.webp?h=8 "Current Thing (oppose) - Denazify Ukraine!")
Wyatt, 23, Kansas City Missouri
Career:
"So I do Private Security, basically people pay me to fight for 'em" timestamp
"I just fight hobos or I just watch people and call the cops"
40 to 45 hours a week depending, $20.60 an hour
"So I make about 70 to 80 thousand a year" timestamp
VA bucks from a medical thing - $3'758 a month
Doesn't want to give deets on what these are
Works overnights
Served in the military timestamp
Job deets timestamp
Bring your own equipment policies?
Didn't know what the median income was, thought he was making big bucks
Financials/Personal Life
Does not like to cook, something about his schedule
Why does he not just wake up and get groceries timestamp
- "I don't really want to do it, sleep's important to me. I'd rather sleep."
Self-scored 7/10 financial score
Owns a house and car
- VA home loan thing
So how'd you get into so much debt in the first place timestamp
Got addicted to strippers, was blowing 80%-90% of his income on them while enlisted?
Refuses to admit if he had s*x with them doesn't want to catch a felony
Claims he stopped 3 or 4 years ago. Story time on why - timestamp
- He lost his military id and "starved for 2 weeks" because he'd blown all his money on strippers and had none
Caleb claims not to be a virgin
Way easier to pay for fake attention than to approach real women
Went into debt "Yeah so I had a credit card"
- $8'000
Paid off this stripper debt at some point
Credit Card 1 (Navy Federal) ($7'092/$7'500) timestamp
$380 new purchases last month
$105 interest
175 minimum payment
"So I don't really know what I purchase on that"
Thinking about leveraging on his home to pay off credit card debts?
"So usually I take the approach of stockpiling my cash, I really don't want to pay off my debts"
- Tries to explain why he's spending so much timestamp
He's paypigging to twitchs timestamp
$120 in Twitch subs
$250 in Twitch donos
Claims to be a Sigma Male because he can just go to a strip club
"Three separate instances" "Crashes a streamer's UI with memberships"
Total $1500
Host attempts to understand what he is talking about timestamp
Meant to do this out of his checking account?
Credit Card 2 (Amazon Chase) (3'756) timestamp
Computer parts, books,
"6600 Motherboard", some RAM,
- Thinks he could get $800 for selling components
$16.11 new purchases
112 paid off
79.10 interest accrued
116 minimum payments
Car timestamp
2018 Dodge Durango
$33'677 balance
11% interest rate
$884 minimum payment
car is worth maybe 14'000
Purchased a BRZ, then wrecked it while closing the house and decided to purchase the house instead of fixing the car?
- Got rear-ended, engine "self-destructed" after he got it back from the mechanic, he'd never changed the oil?
"Only vehicle that would hold that amount of negative equity on it so that was my only choice"
$2'000 of 'basic maintenance' last month timestamp
- Brakes, tires
Why did he want to buy the house timestamp
G*rmans brought bedbugs into his apartment
He was sleeping on the floor they were crawling on him
Student Loan timestamp
"LentKey"
Went to college before getting the VA benefits?
Used GI Bill to help pay for living expenses
Quit going to college after 2 years
Studied Business Administration
5'500 initially
$25 minimum payment
6'700 owed
10.39% interest
Mortgage timestamp
100'000 appraisal on the house
- Thought it would be around 165'000
Would not be able to get a loan on it large enough to pay off debts
Put $1'000 of materials into it
- Leaking roof, fire damage on the exterior, redid the sidewalk
Was getting fliers in the mail about leveraging his house reminds me of a thing
What's your credit score? timestamp
Thinks it's 700
"So I can't take any more debt because I've reached my limit"
Gets told to go through his own transaction history to mark all the stupid bullshit timestamp
It's all bullshit
He has never budgeted
holy shit he's paypigging so much
Crunchy roll
Steam games
Lots of vending machines, so much money to the vending machine
Pays for Quora
Pays for Grammarly
Pays to Groomercord, $100
Mobile games "tech tree"
- Other mobile games ton of them
Paying for AI assistants because he likes to write in free time
- AI helps with editing?
Plays EVE Online, $20 subscription
"VoiceMod" "I don't know what that is"
What does his daily routine look like timestamp
- Beyond bleak.
"So a friend of a friend I pay 300 for his number just to troll" timestamp
- He calls up people to pretend to be tech support? I really didn't understand this. Don't people just use throwaway number services for this stuff for free?
Shots across the bow at Reddit
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
I think every vet he's had on this show has a disability settlement. What a scam
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Every last one of my Army buddies has a VA rating for shit that doesn't even affect their lives. You should see our group chat. It's like nothing but rating-maxing as they all share info on how they got another 5% or 10% or whatever for some bullshit their case manager thought they could get. I know one dude who is 100% disabled and does competitive Crossfit. Like, he almost made it to the CF games two years ago kind of competitive.
If they weren't my ride or die bros I'd skullfrick all of them.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
At some point you gotta respect the grift
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
If we're paying Haliburton to drive empty trucks back and forth through the desert I'm more than happy with the vets getting theirs.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Noooo! You can't steal money from the government! T-thats hecking mean! !fatsmellyuglyr-slurs
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
My dad was a claims rater for the VA, people trying to skirt the rules for an extra 5% is more than a little normal. His personal stance was he encouraged it, the government fricked over so many people that served that it was the only way of doing something right, especially if the VA's guidelines said it could somehow conceivably ok to rate a claim in such a way. He really liked helping old vets.
Sometimes the old timer veterans who didnt know how the system works and were really keen on getting service connected, would send in pictures of their medical problems. I could always tell when some vietnam vet sent in pictures of their
peepee to him, the rater who evaluates claims, instead of a doctor, who diagnoses such things and puts it in a medical file to evaluate, because he'd always look like this:
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Isnt ptsd at centter of this. They group every mental/brain issues to ptsd. It is also one thing that can be anything from 5% to 100%.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Everyone I've talked to spreads it out more, usually not even using PTSD. They'll catch some kind of pseudo asthma bullshit from just being older and using too much nasal spray and they can write it off as like 5% because of being in the desert, then their knee will start hurting and they say they carried stuff. Somebody told me they can't get away with that shit, but I've met far more who pretty much have and even dudes who have weird pseudo consulting status on it who i'm pretty sure have people pay them, but for some reason wouldn't say it explicitly (so I assume that's illegal or something.)
All of them talking about making it 100% and they spent almost all of their time on a base somewhere.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
The pseudo consultants aren't allowed to prepare claims for veteran unless they're an attorney, so they basically just scam dudes out of money for something a VSO does for free
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
The VSO takes forever and is shit so people pay ~$1500 for specialized help so they don't lose out on a year plus of payments. Naturally the VSO is lobbying to ban this so everyone will be equally screwed.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
Anxiety = 30% oops it's service connected anxiety PTSD now it's 50%
Dry eyes and skin conditions from being in the sandbox? Another 20%
Bad hearing? Ofc, another 10%
0 to 80% disability like nothing. Goes from $0 to $2,000 a month after a few visits to the VA. Tax free federally. Many states give you more gibs like property tax credits. It's awesome
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
And the veterans get to brag about being veterans but they can't tell you why they are veterans. Which is hilarious because it means people assume they were in Iraq and Afghanistan. In reality it's just the 50% and down ones who aren't physically disabled from a landmine.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Don't you get even more of you say i won't l/cant work or you have kids.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
My grandad's got 100% rating from the VA. He's an old af veteran, I know his back is in such bad shape he couldn't lift a gun with his own arms but he fricking walks around.
The VA is fricking useless, I'm glad you guys are waking up to it.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
!friendsofbussy-boy
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Everyone knows the VA sucks, but if they're gonna offer gibs might as well take them. At least veterans spent years of their lives living in the gayest conditions possible, what do welfare queens do to deserve gibs
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
I'm not a veteran, the VA have never offered me gibs. I just think the people that do suck. I'm not saying welfare queens don't deserve gibs, I'm saying that a gibs addicted welfare queen is fricking based.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Do you r-slurs realize that loophole was closed by Clinton...in the 90's?
Fricking military is the largest socialist institute in the world but one 30-year-old wiff of a black person getting something for free and conservatives twist themselves into a cuck pretzel to justify our insane military spending.
Anyway, vets are mostly homeless because they are shitheels who never had a job/participated in the society as an adult. Our country thew them in the trash because that's where they belong. Suck it, commies.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Pretty much every vet ive encountered seems as socially stunted and r-slurred as neurodivergents are while also being very entitled.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
How is that a bad thing? Most military men these days are wimpy cute twinks because they don't have to earn their place. The military has turned into another government dole for the low-iq. If anyone wants to serve, go ahead, but no one should be forced to put up with the shit of it.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
You seem like Army material.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
I had the opportunity to serve and refused. I don't think I'd have been able to deal with the pressure of a new soldier.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
The compensation you get in the military isn't you meager salary- it's the fat checks you get to cash for decades in exchange for exposing yourself to dangerous chemicals and people who don't believe in stretching or proper deadlift form
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Yeah part if it is that the military can literally make you do anything, like target retrieval at Bikini Atoll--and are immune to any kind of lawsuit unless it is specifically permitted by Congress.
So the disability in a lot of cases is just kind of an "I'm sorry we took 20 years off your life, bud."
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
"oh the fumes from the burning human shit, batteries, and explosives caused cancer? Wow that's whacky who would have guess"
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
broke butt neighbor mad bc other neighbors getting paid 😂😂
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Stealing money from the government is based, my only complaint is that I can't do it as efficiently.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Why are you hating though?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
They are so easy to get. They hand them out to basically everyone. I know a guy who got kicked out for smoking meth and he gets 1200 a month for sleep apnea they discovered while he was in rehab.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
The only vet I actually knew irl was a friend's ex-wife who managed to get it when all she did was fly drones. Didn't realize how widespread till recently
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
I currently have a friend that was a non combat vet, he got a skin condition and anger issues in the military and he makes 4k a month from it. More then I do in IT. Apparently being itchy and pissed off is enough.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
Depending on the type of drone I could see someone like that having a real claim to mental trauma.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Meanwhile my uncle
was stuck with 30% coverage after 3 spine surgeries and daily 
intense pain that led to his suicide 
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Should a had something serious like meth induced sleep apnea
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
So fricking
true besty
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
Sounds about right
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
Seems more common with the newer dudes, most of the dudes I got out with didn't get shit despite getting blown up on back to back deployments. Meanwhile zoomers who live in sickcall and never left the states do half an enlistment and get neetbux. They also like to brag about it, like zoomers never learned to keep their mouth shut about shit. It's like per diem at work, or teleworking from Costa Rica. Like just keep your fricking mouth shut about it before GoyCorp finds they can just hire Costa Ricans for 1/3 cost.
One of the justifications for not wanting women in the Infantry the USMC put up was based on a wildly higher VA compensation burden due to increased rate of injury (which is 100% true).
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
The worst thing is I know vets with actual disabilities from serving who have been denied
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Its weird everyone is talking about how people are able to skim shit off the top, and I've got a few buddies who were paratroopers who were being denied coverage for their fricked knees. Or artillery being told their deafness is age related, despite being documented since they were 30.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context