TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast - #478: How DEI Is Weakening The Military with Matthew Lohmeier

Episode Date: February 2, 2024

Marty sits down with Lt. Col Matthew Lohmeier to discuss how politics and DEI are dividing and weakening the US military, and how the silent majority can speak up and resist. Matt on Twitter: https://twitter.com/matthewlohmeier Matt's website: https://matthewlohmeier.com/ 0:00 - Intro 6:45 - Politics dividing the military 15:57 - Military of the best 22:28 - DEI harms those it “protects” 27:00 - US weakening is rapid and likely intentional 40:15 - What’s making us stronger? 47:12 - First steps to mending 54:18 - Call to the silent majority 50:03 - Money and incentives 1:02:15 - Define your values Shoutout to our sponsors: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠River⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Unchained⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠CrowdHealth⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bitcoin Talent Co⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Sote⁠⁠⁠ TFTC Merch is Available: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Shop Now⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join the TFTC Movement: Main ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YT Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Clips ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YT Channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Marty Bent: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Sure. Happy to be here. Well, I saw you were on a subcommittee meeting for national security a couple of weeks ago, explaining the problems that you've recognized as it pertains to the military and the encroachment of DEI throughout the military. You wrote a book about this subject, Irresistible Revolution, Marxism's Goal of Conquest and the Unmaking of the American Military. So this is a problem you highlighted years ago, began writing about, sold a bestseller on the subject, and thankfully you were at the subcommittee meeting a couple weeks ago to highlight this problem. Because it seems like it is a pretty massive problem when you look at recruitment rates and just the as an American citizen is not in the military outside looking in at everything that's been done over the last few years as it pertains to DEI quotas and just what seem like nonsensical decisions that have been made. it seems a bit crazy as an insider lieutenant colonel who's retired from space force that has identified this problem when did you first recognize this problem and what exactly is the problem in your mind right well you can spend an hour on a podcast talking about that or you can

spend uh four months writing a book about it and trying to inform people it's um let me try and be succinct and you'd think I'd get better at this having spoken about it for like hundreds of hours and each new day brings the challenge of making sure I engage my brain properly to try and do the topic justice. So it's probably helpful to say that I had spent 15 years on active duty in uniform before really recognizing that there was this particular problem that we're so readily and easily identifying as diversity, equity, and inclusion industry and trainings today. It's getting a lot of attention on social media, primarily, and even in the mainstream media a little bit occasionally, if it's expedient or politically expedient, let's say. But it was,

to answer your question directly, it was in the summer of 2021, right after George Floyd's death, that I noticed the same spiritual, energetic, ideological impulse that was tearing down the country in one sense through the smashing of windows and toppling of statues, the burning and flipping of police cars that people were seeing in the news being reported on in that late spring and summertime of 2020 in which the death of a black man was used as a pretext

by left-wing activists and anarchists to create strife, division, contention throughout the country. That same spirit and energy was very apparently manifest in the United States military all throughout every branch of the military in the uniformed services, and apparently also, and I didn't know it at the time, throughout the federal agencies. And in the fall of that year, President Trump issued an executive order banning critical race theory trainings, banning anti-American trainings in the uniformed services and in all federal agencies, banning sex and race scapegoating is the way it was termed in his executive order. And that came at a time that provided great relief to the man and woman in uniform, because we had started to notice that our morale was being eroded

and people were being divided about political talking points, ideological talking points. And so by and large, that executive order helped kind of calm things in the fall of 2020 leading up to the election. And that was reversed by policy by executive fiat on January 20th of 2021 by Joe Biden. So that's probably a good starting place. There's a thousand things that could be said about any number of those um points that i've i've made so if you want to dive into any of those specific points we can or um or i'll continue to elaborate well i think before we dive into the specific points to get back to first principles just viewing the military and what it's trying to achieve and who it's trying to bring together you would imagine that uh armed

forces the individuals that make up the military come from both sides of the political spectrum and they they agree that they want to protect the country and the ideals that it was founded on and the the rights that it's trying to protect and you sort of have this bipartisan agreement by servicemen and women to to protect that and the the thought of this very hyper-politicalized movement eking into that it seems like it's corrupting something that's very pure and very important to achieve the goals that the military sets out to achieve great points and i'll elaborate on that just a little bit i want to say a few things that are rather definitive the purpose of the united states military is to fight and win our nation's wars that's that's why states

have militaries. And when I say states, I'm speaking of states in the international political sense, international relations speak sense. We need to be able to fight and win our nation's wars. We hope through policy and through a strong military and a strong economy to deter violent conflict. And if deterrence fails, then you have a strong military to fight and win nations wars. They have military objectives that are employed, that are achieved in pursuit of certain political aims. So I want to go back to what you said about a kind of bipartisan contract between service members to do that job that they have. You can look at it that way in one sense, although there are many men and women in uniform who would rather be apolitical.

And in fact, the obligation of those that serve in uniform is that in their day-to-day work life in the military workplace, they remain relatively apolitical. And I say relatively compared to the American people who are welcome to argue and bicker and complain and fight with one another over policy and political ideas and agendas and over which candidates are the best to be in office. They're welcome to those views as service members individually and in their private life, but what they are legally obligated to do is to avoid overt politics in the military workplace because, as you've heard before, religion and politics divide, and so we don't talk about them at the dinner table except in the best of company. And so that's good advice for the man and woman in uniform as well. We want a relatively apolitical military. And so when you have an entire industry that is steeped in politics, and in this case race identity politics, and now every other agenda under the sun, identity politics, that have various letters and things attached to their identities and their political agendas. In fact, I was just reading something about queer theory and the queer agenda yesterday. It was an academic writing. It wasn't a screed by any means or by any stretch of the imagination.

And the queer theorists themselves define and pursue their agenda, which they define as against normativity, against the normal cultural, social bearing that any society has. the queer agenda is to disrupt and agitate against what is considered normal, and hence the term queer. It's different. It's odd. It always meant something else other than what we typically think of in our mind today. So my point in bringing all of that up is you want the man and woman in uniform to not get caught up in all of that and simply be focused on being a good aircraft mechanic. Simply be focused on being a good space operator and provide GPS to troops downrange and to American citizens and our allies. You want people to fly their planes and not worry about

this. So when you have an overtly political administration, every administration is political. When you have an administration overtly politicized through policy, the military workplace, then you run into the division that you're talking about that impacts recruitment. It impacts our troops' willingness to be retained, retention, and to continue serving, and a host of other problems we'll probably get into. Yeah. So what is the justification for these policies from the politicians who have enacted them? And you mentioned earlier fiat. It was diktat. It wasn't really voted on. It didn't go through Congress. No, no, no. Yeah, it wasn't through Congress. Yeah, it was a presidential edict. It's an executive order. I mean, the executive branch has this authority to issue executive orders. Unfortunately, you can do a lot of damage, and you can do a lot of good with that.

i don't like the answer i'm about to give maybe because it's it might seem like a non-answer but it's not uh there is no logic at least decent logic there's no logic behind the cult-like ideological ideologically driven policy implementation of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. And I want to give you an example. It just keeps coming back to my mind, and I almost said it right when we began. If you'll stick with me for just a minute on this, it'll seem like a tangent at first. But I just finished reading the book of 1 Samuel, and in that record, you've got a body of people who are interested in their national identity. It was the children of Israel. You had a unique relationship that that

body of people had with other nations. They didn't have a king. This is before Saul becomes the first king in Israel. And the children of Israel demand a king of the prophet Samuel. And so Samuel says, I don't think that's a good idea. Well, he goes and talks to the Lord about things, and he says they want a king. And the Lord says, well, give them a king. It's not you that they reject, it's me. And there's a point I'm making about diversity, equity, and inclusion as I tell this story. then the Lord informs Samuel what's going to happen when they select a king he tells them all sorts of things I won't get into that Samuel then reports back to the children of Israel and he says hey I'll give you a king he goes and anoints Saul and then he tells the children of

Israel now let me tell you what's going to happen now that you've set up a king and the reason they wanted a king is because it says in the text they wanted to be like other nations so they get a king And all of the surrounding, I'll call them Arab, although I know that's incorrect, the surrounding Arab world, from the kings of Gath to the kings of Ammon to the kings of Moab and other surrounding nations all come to war against the children of Israel who now have a king for themselves. And what the Lord tells Samuel to tell the children of Israel is, tell them that the king will take your best men and use them for his wars, because that's the only way he's going to be able to keep his kingdom intact. And I reflected on that when I got to that part, the idea of taking the best men. because and i thought any sane ruler will always when it comes to military might take the best of the best the strong men those who love and are willing to die for their country those who are willing to put their neck on their line for the king and in our case in this country back to some

of what we've been talking about it's not for an administration as kjp just said in one of her stupid press conferences where she wasn't sure what to call the dead service members. She wasn't even sure how to refer to these men and women in uniform. It's not obeisance to an administration in this country. It's an oath to support and defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That's the oath that our service members take. And so they learn, they're trained to take that seriously. And then they see politics come in that look like domestic enemies. And they see something called diversity, equity, and inclusion trainings. And here's the point. They think, why in the world would we destroy a merit-based promotion system,

a merit-based selection system, putting our best foot forward on the world stage in order to deter conflict and hopefully win conflict if deterrence fails? Why would we pursue racial quotas? Why would we pursue sex preference and gender affiliation quotas and make sure we diminish the number of white pilots from 85% to 67.5%? That was directly out of the mouth of the Air Force spokesperson, by the way. When service members of any race and any political demographics see that kind of rhetoric and see that kind of an ideological underpinning of policy decisions, it totally dispirits them. It totally wrecks their morale. It undermines good order and discipline, and they think, why would I want to stick around in a military that might ask me to

go downrange and have bombs dropped on my head? Why would I want to serve a regime that doesn't want the best of us in those seats, but is interested more in race identity politics? That's why I say at the beginning, there's no logic to the decision. It's cult-like, it's religious-like, it's an ideologically rooted policy decision, and it's Marxist, which is why I wrote my book. It's that we've got an oppressed class and we've got an oppressor class, and unfortunately in cultural Marxism, it's no longer the economic class stratification of Marx and Engels' 1848 Communist Manifesto. It is a race-based oppressor versus oppressed system, and the most blatant lie of all that has been continually resurrected by race hustlers and

politicians is that, well, one group of people, we'll call them white, and another group of people, we'll call them black and now people of color, are oppressors and oppressed. And so we need to change through policy the race demographic of our services to make things more equitable. And inequitable is forced equality of outcomes. There's a whole lot to get into there. But I just couldn't help but reflect on the sanity of choosing the best for your military and the insanity and lunacy of selecting people based on any other selection process or reason or notion or model other than merit. Yeah. And when you think about it, DEI as a construct is extremely racist in and of itself it's completely takes away the agency of individuals of any uh race

gender uh sexual preference whatever it may be and says we need to make carve outs to put you individuals in this place it really denigrates again the agency of the individual at the end of the day well let me share another example of how it um is detrimental to good order and discipline in the military workplace, and it's true for academia, it's true in industry. Let's suppose that you are a person of color. I don't even like using these terms that have been foisted upon us, but let's say you're a black American, or let's say you're a Mexican female American. I'm picking these very deliberately because of my time in command in the Space Force and some of the interaction I had with my troops. And let's say that this

DEI training is telling you that you've been held down by the white male because of systemic racism in society. So you're thinking about that. You're in uniform, you've shown up to do your work, but you've taken a knee because you have a down day. And the Secretary of Defense has directed all service members to consider the ways in which we can heal ourselves of our systemic racist problems. So you've got a black male, you've got a Mexican female. They've done quite well in their military career up to this point in time. They've promoted, they've been rewarded, they've been awarded, they've been promoted, they've been selected for various programs, offices, jobs, because they performed well. And now we start to establish quotas or hint that there are racial

goals. They call them goals because they know that they can get in trouble legally when they establish racial quotas. It's in violation of Civil Rights Act. It's in violation of other law that we have. And so they don't like to use the term quota. And that's one of the things that came up in my recent congressional hearing. So you've got these people that say, hey, like up until now, I think that it wasn't because of my race or the way that I look or my gender or my sexual preference that I've been selected for this job or that I've been promoted to this rank. But moving forward, I'm not sure anymore if it's going to be based on my performance or based on my ethnicity. Think about how deleterious that is to the military workplace. And I'll give you one

more example uh it's for it's shorter uh if you have a i'm using race now just because this is it's such a prevalent object of relevance anymore in our current ongoing dialogue it never really mattered before 2020 as far as i was concerned uh in the military like we didn't talk about race we just didn't i knew personally a black couple man and wife who were being subjected to lloyd Austin's diversity equity and inclusion trainings in my unit and I tried to safeguard people from my unit but there are base wide events there are other trainings guest speakers that are invited in they can go to these things if they want to you can't tell them you know stay here lock the door and don't don't expose yourself to this stuff and one member of that family bought in

and started to view the workplace as an oppressive environment in which she was the object of the scrutiny of white people. And the other member, the husband, said, I'm not sure I buy into this training, and I think it's been unhealthy for my wife to buy into this training. And so it set the husband and the wife at odds because they had ideology to argue over now. and uh and and and and i looked at that as a commander i thought how do you solve

now i've got marriage problems within my unit it's not just about like distracting from the training mission that we're trying to accomplish i got people who are having marital problems and all of that has ripples effect through the military workplace so you give feedback and you say hey this is hurting morale that's dividing people and they say what are we supposed to do about it it's like well i mean we are the leaders after all we should be able to do something about it oh but we're just following orders you know we're taking orders from the secretary of defense and from the biden regime well so you have to do something about it people have to speak up yeah and it seems like this this whole trend has happened rather quickly you keep anchoring back

2020 2021 and it seems like it has had material effects on the military the quality of the people who are enlisted and even more so i mentioned it earlier but preventing people from signing up in the first place and so how you use the word deleterious how deleterious could this be to the quality of the united states military uh if things don't go back to the way they were rather quickly consider this equation not only did we have race identity politics show up in the uniform services at that time summer of 2020 i mean the seeds had been planted long ago we could trace through some of the history i don't know that it's necessary but um you know i can point back to 2011 during the last Obama-Biden administration in which there was a military leadership

and diversity commission established in which they began to go through all of the regulations and DoD instructions and redefine terms like diversity, equity, and inclusion. So there are points in time you can certainly point to, but the seeds had to be sown through the soil over a long period of time so that at the right crisis or set of crises, they could begin to sprout and be um be nurtured and um and kind of take over the garden these weeds that grow up they it's like where'd they all come from all of a sudden it's like well the seeds had to be planted a long time ago and the soil had to be prepared and broken up properly so that they could so that they could actually sprout but you consider the equation you had

race identity politics in the form of diversity and inclusion trainings. You had mask mandates that were showing up, not just across the entire globe, but I mean, not just in the military workplace, but across the entire globe. You had mask mandates, you had coerced shots, you had forced separation, social distancing that on some military bases like my own turned into an aggressive totalitarian regime like don't go outside of your house on base without your mask on your face and if you're caught socializing with people you're going to be in big trouble so we had lonely families we had all of those things underway in the lead-up to a presidential election and in the aftermath of a presidential election

and now as we approach another presidential election and people wonder at the things that happening from our border to the over now we've got an overextension of military forces abroad and so all of the things that took place three years ago and four years ago that led to terrible recruitment terrible retention which almost it's like is it really by chance that all of this kind of compounded at once or was it a deliberate weakening of the military strength of the united states and the economic strength of the united states and the social and cultural cohesion of of the United States and the Western world, generally speaking. And however you want to answer that question, consider the fact that it's hurt our readiness. The Heritage Foundation puts

out annual reports about U.S. military strength. It's called the Index of U.S. Military Strength. And so the Air Force, the U.S. military was rated as weak in this independent assessment last year, and now we're very weak, I think, as the Heritage just put out the new report. I've not yet read it, which means we're not capable of successfully waging conflict in uh in other in any major regional conflict in the world and at the time that we're so weak we can't even successfully wage a major regional conflict we have multiple conflicts that we are starting to get involved in in various regions around the globe that involve proxy wars with our great competitors russia and China, and Middle Eastern foes in a conflict in Israel. I mean, you couldn't tee up a better

recipe for disaster for this country than to cripple us in our recruitment and readiness, to cripple us economically, to weaken us militarily, and then to overextend us on the world stage. I reflect on Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War and the downfall of the Athenians, as they, with some tangible degree of hubris, overextended themselves on the world stage, even while they had their own domestic conflict and strife. And I think, man, there's nothing new under the sun. We're teeing up a disaster for us, and we're allowing millions of people to come into the country while we're doing that. There's at least a two-tier justice system in which certain people go unpunished for terrible crimes, and the most decent of citizens

who are law-abiding citizens like you and me, it's easy to hold us accountable for violating law. And so it will continue to be us who are held accountable. It will continue to be us who pay taxes, whether or not those who are here illegally ever have to pay a dime. In fact, they're given taxpayer dollars. So forgive me for a moment, because I've just kind of, like, all of a sudden, there's this whole panorama that opens up to view as we start talking about all these problems that we face i've been literally quite focused on the military problem specifically but i'm very aware of the fact that it's one slice of an overarching pie of problems for the united states uh right now at this juncture in history it's uh it's really serious problems we're facing now you're mentioning

history rhyming and that's a subject we cover a lot here obviously bitcoin podcasts focus on the economic and financial side of things particularly the monetary situation and ancient rome right before rome fell like very similar problems overextended its military throughout the world and then at the same time was debasing the roman denaris uh replacing the gold with bunk metal to the point where um when they went to pay their military they were looking at the coins that they were getting paid and they said this isn't worth anything we're done and then you had the barbarians come and sack rome not too too much longer and we have a very similar situation playing here in the united states where as you just explained we've extended ourselves

militarily across the world we're getting involved in many different conflicts at the same time i mean on the heels of what's going on ukraine and russia where we've given them a lot of weapons that had been depleted i mean from reports i've read we don't even have the the weapons stockpiles that would be necessary to engage in some of these conflicts that uh some of the politicians that are in charge right now would like to lead us into and it is very scary um when you put all that together and then the social incohesion on top of the the monetary and military situation it does seem like a perfect storm and it is yep yeah it's a perfect storm and it's like it would take a miracle to get us out of all of it i mean it's really um and so you can understand why people are angry

justifiably so you can understand why people are increasingly polarized and um hate one another And that's understandable. It's frankly, it's the way countries fall apart. And I like that you brought up Rome. I'd be, many of the problems we face today, and we've not touched upon some of them. I mean, there's the education system and there's other problems that we face. many of the problems we face are reminiscent of failing empires from the past as you've suggested I'm not quite sure I'd like someone to take up this challenge and help me out a little bit but I like to study history I don't I don't I don't recall ever having seen such a wanton destruction of one's own territorial integrity as we see in the last couple of years in this country where you've literally got millions of people allowed to come in from every country on earth and to displace its current inhabitants.

There's no better word for it than, well, there's a lot of good words for it, but it's wicked. Every country on earth that is a fairly legitimate regime, there are legitimate states uh there's i don't know how many there are today between 190 and 200 states in the international system according to the united nations every one of those states that's legitimate or is striving for legitimacy will go to war and be willing to die for and to kill over two things primarily their political sovereignty and their territorial integrity meaning their borders and both of those things are highly compromised in our country at this time and one of them the territorial integrity perhaps both of

them seem to be deliberately voluntarily surrendered which makes you wonder if it's even you know the united states that controls its its decision calculus and it's and the decision making apparatus. Rather, it may in fact be the case, as many people suspect, that there are those who are interested in pursuing an entirely different global order that demands the crippling of the United States. If the United States ceases to have a sovereign territorial border, and if it ceases to have political sovereignty, then it can be absorbed into a greater global community and so um it's likely to me it's it's all too likely to me that that's in fact the case but sometimes when when someone shouts like oh it's it's the global elite and they're tearing

us down they can't make the connection in their mind a listener can't can't hear that and say you know i think that's probably true but i just don't know what that looks like and how that's unfolding really and i see all the problems swirling around me just know that there are those for a very long time, and frankly throughout all of human history, who have always been interested in expanding their power and their influence and to get gain. And as they wield influence, they have to take out barriers to their expansion and to their dominance. And some of that evil impulse we've seen in the country for the past few years is only interested in destruction and tearing down the old order and the existing order. Oftentimes the people that are

so wantonly engaged in destruction, they happen to be the useful idiots of communism. They're just pawns, and those who are the actual planners, the strategists who are trying to pave the path for that future global government are happy to steamroll those useless souls the moment they have accomplished some purpose that those idiots were useful for. They'll steamroll them all day they'll put them up against the wall kill them and um and i'm not exaggerating that one but they're useless to them after a certain point they're only interested in their aims and i think their aims will be frustrated but um it'll be really interesting exciting and dreadful to see how all of this plays out over the next few years yeah i mean we had a great

example of those pawns yesterday in france at the louvre throwing trying to i didn't see that And there was another Just Stop Oil protest where they threw paint on the Mona Lisa or the glass protecting the Mona Lisa. Man, all these beautiful pieces of art, they want to go and tear it down and they're going to accomplish what, you know? I guess they're trying to use their voice, but they're also wrecking things in there. There's so many spirits abroad. Yeah, well, that's the, I mean, you said wicked earlier. and i do think good and evil exist and evil is very pervasive throughout society right now as you mentioned it has convinced many pawns to fight against their own self-interest and propaganda is

a big piece of this i've been covering a lot of my site we call climate hysteria versus climate realism and the whole climate fear-mongering i think is one of the most potent that we have uh across the planet today and it's just insane talking about we talked about military expansion making us weaker the monetary situation making us weaker but that's another key pillar to to the destruction of the stability of the western world is a deconstruction of our reliable energy systems which for the last two decades has been right uh disgusting what has happened germany being the perfect case study and we're trying to bring those um energy policies here to the united states which is just incredibly disheartening well so i've got a question it's rhetorical i mean it's

for you and for the listener we're mentioning all these things that are weakening they have a tendency to destroy they have a tendency to weaken they have a tendency to undermine uh unity they have a tendency um for failure you know however you want to put it what is it exactly that we're doing as a country right now that's making us stronger like pick something you're right and and and so like if i want to be honest about it i could sit here all all day long and think what is it that we're doing as a country to make us stronger and everything that comes to mind where i think okay there's groups of people trying to do x y or z i can rebut them within like within a few seconds and i just think no that's all being

undone that's a terrible place to be because as you go back to what how empires thrive you need to you need to embrace principles that make you last as a and and you need to militarily at least and from a security perspective you need to you need you need to prepare for conflict in ways that make your country strong that and and and there's a international relations scholar that I very much, I like his thinking overall. I'm not sure I like his domestic worldview, like public policy worldview. It doesn't matter. He's an international relations scholar, John Mearsheimer. And he wrote a book called The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. For those who are listening that appreciate international relations terms or models,

he's an offensive realist. But the point I wanted to make about Mearsheimer, what I learned from Mearsheimer, and I think it's largely true, the way in an international system that states measure power is by a state's economic strength and its military might. Those two things together determine how strong a country is, and at least also drive perceptions in the international community of how strong that country is. When a country forfeits its economic might, it almost doesn't matter how strong its military is for very long, because it's going to go out the window pretty soon. You'll stop being able to pay. You'll stop being able to pay for weapons and procure innovative new technologies, for example.

That's just one example of how this works. But both of those things have to be strong and flourishing. You need a strong economy. You need a strong military. And frankly, you can add to that, although it's not a part of the international relations paradigm necessarily, not at least in the realist model. you need a people that have some sense have some sense of patriotism or nationalism

that says internally in the soul of the country culturally socially that they are willing they love their country and they're willing to go lay down their lives and die for their country because they believe in what their country is pursuing we have many good patriotic nationalistic in every positive sense of those terms by the way they've they've been demonized too there's a constant changing of language, but those are powerful forces. We have very patriotic men and women in this country who love their country and who are willing to die for it, but they watch what's happening on the world stage right now and they say, I'm not willing to die for that. What am I trying to secure exactly? If I sign up today and swear an oath to support and defend

the constitution am i going to defend the constitution or am i as that that what's her name kjp john pierre that stupid spokesperson she's an idiot she really is she's she's about as terrible as it gets and she says she she wanted to thank the um the three um uh people who those folks that wear the uniform you can go watch the video it's just a couple days ago it's totally offensive uh who who died serving this uh administration that's utter bullshit uh people don't sign up slip it's like you don't you don't yeah and that's exactly that's right that's what it was he's like yeah they died serving the administration that's true but that's not why young men and women sign up to serve in the military they're not interested in serving in

administration. And because this administration unfortunately views it that way, it's like, hey, you're faithful to the administration. There are many people on both sides of the political aisle that have no interest in serving their country. It's like, yeah, I'll serve this administration, but when the next one comes in, I'm not sure I'll be interested in serving the interests of the administration. Military men and women can't think that way. Ideally, and I know it doesn't always work this way anymore, ideally, any administration, regardless of their political party, would come in adamantly interested in preserving political sovereignty and territorial integrity, believing in the Constitution and our values as

a country, believing in a national identity. And if you have presidents and administrations come in with the apparent interest in preserving our values as a country, whatever your political makeup whatever your religious worldview then you have willing citizens who can in an all-volunteer force sign up to die for their country the moment people start sniffing you out and saying like i don't even think you're interested in preserving our border i don't even think we're not even preserving our border or our political sovereignty and we're demonizing one side or the other the political aisle and you're going to send me to go die in syria like for who exactly what are we preserving. So, and we get all of this, I'm thinking out loud, but, uh, you know, your

listener gets this because the common, because the average American has common sense. And if you're disgusted by what you're seeing for various reasons, think about if you were 18 or 19 and, and someone said, we'd like you to serve in an all volunteer force and maybe go die for your country. And it's like the question immediately is, I'm not sure I'm willing to do that. Die for what exactly what are we preserving here so we've that's a big problem to solve and even if we solved it today somehow in an amazing way we solved it today the consequences of our decisions for the past several years will last for many years and it takes years to recover from the buffoonery that we've been watching for the past several years so that's why people like me are very hard on

the decisions that we're making and you've mentioned it twice now it would take a miracle to solve this problem but being pragmatic recognizing that the problem exists we do need a solution the solution may take years to implement what in your mind are the first steps we could take as a country to begin mending this gaping hole that we have in the the culture of our military are you asking what are the first steps yes okay boy it's we've gone down the hold of cynicism and sarcasm and not so i'm not sarcasm but cynicism negativity and it's you have to you have to laugh very real right right so so let me come out of that as as best i can um because it's equally as true to assert that if our country is to survive, we need good men and women who love

their country serving in uniform, as it is to say that we're facing all these problems. It's equally as true to say that. So the problem then becomes like, how do you get good men and women to serve in uniform? And again, admittedly, I'm talking about the military problem that we're facing. There's all these other problems that need to be solved. So an administration can make a big difference. And so let's assume for a moment that you get a better administration in place and you've got a president that's able to solve problems. Then you've got part of the problem solved. It's that by executive fiat through executive order, some of the idiot policies that are currently in place that are wrecking good order and discipline can be removed on day one, just as has happened in the change from the Trump administration to the Biden administration, where on day one, President Biden, on day one, Joe Biden issued a number of executive orders.

And one of those was to advance equity in the military workplace and in the federal agencies. And DEI trainings came back on steroids and have been wrecking house ever since. And drag shows and pride activism and all this stuff, it's like, go do all of that in the civilian world. Stop tampering around with the military apparatus and let people focus on their mission in the workplace. so on day one that's one change that can happen you can have an executive commander in chief executive branch commander in chief come in and change policy that could incentivize people to return to the military in hopes that things will turn around so i admit that's possible instead of congressmen vying for another term in office and not solving the problems bipartisanly

that we need solved in this country and instead preserving the problems so that they can all continue to point fingers across the political aisle and be adamant with their voter base that they are the ones to solve those problems during their next term in office. If we could actually come together in a bipartisan way and solve problems because we genuinely loved and cared for our country, that would be a way that you incentivize men and women to come and sign up to serve in their military and potentially die for their country. But why would you die for a country you're not sure is going to be around in 10 years? I'd rather live and take care of my family. So the other thing is, and this is not specifically related to the military, but it can

pertain to those who have ambitions to serve in the military. You can't always solve the problems at the federal level. There's a giant swamp of people who are entrenched there that aren't going anywhere. And it almost hasn't mattered what administration came into power. Good people in their states and in their cities can get involved in local government. They can get involved in school boards. They can get involved in grassroots movements that seek to get victories. And unfortunately for decent people who like the privacy of their own lives, it means becoming slightly more activist than they've ever been in their lives. You can do that in as decent a way as you know how and as noble a way as you know how while keeping your integrity intact and not becoming slimy as a human being and turning into a monster. You can get involved at the local level and make some impact in your community.

And that's a great way to create a sphere of influence of decency and integrity and law-abiding citizens and lawfulness where you live, despite the hell that's being unleashed in our country by any administration. It might not save your country, but it might make your locale more livable and more sane. don't let bullies steamroll the majority of people in your area into adopting values in the public education system that are totally anathema to the vast majority of parents for example and people are starting to do that and i think we it's it's far more likely that in our local communities our families our churches our local government were were able to have impact for good than it is for some citizen in small town Nebraska to rise up and make a difference at the federal level. You see these truckers, you see tractors all over social media,

you see truckers, you see farmers, you see cowboys, you see the patriots, they're the alleged MAGA alt-righters. They're coming from everywhere all over the country to support what appears to be Texas standing against the federal government and trying to secure a border. The sane person says, what the hell has Texas been doing the last several years? Like, why now, you know? But Governor Abbott has issued some strong statements, and people are showing up because they genuinely want to do something.

And it's like, we'll get involved in that, but beware, because you've got a federal government that's weaponized against you at the moment and these gun-toting Americans that want to show up in a show of force at the Texas border and do some good just might find themselves the object of a conspiracy

or a false flag that makes it look like, hey, we've got a bunch of patriot extremists who have shown up causing trouble and now you're in a shooting match and that's not going to end well either. So, um, it's a very, it's a precarious time. Everyone's aware of that. Get involved locally. And, uh, and if, if you're, here's another thing. Thanks for giving me a free mic, by the way, to just kind of ramble. Uh, I'll try and be more pointed and direct in what time we've got remaining. no this is awesome if you're a man or a woman in uniform you need to speak speak up and and um and

not be afraid of punishment because if you are not acting illegally or unethically or immorally funny enough immoral shows up we're doing drag shows and people are dressing up as dogs and dancing around and it's like that isn't immoral what is immorality anymore so let's say let me eliminate that one if you're not doing something unethical or illegal then you should feel free to use your voice to say i disagree with what i'm hearing i disagree with what i'm seeing and i have a different set of values and you're offending me and this training is offensive to me this policy is offensive to me this is me not trying to be partisan as a service member this is me saying I have a voice. I'm going to use it. And start to stand up because there are literally thousands of people all across the bases that are near you that feel the same way that you do, but they're afraid to speak because they've been trained that they're supposed to be yes men.

They're trained that they need to be loyal to senior leaders and to a military chain of command. And you need to respect all of that, and that's important for good order and discipline. But don't let your services be steamrolled by political activists. And I don't care if you're a Democrat or a Republican or a Libertarian. It doesn't matter. Speak up and say, hey, this is offensive. I'm not a racist, so stop calling me one. this guy doesn't want to be treated like an object because of his race so knock it off like we're not

interested in this training so shut the hell up or we're walking out of here kind of a thing like you have to be able to stand up and if you get paperwork you get punished to like live live with it suck you know you know suck it up that's a small sacrifice to make to try and speak your principles and stand on your values and to try and preserve the integrity of the united states military you're echoing something that we say a lot on this show is that the silent majority of people who just want to make a good life for their family do good work be productive throughout society and live a comfortable life need to have confidence instilled in them to speak up against the madness whether it's in the military with the monetary system and in the

energy sector with the uh woke agenda that's being pushed throughout the schooling system like i truly believe deep down that most people do not want any of this and are just too afraid and self-censor and i think i think you're right there's a lot of decent people in every country on planet earth they're just they just want to be left alone by their governments they want to raise their kids to be decent humans, and they see all this evil, and ignorance, and mean spiritedness, and they're like, I don't, and so when you want to speak your values, and here's some advice for you, remember that you're not the bad guy, like you're just speaking, you're using your voice in a country that above all has valued free speech throughout its history, it's like,

use your voice, speak up, take some spears from people saying, oh my gosh, you're mean, are you really that bigoted are you really that racist like no i'm none of those things but i have values and i've wanted to be a decent human my whole life and you're starting to bully me and i won't accept it so it's like back up get the hell out of my bubble and and stop bullying the majority of people here that feel like i do like i'm just i just want to be free of tyranny and you're starting to play the role of the tyrant so get out of my space you know and and say that to your supervisor in the military and say like hey respectfully get out of this space of my values i'm here to do a mission for the united states military and you're changing directions for some

reason so stop being a political pawn with all due respect sir or ma'am or they or juror whatever you go by step out of my space either teach me how to do my mission or i've got no respect for you anymore and you can have someone working under you in fact all of my all of my buddies here we're we're not going to have respect for you we'll follow your orders that are legal but you've lost all of our respect because you're a political animal if enough people do that i think we can change things rather quickly again there's something weird psychologically in most humans that they self-censor due to fear of retribution and retaliation and it is weird and it is i think where we stand today in 2024 it is more important than ever that people speak up i mean this is

right a show heavily focused on bitcoin and you know like we focus on bitcoin because we believe the root of a lot of the strife that we're feeling today is the money once you corrupt the money you can print it out of nothing and throw it at dei initiatives and right woke university systems and big pharma studies it really corrupts the incentives of the economy overall and really corrupts opportunity cost at the end of the day you can just print money and throw it at these useless unproductive activities um and i do think people are feeling particularly on the money side with inflation people are feeling inflation they see it week in and week out at the grocery store And no matter how many times Jean-Pierre tells you that inflation has been solved, it's very obvious to people that it has not.

And people need to speak up against all of this. The economy is stronger than ever. And God bless our heroes who wear that uniform of this administration. She wouldn't say God bless. But, you know, you bring up such a good point about how money incentivizes a lot of this industry. The DEI facilitators and public speakers are making a lot better money than you and I are. And it's quite lucrative. And you've got, there's a reason you pay, in theory, there's a reason you pay most of your teachers low salary.

You don't want them to be incentivized by the wrong thing. I'm not saying I don't advocate for like improving pay for teachers too. But like, it's like we want good teachers, not people incentivized by filthy lucre. we we don't pay our police forces very well we don't pay an all-voluntary force very well because it's like we want you to choose to swear an oath to support and defend the constitution against its enemies and to come in not for the purposes of getting wealthy but because we'll provide sufficient for your needs while you do something out of the motivation of honor and integrity duty to country service before self and um and that's worked really well while you had a nation

that was guided by some kind of a moral compass where you had teachers who are authentically interested in teaching something uh for for little or nothing when you had police forces who were interested in law and order and we had military forces who believed in the might the military might of the united states and and of its and of the american ideal and and when you lose the moral compass and when the country ceases to look and feel like america um you start to pay all of the wrong people uh and and sickos and sycophants and narcissists come into positions in all of those places and the ones that tow the party line end up being rewarded with social credits or money yeah a lot of change needs to take place if we're gonna if we're if we're gonna

hmm i always try and be honest well if we're going to reverse course then a lot of change needs to take place i agree and luckily we have individuals like yourself out there fighting the good fight i know we only have two minutes left here so i want to again thank you sure for everything you're doing i think it's extremely important we need more voices like yours out there incentivizing and instilling confidence in people and letting them know like hey you're not alone here there's many others who think everything that's going on right now is quite crazy and if you don't like it you should speak up against it yeah sometimes people are afraid to speak solely because they're not sure how to defend or how to defend their worldview or to articulate it

And so one of the pieces of advice I give to people is next time you're stumped in a conversation with someone and you're not sure how you should have responded, you better think about it then and know that next time you'll never be stumped again by that problem. And just come up with two or three talking points and then be willing to be humble and ask other people questions about their worldview. And a lot of the lunacy that you see parading around us is not logical, it's not defendable, and they can't articulate their worldview. they've got talking points that they've memorized and so like learn about your values learn how to articulate them and sometimes don't be afraid to say i disagree even if you're not sure how to articulate your worldview and that's kind of the beginning place for exercising your free speech yeah great advice matt thank you for joining us today i thoroughly enjoyed this conversation same thank you all right that's all we got today peace and love freaks