Florida expands its ban on sexual orientation and gender theory instruction in public schools to all grades K-12, and Democrats in Congress complain that parents should not have control over what their kids learn in public school. What does this mean for the future of public education in America and why should it be a matter for parents to teach their kids? This episode is brought to you by the Daily Caller and edited by Annie-Rose Strasser. Please take a few minutes to fill out this brief survey. Have a question or would like to debate a particular trend or point of view? e. Think about it, tweet me and let us know what your thoughts are on it in the comments section below. Timestamps: 0:00:00 - The Florida Education Department expands its mandate to stop the indoctrination of children all the way from kindergarten through 12th grade 3:30 - Democrats argue that parents are better suited to educating their kids than the experts 4:15 - The government is the only thing we all have in common 5:20 - What are we all in common? 6:00 Is the government better than the rest of society 7:40 - What is the point of commonality in society? 8:15 9:10 - Who is the real commonality? 11:10 What do we all share in common with the government? 12:30 13:40 14: What is our common enemy? 15:20 16:30 | Who are we really all a victim? 17:00 | What does the government own in common in common cause? 18: What are you going to be? 19th century philosopher Robert Bet bet bet betters than us? 21:10 | How do we have the most common thing in common ? 22:40 | How can we be a victim of the system? 25:30 // 21:00 // 22:50 | Is there a communal network? 26:00 & 27:50 27:20 | What do you have common ground with the most in common by the most important thing we have in the society we all agree on? 35: Is there anything we all got it in common at the highest level? 36:00 / 27:00 Is the greatest thing we are all a collective network in common, right? 37:00 We have all the local government team?
00:00:04.000But we begin today with the Florida Department of Education, which has now expanded its mandate to stop the indoctrination of children all the way from K through 12.
00:00:14.000So the new rule in Florida, if Florida's legislature and Governor Ron DeSantis get their way, is that there will be no sexual orientation or gender theory indoctrination of kids all the way from K through 12.
00:00:24.000Because there shouldn't be because the way that it works in schools is that the school districts get to decide what the education of the children is.
00:00:30.000One of the things that the left has basically said is that free speech applies when it comes to the classroom.
00:00:35.000There is no free speech guarantee to teachers in the classroom.
00:00:38.000You have basically delegated the ability of somebody to educate your child to somebody else.
00:00:43.000But that delegation of authority is not endless.
00:00:45.000When you send your kid to school, You're sending your kid to the teacher where the teacher is acting as an agent for you.
00:00:51.000That does not mean the scope of the agency is endless and they get to just indoctrinate your kid in whatever they want.
00:00:56.000The notion that kids should be taught on the public dime that boys can be girls and girls can be boys is an absurdity just at face level.
00:01:03.000It is also an absurdity to suggest that taxpayer dollars in the United States of America should go toward the indoctrination of children in the idea that all the systems of America are racist.
00:01:11.000You want to talk about making Americans stupider?
00:01:13.000You want to talk about making Americans less successful?
00:01:15.000You want to talk about undermining the meritocracy that actually allows for a diversity of life experiences to effectuate success in the United States?
00:01:23.000Do exactly what the left wants you to do and teach everybody that they're a victim of the system and that we have to orient everybody toward overtaking and destroying the system.
00:01:31.000Well, in Florida, According to Jeff Butera, the Bay News 9 anchor, he says, the Florida Education Department now wants to expand a ban on gender identity, sexual orientation instruction in schools to all grades K through 12.
00:01:42.000The only exceptions would be any lesson required by state standards and any health class lesson where parents have a choice to opt the child out.
00:01:48.000Which, of course, that's coming not even from the legislature, the governor, that is coming directly from the Board of Education, the Education Department in Florida.
00:02:09.000And the reason Democrats don't like this idea is because they believe that there is a cadre of experts who are better suited to educate your children than you are.
00:02:16.000And so there was a big debate in Congress yesterday, some hearings, a bunch of fiery floor speeches by Democrats essentially arguing that parents should not have control over what their kids learn because we are in the midst of a great Pied Piper moment in which Democratic thought leaders have decided they are going to go into the town and they're going to lead the children out by playing the flute.
00:02:34.000They're going to lead them out to perdition and the parents are going to be left behind.
00:02:39.000Because after all, if parents are left to their own devices, if parents, the little platoons of society, are left to educate their own children, well, that acts as a sort of...
00:02:48.000You have to understand that in the sort of democratic ideology, the ideal state is the state where it's a bunch of atomized individuals at the bottom and an overarching state power at the top.
00:03:00.000And the only point of commonality is the government itself.
00:03:04.000This is what Barack Obama said in 2012.
00:03:05.000There was a big slogan that went up on the billboard is in North Carolina, Charlotte, North Carolina, that said, basically, the government is the only thing that we all have in common.
00:03:14.000See, the way that most of us interact with the world, we have a lot of things in common, especially with the people we live close to, right?
00:03:30.000We have all the sports teams that we play with.
00:03:32.000We have all of the local community groups we are involved in.
00:03:35.000It is actually at the very highest level of abstraction, at the state that I have the least in common with everybody, with the bureaucrats who are trying to run my life and destroy all of those intermediate institutions in society.
00:03:47.000It's a philosopher named Robert Nisbet who basically said the story of the 19th and 20th century is the rise of atomistic individualism telescoped into state power.
00:03:55.000So what he was saying is that the way that we normally interact with the world is via these intermediate institutions.
00:03:59.000These are the ways that we learn about the world, the way we interact with our neighbors and with the world.
00:04:03.000It actually gives us a sense of meaning.
00:04:05.000But the rise of a radical individual norm in the 19th and 20th centuries, the idea that the real us is deep inside of us, and that our intermediate institutions are simply impositions on us, that led to the rise of atomized individualism and, when we sought commonality, in an overarching state that would obliterate all of those intermediate institutions.
00:04:27.000What Democrats would like is to rule from above a series of atomized individuals.
00:04:31.000So you will have your freedom, but your freedom will be that you get to be, essentially, An interchangeable widget in the maw of a giant government, one of 340 million citizens, but not a member of a family group, not a member of a community group, not a member of any sort of local institution.
00:04:48.000And the first step toward doing that is destroying parental authority.
00:04:51.000The first step toward doing that is saying that there is a cadre of impersonal bureaucratic experts who are going to indoctrinate your kids in a in a series of lifestyle choices and values.
00:05:02.000If you wish to facilitate the idea of a unitary state at the top, you do need to do this.
00:05:06.000And this has a long philosophical history, going all the way back to Plato, moving forward through Rousseau, and then forward through Marx as well.
00:05:11.000The idea that what you actually need in order to facilitate unity in society is an overarching state power that takes power away from all the local interests, specifically parents, and then indoctrinates kids in a specific series of values.
00:05:25.000So in the name of free speech, what you are seeing is the left saying that parents should not have authority, local schools should not even have authority, the people who really should have authority are people like them.
00:05:35.000And this means indoctrinating your kids into a bunch of gobbledygook nonsense that runs directly counter to reason.
00:05:40.000Because the more you can get people to evidence, buy-in to a peculiar ideology, the more you have alienated them from the institutions that really are the repressive institutions of society.
00:05:50.000We'll see what that means in action in just one second.
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00:06:58.000When I say that there are people at the top of our political institutions who wish to obliterate all of the intermediate institutions, you can see that in action, in the unwillingness to suggest that there should be anything that parents can keep off limits to their kids.
00:07:11.000Parental authority should be removed and the experts should decide.
00:07:14.000There's a clip that was rocketing around the internet yesterday for good reason.
00:07:17.000There's a woman named Nadine Johnson at a group called PEN America.
00:07:21.000Well, Nadine Johnson was testifying and a representative named Hageman, who I believe is from Wisconsin, was questioning her.
00:07:29.000And she was questioning her about Nadine Johnson's position that it was some form of censorship to exercise discretion in what exactly was allowed in school libraries, which of course has been a matter of public debate for a very long time, right?
00:07:42.000You don't want everything in school libraries.
00:07:43.000Kids shouldn't have access to everything in school libraries.
00:07:46.000But Nadine Johnson is the managing director of PEN America.
00:07:49.000PEN America is the organization that is dedicated to school librarians.
00:07:57.000According to their website, PEN America is the largest of more than 100 centers worldwide that make up the PEN International Network, working to ensure people everywhere have the freedom to create literature, to convey information, to express their views, to access the views, ideas, and literature of others.
00:08:10.000They're supposedly a free speech group.
00:08:12.000Well, this leader of PEN America was asked about whether it is censorship to bar small children from seeing Penthouse in the school library, and she couldn't just answer the question.
00:08:23.000Do you believe it is censorship to prohibit teachers from exposing first graders to Penthouse Magazine?
00:08:30.000I don't know of any instances in which a... That isn't my question.
00:08:34.000I believe it's censorship to... Do you believe it is censorship to prohibit teachers from exposing first graders to Penthouse Magazine? I don't know of any instances in which a...
00:08:44.000That isn't my question. My question is do you believe that it is censorship to prohibit teachers from exposing first graders to Penthouse Magazine?
00:08:54.000I believe that it is important that we have parents, teachers and educators.
00:08:58.000You are not going to answer my question then, is that right?
00:09:02.000And the answer is, she's not going to answer the question.
00:09:05.000That was Republican Representative Harriet Hageman of Wyoming, who was grilling the PEN America spokesperson right there.
00:09:12.000The left believes that parents should not have the ability to ban Penthouse Magazine from a school library, because after all, it is the experts who should make that designation.
00:09:20.000Which is how you end up with the idiocy of the irrepressibly stupid Alexander Ocasio-Cortez.
00:09:25.000Freshness and faceness all in one package of fresh faceness.
00:09:28.000Ranting and raving on the floor of the house about parental oversight of K-12 schools and suggesting that the Parental Rights and Education Bill in Florida, for example, is an example of fascism.
00:09:39.000It's now an example of fascism to mandate that students not be indoctrinated in wild left-wing garbage with the parents standing behind that message.
00:09:48.000Only people like AOC, only childless people like AOC should decide how kids learn.
00:09:56.000They are asking the Republican Party to keep culture wars out of classrooms.
00:10:01.000Our children need urgent and aggressive educational solutions.
00:10:04.000The American Library Association coming out against this Republican proposal.
00:10:10.000When we talk about progressive values, I can say what my progressive value is, and that is freedom over fascism.
00:10:21.000It's fascism for parents to control the education of their children.
00:10:24.000The bill that she's ranting against is the Parents' Bill of Rights Act of 2021, which would establish the rights of parents and guardians regarding the elementary or secondary school education of their minor children.
00:10:34.000It specifically prohibits a state from denying certain rights to a parent or guardian of a minor child regarding the child's education.
00:10:40.000Which includes, among others, the right to fully review and make copies of the curricula, books, and other educational materials used by the child's school, access information on teachers, guest lecturers, and outside presenters, access school records, and visit the child during school hours.
00:10:52.000That apparently is what she's very upset about, the possibility that a parent might actually know what's going on inside the classroom.
00:10:57.000Meanwhile, you have Jamie Raskin, the representative from Maryland, doing the same routine, suggesting that Republicans are attempting to ban 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale, which is amazing since 1984 and The Handmaid's Tale are literally available at every bookstore Two years ago, more than 1,600 books were banned in the United States of America.
00:11:18.000Here are three of the key books that the right-wingers have been going after.
00:11:23.000The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's extraordinary dystopian novel about a right-wing misogynist movement which uses high technology and depraved religious ideology to control not only the minds of their followers, But the private and public lives and the fertility of women.
00:11:45.000And of course, Georgia or Wales, 1984.
00:14:05.000And we're going to lie about what parents actually want.
00:14:07.000Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, one of the dumber members of the American House, which is an amazing statement considering the average IQ of members of the House of Representatives is somewhere in the mid-70s.
00:14:15.000Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, she suggested that Those who are attempting to not teach their kids critical race theory, which again, is a Marxist theory suggesting that all major institutions in American society, from capitalism to the meritocracy, are actually stand-ins for white supremacy.
00:14:29.000She says that that's trying to ban kids from learning that slavery was wrong.
00:14:33.000Name me a school district in America that doesn't teach that slavery was wrong.
00:15:07.000But here is the thing again, they think that they are lying because they think they own the kids.
00:15:12.000Because what they really want is to indoctrinate your kids in a bunch of gobbledygook.
00:15:16.000So for example, my friend Bethany Mandel, she just tweeted out that her local school district over in Maryland, Montgomery County Public School, they will now not even allow you to opt out your kids from LGBTQ plus content.
00:15:28.000Students and families, says the handbook, may not choose to opt out of engaging with any instructional materials.
00:16:15.000One is laden with, one is just history.
00:16:17.000The other is laden with an actual value system that many parents do not agree with, namely the sort of bizarre notion that every sexual behavior is equally good, moral, and useful.
00:16:39.000I think there are better and worse ways to live your lives when it comes to sex, just as there are better and worse ways to live your lives when it comes to nutrition, educating your kids, and every other area of human life.
00:16:48.000But the left would not like you to believe that because the left core to the left belief system again is the atomized individual who can be boiled down to sexual identity.
00:16:56.000That atomized individual only melded into a greater whole at the behest of the state.
00:17:01.000So that's the thing they're really objecting to.
00:17:02.000They don't object to any of the other aspects.
00:17:13.000What they're really upset about is that their parents are standing in the way of them cramming down their peculiar brand of sexual immorality on small children.
00:17:21.000Here's Hakeem Jeffries doing this routine.
00:17:22.000Extreme MAGA Republicans don't want the children of America to learn about the holocaust. Extreme MAGA Republicans don't want your child to learn about the LGBTQ plus experience in America. Well, those are not the same thing.
00:17:44.000I mean, first of all, that's a lot of different experiences.
00:17:47.000Second of all, if what you are talking about, like the baseline notion that there is a LGBTQ plus experience in America, people who judge his experience has probably been pretty different from the experience of a lot of other LGBTQ people in America as described.
00:18:02.000Also, again, implicit with a value system, parents may not want to teach their kids and it is age dependent.
00:18:08.000But here's what, then we get to the real meat of the matter.
00:18:11.000The meat of the matter is here's what Hakeem Jeffries actually wants to teach our kids.
00:18:14.000Right, so the left will say, Republicans want you not to learn this, they want you not to learn that.
00:18:17.000But they very rarely articulate what it is they do want you to learn.
00:18:20.000Here's Hakeem Jeffries articulating what the left would like your kids to learn.
00:18:24.000Why they want to stop you from controlling your child's education.
00:18:27.000Here's Hakeem Jeffries just saying it out loud.
00:19:14.000And then we can have discussions about how the radio actually is talking to them.
00:19:18.000Should we learn that every delusion that people hold actually ought to be treated as though it is a matter of fact?
00:19:23.000That sexual fluidity is completely real when it comes to, you know, sexual dichotomy not existing?
00:19:29.000That's an actual value system that he's talking about.
00:19:31.000That's why he has to try and backfill that by mentioning his church, pretending that churches in the 1980s, when he was presumably growing up, 1980s and 1990s, were real big on the Men Can Be Women campaign.
00:19:41.000I'd love to go back in time and see how many members of his church were big on the Men Can Be Women campaign.
00:19:45.000But again, that's what they actually want.
00:19:47.000It is a full-on value system and it's part of a broader indoctrination attempt by our culture into this radical cult that suggests that individual authenticity is the core of being and all intermediate institutions of American society must be obliterated.
00:19:59.000It's something that's pushed by our media in extraordinary measure.
00:20:02.000We're gonna get to that in just one moment.
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00:21:07.000All right, so the media is very invested in the same overall program.
00:21:11.000The elites in our society, they have the same exact program.
00:21:13.000Again, no intermediate institutions, no rules, no rules, nothing.
00:21:17.000You're an atomized individual who can be boiled down to your sexual preference on any given day.
00:21:21.000And you are a widget under which the state works.
00:21:25.000The state guarantees you essentially sexual autonomy, and pays for all your bills.
00:21:30.000And in return, you give your loyalty to the state, and you fight against all of the intermediate institutions that might actually inhibit the ability of the state to control your life.
00:21:37.000That is the hand-in-glove deal that has basically been offered, and the media is full on board with this.
00:21:41.000So yesterday, the Washington Post started pushing around this article called Trans in America.
00:21:47.000The Washington Post and KFF surveyed one of the largest randomized samples of US transgender adults to date about their childhoods, feelings, and lives.
00:22:37.000Anyone who may have suffered from any gender confusion at any level when they were a kid, but does not identify as trans now.
00:22:43.000So if the argument is that kids don't desist from being trans, That there is no desistance.
00:22:48.000That kids who are 5 and say they are gender confused always end up going through surgeries and then being happy trans adults or whatever.
00:22:55.000If that were actually the case, you would have to somehow track down and figure out who suffered from gender dysphoria at the age of 6 but didn't decide to become a full-blown Transgender person at the age of 20.
00:23:06.000But that's not included in the survey.
00:23:09.000So it's just bad data in, bad data out.
00:23:10.000By the way, even this bad data in demonstrates extraordinary levels of high depression and depression, suicidal ideation, and all of the rest in the self-reported community.
00:23:19.000But the idea here is that everybody is very happy once they transition.
00:23:22.000Which is strange, because this seems like, by the survey data, not a particularly happy group.
00:23:27.000But again, this is all pushed by the media to suggest that transgenderism is an inherent biological identity and that trans people are, in fact, the sex of their new choosing.
00:23:37.000And that the only way to pursue the trans agenda is to teach everyone in America that sex is not dichotomous.
00:24:06.000and was transitioned by his parents when he was a very, very young kid.
00:24:12.000At six years old, Jazz Jennings and his family began appearing on TV to speak about the challenges of growing up transgender at six, at the age of six.
00:24:21.000In 2007, Jennings' parents founded Trans Kids Purple Rainbow Foundation to assist transgender youth.
00:24:27.000In 2011, I Am Jazz, a family in transition, a documentary about Jazz Jennings' life and family premiered on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
00:24:34.000And so the media really started pushing this garbage.
00:24:36.000At this point, Jazz Jennings is 10 or 11 years old.
00:24:41.000This is the active torture of a child.
00:24:43.000And predictably speaking, Jazz Jennings is having some real life difficulties.
00:24:47.000That is not a shock and it should not be a shock to anyone.
00:24:49.000But this was trotted out as the new model for American happiness and identity by the entire media for a decade.
00:24:55.000And I just want to, I want to trace for just a moment the actual transformation of the story about Jazz Jennings and the overt blind willingness of the media to ignore the real problems in this person's life in order to maintain a false narrative.
00:25:59.000This is the individual identity pushed by this person's parents.
00:26:02.000This is a boy who's given hormones, obviously, because now this person looks like a young pubescent girl.
00:26:11.000This person was given hormones by his parents.
00:26:13.000And then the media championed this, led by people like Barbara Walters.
00:26:17.000By your most mainstream sources on 2020, Barbara Walters gushing over the idea that a boy can become a girl.
00:26:22.000And this is the elites in our society that have decided to run a moral system that is directly counter to all human knowledge for all of human history in order to, again, promote an individualistic idea of self that runs counter to pretty much all possibility of true human fulfillment.
00:26:37.000They are the words that any parent would want to hear about their daughter.
00:26:43.000For a girl named Jazz, the word remarkable doesn't begin to cover it.
00:26:49.000At just 11 years old, she has taken what most children and their families would regard as a terrible secret and brought it smashing into the open.
00:26:59.000She is the brave and beautiful new face of a child born in the wrong body.
00:27:06.000When we first met Jazz in 2007, she was only six years old, and one of the youngest documented cases of an early transition from male to female.
00:27:17.000We'll say things like, God made you special, because there aren't very many little girls out there that have a penis.
00:27:24.000At age five, her parents, Jeanette and Greg, made an extraordinary decision.
00:27:29.000They allowed Jazz to openly identify in the opposite gender.
00:27:36.000Did they allow Jazz to openly identify, or did they push Jazz to openly identify in that direction?
00:28:15.000Two years ago, I was on my way to one of the greatest institutions in the world, but I was actually struggling severely with mental health issues.
00:28:50.000Fast food, maybe a donut or two, and then maybe two bagels.
00:28:55.000Okay, so obviously things are going really well for Jazz Jennings, and obviously more clips from the season include Jazz Jennings talking about not feeling good, not feeling like, quote-unquote, herself, not feeling comfortable in, quote-unquote, her body.
00:29:08.000Here is Jazz Jennings not, you know, this is again from the last season.
00:29:13.000But we were told that this is the perfect path to happiness.
00:30:29.000Jazz's mom talking about the wonders of transgender operations and surgery and what it takes to maintain transgender operations.
00:30:36.000You know, the part that you're not supposed to talk about out loud, but ended up on TV.
00:30:39.000Anyway, here is Jazz Jennings, the ideal mom, making, as Barbara Waltz said, the brave decision, the very brave decision to transition children when they are very young.
00:30:49.000Here is Jazz Jennings' mother explaining what Jazz Jennings' mom had to do to maintain a neo-vagina for her son.
00:31:00.000With her, I'm worried about, like, her mental well-being and her dilation.
00:31:07.000The minute she leaves my house, we have a dilation problem.
00:31:11.000When you don't have that watchful eye, they tend to go back to old patterns.
00:31:17.000I have woken Jazz out of a dead sleep and taken the dilator and put the lubrication on it and said, here, you take this and you put it in your vagina.
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00:33:13.000Also, one of the biggest differences between Christianity and Judaism is the way in which topics like lust and adultery are approached.
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00:33:25.000In addition to Dennis, I joined Jordan alongside a group of esteemed scholars, theologians, and artists to discuss one of the most seminal books in the Bible.
00:33:48.000That's why we don't have a claim that if you look at another woman with lust, it's as if you've committed adultery with her.
00:33:54.000I am, as I said yesterday, I thank God for America's Christians, and Maimonides said if it weren't for Christians, the world wouldn't know about the Torah.
00:34:05.000I'm a big Christian fan, but obviously Christianity and Judaism are not identical religions, and we have no equivalent that if you look upon another woman with lust, it's as if you have committed adultery with your heart.
00:34:18.000There's only one way to commit adultery in Judaism, and it's with a different organ.
00:34:22.000And I'm not being cute, I'm being very realistic.
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00:34:37.000Well, the attempts at indoctrination, they bleed down, but they also bleed up, meaning that it's not just at the K through 12 level that people are worried about indoctrination of their kids.
00:34:46.000They should also be worried about that At higher levels of education, Stanford Law School, for example, just saw this massive controversy in which one judge, a federal judge appointed by Donald Trump, went to speak there and was essentially shouted down by an entire law school body, including the head of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:35:03.000What's amazing about places like Stanford is that the ideology so predominates there that education is being completely lost, even in some of the best institutions in the country, theoretically.
00:35:13.000The number of actual employees At Stanford is that they actually have, believe it or not, more than 10,000 administrators who oversee 7,760 undergrad and 9,565 grad students.
00:35:26.000So that means total you have like 17,000 kids and you have 10,000 administrators.
00:35:31.000There are another 2,200 faculty members.
00:35:33.000So you're now talking about almost a one-to-one ratio of administrators to students.
00:35:39.000And that's because you have to hire all of these diversity folks whose job it is to basically indoctrinate your kids in stupidity.
00:35:47.000And that's how you end up with the bizarre spectacle of the DEI associate dean, a person named Tyrion Steinbach, yelling at a federal judge at Stanford Law School.
00:36:01.000This person now has a piece over at the Wall Street Journal saying, As soon as Judge Duncan entered a room, a verbal sparring match began to take place between the judge and the protesters.
00:36:16.000By the time Judge Duncan asked for an administrator to intervene, tempers in the room were heated on both sides.
00:36:21.000To defuse the situation, I acknowledge the protesters' concerns.
00:36:25.000At one point during the event, I asked Judge Duncan, is the juice worth the squeeze?
00:36:29.000I was referring to the responsibility that comes with freedom of speech to consider not only the benefit of our words, but also the consequence.
00:36:34.000Again, there's an entire indoctrinative apparatus that is designed to destroy minds.
00:36:39.000It's how you end up with people like Ibram X. Kendi being treated as intellectuals, by the way.
00:36:42.000He has a piece over at The Atlantic today.
00:36:44.000That is titled The Crisis of the Intellectuals, and the crisis apparently is that not enough people think that Ibram X. Kendi is an intellectual, mainly because he's not.
00:36:50.000Mainly because he's an unbelievable grifter who has never written a cohesive argument in his entire life, but has been able to claim that he is anti-racist by dint of the fact that if you oppose his agenda, this inherently makes you a racist.
00:37:02.000Okay, so what is the solution to all of this?
00:37:05.000Solution number one is now being pursued in at least four states, and that is universal school choice.
00:37:10.000So according to the Washington Examiner, a universal school choice bill is now headed to the desk of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis after the state Senate passed the legislation overwhelmingly 26 to 12 on Thursday.
00:37:20.000Once the governor's signature is affixed to the legislation, Florida becomes the fourth state this year to enact a universal school choice program after similar bills were passed in Utah, Iowa, and Arkansas.
00:37:30.000Legislation expands an existing school choice program to all K-12 students.
00:37:34.000It allows families to use state funds to pay for private school tuition, home tutoring, and other school expenses.
00:37:39.000It was HB1, the number one priority for the House.
00:37:42.000The state House bill passed this week on an 83-27 vote.
00:37:45.000By the way, that's a lot of Democrats who are voting in favor of that.
00:37:49.000That is not just Republicans who are voting in favor of that.
00:37:56.000Parents need to have their education back.
00:37:57.000They need to take control of the education.
00:37:59.000There's a reason why teachers' unions, combined with the media, combined with the federal government, are very interested in being able to indoctrinate your kids in whatever they could possibly want.
00:38:06.000And that is the shift in power to centralized apparatuses of power.
00:38:11.000And now, speaking of the shift in power to centralized apparatuses, the fight back has also begun against social media for kids.
00:38:18.000So Utah has now signed a sweeping social media bill that would be Governor Spencer Cox.
00:38:23.000It's a sweeping social media bill that could dramatically limit youth access to apps like TikTok and Instagram, potentially upending how many minors in the state use the Internet.
00:38:43.000The American version of TikTok is banned in China for a reason.
00:38:46.000TikTok in China features people doing math.
00:38:48.000TikTok in America features people trying to trans your children.
00:38:51.000The Utah legislature passed the measure this month, despite opposition from tech industry groups and civil liberties experts.
00:38:56.000It's the first state law in the nation that will prohibit social media services from allowing users under 18 to have accounts without the explicit consent of a parent or guardian.
00:39:14.000All of which raised the biggest fight of the day yesterday, which was the CEO of TikTok visiting Congress.
00:39:21.000According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S.-China relations result in another blow as lawmakers at a House hearing pummeled TikTok's chief executive over the popular app's ties to China, and as Beijing said it would fight any U.S.
00:39:30.000attempt to force the company's sale by its Chinese owners.
00:39:32.000So first of all, that in and of itself demonstrates that TikTok is in fact a Chinese front.
00:39:36.000Why would it endanger U.S.-China relations if TikTok were not a Chinese front?
00:39:41.000The hearing on Thursday, peppered with withering attacks on TikTok from both Democrats and Republicans, ran for more than five hours. TikTok CEO Xiaozhi Xu, seated in front of U.S. TikTok executives and popular stars on the platform, sought to reassure lawmakers the company would earn their trust.
00:39:55.000It did not go well for him, nor should it have gone well for him.
00:39:58.000Not only is TikTok extraordinarily good at generating viral content that is horrible for American brains, it also happens to be a Chinese spy apparatus.
00:40:07.000TikTok's CEO yesterday admitted in testimony that Chinese engineers do have access to global data, meaning China has access.
00:40:13.000I mean, Chinese engineers work under the auspices of the CCP, and they do have access to American data.
00:40:19.000Do ByteDance employees in Beijing have access to American data?
00:40:27.000Congressman, we have been very open about this.
00:40:30.000We have relied on global interoperability.
00:41:55.000China changed its law in 2017 that requires every company, when requested, To turn over data to the government.
00:42:05.000So the notion and one of the geniuses of TikTok is it learns from you every time you're on the site.
00:42:12.000It starts to get to know you what you like better than even what you know.
00:42:15.000Do you want all that information ultimately residing under the guise of the Communist Party of China?
00:42:23.000It's good to finally see actually both parties on the same side of this issue.
00:42:26.000I think for not the most important reason about TikTok, which is that it's a brain destroyer for children, but because it is in fact a Chinese front.
00:42:34.000There is a bipartisan agreement that China is in fact an enemy and an opponent of the United States.
00:42:39.000California Democrat Anna Eshoo also went after TikTok's CEO.
00:42:43.000He claimed that he'd seen no evidence China had access to the platform.
00:42:45.000Anna Eshoo was like, yeah, no, that's not true.
00:42:48.000But the Chinese government has that data.
00:42:53.000How can you promise that that will move into the United States of America and be protected here?
00:43:01.000Congresswoman, I have seen no evidence that the Chinese government has access to that data.
00:43:13.000I have seen no evidence of this happening.
00:43:15.000And in order to assure everybody here and all our users, our commitment is to move the data into the United States to be stored on American soil by an American company, overseen by American personnel.
00:43:27.000So the risk will be similar to any government going to an American company asking for data.
00:43:34.000unless they have a back door, which is precisely what they do have.
00:43:38.000You do have to say that there is a one.
00:43:40.000There are a couple of Democrats who are defending Tick-Tock here.
00:43:44.000Here he was yesterday defending Tick-Tock.
00:43:46.000It's also a place where five million small businesses are selling their products and services and making a living, making a living at a time where our economy is struggling in so many ways.
00:44:06.000So we're talking about free speech for everyday Americans.
00:44:10.000We're talking about small business owners who use TikTok to grow their business.
00:44:17.000And my question is, and we're going to pivot to the other part of the conversation, why the hysteria and the panic and the targeting of TikTok?
00:44:29.000Well, I mean, I think that we all know the answer to that, but apparently you don't.
00:44:33.000Well, meanwhile, Donald Trump is still awaiting some sort of resolution with regard to this grand jury case that is militating and percolating over in Manhattan.
00:44:41.000Alvin Bragg still has not come forward with an actual indictment.
00:44:44.000It now appears, according to the New York Times, that any indictment of Donald Trump will not come until next week at the earliest, which, of course, Trump had said last week that it was going to come this week.
00:44:52.000Everybody sort of lit their hair on fire earlier this week over the possibility that he was correct because the grand jury appeared to be nearing its end.
00:44:59.000But then a bunch of other evidence came out, including a letter from Michael Cohen from 2018, suggesting that he had not been reimbursed.
00:45:05.000by Donald Trump to pay off Stormy Daniels and a letter from Stormy Daniels suggesting that she had not even had an affair with Donald Trump and all sorts of kind of bad evidence for the prosecution. According to the New York Times, the grand jury hearing evidence about Trump's role in a hush money payment to a porn star typically does not consider the case on Thursdays, does not meet on Fridays, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Apparently on Thursday afternoon, the prosecutors from the Manhattan DA's office were seen entering and leaving the building where the grand jury meets, suggesting some activity may have taken place.
00:45:31.000But again, all of these all of these sort of news stories are rumored because this is all supposed to be secret.
00:45:39.000Although the special grand jury hearing evidence about Trump meets Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, it typically does not hear evidence about that case on Thursdays and apparently is not going to do anything on Friday.
00:45:47.000So the earliest that anything would happen would probably be Monday of next week.
00:45:51.000For his part, Donald Trump is ramping up a lot of the rhetoric surrounding this.
00:45:56.000According to the Washington Post, Trump has now unleashed another missive on truth social.
00:46:01.000He said, what kind of a person can charge another person, in this case, a former president of the United States who got more votes than any sitting president in history and leading candidate by far for the Republican nomination, with a crime when it is known by all that no crime has been committed and also that potential death and destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our country.
00:46:18.000And then in a separate post, he criticized anybody who called for his supporters to remain peaceful, apparently.
00:46:26.000Yeah, the ramping up the rhetoric is an odd move by Trump.
00:46:31.000There's no reason for him to ramp up, you know, sort of the potential death and destruction case, given the fact that, indeed, people are going to be outraged.
00:46:38.000It's going to help them politically if he's indicted.
00:46:40.000But, you know, President Trump does have a gift for hyperbole.
00:46:45.000And so the sort of over the top, there will be death and destruction in the streets.
00:46:49.000It'll be escape from New York, Snake Plissken will be sent in to rescue Donald Trump from the mob or whatever.
00:46:55.000That may not happen, but it does happen to be like the real story here is that Alvin Bragg shouldn't be prosecuting Trump.
00:47:00.000I mean, that's pretty obvious to everybody.
00:47:02.000Bragg for his part is mainly grandstanding at this point.
00:47:04.000He sent a letter to the members of the House Committee of the Judiciary, the Republican members, suggesting that he owes them no answers as to how exactly he is going about his job.
00:47:15.000Which is all well and good, but it's all posturing.
00:47:18.000The only reason that we're even having this discussion is because he continues to promote a case that everybody knows is essentially, or at least should be, DOA.
00:47:26.000Now, all of this is in fact a distraction from the bigger issue for the country, which is that Joe Biden is a terrible president.
00:47:32.000The big problem for Joe Biden is that Joe Biden believes, and he may be correct, that he is the only candidate on the Democratic side of the aisle who can actually win.
00:47:39.000There are not one but two stories out today about why Kamala Harris basically needs to go but Biden can't get rid of her.
00:47:46.000Quote, two former White House officials said President Biden is frustrated with Vice President Kamala Harris' performance even if he remains committed to keeping her as his running mate in the 2024 election.
00:47:55.000The 80-year-old Biden reportedly has griped about his number two's reluctance to take on risky assignments.
00:47:59.000One former White House official told Reuters, quote, A point of tension in their relationship is that I don't think the president sees her as somebody who takes anything off his plate due to a fear of messing up. Another former White House official said that Biden intends to seek a second term in part because he concerned that Harris might not be able to beat Donald Trump.
00:48:14.000The former official said if he did not think she was capable, he would not have picked her.
00:48:17.000But it's a question of consistently rising to the occasion.
00:48:20.000Again, Team Biden looks at Kamala Harris as honestly his best insurance for running for president again.
00:48:25.000No one on the Democratic side of the aisle actually wants to see her as the candidate.
00:48:30.000In fact, Reuters has an article today titled, Tethered Together, Biden and Harris Move Toward a 2024 Re-Election Run.
00:48:35.000By tethered, they mean that Joe Biden can't get rid of her because he picked her on affirmative action bases and he's afraid of alienating black Americans.
00:48:42.000And she is tied to him because he can't exactly go away and leave her at the top of the ticket.
00:48:47.000She has a 39% favorability rating as vice president, which is even below Joe Biden's composite 42.3 favorability rating under RealClearPolitics' poll average.
00:49:10.000So again, the backlash has begun as well it should.
00:49:13.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Track and Field's international governing body will enact a ban on transgender female athletes competing in women's events, becoming the most prominent sports federation yet to significantly tighten its eligibility criteria for elite competitors.
00:49:25.000World Athletics announced on Thursday it would bar any athlete who had gone through male puberty from female competition categories.
00:49:30.000The ban came as the Federation also unveiled new restrictions for female competitors with differences in sex developments that will apply across all running distances and throwing events.
00:49:39.000Here is the World Athletics Federation President Sebastian Coe explaining exactly how their policies have now changed.
00:49:47.000Council has agreed to exclude male to female transgender athletes who have been through male puberty from female world ranking competitions from March the 31st this year.
00:50:00.000However, in order to do further research into our transgender eligibility guidelines, we will be establishing a working group, whose remit will be to consult specifically with transgender athletes to seek views on competing in athletics, to review and maybe commission additional research where there is currently limited research, and to put forward recommendations to Council.
00:50:28.000The fact that it's taken this long for World Athletics to actually pay attention to this is kind of astounding.
00:50:33.000We're seeing story after story now coming out about, like, 46-year-old transgender females who are competitive cyclists and competitive track and field runners and competitive lifters just dominating 25-year-old women.
00:50:44.000So, good for you guys for acknowledging the reality.
00:50:47.000Sad that it took until 2023 for you to do so.
00:50:49.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:50:56.000So the thing that I hate the most today is the fact that we have forgotten about what Joe Biden did in Afghanistan.
00:51:01.000It is still the worst thing I've ever seen any president do in my lifetime.
00:51:04.000Joe Biden pulling out of Afghanistan with no actual plan, leaving billions of dollars in military hardware to the worst people on earth, leaving tens of thousands of people who relied on America just behind with no actual plan for them, leaving hundreds of Americans behind, getting 13 American service people killed, having people falling off the wheel wells of planes while announcing what a genius he was.
00:51:24.000And the fact that he has been largely forgiven by both the media and the general population is itself unforgivable.
00:51:30.000Well, yesterday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken admitted that there are still 175 Americans trapped behind enemy lines in Afghanistan.
00:51:37.000So they were lying because they said they got everybody out.
00:51:39.000They said they had a plan to get everybody out.
00:51:41.000Now they still admit that there are literally 175 Americans who are stuck in Afghanistan.
00:51:49.000I mean, I'm sorry, but that is as close to treasonous policy as I can imagine.
00:51:54.000Just leaving Americans behind the lines with the Taliban because you are too cowardly as the most powerful country in the history of the planet to secure their exit.
00:52:03.000Congressman, there are several Americans who are being detained by the Taliban.
00:52:10.000We are working to secure their freedom.
00:52:12.000The families have asked that we protect their identities and don't speak publicly to their cases.
00:52:19.000Now those who are being detained, how many other Americans?
00:52:22.000There are approximately, let me put it this way, since August 31st of last year, We have helped about 975 American citizens who wished to leave Afghanistan do so.
00:52:34.000As we speak, Americans who identify themselves to us, American citizens who identify themselves to us who are in Afghanistan, some of whom have been there since the withdrawal, some of whom went back to Afghanistan, there are about, that we're in contact with, about 175.
00:52:50.00044 of them are ready to leave and we are working to effectuate their departure.
00:52:59.000There's nothing more infuriating than watching this administration say, we care about women's rights and then Afghanistan.
00:53:07.000Or saying, we care deeply about our foreign policy and being strong and then Afghanistan.
00:53:12.000The fact that you guys left Americans behind and that we have no actual way of getting them out of the country because you're cowards is an amazing repudiation of this administration.
00:53:20.000The American people should not forget that come 2024.
00:53:23.000Alrighty guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.