In this episode of Live With Crowder, we talk about the bubonic plague, the first non-binary, trans referee, and property taxes. Plus, Gerald tries to figure out why his wife thinks he's gay.
00:02:53.000Which is, you know, that's not why I wasn't here Monday, we had a, you know, we work on things behind the scenes, but then yesterday I said, I would go in but I can't hear!
00:03:01.000And I still can't hear in my left ear today.
00:04:00.000But more importantly today, as we talk about all of this, I like to discuss things that you can control, or things that we can, at least to some degree, have a positive impact when we discuss it.
00:04:12.000This is something that right now may not be on your radar, but as we go into elections, people campaign on it and they try and throw out some red meat lines.
00:04:20.000Property taxes, where they go, how they affect you, and really how it's effectively long-term theft.
00:04:25.000So my question to you is, how much do you pay in property taxes, where do you think the money is going, and do you feel like you're getting ripped off?
00:04:32.000Of course the answer to the last one is yes, but I ask that you show your work.
00:06:01.000I hope he does a lot better on Off Limits.
00:06:04.000Tell you what, you are well within the limits right now, okay?
00:06:07.000I don't know what you do with your off limits, but fruitarian is where you only eat the fruit that has already fallen from the tree, because that means it wants you to spread its seed.
00:06:16.000It's the only way to live harmoniously.
00:06:44.000He shuns traditional cancer treatment.
00:06:46.000By the way, I don't know if we're there yet, but if at any point today while you're watching on YouTube and you see this, Head on over to Rumble and watch on Rumble and of course you get to keep watching Mug Club with one click on Rumble.
00:06:58.000We're just on YouTube because, you know, a lot of you still hang out there and you should be ashamed of yourselves.
00:11:00.000We're going to get to the speaker stuff that really doesn't matter.
00:11:05.000On Z's decision to come out, Shea, formerly Sherry... It's not very creative, you just chop off the yard and the wall.
00:11:14.000I mean, come on, that's going the other way.
00:11:16.000Says, one piece I was missing for myself was that no one knew how I identified... It's Max Holloway?
00:11:24.000Being misgendered, as she, her, always just felt like a little jab to the gut, I can now go through the world and even my job a lot more comfortably.
00:11:33.000And this person came out, because this is how you know that people are super oppressed.
00:11:37.000How many puff pieces, 3,700 word puff pieces have you read from GQ on referees in the NBA?
00:12:07.000If it was the previous person, that would just be a jab to the everything.
00:12:12.000So a 3700 word puff piece in GQ, and I know this seems, but here's the thing, this is how they try to slowly, continually condition you, where you're just going, oh, yeah, sure, yeah, you're a female, you're a referee, yeah, yeah, of course, and referees are the real heroes, that's why we have write-ups on, you know, time, the language from the article.
00:12:29.000And this just shows you people can't even play by their own rules.
00:12:31.000It says, but in September, ahead of the trip to Brooklyn for the NBA Referee's annual preseason meetings, Flores realized they could do things more on their terms this time.
00:12:39.000In the past, they might have made a trip to the mall to get some unflashy polo shirts and khakis, professional clothes that, in their words, I'm never freaking going to wear again.
00:12:50.000So this is the issue that we run into.
00:13:32.000You had the opportunity to change your name, change it to something that everybody can pronounce.
00:13:36.000By the way, do you think what was going through her head is like, I'm one of only maybe a handful of female referees in the NBA, and they're like, ah, we've got eight female referees now.
00:15:41.000This is more of like a spectator sport right now, but because they're covering it, we just want to give you guys a couple of insights because they're trying to make it look like the Republican Party is in disarray when they're not wrong on this one.
00:15:49.000Oh, and by the way, really quickly, before we talk about Jenna Ellis and before we talk about Cohen and we talk about Sidney Powell, Here's the thing, you need to understand, the plea system in our country needs to go away.
00:16:00.000Just to be clear, we've spoken with a lot of these people, they absolutely 100% believed what they said back then, and now they're just trying to get out from an aggressive federal department of investigation.
00:16:11.000Well, the DOJ is coming after every single person.
00:16:13.000The DOJ, I mean, DOJ, FBI, they're all involved.
00:16:15.000So to say, oh, these people, yeah, they are turncoats, yes, a lot of these people are cowards, but I can tell you this, they didn't make it up.
00:16:38.000It is about those who want to put a target on your back, and they will make it so.
00:16:41.000Alright, so maybe we'll talk about it more tomorrow, but right now, looks like Representative Tom Emmer It would have been.
00:16:48.000Would have been next as far as a Speaker of the House.
00:16:52.000House Republicans have nominated Majority Whip Tom Emmer as the next Speaker of the House in a series of secret ballot votes.
00:17:00.000This is the third time in as many weeks that Republicans have nominated a new Speaker, but so far none have been able to garner enough support to win the gavel.
00:17:09.000So, you know, we've talked about this right now as far as the nominee is going to be Donald Trump, most likely.
00:17:14.000And of course, the selective prosecution, it's a witch hunt right now, and I really would like to see other Republicans actually standing in the pocket and doing the right thing because they will come for you next.
00:17:22.000That is not to say that he is without his flaws.
00:18:04.000So then Tuesday morning, Emmer won some successive ballots behind closed doors.
00:18:07.000But then Tuesday at 1pm, 1.11pm to be clear, and if you need a fact check me, 26 Republicans voted against Emmer in another closed door meeting.
00:18:17.000And while his failed bid was sort of becoming public, that's when Donald Trump, who was going to stay out of it, posted on Truth Social.
00:19:34.000Then at 1.23 Florida representative Anna Paulina Luna wrote on Twitter, what did she write Gerald?
00:19:41.000She was writing that she voted for Rep.
00:19:43.000Donalds for Speaker followed by Johnson and that Emmer does not have the votes to be Speaker and so she would be unable to support him on the floor.
00:19:49.000And then three hours later Emmer drops out of the Speaker's race.
00:22:22.000How many interactions do you have with a person on a screen each day versus how many interactions that are meaningful do you have with someone in real life every day?
00:22:30.000You will be in front of the people who matter most to you, who will, on your deathbed, you will wish you spent more time with these people.
00:22:37.000They're in a room and you were on your phone watching some quadruple amputee TikTok.
00:23:45.000So if you've watched the mainstream media, you probably have heard, and this is the claim, that Israel is keeping Gazans from obtaining any kind of fuel, but they don't have any fuel.
00:23:55.000You've heard this throughout the media, they just were talking about it on CNN.
00:23:58.000They're shutting down hospitals because of it.
00:24:24.000Hamas, actually, the people, by the way, who were elected by the folks of Palestine, by the way, the majority of Palestinians to this day have a favorable view of Hamas, which is unfortunate.
00:24:36.000Just so you know it's true, when we make all the references available, Reuters, and they really hate the Jews, Reuters even reported the story with this headline, Israel's military tells UN in Gaza, ask Hamas for fuel.
00:26:29.000So the truth is that the reason they said ask Hamas, the IDF, is because there are photographs, and I get these are from the IDF, but let me come back to this.
00:26:36.000They show that Hamas is hoarding over 500,000 liters of fuel.
00:26:41.000So they're stealing, by the way, humanitarian fuel.
00:27:22.000Okay, but they put out a tweet showing aerial footage of the fuel reserves, okay?
00:27:25.000And this is a tweet where it says, this is what more than half a million liters of diesel in Hamas's possession, in Hamas's possession, sorry, appears, ellipses, which continues to make its claim of its inability to supply hospitals, bakeries, and civilians with fuel.
00:27:38.000Residents of Gaza do not make any demands on Israel.
00:27:42.000You basically should ask Hamas, right?
00:27:46.000Keep in mind, and we'll talk about this tomorrow, in Palestine, they have the abilities right now, internationally paid for, to at least double, very likely triple their water capacity.
00:27:56.000Paid for by international governments and agreements.
00:27:59.000By the way, desalinization plants, places to set up pipes.
00:28:02.000But the last time they were given these supplies, they used the pipes to turn them into rockets and to bombs.
00:28:24.000Right now, there would be no water issue.
00:28:27.000There would be no water shortage for the people of Palestine, if not for Hamas.
00:28:31.000And just to be clear, we've been in contact with some people at the IDF who've sent us They've offered to speak with us on record, but I want to be clear.
00:28:40.000I would love to have someone from Hamas, from some Palestinian representative organization, an ambassador.
00:28:47.000I would love to have them on immediately after a senior member of the IDF tomorrow, this week.
00:28:53.000You can send in your information to LWCtips at Protonmail.com.
00:28:57.000We'd love to have you on and provide the opportunity to correct the record.
00:29:00.000Now, not what happens with Pierce Morgan, where they just go on there and they say, Oh, really?
00:29:07.000Give us some... Right now, if that footage is dishonest from the IDF, there are people out there who can dissect this, who can say it's AI.
00:29:14.000They know, they can spot deep fakes before it reaches your screen.
00:29:18.000No one's actually disputing the authenticity.
00:29:20.000The only ambassadors who I have seen from the Palestinian people, representatives, Hamas,
00:29:25.000basically, have just said, it's not true. Why do you believe the Jews? Well, hold on a
00:29:28.000second. First off, we can put, why should we trust you and refute the evidence? I haven't
00:29:32.000seen anyone do it. I've seen people say, we know that it was the Jews who bombed the hospital. Well,
00:29:36.000there's been a ton of evidence provided from Al Jazeera, by the way. Yes, from the
00:29:40.000international community, international intelligence, also crowdsource international
00:29:45.000intelligence. I haven't seen anything to say that it was Israel.
00:29:50.000The only people who make that argument are the people who are Team Hamas, Team Palestine, no matter what.
00:31:09.000I wanted to touch on that because that's their playbook, right?
00:31:11.000So it's not just what they're saying, it's what they're physically doing.
00:31:14.000Hamas would rather have hospitals run out of fuel so that they could have a photo op and they could have a story run in the media than actually take care of their own citizens.
00:33:02.000Because people who are defending Hamas should have to live under Hamas.
00:33:07.000I wonder what that's like when you're the average Palestinian just trying to get your kids to school.
00:33:12.000That's got to be not so much of a picnic because they control literally everything and they steal everything and they'll give you what they'll give you.
00:33:53.000We see it all the time, by the way, with Um, child abuse right now is a trans issue, right?
00:33:57.000You have these trans activists who say, hey, we want to put a kid on puberty blockers and give them access to sex changes, and the parents who say, no, they say, you're child abusers!
00:34:22.000I'm gonna make sure that they don't have water because I want a photo op.
00:34:24.000Amber Heard didn't come out and say, yeah, I threw a bottle at Johnny Depp and broke his finger and took a shit in his bed.
00:34:30.000No, they don't say, yeah, you know what, we don't care about the long-term ramifications of your child undergoing hormone replacement therapy or having a sex change where the suicide rate, attempted suicide rate, actually gets worse after this.
00:35:45.000And that's compounded by the fact that you may not be able to actually own homes in the future, considering where the rates are these days and where our credit score is, just to give you an idea.
00:37:35.000I understand that right now as far as the wealth at the top and these giant corporations who are taking a bigger and bigger piece of the pie without baking new pies, unlike medium-sized businesses used to.
00:37:48.000It's not a culture of free enterprise.
00:37:49.000It's a culture of CEOs giving themselves bonuses at the taxpayer expense.
00:38:03.000That being said, homeownership is a huge component of that.
00:38:06.000There is a problem with that, and it's property taxes.
00:38:09.000It makes it feel or seem or on paper act And legally, be defined, I would argue, much more like renting.
00:38:19.000So, it's so bad in places like Texas, by the way, you'd think a very free state, that some people now are finally stepping up trying to fix it.
00:38:26.000Texans want to own their own property, not win it from government.
00:38:32.000We must provide that by eliminating property taxes in Texas.
00:39:00.000And those people with guns who will take you to jail for not paying something that you already own, many of those people believe that you should not have the right to own guns.
00:39:08.000Now I'm not saying that you take out an AR-15 if someone tries to collect property taxes or the HOA shows up.
00:39:37.000Before I move on, what do you think property taxes pay for?
00:39:41.000Because I'm willing to bet that a lot of people will say, hey, things like roads, police department, maybe fire department, you know, things that you would think are legitimate roles of governments that are, you know, non-rivalrous, right?
00:39:53.000These are terms that people would use like, okay, there's no incentive necessarily for private enterprise to get in, there's no way to necessarily make more money.
00:40:00.000I would argue that's not necessarily true with things like roads, but okay.
00:40:48.000You might think, good, okay, so it's not really going to Rhodes, it's not really going to the police, it's not really going to the fire department.
00:40:55.000Alright, but it's going to schools, that's a good thing.
00:40:58.000The only reason you would think that's good is because you believe that schools need more money to improve education, or you believe that more money equals better public schools.
00:41:16.000And this is what, if nothing else, you need to disabuse people of this notion that money equals better schooling.
00:41:21.000Because even people on the right, when they're running for office, they go, and we need to fund our schools, or you'll hear people say, money to Ukraine!
00:41:29.000Those billions of dollars could be used, even if you took every single dollar that was spent, sent over to Ukraine, guess what?
00:44:07.000That means that if you're spending $32,000 on that child in New York City, and there's a 50% chance that that $32,000 has created an illiterate child.
00:46:39.000It used to be the worst, and by the way- Hold my beer, said Baltimore!
00:46:42.000We could maybe pull from, I did a, we'll pull it later, I did a documentary, Detroit in Ruins.
00:46:46.000This was in 2009 or 2010, where I talked about how children in Detroit high schools, and their per pupil spending back then was higher than the national average.
00:46:54.000I think the national average was around $10,000.
00:46:56.000I'm going by road, I think Detroit was $13,000.
00:46:57.000That shows you how much the spending has increased.
00:47:18.000No, and this was the Department of Education there in Michigan, or the teachers' unions, and then it was circulated through local, I think, Fox outlets or MLive.
00:47:25.000They said, oh, that's actually not true.
00:47:27.000The vast majority of Detroit seniors graduate high school.
00:47:33.000I said someone entering into high school has more of a chance, there's a higher likelihood that they end up in prison than graduating high school.
00:47:40.000The fact that the teachers unions were involved in fact-checking me on that tells you that they don't actually want what's best for your kids.
00:47:44.000Why would I give a rat's ass about the people who've already made it to senior year?
00:49:24.000To give you an idea, as far as when we're taking schools collectively, and how many people are involved, students, teachers, administrators, students and teachers, they make up about 10%.
00:49:34.000of the population. 10%. Administrative positions, 87%. So when people, so when you hear Barack Obama...
00:49:41.000That's the growth. So just to be clear, student and teacher population grew by 10%?
00:50:50.000I believe that's what they actually make, which if you add in the three months off... If you add in the three months off, teachers aren't doing that badly.
00:50:57.000That means it's about $85,000 a year, plus full bennies.
00:51:00.000In Massachusetts, the average was $92,000.
00:51:56.000Of course, and the benefits, the kind of benefits that you can't possibly imagine unless you're either a public sector worker, or educator, or administrator.
00:52:07.000And by the way, you should be able to work from home and Zoom because, you know, if you show up with some kids who have the sniffles, you're taking your life in your hands.
00:52:42.000Is it the teachers they're supposed to, and administrators to have diversity?
00:52:45.000Well, I'm just taking this as an extreme example of absurdity because people bitch about DEI, right, and these kinds of corporate scores, but your taxpayer, your property taxes are paying for these absurd costs in schools, and then you have someone like a chief diversity officer, who by the way, let me give you an example, Columbus, Ohio, the city school, Chief diversity, $137,000 a year.
00:53:13.000I'm getting whoever this person is on Off-Limits so I can push back.
00:53:18.000How can children not learn if not for a woke environment?
00:53:47.000What do you think happens when your kids are being taught by a bunch of teachers
00:53:51.000who refuse to go into work because of COVID?
00:53:53.000You know, right there, where they line up politically on that.
00:53:56.000They bought everything hook, line, and sinker.
00:53:58.000They supported the idea of vaccine mandates, of masking all your children, which has, by the way, created irreparable damage to children's social... being able to pick up on social cues, facial recognition.
00:54:08.000We have our own internal facial recognition software.
00:54:11.000They don't know how to interact with people.
00:54:12.000They have suffered from the highest mental health mental illness that we've seen, and our addiction rates are
00:54:19.000through the roof, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, kids don't know what to do when they get into the
00:54:44.000And by the way, they have no problem making sure that they have access to books that describe sexual acts to four-year-olds or five-year-olds.
00:54:55.000They literally have pornography in the libraries.
00:54:57.000They have to make sure that they go and spend the money on those types of things.
00:55:00.000And making sure that you can't complain about it, because then they call you the counselor, which goes back to what you said, the Solinsky tactic.
00:55:06.000We want you to not have these books in there.
00:56:06.000And I tell you, he really likes, he has a pre-game ritual with a cigarette and one finger of scotch.
00:56:12.000He says that he's sharper on the ball.
00:56:14.000Now, let's review this again while we go through property taxes.
00:56:18.000Okay, you never actually own anything because of property taxes.
00:56:21.000In America, up to 89% of your property taxes go to fund schools.
00:56:25.000They're spending more money than ever, largely on administrative positions.
00:56:28.000Chief diversity officers, while your academic performance as it relates to your children is dropping dramatically, two-thirds of American children cannot read good.
00:56:40.000And your tax money is being used to fund a completely failing system that is indoctrinating kids about white privilege, common core math, diversity, wokeness, while they tell them that American history is something that could be triggering, so we're not going to let them know about the founding fathers.
00:58:12.000When you have communities like this that we talked about in Baltimore and New York that are struggling like this, those are communities typically that live in poverty and parents don't tend to pay much attention to their kids' schooling and this does not absolve teachers and administrators.
00:58:25.000They are a huge part of the problem because they know And then they still ask for more money as though that will solve the problem.
00:58:32.000So right now, every single, and there are problems with this, but talk through it.
00:58:36.000Every single state now, you have to sell every bus, by the way, the bus that I rode to school that didn't have a seatbelt.
00:59:06.000Getting curb-stomped on the bench in front of you is a learning experience.
00:59:09.000Yeah, but lesbian Susie Q needs some more money and three more months off apparently, but seatbelts will get around to that, right?
00:59:15.000We need to get rid of these things, sell the schools right now, over time start bringing in the private sector to actually, sorry, the public sector to actually start putting programs together so that you can have better education systems and we'd Stop funding these things altogether.
01:00:20.000At this point, it's out of your hands.
01:00:21.000What is in your hands is the people who are in your own backyard, the taxes that you pay, your property taxes, and holding their feet to the fire.
01:00:33.000I'm thinking about the fact that it's... When you have a party, a political party, that is aligned with this kind of insanity, from gender ideology to giving more money, indiscriminate money, to schools and stuff, How are you supposed to be in the middle?
01:00:49.000How are you in any way supposed to say, I'm Democrat heavy Republican light?
01:00:55.000You're either on the right, or you are far left and part of the insanity.
01:01:00.000And that's that's kind of the the so when you say something I had a guest on my podcast off limits.
01:01:05.000Who said that he had worked for Biden and said, I think Biden's a moderate.
01:01:09.000The problem is he may be temperamentally a moderate or maybe historic.
01:01:13.000If he's aligned with this kind of stuff, then he ain't a moderate.
01:01:16.000He is on the far left and he is a disaster for this country.
01:01:20.000And you only have one choice, which is to be, don't call me far right, call me traditional and sensible and on the side of truth, which would be, I don't know.
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01:02:50.000We're going to go on to Mug Club here in a little bit.
01:02:52.000Before we get to what you just said, which I agree with, but you know that's not going to happen.
01:02:57.000I have had a call out to anyone, any actual representative, member of the Teachers Union, because their policy forbids them from supporting this, any member of the Democratic Party who opposes this policy, anyone who actually carries some weight as a legislative official or representative, I don't care if it's the ADF, whatever it is, or the ADL, or what's the other one, Southern Poverty Law Center, anyone who actually in an official capacity opposes School vouchers.
01:03:28.000I've never heard an argument against it.
01:03:31.000I've never expressed it to anyone who, once they've understood it, has been against it.
01:03:35.000We did white and black and the gray issues, right?
01:03:39.000Black and white and the gray issues with this one lady, black lady and her daughter.
01:03:43.000Who immediately went to every single trope they could imagine.
01:03:50.000The nuclear family is white supremacy.
01:03:53.000And even they, when I said, well, what about school vouchers?
01:03:57.000And I said, before we change anything else, before we go to dismembering the Department of Education, before we go to charter schools, just make it so that the average per-pupil spending is attached to the student.
01:04:10.000And if you're willing to drive or use your bicycle, Or take a municipal bus.
01:04:15.000You can take that number, that money, to any school you want.
01:04:19.000That's the only, just that, as the first change.
01:04:22.000Rather than money goes to the school, you go to the school.
01:05:10.000They were far better than the United States.
01:05:13.000Still a far cry from private schools or charter schools.
01:05:15.000It was so foreign to me when I came to the States and I said, wait a second, when I was looking at houses, what does that mean that they say, oh, that's the school in your district?
01:05:22.000I go, you mean one of, they said, no, that's your school.
01:05:29.000That's a uniquely American, for the shining city on a hill, That is a uniquely American stain in our history and it is not being changed because of Special Interest Group today.
01:05:42.000And by the way, what's the ProtonMail?
01:05:44.000Maybe we can have them reach out just like the LWC Tips at ProtonMail.
01:05:49.000One legislative official, or let's say a member of a think tank as it relates to education, who can lay out the case for why a school voucher program Would be a bad thing.
01:07:04.000The problem with school vouchers is the people that can afford to get on a bus, a bicycle or in a car.
01:07:10.000And go to that school, would go to those good schools, and those schools would compete for those dollars and get better, and then the kids that couldn't afford to, it's exactly the same argument they make for the lack of an ID for voting, or for example, why a lot of times they should have voting on a different day because people have to work, and they can't, etc, etc.
01:07:31.000It doesn't hold water, but I understand the argument.
01:07:50.000You're still spending $32,000 per people.
01:07:52.000I'm talking about before scaling back a dime, just make it so they have The choice, and I know, and yes, they'll say that, but guess what?
01:07:59.000It still doesn't change the fact that they're no worse off!
01:08:05.000Right now, if they do have a parent, or they do have the ability to get onto a bus ticket, or get on a tandem bicycle, guess what?
01:08:11.000They still have to go to that shitty school!
01:08:13.000So if you're saying that some people have such awful parents, have no bicycle, have no friends who will carpool with them, have no ability to ride a bus, and so, and so, okay, and so, and what happens?
01:08:23.000Well, they'd end up at the exact same school where they're forced to go now!
01:08:27.000Yeah, no, my point is it shines, what it would do is it would shine a light on really bad schools, and parents would not put up with it, and it would end the public education system.
01:08:37.000They don't say it ends the public education system.
01:08:40.000They would say it's not fair because it would pull money out of the public education system.
01:10:00.000I did do another school, they're just not big enough.
01:10:04.000By the way, you might want to go to a doctor and get this checked out.
01:10:09.000Now, let's say the person has to drive a little further.
01:10:12.000Alright, they have to drive a little further.
01:10:13.000The argument is, but if they don't have parents with the car, or if they don't have an ability to take a bus, or... Okay, so the assumption is this school will take all of this school's money.
01:10:22.000Or do you think the more likely scenario is so that this school avoids being shut down for the first time?
01:10:29.000In the history of this school, they might actually start trying to provide better schooling.
01:10:34.000And even if it's not as good as school number 2, 3, or 4, guess what?
01:10:50.000Still taxpayer-funded, you and your property taxes, assuming that you still believe in them and that we can't have actually privatized school.
01:10:55.000There is no scenario in which anything gets worse.
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