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Hey greetings everyone, Lieutenant Colonel Allen West here and welcome to the Steadfast and Loyal program.

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[ALLEN WEST] Ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the Steadfast and Loyal program. You know, living in Texas, this place just has a wealth of history. Just recently driving down to Port Aransas, we went through Gonzales and we went through Goliad and pulled my wife over and we stopped there La Bahia and we saw the site where Colonel James Fannin and his men were executed by the Mexicans, some 400.

Now this month is the 200th anniversary of the Texas Rangers, one of the oldest law enforcement agencies in North America. And so I couldn't think of a better person to talk to about this 200th anniversary than former Texas Ranger Joe Davis who is a fifth-generation Texan and a descendant of George Lamb who fought and was killed at the Battle of San Jacinto for the independence of Texas. He was accepted into the DPS Academy in February of 1963 and in 1968 was promoted to agent in the DPS Intelligence Service station in Houston. He was appointed as a Texas Ranger on the 1st of October 1969.

He is now the past president of the former Texas Rangers Association and current president of the former Texas Rangers Foundation and we're joined by Joe Davis right now. It's good to see you Joe. How are you doing?

[RANGER DAVIS] Everything's going well, Allen. Just trying to fight this heat that's in Texas but we're doing that well and having a great summer in Fredericksburg.

[ALLEN WEST] Yes sir. Well stay inside, drink a lot of tea or lemonade and water and just stay in the air conditioning. Let's talk about this month because it was 200 years ago in August of 1823 when Stephen F. Austin called forward for the first 10 Texas Rangers. You having served as a Texas Ranger, what does this mean for you? Well, you know Stephen F. Austin of course is known as the father of Texas and he brought the first colonists into Texas about 1821 and then of course 1823 saw a need to protect them and that need was fulfilled by 10 men that he hired, became known as Rangers and their job was to protect the settlers that he brought in and little did he probably know at that time when he hired the first 10 that they'd be around for the next 200 years and as a young man growing up, young boy growing up here in Texas and I've become kind of fascinated with the history of Texas and the history of the Rangers and so growing up I made a commitment that one day I'd like to be a Texas Ranger. You know the interesting thing when you think about the state of Texas before there was the Republic of Texas, before there was the state of Texas, there were Texas Rangers so they were there guarding something that had not yet come into its full fulfillment. So you have been the past president of the former Texas Ranger Association and that's an organization that was founded in 1897 so it's about 125 or plus years of age and now you're the president of the former Texas Ranger Foundation and that's been around for over 50 years. So you're kind of a keeper of an incredible legacy. What does that mean for you to be the the guardian of that Texas Ranger folklore and that legacy? Well of course growing up and as I said and then actually becoming a Texas Ranger, it's been a part of my life actually I guess since I was about 14 when I first wrote that letter to Colonel Garrison who was then chief of the Texas Rangers inquiring about the Texas Rangers and he sent me a badge which I have still have and it's hanging in my office. So they've been a part of my life I guess since I was 14 and being a native Texan in the background of the history of my family it really means a lot to be able to be a part of this great history of this state. I thank God every day that I was born in this state and was able to serve as a ranger and be a part of that history and continue to do so today. So what are some of the events that the former Texas Ranger Foundation has planned for this 200th anniversary and can the public come down and participate and be a part of some of these celebrations there in Fredericksburg?

[RANGER DAVIS] Yeah we actually are having an event this weekend called Celebrate Texas that we were due to have back in March but because of a storm that came through we had to cancel it and so it's coming together this weekend it'll begin Friday at our Texas Ranger Heritage Center with a play on Captain Bill McDonald, a well-known early ranger who actually is responsible for calling the phrase one right one ranger and Wyatt Earp who is actually pardon me on that right no problem and Wyatt Earp who was actually a descendant of the real Wyatt Earp an actor from Timson will be in Friday night playing the one-man play honoring the Texas Ranger Bill McDonald. So it's been starting with that event and then Saturday we have an all-day event beginning at 9 a.m. we'll have some Indians camped out on the ground some ranger camps we'll have some entertainment here for them be swearing in kids that come to the event they'll be swore in as junior rangers and receive a junior ranger Texas Ranger badge and so it's going to be a great day honoring the 200th anniversary with different ones participating the mayor of Fredericksburg is coming over and reading the proclamation about the design that day Texas Ranger Day here in Fredericksburg. Now a lot of people have come to know Fredericksburg as being this you know wine central location wine capital of Texas but when you think about the history that is there and the former Texas Ranger Foundation and the the ranger heritage center that is there and also Fort Martin Scott can you tell people a little bit more about Fort Martin Scott which is one of the oldest uh forts east I mean west of the Mississippi River. Yeah of course our heritage center is right here in Fredericksburg as you enter the city limits and we had joined Fort Martin Scott.

So Fort Martin Scott was actually the first fort built out west to protect this area from the Indians right after Texas became a state in the United States they sent federal troops down here and they needed a place for them and so Fort Martin Scott was in the area that where the settlers were farming here at the time had been here a couple of years so they decided to build the first fort which became Fort Martin Scott in Fredericksburg. Uh the Rangers had a lot to do with this area too at the same time as Captain Jack Hayes, a early well-known ranger, patrolled up this area. He followed what was known as the Penta Trail that had been in existence for a hundred years that came out of San Antonio and run up to direction west northwest and it was made actually by the Indians that they traveled back and forth on and it became a trail that used by the settlers and the rangers. So Fort Martin Scott is a big historical monument here in Fredericksburg being the first fort built out west and we're part of that history because of the rangers that camped in the area like Jack Hayes and others during that time it was in existence. Now not too far away from the heritage center and Fort Martin Scott you got a couple of ranger engagement areas where they had some skirmishes with the local the Comanches there. One of them is Enchanted Rock and I think that's where Captain Hayes kind of became part of the Texas Ranger Forklore. Yeah Enchanted Rock is just a few miles northwest of Fredericksburg. It's a 640 acre granite mountain. It was actually the Indians used it and thought it was a monument that they was very sacred to them. So Captain Hayes of course was out in this area patrolling and got in the area of Enchanted Rock and was camped out there and one day he went up to observe the area from that rock and was surrounded by some Indians and actually had a Indian battle up there and his men who were camped down below heard the shooting and came to his rescue. But that's just a few miles northwest of here and it's still in existence. It's now a state park where people can actually come up there and climb the mountain and observe the same thing that Captain Hayes observed when he was up there on the Enchanted Rock. So the unique thing about you know the Texas Ranger Heritage Center there in Fredericksburg is that you are actually on the ground where the Rangers had an outpost, the Rangers stayed, the Rangers patrolled and there was an Ranger engagement there and there was another I think it's the Battle of Walker's Creek that's not too far away either. Right Battle of Walker Creek was Jack Hayes again which is just south of here located basically between Fredericksburg and the city of Burney and

Captain Hayes had just got some revolvers from the Texas Navy and they were five shot revolvers known as the Patterson, the first revolver made by Cold Factory and he just hit his men a pair of those revolvers and each one of them carried five shots so they had 10 shots before they had to reload. And while they were patrolling out here south of Fredericksburg they spotted a group of Indians and then an engagement occurred with the Indians and actually the historians will tell you that those revolvers was like almost the atomic bomb when it came to battle that much because the Indians wasn't expecting that. They were used to the Rangers firing one shot from their muskets or their pistols that they carried and then had to reload and it's actually surprised the Indians and they were badly defeated that day at that battle because of the new Patterson revolver that Jack Hayes and his men were carrying.

[ALLEN WEST] Let's talk about your vision for phase two of the Texas Rangers Heritage Center there. Phase one has been completed you got the beautiful pavilion you got the amphitheater that is there the you know generational ranger statue and of course the the star that has the ranger uh character characteristics and traits. What's that vision for that phase two that you want to bring to Fredericksburg?

[RAMGER DAVIS] Yeah that phase two is actually going to be a unique state-of-the-art facility it's going to be more than a museum. When you come to this facility you'll not only see the artifacts you'll also learn the history as you go through there. The museum will be divided into as you enter a theater and a ranger will actually come out as if he's there in person on his horse and tell you about what you're fixing to observe as you go through. There'll be five galleries after you leave the theater and it'll start with actually Austin hiring the first 10 Rangers and you'll be there as if you were actually there as it occurred. Then you'll go into gallery number two and you'll actually be in the city of Gonzales. This was when the Alamo was being fought and a writer comes in to the city of Gonzales with a letter from Travis uh saying that he's surrounded and needing help and in that particular gallery you'll see a mounted ranger group from Gonzales that was just formed and after the letter is read the captain of that group will tell him to mount up we need to go to the Alamo. Well that particular group it was the only group that uh made it into the Alamo. They knew when they left Gonzales they may not get out of there and they actually lost their lives 32 of them in the Alamo that day. They're known now in Texas history as the immortal 32. So that's gonna be part of it and you you travel along through there you'll as history progresses and you'll see an outlaw named John Wesley Harden one of the most notorious outlaws in the state that was responsible for killing over 30 men and the rangers got on his trail and ended up following him all the way to Florida where they arrested him and brought him back and you'll actually be in the train station where he was captured and learned that part of the history and he goes on to uh the modern day ranger and what he does today and how many they are and you'll learn the history of them and then as you leave that area you'll go out to uh what we call the hall of honor. We're different rangers and they're recognized in that hall of honor. Men like uh Sullivan Ross who later in life became uh president of Texas A&M University. He was governor of the state of Texas. Tom Frost who uh was a ranger captain before he formed Frost Bank in San Antonio. Men that not only were rangers but after their ranger career they they uh got involved in Texas and built Texas uh what it is today and what people know about it. A lot of them serving in the rangers and you'll learn that as you exit uh at uh ranger uh hall of honor the many men that that uh did that as well as rangers that served like in my time period and afterward. You know and we can't forget uh Frank Hamer and what he did and bringing uh justice to Bonnie and Clyde you know tracking them down and the unique thing about the galleries that you have set up there in the phase two of the Texas Ranger Heritage Center is broken down based upon the Texas Ranger characteristics and values which are courage, determination, dedication, respect, and integrity and I think that if there's anything that our young people need today it's a lesson in those five Texas Rangers values and that's why it's so important that we get this phase two completed.

[ALLEN WEST] How can people support uh the former Texas Ranger foundation in getting that phase two started and completing?

[RANGER DAVIS] Well we have several ways I don't know that you can do that through the Farmer Texas Ranger Foundation which I'm currently the president one of the easiest ways is to get involved with us through our membership program. You can go to our website or call our office and when we formed the foundation it's uh we have a board of directors that uh serve it and uh and we first formed it we formed a membership where you could join up a tax deductible donation and you in in that membership uh you receive a certificate uh naming you a uh member of the Farmer Texas Ranger Foundation you join at various ranks from private to major like in the Texas Ranger service and that's one way you can do it other ways we have different areas in the museum that you can join and put your name on maybe a place there that you can uh like it maybe uh in the museum a certain display that uh you can uh donate to and have it named after you are a member of your family so many different ways out there that we raise money through various donations which are all tax deductible and just like that membership if you become a member your name will go on the wall uh in that facility as you enter in the museum into the lobby area to show that you were part of this and so every day we're out there looking to get this thing finished and uh it's time to take everybody that's a part of this state and outside this state uh that to make this uh to complete it and uh so we're looking for those donors out there to and we're anxious to finish it because as I said it's more than a museum right now even in phase one we're having school kids and kids come out and you know what's going on in our country today it's very important that people know about where they came from and how fortunate they are to be a part of this country and this state and our objective is to make these young kids better citizens through those ranger trades you just talked about and we wanted to know you only have one chance in life and you can either be somebody or uh and be a responsible citizen and you don't want to mess that up and you don't want a ranger on your trail so we kind of encourage these kids through this program to be a leader not a follower be a part of what the ranger tradition is all about and be a good citizen and uh make your life complete because there's only one opportunity you know my favorite texas ranger quote does come from captain bill mcdonald and i'm sure that uh it may be recited during the play this weekend and that is a man in the wrong can't stand up against a man in the right that just keeps it coming and that's about persistence that puts it all in perspective and uh and it's a true statement and that's one of the statements actually that Captain Bill McDonald made um the ranger we're honoring friday night here as well as one right one ranger and if you think about it you know the ranger that's their job and and that's basically law enforcement and uh so if a man is done wrong he owes it to society to pay for that wrong and that's why we have law enforcement but uh and that's why we try to encourage these young kids because you have to get them at an earlier age there's so much out there today uh it wasn't out there when I was growing up too and they really have a lot of uh uh things that are presented to them growing up and today with the narcotic problem and other issues out there they really need this training early and that's what we're really trying to do at this facility because if you learn that and and and and that's what the ranger is all about it's not that he's out there trying to arrest people he's out there to prevent all this crime and and to try to tell people to what to do and to do right and if you prevent and if you do prevent to do the crime he is there to see that you to be punished and so uh the ranger has been a big part of this state from the very beginning he's still a big part of it he was an indian fighter at the earliest stages and then got turned into law enforcement after that was finished and he's still out there today wearing that white hat uh trying to do what he's always done and that's to protect the people of this state you know

[ALLEN WEST] what would you consider your most memorable moment as a Texas Ranger?

[RANGER DAVIS] well I had a lot of good moments you know as a ranger you get involved in a lot of different activities not only in the criminal investigation but with a lot of people you deal with from presidents and governors i've been with uh and it's been an honor to meet a lot of those and to be involved with some of those uh some of the crimes that i had to investigate were pretty terrible crimes that happened out there that brought a lot of public attention but the main part of it was that as a whole uh not one incident but the whole picture of being a ranger at my part was uh just getting up every morning uh knowing i was going to go out there to put on that sink old face old badge as a texas ranger and carry the traditions that the earlier rangers had because you know when you put on that badge alan uh you're putting on a lot of history yeah and when you receive that badge uh uh it's your duty then to keep up that tradition and to honor that badge and what it stands for and so uh every day i got up that was my intention to not let that badge be tarnished to go out and do the job that the ones before me did so my whole career to me was what i always thought it would be as a young man growing up and it was a great honor to wear that badge and to serve the people of this state protect and serve

[ALLEN WEST] In our final moments tell us about the former texas ranger foundation gala that's going to be coming up in November down in Kerrville, Texas, down in Hill Country?

[RANGER DAVIS] yeah that's a big uh one of our big fundraisers that's how as you said people can really get involved with this and it's a great event. It'll be November uh third and fourth in Kerrville this year it starts out on Friday night where we honor our members and the rangers and our volunteers and we have some entertainment and then Saturday night is the big night we'll have a sit-down dinner and and a live and silent option then we'll have some entertainment this year we're going to really have some great entertainment we're going to have uh George Surratt's son above his straight and ace in the whole band that uh George Surratt plays in he's up and we'll have rangers there and and our members and descendants of rangers that uh be there and uh it'll be a great night and so i encourage you if you're interested in being a part of that go on our website the information will be there will be you can already make reservations there by calling the end of the hills in curvil and we'll be sending out uh invitations and so if you want to come and you haven't been there before be sure and call our office get on our invitation list and and go to our website our website is www uh trhc.org as Texas ranger heritage center dot org or our phone number 830-990-2262 all right November the third and the fourth down in Kerrville, TX, end of the hills for the former Texas Ranger Foundation gala uh above his straight and his ace in the whole band is going to be there and it's just a great celebration

[ALLEN WEST] and it'll be a great way to close out this year which is the 200th anniversary of some incredible men and women now the Texas Rangers so again please folks go by Fredericksburg, Texas. Drop in and see Joe Davis at the former Texas Ranger Foundation drop in to the Texas Rangers Heritage Center and wherever you are in the world uh support this organization like I said older than the uh Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Texas Rangers are older the oldest law enforcement agency in North America 200 years this year and we want to thank you Joe Davis for being part of that incredible legacy and may God be with you and thank you for being with us on Steadfast and Loyal

[RANGER DAVIS] thank you Allen and uh it's been a real pleasure being with you always

[ALLEN WEST] Ladies and gentlemen thank you so very much for joining us on this episode of Steadfast and Loyal. Very special thanks to Ranger Joe Davis not just for what he is doing now but for all the years of service that he has given to the great state of Texas and to the United States of America if you like this podcast please click that like button and share it if you like this program please click the like button and share it with others and until next time, Steadfast and Loyal!

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You know, I took a little time off to have a little family vacation headed down the port of Aransas, Texas

Lovely place. It's gonna grow it's gonna develop on that island Mustang Island, especially down toward the southern end and It was just so much fun to watch my little Jackson Bernard my grandson take his first steps on a beach put his feet into the Gulf of Mexico

They hear him turn around and look at me and point and say ocean. I Mean, it's one of those moments that you capture and it kind of brings tears to your eyes Because that's really what my life is all about How do I make sure that? subsequent generations Have better than what I had Because at the age of two, I never got the chance to put my feet into the ocean But I made sure that my daughters had that chance and of course now my grandson and My future grandson who will be coming along in December as well. Yes oldest daughter Aubrey will be delivering another grandson to the West family

Spoiler alert his name is Levi Allen and I can't wait until the moment I take Levi Allen on his family vacation and watch him walk out until the surface well. But even though I was on family vacation, I still you know had to keep my ear to what was going on in my country because You always have to be ready to stand up and be you know on that pointy edge of the spear In case you get asked To be aware of what's going on So there were a couple of things that happened while I was on family vacation One of them happened is that we were driving down from Garland, Texas to Port Aransas all of a sudden, you know Little Mr. Hunter Biden shows up at the court in Delaware and this was supposed to be you know, slap happy Yep, it's all done. Nice little, you know misdemeanor now you will slap on a fist. Oops something went really wrong. Now I'm trying to understand this.

He's gonna go in and he's gonna plead guilty. He's gonna say that. Yeah, I did this stuff I didn't pay my taxes. I lied on a 4473 background check form but because of the fact that you know It's gonna be not even a real sentence. It's just a you know, a little misdemeanor slap on a hand when West would be doing a perp walk

Those things combined. I mean I'd figure at least 10 years It'd be all over the papers. Maybe talking about it on ABC CBS and MSNBC NBC CNN PBS NPR

But Hunter Biden no one's talking about it. But the thing is this You're gonna plead guilty going in there You think it's gonna take me about what three five minutes?

Then all of a sudden when things unravel because we had someone a judge that was doing their job and Understanding and interpreting the law and exposing something that didn't seem right Now all of a sudden you're gonna enter a plea of not guilty

This is a head scratcher so as long as the sentence was this misdemeanor and you know You get away with it. You're guilty of it. I mean you say I did it but now all of a sudden when it comes to be that You don't have immunity from future charges...That there is a little bit more that could be out there. Now all of a sudden you're gonna tell us that you're not guilty?

So this this I don't know Moral relativism I'm guilty if I don't have any consequences or in ramification I'm not guilty if there are consequences and ramifications Which one is it hunter?

Because see everyday Americans out there know that they don't pay their taxes Well, unless you're Al Sharpton, so Hunter Biden and Al Sharpton are in the same boat

They don't have to pay taxes. Nothing happens. As a matter of fact, huh, you know Al Sharpton got to visit the White House with Barry Sotero. I think about 75 81 times something like that

Now here you got hunter he gets away with whatever and to hear the the the binder, you know Korean John Pierre the White House mouthpiece say that well, he's a he's a private citizen This is this is not something we want to discuss publicly Then don't have him up in the White House Miss John Pierre He is a public figure

He's someone that's getting invited to all the little swore ways up the swallow ways up there in the White House. So yeah, he's flying on Air Force One to go over to Ireland and have a little shindig. Air Force One is paid for by the United States taxpayers. So yeah, we want to know we want to hear from you We want to know what the big guy thinks about this. That's why you got to ask the question. So it's gonna be very interesting to see what happens now. I think they got like a month to come back to this judge. Can you imagine now the quote-unquote DOJ prosecutors who were basically sleeping in the same bed and you know You know you lay down with dollars you go get fleas and that's exactly what happened to these DOJ prosecutors Now they got to try to figure out where do we go from here?

If the guy has said that he's not guilty to something he was going to plead guilty to he's guilty. And There should be none of this stuff about well, we're gonna get rid of any future investigations. There'll be no future charges. No. You're still gonna be guilty and held accountable for that There has to be consequences and ramifications the American people sick and tired is two-tiered justice system I don't care what the alphabet suit mainstream leftist media says, we're not tolerating this anymore, I don't care whose son you are. And don't give me this stuff about you know, Joe Biden's a compassionate dad. He's concerned about what his son is doing He may have profited and benefited from what his son was doing. So we got to get to the bottom of this

But again as I was driving down to Port Aransas I'm thinking how does a guy you know is gonna walk in and he's gonna plead guilty to something But then all of a sudden when he finds out his deal blows up in his face. He's not guilty. I don't know. But we gotta get to the bottom of this and this is not political and Republicans got to understand stop being afraid of the left and just do what's right. Where there is corruption it has to be eradicated has to be eliminated I don't care how high high up how high up it goes Try saying that three times how high up it goes. We're not supposed to tolerate that here in this constitutional Republic

We're not The old Soviet Union yet I know that there's a lot of leftists that want us to be that way and they want to create this little Politburo thing where the elitists are there at the top and they can do whatever they want and all of us Serfs down here just worked to serve them that ain't happening on my watch

So pay attention what's going to be coming out in a month when little mr. Hunter has to go back into that court in Delaware

But the real thing I want to talk about What happened while I was away? I? Mean how many times does Kamala Harris need to stick her foot in her mouth? Before she does not like the taste of her own toes

Because once again all of a sudden I guess she wanted to blow up this thing about one little sentence one little sentence in the African American black American black is whatever curriculum standards there in the state of Florida one little sentence and I read that sentence over and over and over the good thing is that I'm a black man that could read that sentence

There are a lot of young black boys and girls can't read

Yet we're wasting our time on this one little sentence instead of worrying about the fact that Even I think LeBron James your school that you sponsor. I mean you the kids there are not reading a grade level

So this whole thing about now of a sudden Ron DeSantis Support slavery and everyone's saying that there were benefits to slavery. I read that sentence over and over and over and over again

It ain't about benefits to slavery slavery suck, but what sucks even more is That the people who stood up for the institution of slavery are now trying to act like they have this righteous indignation

Over something that they fought to preserve

Democrats something that they did not support being abolished Democrats something that they continue to perpetuate the black codes Jim Crow

segregation poll taxes literacy tests Ku Klux Klan now all of a sudden they're gonna act like they're upset over one little sentence and they're gonna send out sister girl Kamala Harris

Who really has no black experience whatsoever? I mean, I'm saying this as a kid born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia and the old fourth Ward neighborhood Who's born a blacks only hospital? I don't think Kamala Harris has ever cooked a pot of hop and johns She's never dipped some cornbread in some potlicker maybe she never even drank a glass of buttermilk

Now you say no colonel and I why you want to bring all this stuff up Yeah, because that's part of a black experience, okay

But now all of a sudden she's walking around acting like she's the you know, the keeper of the Grail

of the black experience I Have never seen her come out and say anything about over the past 50 years over 20 million black babies being Murdered in the womb by dismemberment, but now all of a sudden she's sister girl number one as a matter of fact She continues to our you know support and advance the murdering of unborn babies in the womb that has had an adverse effect on the black community Oh By the way that thing called Planned Parenthood that supports her and that she supports It was founded by a white supremacist and a racist by the name of Margaret Sanger who spoke at Plan rallies referred to blacks as underzirables and human weeds

But she's all of a sudden upset about a sentence in the Florida curriculum for black history

See this is how the old colonel would have done this and dealt with this in the aftermath of Kamala coming out and speaking out about it. See the bottom line is that the Republicans Republican Party?

Party that was established in 1854 on one single issue that was to abolish slavery

And of course when the first Republican president was elected those Democrats those folks down thought they went ballistic They decide they were going to succeed

But the Republican Party and the 13th and 14th 15th amendments all the things that they did they took the tragedy of slavery and Turned into a triumph

For people who that had recently become freed

When you look at my ideological mentor Booker T Washington and the things that he wanted to do when you think about all of those Republicans and white philanthropists there were starting institutions of education like Hampton Institute and Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. What were they trying to do? They were trying to turn tragedy into triumph That's all that was happening

They were trying to show that in this brutal system that you have survived in this brutal system That we went to war for hundreds of thousands of Americans lost their lives for wounded

Now somehow we can turn this around

Into something good for you

By giving you an education

By enabling you to see that the things that you had to do and to toil under Somehow we can turn that into an ability for you to do as Booker T. Washington said education entrepreneurship and self-reliance

See once upon a time you had to work hard in these things But Now we can get you to understand how powerful you have because you know how to do things as Booker T Washington called it the ability to be able to do things with your hands to labor to show that you are Valued because of what you know and what you can do. That's what he talked about

That's why you had the Negro big business league that was established under his watch And the next thing you know people that were formerly slaves are out buying buildings in places like Harlem

That's why he talked about industrial education at Tuskegee Institute so that it wasn't about just going and getting a bunch of book learning it was about getting learning that enabled you to be successful in The economic society in which you live even if it was in the south. That's why they learn how to make bricks That's how they learn how to build buildings That's why it seems to sing all of these different type of things that they were forced to do by Democrats that they were forced to do under this Institution brutal institution of slavery now we can take these things we can provide you with an education We can make you better off so that you can have the education and entrepreneurship and the self-reliance But yet what do we have we have a bunch of chuckleheads out there running their mouths?

While the whole time we're forcing blacks into a new type of enslavement Which is economic enslavement and let me read you a quote from Booker T. Washington Which really does describe Kamala Harris and the rest of these you know cackling hens out there that we have there is another class of colored people

Who make a business of keeping the troubles the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public? Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles. They have grown into the settled habit of Advertising their wrongs partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances He or her

Not made up pronouns male female because they don't want to lose their jobs Because they don't want to lose their jobs I am afraid that there is a certain class of race problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well Because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means to make of living But also an easy medium through which they can make themselves prominent before the public. That's you Kamala Harris. I

Have not seen you go to any inner city and talk about the shootings that happened there a Couple weeks ago. They had 37 in Chicago

I've not seen you Kamala Harris go in there and talk about the fact that and it's not too far away I mean, you know, you can almost take a metro You can definitely take the the the mark train. I think it is up to Baltimore. You know, you know, you can fly a helicopter Have a you know convoy of SUVs You can go right up to Baltimore

Why have you never gone up there and talked about the fact that you have?

Black boys and girls not reading and doing math at grade level. Oh, that's right Dog gone at West you forgot

The Democrats say that math is racist

You agree with that Cami

But you're not speaking out about that You're not not speaking out about how the black family has been decimated because of the policies of your party Lyndon Johnson, Grace Society war on poverty What 24 25 percent of black kids have a mother and father in their home When have you ever talked about fatherlessness in the black community?

But no, you got to go down to Florida and you got to start reading off the teleprompter

Acting like you're upset over one little sentence

That one little sentence has nothing to do with us happening in the black community What's happening in the black community is exactly what you are

You don't want black people to lose their grievances because you don't want to lose your job You want to keep people riled up about something that is of no consequence

And you know, I'm just gonna be honest I'm not gonna get up in arms about it Because I see what is going on in the black community

Could have been phrased a little differently. Yeah But there's truth to it That Unfortunately, thanks to the Democrats the brutal institution of slavery did enable some blacks

To develop it blacksmithing and other things but

It was Republican Vision and philanthropy that first freed them they made them citizens that gave them the opportunity to vote and and to hold Political offices the very first members of the Congressional Black Caucus were all Republican seven gentlemen

The very first black Republican Member of Congress was Josiah T. Walls 1873 to 1876 he was a slave. Hey Kamala. Did you know that I? Was the second

Byron Donalds you're the third

And so

Instead of jumping on this leftist bandwagon and supporting them and their propaganda, you know, let's let's hit them let's go on the office and say that how ironic it is that they're up there screaming and yelling about an institution that they Established promoted and continue to advocate for They continue to want to keep people in a slave mentality in the black community. This whole thing about reparations What about an education?

Our inner cities are crumbling

For yet Kamala Harris is gonna run down there to Florida read a teleprompter

Stick her foot in a mile

And make herself out to be a fool

Which for her happens weekly if not daily

And you know, look I'm not criticizing her I'm you know, I don't have a law degree Maybe it's good that I don't

I don't have a law degree But I don't I don't get this unrighteous indignation

When you look at all the other things that are falling apart in the black community

That are really

the result of the policy the programs and the ideological agenda of the party of the jackass the Democrat Party I

Mean help me out. I mean, you know someone sent send a an email or a text message something, you know, a Facebook post Ex-post, I guess it's not 20 anymore

But tell me where I'm wrong. Tell me where the Democrat Party Has advanced the cause of the black community in the United States of America. I

Mean NAACP was not even founded by black people. It was for white

Intellectual elite progressive socialists Who handed it over to a black intellectual elite progressive socialists who ended up? Chowing down and you know drinking wine with Mao Tse tongue renounced his American citizenship became an avowed communist

That's why WV Du Bois that dude ain't my hero. He ain't my mentor

But the man who was a slave

Who once he became free wanted an education

That man's my mentor that man's my hero The man who said nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities as Booker T. Washington And there's a reason why the left does not want to talk to him about him There's a reason why black intellectual elites always want to call him the Uncle Tom to sell out all these things

Instead of reading his speech that he gave in Atlanta my birth town

They would rather be a black intellectual elite They would rather say that it was an the Atlanta compromise speech

Yeah, yeah, I see but he was invited to the White House

He was the guy that had a president come and visit Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute

He was the man that went out recruited George Watson and Carver

He's the reason why we had the triple I mean the 332nd fighter squadron Tuskegee Airmen

My godfather William Sticky Jackson was a Tuskegee Airmen

Let's see we're not talking about that as far as history

We've got a bunch of loudmouth chuckleheads

To just talk about one little sentence

So what does the colonel stand on this

The colonel says that everyone out there ranting and raving about it

Y'all just stupid

almost stuck on stupid

When you see all of the other things that are facing the black community today

and you're getting upset over a sentence I Wish we were out there developing more black entrepreneurs Making sure that blacks were more self-reliant economically independent not economically dependent

But

There's another class of color people who make a business of keeping the troubles the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs partly because They want sympathy and partly because it pays some of these people do not want the Negro to lose their grievances Because they do not want to lose their jobs

Race hustling

This grievance industry pays good don't it Kamala

But that's not how we honor The history and the experience of being black in the United States of America

We should be talking about how we have strong families They can come together

Have a family vacation And take their children and their grandchildren to the Gulf of Mexico And let them put their feet in the ocean for the first time Instead of worrying about a sentence that many black kids cannot even read

Steadfast and loyal

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A discussion of military life, our veterans, and generational service with former Jumpmaster Will Spencer, the host of The Beautiful War podcast.

For more about Will Spencer: Beautiful War Podcast (thebeautifulwarpodcast.com)

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[ALLEN WEST]

Hey, greetings, everyone. Lieutenant Colonel Allen West and welcome to Steadfast and Loyal.

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[ALLEN WEST]

Hey, greetings everyone. Welcome back to Steadfast and Loyal. There's a lot going on up at Capitol Hill. As you know, I was there last week talking to some members of Congress about the National Defense Authorization Act. And we're joined by one of those members of Congress, Congressman and Dr. McCormack is a decorated veteran and emergency room. Position, who proudly serves Georgia's 6th Congressional District. In the United States House of Representatives during his tour deck, 2 decades of service, Congress Congressman McCormack deployed to several combat zones as a Marine Corps combat helicopter pilot. The Africa, Persian Gulf and Afghanistan between deployments, the congressman earned his Masters of Business Administration from National University. And a medical degree from Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. In Congress, Congressman McCormack sits on the Armed Services Committee Foreign Affairs Committee, science, Space and Technology Committee, as well as a select subcommittee on the coronavirus pandemic, and we're joined now with Congressman Rich McCormack, Dr. McCormack, United States Marine Corps, McCormack, Navy commander, Doctor. I mean, how many titles do you have, Sir?

[REP. McCORMICK]

And I was told as a young lad that titles don't. It's it's kind of like being a black belt. If you can't lay it down, then it doesn't really matter what your title is and and same thing with being a doctor. A lot of doctors out there that if you don't practice the caring medicine they're supposed to and same thing with congressman, you made a congressman. And not get anything done so. Hopefully I'm used by God with special utility.

[ALLEN WEST]

You're absolutely right. And one of the things that I admire, one of the things that I wanted to do when I was in Congress, there was to get more military veterans up there serving in Congress. Those men and women that understood their oath to the Constitution, what has it been like for you to be up there in Congress? I mean, coming from the Marine Corps, coming from the Navy. With a background in the medical field, what has it been like for you serving your constituents there in the 6th Congressional District of Georgia?

[REP. McCORMICK]

Well, first of all, thank you because you're -- you've absolutely been leading the way through Guardian fund and other ways of getting military people into Congress, getting minorities, getting women leading the way in this diverse movement of representation in the Republican Party that think it's very healthy. I think veterans, if nothing else, we've done one thing in our life. It wasn't about us. It was. About this great country of ours, and hopefully that continues in the Congress, that same mentality. I really have enjoyed constituent services better than. Anything that's one thing. We can control. Otherwise, you're one vote out of four and 35. You can rely on relationships, good legislative efforts and a. Lot of convincing to. Try to get bills passed but ultimately constituent. Service is the. One thing you get to actually directly affect making sure the attitude of your staff is. It's receptive, it's your hard working, it's your timely. Those things really matter to me and. Then listening to people. It's funny. Everybody thinks that. They are the people I'm supposed to represent and. Yes, they are. Along with 700 and. 75,000 other people in my district. Who have a variety of opinions on everything from a war or our war efforts in Ukraine to transgenderism, to abortion, to gun rights, to every controversial topic there is out there, and it's really important to try to be as educated as possible. The thing that. Surprised me the. Most and and I could see this is probably something that you you some of the primary system where it's really nasty. Against between people who are supposed to think very similar, but when you're in Congress, the thing that surprised me the most is how many people get stuck on talking points. They've been digging deep and and becoming educated, learning about the details of of of what we're arguing and why, and what's constitutional and what made this great Republic, what it is. And trying to explain that break it down to. People in ways that they can really understand and. Digest. Some people are much. Better at it than others. That's why we win elections and we lose elections is. There's a distinct. Difference between people who are framing the conversation and who are bringing to the. Table or or to the church if you.

[ALLEN WEST]

You know, I agree with you wholeheartedly in that when we stand on the rule of law, the Constitution should be a very simple argument against those that don't. And that kind of brings me to where I want to start our conversation. I was up there sitting meeting with you last week with the National Defense Authorization Act, and of course that was passed there in the United States. Council representatives, but it was 219 to 210, and normally the NDA is a real strong bipartisan piece of. Why is it now that the progressive Socialist left is more so concerned about their woke agenda in the military than our actual military readiness, which is what the authorization act is authorizing the missions and the focus of our military? What is it that the the other side of the aisle up there right now is not? Understanding and not getting.

[REP. McCORMICK]

Well, I think they're they're missing the whole point of the military beginning with and. This whole right House system? Freedom hearing, where where the whole focus of 1 member. Of Congress was what about the LGBTQ? Whatever it's called in religion, being the religion discriminate against them. I'm like, wow, we we kind of the the whole rewrite of history and what the military is even for, as if we're a social experiment. One thing that. I noticed is this has been going. On since the Obama era. Where you started to replace warriors. Like yourself with politicians who are more interested in making politicians happy than the cops in the mission, similar to the army that brings whole mission is. To locate close with. And destroy the enemy to fire maneuver to tell the items. Assault through fire and close combat. Everything else is. Superfluous and and I'll tell you this focus even. The last year, when? I was in the military in 2017 when Trump was president. Trump was president. I had four lectures on how to treat somebody who's transgender. I'm not talking about as a patient. I'm talking about. As a person. We didn't even have transgenders in the. Military. So tell. Me that wasn't. Absolutely a political way to get young people to think in a certain way rather than to actually accomplish the mission. 4 lectures. Are you kidding me? I pushed back on the hard because I. Don't care. I'm at the end of my career, but nobody else felt like they were empowered to do that and only the people who. Are going to support. That agenda are going to get promoted the fastest to the next level and control the military. So you it's a natural selection. Process towards a. Politically correct military and I remember. I'll give you a perfect example. Of when I was talking to. Sergeant Major, the army. And not to pick. On it. On me too much. But the song name by. The way the army owes. Me 100 push-ups because he's not. Going to make his recruiting. Goals this year and he said the. Change things. We're gonna get it back on. Back, but once again, this this idea that you're trying. To recruit somebody other than warriors. First of all, you. Want warriors in the military? You want people who really want to. Do to protect their nation will fight. Tooth and nail to the. Death to accomplish the mission. Those who, that's what you want. Diversity aside, we're going to get. Diverse we we focus on that already the. Military decades ago, we. Were focusing on. Military recruiting minorities to be officers, so it could. Represent better what they're what they're leading.

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And I think that's.

[REP. McCORMICK]

A good thing I support that and we we. Even biased it towards that in some ways, which? Is OK, I'm.

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I'm not.

[REP. McCORMICK]

I'm not against the military in the military. But what I'm. Against is teaching people that we are divided by those differences, but that's where I draw a line where it becomes a divisive tool used by the government to. To conflate the issue issue in a very unhealthy way, and this is where we we've gone totally wrong and this is where they will fight tooth and nail to the end because it's it's their civil rights move and they think that they're going to get. In on on the the mark. Themselves that that somehow this is the same representing as if people are spraying down LGB YQ with fire hoses and sicking dogs on it's not the same thing because you were told you that that somebody wouldn't make a birthday. Cake for you. It's not the same thing. We're not. Equally discriminated against, not. In this country, not in other countries. And this idea that everybody's a victim. Is what they're fighting over, and they literally victimized every child America, to the point where some, some cities, some communities you. Have 40% of. The me saying. I too I'm. A lesbian or transgender or gay or whatever. That's impossible. It's not statistically possible, it's. Just they don't want to be chastised. For being normal. And this is this is the. Movement that they wanted. This is the way. They wanted to put government in the position where. They are the moral equivalent of. God or a church or a family. The total opposite of what we designed our Constitution around, which is empowering people to be the only moral equivalent of themselves, the ultimate minority is the individual. And now we've taken this over to the military. The one last meritocracy we had where people got along because made a common enemy, and we're the only thing that mattered is is Carl. Carry his back and shoot straight. Does he got my. Back is he loyal to me? Is he my God? That's what mattered to us in the past. We didn't see things in in terms of black and white. We started shades of green, we all bleed red. That was the military that's being. Destroyed on purpose, in my opinion.

[ALLEN WEST]

Now you're absolutely right. And this whole movement, the LGBTQIA alphabet, soup mafia, that's what I call them. It has become the religion of the left. And if you don't prostate yourself before them, you're persecuted and prosecuted. Now I will tell you something else. You can call up the Sergeant major of the army about and and get some more push-ups out of him. It was just last week, I believe that Christine Warmoth, the secretary of the Army. You know, talking about recruiting, she says that she does not want to recruit from generational families of service anymore. She wants to recruit, you know, other people to come into the military. To me, that's a slap in the face of multi generational families that have served this country like mine. I mean, it started with my dad. In World War Two continues up to today with my nephew, who's a Lieutenant Colonel. Why do you think that we have this incredible push of the left? I mean, when you have the Chief of Naval operations because you just quoted the the basic mission of the United States Marine Corps. But when the chief of the naval operation says they don't have enough amphibious assault craft to get the Marines to the battlefield, then you can't meet your mission. But yet pronoun usage and drag queen shows and drag queen recruiters and and all of this stuff is the emphasis, and they're upset. Because you and the House of Representatives realize we're not supposed to be funding this with taxpayer money, can we continue to hold the line no matter what the Senate does? And this comes back to a conference committee there in the House. That's the big.

[REP. McCORMICK]

And let's let's be Frank, is he doctor? Is a military member that you and I have been in, in the frank realities of the the mayors of? The military, both mentally and physically. We still don't allow people in the military with flat feet. Because they have. It prevents me to have foot problems when they hike and that's for all Marines. Doesn't matter what MOS. How ironic is it that we're accepting? People in the military that have. A 40% chance of trying to commit suicide in the highest intensity situations with the most stress, and then assume that they're going to transition while they're in the military, which would be extremely expensive and. Non deployable for. Their entire career so that some other. Bring deploys in their stead overseas. So now. You have a higher. Pressure on those people and their family to take over for what's we determined was better and safer than. Flat feet. How ironic is that now and get back to the start. Made the army. I I forgot to finish the story. Which is typical in. The yard that come up to the. Next thing but but. Here's what he said, and I said, why are You guys spending so much time on this? This diversity training that we know we're diversity, in fact, one of the things we we love about it, we we make fun. Of each other. We cut it up like good friends do. We we break down those barriers cause we feel comfortable. When you heighten that anticipation of if I say the wrong thing, I'm going to ruin my career or I'm going to be hated by this person because now they absolutely think I hate them and I can't. Joke with them anymore. I'm not coming. Couple of them and we. Create barriers instead of bringing. Them down before we we.

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Got rid of.

[REP. McCORMICK]

The barriers by just cutting them up and wrestling. And being goofballs and knuckleheads. Now we're not afraid to make a mistake because of this diversity training. That's that's literally saying you're different from them and he's trying to hold you back because he just like the way. You look what? In the world are we doing? And when I brought this up? His defense was look, we have Marines from. Nathan not they're driving home in their uniforms because they're afraid they're going to be pulled over. Because they're black, I said. Good point the. Question is, are they military police pulling them over? Nope, they're not. It's a. Societal problem not. A military problem? Why are you making societies problems? The military problem? Gotta kind of figure it out. Follow our league. Don't do it the way that society. Is effed it all? Up, sorry for my. Language, but quite, quite frankly, the military has it.

[ALLEN WEST]

That's OK.

[REP. McCORMICK]

Right, we've led the way. We're breaking down barriers. We've led the way in diversity. We've led the way in Miss. Why are we trying to go back to society and reinforce the divisions? That have held us back. For, for decades or centuries. Whatever you want to say, who rehashing things that divide us instead of the things that unite us, like using the flag to represent all the bad things in the United States rather than all the good things in the. United States give us a standard give. Us something to believe in? That can unite us instead of using everything we have in the United again. Us and and using it. Really, a device of ways it gives us. Nothing left to united.

[ALLEN WEST]

You know, it's interesting. You bring that up because the 8th and our barracks that you're talking about, the United States Marine Corps headquarters there in DC, is located in Pretty Bad neighborhood. And my little hooch was there up in that neighborhood. And you're right, it is a societal, cultural problem in Washington, DC, with the crime that's being committed and turning. A black eye on the perpetrators of crime and not confronting that and sadly, we have soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines all caught up into that. But let's transition over to another part. You're also on the foreign affairs comma. You just recently had one of your colleagues and I used that word in air quotes and loosely representative Jayapal, who is the chairperson of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Basically, the Communist caucus come out and say, you know, this past week Israel is a racist country and we know that the President of Israel. Is now visiting Washington, DC. Are we going to see some type of, you know, response to her or something that happens on the the House floor? Some, since your measure against her because that undermines the foreign policy of the United States of America, I give it to you.

[REP. McCORMICK]

And This is why we kicked the Hallman off of the committee. You know, when we have problems, people talking like that is never conducive to to what we're trying to accomplish in the world. Ironically, they're the same exact people that. Would call America. Does that mean that Joe Biden can't go visit a foreign country? But think about that for. A second they have openly been calling America a despicable country, even to our own their own constituents. And yet, does that mean that we're no longer once again focusing on? The worst of. Us rather than on the best of US and. If you're going to judge every nation by. The worst of us. We're all in trouble.

[ALLEN WEST]

And the question.

[REP. McCORMICK]

Is what will. We do. That would be interesting. To see what we would turn our. Next conference, let's say a little more strict on that. Sort of rhetoric. I do think that there's a very unhealthy push that that leaders. In general, are judged by a A. Small portion of their their populace, including the United States and including our parties.

[ALLEN WEST]

You know, it's interesting because herself and several others have already said they're not attending the joint session of Congress when the Israeli President will be speaking. And I think that is a horrible reflection, because you always hear the left talk about threats to democracy. There's only one democracy in the in the Middle East. And that is the state of Israel. And yet they're speaking out against that state, but, and aligning themselves with the types of folks that you and I fought against Islamic jihadists and terrorists and things of this nature. So now let's talk about your select subcommittee on the Coronavirus pandemic. The American people were terrorized. Will we ever get to the bottom of this? As far as who's responsible and you know, to make retributions of this, and also I think one of the things we need to look at can we get to a point where those members of the military who were kicked out because they refused to take a shot. Which we now know would not have had any positive effect. As a matter of fact, they have more adverse effects. Can we get them to come back into the military? Can we make that offer to them and bring them back at the same rank and also with back pay?

[REP. McCORMICK]

Yes. So we're we're actually. We're actually passed legislation, that is. Going to be passed by. Senate and the White House. That's another issue. We've done our part. With what's interesting about that, and if I may just talk my last year ship was December 28th. I didn't overnight shift. I've been working pretty much 3/4 time during my entire. Race into the general I the only person in Congress who who's not just treated coronavirus patients, but thousands and thousands of coronavirus patients. So I happen to be scientific in the way. I approach this. I think we absolutely have the idea where this. Came from and this without a doubt. We know that's the. Epicenter and that's where it started. We know that it it did not come from animals. There's no animal reservoir, they can't find it. They can find DNA in the in the air. That doesn't mean anything. You can find. You can find the RNA DNA. That you can find. Rotaviruses on the on. A wood table doesn't mean it came from wood. Table. Let's be serious. About this, you don't find antibodies or reservoirs in in raccoon dogs or? Civic cats or bats? Despite Herculean efforts by the Chinese government to. Come up with some sort. Of animal as well, therefore. If it does not exist, it's not even. A good theory. Anybody who claims that is literally trying to cover up the truth. We do know that the Wuhan lab requested funding for gain of research in the area that this virus developed and that it started in the in the area and that it happened right after they requested that. Then they destroyed a bunch of. Evidence would not any access by any outside organization and people. Deductive reasoning isn't even he isn't. Even in question here. It's obvious where. It came from the question. Is do we have the fortitude to call it out? Now the next question we have when it. Comes to the coronavirus and this is. What we need to do next? Is what about all? The censorship, the censorship of physicians of of opposite opposite positions as. You said that turned out to be right. What about when I asked a, quote UN quote, expert in the field who hasn't seen a patient since the 1990s but yet had the power to, along with the government and the illegal? In my opinion, the relationship that they had with the media, social media and other news agencies to censor an ER doctor seeing thousands of patients? Saying I'm wrong. And then it turns out I'm right. But do you know the science? Came back and says shows that. I'm right on mass on vaccinations. On treatments on a multitude of things, but no. Apology and said their excuse was. But we didn't know. At the time that you were that, you were right. So why did? You censor me? When you turned out to be wrong, the the worst thing. The worst thing is we literally used. A very scary time and. This is where fear gets. Very, very dangerous. To justify government determining if our businesses were over closed, whether you could travel, whether you had to have a vaccination, whether you could. He will be heard on media and post what you wanted the popes, or how you treat medicines. They became the the more equivalent of all doctors where they required you to think like they do. And this is by the way, the same reason that medical pediatricians who used to universally be against transgender transitions as pedia. As pediatric patients now won't say anything because they're scared of the government, this, this I did, the government comes all powerful is what led to. The the death of 60 million. Russians during the Gulag. Archipelago from 19/17/1957 I. Know you're a student. I know you're. A huge historian, which I love about. You very well read a big fan. But you know, this is when. Government becomes all. Powerful and they decide you shouldn't have a. Gun but 30 million. Americans aren't willing. To give up their God-given right. And also the the Constitution. The rights, then what does the? Government have to do it has to buy force. Take it from you. Are you willing to kill 30 million people who will give? Up their life. See, this is that creep of government power that we have literally designed our constitution around to to prevent. And yet it's now being attacked from all sides.

[ALLEN WEST]

Last question, before I let you go because I know you're busy up there on Capitol Hill. And one the the. Only thing that is mandated for the Congress to do. It's to pass a budget and in order to pass a budget that means 12 appropriations bills that have to be passed out of the House, sent over to the Senate. All of this has to be done work wrapped up by the 30th of September, the end of the fiscal year, or else we go in and get another one of these omnibus spending gumbos and continuing resolutions and whatever. As you sit here right now, do you think that this House representatives will be able to get done? The one mandated thing they must do is to pass a budget, pass 12 appropriations bills for 2024.

[REP. McCORMICK]

Yeah, if any Congress can do it, we can consider. What we got done with the narrowest majority we've? Had in a long time. The fact that we've been able to bring innovative table, get everybody's input, pass some bills that are hard to do, especially like the NDA, even though we had opposition, we. Relied on some. Models from the Democrats, but overall, it's been really a a universal push by the Republicans to get a lot. Of bills passed. One of the most active congresses in recent history, with some of the most conservative legislation in recent history. And we've. All done with. This very minor majority and I. Think it's it's. Just showing how much. We can pull together when we want to. We've been very proactive, very, very forward thinking. We're not taking our time. You know, if we were taking our time on the NDA. Then the Senate would. Have a chance to come up with their first hack, and then we'd be playing defense. We would have got a much. Less conservative built the. Fact that we've had committees working and. People coming to the table allows us. To get ahead of this. And then I like. To say we I think we. Have a fighting chance of actually for the first time in. Very long time doing it the right way.

[ALLEN WEST]

Well, I pray. So, Congressman, Dr. Rich McCormack of Georgia's 6th Congressional District. How can people follow you? How can people support you? Let us know all of your social media and you know, where can people stay in touch?

[REP. McCORMICK]

So you can find. All that at mccormick.house.gov. Great resource tells all the links for. Both campaign side and official side. Lots of links about how we talked about. These sort of issues. And more, and maybe in a few videos about the Greens being knuckleheads in the in. Their congressional office.

[ALLEN WEST]

Well, I wish you, as they say in the Maritime services, fair winds and flowing seas and I also want to tell you BZ, proud of you. Proud that all that you are doing up there and you know with men and women such as yourself. The better days of this great constitutional Republic are ahead of us. Thank you for your service in uniform and out of uniform. Simplify Steadfast.

[REP. McCORMICK]

Lead the way. Say goodbye.

[ALLEN WEST]

Cool airborne, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so very much for joining us on this episode of Steadfast and Loyal. A special thanks to my dear friend Congressman Rich McCormick from Georgia and also, if you like this show, please click that like button, share it with others and until next time Steadfast and Loyal.

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A discussion of school choice and educational freedom with noted subject matter expert Corey DeAngelis. For more about Corey: https://www.federationforchildren.org/

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Hey, greetings, everyone. Lieutenant Colonel Allen West and welcome to Steadfast and Loyal.

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00:00:52 [ALLEN WEST]

Hey, folks. Welcome back to Steadfast and Loyal. Without a doubt, education, freedom and educational policy is going to be one of the big issues when we look around, especially in our inner city communities.

And you see young people that cannot do math or reading at grade level, that does not set them up for success. And it's interesting that we just had this decision from the Supreme Court on affirmative action.

Well, we need to get back to teaching our kids the right way because that's how you open up the doors of the equality of opportunity.

So here to talk to us on this issue of school choice, educational freedom, parental choices, Corey de Angelis, Corey is a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children. He is also the executive director at the Educational Freedom Institute and Angel, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, a senior fellow at Reason Foundation, and a board member at Liberty Justice Center. Corey received his PhD in education policy from the University of Arkansas, Whoop Sui. He holds a BA and an MA in economics from the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Corey, thanks so much for joining us here at Steadfast and Loyal. You know, I think that this is going to be one of the preeminent issues going into the 2024 election. And I believe what elevated education as an issue was out of COVID when all of a sudden parents looked down and said, what is going on because the kids and the parents were locked in the house together.

And then you have the buffoon Terry McAuliffe in Virginia who said that parents do not have a right and deciding what their children are being taught. And that activated mothers and fathers to get out and be involved in school board meetings. How do you see this issue continue to play out?

00:02:44 [COREY DEANGELIS]

Yeah, I think you're absolutely right.

The teachers unions overplayed their hand and awakened the sleeping giant, which happens to be parents who just want more of a say in their own kids education.

I mean, you had the teachers unions threatening safety strikes in 2020. Yeah. You had them deleting tweets saying that the push to reopen schools is rooted in sexism, racism and misogyny.

You had the Chicago Teachers Union doing interpretive dance.

Videos about how it was not safe enough to go back to work, even though their board member was in vacationing in Puerto Rico in person while railing against going back to work.

I mean, it just became so obvious the hypocrisy in front of everybody's eyes for several years, but I think it's deeper than that. It's parents like you mentioned started to see that there was another dimension of school quality that is much more important, arguably more important than anything that could be captured by a standardized test, which is whether the school's curriculum aligns with families, values, kids, families don't want to send their kids to institutions where they feel like they're being brainwashed for 13 years, and to hate their parents and to hate their country.

And so these parents, a lot of them who had their kids in a rated public schools started to say, hold on a second here. I'm gonna push back at the school board meetings. And I'm going to make my voice heard. And you know what they found out when they did that? They don't want to be like the the school boards don't want to listen. They're going to label them as domestic terrorists for pushing back at the school board meetings.

I mean, the Biden administration colluded with the National School Boards Association to send a letter to the UN, to the DOJ to investigate parents. They did create an FBI threat tag for parents at school board meetings as domestic terrorists. No, the better answer is from the bottom up. School choice allowing families to vote with their feet to schools that are aligned with their values.

That creates more competition for the public schools to actually listen to parents instead of labeling them as terrorists. And the study after study has shown 26 to 29 studies find that private school choice competition. Allowing the money to follow the child is a rising tide that lifts all boats, leads to better outcomes in the public schools, and now we've had nine states in two years, all states controlled by the Republican Party in both.

No picking winners and losers. Everybody's eligible, regardless of income background, regardless of ZIP code. You can take your kids education dollars to a public school if you want. If you like your public school. If you can keep your public school, unlike with your doctor. But if not, you can take that money to a private school charter school or home school. And I think this is going to continue because it's the right thing to do.

The polling has shown that it's it's surged in recent times, with 71% of support. American supporting school choice in June of 2023, up seven points since April of 2020. And it's become a political winner, too, and it's become a GOP litmus test issue. Red states are going all in on school choice.

00:05:46 [ALLEN WEST]

Well, it's interesting because when you go back and look at Ron de Santis's first run at the gubernatorial election down in Florida, where he barely won, I mean less than 1% against the former mayor there in in Tallahassee, it was the educational freedom.

It was the school choice that made the difference in the cross tabs afterwards. The exit polls showed that. There were single Black mothers who voted for Ron DeSantis because he said I will not relegate your child to a failed public school.

So let's talk about some of these states. Because why is it then, you know, you and I here in Texas and you know what I'm about to ask you?

We've got a Republican legislature, we got a Republican governor who continues to say that school choice is a priority for him. But we just finished the legislative session and and it did not get any type of attention.

00:06:34 [COREY DEANGELIS]

That it's because the house has historically had too many rhinos that have been bought off by HB and the teachers unions.

To oppose educational freedom and their main so look, the Senate in Texas in 2017, they passed an education savings account before it was cool to do so before the whole battles about CRT and politically divisive concepts in the classroom before COVID Texas Senate, they passed what I what I want to say is I believe it was Universal Education savings account. And it was blocked by the house then as well.

And then in the regular session, the house was the Chamber again to block school choice. The argument that they put forward is totally ridiculous. They say that, well, we have rural areas in Texas and because we have rural areas, that gives us an excuse to vote against our party platform issue and to and to vote to trap kids in failing government schools, even though Texas in 2022 and their March the March primaries, they put it school choice on the ballot Proposition 9.

Yeah, 88% of Texas Republican primary voters supporting school choice. And that was up 9 percentage points since they last did it in 2018.

So the Texas Republicans have surged in support of school choice. It's always been monumental support, but it's become a breaking point recently where I think legislators are gonna have to react.

And during the special session, that's expected, that's going to be called by Governor Greg Abbott, who's made it an emergency item this year. And he's also campaigned across the state and pushed in dozens of cities to support education, freedom and to to call for education savings accounts to be passed. He's calling for a special session that's expected to come. Sometime soon the the fake Republicans in the Texas House are going to have primary candidates breathing down their necks.

I hope they just do the right thing and vote for parents to support education freedom. But the argument that they lay out is that one they'll say because I'm in a rural area, the public school is the only option, they'll say.

But then in the next sentence, in the next breath with a straight face, they'll try to tell you that this will decimate and destroy our fantastic rural public schools.

Well, you know what? If they're so fantastic, you should have nothing to worry about.

But then two. If the public school is the only option and public schools are funded based on how many people are the kids are there, you should be the last person making this argument.

No one's going to leave if it's. If it's true that you only have public schools in your area well.

You should be the last person saying that's going to defund your schools, because if the if the kids aren't going to go anywhere else.

The worst case scenario for you is that nothing. Changes, but the reality is you pull voters in Texas, University of Houston, University of Texas, Austin. They've split it down between rural, suburban and urban. And if anything, the rural voters are most supportive of school choice policies, including vouchers, including education savings accounts.

The UT Austin polling found a 16% percentage point jump in support since June of 2017 to June of 2023.

So there's a huge shift in Texas legislators should respond to that shift, even though it's it's always been popular.

It's just so enormously popular now that we've reached a breaking point that Texas needs to get it done this year, especially with the governor on board the Senate easily passing the Bill 18 to 13 in the regular session.

I think the the temperature in the capital is that the House needs to do something. Hopefully they go all in too and do universal school choice. But anything would be a victory if it includes the mass, the vast majority of Texas families.

00:10:22 [ALLEN WEST]

Yeah, because in a way, you kind of get that sensing that, you know, Governor Abbott says that I'm all in for this school choice thing.

But I got my little henchman over here and the speaker of the House of the Texas House and you know, he's the reason why we can't get it done to me.

If you're the governor, you should be able to look at this figure house that you know, point the finger.

You, you're going to make this happen, you're going to get it done.

Now, one of the concerns and maybe you can help us understand this, a lot of parents are saying we don't want the government intervention to follow the money. Is that a concern that you have?

00:10:55 [COREY DEANGELIS]

Yeah, I have a couple of responses to that and I actually got into school choice as a liberal with libertarian tendencies where I don't want government intervention in the private sector.

And my quick response to that is this is the very definition of making perfect the enemy of the good. The government can already regulate private and home education.

They have historically and in Oregon in 1922, in Oregon, they outlawed private education. You had to go to the government school to get your kids indoctrinated with the leftist ideology at the time. Thankfully, in 1925, the US Supreme Court and Pierce versus Society of Sisters struck down that bigoted law where the court famously said, thankfully, that the child is not the mere creature of the state.

Only if Joe Biden could figure that out. The kids don't belong to the government.mThe child is not the mere creature of the state.

So we have Supreme Court precedent on that, but that wasn't because of a school choice program that they that they called it in home and private education. It was because they had authoritarian people, politicians who are authoritarian, authoritarian tendencies in office, who passed policies to restrict the individual liberties of of parents and to attack parental rights.

And so with school choice, you you strike against the likelihood of those things happening in at least three ways. One you have fewer kids in the government school system being indoctrinated to like big government socialism, those kids might vote to regulate home schooling tomorrow if they if we don't have school choice.

So this is an exit. It's a it's a opening, the floodgates allowing for some exit options. To maybe have kids be educated in religious schools or other more conservative schools, but then two, when you have more people using private and home education through school choice politics is all about organized special interest, right? And coalitions. Well, if you have more people benefiting from the program, well now you.

You can fight against those future calls for regulation and the best way to do so is if you have a lot of people on your side fighting against any authoritarian overreach, and I think this is part of the Florida story that you pointed out, that DeSantis barely win won in 20/20/18 in this first memorial race.

00:13:10 [ALLEN WEST]

Yeah, I guess Angie Gilliam.

00:13:11 [COREY DEANGELIS]

Because of school choice moms and why? Because partially because Florida already had a tax credit scholarship program for low income.

Families disproportionately were minority families. Disproportionately were lower income families. I think the average household income for families using that program was only about $30,000 a year, and those same parents came out in support of DeSantis because his opponent Gilliam, didn't support that program.

And so that really school choice can turn voters into single issue voters. And who would have historically not voted for the Republicans who are more likely to embrace freedom of expression and well, that now you have a political center that can turn into a a safeguard against authoritarian overreach in the future, and that worked for Florida and Florida. You have to santis Fast forward to 20221 by 20.

Just imagine if Gilliam was in charge of Florida, it would have been closed down. You wouldn't have had as much school choice. It would have been totally different and that would have affected the other states because a lot of states look to Florida and say and and they were able to say, well, they open, they were OK, well, maybe we'll open too.

And so we might have been locked down as a country. Even longer than we were. And then three when when more people use school choice and you get a bigger coalition using it as well. The concept becomes more mainstream. And if the concept is more mainstream, the rest of society is less likely to see that this is a that this is some icky thing that only a few people are doing, and therefore we got a call to regulate it.

So the more that the rest of society is OK with this idea of private and home education, that should reduce the chances of government overreach in the future.

Again, this isn't a silver bullet. But is the best solution that we have at the moment and was as the great economist Thomas Sowell once famously said, there are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.

And the people who are fear mongering about school choice, they're looking at one potential cost of school choice that could happen in the future while ignoring the guaranteed monumental cost of cementing the status quo.

And if school choice was really a ploy to have the left take over private education, why the heck are all the Democrats voting against it? Why are the teachers unions who are who control the Democratic Party, so against school choice? If if it's really just a plot to to infiltrate leftist values into private schools, that that's not what that's not. That's not the game of school choice. And my last thing I'll say about it is in states like Texas and others that have passed these monumental policies. Arizona being one of the first.

They have explicit language in the bill saying that the if you accept the funding, you won't be a state actor, so you won't be a a government school. You won't turn into a government school and that the government cannot control the creed curriculum admissions policy.

These and and and otherwise of the private schools, so there's not all school choice bills are created equal on this front.

And one way that that, that comes to light is understanding that you should have anti regulation language in the bill as well. So instead of pushing against school choice. With fear mongering.

I suggest those who are concerned about it push for amendments. If the bill doesn't have that, that important language included, and I'm at American Federation for Children. My organization and the Institute for Justice as well, we both have in our model legislation to have anti regulation language.

00:16:39 [ALLEN WEST]

You know, and also I would say education policy and that issue was important in the Virginia election because all of a sudden you get a clean sweep of the governor, Lieutenant governor and attorney general.

Let's also focus on the impact of these superintendents that they have out there and some of the the school board policy, I think filing we have awakened to realize how important school boards are but also you see a lot I think here in Texas the superintendents don't want to lose their, quote, UN quote fiefdoms out there.

00:17:10 [COREY DEANGELIS]

That's right.

00:17:10 [ALLEN WEST]

And so they're standing up against this school choice. How do we combat that education administrative state?

00:17:18 [COREY DEANGELIS]

I mean, look, in Texas, I've listed the Superintendent salaries. You have at least a handful of them making more than the President of the United States over $400,000 a year.

So you know, yeah, I mean superintendents are in all states. So I don't think they're the only force at play here that's blocking it in, in, in excess, but it is true that you know, they they have superintendents, unions, they have administrators, unions, they have teachers unions.

So it's all these employees unions caring about the interests, interests of adults over the well-being of children, and I think shining a light on that fact helps people get on the side of the parents and the children. And it helps legislators as well to see what's really going on. Just to just showcase the lies that are being spread by by the defenders of the status quo, I mean the main argument they'll make is that this will destroy the public schools and one you can point to all the evidence shows the opposite. It makes them better. They just don't want to compete.

They don't want to have to up their game in response to the competition. That's what's really going on. So showing all that evidence showing that it's popular with voters showing how there's been a huge shift showing that other states have done this and other states haven't destroyed their public education system, and also going to show them that we support public education too.

If you like your public school again, you can keep your public school and and actually shown in the evidence, so just pointing out where the interests lie, and it is really important and and at the end of the day, politicians do respond to logic but they more importantly respond to power dynamics, and at the end of the day.

Whenever a bill comes up and the politicians hearing all from one side getting a flood of emails because the Superintendent said and emails to all their employees and says Ohh you need to vote for this or you need to to e-mail your legislators to vote against the school choice policy because you're not gonna have a job next year.

All the fear mongering that they employ. Boy parents, they're not full time advocates usually right? They they have to raise their kids. They have the job of their own to do. And so I think what's changed the past couple of years is parents have kind of become an interest group themselves. You have Moms for Liberty, for example, and they're saying that it's so important.

00:19:33 [ALLEN WEST]

But, but they're a hate group. Moms for Liberty is a hate group . . .

00:19:35 [COREY DEANGELIS]

Ohh yeah, that just goes to show you how threatened the status quo is right now.

00:19:35 [ALLEN WEST]

Group. Now you know.

00:19:41 [COREY DEANGELIS]

They are losing control over the minds of other peoples child. Children and that's causing them to lose their minds because they truly see the government school system as a way to raise other people's kids.

That is totally backwards. That's why you have Joe Biden tweeting out that there's no such thing as as other people's kids, it's societies, kids, or whatever the actual quote was. It's total communist garbage.

And the vast majority of parents and the overall electorate don't buy it for a second. It's only a a very radical left group that actually believes kids belong to the government, but then they try to to to paint groups like Monster Liberty that are threatening their power structure. Or as hate groups? That's all they have is to label everything they don't like as an evil thing. Instead of grappling with the logic of the arguments, I think if we continue to take the high ground, grapple with the logic of the arguments. We have logic on our side with school choice. We have morality on our side with school choice, and now we also have political power on our side with school choice because parents are fed up with it.

They care about their kids more than anybody else, particularly more than bureaucrats sitting in offices hundreds of miles away, and they've had enough.

They've stood up, they've gone to the school board meetings, but they're going to the ballot box too. I mean, in in in 2022, in the midterms. A lot of people were talking about the red wave. There wasn't a red wave that we were expecting. There wasn't a blue wave, obviously, but there was a school choice wave yeah, 76% of the candidates supported by my organization, the American Federation for Children and our state affiliates won their races in 2020 and we didn't just plan the easy ones. We targeted 69 incumbents and state legislatures and took out 40 of them.

That's the hardest thing to do in politics. To unseat a sitting legislature. And we took out 40 of 69 and then also you don't have to take my word for it. You can look in The New Yorker magazine right after the midterms.

The Liberal author lamented that education freedom candidates fared depressingly well in the midterm.

00:21:50 [ALLEN WEST]

That tells you something.

00:21:50 [COREY DEANGELIS]

They're so that.

00:21:52 [ALLEN WEST]

You know it's interesting because one of the things the military teaches you, you always find the gaps. You always find the the openings to exploit your your adversary with and and I think something happened in North Carolina that, you know, I don't believe we have exploited to the fullest. When you have a Republican legislature that passed a school. Would you have a Democratic governor that comes out and declares a state of emergency because of still absolutely mind blowing?

We should have been hammering this to say that Democrats feel it's a state of emergency for your child to have access to a quality education they would rather have your child be locked into these schools where they cannot get out. They rather have your child not able to read or do math at grade level, you know where is that concerted? Maybe you know your federation will take it up that concerted message. Because I got to tell you, most times Corey on our side, we suck at messaging. We can have the high ground, we can have all the truth, all the facts. We don't message it properly.

How can we message something like this to show that the Democrats don't care about the education of your child?

00:23:06 [COREY DEANGELIS]

Yeah, I'll just start out by saying Roy Cooper, the Democratic governor of North Carolina is a freaking hypocrite. He sent his own kid to private school, and now he fights as hard as possible. And what? Where was the state of emergency over the failing government schools and the closed government schools for for quite a while, you'd think you'd call a state of emergency over that. But no, he's more worried about his campaign contributors, the teachers unions. It's a state of emergency for their power structure. It's it's not a state of emergency for children and I think that's really important to point out.

But look, as far as messaging, well, I think first of all, in North Carolina, they're going to get to universal school choice because Trisha Cotham switched to left the Democrat Party. Became a Republican, and now both Chambers in North Carolina have a enough votes precisely enough votes to override.

The hypocrite, Governor Roy Cooper's expected veto of school choice policy, so they've all signed on in both chambers and needed every single one of them.

Yeah, it became a litmus test issue in North Carolina for their Republicans, even a Democrat who who switched parties is voting for it. You think Texas Republicans, if they actually followed what their voters wanted?

In Republican areas, they'd be able to get universal school choice done as well, but so I think it's going to get across the finish line in North Carolina.

And then as far as messaging, I think it's important to one highlight the political victories we've we've really tried to message on the logic of school choice and we've won on that message. We know we're doing the right thing. We know there's no good arguments against it. It's all a bunch of fear mongering BS that doesn't stand up to the actual evidence. So we've won the logical battle. We need to convince legislators that this is a political winner too, because again, politicians respond to polling, they respond to organized interest. And that's just the reality of the world we we live in, whether we like it or not.

So I think that messaging is important and then also. I've kind of I think, myself I I don't wanna toot my own horn too much, but I've tried to make a concerted effort to change how we talk about the idea of school choice. Because when you say school choice, I mean you get everybody who's already with you because they know they support it. Yeah, but it's not very transparent because like, what does that actually mean, right, is it? Does it mean that, well, I can choose a school and pay for it?,It's like, OK, yeah, I I have that. Or does it? So it it gets confusing really quickly to a lot of people who are in politics. And then it has been demonized by people who don't like it. So you're not going to be able to convince people who are already so hard dead set against it if you say the word school choice. Whereas the what the term I have introduced is something called funding students instead of systems fund students, not systems, and that is beneficial in a couple ways.

One, it's more transparent. It's it's the idea of the funding following the student. It's and how can you argue with the funding following the student? How can you if you want to argue with me when I say fund students, not systems. You're in a weird predicament where you're trying to explain why we should fund the system and not the student.

And it really goes to show you're not for the kids, you're for the buildings and the government institution as opposed to the family. And so that rhetorical technique puts the other side on defense. And if you're explaining you're losing and then analogies are important in politics too, because you got to communicate in sound bites.

00:26:22 [ALLEN WEST]

Got to do it.

00:26:29 [COREY DEANGELIS]

And when I talk about funding students instead of systems, that idea is already at play with everything else, with pre-K with the head start program. The funding follows the student. Parents can choose different private pre-K providers, even religious ones with higher education.

Democrats support Pell grants, right? And those are vouchers that you can use at public or private, religious or non religious university. So you can point out their logical and consistency when they say things like public funds for public schools. It's like, OK, but you support taxpayer dollars public funds for private colleges and pre kates and grocery stores, food stamps, and snap. You can use that at HEB or Walmart. It doesn't have to go to a residentially assigned government provider of groceries where you get government cheese, thankfully.

And so when you can point out all of these Medicaid dollars, you can use Medicaid dollars at a private, even religious hospital if you want. Section 8 housing vouchers can be used at private providers of housing. I mean, it's you.

The list goes on and on and on. That again, the Democrats support all these other things, but then they don't support it. They support for for college pre-K they don't support it for the in the in between years of K to 12 education and it all has to do with power dynamics.

Yeah, choice is the norm for higher Ed and pre-K, but choice threatens and entrenched special interest that superintendents, the administrators, the teachers unions, and they fight as hard as possible against any change to the status quo and that just really it blows the mind of a lot of Democrats who haven't thought about it that way.

And it really makes sense that this is about power dynamics. It's not about logic and so some, at least independents start to sway towards the parents. We saw this with Glenn Younkin in Virginia, where a state that went ten points to Biden, and in 2020, the year before the election in 2021, it went six points to Glenn Younkin with education voters. And that those type of voters were the #2, that was the number two issue in the election ended up winning by two points overall around that number and it was on the issue of parental rights and that's another point of messaging that instead of just talking about it in terms of school choice or funding students as opposed to systems using the umbrella term of parental rights, I mean, school choice is part of it.

00:28:54 [ALLEN WEST]

Of course.

00:28:56 [COREY DEANGELIS]

Having more of a say at the school board meeting as part of it. And then that exposed. This is the lefts opposition to parents in general and then having a right over there directing their kids lives and their kids education and most people aren't communists who think kids belong to the government.

They think that parents are in the best position to make those decisions, so when you get them to slip up on the left like Terry McAuliffe did, which, you know, he let the mask slip.

This this is a great political technique and and messaging technique that I think all Republicans should follow the the Glenn Younkin blueprint for political success and talk about things in, in terms of parental rights.

00:29:38 [ALLEN WEST]

Well, without a doubt, what you have to do, you don't win on defense. You have to put them on defense. You have to go on offense and you have to be relentless and that's why the messaging is so important. That's why I like what you say, fund the students, not the system. And and I'll leave you with this, and you can choose to use it if you want. But when the left talks about how math is racist. You should make a meme or some type of message out there that says the left thinks that math is racist.

Ask these women and you should show those women who were featured in the movie Hidden Figures that were so instrumental in us going to the moon because what they're doing is that soft bigotry of low expectations that absolutely disgust me. Where can people follow you? Where can people stay in touch with all that you're doing?

00:30:25 [COREY DEANGELIS]

Hey, you can follow me on Twitter.

It's just at DeangelisCorey, and I'm at the American Federation for Children.

If you want to help us in the fight for education freedom, you can actually take the education freedom pledge, which can be found at education, freedom pledge.com, or for sure you can just go to eddfreedompledge.com where you can let us know. And let legislators know that you support politicians and policies to expand education, freedom and parent rights and we'll keep you in the loop with any bills that are moving in your state that you can support as well.

00:30:58 [ALLEN WEST]

Well, thank you so much for joining us here. Steadfast and Loyal and God bless you and I appreciate everything you're doing to make sure that we educate our children and not indoctrinate them.

00:31:08 [COREY DEANGELIS]

Thank you so much for having me.

00:31:09 [ALLEN WEST]

My pleasure, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so very much for taking the time to be with us today on the Steadfast and Loyal program.

And special thanks to Corey DeAngelis for joining us and helping us to understand how critical and important the issue of school choice is for the future of the United States of America.

And if you like this program, please click the like button, share it with others and until next time, Steadfast and Loyal.

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[ALLEN WEST] Hey greetings everyone. Welcome back to the Steadfast and Loyal Podcast. Elizabeth Fields is the Chief Executive Officer at The Warrior Connection. Elizabeth served as President and Co-Founder of Jackson Fields Consulting, a firm that leveraged 20 plus years of nonprofit leadership experience to help organizations reorganize and scale effectively to ensure sustainable impact. Prior to that, Ms. Fields served as Chief Operating Officer at the Gary Seneese Foundation as well as held various executive roles at leading nonprofits and academic institutions to include National Public Radio, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, and the University of Arizona where she is a graduate, Eller College of Management. So we are now joined by Elizabeth Fields who is top dog at The Warrior Connection.

[ELIZABETH FIELDS] Well thank you so much for having me on the show today. It's an honor to be here.

[ABW] It's my pleasure. And you just recently moved down here to Texas so welcome to our Texas Heat.

[EF] Well thank you very much. It's a little bit different from that Arizona heat because that's pretty much so dry heat. We have a little humidity we throw in there. Just a little bit. Just a little bit.

[ABW] Well tell us about your background starting out in the not-for-profit world because that can be a world that really has a lot of intricacies and can get bogged down and a lot of not-for-profits do fail. So what are the keys to success for being a nonprofit organization?

[EF] Run it like a business. Run the nonprofit like a business. I don't think what happens a lot of times are a lot of nonprofits, I don't think, a lot of nonprofits are a start-up for because people have a passion. They want to make the passion happen. They want to go run the program. They want to help people. And they just do all that. And they forget that you need to raise awareness. You need to raise money. You need to actually have proper operations because that's what's going to help you grow and become sustainable. So you need to run it like a business and you can't forget about the admin needs that are associated to actually make it grow. Now how often do you see these nonprofits that, you know, they go through maybe some type of ramp-up, some type of train-up as opposed to those that just, you know, "I got a great idea. Like I said, I got a passion. I'm going to apply for a 501(c)(3) status." And then it's like, "Okay, what do I do now?" I'd say that most of them sit there and just go and they forget about everything else. And then it's, "What do I do now?"

The really effective ones will actually sit there and raise capital for a year or two before they even do programming. And then they're set up to actually raise money for, you know, the next year. They don't have to worry about raising money when they're actually trying to run programs at the same time. So now they're establishing a seed money, a base, a foundation. Yes. That is definitely the most effective way to ensure success. Now the branding and of course, you know, the donor contacts. I mean, is there a means by which people can get, you know, good education on doing these things so that it's not, you know, starting from ground zero in many cases?

[ABW] Well, nowadays you can actually go and get a degree in how to run a nonprofit. Wow. That's fairly new. I'm old school. I didn't go and get a degree in that. I learned hands-on and I have to say I still think that's the best way. But being able to, so a lot of times you'll see fundraisers in particular jumping around a lot of nonprofits and people are like, hey, why are they doing that? There's a variety of reasons. But one of them is because you're trying to get different kinds of skill sets that you can then take with you to wherever your final destination is and tweak those processes and procedures that you learned and bring them to that nonprofit and tweak it accordingly. So a lot of times that's why you see that a lot of jump around as well. It's because you're trying to build a tool or skill set, I guess, to take with you. What about board composition? How important is that for a nonprofit organization?

[EF] It's important. You don't want to make it too big because then there's just a lot of different opinions and you can't get any work done. I'd say between 9 and 11 is a perfect amount. You definitely want a combination of people who are tied into the community who can bring a skill set that you might not have available on the board. So for instance, a lot of nonprofits don't like to invest in marketing because it's just a lot of admin costs. So having marketing professionals on the board is a good offset.

[ABW] And then of course you do need some people who are connected and have the ability to give because at the end of the day, if you don't raise awareness and you don't raise any money, you're not going to be offering any program. So you want a nice mixture of skill set, connection, somebody who can actually give money and service to the community. You've got to make sure they're functional. And I used to be on the board of the National Rifle Association and I got to tell you, 76 members. That's a lot. Yeah, I mean you want to talk about inertia. But the interesting thing is that there was a core group that always had the ear of the executive vice president and what have you. And so it was very interesting dynamic to have a board that was that big and to see really that it didn't end up being quite functional. And there was a lot of inability to move forward because like I said, it was that core group. So tell us now, okay, you're in this not-for-profit world and then all of a sudden you get the opportunity to be with some I've met personally on a few times. Mr. Gary Sinise, Lieutenant Dan. Lieutenant Dan. Lieutenant Dan, everyone knows. What was that like to go from being maybe a little bit behind the scenes to now you're the COO of a very large foundation?

[EF] Well, I'm certainly grateful that had that experience, right? Gary's foundation does a lot of work with veterans and first responders. And I was actually originally hired there to be the lead fundraiser. Okay. And then there was a leadership change. The executive director at the time, her daughter had a baby and she said, "I'm retiring and I'm going to move across the country and good for her." Right?

And the board decided to bring in the retired four-star general, Robin Rand, to be the CEO. And he did a little restructure and he actually gave me the honor and appointed me to be the COO.

And I learned a lot, under Gary and General Rand, about operations, about strategy, all those things I talked about beforehand, but at a much higher level.

During COVID actually, there was a lot of specialty campaigns going on too. So there was a lot more external work that I got to experience that I wasn't expecting as the COO. So it really actually set me up for success to go into this next level, like the CEO position at the Warrior Connection.

[ABW] Now, what were some of the key takeaways as you come over to the Warrior Connection? What were some of the things, great lessons learned from being with the Gary Sinise Foundation that enable you now to transition? And like I said, now you're the top dog with the Warrior Foundation here. Yeah, I'd say one of the key-- Warrior Connection, I'm sorry. Well, that's okay. One of the key takeaways is definitely finding what makes you unique and stands out in this particular space that you are in. So there is a uniqueness at the Warrior Connection.

[EF] I mean, if I may, just go right there. Yeah, yeah, we want to. Okay, at the Warrior Connection, there's two things that actually really make us unique. And the very first one is while we're trying to prevent veteran suicide, we are one of three organizations in the entire country that serve, offer specialty programming for servicemen and women that experience military sexual trauma during their service. We're one of three. The second thing is that we've had unparalleled success. And as you know, I've been in the nonprofit world for 26 years. And I've never seen anything like I've seen at the Warrior Connection's impact. We are trying to prevent veteran suicide. We've offered 13 years of programming, and we've yet to lose one veteran to suicide after going through one of our programs. So you need to find what makes you unique. You do. And let the community understand, like, the impact you're having to the community and that this impact needs to continue. Yeah, because the thing is, because I'll be very honest, because of the shortfalls and failures, I think, of the VA system, we have so many of these, you know, veterans organizations that are out there to step in and fill that gap. But it's becoming flooded without a doubt. And of course, when you flip on the TV, you're going to see the Wounded Warrior Foundation and all of the many others that are out there to include some of these scam artists that are, you know, capitalizing on Camp Lejeune and the water that's there. And so it's critical that you do find that niche, that thing that separates you out. Talk to us about, you know, this program about the sexual trauma, the victims of sexual assault, because that's something you don't hear about with many of these other programs. You hear about, you know, losing limbs and things of this nature. But you don't hear about that invisible trauma that especially affects our female troops. And I'm sure some male troops as well. And actually, it's interesting that you talk about the male perspective, because as a, for men, right, it's hard to raise your hand and say, I need some help. Oh, God, yeah. It gets even harder when there's been military sexual trauma added on. A lot of times when we offer a retreat, it's going to be specific for post-traumatic stress, because that's what the men are feeling, much more comfortable going to a PTS retreat. And then a lot of times the MST comes out from that retreat because they're in a safe space. And MST is military sexual trauma? Correct. Military sexual trauma. And we definitely have a four to one demand, though, for women to come through one of our programs. And there's 600 veterans on our wait list. Wow. Yeah, 600. We've served over a thousand to date, but every single day, we don't have a director of programs right now. And so I'm the one getting the inquiries, and it's nonstop every day. Are you looking for a director of programs? We are. We actually identified somebody. Okay. Sorry, I was trying to get a finder's fee out there, but no. He's onboarded a few hours a month. Okay. And then hopefully we'll get him on full-time soon. We definitely need him. And he is a combat veteran, so I'm excited to announce who he is, hopefully shortly. Wonderful.

But it's definitely a problem, but we're here to be part of that healing journey. And like I said, we're one of three organizations, so the demand is there. Yeah. The product's there, and we have a very successful, impactful product, for sure. Now, let's talk about the scope. You're based here in the Texas, the North Texas area. Where are many of your programs conducted, your retreats and things of this nature, and how well is your reach across the country? So we operate our program out of Graham, Texas. We're very grateful to have a relationship with another nonprofit called the Young County Warrior Ranch, and they let us use their ranch for free. We do need a large space to do it.

And we originally were founded in Vermont and moved here a couple years ago. And we serve veterans and actual spouses. We do retreats for spouses as well across the country.

Eventually, what we'd like to do is keep serving veterans nationwide. We're never going to stop that. But eventually, we'd also really like to make sure that we're really servicing our community as well, since Texas is our home. And Texas only retreats at some point, too. So make it a combination. Ideally, we'd be doing retreats twice a month, but you need to build some financial capital to have that happen. So we're not quite there, but we're going to get there. Now, when you talk about retreats, give us an idea about what a retreat program looks like, you know, the length, what the focus is. Yeah. So we run them from a Saturday to a Saturday. OK. And then it's they're holistic. They're not traditional clinical behavioral. So it's a combination of daily yoga, expressive arts is a critical part of it, peer to peer group discussions, reflection time. There is some spirituality, nature activities. This is the reason why we want the ranch. Yes.

They're small. And we keep them small on purpose. There's only eight veterans that go through at a time. Right. It's very different if we had 500 veterans at a hotel convention center. Nobody's going to open up. No. So by bearing eight veterans together, we usually have a mentor, a facilitator in training and then two facilitators that run the retreats. And this is this is interesting. Our facilitators are all volunteers. And there's always one veteran facilitator appeared with a civilian facilitator. And the veteran facilitator has most likely gone through the program. Good. And they go through that mentor ship and then the facilitator in training. And when they feel like they're ready to step up to that level, then they will actually facilitate a program. And we have a few that are that have been with the program the entire time.

[ABW] Now, how can people get engaged and get involved in supporting you? And what's the cost for bringing eight veterans down for one of your your training programs? So they can go to WarriorConnection.org. That's the best way to learn about how to support our program, how to get involved with the program, how a veteran can sign up and unfortunately go on the wait list at this moment. The program.

[EF] I'm actually lost my train of thought. Sorry. I forgot the question.

[ABW] Well, what we're talking about is, you know, the cost because we want to make sure how can people support you because, you know, you're talking about Saturday to Saturday and you're talking about airline travel or some type of travel down to Graham, Texas. And of course, the lodging, the meals and all of these type of things. So what's that cost for one person to be able to go through one of your retreat programs?

[EF] So the average cost is twenty five hundred dollars. And it also depends. Right. The airline ticket is the most expensive. Hands down. When we have offsetting costs, it obviously brings the average down. So, for instance, the last couple of retreats, H.E.B. stepped up and provided all the food, the Graham and Lions Club and Rotary Club. They provided all the transportation for these last two treats. So it wasn't twenty five hundred dollars. But on average, it's twenty five hundred dollars to put one veteran through the program. It is one hundred percent covered for every veteran and every facilitator. So there was no out of pocket expenses to them. Now, can someone just say, you know, I want to volunteer to be behind the scenes, you know, help you with making phone calls, coordinate, whatever, sweep the facility. You know, how can people do that and step into that gap? They definitely can.

One of the most common ways is to bring meals. So a lot of people like to cook or come to the property and cook and have a meal with the veterans and the participants.

So that's a great offsetting cost for us. Yes. So we always encourage that. One of the most critical parts of the healing journey is the very last day. So that Friday afternoon is inviting the community to come in and meet with the participants. They have an opportunity to share their stories as much as they want and their experience. And the community shares their gratitude. And it's a really important bonding moment for the individuals that are going through the retreat. Quite frankly, it's exceptionally impactful for the community to have this interaction with these veterans and these heroes.

And the only thing I ask and the only thing that's needed is if your listeners want to come to a retreat graduation to please, you know, contact us at info at WarriorConnection.org so we can be prepared to host them at the property. That'd be great.

[ABW] So as we get ready to wrap up this interview, you talk about scale. So where you are right now, where do you see the Warrior Connection being three to five years from now?

[EF] Well, we try to do seven to nine retreats a year. Oh, seven to nine retreats. I thought you meant years. But seven to nine retreats. Yeah, seven to nine retreats a year. We'd like to be running a retreat monthly for sure, if not twice a month. At some point, it would also be great to be partnering with additional nonprofits in other parts of the country so we could actually be operating multiple retreats in multiple locations and helping more veterans.

[ABW] And hiring the staff to do that, is that going to be a challenge or?

[EF] I suspect so. I suspect so. We're not quite there yet. You know, we want to scale here and make sure that we're doing monthly retreats here in Texas first. Super. But we do have actually other nonprofits that are interested in partnering with us. But let's make sure that we get sustainable here in Texas and then we'll get there. You do the blocking and tackling here and then you can worry about the fancy plays later.

[ABW] Right. Absolutely great. OK, again, how can people get in contact with you to help support you to volunteer to bring meals, things of this nature, the Warrior Connection?

[EF] The best way is to go to WarriorConnection.org, but they can contact me at info at WarriorConnection.org. That mailbox comes to me. And quite frankly, you can give me a call. 940-315-4777 is my cell. And I'm happy to take calls and emails and to visit our website, WarriorConnection.org, to learn more and to help us out. And for you veterans out there that are dealing with the MST, the military sexual trauma, please seek out the Warrior Connection to get the help, because again, this is a very unique trauma that is out there that you've got to fight through it and you've got to admit that you do have a problem. Male or female, you've got to say that I need the help and the Warrior Connection is there to help you.

[ABW] Any parting words, thoughts or anything else you want to get out about the Warrior Connection, Elizabeth?

[EF] I want to thank our veterans and their families for the service. We obviously wouldn't be here if you hadn't offended our democracy and our freedom and our way of life. So thank you so much. We are here to help you. So feel free to reach out. We want to help. And thank you again for hosting us today.

[ABW] My pleasure. Thank you, Elizabeth. Thanks. God bless. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us on this episode of the Steadfast and Loyal Podcast. Special thanks to Elizabeth Fields for being with us and discussing the Warrior Connection and what they are doing to help the lives of our veterans who are still struggling with an unseen enemy. And if you like this podcast, please click the like button and share it with others. And until next time, Steadfast and Loyal.

Dr. Naomi Wolf shares her insights regarding Pfizer and the FDA. We discuss her new book, War Room / DailyClout Pfizer Documents Analysis Volunteers’ Reports: Find Out What Pfizer, FDA Tried to Conceal. Wolf is co-founder and CEO of DailyClout.io, a successful civic tech company. See this interview, which was banned on YouTube and removed! For more on Dr. Wolf see https://dailyclout.io/

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[ALLEN WEST] Hey greetings, everyone, Lieutenant Colonel Allen West and welcome to Steadfast and Loyal.

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Hey, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Steadfast and Loyal and there's so much that is still going on with this whole coronavirus episode. One of the big things that I'm upset about are those men and women in the military who did not take this shot. They should be given the opportunity to come back into the military, especially now since we're not meeting our recruitment goals, and get their back pay and things of this nature and be restored to the rank that they had.

[ALLEN WEST] So I couldn't think of anyone better to talk about this whole issue about the coronavirus, the pandemic, how we were lied to, where do we go from here, than Dr. Naomi Wolf. Dr. Wolf is a best-selling author, columnist, and professor. She is a graduate of Yale University and received a doctorate from Oxford. I'm just a University of Tennessee graduate doctor so please don't use a lot of big words on me. She is the co-founder and CEO of DailyClout.io, a successful civil tech company. Dr. Wolf has written eight best-selling works of nonfiction, but today we're going to talk to her about her latest work. It's an e-book entitled War Room / Daily Clout. Pfizer documents, analysis, volunteer reports. Find out what Pfizer FDA tried to conceal. Dr. Naomi Wolf, thanks for joining us here at Steadfast and Loyal.

[DR. WOLF] Thanks so much for having me.

[ALLEN WEST] Well let's let's start out and talk about your e-book here because you know you get the feeling that something was not right. You get the feeling that you know a lot of these you know biomedical and drug companies really made a lot of money off of a, you know the pain of the American people. What do you really discover in your research and your study and you know as you have gone through this looking back on this coronavirus pandemic?

[DR. WOLF] Yeah well just to share luckily in addition to the e-book there's also a physical book now which is on Amazon or right there on Daily Clout.io and it is in the historic publication because what happened was that Aaron Siri who's a distinguished attorney sued the FDA for to compel it to release tens of thousands of documents in its custody that were internal Pfizer documents and the judge agreed with Aaron Siri and forced Pfizer to force the FDA to release the Pfizer documents. At that point I was worried that they'd be lost to history because they're very technical and there are tens of thousands of them what journalist is able to go through all of that. So we put out a call on Steve Bannon's War Room and my site Daily Clout for experts and now we have 3,500 doctors and scientists with the highest credentials, RNs, medical fraud investigators, biostatisticians etc who have united for the good of humanity to read through these Pfizer documents and they've issued 76 reports so that's what's in this book you just mentioned and the reports do document, I'm sorry to tell your viewers, the greatest crime against humanity in reported history and I'm Jewish I don't say that lightly. My grandma lost nine siblings in the Holocaust this is scale when you do the math the scale is worse than the Holocaust and I say that advisedly.

What they found is I mean very brief headlines a month in Pfizer knew that the vaccine did not work to stop COVID the third most common side effect is COVID they use the words vaccine failure and failure of efficacy a month in so everything that followed was a lie they knew that they had 1225 deaths within three months of the vaccine being rolled out they knew that there were 35 miners who had sustained heart damage within a week of receiving the mRNA injections they knew that they had to hire 2400 full-time employees just to deal with the flood of adverse events reports that they were receiving and they anticipated receiving and I mean of horrors ranging from you know they knew that the materials didn't stay in the deltoid that they'd bio distributed to every organ in the body spike protein lip nanoparticles and a polyethylene glycol which is petroleum byproduct these materials accumulated in the liver the spleen the adrenals if you're a woman in your ovaries and they there are tens of thousands of strokes thousands of neurological disorders dementia's game bar a's Alzheimer's Bell's palsy Parkinson's tens of thousands of examples of kidney failure liver failure failure cancers turbo cancers just you know things you that would surprise you skin disorders disorders and in addition to all of these horrors and more in the documents.

[ALLEN WEST] There is and to me this most important thing it's not just about the present future there the 360 degree attack on human reproduction and especially on women and on female reproduction the the amazing you know this is amazing to me because this is not something that is made up but yet we have a government that was forcing people to to take this and ruining people's lives if they did not so when you look at what the government did by way of collusion with social media platforms and things of this nature you know why was it so important to suppress this true truth why was it not important for these things to be shared with American people and basically have us like sheep being led to the slaughter I remember the chastisement that you got if you did not want to take this shot and and even within you know some of my extended relatives who said well I don't want you coming over to visit me and all of these things this really almost destroyed this country and definitely destroyed many lives what's what's the consequences going to be these are two questions right why did they do it and it also what are the consequences

[DR. WOLF] So I'll take fine unfortunately my independent research has led me to conclude that this is a bioweapon I mean people are now speaking that is a bioweapon I believe the state of Florida just recently passed a declaration that it's bioweapon and the reason I concluded it's bioweapon is you know in addition to seeing how intentional the attack on female reproduction the 80% miscarriage rate the fact that the poisonous materials get into vaccinated moms breast milk and poison newborn babies the fact that you know the Pfizer documents refer to dead babies in utero as having died from quote trans placental exposure the vaccine the fact that Pfizer defines shedding or exposure to vaccine as skin inhalation and sexual intercourse especially at the time of conception so there's something in the semen of vaccinated men that Pfizer knows is damaging to either women or to embryos they instructed vaccinated men not to have intercourse with child during age women or if they did use two reliable forms of contraception so all of these are things you I'm a political analyst right I'm not a medical doctor if you and I've been a political consultant to Bill Clinton into Al Gore if you have a set of documents that show a sustained attack on the ability of a whole population to reproduce the most obvious conclusion is that this is a foreign power of some kind or a treasonous entity that is trying to take out the United States of America. So that's just one piece of evidence but I found the memorandum of understanding between Pfizer BioNTech which makes the Pfizer vaccines and Chinese Communist Party so they're the same company essentially and in 2021 the BioNTech SEC filing stated that there had been a hundred percent completed tech transfer in 2021 from BioNTech to China it didn't say a Chinese individual a Chinese company it said China so this means that the formulation the manufacturing process the distribution now in 2022 2023 is entirely in the hands of people who you know harvest their own people's organs and who are our existential adversaries and my husband who has spent a career in military intelligence and intelligence has said they want our land they want our energy grid they want our water resources they want our food supply they don't want our population and then lastly the last piece of evidence I have is that and by the way China has opened 14 vaccine manufacturing plants in Western Europe and two in the United States one in Amherst I'm sorry Amherst, Massachusetts, and one in Princeton, New Jersey.

So they're you know actively we have we have a hostile entity actively manufacturing and distributing this dangerous sterilizing and lethal product and my last piece of evidence that it's a bioweapon is if you look at the adverse events breakdown in the Pfizer documents it shows that there's total of just under 43,000 adverse events in three months so 36,000 beats were in the United States the next largest tranche were in Western Europe in order of political importance meaning Britain France Germany Italy Spain Greece and all the rest of the adverse events combined in all 52 countries it was rolled out were in ended up to only thousand adverse events so if you take all of those together and you also realize that this injection can be made more and less lethal with tampering with things as simple as brand with Moderna being more than three times as it's got more than three times the poisonous materials of Pfizer or tampering with things as simple as temperature because this material is liquid under very cold temperatures but solidifies under room temperatures and body temperatures then you see how easy it is to take out a country. I mean look at who got mandated and this is I guess a final piece of evidence our soldiers our sailors our special forces our health care workers our first responders the children of the elite at universities right the next generation.

If there's going to be you know like if you want to distract and disable the elite of a country kill their kids you know disable their kids sterilize their kids who else got mandated firefighters police officers the people you need to have a functioning society and as a result you know doubt has shown we have you know catastrophically high levels of disability as well as deaths excess deaths off the charts so this is what you know again I don't mean to be you know citing my husband all the time but he's you know incredibly knowledgeable about warfare and she describes this as this is what we do to other countries before invading we tenderize them it's called tenderizing the enemy so he's into hate war and you know look at us I mean we're a mess where everyone's disabled everyone's you know injured. People are have turbo cancers people have strokes; very few doctors are telling people with these side effects that it's related to the vaccine but you know I just look around and visually Americans are barely you know barely thriving right they're not the strong healthy population they were in 2019.

[ALLEN WEST] Well, what your husband is talking about something that we in the military we'll call setting the conditions or shaping operation before decisive operation and that really is what a bio weapon or chemical weapon does it is about disabling some of the capabilities and capacities of your enemy your adversary to make it a lot easier for you to attack and so what you're laying down is you know phase one you know the bio weapon and now we are dealing with the fentanyl which is also it's a chemical weapon and it's being used against us and where does it emanate from again it emanates from the Chinese the Chinese Communists the transnational narco criminal terrorists or getting it into the country but you know you think about a hundred thousand Americans in what a year or two have been killed because of the fentanyl and continues to to do so so you're absolutely right and and the fentanyl is really hitting the number one killer 18 to what 45 so that that military-aged individuals so when you look at it this from a military perspective when you look at this evidence that you have how can our government be so blind as to allow this to occur, and to me, be complicit to it and also trying to silence the voices of the people that see this evidence and have this proof?

[DR. WOLF] Right well that's the great question and thank you for your service. I'm sorry to not say that earlier. So, I think I so I voted for the Biden administration and I'm ashamed that I did and I wish I we have a thoroughly compromised White House we have traitors in the White House and every single journalist who you know censored stories Hunter Biden's laptop in advance of the election really has blood on their hands because we now have the receipts the Biden family received millions of dollars from the Chinese Communist Party and from cutouts related to people who are our enemies and once China which you know does not play and they don't play nice, right? It's a tyranical --

[ALLEN WEST] No

[DR. WOLF] Right? Once a Chinese intelligence asset gives you three million dollars you're really not free not to do what they ask you to do so we have a compromised White House and they're in thrall to China and you know again I'm a former political consultant so this is so obvious to me not only have the last two and a half years been about weakening us physically and economically and you know in terms of our culture and our infrastructure and our food supply and our cyber security and our energy grid but so many moments I mean it just kills me to think about them these are not accidental when you know when the president of the United States looks at his watch during a military funeral

[ALLEN WEST] Oh I know . . .

[DR. WOLF] Yeah he's not just being a jerk right he's not just being senile. Those events are so scripted and and you know there would be a handler or his wife or someone nearby right to stop him from doing it again if it was just a senile moment but multiple times like that's just one example but the prestige of our country the symbols of our country have been intentionally degraded and degraded and mocked and humiliated and vilified deliberately in kind of theatrics you know especially at the level of the White House for the last three years.

I mean just one other example which I find so painful is the President ends his speeches, and for like decades, presidents have been, as you know, presidents have ended their speeches "God bless our troops and God bless the United States of America." Yeah, well, he just cuts "God bless the United States of America" so that's like one of those little kinds of cycle orchard things that is you know that basically sends the message to Americans listening that this is not a president who cares about us no one cares about our traditions our traditions are meaningless our prestigious meaningless I mean on and on you know sending our secretary of whoever Janet Yellen is I forgot her formal title --

[ALLEN WEST] Treasury

[DR. WOLF] Treasury, thank you, a restaurant instead of you know at a banquet. I mean, again and again, we are being humiliated in symbolic ways and our our our traditions and our culture is being humiliated and this is this is what, the only way this could happen is if our adversaries had the president and you're there for it the White House the whole executive branch in in its thrall essentially.

[ALLEN WEST] You know it's interesting because what I want everyone to get out of this conversation we're having is that you're not you know the other side is very good at demonizing you know right-wing nuts extremists whatever. You know you're someone that has been quote-unquote on the other side of the aisle you talked about your political consultancy you talked about who you voted for in the last presidential election. My question is do you think that we are awakening people to understand that this is not about which side of the aisle that we're on. This is about truth this is about what is happening to our country this is about waking us all up to realize that we cannot continue to be the frogs in the boiling pot of water. We cannot continue to be you know some type of crash test dummy. This is very serious when you talk about China and what they're doing as our number one geopolitical foe and when you look and see what is happening on our border. I live down here in Texas. The amount of single military-age males coming in here from China is another thing that should be very disconcerting because I belief that's another aspect of this shaping operation so I think it's so important that folks realize that you're not a political ideologue. You're saying this from a sincere position of what you see happening in our country.

[DR. WOLF] Well, thank you. I mean, yes, I certainly hope so. You know these tyrants will tyrant, right? Like, yeah, turning partisan, and I first started paying attention to the ways in which the United States could be subverted. You know, our democracy or our Republic could be subverted by a tyranny or basically in a coup during the Bush era and unfortunately Bush - really innovated in set in motion and a lot of the you know poisonous fruit that has kind of been escalating now.

I mean the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 gave the president the power to detain anyone without charge of trial. And during the Bush era you know Guantanamo was built you know we created a place outside the rule of law we created a certain he created a surveillance society. So I guess you know without going into rabbit holes, you know, and then Obama droned Americans, right?

You could go on with examples on both sides of the aisle of tyrants and tyranny and unconstitutional behavior again and again why because and I totally say this as someone who was in those rooms where national histories are made everyone like democracy or a real republic is very inconvenient right? It keeps people from doing what they want to do at the highest levels and either side giving the opportunity will arrest their opposition you know spy on critics super muzzle the press so this is totally not partisan. I'm embarrassed that the left, which in my lifetime, used to stand for free speech and you know human rights has completely abandoned its legacy under the Biden administration.

But you're right it's not about partisanship it's very important for us to not be divided by party anymore because the only way to save our country is with a movement that is not left versus right but kind of us versus them because our enemies are not you know the DNC or the RNC. Our enemies are globalists it's you know the CCP the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation the World Economic Forum the World Health Organization. These multi -- and big tech -- right inclusion with them it's these multinational entities that are trying to create structures above the level of the nation-state so that our rights can be taken away from us and the WHO treaty that says that they get to declare a pandemic anytime on and remove our sovereignty is a really great example of that.

[ALLEN WEST] Do you think and and next to the last question do you think that this issue of American sovereignty will be a critical aspect of our election coming up in 2024 because right now I mean if you're a country that does not control your borders you're not a country I don't you're just a piece of ground in between two other places and you talked about you know China coming in and buying up land here in the United States of America. And I give, I've said this before we couldn't even pass legislation in the Texas state legislature in our last session to prevent China from buying up land. So you're right it's not so much about R&D it's about understanding the fundamentals of this constitutional Republic but again do you think that sovereignty of our country will be a critical issue borders things of this nature?

[DR. WOLF] Well first forgive me I am alone in the house and my puppy is barkey

[ALLEN WEST] It's all good. We're dog friendly

[DR. WOLF] Thank you I hope he's a he's a very internet-friendly puppy and second that's really interesting that even in Texas you couldn't pass your legislation

[ALLEN WEST] No, to keep China from buying up land

[DR. WOLF] Who was standing in the way? Was it Dems or was it both?

[ALLEN WEST] No, Texas has a Republican State House, a Republican State Senate, and a Republican governor, and so that's why I'm saying this is less about R&D. This is about two different principles and philosophies of governance. And you talked about it this globalist mentality this surrendering of our sovereignty. And there are people -- you brought up George Bush and some of the things that he done -- well you know he's still pretty influential and impactful by way of this knucklehead Karl Rove here in the state of Texas. So, you know, you're again you're a great example of how we need to break this thing down from party and start thinking about our fundamentals here's a constitutional Republic and so again do you think that this issue of sovereignty for the United States of America can be a critical item in the 2024 election economic sovereignty?

[DR. WOLF] I think it should be if I were if I were running for president that and parents rights would be at the top of my list these are issues that are fundamental to everything else everyone understands them no one wants to lose their sovereignty I think people we've never seen so many American flags right I think people are kind of belatedly realizing what America is and how bad it would be if we lived in a communist regime or a fascist regime and you know absolutely that would be a winning issue and you know everything else depends on that right because you can't have economic well-being if you can't set the terms of your economy you can't have safety you know physical safety you can't manage crime if you can't police your own borders and and so on I mean you know losing your sovereignty to the WHO people really have to understand it means that you're gonna see you know UN soldiers or militias or blackwater God knows what mercenaries outside your house anytime they want in and there will be nothing.

[ALLEN WEST] Well, Antifa -- Antifa to me is an arm of this that no one wants to talk about. Jane's Revenge is an arm of this. The BLM movement was a Marxist movement, and so it's already happening if you ask me.

[DR. WOLF] I totally agree with you and actually Brian found the money flow from China to Antifa and these other you know we've sent us and these other kind of pop-up you know liberal protest movements. Something I would like people to notice is the physiques of a lot of people that protesters on the left I've been on the left my whole life I've gone to a million protests on the left. We're not that well organized we're not violent and we're not you know that our men are not buff

[ALLEN WEST] Is he trying to say they're Delta males?

[DR. WOLF] nd guys look like special operators I mean if you look at them not everyone but there are a lot of like and the same is true of the violent police in France the violent police who beat the truckers in Canada all over the world you see these mysterious black uniformed masked helmeted no you know tag which is not constitutional you know gigantic mercenary type physique entities like beating the heck out of people depriving them of their constitutional rights or you know protesting violently setting things on fire. So people should be really well aware that infiltration is a standard practice like we do it in other countries. And to your point about men of fighting age crossing the border totally we should be terrified of that how vulnerable are we right now millions of people have come into the border we don't know where they are they could be you know a number of them could be sleeper military units right there are Chinese police departments in Canada. You know what who let that happen and then at a moment's notice you know Canada is wholly in the thrall of China they could open borders to our north and then we'd be in a pincher movement where you know either sleeper cells or sleeper malicious pop-up from from China or from other countries or mercenaries emboldened by China the WHO or and or they streamed down from from Canada.

So like thank God for the Second Amendment I never thought I'd say that. I'm a very peaceful person but the only reason we're not Australia or Canada right now is our Constitution. It's beautiful Constitution our first and then in our Second Amendment and it's going to be harder to take this country if people realize we're at war and war is being waged on us and you know people learn to shoot like I'm learning to shoot you know secure their food supplies secure their energy supplies print out their financial documents don't rely on the grid you know get to know your neighbors get to know where you can buy beef and buy milk and buy fresh vegetables. I mean it's gonna come down to kind of local communities repelling invaders. It's that simple and everything I've predicted for last almost two years has come true.

[ALLEN WEST] That's that's the chilling part that you know I talked to people and that you know the whole thing about you know folks out there were conspiracy theories well it's not a conspiracy theory when it comes to fruition and it's sad to believe that you know 247 years ago we had to deal with the exact same thing of an invasion of a foreign force onto our lands and we had to repel it locally and that's what the Sons of Liberty did in Massachusetts. One last question before I let you go and is you know you used to be on the left on the liberal side whatever you want to call it...Where are the feminists that are standing up for young women? You know title nine something that you know I even fought for because I wanted to see women have their opportunities and I had two daughters when it comes to athletics I mean where are their voices how are we letting you know this happen to women sports in America?

[DR. WOLF] Oh you're asking all the right questions. I mean, I'm so, I'm so ashamed you know of so many people on my side who know better. My former side, and especially I'm ashamed and shocked at the silence of the feminist movement not just about this, but about you know, the the fact that this injection is is ruining women's menstrual cycles and building their baby in utero you know like 72% of the adverse events from the Pfizer injection are women of those 16% are quote reproductive disorders. Pfizer's feminists have been completely crickets about that you know women who were vocal about anorexia and bulimia and silicone breast implants and you know estrogen and birth control pills silent about that devastating threat to female reproduction and reproductive health when it comes to I guess you're describing the issue of trans women in women's sports this is such a difficult thing in a way but in a way it isn't I used to think this was like a psycho right-wing wedge issue that was not important, affected very few people.

But now I see that it's not organic this whole kind of push not just to highlight trans issues but to aim aim trans culture at children that is not the organic LGBTQ community as far as I understand I you know I do not think that's organic I think that it's another example of weaponization of our culture like the outside forces basically perverting our culture and breaking down our our cultural categories because I don't know any trans people who want to harm children by imposing their adult culture on children not one so I mean that's just anecdotal. But I you know this came out of nowhere kind of and I've been around the LGBTQ community my whole life. So I mean yes more are LGBTQ parents and trans parents should and people and citizens should be speaking up and calling a halt to the excesses, and I wish they would. But it isn't organic. So now sports . . . I used to think it was a big deal. Now I see that it's a very big deal because it's relentless right and it's not just like I didn't care if a trans woman used the bathroom but if it's like a systematic what is a trans woman a biological male can call himself a trans woman you know I'm a rapist and I mean you're you know Jim Locker room right that's that's kind of um this is the methodology right it's like a camel's nose under the tent and yes some cultures changed and you're not safe.

Well, I don't think there's anything wrong. I mean what I've said in the past is sports team categories are kind of artificial anyway. Males, you know, compete here female you compete here because they're small weaker men and stronger bigger women. But having said that I don't think there's anything wrong with saying, okay, this is an XX chromosome sporting event and that's an XY chromosome sporting event I don't think there's anything wrong at all with that I don't think it'll you know harm trans women

I think it'll be fair and then a trans woman who's XY can maintain her identity but she's competing with other XY people who probably are mostly men well

[ALLEN WEST] I just think it's a shame and I don't think it's honorable that a biological male who was 463rd in his event swimming against guys all of a sudden size he wants to be a female and he's celebrated as a great champion and things of this nature to me I call that cowardice.

[DR. WOLF] I'm sorry I just have to chime in with this may I you know it's it's so interesting knowing the whole history of the women's movement and women's suffrage because they're always asked to let someone else go first you know they're always asked to be patient and to wait for their revolution and to wait for their equality other groups are too but that's pretty common

and I can't imagine it really flying for other people who are claiming rightly you know their constitutional rights or their rights to equality other groups would not be asked to tolerate an unfair competition of that kind.

[ALLEN WEST] Yeah well equality for a specific group does not mean that you take away the opportunities and the quality of another so that's the thing that I'm really not happy with. But Dr. Naomi Wolf, where can people follow you where can people get your book ebook on Pfizer and this report that you have produced?

[DR. WOLF] Thank you so much! Please do come to DailyClout.io. You can support us through membership and donations there and I'm like brazenly asking for support because our two lawsuits against Pfizer are very expensive and we can really use your help. And also you can order the Pfizer documents analysis reports book right there on DailyClout.io or on Amazon. And please do. It's really a life-saving book with information that could really protect your loved ones.

[ALLEN WEST] And thank you so much for thank you for being here with us at Steadfast and Loyal. God bless you, Dr. Wolf.

[DR. WOLF] Thank you too so much l

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Hey greetings everyone, Lieutenant Colonel Allen West and welcome to Steadfast and Loyal.

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Hey greetings everyone, welcome back to the Steadfast and Loyal program.

You know one of the things that I think we do not do very well on our side of the aisle, if you want to call it constitutional conservatives, Republican Party, but we don't have that strategic vision.

We don't have that ability to see the battlefield and predict and understand and really get inside the head of our political opposition, our enemy, and their ideology and where they're going to next. You know one of the things that I always do, you know folks that know me is, you know, I always carry my little three by five cards because this helps me to orient on many different subjects and topics because I think really what we're facing in America, it's not about party, it's about two competing philosophies of governance, two different ideologies. And those of you who have heard me speak, you know exactly what I'm talking about, you know where I'm going, it's constitutional conservatism against this progressivism, socialism, statism, Marxism, communism, that's what we're up against. It's about individualism, rights, freedoms, and liberties, and individual sovereignty against this collectivism. It's about, you know, understanding economic empowerment versus economic enslavement. It's all of these things and you know I write these things down. It's about the equality of opportunity versus the equality of outcomes. That's what equity is.

But we don't have a good sense of being able to see and understand strategically where the other side is going so that tactically we can defeat them. Let me share with you one of the quotes that I carry around that I share with a lot of people. It says, "The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dent of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other, until one day when they are suddenly declared to be the country's official ideology." That was written back in the 1950s by a woman named Ayn Rand.

Now, you think about it. A few years ago, if someone had said, "We're going to have biological males swimming against females in collegiate sporting events," you know what I'm saying? Are you kidding me?

Or are you going to have, you know, as I talked about last week in my monologue, you know, Fat Boy Rick, that overweight, gender dysphoric, suicidal U.S. Army major holding pride flags.

I mean, can you imagine General Patton walking into a headquarters and seeing Fat Boy Rick sitting there talking about how, you know, "I'm Rachel."

Talking about Patton slapping, you know, that guy upside the head because he didn't want to go out there and fight. I believe he probably would have pulled out those ivory handle pistols and ended that story right there. But you can say, "That's harsh, Colonel." But how do we get to this point?

See, the left operates on this thing called incrementalism. They don't come out there first down 10 yards to go and try to throw a bomb, which is what we tend to do on our side. We want everything right now. We want to go from the 20-yard line all the way down to the 10.

No, see, the left understands you pick up three, four yards here. You pick up four, five yards here. Oh, first down. And now you got a new set of downs. You pick up another three, four yards. Pick up another four or five yards. Oh, another first down. That's how they marched the ball down the field. And they score. And they get these things done. And we sit around and we say, "What happened? Where did it come from?"

You know, one of the great examples of what I'm talking about was at the Battle of Gettysburg. Union Cavalry General J.N.L. Buford. One of the reasons why Lee stumbled into Gettysburg was because his cavalry commander, Jeff Stewart, was out there running around all over Pennsylvania, not doing what a cavalry commander is supposed to do. Every commander is supposed to go out there, gain and maintain contact with the enemy's main force, and report back. So that his main force, his main body, can there deploy itself and defeat the advancing enemy. So General Lee had no eyes out.

But the Union, the Army of the Potomac, had eyes out in J.N.L. Buford. And so there he was. He arrived in Gettysburg, came through on the south side of town, and I've been to Gettysburg, you know, several times. And looked down at Chambersburg Pike and he saw the lead elements of the Army of Northern Virginia. Everyone knew that Lee had somehow disappeared behind the Blue Ridge, but nobody knew what they were. But this cavalry commander found them. And quickly he went through his mind how we are going to position ourselves at this battle so that we don't have another defeat like they just saw at Fredericksburg. When Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia had the high ground at Mary's Heights in Fredericksburg, Virginia, decimated the Union Army. So what General Buford understood was that I've got this high ground way back on the other side of the town, Cemetery Ridge. If I can delay the Confederate forces from getting to that excellent piece of high ground that dominates the entire battlefield here in Gettysburg, maybe we've got a chance.

He played it out. He, you know, if you haven't seen the movie Gettysburg, you should do it. Sam Neill did an incredible job portraying J.N.L. Buford and all of the things he had going through his head. And what he understood was that I've got to fight a delaying action. And I will give a little ground, give a little ground, but in giving ground, I'm buying time. He sent a dispatch back to the lead elements of the Army of the Potomac. General Reynolds, the black hats from Pennsylvania. And they made haste. And so he bought time. And Lee and everyone thought that, first of all, they weren't sure who they were engaging because they had no cav scouts out front. But Lee actually thought that he was winning a battle against the main force of the Army of Potomac. And so he kept pressing the attack. And what ended up happening was that finally Buford and his cavalry regiment was pushed back to the high ground that they wanted to secure for the rest of the Army of the Potomac that was coming forward.

And the rest is, as they say, history because the Union Army maintained the high ground. And Lee did not reposition his force to go and find better ground of choosing. He decided that he wanted to have a decisive battle there at Gettysburg, even though he did not have the dominating high ground. And it ended up being the first defeat of the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee. Because of a cavalry commander, J.N.L. Buford, who had a strategic vision and understood how that battle would play out.

Now, last year we had a victory with the Dobbs decision. We had a Supreme Court to realize that the Supreme Court, the federal government, really does not have any constitutional jurisdiction over this thing. And cannot grant a right to murder an unborn baby in the womb. And so it was kicked back down to the states.

Now, the left, of course, went apoplectic and they tried to, you know, change the language. I mean, they did not end abortion. No, the murdering of unborn babies in the womb by dismemberment. No, they did not do that. They said that it is not in the purview, the jurisdiction of the federal government. It's not anywhere in the Constitution. So therefore, as we interpret the Constitution, Roe v. Wade was not in concert with the enumerated powers of the federal government. And furthermore, the Supreme Court can't make a law. So all these people saying that Roe v. Wade was a law, the only people that can make a law is the United States legislature.

So what has happened now?

See, we did not stop and think, OK, this gets kicked back down to the states. What's the left going to do? How can we block what the left is going to do? And now we know what they're going to do because they're enacting it in Ohio. They've already enacted it in several other states. They're looking at doing it in Missouri. They are going after ballot initiatives. And see, the thing about ballot initiatives is that lots of times people don't pay any attention to these ballot initiative elections. Trust me on this. Now, people can go out and tell you Donald Trump's running for president. They can't tell you about who their city council member is.

We're starting to understand how important school boards elections are. And then those of you that know me, you know that I've always said the most important elected position in the United States of America, school board. Now we understand why school board is so important. And now we're getting involved in school board elections. So we relate to the party, but at least we showed up to the party. And the left doesn't like the fact that we showed up. But we have to be vigilant. We have to be resolute. We have to be relentless to continue to try to win these school board elections. County Commission elections, so important.

Election procedures and processes are done at the county level. Constitutional sheriffs, we need to be involved in sheriff elections because we need to have constitutional sheriffs out there that are doing the right thing. So that the governor, like Governor Pritzker up in Illinois, who come down and say, we're going to take these weapons. Sheriffs can stand up and say, I'm not going to uphold that law because it's unconstitutional. Or we're going to give illegals driver's license. And hey, down in my county, we're not going to allow that to happen. OK, if we believe that you're illegal and you have no. Not going to do it.

See, that's how we have to start thinking strategically. Where is the left going to go? How can we position ourselves? How can we block their efforts? How can we make sure that these absurdities that they come up with don't end up being our official ideology, which is what they want to have happen. Look at what's going on in our military. But what they are doing now with these ballot initiatives and respective states? They're trying to change state constitutions to enshrine murdering unborn babies in the womb all the way up to birth and even afterwards. I mean, the chuckleheads out in California say that, hey, you know, murder the baby after is born. That's infanticide.

But that's the left.

That's the evil that commands them. That's the demonic nature of who they are. And say whatever you want. I don't care. It's demonic. It's like the bail God, Moloch, the God of Child Sacrifice, friends with Baals above. If you don't know who I'm talking about, then you probably should go to church and read a little bit more. But the bottom line is this. We've got to start calling these things for what they are. And so this is what's happening in Ohio. In Ohio, you have issue one that is coming up. It's a special election coming up on the eighth of August. Already started the early voting on issue one. Why do they need issue one? Because the left is going after all of these states out there that say that you only need 50 percent plus one to amend the Constitution.

You can't even do that with the United States Constitution. And so what they want to do is they want to have this election in November, a ballot initiative. And it's going to be on the ballot in November. But what they want to do is they want to capitalize on the fact that it's only a 50 plus one percentage to change the Constitution in the state of Ohio. So finally, people came to the dance and realized, hey, we got to do something about this. And Ohio, they're having this special lesson issue one, which will take it from a simple majority to a 60 percent majority to be able to amend the Constitution there in the state of Ohio. Now you're saying, hey, Colonel, is this a big deal in some places? Well, let me let me just read it to you. State vote percent thresholds for constitutional amendments. Sixty six point six seven percent vote threshold in New Hampshire. Sixty percent vote threshold in Arizona and Illinois. Fifty-five percent voting threshold Colorado. States that only have a 50 percent plus one vote threshold to amend the Constitution change the rule of law in their state. Alabama. Arkansas. California. Connecticut. Georgia. Iowa. Idaho. Indiana. Kansas. Kentucky. Louisiana. Maryland. Maine. Michigan. Missouri. Montana. North Carolina. North Dakota. New Jersey. New Mexico. Nevada. New York. Ohio. Oklahoma.

Oregon. Pennsylvania. Rhode Island. South Carolina. South Dakota. Texas. Virginia. Vermont. Washington. Wisconsin. West Virginia. States that have special rules that govern the vote for passage to change the Constitution of a state and Constitution amendment are Maine. No, Massachusetts. I'm sorry. Massachusetts. Michigan. Minnesota. Nebraska. Tennessee. And Wyoming.

But the preponderance of the states here in the United States of America only require a 50 percent plus one vote threshold to change the Constitution, amend their Constitution. It's dangerous. Especially when you think about a ballot initiative election. Because even in the 2020 presidential election cycle, I think we were still less than 50 percent of this country that came out to vote. And see what the left believes and what they're doing in Ohio with this election here, this special election and of course the ballot initiative. They're dumping tens of millions of dollars because they're very, very well funded. They resource these things. We don't even talk about it. I mean, how many people out there even knew about this issue one thing about this special election in Ohio? How many people in Ohio knew about it? And you're already in early voting. This thing is going to happen on the 8th of August as to whether or not you will raise the threshold to have a constitutional amendment. Change. Amend your constitution in your respective state.

And it's not just this thing about murdering unborn babies in the womb is this right here. And you know, I'm a national spokesperson for my faith votes. And so they've done an incredible job looking at this abortion and LGBTQIA plus alphabet soup mafia activists are working hard to stand for the rights of the people. And they're going to stamp out protections for babies in the womb, religious freedom and parental rights by enshrining gender and so-called reproductive rights in states constitutions. So this is not just about murdering unborn babies. The next thing you know, you're going to wake up. And as we have seen out in the state of Washington, you're going to be told that if you don't go along and get along with your child saying they want to have a gender-reaffirming surgery, which is basically gender mutilation. You're not reaffirming or affirming anything other than whacking off healthy body parts. If you don't go along with that, you can be criminally prosecuting your child, be taken away from you. As a matter of fact, there was a poll that just recently came out. Forty-four percent of I think is millennials. Forty-four percent believe that you should be charged with a crime if you don't, you know, appropriately address someone by the gender of their preference. They call it misgendering.

So all of a sudden, you know, what I just said here about that overweight gender dysphoric suicidal major, since I call him Rick and not Rachel, what the left believes is that I should go to jail. I should that should that should be a crime. This is the type of stuff that they're going to be pushing in all of these states. You want me to read them again? I mean, happy to do it, but maybe we'll just post it up. But all these states with a 50 percent plus one vote threshold for amending their state constitution. You might want to pay attention to that. Because what the left is looking for is every single gap by which they can exploit.

And we leave these gaps wide open. Remember what I'm Ryan Ryan said, constant pressure on one side, constant retreat on the other. But the other thing that she did not mention, constant apathy.

Now, there is a whole bunch of pastors out there shouting hallelujah and everything like that. Last time I checked Deuteronomy 30 and 19, the Lord gave us a very simple choice. Life or death. He said, choose life so that you and your future generations, your descendants shall live. Where are the churches? Where are the pastors?

You know, I was supposed to go up to Cleveland, Ohio, to rally people on this issue about issue one up there, this special election. On the 8th of August, My Faith Votes was going to sponsor it. Had to cancel the trip. Lack of participation. See, that's what's going to kill us here in the United States of America. Because the left is constantly thinking about what they can do, constantly looking at the evil they can perpetuate upon us here in this country. Based upon their deranged, delusional, demonic, demented, dangerous ideological agenda. And we sit around kind of like, you know, what was the little blue people to smurfs? And the next thing you know, we say, oops, what happened?

How did we get pornographic books in our libraries? How all of a sudden are am I being told my kid can't read, do math at grade level? But they know everything about gender dysphoria and same sex, you know, relationships and all of these things. And my kid just came home and said, you know, hey, mommy and daddy, I don't want to be a little boy more. I want to be a little girl. Who put that idea in their heads? Because of the apathy that we show.

So I'm telling you, it's time to wake up and start time to start thinking about what is going on in your local level of governance, because the left does not rest. They don't sleep. They're relentless. And you're saying, well, currently, you know, I'm just trying to live my life and, you know, raise my kids. Well, yes, what they don't want you to live your life. They want complete power and control of your life. How many times do you have to be told by Joe Biden, Jill Biden, Kamala Harris and the binder, Kareen Jean-Pierre, that your children aren't your children? That's what they're saying here is that in these respective states, they're going to start looking at how they can make the decision about children living and dying, mostly dying. About whether or not your little boy should be a little girl or your little girl should be a little boy. They're trying to make the decision about what you can have in your home. What type of stove you can have, what type of dishwasher you can have, what type of vehicle you drive.

See, that's what happens with their constant pressure and our constant retreat and our constant apathy. So I'm telling you, go and find out what the threshold is in your respective state to amend your state constitution. Because the left knows.

And oh, by the way, you really want to know what happened in the 2020 election. Eric Holder told us, the left told us you can go back to Time magazine. You can read the article, "how coronavirus should permanently change elections in the United States of America." That's how bold they are. That's how they can go out and say your children aren't your children. They belong to us. We're going to decide if they can live. We're going to decide when they die. Maybe they died before they even can give birth to. We're going to decide even if they can be a little boy, a little girl. Eric Holder came out and said unsolicited mail-in ballots. That's the ticket. That's the bomb.

So here we were. There like J.N.L. Buford. Looking down at Chambersburg Pike. Seeing the Army of Northern Virginia coming. And we did nothing. We surrendered. We knew their battle plan. If we don't start having strategic vision on our side. If we keep on with the same old shenanigans and antics, you know, people going back and forth and talking about the same thing. If we don't have a better-educated and informed group of constitutional conservatives, they're going to continue to outmaneuver us. I mean, I hadn't heard anyone from the RNC talk about this. I don't know what they're doing. They go out and they raise a lot of money because they got to keep them political consultants and the elitist donor class happy. And the elitist donor class, you know, they really don't care. You guys shouldn't talk about this issue about murdering unborn babies. Who cares about that? That's a divisive issue. That's a divisive issue. I got to stand up for the number one inalienable right of an American citizen. And that's life. Born and unborn.

Let's start figuring out the battle plan, the strategy, the game plan of the progressive socialist leftist, the Marxist, the communist, the status, the atheist, the agnostics, all of them. They do not believe in the simple fundamentals and principles of this constitutional republic. Let's start executing a tactical battle plan that defeats them before they even get to what they're trying to do. That's what Sun Tzu taught us in the art of war. That's why that was mandatory reading when I was a young lieutenant back in 1982, 83. And I will say something and maybe people won't like it. But President Trump, it ain't about the art of the deal because you can't make a deal with these devils. The only thing you can do is to defeat them. And I think you understand why when you look at the constant assault that they've been leveraging against you. And ladies and gentlemen, 2024 is it. But right now, we've got to start protecting our sovereign states and our state constitutions.

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00:00:01 [ALLEN WEST]

Lieutenant Colonel Allen West, and welcome to the Steadfast and Loyal podcast.

00:00:13 [MUSIC]

00:00:52 [ALLEN WEST]

Hey folks, thanks for joining us on this episode of the Steadfast Law Podcast. And I just want to take some time to kind of get some thoughts out there with you all. Recently I had the opportunity of going and seeing my nephew take command of an artillery battalion there at joint base Lewis and Mcchord, something that he watched me do 21 years ago and it was just so great to be back on an army installation and it's the exact same installation.

00:01:19 [ALLEN WEST]

Back then, it was known as Fort Lewis WA in 1982, where I went through the ROTC advanced camp and after completing that six to seven week advance camp, it's kind of like ROTC Cadet Boot camp training. I came back and I was commissioned as an officer in the United States Army, so Fort Lewis has some really deep connections with me and also my nephew.

00:01:43 [ALLEN WEST]

Lieutenant Colonel Herman Bernard West III, he went through ROTC advance camp at Fort Lewis, so it was kind of nice to drive over to North Fort Hood area, where there used to be the Old World War II barracks where we were housed when we were ROTC cadets.

Now that's where his headquarters is for his battalion, the first battalion and 94th Field Artillery Regiment, High Mars High Mobility Artillery rocket system.

And the interesting thing about him taking command of a high Mars battalion and he also commanded a high Mars battery was that as their operations.

Officer of the 18th Field Artillery Brigade airborne at Fort Bragg, NC. We filled it the very first high Mars test Platoon 3 launchers and we were very instrumental in developing the tactics, the techniques and the procedures for the implementation and the implementation of the artillery rocket system and how they would be delivered onto the battlefield and so.

It was just a great thing to be there, to see him taking command of 400 soldiers. It's just good to be around soldiers. But I just got to ask what is going on with our military? With some of our senior leaders.

00:03:02 [ALLEN WEST]

Now let me frame this in a means that you can understand. It is not a right to be a soldier, Sailor, airman, Marine, Space Force -- whatever you call them -- and Coast Guard, it is not a right. It's a privilege.

00:03:18 [ALLEN WEST]

To be able to wear the uniforms and on one side, says United States Army, United States Marine Corps, United States Air Force, United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, United States Space Force and have your last name on the other side. Although I think we should continue with referring to people as “Sir” and “Ma'am.” But understand that it is a privilege to serve in the military. We have an all-volunteer force. People raise their right hand, say I want to get some of this, but there's still standards.

00:03:48 [ALLEN WEST]

If you want to talk about a discriminatory organization, it's the United States military. I mean, you have to be a certain height. You have to be a certain weight. You cannot have any certain medical conditions, you know, asthma or flat feet.

You know, I thought I was a pretty strack troop back in the day, but I was not at the height requirement to be a member of the Third Infantry Regiment, which is known as the old guard in Washington, DC. You had to be 5 feet 11 or taller, 5 feet 11, I think to 6’1” to 6’2’. I'm only 5’9”.

00:04:27 [ALLEN WEST]

Not going to change the standard, that's just how it is. So when I see leaders in the United States military right now that really seem to be confused about what the mission of the military is. The mission of the military is to fight and win the nation's wars. Unfortunately, we haven't been doing too good here recently, especially when you think about the debacle in Afghanistan.

00:04:58 [ALLEN WEST]

We need to get back to understanding our core competencies in the military, what it means to be a soldier, what it means to be a marine, a sailor, an airman. Remember the space force? I'm still struggling with what you call them, Space Cadet. I don't know. And you know, hopefully no one's going to get upset because I said Coast Guardsman, but that means all members of the United States Coast Guard.

00:05:25 [ALLEN WEST]

But recently some of the articles that have come out about. Senior military leaders are doing especially again in this month of June. This pride thing. Let me tell you something. When you put on that uniform. That's your pride. You are part of a brotherhood, a sisterhood. The Band of Brothers. That is truly indicative of the one percenters of the United States of America.

00:06:00 [ALLEN WEST]

Those people who have taken the oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic, to bear true faith and allegiance to the same that they took that obligation freely without any purpose of mental reservation. Mental evasion or reservation, purpose of evasion of mental reservation. So help me God, I got it.

00:06:23 [ALLEN WEST]

No one's coerced into doing that. No one's intimidated into doing that. We don't round people up in the streets. There's not a draft. It's a privilege to say I want some, I want to be one of those.

00:06:38 [ALLEN WEST]

But when I see like the headlines here of this article. Space Force general decries anti LGBTQ plus alphabet soup mafia laws at Pentagon Pride event claims they affect hiring decisions.

Lieutenant General Deanna Burt, commanding general of the Space Force, says such laws, such as what's been passed here in Texas to protect children 18 years of age and below. She says this is dangerous for members of the military. I mean, members of the military are 18 years of age and above.

But the the thing that I'm looking at is we have the top talent in the nation.

We must enable them to perform their missions by ensuring they're not worried about the health and safety of their families.

A Pentagon official said. The Department of the Air Force recognizes the various laws and legislation to being proposed and passed in states across America that may affect LGBTQ airmen, guardians or their LGBTQ dependents in different ways.

The Mission Space Force, whatever Air Force. You're supposed to be out there defending the country.

I don't think China is worried about some LGBTQ plus IA alphabet mafia soup.

And furthermore, I mean we should not be focusing on what states are passing to protect, to protect their kids.

You're the commanding general of the Space Force. You know, maybe you should make sure we don't have Chinese spy balloons flying over.

And I don't know what level altitude space forces were about, but maybe you should be worried about cyber security so we don't have these cyber-attacks. You should not be worried about the whole LGBTQIA+ thing.

00:08:37 [ALLEN WEST]

See when was it that all of a sudden senior military leaders got involved in ideological agendas? They ain't your business. You can say that West is a bigot, West is a hater. No, I'm not. But let me tell you something about West. When he was in the military, I put people out of the military because they couldn't run fast enough. Couldn't pass PT test physical training tests. They couldn't maintain that the right type of height, weight standards. They had too many DUI's. Or even they bounce too many checks.

If you could not show fiscal results, we did not have time to deal with your personal issues, but now all of a sudden we're supposed to believe that the most important thing that that the senior military officers should be talking about in this month or any other month.

Is personal sexual behavior? Let me just be very blunt here. If you are confused about whether or not you are a little boy or a little girl, perhaps the United States military is not the place for you.

And look, I was in the army when we had the don't ask, don't tell and the Clinton administration all of a sudden that got changed. There's some issues about that, sexual harassment issues. No one wants to talk about, but it's there. And again, why are we trying to accommodate personal sexual behavior? I thought the mission of the military was to bring people in. We're making a team. We're not supposed to be worried about personal sexual behaviors or proclivities and things of this nature. So why are we talking about these things? Why do we have people in the military that are saying that?

You know they're going to protect dependent.

And provide them with quote UN quote, gender-affirming care. No. You know, all you're doing is mutilating the child.

And show me where it says that taxpayer dollars are supposed to be going to mutilating children who are dependents of military servicemen and women.

00:10:40 [ALLEN WEST]

Our taxpayer dollars are supposed to be going to making sure we had a trained, prepared and ready to deploy organization military not to have a military where we just saw a recent I think it was the Chief of Naval Operations testify before. I think the House Armed Services Committee, they don't have enough amphibious shipping to deploy marine. What is the major mission of the United States Marine Corps? To deploy and conduct amphibious operations, but we don't have enough. To enable the Marines to do their core competency, their core mission. You're telling me we need to be worried about gender mutilation, mutilation surgeries and hormonal therapies and puberty blockers for kids, dependent kids and, no, it's not me being a hater. That's not me being a bigot. That's me being a realist. That's me talking about what?

00:11:45 [ALLEN WEST]

The mission of the military is, and if that's something that's important to you, maybe you should not be in the United States military. Because again, remember I said it's not a right that you get to serve in the military as a privilege. And there's certain standards that we have. The mission is above you, the individual.

But if you think that that is upside down, that's the problem that we get into. Pentagon officials defend diversity and inclusion at a prior month's event, uniformed and Civilian Defense Department officials defended LGBTQ plus there as it is, alphabet soup mafia again, service members and diversity and inclusion efforts on Wednesday at the Pentagon's annual Pride Diversity inclusion, meanwhile, comprises much more than efforts to get people in the door of the recruiting center.

00:12:37 [ALLEN WEST]

See we've got senior military leaders like this Lieutenant General Deanna Burt and others that are saying that, you know, West, you and these other folks that are talking about these things, you're the reason why we don't have people joining the military. I don't think so. I think one of the main reasons that you are struggling with recruiting in the military cause no one wants to end up in a body bag like 13 of our service members did in Afghanistan. Because of the incompetence of the senior-level leadership in the United States military, nobody wants to be in the military, where everything is focused on equity, the equality of outcomes instead of the equality of opportunity.

00:13:24 [ALLEN WEST]

See, when I was a young Lieutenant and I made the commandants list of the Field Artillery Officer basic course at Fort Sill I was selected to go to one of the premier units in the United States Army, it was the 509 Parachute Infantry Regiment Airborne Battalion combat team at that time of essence Italy. It ended up becoming the 4th Battalion, 300 and 25th Airborne Battalion Combat Team. But it was the only airborne unit located. And so I had to go, not just the airborne school. But in order to be an officer in that unit I had to go to jump master school right after airborne school.

00:14:10 [ALLEN WEST]

I want to understand something.

I only have five jumps, five, 12345. And I had to go to jump master school in order to meet the standard to deploy and be in this unit, even though that was my assignment, if I didn't pass Jump Master School, I was not going to get the assignment. And I'm in a class with guys that have, you know, 200 jumps, special forces, captains, guys from the Ranger Regiment. All all these guys have been in airborne units and I show up a five jump jump. That's what they call me. They didn't change the standards. There was no talk about equity. There was no talk about hey, you know, he's black and we probably need to make sure he passes because they need a Black Lieutenant over there in the airborne battalion and Vicenza, Italy.

00:15:05 [ALLEN WEST]

I had to meet all the standards. I had to go through and conduct what is called a JMP.

I jumpmaster personnel inspection of three paratroopers, one in in in just straight parachute, then the other who had combat gear with their parachute equipment and had to do all of those jumpers.

I believe in 3 minutes and 30 seconds and I had to find out all of the gigs that were wired into their jump master jump equipment and their parachutes. I had to call them out by the right nomenclature.

When I saw those deficiencies and I had to follow the right sequence of the inspection, or else I was done. I remember coming home with a parachute harness and everything and putting it on my little brother in Atlanta, GA, and just rehearse and rehearse and rehearse and rehearsing because it wasn't about equity. It was about equality of opportunity.

00:16:02 [ALLEN WEST]

And now all of a sudden, you know, the whole thing is about diversity and inclusion, that the Pride Month event that Pentagon officials are talking about that Navy commander Emily Schilling, one of the highest ranking openly transgender officers in the military, came out two days.

After then President Donald Trump's ban on transgender troops went into effect for shilling inclusion for transgender service members is a matter of life and death. Schilling is talking about. Well, if you don't allow us to serve, we're going to commit suicide.

That's what she said, Shilling told the audience Wednesday that over the course of the two years that the transgender ban was in place, 31 transgender service members died by suicide. In the two years after the the ban was revoked, the number dropped to 2.

00:16:46 [ALLEN WEST]

They didn't die of suicide because of a ban. They died of suicide because they suffer from a mental condition. Now if we are putting members of the military out because they are overweight or they can't come in because they have flat feet or whatever, then why are we having people in with a mental condition?

If they are confused about whether that their little boy, little girl, and why then that we turn around and telling the American taxpayer that you got to fund their medical condition, their mental condition which no one forced them to have.

00:17:23 [ALLEN WEST]

I mean, I I I look. I mean, we all remember Corporal Klinger from M*A*S*H, and Corporal Kinger dressed up that way because he wanted to try to show he was crazy so he could get sent back home. Ohh Colonel West, come on, let them serve. A standard is a standard is a standard. Not everyone is supposed to be able to serve, you know they're the other things you can do. The Peace Corps you can do to forest your service. There are many things I want the best of the best of the best of the best in the United States military. I've been a commander. Commanders don't have time to worry about individual sexual proclivities and problems and issues. They need to be focused on training the men and women under their command.

00:18:16 [ALLEN WEST]

Sergeant Major of the Army, the top enlisted leader, shot back at criticism of a post from the 82nd Airborne Division. 82nd Airborne Division, I mean.

Jumping Jim Gavin and and Matthew Ridgway probably freaking out in their grades. But the 82nd Airborne Division celebrating here, we're going LGBTQ plus IA. Alphabet soup Mafia members, and the two day Twitter battle enlisted man in the United States military. The top dog command Sergeant Major of the army is going back and forth on Twitter. For two days.

Maybe he's trying to defend something that shouldn't be defended anyhow, Twitter users, many of whom describe themselves as veterans in their account BIOS, mocked the 82nd airborne divisions Friday morning. Posts kickstarted the units observance of Pride Month.

And let me tell you something. When I was a paratrooper, my pride came and putting on that maroon beret because that said I was a cut above. I was the United States Army paratrooper. Pride didn't come in with who you slept with. The Pride didn't come from your gender confusion. Pride came in the fact that I met the standard, I exceeded the standard and I will serve in my country.

00:19:43 [ALLEN WEST]

Sergeant Major Michael Grinston, the Army's top enlisted leader responsible for morale and discipline issues in the service, condemned the criticism as harassment and shot back at tweets through Saturday morning as senior military leaders have not shot away from wearing in, weighing in on America's cultural controversies.

Our senior military leaders should not be weighing in on cultural controversies.

Our senior military leaders should be making sure that our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, space force, ease. They're ready to deploy, to fight, to win.

You know the 82nd Airborne Division tweet recommended Army families get this.

82nd Airborne Division All American recommended Army families check out a book called a Survival Guide for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning teens, as well as another that describes how parents can learn to support their LGBTQIA+ child from the on-base library.

These titles are intended for ages 13 and up. I raised two daughters in the military. They didn't think about any of this stuff. None of the kids I remember playing thought about any of this stuff. They were just out there playing, you know, what was the greatest amount of pride that I had? For the kids, my two daughters especially, but when at 1700 hours, 1730, 1800 hours, end of the day. When you hear colors. And they knew where the center of the installation. I'll never forget in Fort Hood, TX. And they faced to the center and they stood quiet at attention knowing that the flag was being lowered. That's something to take pride in were your children. Not telling your children they need to go and get a book called a survival Guide for LGBTQ whatever.

Why is the United States military pushing an ideological agenda and using taxpayer funds to do that? So to all of these senior military leaders, to the Department of Defense and to Navy Commander Emily Schilling, who I don't know what you were, but you're still a guy because that's what your DNA will say.

If you were to pass out or lose your life, the medical examiner is going to announce she was a male or female. Years from now, when you're someone digs up your bones, it's going to be male or female. So we're just making stuff up in our military. Service members did not die because the service shows pride, love and rainbows.

00:23:04 [ALLEN WEST]

Shilling said “pride saves lives.” And Pride is a testament that the LGBTQIA+ community endures and will endure. Pride in who you are as an American, as a soldier, sailor, airman, Marine, Coast Guardsman, space force. That's what saves lives. Training saves lives.

00:23:29 [ALLEN WEST]

We had a motto, of the 18 Field Artillery Brigade airborne, it was sweat saves blood. Not silly ideological agendas, which is what this whole thing is. Five or so years ago, none of this was happening in the United States military. All of a sudden, is it happening now? The Progressive Socialist left has always wanted to undermine and to break down what they saw was the last great bastion of traditional values, the United States military. And thanks to the useful idiots who wear uniforms and have stars on their shoulders they're being enabled to do just that. That's not going to stop a bullet, that's not going to deter our #1 geopolitical foe who's not focused on ideological agendas or individual sexual behaviors or proclivities. I don't think a single Chinese command Sergeant Major General officer or Admiral, or naval commander is that they're talking about some LGBTQIA+. They're training to kick our ***.

They're not worrying about calling people Sir or ma'am. They're not worrying about the right type of pronouns. They're not worried about gender dysphoric drag queen recruiters for global hegemonic dominance.

00:25:28 [ALLEN WEST]

Which is why China is looking at putting a military installation ust about 100 miles off the coast of the United States of America. They already have port facilities that they built in Jamaica and the Bahamas. They're already buying up land all across the United States of America. Some of the places, such as here in Texas, they bought land right next to Laughlin Air Force Base, which is one of the premier training bases for Air Force fighter pilots. That's what they're doing. But what are we doing? We're talking about Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and alphabet soup mafia, ideological agendas.

00:26:30 [ALLEN WEST]

One of the most important things that the next Commander-in-Chief of the United States military forces has to do is to get our military back focused on what their core mission and competencies, capability and capacity truly is to be. It ain't fair to be in the military, it's discriminatory. But that's what standards mean. And that's why, as George Orwell said, “A nation sleeps peacefully at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on her behalf.” And some rough women. Not no non-binary and all this other nonsense that this current administration, and senior military leaders. Need to get back to old school.

Steadfast and Loyal.

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