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It's the start of the second hour on Monday, and that means it's Medal of Honor Monday time. We take a Medal of Honor citation and we read it. That's it, we read it. When you earn a Medal of Honor, they will do a write up on you on what you did, known as a citation. Some are very unbelievably short, some are unbelievably long. The what I'm about to do is very very long. It just depends on who does the writing on it. But this one's from Vietnam. We

got an email from this member. You can email the show. Love Hate, death threats and Medal of Honor suggestions if you like them. We got this email Pink Flower Jesse. Here's a Green Beret for Medal of Honor Monday. Look at Bernie Atkins. I know I should send the citation, but it's incredibly long and doesn't mention on top of fighting the viet Cong and the Vietnamese, they had a train and they had a tiger, or they had a

trainee tiger that smelled blood. I didn't know that. Okay. Well, either way, without further ado from Vietnam, guys will never get the amount of respect they deserve. Here's one for Benny g Atkins. Born in Waurika, Oklahoma. Current population there is eighteen hundred tinytown in Oklahoma. Let's find out what he did, hey, honoring those he went above and beyond.

It's Medal of Honor Monday. Sergeant first Class Benny g Atkins distinguished himself by acts of gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above a mean a call of duty while serving as an intelligence sergeant with Detachment A one zero two fifth Special Forces Group, First Special Forces during combat operations against an armed enemy at Camp a Shaw, Republic of Vietnam from March ninth to twelfth,

nineteen sixty six. When the camp was attacked by a large North Vietnamese and viet Cong force in the early morning hours, Sergeant first class Atkins rushed through intense enemy fire and manned a mortar position, continually adjusting fire for the camp despite incurring wounds as the mortar pit received several direct hits from enemy mortars. Upon learning that several soldiers were wounded near the center of the camp, he temporarily turned the mortar over to another soldier, ran through

exploding mortar rounds, and dragged several comrades to safety. As the hostile fire subsided, Sergeant first class Atkins exposed himself to sporadic sniper fire while carrying his wounded comrades to

the camp dispensary. When Sergeant first class Atkins and his group of defenders came under heavy small arms fire from members of the civilian Irregular Defense Group that had defected to fight with the North Vietnamese, he maneuvered outside the camp to evacuate a seriously wounded American and draw fire, all while successfully covering the rescue. When a resupply air drop landed outside of the camp perimeter. Sergeant first class Atkins again moved outside of the camp walls to retrieve

much needed supplies. During the early early morning hours of March tenth, nineteen sixty six, enemy forces launched their main attack, and within two hours, Sergeant first class Atkins was the only man firing a mortar weapon. When all mortar rounds were expended, Sergeant first class Atkins began placing effective recoilst rifle fire upon enemy positions. Despite receiving additional wounds from enemy rounds exploding on his position, Sergeant first class Atkins

fought off intense waves of attacking Vietcong. Sergeant first class Atkins eliminated numerous insurgents with small arms fire. After withdrawing to a communications bunker with several soldiers running extremely low on ammunition, he returned to the mortar pit, gathered vital ammunition,

and ran through intense fire back to the bunker. After being ordered to evacuate the camp, Sergeant first class Atkins and a small group of soldiers destroyed all signal equipment and classified documents, dug their way out of the rear of the bunker, and fought their way out of the camp while carrying a wounded soldier to the extraction point,

he learned that the last helicopter had already departed. Sergeant first Class Atkins led the group while evading the enemy until they were rescued by helicopter on March twelfth, nineteen

sixty six, during the thirty eight hour battle. In forty eight hours of escape and evasion, fighting with mortars, machine guns, recoiliss rifles, small arms, and hand grenades, it was estimated that Sergeant first Class Atkins had killed between one hundred and thirty five and one hundred and seventy five of the enemy while sustaining eighteen different wounds to his body.

Sergeant first Class Atkins' extraordinary heroism and selflessness above them beyond the call of duty, are in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service, and reflect great credit upon himself. Detachment A one zero two fifth Special Forces Group, first Special Forces in the United States Army dag Gone, Vietnam. Man. You know, I've been kind of nerding out on a bit of Vietnam recently. Yes, I'm still doing my Kama Kazi research, but I've been nerding out on a bunch

of Vietnam stuff. And one thing that was amazing about that war and horrible about the war was they were really good too. They were the Vietnamese, the North Vietnamese, and the Viet Kong. Remember the viet Cong, they were the rebel guerrilla group in South Vietnam. There were North Vietnamese Army, those were the army regulars, but then there were Viet Kong in the south. Those are the ones who pretended to be farmers and things like that, and then they'd grab a rifle after night, after dark and

go kill somebody with it. But they weren't untrained. Remember they had just fought the French. The French after World War II, the Vietnamese people wanted to expel the French because the French had colonized Vietnam back in the eighteen hundreds. Vietnam is great for rubber, and rubber is huge, always will be huge, so Vietnam wanted all the rubber they colonized Vietnam. Finally, post World War two, the Vietnamese had had enough and decided to square off against them, and

they beat the French army. I know you're laughing because it's the French army. But for a tiny country, like Vietnam. To defeat a country like France is a big deal. They defeated the French army and they learned a lot of things. All those tunnels. You remember hearing about all the tunnels. Surely if you know anything about Vietnam, you know that they have this huge underground network of tunnels, many of them connected. We're talking underground hospitals and places

people sleep and under vast. It's vast. We didn't create that during our Vietnam War. That was created before the Vietnam War. Of course, they improved upon it and added to it during our Vietnam War. But these were people who had been fighting big boy countries for a very long time. And as it pertains to this, we would have camps and they would overrun them. We didn't win every engagement on the ground. These were very, very capable in filtraders, and they were true believers. Many of them

were true believers. They started selling people Ho Chi Minh excuse me, was really selling people on dying for the Communist cause. And you could always find a true believer to do that. And there was one story I read where a camp, one of these camps, I believe it was a Special Forces camp had been overrun by these highly highly trained sappers in fil traders, and they got into the camp and killed a bunch of people, and

of course a bunch of them had been killed as well. Look, you and filtrate a camp full of green Berets, you're gonna take some casualties too. But the guys who they had killed, I believe they had headbands on them. I think there were headbands that said we came here to die. Very difficult to defeat an enemy like that. And the Vietnam guys, our Vietnam guys, were thrown into a world of crap against a very capable enemy. And we had a lot of lions over there, a lot of lions

over there, and they deserve all the respect in the world. Okay, enough of that, kitties, The Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful, wonderful Monday. Remember you can email the show love Hey, death threats Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. So people to Jed just catching some heat because now we have some records that show he's delaying air traffic control updates. We had planes running into each other, crashing, people were dying. Pete delayed those updates. But he spent eighty billion dollars

on DEEI grants, what an idiot. He failed. That's why things didn't work. If you think like that, you don't understand what you're up against. I'll pair that with this headline German green agenda saw the electric grid costs double over the past decade. Ah, those idiot Germans. They went green and it failed. No, it didn't. It worked exactly as it was intended to work. Air traffic controllers not having enough of them and them not doing their jobs so people die. Would never be looked on as a

failure by a communist like Pete Budhaget. It's looked at as a failure by you because you're somebody who wants things to work right. You care about people, You want things to work properly, you want things to improve. And so when someone takes over the Department of Transportation and promptly blows eighty billion dollars on a bunch of black lives matter, gay stuff, you think to yourself, Wow, what

a failure. He should have hired air traffic controllers. But it's only a failure if you have the same goals. And this is what the right still does not understand. They don't share your goals. I'll tell you pause on this. We'll come back to it. I want to play you something. It's on the same subject. Don't worry, I'm not changing the subject. Pete Hegseth, new Secretary of Defense, came out put out this video talking about We're going to change the way officers get promoted in the military.

Defense for Personnel and Readiness. His predecessor, Jay Hurst, signed a memo tasking the services to support reforms that I've asked my friend Stu Scheller, you know him, to recommend changes by looking at the entirety of the selection and retention process for our military's officer corps, and that includes training in professional military education, officer valuations, promotions, and command selection.

doesn't look like she could outrun a freaking snail. And you look and you say, how in the world could that person get promoted. She's a woman, probably a lesbian too. How could this idiot get promoted? How could that idiot get promoted? How could that? The Communists took over the United States military and completely reform the system to promote only those loyal to them, which would of course prompt someone like you to say, why would they do that,

That's going to weaken the military. That doesn't work. No, you have different goals. You care about your country, you care about the troops. You care about the military, so you want the military to have excellent leaders and become a supreme fighting force. The Communists doesn't share a single one of those goals. Not interested in any of that at all. Communist is. His goals are to take the

United States military and use it for the revolution. So he will hand out generous rewards to his friends and he will punish his enemies. Why would Pete Buddha Jedge ignore air traffic control and hand out eighty billion dollars for gay black lives matter stuff? He has different goals than you. You care about planes dropping out of the sky. You don't want people to die. All these things are sad to you. Pete Bodha Jedge is an anti human. He couldn't give a crap less how many planes fall

out of the sky. He is there to loot the treasury. He had been given a role as Department of Transportation head, and because he's a communist, raised to be a communist, he believed in using that position only for the revolution. He did not fail in any way in his mind. He had a different goal than you had. We used

the example before of the mafia. If you walk into whatever area the Colombo's currently control of New York, and you handed him fifty million dollars and said, hey, here's fifty million dollars, would you please build us a school? What do you think they would do with that fifty million dollars. I think they'd put all fifty million into the school. You have different goals, completely different goals. Stop pointing out failures when they didn't fail at all. In

many cases, they're designed to fail. But when you point out the failures of a communist to a communist and he laughs them off, it's because he doesn't think he failed. He thinks he succeeded. He succeeded in looting the treasury for his evil purposes, and that's his only goal. Now, speaking of failing, I believe I have failed as a father, and I will explain why in just a moment, and then we'll do some emails. Today is the Jesse Kelly Joe on a wonderful Monday. It's been a medal of

Honor Monday. And we're about to get to some emails because I'm behind on those. But first I have to tell you that I failed as a father. I was in the car with Luke, my youngest son. This is yesterday. We're just cruising down and get a bike, and Luke starts talking to me about Kanye West and apparently the guy. I mean, you know, I don't do really pop culture stuff, so I'm really out of the loop on most of that stuff. But apparently he's completely lost his mind and

was singing a song called Hale Hitler. Uh. I didn't even know that was a thing, Chris, have you heard of this? I would figure you would have or something you did. That's a real thing. Oh gosh, okay, Well, apparently he's singing a song called Hale Hitler, and my kid is just amazed by this whole thing. He said, dadd He started playing some Hitler's speech What's wrong with him? And I said Dad? I said Dad, I said, Luke. Listen, people when they get super famous and rich, they lose

their mind lots of the time. It just happens. I don't know why, but when you get super famous and rich, you lose your mind lots of the time. And on my life. He looks at me totally deadpan, and he says, oh, well, I'm glad you don't have to worry about that. What a jerk. I don't know who raised that kid. He certainly didn't learn that from me. Probably his mother. Hey, Jesse, I remember you talking about the effect of this of speed in any battle you're in. You gave examples of

different conquerors using it throughout history. With the documents Tulsa Gabbert just released, why haven't they been arrested yet? Also, well, I believe you're from the Ohio Valley, I am, And you never talk about the best pizza in the country. To Carlo's Pizza. Yes, to Carlos is freaking legit. I don't know if i'd say best in the country, but

it might be okay. So what I have to be very careful about what I'm about to say, not because I'm worried about offending people, as you well know, I have to be careful because I don't want what I'm about to say to sound like I'm making pre excuses for Pam bonding. I am not. I am hard, have been hard, and will be hard on Pam bonding. That is just the way that's going to be. I have not been impressed so far, and I've been hard on her way too many Fox News appointments, way way too few.

That's definitely not how you say that, too few arrests of government officials. I have been hard on Pam bonding. She just got the documentation, and remember we talked about how Obama filled up the government with communists for eight years. Were those same communists who did that with Barack Obama, the Lisa Monicos, the Anita Duns. They all went right back into office when Joe Biden took over, and they just did it for another four years, plus Trump's first

four years. They didn't drain any of the swamp. So we have twelve years now, twelve years of the government being filled up with these people. The Department of Justice in particular, how do you picture it? I'll tell you how I picture it. It's one big building. It's full of a bunch of lawyers. Because it's the Department of Justice. Surely there is a line out the door for people trying to get a job with the DOJ because it would look great on the resume and it would be very,

very prestigious. Is that not how you picture the DJ Chris Corey, Okay, that's how you generally picture it. However, it's just like any other organization personnel's policy. There are only so many positions, and the communists have filled it up for twelve years. Bondi, one thing I will definitely give her credit for, has been slowly draining it. Many of them resigned. She's getting rid of others, James Comy's daughter being one of those. She's getting rid of others. Now,

let's pause on that for a moment. Have you ever wondered or marveled at how vicious communists can be to people, how vicious and mean they can be when they get an opponent. Maybe it's a traitor to their cause, maybe it's just anyone who threatens their cause, But how vicious they can be. They're not vicious just because they're soul esteemons. They're vicious because the communists understand the value of making an exact of someone. They've always understood the value of

making an example of someone. The legal profession mainly because of law schools, but there are other reasons too. The illegal profession in this country is unbelievably left wing Communists, Communists, communists all throughout it. That's the legal profession. Also, combine that with the fact that lawyers who have worked for Trump have been destroyed. We've had lawyers who have worked for Trump who have lost their career because they worked

for Donald Trump. Why did the communists do that, not just to punish that individual lawyer, but to send a message to any future lawyers. You are not allowed to defend the right, you are not allowed to work with the right, or we will crush you, will dispar you, we'll have you arrested. Pam BONDI doesn't have the personnel. I know they're working to fill those positions, and I believe they will fill those positions. But I'll tell you,

as the layman, I picture a lion. Surely there's a line of conservative lawyers out the door who want to work for the DOJ and build that resume resume. No, there aren't. They watched what happened to the last ones, and they say, well, why would I go work at the DOJ. Trump is gone in three and a half years from now. Then I have that on my resume, and I can't get hired anywhere else in the country.

I lose my entire career. That's why the communists have been making examples of conservative lawyers everywhere they can find them, crush them, make a public spectacle out of crushing them, and let that serve as an example to everyone else. It's very very effective. Yeah, I know it's vicious and it's evil, it's wrong and all that, but it's very very effective. We can't find enough lawyers to staff the DOJ. That's wild. But that's where we are. Here's what else

is wild. This was the victory party for Omar Fete after winning the Democrat endorsement in Minneapolis. The next minute of Minneapolis, why he started? Why did so?

on a fantastic Monday. Member. If you miss any part of the show. The podcast is free. iHeart Spotify iTunes, download it right on your phone. Enjoy it at your leisure. Don't roll your eyes when I say it like that, Chris, I used to say leisure, but now I'm educated. No, Yeah, it's right. I start. Now, I've started. When I drink a cup of coffee, I'll put my pinky up. I'm going to get a monocle. I actually probably what, Chris, I've always wondered, how does that stay in there? There's

no way that can be very secure with the what? What? What? You have to scrunch your face? Why would I want to scrunch my face up all the time? That's that's It does look fancy though with a monocle, though, you do have to add a cane and you and I have had this discussion before. What don't make that face? You and I have had this discussion before. I really want a cane, I won't. It's not just the twirling. I want one that either has a sword in it or one of those ones that shoots a gun. I

know those dirty Russians had one. They killed that one guy. And what Chris, they did? They killed that guy in London about it? You're so dumb. You don't understand this stuff like I do. You don't understand the spy game, Chris, the way I do. Hey, Jesse, how close is the US dollar to collapse? Why isn't anyone talking about it as much as they should? Well, obviously, you know you hear me talk about it all the time. Collapse is a strong word. It's already happening. You are twenty four

percent poorer than you were back in twenty twenty. You are twenty four percent poorer because government keeps spending and printing money. Inflation has not gone down, is not Prices have not returned to where they were, and government spending and printing coincidentally has not returned to where it is now. And so what will happen from here is very similar to a family. Maybe you've been here that is buried in debt. You make one hundred thousand dollars a year,

but you owe so much more money. And at first you can weather that storm. You can make those payments. We're behind a little bit on the car. Let's pay this car. We won't pay that car. Well, the mortgage payment. Let's make sure that hey, we could probably cancel insurance. We won't take a vacation this year. So you will, slowly but surely, as a country start to make do with less. You you will find that your dollar doesn't

go as far. You will look around one day and see that your standard of living is lower than your parents, and you will start asking why I don't understand. I don't understand. It's because of government spending and printing. It's not probably going to be a collapse all at once. Of the dollar debt continues to pile up and pile up, and pile up and pile up with no end in sight. And as it piles up, what we will be is

a less reliable person to loan money to. You understand why people with bad credit get higher interest rates, people with good credit get lower interest rates. That's because people with bad credit are risky. They're a riskier person to loan money to, so you charge them more for that money. America is already seeing higher interest rates because we need people to buy our debt. The interest rates will go up.

As the interest rates go up, everything kind of snowballs on itself, and the value of your dollar at the end of the road goes down, your standard of living goes down. You're in the middle of the US dollar collapse. I don't waste as I don't waste as much time on it as as I used to do, just because no one cares. Every time you get a Republican in there, Republican House, Republican Senate, Republican president, you hold out some kind of hope that there may be some kind of

cut here there. But there's just no interest in that at all. None. There's no appetite for it. Everybody, every president, Republican and Democrat, they all want to do big things. Oh, we got a trillion dollar I mean we had Trump bragging about it. We got a trillion dollar defense budget, bragged about it. Uh, Why we're thirty seven trillion dollars in debt and we're not at war. Why do we need a trillion dollar defense budget? That's insane? But again, no one cares what I just said. I'll have a

bunch of email. I'll have a bunch of hatred. Oh you can't credit tried? No, no, no, I can. I absolutely can, because as the dollar continues to go down, your life will get worse. And as your life continues to get worse, I'll keep getting emails from people say I don't understand. I'm explaining it right now. You cannot spend two trillion dollars a year more than you take in as a government without the people themselves getting smashed. You can't. But no one wants to cut it. Senate

doesn't want to cut it. Either House doesn't want to cut it. Democrats done, Republicans don't. That's the point I've made a thousand times, Chris. How many Congressmen, senators, presidents? How many have lost their reelection because they spent too much money? Zero? Not one in my entire lifetime has lost because of that. We've had incumbents who have lost. Don't get me wrong, but that's never been the rallying cry of the people who ran against them. People don't care.

Jesse happy birthday. Oh please, that was yesterday, And you know, I don't want to focus on the fact that I turned forty four yesterday. I am not a selfish person. I'm a person who who makes it about others. So I'll say this. Yesterday, somehow it got out that it was my birthday, and yesterday I had so much love pour in just emails and texts and social media of people to tell me how much I mean to them and stuff like that, like this one started listening to

you this year. You had me at Red Lobster. I was in the work truck and lost it. The void that rush left has finally been filled. Political talk, but also funny in a historian, you're the only one that has that thanks for making my workday hum along. You get enough messages like that on your birthday, eventually you sit back and you have a moment of self reflection and you realize I'm really important. I'm a huge, important celebrity.

What Chris, Why famous people going crazy? Chris? That's not me. I was always like this, you know. That's that's at least what Obbs says when when I were Whenever I complained or someone complains about something, I've done. She always says, Oh, he's always been like this. I don't know why, Jesse. I would visit uh he said late night after work. I would visit it uh an after work watering hole.

But I've decided to change my ways and find myself visiting high end places like White Castle and even McDonald's instead. As you say, as long as you're struggling, you're winning. He might be baby steps now, but they are steps nonetheless in the right direction, one hundred percent true. You got a vice you're trying to dump. If you have to replace it with another one that's maybe not quite as bad, then do it. March forward. I love White Castle.

That reminds me of that time I brought home those frozen White Castle burgers and ob in a fit of rage he giving the kids too much junk, threw them out. Chris, Yeah, she threw them out. I'm still upset about the whole thing. All right, Let's talk briefly, very briefly about Cobert getting canceled. I don't care about that, But why do democrats? Why are why are democrats really rallying against that? Hang on