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Tulsi Gabbard: “Every time a soldier or a service member walks through the…”

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Tulsi Gabbard: War, Politics, and the Military Industrial Complex | Lex Fridman Podcast #423

Published | Video Starts at 04:57

What lessons about life and about country have you learned from that experience of war? To support it, please check out our sponsors in the description. Every time a soldier or a service member walks through the door, if I were to go in for breakfast and grab a banana and walk out, that's an automatic $35 per head per meal, four times a day. Thousands and thousands of people. And then we made friends. You know, there's a lot. There's a pretty large Filipino community in Hawaii. A lot of Filipino soldiers from Hawaii. (04:57–05:12)

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