military, each time a woke policy gets considered or god forbid, implemented, adversaries laugh at us. china is laughing at us right now, our fighting men and women should spending time and money on making the military more capable. griff: are you saying that this woke stuff could hurt us militarily in future conflict? no doubts, generations of americans made this the most lethal fighting force because it is a place rich in tradition and self-sacrifice. we are weakening our military and our recruiting numbers are down, lethality is down and our adversaries are laughing at us. griff: thank you for taking time, merry christmas. all right.
right now recruit be numbers are down 25% off of what we need to have as a nation. the man tory covid vaccine is one reason that explains that. the wokeness is the other. if we get these policies right, i think we ll see recruiting numbers improve. griff: you set me up for this story with the woke part, maen radios are being encouraged to stop using titles such as sir or ma am. nick, i spent a lot of times around m the marines issue not sure this will sit proud with the marines. i m 11-year navy man and my brother spent 20 years in the marine as a sniper, i don t think this will sit well with him. we and others know the united states of america is the greatest because america has strongest and most lethal
republicans threatening to block the annual defense authorization bill, senator? because of mandatory military vaccinations. what republicans are doing is working to be certain that we get included in the defense authorization act. the ability to keep dod from firing our men and women in uniform because they are not taking a covid shot. bear in mind, carbon vaccine, it s not like any of those vaccines you think of with polio or smallpox, things of that nature, trace. this is a shot. it is important to stand with our men and women in uniform to protect them and make certain that our military is able to meet their recruiting numbers so that we do not harm our nation s security because we have a shrinking military. trace: senator blackburn, thank you for coming on.
instead of grappling with our past, realize it is flawed, it must be erased, rename. give it 10 years, give it 20 years. every private going through will recycle through not fort benning, fort moore, fort benning will be forgotten. that is how they do it. they erase our past. our past is not perfect. i don t know, really gets, this one really gets me, not because i m pro-confederacy, nobody is, we have a history. rachel: you know, there is the history part of it but there is also the priorities. pete: that s a big one. rachel: defense secretary lloyd austin worrying about whether someone s feelings are hurt because it is fort benning. weren t we talking about nuclear war, nuclear war? we re talking about that. we ve got recruiting numbers down. this is a, a secretary, a defense secretary who couldn t get us out of afghanistan without our soldiers being needlessly killed and leaving
the department anticipates will collectively miss our annual recruiting mission despite assessing more than a hundred and 70,000 remarkable young men and women. our short four constitutes an unprecedented mission gap in his recent concern for the greater state of national service. harris: why don t people want to join the military now? tom: yes, harris, young kids don t join the military to learn how to use the right pronouns. they join the military to learn how to kill the bad guys and to defend this country. and if the biden administration wants to know why recruiting numbers have collapsed, why we have a recruiting crisis, they just need to look at their own policies. afghanistan, the vaccine mandates, indoctrination, the witch hunt for supposedly white nationalist. of the biden pentagon looking for the causes of the recruiting crisis a kind of like o.j. simpson looking for the real killer, harris. [laughter] harris: just real quickly, one thing popped into my head about joe