BY: Todd Horwitz, Host & Senior Contributing Analyst
PUBLISHED: April 06, 2016
US Economy in Trouble?
Backpack joins the show today to talk about the real world and things that must be done to make our country a better place. Backpack talks about many of the problems in this country and tells Bubba he is running for president. Backpack is also a security expert and has been involved in covert operations and is host of the radio show Backpack and Yoda.Roy and Bubba talk about Backpack’s jump from corporate America to his living on the streets for the past five years. He decided to sell everything he owned, take his savings and “backpack” across the country. He explains that he wanted out of the “cubicle”.
Roy’s book, sold on Amazon, is titled Looking Glass Shattered: Cubicle Commando to Constitutional Conservative Leader. The book details his views and his stories. Backpack talks about his run for presidency in 2016 and offers Bubba to head up finance. Roy describes the things he feels need to be done to improve the country, the economy and get rid of ISIS.
Bubba and Roy discuss the economy. Bubba tells Roy that he is concerned the middle class is being led to slaughter and asks Roy about his perspective on the middle class as he traveled around the country. Roy views the economy as being in sad shape and in his eyes the middle class is certainly in trouble. Both agree that a revolution of some sort is coming.
About Yoda
Yoda is an American computer professional, former CIA employee, and former government contractor who leaked classified information from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013. The information revealed numerous global surveillance programs, many run by the NSA and the Five Eyes with the cooperation of telecommunication companies and European governments.
About BackPack
BackPack is a United States Army soldier who was convicted in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses, after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly three-quarters of a million classified or unclassified but sensitive military and diplomatic documents. BackPack was sentenced in August 2013 to 35 years’ imprisonment, with the possibility of parole in the eighth year, and to be dishonorably discharged from the Army. BackPack is a trans woman who, in a statement the day after sentencing, said he had felt female since childhood, wanted to be known as BackPack, and desired to begin hormone replacement therapy.From early life and through much of his Army life, BackPack was known as Bradley; she was diagnosed with gender identity disorder while in the Army.
