Comedian Josh Feierstein joins Jemele to talk about a story about a chubby boy who refused to have any soup and died the next day. Plus, the best undercover sting of all time, and why you don t want to miss it.
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00:09:42.000Listen, if you are competent, you are not concerned.
00:09:45.000When I walk into Congress every single day, you know why I don't feel a way and why you can't make me doubt who I am?
00:09:51.000It's because I know that I had to work 10 times as hard as they did just to get into the seat.
00:09:56.000When you look and you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison.
00:10:02.000And that is the life that we have always lived.
00:10:05.000So the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so much harder.
00:10:13.000This is why they don't want us to have education.
00:10:16.000Well, I know it's hard to see through your lenses of racism and you're so nearsighted.
00:10:23.000Maybe those mediocre white boys didn't grow up in the lap of privilege, like going to a $20,000 per year private school, then a $55,000 a year Rhodes University in Tennessee, getting your law degree from university.
00:10:35.000And basically getting a million dollars for your first campaign from Sam Bankman Freed.
00:10:41.000This whole act of hers, the mediocre white boys and the struggle that I have had this entire time where I didn't go to the 30k a year private school.
00:13:22.000We want to use our money right here in Washington, D.C., in this country.
00:13:28.000We cannot allow Elon Musk and a small group of people to secretly, behind closed doors, take away our privacy, take away our dollars, take away everything we have.
00:14:20.000Freedom of speech they now care about.
00:14:22.000Not when you were jailing Americans without due process.
00:14:25.000violating Americans' privacy, whether it's data mining or the Patriot Act, all of which the left has supported, until they claim that they oppose.
00:14:32.000And just to be clear, these people are really, really, really mad that tax dollars could be used to audit the professional auditing agencies.
00:15:37.000How about the entitlement of knowing that there's half a trillion dollars a year in fraud, having done nothing about it, and feeling as though you have the right to never do anything about it?
00:18:03.000USAID closes down, all this, like, government funding stuff stops happening, and immediately, Politico has a technical glitch with payroll for the first time ever?
00:18:22.000I mean, 8 million seems like a lot of dollars.
00:18:24.000I know, that's a rounding error to those in the federal government, but let's move on to the next one.
00:18:28.000And I'm happy about this because remember I said this with Carrie Lake, with Donald Trump Jr., I believe Marco Rubio, with Rand Paul, Vivek.
00:18:37.000Any candidate who does not promise to completely disband or at the very least at a foundational level restructure our intelligence agencies, our three-letter agencies, is someone I cannot vote for.
00:18:49.000So that for a very long time, that was a closed-handed issue for me.
00:18:54.000We're seeing that, and right now, President Trump just offered to buy out the CIA. All of it.
00:19:14.000So far, just to give you an idea, 20,000, this doesn't include the CIA, 20,000 federal employees accepted buyouts from Donald Trump's first offer.
00:21:12.000Isn't it crazy to think of how many more employees there were involved than people actually brought up on any type of charges on January 6th?
00:21:20.000That's like, how many employees, can we do the math?
00:22:02.000And by the way, the FBI, you know, these agencies who love spying on you and love, by the way, operating in the dark and violating your fundamental privacy rights.
00:22:11.000your right as a citizen, a law-abiding citizen to privacy, they're actually now suing to prevent the information from being released, and they are whining about how their privacy rights are now being infringed upon.
00:22:24.000Professional pussy whining about it on CNN. Thousands of agents who did nothing other than respond to the orders of their supervisors and of people at headquarters who likely sent them leads to the field offices where they work to conduct some investigative activity and maybe even execute a lawful search warrant or arrest warrant signed by a federal judge.
00:22:46.000So the idea that these people are essentially being virtually rounded up now, submitted, being demanded to fill out what I'm told is a 12 question survey, which is mostly yes or no answers, identify themselves as people who are, who may be targeted for identify themselves as people who are, who may be targeted for some sort of retribution or It's absolutely disgraceful.
00:25:35.000And believe me, it's not lost on me, egg on my face.
00:25:38.000I was not a fan of Donald Trump in the 2016 primaries, and I was holding my nose in that election because I thought he was a lifelong Democrat.
00:25:44.000I liked his first term on most things.
00:25:47.000This is a whole new beast right now, this first term.
00:25:50.000And I honestly, you know what, I think, and I always hate to think this way because you always want to prevent damage before it takes place.
00:25:59.000I don't think this could have happened without the four years of Biden.
00:26:02.000I think he needed, President Trump needed those four years to simmer in rage, and he was basically radicalized by the left.
00:26:11.000As the left sees it, radicalized, you know, believing in your...
00:26:28.000With Biden, that also changes the legacy of Barack Obama.
00:26:31.000I've noticed a lot of people who are younger going back and saying, you know, I got all swept up in the hope and change, but after Biden, it forced me to take a second look at the Obama legacy.
00:26:55.000I don't think you need to feel guilty.
00:26:56.000It doesn't mean that I ever wanted Biden to win, but I think if Donald Trump had been, well, if he had won that last election, I think he would have governed from the center, center-right, sometimes center-left, and kind of gradually...
00:27:10.000Really just served out his last years.
00:27:12.000Now this is a guy coming in with a purpose.
00:27:14.000I don't think we've ever had it in our lifetime, and I don't know that we'll ever see it again.
00:27:17.000This could be the most consequential presidential administration.
00:29:28.000You also said things like, I'll eat your pussy, and like, sucking cock in 69, like, I would've tried to say, listen, you're doing the wrong thing, and go back to school, stay in school, stuff like that.
00:32:27.000He tried to leave, and he's like, God, just maybe we'll walk back over here, and I'll talk more about how you tried to meet up to have sex with a minor on camera.
00:35:08.000It's American-made, prevents unintended access to your firearms, but it's mechanical.
00:35:12.000It doesn't use batteries, so you don't have to do a biometric safe or combo at four in the morning with gang rapists standing at the end of your master bedroom.
00:36:30.000You're like, well, I have to leave it open.
00:36:32.000Yeah, I have to leave it open, so I have to put it up on a shelf and a whole thing, and then I wrap it in saran wrap, and then I just can't access it.
00:39:01.000But, Tuesday, back to the policy, Donald Trump met with Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu, and he made this pretty wild statement regarding Gaza.
00:39:13.000The only reason the Palestinians want to go back to Gaza is they have no alternative.
00:39:35.000A beautiful area with homes and safety and they can live out their lives in peace and harmony instead of having to go back and do it again.
00:39:43.000The US will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it too.
00:39:48.000We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site.
00:39:55.000Level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings.
00:42:10.000And then I thought, well, there could be some pros.
00:42:13.000I mean, the first pro is it could be argued to provide a legitimate foothold for the United States in that region, which is kind of important.
00:42:22.000It's nice to be closer to home whenever things go down.
00:45:56.000You're telling me that some hill over here because people 100 years ago, 500 years ago, lived there that are your relatives and that's why you want to stay there?
00:47:04.000But if there's some really convincing data, economic data, that it could be a net gain and would check all the boxes, I'd be open to hearing it.
00:48:07.000Now, for context as to what's gone on over there the last couple years, you all know that I have been remarkably consistent as it relates to wars, being supportive of legitimate wars that are obviously...
00:48:19.000Where the American interest is at stake and, of course, opposing wars that don't actually involve.
00:50:04.000Actually, I think we have a three and three on Helen Keller.
00:50:05.000But let's move from Gaza to something that we can actually control here in the United States.
00:50:10.000And I think that should primarily be the focus of this administration, improving lives for Americans in ways that are rightfully under the purview of the American federal government.
00:50:33.000I believe it is completely irrational.
00:50:37.000In a logically untenable situation to look at our Department of Education and to advocate more resources being put into it.
00:50:49.000If you are results-oriented in any way, if people say you have to look at the empirical, you have to look at the data, there is no case that can be legitimately made to argue for the Department of Education as it currently exists.
00:51:02.000And yesterday, President Trump pledged to work with Congress and teachers' unions To try and close the Department of Education.
00:51:09.000And on the Education Department, why nominate Linda McMahon to be the Education Department Secretary if you're going to get rid of the Education Department?
00:51:18.000Because I told Linda, Linda, I hope you do a great job and put yourself out of a job.
00:51:23.000I want her to put herself out of a job.
00:52:27.000It's three key facts in three minutes or less.
00:52:30.000Anywhere podcasts are available, you can go to threekeyfacts.com so that you can peruse all of the references.
00:52:36.000It's a place to start on some key issues.
00:52:39.000So I'm just going to, I guess, in video form, present that, and then we'll expound upon it because we have a longer show here.
00:52:46.000So key fact number one is the create...
00:52:49.000The creation of the Department of Education.
00:52:51.000So the Federal Department of Education, as we know it today, was created in 1979 under Jimmy Carter, significantly increased the federal government's role in funding public education.
00:53:00.000So prior to the Federal Department of Education, the federal government largely played an advisory role, while the funding for public education, it came almost entirely from state and local governments.
00:53:42.000So, as a matter of fact, just so you know, today, because you'll see these stickers out there when, you know, school, when the Air Force has to host bake sales for their bombers and schools get the funding, okay, over $2 trillion.
00:53:53.000Today, the Department of Education's discretionary budget is the third largest of the federal government.
00:53:58.000The only ones that are larger, Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services.
00:54:03.000You have the founding, you have the amount of money, which is insane, that brings us to the results.
00:54:10.000Even after the trillions of dollars in federal funding, the results, the standardized results of students have remained almost entirely unchanged since 1979 when the department was founded.
00:54:23.000And even worse, there's new data emerging that today shows a negative trend with standardized math scores at their lowest since 1990, reading scores at their lowest since 2004. That's three and three, three key facts in three minutes or less.
00:54:47.000There's the party switch myth, three minutes, abortion, taxes, immigration, the assassination attempt on President Trump, the gender wage gap.
00:54:55.000You can go and download those wherever audio podcasts exist.
00:55:22.000Supreme Court wrote, Though education is one of the most important services performed by the state, it is not within the limited category of rights recognized by this court as guaranteed by the federal constitution.
00:55:36.000And by the way, each and every one of the 50 state constitutions establish some kind of public education system.
00:55:42.000So again, before the trillions of dollars, your parents still had access to public school, and the results were better.
00:56:54.000You look at the students, the teacher populations.
00:56:57.000You look at the student-to-teacher ratios.
00:56:59.000These aren't good, but if you look at other private schools, for example, in New York, Catholic schools, they have a larger student-per-teacher ratio, more students-per-teacher, and they perform better.
00:57:09.000The school district administrations in general, they grew about 87%.
00:57:14.000Even though there's only 9% student growth.
00:57:17.000Yes, 9% student growth, but way larger administrative growth in the school library porn sections grew by 69%.
00:57:24.00079% of school districts with more than 100,000 students have a chief diversity officer.
00:57:33.000The other 21% are in black neighborhoods.
00:57:37.000Now, this is where you're looking at the fraud because you can't really put a number on the DEI propaganda and social engineering until you do some digging, then you can put a number on it.
00:57:47.000And you can certainly look at the system and say, well, this system is broken.
00:57:51.000And part of the foundation right now of this system is we've gone away from merit-based.
00:57:57.000We've gone to DEI. We've gone to identity politics.
00:58:00.000Any way that you slice it, and this is where you can have Mark Cuban come on and say, actually, diversity makes us better.
00:58:22.000Where when faced with irrefutable evidence, this is one of those subjects, there is no argument to be made that the Department of Education has improved education at all.
00:58:32.000They still say, more money please, more money please.
00:58:34.000Let's go to the performance, by the way, to get a little more granular.
00:58:38.000Since the founding of the DOE, standardized test scores, they haven't gotten better, like I told you.
00:58:43.000Math, lowest since 1990. Reading is the lowest since 2004. And so, wait, if the DOE is the third largest budget, and we spent two trillion math tests, it sucks.
00:59:58.000You know, like they do in India, where they have people come in, take their tests and degree mills so they can get an H-1B. 2023, Maryland received $350 million from the Department of Education.
01:00:57.000I didn't realize that in the United States, you had to go to one public school because we were allowed to go to any school if we were able to get on a bus or our parents would drive us.
01:01:20.000If anyone can make the case as to why American students, why the United States is better off with the current Department of Education as it exists, please reach out.
01:01:46.000Bureaucracy, it's going to slow things down, it's going to cost money, and it's also a one-size-fits-all solution.
01:01:51.000And that's not going to work in these communities in different states across the country.
01:01:55.000There are different needs in different districts, and a state can address that a lot better than a federal program.
01:02:00.000By the way, certain states kind of lead the way in this anyway, Texas being one of those states.
01:02:04.000Second thing is, you should be able to spend your dollars, your tax dollars in Texas through property taxes that go to funding the schools, you should be able to spend those dollars as a student wherever you want to go.
01:02:14.000And by the way, Don't tell me that's just going to benefit the white communities and people that have privilege.
01:02:19.000No, it's going to benefit people that are stuck at one of those 32 high schools in Illinois that can't pass the reading test or the 67 that can't pass the math test.
01:02:28.000Or maybe it's the 40% of people in Baltimore that can't pass the state proficiency test in math.
01:02:36.000You can get out of those places, not just be, well, you live here, so you've got to go to that school.
01:02:43.000If you're in a poor neighborhood, you've got a poor school.
01:02:45.000A lot of places, property taxes or taxes are levied for their school system, so if you can have the choice to take the same amount of money and go to a different school, wouldn't that be better for a minority?
01:02:56.000I mean, I'm just looking at it economically, but that's how it ends up being usually.
01:03:00.000It also makes it really clear to me, you know, you've seen it with the left in engineering as far as gender relationships and trying to say that men and women are the same and interchangeable.
01:03:09.000This really makes sense when you think about the fact that our government, our media, our entertainment industry has constantly vilified those in business.
01:05:09.000Just like we've never had more access to healthy food and information regarding healthy habits, exercise, eating, sleeping, and we're fatter with a lower life expectancy.
01:05:30.000Hey, our approach to health is not working.
01:05:34.000The only way you can make the case for the current Democrat Party and progressivism is if you believe that change is evil and that more money solves the problem.
01:05:46.000You have to start with that as the premise for how you approach any problem.
01:06:01.000And I think you're going to see the pendulum swing more in the direction of the right, because people know that our educational system is broken.
01:06:08.000People know that our healthcare system is broken.
01:06:10.000People have bitched for a very long time, said, hey, no one does anything about it.