can make me the admiral of like you know of of of toilets and uh good food i give the you know and logist not like war logistics but you know like uh i'll pick i'll pick the snacks for the soldiers maybe you know stuff like that maybe i'll pick the movies for them are you paying good movies for these guys they want good movies you bet i'd be sure like oh we got uh we got everything everywhere all at once no one wants that and we stunk everyone won the oscar whatever you like you like it

but the soldiers don't need that the soldiers you know oh look at this the flash night became a dildo whatever. They want top gun and Days of Thunder and they want, you know, the rock. You know, give them meat potatoes, the raid. Give them good movies. I bet they give them shitty movies. I bet they give them like stepbrothers and all those fun will feral movies, right?

They probably give them like, uh, fucking the, the in-betweeners. that's that's i mean i'm a show might be good i don't know i never watched you in betweeners or derby girls or something they make some deal with netflix they give them you know they watch 10 000 you show are you showing them 10 000 reasons why is that why this is happening stop showing them that give them good entertainment give them a give me a good night's give me good toilet you if you give a man a toilet he'll kill anyone for you that's the reality that's a promise i begs of soldiers if you if you I will make me a toilet of your peace is that like a Bible song make me a toilet of your peace make me the one who fix the toilets that's not quite the words doesn't mean it all is perfect

Admiral Cooper the Admiral's comments different from those of his boss President Trump when Friday dismiss concerns about difficult conditions reported aboard the ship asked whether he was concerned about the crew's mental health he said no no no not nearly long he said he also dismissed reports

last week about the grim conditions aboard the Lincoln saying the situation has been misrepresented I mean that's just seems that's another clue like this is a guy who talks about like Teutonic Holy Wars and like the Knights Templar all the time and like you know he's like a tattoo

of an eagle humping a umping like a fort or something i don't know exactly but i'm saying you know this is not a guy who used the you know uh is misrepresented and he's just he's he's he's trying to like that's not how he talks to my point he except this is this article here hegg said calls the conditions where you is a completely misrepresented defense agree hexs have claimed the conditions been um been presented filed reports of sailors struggling with morale during a groomed deployment have attempt to jump overboard. Speak with Newsmax, heck that does not directly address reports

of supply shortages, water contamination, and deteriorating mental health on the Abraham Lincoln, nor do you say whether their vessel will return stateside after leaving San Diego in November. Listen, we make sure that every ship, every crew, every captain has everything

we can provide them in every single moment, defense secretary said. Some deployments are longer than others, and I have more respect and gratitude for those sailors than anybody. What they do, was those high seas and those are steer conditions with less port calls is incredible he wants the service members home as soon as everybody else so why weren't they were playing why you have these multiple shift why like this wouldn't be new it's like because he's the thing

i don't know if you tell me oh it was 260 days i would go like all right is that normal i don't know like i should make that clear earlier i don't know how this shit works if you told me it would you know these things they usually are for a year I go, all right. Oh, I know. I mean, these, these like fucking Navy boats, these submarines are gone for a long time, right? I'm not sure how long. So I wouldn't know. But if it was normal, the response would be like, what just happens a little time?

What's your problem? He's going like, oh, this is crazy. So why? I mean, where's the other aircraft carriers? What we use that for? Is that, are they dredging a private island somewhere? Are people partying on the other on the other aircraft care? Like why why have you taken so long?

Why don't you swap the guys out? I love this right. You don't swap you. This is your craft care. You don't just swap out. All right. But like why is it not normal? Tell me that.

Like really what what's what is we're not fighting like a massive war. Right? Like is the other one. These these these articles aren't saying that Washington was like, well, the U.S. Washington, they would say, they would say, right,

the U.S. Washington is on route. It was in Venezuela, but now it's not. Maybe it was. I feel like they should be saying that, though, right? So it seems like they just didn't want to swap it out

because I don't know what. No one's given a good reason. Like, if there was a better reason, they would say it, right? Or these articles just not saying them? I don't feel like everything is, like, you know, it seems like no one's,

I've read enough of these different sources. I mean, I know fake news and all that, but it does seem like if there were better, there's just no reason. You know, they go ahead. There's people complaining. No, they're not. That's not, I mean, that's just, that's not a normal way to respond to anything. If they weren't, if you're saying that that's actually like, you know, could you see what Trump says? You're a liar.

You're so fake news. Shut up. You're the worst. You build worse lies. Any chance he gets. I mean, I don't think when he says that he's even being active. So why is you saying it now? It definitely seems like, you know,

it just just Rockham's razor. It seems like this is the case. It's bad. And so why? And for no reason. So why? I think they want, they want us to pivot away from this idea of like,

you know, the Navy SEALs for a long time. And the special forces have been kind of the, at the forefront of our military, the civilian military imagination. you know, we have these idea, you know, this image of these elite warriors. And they exist and whatever. And I'm not saying that, you know, but, you know, they really want to disabuse. I feel like some, for a lot of people that kind of rubs off on the regular servicemen.

And to regular, and like, all the troops are heroes kind of thing. And all the troops are like, you know, deserving of things. And they don't want, they can't outright come out and say they want, because what they want is to re kind of classify the troops as war slaves right as like you know things that they you know people

just they could throw them into the into the into the furnace as they wish as they see fit that you know as as befits them and so that's what is

maybe that's the whole point is war because war does seem kind of pointless but maybe they need to kind of get people they might start lowering the pay for the military. They're going to bring a draft back. They want to start, like, gradually making the troops not, like, oh, support the troops.

It is what it is from their point of view. By that, I mean, like, the veneration of the troops. I feel like, you know, they really want the troops to kind of be like, don't expect too much. Like, we're going to send you out. That's why these articles are coming out about a, Russia. Maybe they're true. I don't know. Or maybe it's like, hey, in Russia, I mean, 36 hours and you're dead, which seems a bit unrealistic, but maybe. I mean, they would just all be, I'll be dead, right?

Like, wouldn't they be by now all be dead if that was the case? And like all the men in Russia, but I'm crazy. I don't really, I'm not, I don't picture things well in my head, math-wise. But I would feel like if every 36 hours, all the soldiers died, every soldier died within 36 hours. which is the gist of the article I read. I feel like within four years, you just worked through the whole population, right? So I think what they're trying to do is go, hey, it could be a lot worse.

Yeah, you're gonna, you know, oh, toilets? Shit overboard. I mean, that's maybe, like, that's, that's coming next. You're all, you're under water. Why don't you shit over the side? I mean, that's the thing. You're on an aircraft carrier, though. Can you even do that?

You probably can't. I mean, the things are, big it's probably only some people are on the deck probably i think imagine being on a boat and you're almost not even a submarine and like are these guys almost never outside i wonder because it's 5,000 guys like how many of them are on top of the deck i don't know how anything works i do think you know but i think that this is the beginning of an era because you think about a lot of like you know who we fight the propaganda about the countries we fight the empires we fight empires through history rome whatever and there's definitely like the roman legions not that they don't like yeah like yeah

did they treat them like they were disposable completely i don't know but they definitely seemed less concerned in the roman empire for instance about you know whether an individual roman legionaire survives and i feel like we're getting to that they really would love it if like every time a soldier died, we didn't whining and plain. I'm not saying we, like, as much as we should. But they're trying, that really is the goal, maybe, of this whole thing. It's just, hey, shut up. It's clear Donald Trump, who avoids activity himself could care less about the health

and safety or service members. Congress needs to do his job to hold this administration accountable. Gallego. Who's Gallego? Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona. It was a bold statement. I feel like I said it better. He wants war slaves.

make me a senator what is this the resistance to making me a u.s. senator i'll say it's on the floor of the senate you know don't trump making war slaves here you know what that's a really offensive thing to say is it why because we had slave we had black slaves before that's what's to do with that so try to make everything a race thing well i mean it's just offensive It's offensive. What's offensive mean? It would be, I mean, I get it's a loaded statement. You know, but I'd say it because I'd be provocative and I carry a gun.

I mean, I think. I mean, I wouldn't like, I'm going to try and get shot by the Capitol Police, but as a U.S. Senator, am I allowed to bring a gun? Like, you know, I'm openly. Hey, I, just everyone, like, every time I would come on the Senate floor, like to speak, you know, give a little speech or whatever. just remind everyone I carry a gun not a threat just the don't want any confusion because anyone sees the bulge of my gun as I'm talking about these toilets don't shoot me all right but so anyway war slaves what does that mean let's talk

about that from it and it's launch is my war slave thing and then I pull out my I'm gonna pull out my gun just to point it around just to wave it around a little bit for emphasis. Don't, don't, I'm not threatening anyone. All right. It's armed, but the safety's on. I mean, waving it around, just screaming war, so can,

can a senator from New York, can a senator from New Island stop screaming war sleeve? I mean, you can still keep pointing your gun. Just stop screaming, say something besides war sleeves. I'm getting to it. I want, I want, I say like 10 times. I was a poem I wrote.

Yeah. So that's, uh, the aircraft carriers redirected to the Middle East in January after leaving San Diego for a Pacific deployment Us was on this way to the Pacific within the same to January It seems yeah, I don't know I feel like

Just give these men their toilets Have it to him I said that he wants to serve Navy officials are denied And the increase in attempts on the ships The reports prompted Rubin, boom, whatever look just make he's reason you make me the governor of a state and then you know

I'll allow people um I'll allow I got I'll just what if I like become the does the senator the governor of like uh Delaware and I try to like what's a run down state or like uh we're St. Louis that city like what's one of these cities I try I try to get the soldiers to relocate there and I make them all task rabbits Maybe that's where we have, you know, these economies. Maybe we need to just make a military, I mean, it's kind of like my idea for the military, uh, civil military thing. But maybe I can just encourage, I'll give a tax stipend as the governor of some state to ex-soldiers.

And then we can make them into task rabbits and drug counselors. I don't know. Um, making them a private military. Maybe I can, maybe I could try like, like, if I'm, if I run, can I, can I, can, I hire ex-military soldiers and then send them overseas to try and like, I don't know, like steal drugs from cartels? I mean, like, to what extent can my National Guard be used? These are interesting questions.

That's what, I mean, maybe that's what the military should be doing. Stop stealing presidents from other countries. Start stealing the drugs and sell them. Wholesale them back to them, you know, like really get into some shit. Maybe that's what we finance the federal deficit. again why are my ideas going to waste listen to me i have things to say i'm a man i have dreams i have ambitions you know i feel like i get overlooked um it's not right it's not fair so you know thanks to everyone uh appreciate you all we're sticking around and remember we have the patreon uh patreon

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