Joe Kent - Ret. Green Beret Combat Veteran and GOP Candidate for Congress | BRCC
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- This week Joe Kent, a Green Beret combat veteran, 2024 WA State GOP endorsed Candidate for Congress, Gold Star Husband, and overall great American stops by the BRCC Podcast studio. Following his military service and work as an field operative in the CIA, Joe served as a foreign policy advisor to President Trump and as a project manager for a technology company before retiring on his military pension in January of 2023 to devote himself fully to the campaign. For more information on Joe Kent visit
joekentforcongress.com and on social media at @joekent16jan19 and @joekentforcongress
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Evan you crushed this one, super smooth interview. Good luck in Congress.
Brandon Herrera for congress
Thank you Sirs! Condolences on your loss. Congratulations on finding love again. Wishing you and your loved ones many, many joyous years on this amazing planet.
WA needs Joe Kent. The blue hairs have ruined it
BRCC loves the bluehairs. Hates that you own guns and loves Biden. Damn MagaChuds
What an amazing group of homies. This is the best podcast on the matrix
Never was a Green Beret but that WAS my end game when I joined. But I served 6 years in the 2/75 from 2009-2015. After 5, 110 day deployments each having roughly 100 combat missions sometimes multiple targets a night I was burnt out mentally and physically. The Ranger life can break you, it’s all the hardest, loudest, nonstop most Ranger way. I loved my time in the regiment and would do it over and over but after that last trip to Afghanistan I was done. Each time I went over there I left a little piece of me over there and I didn’t have much more to leave behind. I had to jump off the train and look out for me. That’s what people sometimes don’t realize. The military especially special operations is a giant train and it don’t stop for anyone either your on it or your not.
care to elabirate on ''leaving pieces of yourself behind"? Like you mean you got injured or what does that mean? Are you saying ''emotionally"? Did you lose people, and that's why? Or what do you mean?
I would like to understand where this stuff is coming from. Is it from some type of ''hearts and minds" stuff? Or ...what is it exactly? I'm a little confused.
It’s not complacency, it’s Apathy. Unfortunately, no one trusts the process.
Thank you so much for having Joe Kent on your podcast. The piece of history you two shared starting at timestamp 24:58 is something that will not be written in history books. Going deeper into this with other people that were boots on the ground will be an invaluable resource to the younger generation to help them not repeat mistakes of the past. Can you please make that happen on future episodes of this podcast?
Solid discussion. Thank you
Great interview! See? I knew there's a reason I voted!
Nice! The man I’m rooting for.
Thank you both, great interview.
i went to boot and found a unit who could not lace or tie his shoe's oh boy what fun...
Did you somehow freeze the comments section? O_o?? bc it was going for a while there and now it seems frozen.
Joe, youd have my vote, however I live just outside of your district.
Thank goodness.
I would love to see legislation against cell phone companies in their billing and cost of a phone. They are screwing us. IMO
Hmmm...so youtube won't let me comment on anything more in-depth but apparently I am allowed to complain that my comments are not making it through. Just another day in Glitchy-Internet hell. Hurray.
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AI discussion getting pretty goofy, guys.
Algorithm buster
39:24 -- at this part and for a lot of this video:
Again, with as much compassion as possible, you need to take a step back and resolve this stuff in your own mind, bc you're jumping to the worst conclusions, immediately and neither of you is noticing that you're doing it, really.... So, you do need to find someone to talk to maybe about this in your personal lives.
Bc it looks like trauma, it sounds like trauma, and for most ppl who know what mental trauma is: you have mental trauma. This is technically called:
"catastrophized; catastrophizing; catastrophizes. : to imagine the worst possible outcome of an action or event : to think about a situation or event as being a catastrophe or having a potentially catastrophic outcome. It's easy to have one bad night of sleep and catastrophize that you'll never sleep well again."
It's a metric of mental and emotional trauma. And, no, drugs won't fix it, bc your brain has a feed back loop which says the only way to save you, is by imagining the worst scenarios, and you can probably tell why this is common among veterans. Bc there are scenarios where that WAS literally the case.
In order to calm down that thinking you need to rationalize and process it. The rationalizing is what calms it down --> The planning. It's a plan for your brain, so it does not just react on impulse, and knee-jerk to the catastrophe scenarios. That is why you need to talk to people who are training on HOW to speak with you to help you, as opposed to making it worse. It's like talking to a vet at the zoo. Or a surgeon when you need surgery. They have specialized knowledge in this area, that's all. Their job is to help you rationalize so you can strengthen THAT side of your brain so it can control the animal side of your brain, when you don't need the animal bc there's nothing actually attacking you. The knee-jerk is coming from the animal side. Most human instincts come from there. This is part of the instincts side.
I am not telling you to kill that part of your brain, AT ALL. It is not ''your enemy". Please do NOT listen to ignorant shrinks that don't understand how the body and brain work. Every profession has their dimmer-bulbs. You do NOT need to be at war with yourself. (I am not a practicing mental health professional either. I have some knowledge but I cannot actually do the therapy for you. I was more into innovating stuff than sititing in a chair and listening to people talk. But I did ace my psyc courses bc they were stupid easy for me, bc most of the time they were telling me stuff I already knew. Learning on your own is a thing. So don't take this as me telling you what to do, take this as ''basic training in mental sciences").
It is about having the animal side AND the intellectual side. Not picking one over the other. But prioritizing each of them according to the scenario you are in...so you don't literally become Rambo and hide in the jungle for 20 years bc you're constantly at war with yourself and have trouble in ''polite society". You strenghen BOTH and that makes you better and really helps you cope with trauma too. It builds resilience into yourself. The ''hits" will still keep on coming but they will not have as much impact to hurt you, basically. You break less under duress. It's like tempering metal, but for yourself. I'm running out of methaphors, you get it though...I hope.
And you can do this on your own, without the need to control your animal side with drugs or any other funny sh*t. The drugs they give you are typically aimed at sedating the beast side of the brain so it stops going nuts at innappropriate times. It is a VERY flawed approach, for many reasons. This is NOT that. What I am describing to you, is what the mental coaching is SUPPOSED to do. And what some areas of therapy AIM to do. Think of it as mental coaching, in fact. Bc it's supposed to make you BETTER. It's not supposed to just be you screaming into the void and once you're tired, you take a break and start again tomorrow, bc literally nothing changed. That is the BS side of therapy, and why a lot of people think it's a waste of money and time.
and this goes for all the ''defence contractors war profeteering" stuff. You have zero data to back up your conclusions and there are other explanations for what you are describing. You have profided NO actual data to back any of this up. You're just speculating wildly in terms of the motivations and what happened.
I agree, cut the hair. I'm 72 yr old military brat in Idaho. I can't stand to see long hair on boys & scraggly beards. Trying to deal with all that & tats, especially here. Running for office, clean cut is best way to go.
You base your vote on something that trivial? Pathetic.
Seems like a Putin fan to me. No way.
Evan if u see this i challenge you to have a conversation with me about ukraine i am a republican i support ukraine i think u r incredibly misguided on it
Please explain I am a veteran & my gut tells me not to support it but there is a side that says maybe we should I'd like to hear your thoughts
@@bryans8760 just saw this i think if u support the American military you should support ukraine it will weaken russia and help modernize our military on europes expense just like world war 2 only this time we dont wait for the dictator to take half of Europe before we get involved we do enough now that we dont have to get involved which will not only help our military modernize and weaken Russia it will save American lives down the line when we dont have to kick russia out of a nato country they are attacking after ukraine which they 100% plan too US general of all forces in Europe believes it so does CIA so does poland and dutch and British intelligence agencies
@@bryans8760 not only that we are obligated to help ukraine because of the budapest referendum and if we dont keep our promises how can any of our allies rely on us. Not only that this war clearly has shown that the age of drones is here we can gain valuable lessons from this conflict its worth the military intelligence alone to help ukraine on our dime but we are literally getting free equipment and jobs on top of the military intelligence and weakening russia and saving American lives if u hate communism or love America u should 100% support ukraine its the most American thing we can do if France never helped us during our revolution we would still be British
I agree with your take. Everyone not supporting is basically just doing that bc they don't like the Dems or Binden's other policies. They seem to have lost the ability to say" wars are NOT political". You cannot afford to have them be political. As a nation, your military NEEDS to be apolitical. I don't get where all these grunts with such extreme, random amnesia are coming from. I really don't. Everyone knw this a few years ago. EVERYONE.
Anywhoo, they're way too entrenched in those viewpoints and taking out their frustrations in a completely unhealthy manner.You cannot put love of party over love of country. That's ridiculous and makes zero sense.
But I don't think anyone will take you up on your dare at all. They're just here to gripe into the void and resolve nothing. That's my main frustration with this podcast and many others. There's a complete lack of wanting to resolve problems and get better. They just want to sit in their funk and gripe forever. There's no forward movement of any kind.
@@bryans8760 your gut? ... which part of your gut specifically, made that decision? and based on what does your gut say that it is Ok for you to sit by and watch Putler genocide it's way through Europe? does your ''gut" live on the same planet as the rest of us or no? just checking.
lol I’m sick of hearing this SF community rah rah about bullshit.
Maybe instead of focusing ALL your time on gripping about how your own departments cannot communicate with eachother, you should have some type of vision about how to many anything better? Bc we see an insane amount of gripping online that really should have been dealt with by yourselves and your Chains of Command at that time. And then you all kinda tie the gripping into why you want to run for politics and why you're qualified to do so. And also why YOU think your country cannot be in wars anymore. The only thing I am taking way so far from the first half hr of this is that you're not really qualified to make anything better.
You're still dealing with the trauma of war, you have no idea how to fix any of the internal military problems which caused some of that trauma and dissatisfaction, and your solution is to do nothing about anything going forward bc you ''don't want to fund foreign wars anymore". ALL wars are foreign wars. So , you seem to have no idea how to fight a war and win, basically. I can only say that your outlook is completely unrealistic and maybe you should have stuck to being retired and enjoying some more years on that chair. We all get that you guys get shoved from HS into warzones. For the record, I don't think that's a good idea, in general. But you've had many years to think about this now and you don't seem to have any idea as to how to fix any of these issues. You also seem to not recognize that the problems you ran into were primarily self-inflicted.
I have bad news for you, this is reality check time: foreign wars are the only wars that happen. You WILL have to fight in foreign wars again as a country. You DO need to figure out what went wrong internally during the last one, but you subscribing to ''no more foreign wars" groups on FB and in politics will do literally zero. Your political stance makes no sense in the real world. You're disconnected from the reality of the real world and you want a sholder to cry on which BRCP is providing very gratiously, but which will do nothing to help you ''leadership" your country in reality, especially since this dude's point of view is as disconnected from reality as yours. There is no real option for ''no more foreign wars". That may be a nice psychological safe space for you all to live in your minds, but it's not real and never will be. That slogan and the fact that some of your politicians subscribe to it will do nothing but confuse people and drive divisions in your own country, internally. You should be honest with people instead of playing these stupid political games of internal divisions, and tribalisms. And you should REALLY, REALLY just go talk to a therapist.
Bc a lot of this stuff, like: why did we go there? what was the meaning? was it all worth it? how do I heal with the sacrifice? How do I deal with my regret about the sacrifice? how do I handle my denial of all of the above? -- this is all stuff you should figure out for yourself, with a therapist, if needed. Find a good one, not a sh*t one that's just there to prescribe you pills you don't need. But this is not baggage you should be bringing with you into politics or other areas of your life. It's blinding you to reality, and it's taking up too much of your brains and then you have no energy left for the rest of reality.... and end up joining dumb movements for dumb stuff, like ''no more foreign wars". One of the most disconnected from reality things I have ever personally heard in my entire life. War is not something you pick like which hamburger you like from McDonalds...Do you not hear yourselves at all? It is LIFE! it comes whether you like it or not. Go outside, touch some grass and reconnect with reality.
The only real question is: "what could we have done better in the last war?" And follow up: how do we take some of those lessons into the next war"? How do we streamline our ''middle east wars" approach so the next one goes better than the last and we end up in fewer ditches along the way. Maybe pouring an insane amount of money into pet projects over there was a bad idea. But no, that's not the only approach you can take to ''fighting foreign wars". That's the worst approach you can take. But all this would actually require a conversation beyond just gripping online about what you didn't like while you were in the last deployment.
You have not changed your thinking from ''knuckle dragger" to ''political leader", or even ''military leader". You keep thinking in 5 min increments: "I am not in a fight right now, this is the time to gripe about our leadership", "oh, sh*t I am in a fight right now, time to fight", and finally "fk, i just want to be outta here and go order a damn burger". And that's it. It just begins and ends with that. There is no further analysis, no further thinking, no plan for tomorrow, no experience in how to make anything better and no political strategy apart from trying to use your military experience to say ''no more foreign wars", which is nonsensical. In fact, "planning" seems to be completely against your entire life philosophy at this point.
Also, side note: no one said you were supposed to "like" war. I don't get where ppl got confused about that, but it was NOT ever going to be like the superhero movies. So, maybe tell the recruiters to stop lying to people in general. And maybe stop lying to the listeners and to each other. Just cut ALL the lying out. Just try it. You might find that you get better results.
Great conversation 💯