Josh Turek

I mean, I was just willing to do the work, which honestly I think was some of the very best preparation for what modern politics has turned into.

Like that discipline and hard work

inability also to just ignore the external noise and just keep your head down and do the work.

It's really been great preparation for this.

Yeah.

And we're looking at going into another forever unnecessary conflict that I've seen far too often in my life.

It's not just my direct family connection.

It's in my time in wheelchair basketball as well.

I've played with so many men and women that have come back missing arms, missing legs that are just never the same.

And then my dad, he spent 22 months in Vietnam, exposed to Agent Orange.

And it's reason for my disability.

And these conflicts, they don't just disappear.

They have generational consequences.

And certainly I'm living proof of that generational consequence.

And for example, like a state like Iowa,

Even though we don't have boots on the ground in Iran, we are already paying a high price for this conflict.

We've already lost three Iowans because the base that was hit in Kuwait, those were largely National Guardsmen from Iowa.

And we're looking at spending a billion dollars there.

No strategy.

no idea what's happening, why we're there.