
Powerful Must Watch Interview w/ Montana’s Sheehy & Shawn Ryan
I was packing my bags to head to D.C. for the presidential inauguration, and then Vegas for the SHOT Show...so I finally started listening to the Tim Sheehy interview on the Shawn Ryan Show and WOW- you guys have to watch this episode.
Tim Sheehy, for those who don't know, is Montana's newly elected US Senator. And he's only 39 years old. And Shawn Ryan, for those who don't know, is also a Navy SEAL veteran who also spent time as a CIA contractor, and now has a very popular podcast.
For those of you that HATE politics, I think you'll appreciate this one and the focus on issues and how to improve wildland firefighting efforts.
Here's how the AI platform Otter summed up the interview, in part:
Senator Tim Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL and the second Special Operations veteran to enter the Senate, discussed his role in the Senate and his background in aviation and firefighting. He highlighted the challenges of wildfires in California, emphasizing the need for better firefighting policies and resources. Sheehy criticized the current system's inefficiencies...and the delay in response times due to environmental regulations.
There were way too many powerful excerpts to highlight, so let me just share one excerpt here. And yes, this one is a bit political.
Shawn Ryan asks a question from one of his listeners, Amit: "What do you believe is the most pressing moral challenge facing our society today, and how do you plan to address it through your legislative work?"
Sen. Sheehy: Apathy. I mean, the greatest cultural threat to America is apathy. Most Americans don't really seem to care about this country anymore. They don't really seem to realize that we live in a pretty damn special place. And not only do we live in a special place, we are so lucky. You and I, anyone in this country...I mean, you've been all over the world as I have. I mean, there's 300 million Americans, give or take. Three, 400 million. There's seven, 8 billion people in the world. Our chances of having been born in this country just statistically, God, the universe, whatever you believe in, the chances of you being born in America are pretty damn small. And think about other places you could have been born, Mali, Iraq, Afghanistan, yeah, you know...Southeast Asia. And there's some beautiful places there, but there's only one country in the world people are starving in the desert and drowning in the ocean trying to come there to become part of that country. And that's right here. And I think so many Americans have forgotten that. I mean, that's why I'm sitting here. I've never run for anything before. Not even student council. Walked away from the company I love, my ranch, my family to do this, because I think so many Americans have just lost sight of it. And so I think, how do we fix it? Legislation- to Amit's question- is education, making sure that our kids are reminded how special America is. And you know, they've been told these past several years how bad we are, how racist we are, how broken we are, how evil we are, how our institutions are bad and inherently racist and you know, how our American power is bad, or the fact that we're economically strong. You know, the list goes on- that we want to tear Lincoln's name off of school. We want to tear statues of George Washington down. We want to erase our history, replace it with something new. And that's a fundamental threat to our existence. And you know, it's scary that that mindset has been adopted at almost every level in our government. So how do we fix in legislation? Number one, we hold government accountable. Number two, we actually make sure we're adhering to constitutional government. Because the thing that set America apart, that's made us so special, is not our government, it's not our military, it's not our geography, although all those things are great. It's the fact that we are the first government that was formed around the concept of a free individual, that every mind, soul has its own unique destiny, its own unique potential. No other country was ever founded with that entire concept as the foundation of a nation, and we were. And we're not perfect. We've never been perfect, but we're a pretty damn special place, and I think we need to remind our kids how special we are. Because how do we expect them- we're all time low recruiting in the military....we have all time low trust in government right now, and that's a product of us telling generations of kids that they shouldn't be proud of this
country.
Here's a couple ways to watch (I feel like the X, formerly Twitter, version is easier to listen to without all the YouTube interruptions:
Photos: President Trump & Tim Sheehy Rally in Montana
Gallery Credit: Aaron Flint
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