The Charlie Kirk Show - March 30, 2022


DeSantis Vs. Disney


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Ron DeSantis, former Florida Governor and current presidential candidate, talks about what it means to be courageous and why it s so hard to find it in our society. He also talks about the virtue that is seemingly absent in today s society: courage.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, what is courage?
00:00:02.000 Courage is hard to find.
00:00:03.000 It's increasingly rare in our society, but Ron DeSantis from Florida, he's courageous.
00:00:08.000 We go through that one man who embodies what it means to be courageous.
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00:02:06.000 What is the virtue that touches all the other virtues?
00:02:12.000 What is the virtue that is seemingly absent and is so hard to find in today's time?
00:02:20.000 So if you list the virtues, according to Aristotle, they have a hierarchy.
00:02:25.000 If you list the virtues, they, in some ways, are separate, but others touch each other.
00:02:34.000 So Aristotle would say the virtues would be that of benevolence, spiritedness, friendliness, wittiness, truthfulness, being generous, temperate.
00:02:45.000 But the virtue that Aristotle said is the ultimate virtue because it touches all the others.
00:02:50.000 It's the first virtue is courage.
00:02:53.000 So what is courage?
00:02:55.000 Well, courage is doing the right thing, knowing your ends, knowing what you want, even though you do not know how it is going to work out.
00:03:03.000 Courage is the right disposition towards pain.
00:03:07.000 Courage, as George S. Patton would say multiple times, is the most necessary yet absent characteristic in men.
00:03:15.000 Now, in order to be courageous, you must have a good end in mind.
00:03:19.000 If you don't have a good end, then your actions are actually not courageous. 0.99
00:03:22.000 They're foolish. 0.98
00:03:24.000 So, for example, the warriors fighting for Vladimir Putin, they might exhibit something that would be categorized by the Russian government as courageous, but we would say it's foolish. 1.00
00:03:36.000 You're fighting for a foolish cause. 0.98
00:03:37.000 You're invading a sovereign country for land and for treasure. 0.99
00:03:42.000 That's not courage.
00:03:43.000 In order to have something be courageous, it's not just having the right disposition towards pain.
00:03:50.000 It's not just doing the thing that needs to be done when you don't know how it's going to work out, but you must have the proper end in mind.
00:03:58.000 You must be fighting for the good.
00:03:59.000 It is a vivid virtue.
00:04:02.000 It is both a thinking and doing virtue.
00:04:05.000 In the Nicomedemian ethics, Aristotle would say that courage is so absent that when you see it, it is an act of beauty, that which is perfected in being.
00:04:19.000 Courage is hard to come by right now in America, but when we see it, we almost stop in awe.
00:04:25.000 We point.
00:04:26.000 When we see a mom show up at a school board meeting fighting for her kids' curriculum against CRT, we stand and we point and we say, we like that.
00:04:35.000 When we see truckers in Canada driving into Ottawa knowing that their entire livelihoods will be taken from them, we stand and we point, we say, we like that.
00:04:45.000 You see, courage has become a spectacle because it is so rare, it's hard to find.
00:04:50.000 Plato would say about courage, courage is knowing what not to fear.
00:04:56.000 Not that you shouldn't be afraid, but it's knowing what not to fear.
00:05:02.000 As there is this lack of courage in America and it seems to be spreading almost a pathogen of cowardice, when we see courage in the Republican Party, we should stop, we should platform it, we should talk about why it's there,
00:05:18.000 why this person is seemingly unafraid of the things that are thrown at him, why other people in similar positions don't act the way that this person acts, and we should teach others why he is being courageous, because it's not that he's just standing up to the mob.
00:05:36.000 It's not that this person is not just standing up to the most powerful forces, both in the media and the cultural space, in the movie-making space.
00:05:43.000 It's that he has a good end.
00:05:45.000 He's fighting for something that is virtuous, that is beautiful.
00:05:50.000 I'm, of course, talking about Governor Ron DeSantis.
00:05:55.000 Now, Governor Ron DeSantis is a courageous leader.
00:05:58.000 Now, mind you, courage is a lot easier when you have your priorities and your values properly aligned in the rightful hierarchy.
00:06:06.000 We as Christians believe there is a hierarchy to virtue and value.
00:06:10.000 For example, if faith is the most important thing in your life, you can more easily make the right choice when you know it may have a financial implication, that making money might not actually be the ultimate value.
00:06:22.000 We do not believe it's the ultimate value on this program.
00:06:26.000 Nor does Ron DeSantis.
00:06:29.000 Ron DeSantis does not believe power or political popularity is the highest value.
00:06:34.000 In the hierarchy of good, in the view of Ron DeSantis, decisive action, despite the backlash that will be received, is protecting children is at the top of the hierarchy of what a person in political power needs to do.
00:06:50.000 Even the most extreme, small government, minarchist, anarchist, libertarian can agree that the role of government would be first and foremost to protect those that cannot protect themselves, protecting children.
00:07:02.000 This is not a controversial statement.
00:07:03.000 Protecting the innocence of children is not just good for the children themselves.
00:07:07.000 It's necessary for a civilization.
00:07:10.000 It's necessary for a society.
00:07:12.000 A nation cannot continue if the innocence of children is continually tampered with.
00:07:18.000 If five, six, and seven-year-olds are learning things that 15, 16, and 17-year-olds shouldn't really be learning, then the entire social fabric will fall apart.
00:07:26.000 And tyranny will be the only default setting for a generation's innocence who is lost because they're going to try to default.
00:07:34.000 The default setting will be to somebody that could tell them what to do.
00:07:37.000 When innocence is lost, it creates a widespread moral chaos.
00:07:43.000 It creates a country that is in a state of confusion, hysteria.
00:07:51.000 Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, had a choice to make.
00:07:54.000 Now, mind you, I've spent a lot of time in Florida.
00:07:56.000 Was formerly a resident of Florida before I came here to Arizona.
00:08:01.000 Every state kind of has a lobby that the entrenched political class is afraid of confronting.
00:08:09.000 I'll be going to Arkansas.
00:08:11.000 Actually, I fly into Arkansas.
00:08:13.000 When do I get in there?
00:08:14.000 Well, tomorrow.
00:08:15.000 When I get into Arkansas, when you land in Arkansas, it's well known that you could do whatever you want to do politically, but you do not cross Walmart.
00:08:25.000 That all roads to political power in Arkansas go through Bentonville.
00:08:30.000 That the multi-billion megaplex will control public policy all throughout Walmart, all throughout Arkansas.
00:08:40.000 That is what works in Arkansas.
00:08:41.000 Every state has a couple employers like that.
00:08:44.000 Every state has a couple of companies that basically run the whole state.
00:08:48.000 In Washington, it's Amazon and Microsoft.
00:08:51.000 In California, it's Facebook and Google.
00:08:54.000 Every state has a couple massive companies where you just kind of back off and say, all right, I'm not going to sign that bill.
00:09:00.000 I'm going to do whatever is necessary.
00:09:04.000 Well, in Florida, that company is Disney.
00:09:07.000 Not just because of the multimedia component, but of course, Disney World, which basically runs Orlando.
00:09:15.000 Now, Ron DeSantis stared Disney down, one of the largest employers, one of the most powerful special interests in the state of Florida, and won.
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00:10:29.000 One of the strategies of the left is to make something that is non-controversial seem controversial so that when even more dramatic reform that would be good for the country actually wants to be pushed forward, they can actually put the fight towards something as non-controversial as the Florida law.
00:10:49.000 So as we talk about courage, we talk about Ron DeSantis, it's important that we dive into the specifics.
00:10:57.000 So Ron DeSantis was given an opportunity.
00:11:00.000 Disney, one of the largest employers in the state of Florida, in fact, I think it is the single largest employer in the state of Florida.
00:11:08.000 We can get a fact check on that, but I believe it is.
00:11:10.000 Came out aggressively.
00:11:12.000 Now, what is it that they came out aggressively?
00:11:14.000 Well, they called it the Don't Say Gay Bill, which of course is Hollywood propaganda.
00:11:20.000 It's not about not saying gay. 1.00
00:11:22.000 It is a parental rights bill and an anti-grooming bill to protect five and six-year-olds from learning about sexual activity with men and men, women and women.
00:11:33.000 And guess what?
00:11:33.000 Men and women.
00:11:34.000 All those topics, according to the bill, are off limits for four, five, and six-year-olds to be learning and to be consuming in public classrooms in Florida.
00:11:47.000 Now, because of that, Disney completely lost its mind.
00:11:50.000 Disney no longer is a media company.
00:11:53.000 Disney is now a Democrat super PAC that owns the rights to Cinderella.
00:12:00.000 Disney is no longer a unique or entrepreneurial or creative company.
00:12:05.000 Disney owns the rights to Hulu and ESPN.
00:12:08.000 Disney owns Disney World.
00:12:09.000 And if you've ever been to Orlando to Disney World, it's one of the most impressive infrastructures you ever go to.
00:12:15.000 It runs like a machine.
00:12:16.000 Tens of thousands of people work at Disney World alone.
00:12:21.000 It basically runs the greater Orlando area.
00:12:24.000 So when they came out against the bill, that was them saying, hey, Ron DeSantis, you don't want to pick a fight with the state's largest employer.
00:12:34.000 Now, again, this is like picking a fight with Coca-Cola in Georgia.
00:12:40.000 It's like picking a fight with Boeing in Chicago.
00:12:44.000 Or it's like picking a fight with Ford Mortar Company, Chrysler, and GM in Detroit.
00:12:49.000 It's like picking a fight with the oil industry in Houston.
00:12:53.000 You just don't do it.
00:12:55.000 You like back off.
00:12:56.000 It's like if the banks came after you as a New York mayor or New York governor, that's the line you don't cross.
00:13:03.000 So when they came out, Bob Chepik, the CEO of Disney, and said he's going to spend all this money and he was threatening Ron DeSantis, Ron DeSantis had every excuse out there to back away.
00:13:16.000 The largest employer in my state, or one of the largest employers in my state, are telling me not to sign the bill.
00:13:24.000 Yep, top employer in Florida.
00:13:25.000 That's right.
00:13:25.000 62,000 employees.
00:13:26.000 Thank you.
00:13:27.000 Walt Disney World.
00:13:28.000 I'm just going to back off.
00:13:30.000 I don't want to crush all these jobs.
00:13:32.000 Instead, Ron DeSantis doubled down.
00:13:35.000 Courage is the most necessary yet absent characteristic in men.
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00:14:54.000 So Ron DeSantis had a choice to make.
00:14:56.000 Either he was going to stand with the voters of his state and the mission and the promise he made to protect children, or he was going to pander to the major corporation, the number one employer in Florida, and all of the alphabet mafia cartel that was pushing against it.
00:15:18.000 Now, this is not an anti-gay bill. 0.50
00:15:21.000 It's not a don't say gay bill anymore.
00:15:23.000 It's an anti-grooming bill.
00:15:26.000 It's against teachers to use their positions of power to communicate extremely radical, graphic, and inappropriate material to five, six, or seven-year-olds.
00:15:40.000 This should not be controversial.
00:15:43.000 This should have been a unanimous support.
00:15:45.000 Disney should be in support of this, actually.
00:15:50.000 Disney is in the business of producing content for children.
00:15:54.000 But according to Disney, they want six-year-olds to know the inner workings of sexual activity between two men.
00:16:02.000 That's Disney's stated position.
00:16:06.000 Now, let's get to the tape here.
00:16:08.000 Let's go to Cut 20, Ron DeSantis at the bill signing ceremony, where he says clearly, I don't care what the corporate media outlets say.
00:16:18.000 I don't care what Hollywood says.
00:16:20.000 I don't care what big corporations say.
00:16:22.000 Here I stand.
00:16:22.000 I'm not backing down.
00:16:25.000 Ron DeSantis is not just bold.
00:16:28.000 Remember, you could be bold for the wrong cause.
00:16:32.000 The warriors of Mao Seitong were bold that they ran into the machine gun fire.
00:16:36.000 The warriors for the Emperor of Imperial Japan were bold on their side of Iwo Jima, but they weren't courageous because their end was not correct.
00:16:48.000 Ron DeSantis is both bold and courageous.
00:16:52.000 His end is to value the innocence of children above corporate donations, above Hollywood approval, and above Disney's liking of him.
00:17:06.000 Play cut 20.
00:17:08.000 And so we will continue to recognize that in the state of Florida, parents have a fundamental role in the education, health care, and well-being of their children.
00:17:19.000 We will not move from that.
00:17:21.000 I don't care what corporate media outlets say.
00:17:25.000 I don't care what Hollywood says.
00:17:27.000 I don't care what big corporations say.
00:17:30.000 Here I stand.
00:17:31.000 I'm not backing down.
00:17:36.000 And we stand with you, Ron DeSantis.
00:17:40.000 We stand with you.
00:17:42.000 As a governor of a major state, a swing state, he had every reason to try to water down the bill.
00:17:49.000 He had every reason to try to send it back to committee and try to have them cut it up and just like, hey, we can't.
00:17:56.000 It's an election year.
00:17:58.000 How many times do you hear from corporate Republicans?
00:18:00.000 It's an election year, okay?
00:18:02.000 We don't want to tick off the voters.
00:18:05.000 We don't want to try to get a little bit of a rumbling of the media.
00:18:09.000 Ron DeSantis couldn't care less.
00:18:13.000 He said, I care more about protecting children than my approval rating, even though his approval rating is going to go up because he's protecting children.
00:18:24.000 Disney came out aggressively again, and they said, quote, Florida's HB 1557, also known as the Don't Say Gay Bill, should never have passed and should never be signed in law.
00:18:35.000 What is that a threat, Disney? 0.94
00:18:36.000 Maybe you're not as powerful as you think you are, you degenerates.
00:18:39.000 Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts.
00:18:44.000 Won't be.
00:18:45.000 And we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that.
00:18:51.000 We are dedicated to standing up for the rights and safety of the LGBTQ members of the Disney family as the LGBTQ community in Florida and across the country.
00:18:59.000 I mean, have you read the bill, Disney?
00:19:02.000 And the answer is no, or maybe they have, but here's the thing: Disney and Bob Chapik, they're held hostage by their gay employees. 0.98
00:19:10.000 It's just that simple. 0.99
00:19:12.000 They are.
00:19:12.000 They're in the creative world.
00:19:14.000 And I'm not accusing them of this, just the way it is.
00:19:16.000 They're in the arts and entertainment, and there's a disproportionate amount of gay people that work in that community.
00:19:22.000 And so they're making a huge mess of it.
00:19:26.000 And so Disney is pandering to their employees because they don't want more employee walkouts.
00:19:30.000 They still need to keep their movie production on time.
00:19:33.000 And they know, I mean, it would basically be like Remington, or it would be like any major ammunition manufacturer basically not coming out against an anti-gun bill.
00:19:47.000 Again, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it.
00:19:48.000 It's the way it is. 0.77
00:19:49.000 Disney has a lot of gay people that work for them. 0.99
00:19:53.000 Now, for whatever reason, these gay people feel really motivated, the employees of Disney, that six-year-olds need to learn about their incredibly graphic sexual activity. 0.98
00:20:04.000 Why that's a concern? 0.95
00:20:05.000 I don't know.
00:20:06.000 It's creepy and it's weird.
00:20:08.000 Now, has Disney put out a statement about the forceful genocide happening in China?
00:20:12.000 They eagerly, eagerly do business in China.
00:20:12.000 Of course not.
00:20:16.000 Now, to give you an idea of how the Hollywood cartel is responding to this, this was during the Academy Awards.
00:20:26.000 I know that we are all worried about the Will Smith-Chris Rock incident. 0.97
00:20:29.000 Here's Amy Schumer, who kind of says she's a disgusting person. 1.00
00:20:34.000 She is. 1.00
00:20:35.000 She's awful. 0.99
00:20:36.000 She talks about like shouting her abortion and all of this. 0.99
00:20:39.000 Not a fan.
00:20:40.000 And of course, Amy Schumer and others intentionally smear the truth to the millions of people that were watching the Oscars.
00:20:49.000 Play cut 29.
00:20:50.000 We're going to have a great night tonight. 0.99
00:20:53.000 And for you people in Florida, we're going to have a gay night. 1.00
00:20:57.000 Gay, gay, gay! 1.00
00:21:02.000 Everyone applauds. 0.99
00:21:03.000 Yay! 0.99
00:21:04.000 The automatic applause of the clamoring cultural class, even though nothing in the bill is around that.
00:21:12.000 Randy Whitgarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, said, quote, Today, Governor DeSantis signed Florida's Don't Say Gay Bill.
00:21:18.000 While the governor's intent is political, the non-political consequences are very real and very damaging.
00:21:25.000 Pause.
00:21:26.000 Can anyone ask these people what the very real and very damaging effects are?
00:21:30.000 No, specifically, she says, quote, this bill hurts children, hurts families, and makes it hard for teachers to do their jobs.
00:21:39.000 It's so Orwellian.
00:21:41.000 It's the opposite of the truth.
00:21:43.000 Hurts children, hurts families, makes it hard for teachers to do their jobs.
00:21:47.000 Have you read the bill?
00:21:48.000 Of course they haven't.
00:21:51.000 Now, I'm going to go to cut.
00:21:53.000 Actually, let me now broaden this.
00:21:55.000 This is why what Ron DeSantis has done is so extraordinary.
00:21:58.000 Not only did he stand up to the largest employer in Florida, but he has now differentiated himself amongst other Republican governors across the country.
00:22:09.000 Now, remember Asa Hutchinson, the governor of Arkansas, very unimpressive corporate shill that calls himself a Republican.
00:22:18.000 Remember when he was arguing that children need to have the right to get chemically castrated in the state of Arkansas?
00:22:25.000 This was largely and was suspected, but never quite proven, but we know it.
00:22:29.000 We know what happens because Walmart started to interfere with the legislative process in Arkansas.
00:22:36.000 Remember, I connected the two.
00:22:38.000 If you're going to oppose a big bill that the big employer in your state, Walmart in Arkansas, Coca-Cola in Georgia, Amazon in Washington, so on and so forth, then you're going to have to experience the wrath of that corporation and most governors back down.
00:22:58.000 Remember this when Arkansas governor defended the veto of the transgender bill, said it was overly broad and extreme.
00:23:04.000 This is what, this is how most Republican governors act.
00:23:07.000 Play cut 31.
00:23:09.000 Well, it's a great concern.
00:23:10.000 And let me emphasize that I would have signed a bill that simply prohibited sex reassignment surgery for those minors.
00:23:19.000 But this went much further than that into restricting hormonal treatment with a parent and the doctor's consent or agreement that that is the right plan.
00:23:30.000 This bill was overbroad.
00:23:32.000 It was extreme.
00:23:33.000 And that's the reason I vetoed it.
00:23:35.000 And even most importantly, it didn't have a grandfather clause.
00:23:39.000 Yeah, right.
00:23:39.000 So he's on MSNBC of all places because he knows that any conservative outlet wouldn't have him.
00:23:45.000 As soon as a Republican, you get embraced by MSNBC and the Washington Post, you should know you're in the wrong.
00:23:51.000 That's just the rules of the new tribal moment we're in.
00:23:53.000 I wish that wasn't the case.
00:23:55.000 Those are the rules.
00:23:56.000 So Asa Hutchinson goes on and says, you know, I really think that 13-year-olds need to be able to get puberty blockers.
00:24:04.000 I think that we as Reagan conservatives need to be.
00:24:08.000 No, okay?
00:24:09.000 And Ron DeSantis doesn't believe that either.
00:24:13.000 And so, but this is the new normal, is that most governors, like the spineless governor of Indiana, Governor Holcomb, vetoed a bill banning transgender people from competing against girls in sports.
00:24:27.000 Governor Holcomb stands with what lobby would actually be the pro-trans lobby?
00:24:34.000 Not just the Alphabet Mafia, but the pharmaceutical companies.
00:24:38.000 Pharmaceutical companies stand to make billions of dollars administering puberty blockers.
00:24:43.000 Where do people get their puberty blockers filled?
00:24:46.000 Oh, sometimes maybe at a Walmart pharmacy in Arkansas.
00:24:50.000 Do you see all that all might be connected?
00:24:53.000 Or how about the Utah governor, Spencer Cox, who recently has come out in the last couple of weeks and he vetoed a bill protecting women's sports and how state Republican lawmakers were able to override his veto.
00:25:07.000 He intentionally defied his voters.
00:25:10.000 So there you have Holcomb, you have Burnham from North Dakota.
00:25:14.000 Governor Burnham does not stand at all with female athletes in North Dakota, typical corporate position. 0.98
00:25:21.000 Asa Hutchinson, Governor Holcomb.
00:25:24.000 How many of these Republican governors continually defy their voters?
00:25:28.000 Answer a lot.
00:25:29.000 Play cut 21.
00:25:31.000 Now to the state of Utah enacting an anti-trans sports ban after lawmakers voted to override the governor's veto.
00:25:38.000 GOP lawmakers in Utah yesterday pushed through new legislation that bans transgender athletes from playing on girls' teams, overriding a veto from the governor.
00:25:48.000 I just love how they say it's anti-trans.
00:25:50.000 No, no, no.
00:25:50.000 Actually, it's just pro-children, pro-women.
00:25:54.000 And so here you have Spencer Cox, you have Asa Hutchinson, you have Doug Burnham, you have Holcomb, four Republican governors.
00:26:01.000 And guess what?
00:26:02.000 What do Arkansas, North Dakota, Indiana, and Utah all have in common?
00:26:07.000 We can get the Jeopardy music going.
00:26:09.000 They're all more Republican than Florida.
00:26:12.000 A lot more, actually.
00:26:15.000 Arkansas, Indiana, North Dakota, and Utah are states where I'm just guessing, we can get it fact-checked, that on average, Trump won by 15 to 20 points.
00:26:24.000 North Dakota, Utah, Indiana, and Arkansas are some of the deepest red states in the country.
00:26:30.000 And yet Ron DeSantis, in a state where fact has more registered Democrats than Republicans, signs a bill that Asa Hutchinson, Holcomb, Burnham, and Spencer Cox wouldn't get near in touch.
00:26:42.000 Now, they're separate bills, but they're all in the same sort of family of bills.
00:26:46.000 They're all in the similar category.
00:26:48.000 Why is that?
00:26:49.000 Because Ron DeSantis has a spine.
00:26:52.000 Ron DeSantis has another piece of anatomy that I won't say on radio, but you could fill it in.
00:26:58.000 The type of anatomy that Asa Hutchinson wants kids to be able to remove.
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00:27:59.000 It really does come down to: are you willing to embrace the machine gun fire coming from the media towards a virtuous and moral end?
00:28:11.000 For Governor Holcomb of Indiana, the answer is no.
00:28:14.000 For Governor Bergnam of North Dakota, the answer is no.
00:28:17.000 For Governor Cox in Utah, the answer is no.
00:28:20.000 For Governor Hutchinson in Arkansas, the answer is no.
00:28:24.000 For Ron DeSantis, the answer is yes.
00:28:26.000 In a battleground state, in an election year, Ron DeSantis holds the line and says, I don't care.
00:28:34.000 I am here.
00:28:35.000 Basically, here's what he's saying.
00:28:36.000 And it's a beautiful thing to hear because there's a spiritual component to this, which is I am elevating what is good over what feels good.
00:28:45.000 I am elevating what is right for my voters over for what might give me comfort and pleasure.
00:28:52.000 The Washington Post has come out with a lengthy defense of Spencer Cox from Utah.
00:28:59.000 Washington Post comes out and says, on transgender kids and sports, Spencer Cox puts the whole GOP to shame.
00:29:05.000 See, the Washington Post has great things to say about Spencer Cox in Utah.
00:29:11.000 And what does the media say about Ron DeSantis out yesterday?
00:29:16.000 How Ron DeSantis is emulating Vladimir Putin.
00:29:20.000 So teachers are starting to speak out in Florida.
00:29:24.000 This super creepy teacher.
00:29:27.000 Someone's got to keep eyes on this person.
00:29:30.000 Really weird.
00:29:31.000 Shouldn't be allowed to teach if this is how they're thinking.
00:29:34.000 Quote, really upset that this teacher can't discuss his gay love life with kindergartners. 0.91
00:29:42.000 It's so unbelievable.
00:29:43.000 You have to laugh while I do this.
00:29:44.000 Just play cut 32.
00:29:46.000 Yeah, you know, it's twofold.
00:29:48.000 It really hits hard in my heart professionally and personally, both.
00:29:53.000 Professionally, it truly makes me feel like I am not trusted as a professional.
00:30:01.000 That's what we do as educators.
00:30:02.000 We build relationships with our kids.
00:30:04.000 And in order to build relationships, you talk about your home life.
00:30:07.000 You talk about what you do on the weekends.
00:30:09.000 That's building community.
00:30:11.000 It scares me to death that I am not going to be able to have these conversations with my children because they're going to ask me what I did on the weekend.
00:30:19.000 I don't want to have to hide that my partner and I went paddleboarding this weekend.
00:30:23.000 Wait, hold on.
00:30:23.000 He said, my children?
00:30:25.000 They're not your children, actually, weirdo creep. 0.91
00:30:28.000 You're a kindergarten teacher. 0.65
00:30:30.000 Teach them phonics.
00:30:34.000 What were you doing before this bill, exactly, you creep? 0.98
00:30:38.000 Oh, yeah, I was paddleboarding through the Miami Bay shirtless with my gay lover. 0.97
00:30:44.000 Like, actually, you shouldn't be talking to kindergarteners about it. 0.99
00:30:46.000 You're proving the point why we need this bill, you weirdo. 0.81
00:30:50.000 No, we're going to build relationships with you. 0.75
00:30:52.000 Actually, you shouldn't be in your children if that's the way you're talking.
00:30:56.000 Like, okay, you're college. 0.99
00:30:57.000 You can go talk to college kids about your gay love life all day long. 0.88
00:31:00.000 Yeah, I don't want kindergartners around that, and you shouldn't either. 0.93
00:31:03.000 Like phonics, math, physics, they're not your children.
00:31:08.000 They're not.
00:31:10.000 Ron DeSantis had a perfect response.
00:31:13.000 This is how every Republican should act.
00:31:15.000 Courage, courage, courage.
00:31:17.000 Play cut 30.
00:31:20.000 There's even people in Hollywood that are opposed to providing protections for parents and enforcing parents' rights.
00:31:28.000 One thing I'll say about that is: if the people who held up degenerates like Harvey Weinstein up as exemplars and as heroes and as all that, if those are the types of people that are opposing us on parents' rights, I wear that like a badge of honor.
00:31:47.000 And you should.
00:31:49.000 In a bill that should not be controversial, now proven by this weirdo on MSNBC who's like really worried his kindergartners won't be clued in to his like gay paddleboarding sessions all over like Melbourne, Florida. 0.62
00:32:03.000 Like, super weird. 0.69
00:32:05.000 Like, yeah, I'm not trusted as a professional.
00:32:07.000 Actually, yeah, I don't trust you at all, actually, after that clip.
00:32:11.000 The media is losing their mind because they lost.
00:32:14.000 That's why they're losing their mind.
00:32:15.000 They don't lose their mind when Spencer Cox runs to the hills and retreats.
00:32:19.000 They don't lose their mind when Asa Hutchinson panters to Walmart.
00:32:21.000 They don't lose their mind when Holcomb retreats in Indiana or Burnham in North Dakota.
00:32:26.000 No, they lose their mind when they lose because they did.
00:32:29.000 Disney, with all their clout and their $250 billion in market cap, Ron DeSantis said, nice try.
00:32:35.000 The people are with me.
00:32:36.000 The Alphabet Mafia tried to do everything they could.
00:32:39.000 Nice try.
00:32:41.000 And by the way, we have tons of gay friends on this program that feel exactly the same way we do.
00:32:45.000 Guy Benson, Rick Rinnell, Dave Rubin, they think this bill is not just good, it's a great bill to protect children.
00:32:53.000 Ron DeSantis is a profile in courage.
00:32:57.000 Most of the Republican Party is a profile in being the Vichy French.
00:33:01.000 If you don't know who that is, look it up.
00:33:06.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
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00:33:15.000 God bless.
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