Tucker responds to Pentagon's criticism of his show

[Music] joe biden was elected as a moderate who was going to stay the course return this country to normalcy it turns out biden is changing the united states faster than any president ever has in american history our job on this show is to pay attention to exactly how joe biden is changing it the new york times isn't going to tell you we think you have a right to know now not every change that joe biden makes will matter over time despite all the huffing and puffing a lot of things that presidents do are quickly forgotten some of the things joe biden promises won't happen others are just symbolic ring kissing designed to appease the interest groups that got him elected but some of biden's changes are very real and they matter very much nothing matters more than what joe biden does to our u.s military our military is the last functional institution of any size in this country it's the last institution most people trust and respect it is by far the most important a weak military means no country period so on monday when we saw joe biden pledge to bring a quote intensity of purpose and mission to really change the culture and habits of the us military we paid attention to it here's what biden said some of it's relatively straightforward work where we're making good progress designing body armor that fits women properly tailoring combat uniforms for women creating maternity flight suits and updating updating requirements for their hairstyles creating maternity flight suits maybe those suits have been around for a while we'd never heard of them but here was the president of the united states promoting them at a press conference and that phrase stuck out not because we have some hateful bias against pregnant women flying military jets we're pro-pregnancy as we often say we're also open-minded maybe pregnant women make the best pilots the department of defense measures everything so there's got to be extensive research on this question if the pentagon can show that pregnant pilots are the best we will be the first to demand an entire air force of pregnant pilots the problem is we're pretty confident that joe biden hasn't asked to see those numbers we'd bet money that joe biden never even thought to ask the rest of us depend on the us military to protect our families and protect the country itself but joe biden doesn't see it that way finding the most effective military pilots or infantry officers or seal teams is not his priority it's not even close to his priority identity politics is joe biden's priority it's all that matters you see this attitude throughout the us government as well as in the corporate world key positions filled on the basis of physical appearance without any reference to ability or experience now you can get by with that if your citibank which now cares more about wokeness than about banking they can explain the results to their shareholders 10 years from now but it is not fine if your only job is to protect the united states from people who want to kill the rest of us that is the worst kind of dereliction of duty yet it's happening right now on an enormous scale just this week the bite administration announced that the pentagon will pay for gender reassignment surgery for active duty personnel how do sex changes in the military make this country safer it's not a trick question it's not another volley in the culture war it's the only question that matters literally the only question that matters but no one bothered to ask it probably because no one can remember why the us military exists here's a reminder the u.s military exists to fight and win wars that's its only purpose the us military is not an ngo it is not a vehicle for achieving equity it's not a social experiment it's definitely not an employment agency nobody has a god-given right to work in the military no one does and that includes all of us if you ever hear this show whine that delta force is discriminating against paunchy 51 year old cable news hosts you'll know that we have lost the thread because it's not about us it's about the country making people feel valued and included is a good thing it is not the point of the us military it cannot be the point of the us military or else we're done now that used to be obvious the military was the purest meritocracy that we had if you get a minute go back and listen to some of the speeches that colin powell used to give about his experience in the us army the military was willing to judge colin powell purely on his talents something that few would do at the time powell was smart and capable and for that reason in the end he became chairman of the joint chiefs of staff he was justly proud of that and so was the country he served would colin powell's story be possible today no it wouldn't joe biden has put a man called lloyd austin in charge of the pentagon biden plucked austin from the cynical world of private equity but you're not supposed to notice that you're supposed to notice only that lloyd austin is black the real headline however is that lloyd austin is the second defense secretary in a row to have been on the payroll of raytheon the massive defense contractor if you saw something like that happen in a central american country you would call it corruption and you would be right for centuries our military has been self-consciously nonpartisan in a democracy it has to be that way the military has to be non-partisan no country can survive if its armed forces become a tool of a specific political party we know that because it happens all the time all over the world and the consequences are always horrifying it has never happened here but lloyd austin is openly political in his first days on the job austin made the entire armed services submit to a kind of political purity test anyone who had views that lloyd austin found quote extreme had to leave the rest of us watched as this happened we saw it once again no one said anything the left approved the right felt hamstrung because they support the troops of course if you support the troops you probably should speak up when they're being abused as they were then lloyd austin sent about accelerating poisonous trends already in progress at the pentagon worst of these is the use of irrelevant criteria in hiring and promotion in order to meet the demands of various democratic interest groups the pentagon has dramatically lowered standards in the services now spokesman officially deny this but it is true ask anyone who works there if you press the spokesman they'll tell you that it's not really a big deal because traditional standards don't really measure anything well then why have them in the first place why have standards at all it doesn't make sense they're lying and they're lying because they have to lie politicians have demanded it now if you dare to point any of this out they become hysterical and they become hysterical because they can't defend their own policies when people can't defend what they've done they yell they can't even explain what those policies are at least in public so they attack you hear politicians like tammy duckworth say that it's unpatriotic to question the pentagon unless you have served in the military yourself you haven't earned that right really can only cops talk about police brutality if you haven't been elected to office are you allowed to criticize congress they're not making a real argument they're trying to silence dissent not playing along sorry every american citizen has a right maybe an obligation to know what the military they pay for is doing because our lives may depend on it today the department of defense launched a large and coordinated public relations offensive against this show pentagon brass issued hostile statements people in uniform sent out videos on social media the dod even issued a news release attacking us press secretary smite's fox news host smites like we're a hostile foreign power we suspect this is one war they might actually win they've got a manpower advantage we could pull you a lot of tape from this today it took up most of their day and we could marvel over it since when does the pentagon declare war on a domestic news operation i can't remember that ever happening but we're not going to do that we're going to pass because this is bigger than a feud with some flack at the pentagon this is genuinely worrisome the department of defense has never been more aggressively or openly political tonight there are 2500 american troops stationed in afghanistan and they remain there to prevent the fall of kabul to extremists at the same time there are 5 000 troops in our own capital tonight also as protection against extremists meaning people who voted for the losing candidate in the last election judging by those numbers the pentagon is now twice as focused on controlling our own citizens as it is on controlling the taliban meanwhile as lloyd austin hyperventilates about white supremacy there are real threats out there and the biggest ones continue to be ignored those threats are not syria they're not suburban virginia they're not domestic extremism at least right now the main threat that we face and everyone who is honest knows this is the government of china china is ascendant their economy will soon outpace ours china now has the largest navy on the planet why do they have that why did they feel the need to build it does that have potential consequences for us yes if china moved against taiwan how exactly would we respond more likely if the chinese decided to close international shipping lanes it would our economy if they decide to shut down our internet it would bring our life to a halt if it decided to occupy malaysia that would be a grave concern to the world if any of these things happen or a hundred other things that might happen what exactly would our pentagon do about it can the u.s military still win a real war those are the questions that matter those are the only questions that matter which may be why joe biden wants to talk about maternity flight suits

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Length: 10min 19sec (619 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 12 2021