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The Michele Tafoya Podcast

A TikTok Ban Would Make us Safer

The Michele Tafoya Podcast

Salem Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary, Society & Culture

2.4590 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

TikTok.  A port into Gaza.  The reduction in military troops.  Which of these ideas are sound?  Which are foolish?  Veterans on Duty (VOD) is an organization whose mission is to “ensure the United States of America has a strong, prepared, and focused military.”  VOD Chairman, Jeremy Hunt, and Advisory Board member, Jimmy Byrn, join Michele to drop some truth bombs.

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0:00.0

Jeremy Hunt is the chairman of Veterans on Duty. Jimmy Byrne is a member of the advisory board.

0:07.5

These are two guys with military backgrounds who have their thumb on the pulse of all things military.

0:13.8

We're going to talk to them today about everything from TikTok to this proposed port into Gaza.

0:20.7

Lots going on. And these two guys have it covered. We've had them on before. You may have seen them with us in the past. This time we recorded this the day after the state of the union address. So you will hear references to some of the things the president said in that state of the union, but we're holding off on releasing

0:37.5

this for a few days. So it may seem dated, but we spoke to them on that Friday, and they have a lot to say.

0:44.2

And one of the main topics, TikTok, what happens if it goes away? All of that is coming up next.

0:51.5

Welcome to the Michelle Tofoya podcast.

0:58.3

Okay. of that is coming up next. Welcome to the Michelle Tofoya podcast. Jeremy and Jimmy, it's good to have you guys back on the show and there's a lot of timely

1:02.7

stuff to discuss, which is why I reached out. I want to start with this port to Gaza, this

1:09.9

pier to the shore in order to bring humanitarian supplies.

1:15.5

The idea is noble. I guess airdrops haven't worked as well as everyone expected. But Jeremy,

1:21.4

what do you think? It seems to me this could put people in some danger. Yeah, I definitely,

1:27.1

I think your intuition is exactly right.

1:28.5

I mean, well, first thing to remember is that Secretary Gates got it right.

1:31.6

President Biden has been wrong on just about every single foreign policy idea over the last several decades.

1:38.8

I mean, and this is no different.

1:40.3

The idea that in the midst of incredible danger that our troops are in right now, I mean,

1:45.1

we've seen over 170 attacks on American troops in the Middle East since October 7th of last year.

1:51.7

And so since all these different attacks, now we have our commander chief pushing troops

1:55.3

further into harm's way, right there on the coast of Gaza, trusting somehow that these

2:00.7

terrorists, an organization

2:02.2

Hamas, funded by Iran, and Hamas is an organization that is dedicated to destroying not only Israel,

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