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The PoliticsGirl Podcast

American Military OR Trump’s Military? : A Conversation with Kristopher Goldsmith

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.94.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Today is Veteran’s Day and sadly we can’t just honor our soldiers, we have to wonder who they work for. As guest, combat veteran Kristopher Goldsmith reminds us, our president is trying to pit Americans against each other. The president wants the military in our streets fighting for him at the same time his administration is tearing the VA to shreds. The damage this administration is doing to our soldiers, our veterans, and our citizens is incalculable. Which is why Kris’s work with Veteran’s Against Fascism and his new podcast On Offense are so important. We have to throw sand in the gears of this authoritarian takeover to, as Kris says we don’t end up with a military that only MAGA wants to join.    As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: https://www.krisgoldsmith.com/ https://linktr.ee/KrisGoldsmith On Offense Substack: https://onoffense.substack.com/ The Find Out Podcast: https://linktr.ee/FindOutPodcast Task Force Butler Institute -  Veterans Fighting Fascism: https://www.taskforcebutler.org/   As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward!   All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl   This episode is sponsored by… https://mudwtr.com/politicsgirl https://joindeleteme.com/politicsgirl code: politicsgirl https://Quince.com/politicsgirl https://perelelhealth.com code: politicsgirl

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0:00.0

What Donald Trump is doing by politicizing military service, broadly speaking, is he's preventing

0:06.6

people who are young right now from ever wanting to serve in the military.

0:10.7

Yes.

0:11.4

He is impacting the future diversity of thought, of education, of economic background,

0:18.6

and he has been doing this for 10 years.

0:20.7

He's planting the seeds for the

0:23.1

military to become something that only MAGA wants to join. And that is profoundly dangerous.

0:30.4

Diversity is our strength. Right. Which the opposite of what Pete Hagseth says, our Secretary of Defense,

0:37.1

former weekend Fox News host,

0:39.7

diversity of thought in a boardroom, a factory, like diversity of experiences are what make

0:46.9

the American military so powerful.

0:50.3

Yeah.

0:50.5

So great.

0:51.3

In all of the ways that the Republicans say that we are great, it's because of the diversity of our country. Yeah. So great. In all of the ways that the Republicans say that we are great, it's because of the diversity of our country.

1:11.8

Hello and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's get into it.

1:16.5

Now, I know there are some real chaos and disappointment happening right now with certain Senate Dems capitulating to vote for the Republican CR. But I don't do breaking news on this podcast.

1:21.7

I prefer to give things more context so we can better understand the big picture. So next week,

1:26.2

we will be discussing the end of the

1:27.8

shutdown and what it means. But do keep your eye on my rant this week for more information on my

1:32.4

feelings on the subject. Today, however, is Veterans Day, and there's a lot going on with our

1:37.4

military that I think deserves our attention. Now, as you may or may not know, I grew up in Canada,

1:42.4

and in Canada, November 11th is called

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