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Patriotism As A Resolution
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New Year, new kind of resolution: what if choosing patriotism—real, responsible, everyday patriotism—could lower the temperature, raise our standards, and bring some pride back into the room? We kick off 2026 by breaking down a high-stakes operation and the bigger story it tells about competence, courage, and common ground.
We walk through Operation Absolute Resolve with a focus on what made it extraordinary: months of joint planning, precise timing, interagency coordination, and more than 150 aircraft converging to execute a complex nighttime apprehension. You’ll hear how discipline, integration, and tactical surprise translate into fewer risks and bigger gains, and why those details matter beyond headlines. Then we look at the split-screen reaction—gratitude in Venezuelan communities and anger in parts of the U.S.—to ask a tough question: are we evaluating results, or just reacting to who delivered them?
From media narratives to personal bias, we examine how outrage can crowd out context and how that distortion weakens civic trust. Instead of treating patriotism as blind loyalty, we frame it as devotion with responsibility: supporting core values, serving our neighbors, staying informed, voting, and celebrating legitimate wins without switching off critical thinking. We connect the mission’s impact to public safety and the long-promised war on drugs, making the case that acknowledging success is not partisanship—it’s stewardship.
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Can a New Year's resolution save a country? Today we highlight a tremendous American achievement. Today we call out BS. And today we ask you to be proud of the good old US of A. And if we can all do that today, then we together can save our country. Let me tell you something. Everybody struggles. The difference is some people choose to go through it and some choose to grow through it. The choice is completely yours. Which one you choose will have a very profound effect on the way you live your life. What it do, what it do, what it ha did it do. Good Lord. Almighty, am I so excited to be back with you? Oh, it is true. It is damn true. And I would like to welcome each and every one of you to the year 2026. Can you believe it, folks? We have made it. The new year is here. Episode 287. The fun has just begun. That's right. Episode 287. The first episode of the year 2026. The first episode and another solid year of podcasting. Let's keep this consecutive streak rolling. Rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin'. Thank you, Fred Durst. Who, by the way, looks like a raging nut job lately. I don't know. Doesn't seem like the same dude way way out there to me. Anyways, is what it is. I won't deny the fact that I really enjoyed the song Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'. Which that's actually randomly kind of the theme of today's podcast. Because we're gonna find common ground with people that maybe we don't agree with, and maybe if we have the ability to do so, we can change a lot of things. Huh. I don't mean to get, you know, rocking and rolling too soon here, because what I was trying to open the show with was saying is welcome to a new year, welcome to a new opportunity, welcome to a new episode, welcome to a new beginning of another year of Share the Struggle Podcast. We started this little ditty back in July of 2020. Here we are in 2026, and we have never missed a show. What do you know? Round of applause for all y'all loyal listeners out there. Yeah. Oh, there they are. All of them lining up. Just yeah, clap for them. Give them all the clap. You don't mean it like that. Take it back. Take it back. I appreciate you. I acknowledge you. All my day ones, my loyal ones. Get your ones up. Thank you for being with me on this spiritual journey till Valhalla. I greatly appreciate you. To all the new ones here, I love you. I welcome you, and I thank you for tuning in, for listening, for for joining in on this positive vibe and building this positive tribe that we have here. I truly, truly appreciate each and every one of you. Now, speaking to and of all those beautiful new listeners out there to the Here podcast, I drop the ball. I usually try to do some research and pinpoint and identify some new cities and states and countries to welcome aboard. But as luck would have it, my phone is nearby and so is my podcasting app. So as I click over to the app here, some new locations we can shout out. Welcome to Hazel, Kentucky. Welcome to Rapid City, South Dakota, and welcome to Green Valley, Arizona. Some of my noobs in the house, I appreciate you. I look forward to hearing from you, and I thank you for tuning in, for listening, for being a part of this year positive tribe that we're building. The name of this year podcast is Share the Struggle because everybody struggles. And the truth is, boys and girls, if you are bold enough, courageous enough, and willing enough to share your story, then there is strength from everybody's story. Everybody's life comes with a lesson and a message and inspiration. We just have to be willing to share it. And that's what we do. We share it. Now with the opening out the way, the pleasantries out the way, I still have to say hap happy new year to all my fellow Loud Proud Americans out there. And I want to start this year's roll of shows with our New Year's show, as always. We tend to come out the gate thinking about uh goals and resolutions and guiding words and all those things, and we're gonna keep on doing so. But I want to start this year's episodes off with a resolution, with a resolution question. If you heard the opening of the show, which you did, I mean you just you you're here, you're listening, you heard the opening. I don't even know why I asked the question. Like fake news over here asking fake questions. Can a new year's resolution save a country? Well, I think a new year's resolution can save a country when that new year's resolution is to be more patriotic. Now keep that in mind, keep that patriotic resolution in mind as we dig into a few things and we highlight some tremendous things. And the first thing that I want to highlight is Operation Absolute Resolve. First, President Trump, I want to thank you for genius marketing on everything you do. When we went into Iran and blew up all the nuclear bunkers, Operation Midnight Hammer, classic. I made a saloo of t-shirts that said Midnight Hammer, and they are all over the Northeast right now. Now, spoiler alert, keep your eyes peeled, your beady little eyes peeled for some Operation Absolute Resolve. Because this mission was absolute, no pun intendedly tremendous. It's a miracle to me. It's a whole different world to me to wake up in the morning and be like, oh my god, what did we do overnight? Like America's getting shit done overnight. America has reconfirmed ourselves as the powerhouse, as the superpower. Peace through strength continues with our president. We are no longer the laughing stock of the world. We are the dominant power that we should be. Am I building some patriotism in y'all? Am I am I you know feeding and fueling some patriotism in y'all? I hope I am. Okay? Now to better explain this mission and in better effort to fuel and build patriotism and gain a little pride right here. I'm not gonna describe this mission because I think there's somebody that can do it better. So I'm gonna tune up, dial up, and pull up some audio from Joint Chief General Dan Raisin Cain.
SPEAKER_00:Thank you, uh thank you, Mr. Secretary. Thank you, uh, Mr. President, and good morning. Last night, on the order of the President of the United States, and in support of a request from the Department of Justice, as the President said, the United States military conducted an apprehension mission in Caracas, Venezuela, to bring to justice two indicted persons, Nicholas and Cecil Maduro. This operation, known as Operation Absolute Resolve, was discrete, precise, and conducted during the darkest hours of January 2nd and was the culmination of months of planning and rehearsal, an operation that, frankly, only the United States military could undertake. What I'd like to do this morning is talk you through some of the preparation and the details without compromising any of our tactics, techniques, and procedures. There is always a chance that we'll be tasked to do this type of mission again. Our interagency work began months ago and built on decades of experience of integrating complex air with ground, space, and maritime operations. This particular mission required every component of our joint force with soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and guardians working in unison with our intelligence agency partners and law enforcement teammates in an unprecedented operation. We leveraged our unmatched intelligence capabilities and our years of experience in hunting terrorists. And we could not have done this mission without the incredible work by various intelligence agencies, including the CIO, NSA, and NGO. We watched, we waited, we prepared, we remained patient and professional. This mission was meticulously planned for drawing lessons from many missions over these last many years. This was an audacious operation for only what the United States could do. It required the utmost of precision and integration within our joint force. And the word integration does not explain the sheer complexity of such a mission. It involved more than 150 aircraft launching across the Western Hemisphere in close coordination of all coming together in time and place to layer a factor for a single purpose to get an introduction force into downtown Caracolis while maintaining the element of tactical surprise. Failure of one component of this well-oiled machine would have endangered the entire mission. And failure is never an option for America's joint force.
SPEAKER_01:If that message don't make your pickle tickle, I don't know what does. Okay? If your genes don't quiver, then you better jump back in the river. I don't know. I I couldn't think of a rhyme right there, but I'm excited. And I'm building patriotism and I'm building pride. And I hope that each and every one of you listening on the other side are bubbling up and boiling up some patriotism and some pride. Those three minutes right there is just a small excerpt from a speech from General Dan Raisin Cain. And in that speech, he outlines all that went into capturing Nicholas Maduro, the dictator and narco-terrorist. 150 aircrafts. Can you imagine? If you listen to the whole speech or you read the whole article, it is incredible all that, all the moving parts, all that went into this mission. And the fact that he says, if one person is off time, if one thing is delayed, then safety is compromised. We could lose the mission, we could lose soldiers. It's incredible what they were able to pull off. If you think about these two missions in the matter of, let's say, six months, going into Iran and wiping out those nuclear bunkers, which provides peace to the Middle East, to going to Venezuela in the dark of night, capturing, snatching this narco-terrorist dictator who has stolen an election, who rules over a country as a complete dictator. This is amazing stuff. I often say this when these things happen, that as a kid I remember reading history books and the the key word being history. I always felt like we weren't making history, we were just observing and learning about history. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we are making history and we are changing the world. President Trump has provided peace to the Middle East. Now I know Hamas isn't you know living up to their end of the bargain right now, but there is peace in the Middle East. He brought a lot of countries together to get that figured out. We now go in and capture Nicholas Maduro. Now I'm saying this and I don't want this whole thing just to be a political rant. I don't want everybody listening to say, hey man, I didn't tune into the podcast just to get a breakdown play by play of Operation Absolute Resolve. Well, that's not it. I started the show off asking you, can we save our country with the New Year's resolution? When that New Year's resolution is to be patriotic, I am fueling some patriotism here. And I am heading down a road. I am paving a road, I am painting a picture for the story that needs to be told. We just captured a narco-terrorist. Now, the best way to describe whether this was a good thing, an average thing, or a disappointing thing is by the reactions of the people in that country. And as soon as this happened, did anybody see the thousands of people in the streets crying and waving flags and cheering and supporting and thanking President Trump for freeing them from this dictator's leadership? Did you see any of the thousands of people gathered in just Florida, for example, that are Venezuelan Americans, that are giving thanks, that are crying on national TV saying, thank you, President Trump. For many years we've wanted this. We've lost so much. I had to leave my country, I had to leave my family behind. All the people that that said, my wealth was taken from me, my family was taken from me, people were murdered. I just want to go back home. Now I have the option to go back home. And President Trump gives his speech, and in the same speech that was, you know, the one that I just played you from General Dan Kane, President Trump outlines the fact that we're going to stay there and we're going to help with this transition. Because if you just go in and take the bad guy out, there's more bad guys in that regime that are going to rebuild, they're going to step in, they're going to take over, and nothing's going to happen. It's nothing's going to change. We need to stay there and instill change and democracy and give these people a chance and an opportunity. And they're oh so grateful for that opportunity. I say this, and I and I outline this just to say, what the hell is wrong with these Americans that are in outrage over this? What is wrong with the Americans that are out protesting in the streets over this? What is wrong with these crazy left-wing Democrats that are asking President Trump to be removed over this, impeached over this? That Maduro should be returned, that this is an outrage. This is ridiculous. We're starting wars. To have the new nut job in New York, Namdami, Nam Dummy, come out and say that he he condemns this and Maduro should be returned. This is mind-blowing to me. Because the people of Venezuela are happy. They're loving everything that's going on right now. They're loving the change, the optimism, the opportunity. But here we are just complaining for the sake of complaining. Complaining not because of the deed that was done, but by the man that authorized the deed to be done. That's not patriotism, folks. That's prejudice. That's the opposite of patriotism. This topic comes to me and arrives a little hot and heated today because last night. Now, over the past couple days, I've watched some of this news and I've I and I've been blown away. I've been um just just in awe of the military and and law enforcement and all that went into this. I've been blown away by President Trump's leadership and all that's happened, these countries that have uh come out in support. And I've also been blown away by the negative feedback. Now, with all this going on last night, we ran into a little family crisis. That crisis being that we didn't have any milk in the house for Queen Paisley. So Allie messaged over to me. I was in the office doing some late night work, and it says, You want to go on a milk run? So we load the family up, we head out on a milk run, pull into a local supermarket, and as I park, I get out, and Allie says, Look over there, and I look, and there's this white, maybe Subaru type vehicle, and it has stickers all over it that is um FDT, which you can't even come up with your own slogan. Like we had FJB, you just want to turn it into your own thing. Come on now. And there's writing all over this car that says Venezuela oil is more important than Americans, Venezuela oil is more important than Venezuelans, and there's all this outlandish just hate towards President Trump. Okay, let's call a spade a spade here. We can agree to disagree. I can understand your your feelings and your values if you don't like the man. That's part of being American, right? The melting pot of America. I can understand, and I'm going to accept you just don't like President Trump. But why are you so upset with what the man had done? Why are you so upset with the operation with the completion of capturing a dictator and narco-terrorist? I literally, the first thing that came to mind was I was hoping I would get out of the vehicle and maybe walk into the air theirs, and I would say, Are you Venezuelan? That's the only thing I wanted to ask. Are you Venezuelan? Because when they clearly, obviously, would say no, because I know that's the case. I would say, Well, maybe if you ask somebody from Venezuela, they might think differently about the bullshit you have written all over your car. Even on my local news, who was NBC main local liberal run news channel, that all they like to do is is promote and talk about all the liberal nonsense that our deadbeat, ridiculous governor tries to accomplish. Which mind you, there's scandals, there's so much fraud and unanswered questions in our state right now. Our governor is being peppered with questions that she refuses to respond to, yet she comes out and voices her opinion and her her displeasure with the president and how she condemns all that was accomplished. So this Maine local news channel, this is all they care about, is spreading and magnifying all this nonsense that's that's coming out. They're gonna find an alternative avenue to showing, showcasing, highlighting, or just doing their job and covering the facts that's happening in this country. But they interviewed two people in Maine that are from Venezuela, and they're both nearly brought to tears being thankful that this is happening. One sharing their story about having to leave their country and all that they've lost. Two Venezuelan Americans right here in my state nearly brought to tears being thankful and grateful for President Trump. It's a 10 20 second highlight on a news channel that clearly doesn't want to cover positivity or do their actual reporting duties. If I go back to our New Year's resolution, just be a patriot. Just lean into your patriotism. If the news would just choose to cover those positives, what difference would we be making in this country? If your New Year's resolution was to be more patriotic, if instead of covering all the backlash, the news was showering and highlighting our military, our law enforcement, and our leadership for all that was accomplished, if they were showing all the all the speeches, all the rallies, all the tearful messages saying thank you, thank you, thank you to the US of A for what you did today. Would that or would that not shower this country with patriotism? Would that or would that not move away some of the doubt, some of the fear, some of the angst, some of the anxiety? Instead, we give a microphone and a highlight to all these left-wing Democrats that want to run their mouths about how they condemn what was just done. Okay? This is all happening. All the people that I see in the streets, now right here in my own local supermarket, saying Venezuela oil is more important than America. Listen, the allies of Maduro, of Venezuela, are Russia, they're Iran, and they're China. Those are the countries that are pissed right now. The rest of them, very thankful. You know why? That oil is going to Russia, to China, to Iran. All people that we shouldn't be helping out right now. Trump is going in there and controlling Venezuelan oil to get the bad guys out, to not only help Americans with the price of the gas pump, but I also want you to know that American oil companies are the ones that built most of those refineries over there. American oil companies are the ones that funded most of this. And if they're going to step back in and rebuild, then they're going to get some of their money back. And Trump also said with Venezuelan oil, Venezuelan people are going to get their money back. Their riches, their investments, their retirements were taken from them, stolen from them by a dictator. He's there to return them. What is so bad about this? All these crazy liberal loonies out there that are going off about this, I printed something that I want y'all to remember. On january tenth, twenty twenty five, the Biden Harris administration put a twenty five million dollar bounty on Nicholas Madoro for information leading to his arrest or conviction. I let that lay there for a while. I wish I queued up some cricket sounds. Biden Harris, that administration, before leaving, before walking out the door, put a$25 million bounty on Nicholas Maduro for information leading to his arrest. I guess that bounty, maybe President Trump should just take that$25 million and donate it, right? Because he came through and captured. This weak, useless administration just willy-nilly throwing a bounty on somebody's head, knowing full well they won't do anything about it. But all of the Democrats supported when this was done. They supported the decision. Republicans and Democrats alike supported there being a bounty on this man's head because he's a dictator and a narco-terrorist. I read a uh post here from former mayor Eric Adams, and this is what he had put on there. January 10th, 2025, the Biden Harris administration put a$25 million bounty on Nicholas Maduro for information leading to his arrest or conviction. Public safety is not a political game. You do not label someone a narco-dictator one year and then pretend he is no longer a threat the next simply because a different president is in office that is cynical and irresponsible. Think about it, folks. I'm just calling for common ground. I'm just calling for patriotism. I'm just calling for unity. You do not label someone a narco dictator in one year, and then the following year you pretend that that same individual that you put twenty-five million dollars on his head is not a threat only because there's a new president in office and a new president with a set of patriotic clusters that went out and executed a mission that captured said dictator. The UK themselves also issued sanctions on fifteen top Venezuelan officials, including judges, members of the security forces, and military officials. The Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office said those sanctioned were responsible for undermining democracy, the rule of law, and human rights violations. This was a bad dude. Flooding America with narcotics. When that person's car says that Venezuela oil is more important than the American people, what happened to the America first president? He's saving American lives. Many, many American lives. This individual flooded our streets with terrorists, flooded our streets with people from mental institutions, flooded our streets with drug dealers, and continues to fund and send drugs and drug dealers to our country. This was a major win for America, a major win for Venezuela, and a major win for people all around this world. I want to highlight something. There's people far majority of people that just hate the man so much they can't appreciate the message. And in this case, the mission. When you disagree with something just because you dislike the person, it means you're letting your personal bias or prejudice override objective evaluation, leading to emotional invalidation, where you reject the idea solely due to its source rather than its merit, often showing a physiological tendency to oppose or find fault with those you dislike. This country is full of people that hate President Trump so much. They have so much personal bias and so much prejudice that they have to reject all of his ideas and all of his accomplishments. This is a unifying moment and opportunity. We are rewriting world history. This should be a celebration in the streets of America just like the streets of Venezuela. I did a little digging on definitions and concepts and meanings to individuals who disagree with someone just because they dislike the person. Just people that let that personal bias, that prejudice override any objective evaluation, leading them to this emotional invalidation where they just reject the idea solely due to its source rather than its merit. The folks that show a psychological tendency to oppose or find fault just with the people they dislike, like anybody that voted for Trump, anybody that wears an American flag, and more importantly, the president of this here country. While doing some research, I dug into some key concepts and meanings. The first one, aversion. A strong, often irrational dislike for someone or something separate from logical reasoning. The person that wrote all over their car, the messages all over their car that I saw at the local supermarket. There's no logical reason for that. They have a strong, irrational dislike for President Trump, separate from any logical reasoning. Emotional invalidation is rejecting someone's thoughts or feelings or actions because you dislike them, signaling your perspective doesn't matter. Now in this country, this melting pot of society that makes America what it is, haven't we always been raised to be welcoming? Haven't we always been raised to be open to conversation? Haven't we always been raised to to understand people's differences, to welcome them, to accept them? Maybe that's just me. Maybe I was just raised with manners. But I thought that I was raised and I grew up in a place and time where people accepted each other's differences, where we considered others' perspectives, not in a time where we reject someone's thoughts or feelings or actions solely because we dislike them. Because their perspective doesn't matter. What's even more crazy to me is oftentimes the people that have these opinions that that have this outrage, those are the folks that are vastly different from me. Those are the folks that I was raised to be patient with. Those are the folks that I was taught to listen to their perspective. Those are the folks that I was told to allow them to live their lives, to let them do and choose what they so do and choose, to allow them to be themselves, to express themselves. Those are the people that I was told to be patient with and understand their perspective, be cautious of their feelings and their thoughts. Well, they can't do that for anybody else now. It's not going to change me, it's not going to change my ways, it's not going to change my perspective. I just hope that they would find a way to not reject someone's accomplishments just solely because of the fact they hate the person. Personal bias and prejudice, allowing your dislike to cloud judgment, focusing on the person, I hate them, instead of the idea. Is the idea actually good? So when we drill into this mission, is capturing a narco-terrorist dictator a good idea? It was a good idea when your president put a$25 million bounty on his head. But it's not a good idea when our president captures the dirty SOB. Now what does it look like? Rejection. Rejecting valid points, ignoring good arguments because they come from someone you dislike. If anybody disagrees with me, they're listening to this conversation and this message right now, and they're rejecting all of my points. Any point that is valid, because this good argument comes from someone they don't like. Now, I'm not an idiot. I think everybody listening probably likes me a little bit. You're not listening just to infuriate yourself. So the people that are out there saying these things about this mission that are denying the accomplishments, just because they don't like President Trump, they continue to find flaws where none exist, exaggerating minor issues with their idea to justify your dislike. So I hate the man, but I can't just say I hate the man because that's you're not going to accept my argument. So I have to find these minor issues and exaggerate the ever-loving hell out of them, which seems to be what happens anytime there's any accomplishment in this country. Shifting focus, turning a discussion about a topic into a personal attack or judgment of the person. On that car that I saw parked right next to me, it also said right on there, convicted felon. Calling President Trump a felon. Let's let's redirect our attention. Let's remove ourselves from an accomplishment by waving this nonsense over here. So I don't understand it. It's a bouncing ball of distraction that we want to wave around as opposed to accepting and applauding and praising real true accomplishments. In essence, their dislike creates a filter, making them less receptive to contributions, even if those contributions are sound, because your emotional response dominates a rational one. So when I woke up feeling feeling proud to be American, they woke up disgraced. They woke up in fear just because they hate our president so damn much. This little exercise here outlining the fact that there's so many Americans that instead of being grateful for our accomplishments, we want to be, we want to be ungrateful because of the man behind the accomplishments. We want to hate and dislike that person so much that we can refuse to accept the good in this country, like the cheap gas in this country, the the bounce and economy that we're about to experience. When I opened the show saying, can we save a country with a New Year's resolution? Yes, boys and girls, we can, when that New Year's resolution is to be more patriotic. Because if you're more patriotic and you celebrate the achievements, if you celebrate the accomplishments, if we take that positivity and we share it, positivity shared is positivity multiplied. There's way too much negativity in this world. If we started our news off every day with the positive accomplishments and directions of this country, if we took a moment to be proud of the men and women of the military and law enforcement that just carried out this amazing mission, those things would build positivity, those things would build patriotism. Those things can overcome negativity. Those things can overcome hate. And when you start to live in a world with positivity, with less negativity, with less hate, with more patriotism, we begin to win. We begin to heal. We begin to be happy again. We begin to be patriotic, loyal, loving Americans again. I looked up the definition of patriotic. Having or expressing devotion to and vigorous support for one's country. Can we just begin to express and show our love, our devotion, give our vigorous support for our country? I remember on one of the darkest days in American history. America under attack. All the innocent lives lost. September twelfth, two thousand and one. Americans everywhere expressed devotion and had vigorous support for our country. There was American flags everywhere. You were hugging strangers in the streets. I was pulling over on the side of the road and enjoining candlelight vigils. We were having moments of prayer and we all cried during the national anthem. I found an AI overview for being patriotic. Being patriotic means having deep love, pride, and devotion to your country, which involves supporting its ideals, contributing to its well being, and feeling a strong sense of attachment to its people and culture. But it also includes the willingness to critically engage and work to improve it, recognizing its flaws while striving for its highest values, like justice and freedom. It's a personal feeling expressed through actions like community, honorable citizenship, and upholding democratic values, and sometimes military service. Think about it, folks. Deep love, pride, and devotion for your country, contributing to your country, having that strong sense of attachment to the people, to our culture, a willingness to engage and work to improve our country, recognizing our flaws while striving for its highest values, upholding justice and freedom, personal feeling expressed through actions like community service, being an honorable citizen, upholding democratic values for the bold a few that choose military service. In this mission we just conducted as Americans, we upheld democracy in Venezuela. We upheld freedoms for our own Americans here, keeping drugs off the streets, supporting our community and the people that live here. A fundamental affection and pride in one's homeland, history and fellow citizens, support and contribution, actively contributing to the nation's success, whether through public service, volunteering, helping neighbors, or economic participation. We can all help and support patriotism. We can all help and support by volunteering, by being there for neighbors, by uplifting your community, by just being an honorable citizen, and by expressing your love for this here great country. It starts with values, belief in and striving for core national values like freedom, equality, and justice. I love those three things. I'm proud of those three things. With delivering those three things, With this mission. Operation Absolute Resolve. Critical engagement. Patriotism doesn't mean blind agreement. It includes the right and responsibility to speak out and work to fix problems, upholding democratic principles. And community. Identifying with fellow citizens and shared sense of belonging. When I think of community, I always break that word in half, and I think of common unity. This year podcast, all you loyal listeners here, this is a community built on common unity. And we can express these things with daily actions. Being a good neighbor, being an honorable citizen, participating in your community, civic duty, like voting, staying informed, defending the country when it's needed, and symbols, respecting national symbols like the flag, singing and celebrating the national anthem, celebrating our victories and our triumphs, being together and unified over great victories like Operation Absolute Resolve. You can express and celebrate patriotism by heading on over to LaoProudAmerican.shop and get your new self something proudly made in the USA, which not only supports your neighbors and friends, it supports me and my family as well. And you can shower yourself and patriotism that way. There's many, many ways. And I can argue till I'm blue in the face. If every American can take the New Year's resolution to just be more patriotic. And this country and this world will be a far better, better place. We have to refuse to spread hate. We have to choose to spread positivity. It's mind blowing to me the different interpretations of this mission and this accomplishment. And this this mission is just one underlying example, one glaring example, because it's one history defining moment. But these actions and reactions from people go on daily over things that are happening. There's people that just can't even celebrate the fact that gas is getting cheaper. There's people that can't celebrate if the cost of a certain food item gets cheaper. It doesn't make sense to me. The emphasis placed on negativity, the emphasis placed on crazy is far greater than the light that should be shined on positivity. I have another little interesting observation. I believe it was the day after this mission. Yeah, I think it was the next day. I know, interesting timing. We have a coyote problem here, so I was picking up some ammunition. And the fella at Walmart came over to the guns and ammo section and he he just opened the gate and said, I want you to come on back here behind the counter because you're gonna know more about what you're looking for than I am. So I welcomed the opportunity and went behind the counter and he allowed me to kind of scan through some ammo and long to short, but they didn't have what I needed, and I had to go to Cabela's, but this fella while I was talking to him, he asked me a question and he said, So do you think we're gonna go to war with Venezuela after what the president did today? It's mind blowing to me. It's mind blowing that that a neighbor, a member of our community, uh working to provide for his family, is living under the assumption that we could be going to war with Venezuela, where if you watched a different channel of the news, you'd see the people crying on the street and waving American flags saying thank you. If he was confused about whether that war would be with Venezuela, maybe he was thinking it'd be with Russia or Iran or China, the only people that support Venezuela, or Cuba. I'm confused because a few years ago our sitting president allowed a war with Russia to begin and spoke vehemently against Russia. So where's the disconnect here? Where's the problem here? All the people that just a week ago would say President Trump's not gonna do anything to to offend Putin and Russia. Well, we just took a lot of his oil. Seventy percent of it, I believe. I think that's a big one. It's ironic because a day before this mission I saw some member of Congress or the Senate or something saying that this is just another empty threat from Trump. He makes these threats and he doesn't do anything about it. That gentleman ate his words when he woke up to our president and our military in law enforcement capturing a dictator and narco-terrorist. Oh, he did something. The interaction I should have had behind the gun counter was can you believe what America did again? Can you believe what we did for the people of Venezuela? For years, for years I've heard the phrase war on drugs. How many of you listening have heard the phrase war on drugs? How many of you have lost friends and family to drugs? And you've heard from news channel after news channel, from politician after politician, the war on drugs. Well folks, the only war that was ever fought on drugs was the interfamily war and struggle of you trying to save friends and family members from addiction. There's actually a war on drugs with our current president because he took it serious. He continues to blow up boats in the ocean, full of drugs and dealers. And they just conducted one of the most miraculous missions in the history in world history to capture and arrest and bring to justice one of the biggest drug kingpins in the world. That is a war on drugs. That is something that all politicians, no matter which side of the aisle, has been toting for a mission for years. It's just now finally happening. America should be grateful, America should be thankful, and America should be proud. We are leading the world yet again, the way we always should have been. You might not take this as some kind of a surprise. I guess it should be of no surprise. I am one of the most patriotic SOBs you're ever going to meet. I came into this world with the last name Liberty. I had to be patriotic. I left a career to chase a dream embracing patriotism. It is my mission to help bring back American manufacturing. It is my mission to grow patriotism. I ask each and every one of you to put an emphasis on your patriotism this year, to ask your friends and neighbors and family members and coworkers and colleagues to put an emphasis on patriotism this year. If we could all just focus on this great country and all it has to offer and all the freedoms that we get to appreciate, then by this time next year, it'd be a far different place. I want to thank each and every one of you for coming along this little whirlwind New Year's resolution episode that I partaked in today. I know it's a fun new way of looking at resolutions, but this one I guarantee can have a greater impact than any resolution to lose weight, to change a diet, to join a gym, to read more books, whatever it is, this will trump all of it. I thank you for supporting my and my family's American dream. Now go wash dumb hands. That's it, and that's all, Biggie Smalls. If you're allowed to American, and you find yourself, find me on YouTube, Facebook, and LoudCloud American on the Facebook. If you're a fan of the Ram Prackens, you want to find me on Instagram, Roman Kids, the tickety topics, on the tickety tockens, you can find me on both of those underscore underscore Americans.