[00:00:01] Speaker A: You've been an infantryman. The enemy's inside the wire. And how do you guys want. We've talked about Congress, but what are you doing to on the cultural front of the media front to get the word out more? Let's do a threat assessment.
[00:00:14] Speaker B: Sure.
[00:00:15] Speaker A: We've talked about Islam.
[00:00:16] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:00:17] Speaker A: We get Chinese Communist Party.
We have Russia, which people claim influenced our elections. You and I don't believe that. We've got institutional capture from the cultural Marxists that have lost schools of education, the textbooks that the kids are reading now. We've got issues with the economic policies, which one wonders about the Federal Reserve and how it's going to develop a digital currency that might be used to surveil us and create a social credit system.
We have the net zero mandates. We have all the carbon stuff. We have all the things that would deindustrialize the West. Right. By the way, China's not. They're building two coal plants every week. We talked about the border.
You guys have done a lot of work on the census. And the census has been a big problem because they redistricted and kept control, kept the power. I wonder your how you feel about the dei, the woke wokening of our military. What happens to what's happened inside the Marines?
I've got a long. I could go on for another five minutes or so, but I'd love to
[00:01:24] Speaker B: talk about the military aspect.
[00:01:25] Speaker A: Let's talk about the military piece of this.
[00:01:27] Speaker B: So we were fortunate in that Senator Tuberville put a hold on a lot of military officer promotions in the Senate for probably six months. And his objection was over the abortion travel policy. The DoD was allowing service members to travel for abortions and paying for it.
I looked at it as this is eventually going to end. We need to find another way to sustain this fight. And so myself and several other veterans from other organizations grouped together and we did dossiers on I think ultimately about 130. It was more. But what we ended up with was about 133 senior officers in the military that we thought were cancer to the culture of the military. Not a majority, but a significant number of senior officers who were.
We weren't doing this to say they had a dei.
We tried to analyze it from this perspective. Were they going through the motions and just doing the bare minimum or are they true believers? And if they were true believers, we needed to put them on this list. And so we sent this list over to the Department of Defense under Hagseth when they took over. And so far we've seen about 24 people on that list removed. And my initial thought on this was, why don't we just get rid of them all immediately? And I think that I. In this case, usually strategically, I'm pretty sound. I think in this case they were. They did the right thing. They didn't do that. And I think what they've done instead is they've started to trickle them out a couple of months, two or three here, two or three there. And it mitigates the political blowback of doing it. But they are moving through DOD and moving out all these woke and weaponized officers who are bringing in this DEI clock, cultural Marxism, anti American sentiments into our military piece by piece. And so we're seeing a lot of good progress on this front. And I can. I expect that they'll continue to retire senior officials.
[00:03:16] Speaker A: Who was the man who was head of the Air Force, and I think he became joint chief of staff head for a while, had racial quotas for the pilots in the air. For C T. Brown.
[00:03:27] Speaker B: C.Q. brown. Yeah.
[00:03:28] Speaker A: And he had it down. Everybody had a certain percentage. And he wanted to get white male pilot pilots, channel of pilots. Whereas sort of white males tend to fly airplanes more than everybody else. And that's just the way it's been.
[00:03:42] Speaker B: One of the most senior officers in the entire military and his objective was not how do we have the most lethal fighting force. It was how do we get representative percentages to certain levels. And that's disastrous. I don't care if I'm in a firefight as a Marine.
I don't care if the entire squad next to me is African American. As long as they can kill the enemy, then we are good. I want that person next to me. And I don't care about percentages of racial demographics in a firefight at all.
[00:04:12] Speaker A: He had IT down to 1.6. 1.2% of the pilots were going to be Pacific Islanders.
[00:04:17] Speaker B: Yeah. Incredible.
Yeah.
[00:04:20] Speaker A: From your firsthand experience as a combat infantryman, you understand the cohesiveness of the unit has the. As critical race theory, for example, which to me is one of the most evil doctrines in existence, which basically says if you're white, you're a racist and you can't do anything about it. Right. And therefore the only you can do anything about it is just put me in charge. And it's not so. If you're in a unit where you're being taught by consultants, they come in, they say they teach you critical race theory. Seems to me like that has a devastating effect on what you're talking about the guy next to you.
[00:04:59] Speaker B: Fortunately I was. I got out in 07 and we had not really entered. We'd started to see some things that I would consider woke certain seminars on a Friday before we were let out for the weekend. But I didn't get the full brunt of it. I did keep in touch with a lot of my friends who were in who witnessed this happen and they all hated it and they all had to pretend that they loved it. And it does. When you're telling troops that because of your skin you're an oppressor and or a victim it that has an impact on esprit de corps, on the brotherhood of your fellow fight fighter that's in a foxhole next to you. And there's special conditions that have to be present to build that bond of because when you go into a firefight you're not an individual. You are part of fighting force and part of what inspires you to be brave and to go fight forward is knowing that without even without looking, you know that person on your right left is also moving forward and that is built through fire and stress and training. And if you despise that person because you think that they're an oppressor all how do you build that? And they were trying to do this in the military and it's just astonishing that they were doing that. It was such an anti American move.
[00:06:13] Speaker A: I hope history prophesies Tezcat's reversing all that. Oh yeah. Is that all being driven out of that?
[00:06:17] Speaker B: Absolutely. Now it's like you can get the curriculum good and you can in law write great curriculum but if you've got a teacher that five minutes a day is still saying things and it's not being monitored, we always have to look for that problem. That problem is always going to be present. You're it's hard to filter out woke leftists and Officer Candidate School although I think we should do more of that. But I think they're making big inroads in this front. A lot of the DoD class is not happy with exit for this exact reason that because we're getting rid of experienced generals. Never mind that these experienced generals were injecting race communism into our military. The media doesn't want to cover that part. They just want to cover that somehow that because we got rid of this general our forces are less safe or something like that. A second to that would be our ability as a movement to disassemble the administrative deep state. And a lot of people think that there's this Nefarious conspiracy theory in the deep state. And I have a little bit different view that the deep state is really just decentralized bureaucrats that are all leftists advancing their own political agenda with the little limited power they have. And in aggregate, that turns out to be millions of federal employees doing things against the interests of Americans. Because where are most of these jobs? Most of these jobs are in and around D.C. or D.C. adjacent. And you're drawing from a native population of Maryland, Northern Virginia and D.C. they're all 90% Democrat. And that is the biggest problem because we can identify the issues. But like I said earlier at the outset, they have promulgated all of these rules and regulations and guidances.
[00:08:02] Speaker A: How do we get. How do we get rid of them?
[00:08:04] Speaker B: You got to go agency by agency. You got to go a fine tooth comb. You've got to start looking at everything they do. And we see this like Russ is a champion on this. But not every single agency lead, cabinet level is as understanding of this problem. And there, some of them are going into the purpose of this agency is to do X, let's go do that. And they're not going in there and understanding that every single mechanism that is in that agency, if it can be perverted and weaponized against us, they are doing it. And how do we untangle that?
[00:08:34] Speaker A: Is there any chance for civil service reform?
[00:08:37] Speaker B: Yeah, and we're already seeing some of that. There's been efforts on Schedule F, type of changes.
[00:08:42] Speaker A: Schedule F is what?
[00:08:43] Speaker B: So it's a classification of employment for federal employees, and it basically would make them at will. And we call it Schedule F because that's what they called it towards the end of the first Trump administration. But there's different ways you can refer to that or change that and just to make them more answerable. And we've. We also saw they're moving to cfr, which is a major change. And so I've often said that the biggest funder of the left is the American taxpayer through grants, federal grants. I did once an audit of about 3,000.
[00:09:12] Speaker A: That's what was happening at.
[00:09:13] Speaker B: Every agency was doing this. Yes.
[00:09:15] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:09:15] Speaker B: Every agency was doing this. I went through about 3,000 random grants and realized that the bureaucracy was self selecting the most leftist applicant. They were. Out of 3,000 of these, I think that probably less than 30 were objectively nonpartisan. They all had things, calls to action. And so one of the big things that the Trump administration is just now doing, and it takes a while, you got to do a comment period, rulemaking. It's an extensive process.
They are changing this so that political appointees have to approve every single grant, whereas right now almost all grants are approved just by leftist bureaucrats in the government. And, and that's been a cause of so much of our problem. And it is. I'm not. I don't know that this is directly correlated, but I find it interesting that the moment USAID goes down, the moment that we start shutting down all of these grants, all of a sudden the DNC's negative 3 million in the bank. That's interesting. We're investigating ActBlue and all of a sudden the DNC is negative, they owe 3 million in the bank, all of a sudden they're bankrupt.
Just coincidentally, after we ended all of these agencies and have reformed the way grants go out the door, I find that to be interesting. I'm not saying that's the cause, I just find it to be interesting.
[00:10:28] Speaker A: I think you're really onto a lot of things. The frame I wanted to get into though a little bit was we talked about what individuals can do about it because we always talk in terms of the Republican Party had to do this or somebody else had to do that. But what is somebody like a regular person?
Mortgage kids. What line of action could they be taking? You, you helped organize the Tea Party. Is this something that a citizen action thing is likely to be more effective, a grassroots something, as opposed to expecting John Cornyn to get the message?
[00:10:58] Speaker B: Sure. So I wrote a strategy paper on just take the Islam problem.
And it does. It has elements of everything. How do you move the needle? You need everything moving in coordination. You need movement on all fronts. But I think the average person, one of the most important things they can do is push or their elected official to un. Understand the right paradigm. So are they waking up every day and saying how can I save Western civilization? Or are they talking about some weird technical DC thing so get their mind right and. Or elect officials who understand this paradigm and believe in it. Someone like a Brandon Gill or Chip Roy who understand the civilizational threat that we face. And if they're not, then you need to get someone else. They may be a nice person and they may even vote decently, but if you don't have the right mentality, you're not actually going to solve the problem.
And so that is a big one. Vote for and support the right members. The second part, and it's a little harder, is we need to start saying things in public to make them normal. And I understand for me it's very easy. I can say these things, and my job is perfectly secure. If you're a corporate employee, it's harder for you to say things about Islam that are truthful. But to the degree that we can, in our sphere of influences, just speaking the truth about the problems we face and not being afraid, because at the end of the day, my children need a culture that resembles what we loosely still have in place here. It's eroding, but if it's gone, where do they go? And that's the big problem. So we need the average everyday American to start understanding that it's not 5% of Islam or it's not just banning DEI. We need to go beyond it. We need to culturally infuse these positions. And I want to get to the point where if someone advocates for dei, the assumption in public that person's racist, whereas the opposite was the fact. For so long, if you oppose dei, you were called a racist. And the reality is that DEI is definitionally racist. And I want it to be such that if I see someone at a dinner party advocating for dei, I want to be able to say, that's a racist thing. And I want them to be embarrassed in front of people for saying that. Which isn't to say that I want to shame people if they disagree with me on what the tax rate should be. That's different. We can have those debates. But if you're advocating for fundamentally evil positions, I think that we need to get comfortable shaming the left on these things and doing so in a very public way.
[00:13:23] Speaker A: I think that's the best. Yeah, we need. The racist word has been used as a bludgeon for too long. We got to take it back and push back on what that really is about.
Can I get you back at some time, getting us some more? I want to talk more about what your organization's doing, which I support. This is the Bill Walton show, and I'm here with Wade Miller, and we're talking about what we can do about the many enemies within Inside the Wire, which is, I think, a good metaphor for what we're dealing with here. And I hope you find this useful if you do subscribe, because there's going to be more shows like this, and we're going to dig into all these issues and what you can do about it.
Wade, where can we find you?
[00:14:06] Speaker B: Sure. So you can find
[email protected] that's americarenewing.com I'm on X. Wade Miller is my handle. And we put out, I think, a lot of great content. We've got a lot of great people to work for us.
[00:14:17] Speaker A: Great. Thanks for coming on. I'll see you soon.
[00:14:20] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:20] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:14:21] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:14:21] Speaker A: Thank you for joining. And we'll see you soon. Bye.
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