EPISODE 340： YOEL ROTH DEFENDED ANTHONY WEINER IN UNEARTHED BLOG POSTS
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Yoel Roth defended Anthony Wiener in unearthed blog posts. We've got Yoel in his own words. And I'm joined by Libby Emmons as we discuss why it took people like Natalie Winters to dig this up. And the actual quote unquote journalists in the United States couldn t seem to be bothered. In fact, couldn t even be bothered to make a Wikipedia page for him.
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Yoel Roth defended Anthony Weiner in unearthed blog posts.
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Yeah, that's right. We've got Yoel in his own words.
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And I'm joined with Libby Emmons as we discuss why it is that it took people like us, like Natalie Winters, to dig this up.
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And the actual quote unquote journalists in the United States couldn't seem to be bothered.
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In fact, couldn't even be bothered to make a Wikipedia page for him.
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And yet almost inevitably, any kind of social platform is going to run into a place where they need to start thinking seriously about user misbehavior, right?
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So I'm talking about things like *** and ***, but what happens when somebody starts sharing child pornography on your platform?
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Or actually, as it's called, child sexual exploitation, right?
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At that point, as a service provider, you have a legal requirement to start regulating the content that users are sharing on your platform.
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And so the question is, will you stop at just what is legally required?
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Do you keep things that are, like, absolutely not allowed off of your service and end it there?
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Or does one content restriction lead to another, lead to another, creating this sort of spiral of regulation?
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We've seen that happen across a bunch of services.
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And for a variety of reasons, a base set of protections that ensure things like compliance with laws have turned into these kind of sweeping sets of rules.
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My hunch is that it's an inevitable institutional effect.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily, powered by Turning Point USA.
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That was Yoel Roth, the former head of the Trust and Safety Ministry at Twitter.
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In the past, I've referred to Yoel Roth as a Fed because he was clearly running with tasking from federal agencies.
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And in turn, they went and overlooked his, shall we say, proclivities.
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Why would they allow somebody, why would Twitter allow somebody with these types of attitudes
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to one of their highest, most trusted positions in the entire company?
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One of the most powerful people in our entire country.
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Let's listen to this because there's a massive scoop from the war room.
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It turns out had a blog that has since been defeated, been deleted.
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And he once wrote a blog defending Anthony Wiener.
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Anthony Wiener, of course, who went down for underage sexting, which included photos of himself nude next to a toddler.
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And the only thing he's guilty of is liking him.
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If Anthony Wiener's only sin is liking himself too much, then he's an effing saint by internet standards.
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I'd like to bring on now Libby Emmons of the Post Millennial.
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Libby, why is it that a guy like this was given such a powerful position within Twitter?
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Well, I don't know exactly how he got hired, but he certainly had all the right credentials.
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Annenberg School of Communication, UPenn, I think Swarthmore as well is on his resume.
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And this is exactly the kind of guy who seems to be, you know, very forward thinking.
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And based on what we saw there, his very nuanced views on child pornography, you know,
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give him some progressive insight to become, you know, head of trust and safety on the platform.
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However, as I said, his views on whether or not child exploitation should be allowed on the platform.
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He does seem to have a nuanced view about the free speech concerns there and the, you know,
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sweeping restrictions that could come about from some banning there.
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But later and just recently we heard him speaking at a Knight Foundation conference talking about
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how the Babylon Bee and Libs of TikTok are, you know, that their satire and commentary is dangerous
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But apparently he does not think that that is so for images of child exploitation.
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You know, interestingly enough, so I was just looking this up, you know that Yole Roth doesn't
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Does not exist, but he does have an Everipedia page.
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And because when you mentioned Annenberg and UPenn and Swarthmore, I'm thinking, wait a minute,
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That's UPenn, that's Philadelphia, Swarthmore, that's right in Delaware County.
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You know, is this guy from, I know he's from San Francisco originally, then came over.
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But what's interesting is that there's no Wikipedia page for this guy.
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One of the most powerful men in the entire country, certainly in 2020, certainly going
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And yet Wikipedia, which is meant to be one of the sources, you know, quote unquote, open
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For all public information, certainly on the people who are powerful within our own country.
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What does it say to you that he doesn't have one?
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Because because we've we've seen this before in the past, that Wikipedia is totally controlled
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And the Twitter files, if you remember, Elon Musk was tweeting about this himself because
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the Twitter files Wikipedia entry was cited for deletion because the neckbeards at Wikipedia
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were saying that there was nothing in the in the Wikipedia file or excuse me, in the Twitter
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files that warranted the attention of Wikipedia.
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It didn't warrant its own article the same way that y'all Roth doesn't warrant his own article,
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even though he's one of the most powerful was until he was recently deposed one of the most
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powerful people over speech in our entire country.
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Wikipedia is a far leftist fake encyclopedia that has been cited for far too long as something
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that is factual and honest and transport, transparent and, you know, all of that.
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I remember when I was in college and I had a professor actually suggesting to us that we
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And I was one of the only students in the class who said, no, I think I'm just going to
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hit the library because I don't really trust anything that's on Wikipedia.
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This doesn't seem like accurate or worthwhile sourcing.
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We have to remember that these open source platforms are full of the bias of their creators.
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And while they sit out there telling the rest of us that we are hateful and have unconscious
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bias and all of this, they are just as prone to it, if not more so, because they're not even
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By the way, Joel Roth, Joel Roth is on Wikipedia.
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So we got Joel, but it doesn't appear that Joel Roth is any relation whatsoever.
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The same way that we've seen again and again that powerful people in this country are protected
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All the time, Ziggler, you spent sitting on the school board ignoring the moms and dads
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and myself and laughing at us and giving us snide, you know, eyes and this and that.
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As far as Wade Bear goes, you know, he's a cocky man that thought, you know, that he
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could spin the story however he wanted and keep whoever he wanted at bay.
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The superintendent of Loudoun County Schools has been indicted, indicted.
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Now, if you were following this program in 2021, in the fall, there was a huge scandal,
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even back to the summer, that erupted multiple incidents of sexual assault taking place in
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There was a father who was arrested after causing a disturbance and he did cause a disturbance
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But we later found out why he caused that disturbance because the school board refused to meet with
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him, refused to hear his concerns and his discussions.
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And it later came out, thanks to the Halkion work of one Luke Rosiak over at the Daily Wire,
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a fantastic investigative journalist, investigative reporter.
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It came out that that father's daughter had been raped by a boy wearing a skirt inside the
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And it turned out it wasn't the first sexual assault that that boy had committed.
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Libby Emmons, walk us through what happened in this case.
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And then also we have to get into the fact that the New York Times, of all places, came out attacking
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anyone who criticized this situation, anyone who criticized the superintendents, the school
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district, they said the school district has come under attack by right wing pundits and
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There's a huge article up by Michelle Goldberg, you know, the right's big lie about a sexual
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And now here we are, a little over a year later, the superintendent's been indicted.
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So pretty much everything has gone wrong in Loudoun County.
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And so many of other of our school districts are in peril for similar reasons, actually.
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So you had a young girl, a ninth grader, I believe, and she was raped in the school bathroom by a
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And later it was revealed that it was forcible sodomy as well as forcible fellatio.
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About a month later, the school was trying to push through transgender bathroom policies
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so that anybody can use any bathroom that they want.
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Parents showed up to ask questions about the gender neutral bathroom policies that the school
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was trying to push through, as well as the father that we just saw showed up at that school
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board meeting to tell the school board and to talk to them about how his daughter was,
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you know, sexually assaulted like this in the in the school bathroom.
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And in fact, he was arrested himself at that school board meeting for what they said was
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causing a disturbance when really he was trying to get justice for his daughter, who he sent
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to school where she's supposed to get educated and she came home having been sexually violated
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The other thing, too, that happened is as this case unfolded and before all of the details
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came out, Mr. Smith, the young girl's father, ended up being part of the justification for the
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Biden administration and Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice to go after angry parents
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If we remember, there were lots of parents going to school board meetings, speaking out
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about trans bathroom policies, pronoun policies, pornography in school libraries, which we saw
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quite a lot of also school masking, also, you know, vaccination mandates, and also COVID lockdown
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restrictions, remote school, all of these things.
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Parents really did get involved during the pandemic when they saw how poorly their students were
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being treated at schools by administrators and educators also, I think, were very angry
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So a man's daughter is raped in a bathroom and the federal government uses his anger at that
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situation to declare that they are going to prosecute parents with the same tools that they
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And Libby, I want to read for you a little bit from that New York Times op-ed, because
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This is a story about how the right twisted the sexual assault of a teenager into a culture
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It's about how a distorted tale on a conservative website became grist for a nationwide moral panic.
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On June 22nd, a middle-aged plumber named Scott Smith was dragged, lip bleeding, and hands
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cuffed behind his back from a raucous school board meeting in Loudoun County, Virginia.
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According to the local newspaper, he'd been swearing loudly at another parent and leaning
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toward her with a clenched fist when the police tackled him and pulled him outside.
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He'd eventually be convicted of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest and given a suspended
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10-day sentence, Smith's image quickly went viral as a sort of symbol of the sort of school
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board strife breaking out across all over America.
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The National School Board Association writing to President Biden to request help dealing with
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a number of growing threats and violence and acts of intimidation directed at school board
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members included Smith's arrest in a list of examples.
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So, in the New York Times is telling, the aggressor here is the father, is the father who's
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upset at the superintendents that led a rapist into the, a known rapist, into school with
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his daughter and then lied about it, for which they're now indicted.
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And, and, and, and, and, and double fact check me here for a second, was, was that the, the
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So, this incident, um, in 2021, this May incident was the first assault.
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However, the school, instead of dealing with the assault, instead of dealing with this child,
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um, who committed the assault on his, uh, on, on this young girl, just transferred him off
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to another school in the district and did not give the new, um, the new school any information
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about what had happened and teachers and students alike at the new school were very wary of him
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And he did engage in what they call inappropriate touching, uh, you know, on another female student.
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At the school, eventually this, um, this man was, um, let's see, he was put into a residential
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mental health program on probation until he's 18.
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And also the judge in his case said that he had to register as a sex offender, which she
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also said is something that she does not typically do for minors, but in this case felt that it
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So the school, the initial school covered up the, um, covered up the rape, covered up the
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We're going to break, but I'm going to hold you over because this would, we need to go into
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Libby, when we left, you were detailing for us how this school knew that the student had
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committed sexual assault, passed him over to another school.
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Um, we were not even sure the status of, of that victim.
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Hopefully, obviously everyone is, is, is, is recovering from these situations, these horrific
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situations and, and had sentenced the boy to a sort of juvenile mental facility.
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Um, you know, let's get into what has happened here.
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What has happened here with the father and both and the superintendent?
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Because of course the New York times was taking the, the word of the superintendent completely
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at face value to say there has been no assaults in these bathrooms.
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He's just an angry right-wing, uh, extremist who's upset, um, and is, and is taking it out
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for some kind of political vendetta when actually it turns out that a boy in a skirt had raped
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So I think what we see from the New York times and other publications is that it's important
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to believe all women, unless they allege that they have been raped in a girl's bathroom by
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a boy wearing a skirt in a high school that is pushing progressive transgender bathroom
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So that's what we know from the New York times.
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The superintendent has been indicted on four counts and I can tell you what they are.
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Uh, one count of false publication, one count of prohibited conduct, one count of penalizing
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an employee for a court appearance, uh, which are all misdemeanors.
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Also the public information officer that the father Scott Smith mentioned, whose name is
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Wade Byard was indicted on one count of felony perjury, which carries a maximum sentence of 12
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And he could also be facing a hefty fine of $2,500.
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And if there's anything we know about, um, you know, American politics and culture, it's
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If these men had come forward and been direct and said, this is what happened.
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They wouldn't, they wouldn't have lost their job.
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No, and I'm glad they did, but let's get into that because, and I think, you know, you,
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you know, the reason why, why was it that they didn't come forward?
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And why was it that they were not open about this horrific situation when it took place?
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What possible reason could they have to cover up a sexual assault that happened in their
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So the grand jury that was, uh, that was held to take a look at this said that at every
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step of the investigation, the Loudoun County administrators were looking out for themselves
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and their own interests and not the interests of the students.
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So I think that there's probably a twofold reason.
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One, they didn't want to go after a boy in a skirt.
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Since everyone knows that boys who wear skirts are saints with gender identity issues that
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And the other one, of course, is that they just didn't want to deal with it.
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Despite everything that has come out of the progressive left about, you know, looking out
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for women's rights and all of this kind of stuff.
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Nobody really cares when it's their own jobs and their own, um, you know, reputations on
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So I think it's probably a twofold issue there.
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And of course they went ahead and we're trying to push through trans bathroom policies as
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though they had no idea that there could possibly be concerns with boys, um, going into girls
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, don't bury the lead here.
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So I'm pulling, I'm totally pulling Steve Vanden on that one.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold up.
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The, the, what do you mean they were pushing transgender, gender neutral bathrooms at the time
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The, uh, school board was trying to push through transgender bathroom policies and it was at
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the school board meeting where parents came to speak out against transgender bathroom policies
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that this father, Scott Smith showed up to say and, and report what had happened to his
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So in a sense, in order for their woke policies and their, their woke credits, their woke points
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in, in service to what I've called increasingly the, the civil religion of diversity, inclusion,
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Now you cannot speak ill of the civil religion.
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You cannot be an apostate to the civil religion.
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You cannot speak heresy to the civil religion, right?
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If you bring up a statistics or facts that, that fly in the way, like for example, oh, I
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don't know, a, a boy in a skirt raping a girl in the girl's bathroom because it is an, an
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act of religion on one hand for them, but also it's, it's a way for them to your point
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to find a furtherance in their career as progressives.
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You know, they're thinking if they go on in Loudoun County, this is one of the most powerful
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So they could, you know, potentially looking for a higher political office, looking to
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leverage that into a possible county commissioner seat, or maybe run for even Congress.
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These are some of the richest elites in, certainly in our government reside there.
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And they are all looking for, to your point, for their own ability.
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So they want to be able to say, if they're out there on the campaign trail, we were the
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They're, they're considering their own careers.
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They're considering their own interests and they put their civil religion ahead of their
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And in this case, an actual victim who was raped.
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And, and what's amazing to me is where are the feminists, right?
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Where are the feminists in terms of all of this?
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The feminists have been totally bludgeoned with their own compassion.
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The feminists have been coerced as, you know, as has, has, can happen.
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The feminists have been coerced into stating that men can be women, that men can be lesbians
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and that women don't need their own private spaces and that women don't need their own
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We came out today, we saw that the Cambridge dictionary has changed the word woman to no longer
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mean, you know, adult human, female, but to instead mean someone who feels like an adult
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human, female, whatever that means, I guess, you know, woman is now defined as an identity
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And that's what these school board people would have you believe too.
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The feminists are lying to themselves and the rest of us.
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They usually they're fighting against the patriarchy.
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It's like, you know, everything's the patriarchy, but it turns out it wasn't the patriarchy.
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And now someone they weren't covering it up because, oh, let's just let men do whatever
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No, it's we're going to do this because apparently wrapping yourself in the LGBTQ pride flag is
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gives you like a cloak of invisibility that you can then go and commit your crimes.
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And all of those in power say groomer, rapist, where, where I can't find them anywhere.
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So if you're some cis heteronormative white male, as they say, and you suddenly just put
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And all of the qualifications that all of the wokesters said is your privilege.
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Now you don't have those anymore because you're wearing a different kind of clothing.
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Continue to do your work and just just put all these people in jail.
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Lock them all up because they all need to be locked up.
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Ladies and gentlemen, you have my permission to lay ashore.