The Charlie Kirk Show - March 04, 2021


Is Your Baby A Racist? Unpacking Arizona's Insane Education Standards


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The Arizona Board of Education has new guidelines, a toolkit, designed around teaching your child that when they were a baby, they were racist. That is the new Arizona Department of Education Equity Guidelines. We dive into that and so much more.

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00:00:00.000 Is your baby racist? 0.97
00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody. 0.97
00:00:02.000 The Arizona Board of Education has new guidelines, a toolkit designed around teaching your child that when they were a baby, they are racist.
00:00:14.000 That is the new Arizona Department of Education equity guidelines.
00:00:18.000 We dive into that and so much more.
00:00:19.000 And what is happening in Arizona?
00:00:21.000 Why is Arizona becoming a Democrat state?
00:00:23.000 We have an exclusive look of a state we know very well.
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00:01:15.000 Is your baby racist? 0.65
00:01:16.000 Find out. 0.98
00:01:17.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:01:18.000 Here we go.
00:01:19.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:01:21.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
00:01:23.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:01:26.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:01:29.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:01:30.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:01:31.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
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00:01:40.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:01:52.000 This is the Arizona Department of Education.
00:01:56.000 This is not New York.
00:01:57.000 This is not Malibu.
00:01:58.000 This is not Chicago.
00:02:00.000 This is Arizona.
00:02:02.000 Arizona has released a new equity toolkit intended to help families and teachers tackle racism among children.
00:02:10.000 It advises that even babies as young as three months old can show racial prejudice.
00:02:15.000 Their evidence?
00:02:16.000 They look at more faces which match the race of their caregivers.
00:02:23.000 According to the toolkit, by the age of two and half kids use race to determine who their playmates should be, expressions of racial prejudice often peak at ages four and five.
00:02:38.000 It says, by kindergarten, children show that many of the same racial prejudice often peaks at that age. 0.89
00:02:48.000 The toolkit is largely inspired by an activist fool, a racist, Ibram X. Kendi. 0.95
00:02:58.000 You see, we've gotten to a point in our country where we are so decent to one another that there's an incredible supply and demand problem when it comes to racism. 0.96
00:03:12.000 The great Douglas Murray makes this comparison.
00:03:14.000 There's an unbelievable demand to find racism.
00:03:19.000 There's such a limited supply that now your tax dollars in Arizona are going towards teaching teachers and instructors that your three-month-old might be David Duke.
00:03:38.000 That your three-month-year-old child might actually have deep racist, bitter resentment.
00:03:46.000 Now, The chart that Arizona is using, the Arizona Department of Education, which of course is all rooted in critical race theory.
00:03:56.000 This is incredibly flawed, divisive, immoral teaching that the tax dollars of Arizona are going towards, the Arizona Department of Education.
00:04:06.000 It says, at birth, babies look equally at the faces of all races.
00:04:11.000 But at three months, babies look more at the faces that match the race of their caregivers.
00:04:17.000 Kelly et al. 2005.
00:04:20.000 This is the study that they're citing.
00:04:22.000 Which again does not imply racism at all.
00:04:26.000 You're trying to tell me that a three-month-old that is wholly dependent might actually look at the person who is allowing them to continue to survive.
00:04:36.000 Doesn't it exactly scream racial discrimination for me?
00:04:40.000 It continues by saying, by 30 months, most children use race to choose playmates.
00:04:46.000 The guiding principle that the Arizona Department of Education believes in is, quote, young children notice and think about race.
00:04:55.000 Adults often worry that talking about race will encourage racial bias in children, but the opposite is true.
00:05:03.000 Silence about race reinforces racism.
00:05:05.000 By the way, there's no evidence of any of this.
00:05:07.000 This is written by activists for an activistic purpose.
00:05:11.000 This is not scientific.
00:05:14.000 There's no studies.
00:05:15.000 By letting children draw their own conclusions based on what they see, teachers and families can play a powerful role in helping children of all ages develop positive attitudes about race and diversity and skills to promote a more just future, but only if we talk about it.
00:05:30.000 One of my least favorite things, we must have a conversation about race.
00:05:36.000 Actually, no, we shouldn't.
00:05:39.000 You see, one of the methods, strategies, tactics used by the postmodernists, by the people that are teaching your children right now, yes, even in the once conservative state of Arizona, for all my friends listening on AM 960, The Answer of the Patriot, is to hyper-fixate on race.
00:06:03.000 There has not been a group of people that have cared this much about race since the KKK.
00:06:09.000 The people that are teaching your children care more about race than the Ku Klux Klan did.
00:06:16.000 Everything's about race.
00:06:18.000 In fact, the curriculum that children in Arizona Department of School education schools are being taught is they're not too young to talk about race.
00:06:27.000 They want to lead with race.
00:06:28.000 Why?
00:06:30.000 One of the most simple ways to destroy a prosperous country is dividing people in three ways. 0.91
00:06:37.000 Class, gender, and race.
00:06:42.000 So in America, because of a vibrant free market system, it's very hard to divide people based on class.
00:06:49.000 They're trying.
00:06:50.000 There's some legitimacy to some of the economic anxiety happening in our country.
00:06:55.000 But those concerns can be alleviated rather simply through public policy measures.
00:07:00.000 How about on gender?
00:07:01.000 They've tried.
00:07:03.000 Me too.
00:07:04.000 Believe all women.
00:07:07.000 Many of these movements kind of fizzle out as soon as evidence, cross-examination, due process, nuance gets brought into the conversation. 0.99
00:07:17.000 But race, that's the one that the cultural Marxists have focused on.
00:07:22.000 You see, since America abolished slavery, since America was founded on freedom and not on slavery, Thomas Jefferson in his original draft of the Declaration of Independence denounced slavery and blamed King George for it.
00:07:37.000 George Washington said no new slaves in the Northwest Territories.
00:07:40.000 Thomas Jefferson disallowed new slaves from bringing to the United States.
00:07:44.000 Vermont abolished slavery in 1777.
00:07:47.000 America was founded on the abolition of slavery, not immediately, but eventually John Quincy Adams, America's sixth president, was a fierce anti-slavery advocate.
00:07:57.000 And America eventually accomplished that moral good of which every civilization, every country participated in slavery, from the Greeks to the Romans to the Chinese to the British Empire. 0.60
00:08:08.000 On forth, slavery was the norm.
00:08:10.000 America was the exception. 0.58
00:08:12.000 But because we even have that in our history, the people who wish to divide us, the people that want power at all costs, they have realized they've hit a chord that gives them a platform, which is to emphasize endlessly the race struggle in our country.
00:08:30.000 The class struggle failed under Occupy Wall Street. 0.56
00:08:32.000 The gender struggle failed under Me Too. 0.85
00:08:35.000 The race struggle is succeeding.
00:08:38.000 And it's not enough just to say that we should have a country where we don't judge people based on skin color.
00:08:45.000 You see, the people that are putting forward this critical race theory, this curriculum that's being taught in the Arizona Department of Education, saying that your three-month-old might be racist, they're of the belief the only way we can get rid of racism is get rid of the entire system.
00:09:02.000 So instead of trying to create a country that respects people's character, how they act, there is a heavy emphasis on race.
00:09:13.000 Nine years ago, I was in high school, and our high school was very racially diverse. 0.98
00:09:20.000 It was 53% English as a second language, 53% Hispanic, and kids made stupid jokes here and there. 0.95
00:09:26.000 But generally, as a rule, we got along very well. 0.98
00:09:30.000 There was not any need for critical race theory in the curriculum.
00:09:34.000 There was not a need for an abolition of whiteness.
00:09:37.000 By having dialogue, discussion, the correct amount of friendships, life went on, and the idea of race was a non-issue.
00:09:49.000 This was always Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream.
00:09:53.000 He wanted a country where people were looked at based on character, not skin color.
00:10:00.000 So there's a couple different ways to foment the rage necessary to overthrow a system.
00:10:08.000 We have gone through in great detail different successful revolutions of the last 100 years.
00:10:14.000 The Cuban Revolution, the Chinese Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the French Revolution, which predated that.
00:10:19.000 That was more than 100 years ago.
00:10:22.000 However, typically revolutions happen based on class complaints, gender complaints, or race complaints.
00:10:34.000 Over the last decade, there have been many different attempts at trying to incite the rage to justify a permanent power grab.
00:10:46.000 Occupy Wall Street was the first attempt at that.
00:10:48.000 Now, why did Occupy Wall Street fail?
00:10:52.000 Occupy Wall Street failed because America is such a flourishing, vibrant, and strong economic middle class.
00:11:00.000 Now, it's been under attack in recent years.
00:11:03.000 The middle class is struggling.
00:11:05.000 But generally, when you try to persuade tens of millions of people to go overthrow the entire United States financial and banking system, people say, yeah, there might be some things wrong with the system in general, but I at least have some faith that when I work hard and play by the rules, I'm going to see some form of a reward.
00:11:26.000 And then the Me Too movement happened in 2017, 2018 as a way to try to destroy Trump, as a way to try to start a gender war in our country.
00:11:34.000 Interestingly enough, the left doesn't believe in genders at all.
00:11:37.000 They think it's a social construct.
00:11:39.000 And they tried it with Brett Kavanaugh.
00:11:41.000 They tried it with Donald Trump.
00:11:42.000 And the only real successes they've had, I would probably say, is Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and Kevin Spacey, who I don't think anyone would argue as being worthy of defense or protection, considering what they did.
00:11:57.000 Al Franken might be another example of that.
00:12:01.000 You see, but the forces that wish to divide us, almost neo-Marxist forces, having failed starting an economic war, having failed starting a gender war, They now are being incredibly successful, surprisingly successful, starting a racial conflict in our country.
00:12:21.000 Not based on evidence, not based on facts, not based on history, not based on reason or logic, but instead based almost solely on emotionally driven arguments.
00:12:31.000 And my theory on how Arizona and the Arizona Department of Education, the Arizona Department of Education says that your baby is racist.
00:12:42.000 This is in the curriculum in Arizona.
00:12:46.000 The equity toolkit funded by the Arizona taxpayers, critical race theory.
00:12:51.000 The state's supposed to be run by Republicans.
00:12:55.000 So how are the critical race theory activists being so effective?
00:12:59.000 What is their secret?
00:13:01.000 The critical race theory movement preys on the best intentions of decent Americans.
00:13:07.000 No one wants to be called a racist, therefore they're willing to do whatever it takes to not have the R word slapped on them.
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00:14:57.000 Arizona is supposed to be a Republican state.
00:14:59.000 Arizona has a Republican governor, has a Republican attorney general.
00:15:02.000 Why is it that Arizona is acting like Rhode Island?
00:15:09.000 It's not just in one point of policy.
00:15:12.000 It's not just this one piece of Arizona Department of Education.
00:15:16.000 You see, Arizona was a comfortably Republican state run by people who were Democrats calling themselves Republicans, like John McCain and Jeff Flake.
00:15:27.000 But what's happened over the last couple of years is tragic.
00:15:29.000 So we're here in Arizona right now.
00:15:32.000 I left Illinois because of high taxes, corrupt politicians, people that said one thing and did the other.
00:15:38.000 And I came to a state that I thought was a freedom-loving state, a state that had open carry, a state that was trying to eliminate the income tax, a state that had vibrant, robust job and economic growth.
00:15:55.000 But over the last couple of years, I've realized the consequence of having weak Republicans.
00:16:02.000 And I know Governor Ducey.
00:16:03.000 I've met him on many occasions.
00:16:05.000 I think he's a very nice person.
00:16:07.000 And I'll say privately what I would say publicly, I'll say publicly what I'd say privately to him, which is what are we doing in Arizona to actually prove the difference of conservative, courageous leadership versus the typical Democrat governor.
00:16:27.000 According to the New York Times, Arizona is the only Republican state left in the country that is still mixed, closed, and open because of government mandates when it comes to the Chinese coronavirus.
00:16:43.000 With masks, Arizona still sometimes requires masks, whereas most other Republican states have no restrictions. 0.65
00:16:53.000 Why is Arizona acting like this?
00:16:55.000 Arizona legalized marijuana this last year.
00:16:59.000 Arizona raised taxes to be one of the highest in the country through Proposition 208.
00:17:04.000 And in defense of the governor, he opposed that.
00:17:07.000 But what are we doing to actually repeal the income tax in this state?
00:17:11.000 And now the Arizona Department of Education has come out and said that we need to have, not just we need to, we have an equity toolkit.
00:17:20.000 What is going on in the state of Arizona?
00:17:23.000 And we've talked about this in our team.
00:17:25.000 We have our headquarters here.
00:17:28.000 If things don't start to change to Arizona, we will close up shop and go to Florida.
00:17:32.000 It's that simple.
00:17:34.000 We can keep moving.
00:17:35.000 I don't want to do that.
00:17:36.000 It's a cost to that.
00:17:38.000 We are not going to be perpetually tied down in a suburb of California because of weak Republican leadership.
00:17:45.000 I don't want to have that happen.
00:17:48.000 And so now I wake up this morning to do show prep, and there's a lot to talk about.
00:17:54.000 Andrew Cuomo, the George Floyd police reform bill, the voting bill.
00:17:54.000 A lot.
00:18:02.000 But we led with for a reason, this Arizona Department of Education.
00:18:09.000 Now, the Arizona Senate came out yesterday, allegedly in response to this and did something rather milquetoast.
00:18:18.000 They said that we have the Academic Transparency Act, which allows parents to know what's being taught in their kids' classrooms.
00:18:24.000 Really?
00:18:25.000 That's your response to this?
00:18:27.000 How about this?
00:18:27.000 Saying, if you teach critical race theory in any school, you'll be defunded and investigated.
00:18:33.000 How about that?
00:18:35.000 If you teach ideology that is most akin to the KKK dogma and doctrine that race matters, then you'll be defunded.
00:18:45.000 It should be against the law. 0.58
00:18:48.000 But instead, they do the typical Arizona thing or whatever.
00:18:52.000 Weak.
00:18:54.000 Meanwhile, Governor Christy Noam and Governor Ron DeSantis, they're doing everything right.
00:18:59.000 Anti-rioting bills, completely open, no masks, no restrictions, open schools, 0% income tax, both on the business and the personal side.
00:19:09.000 So what is the excuse? 0.71
00:19:12.000 One of the reasons why Arizona is so unbelievably screwed up is because of John McCain and his political machine. 0.97
00:19:22.000 The very corrupt, self-dealing political machine ran the state for quite some time. 0.97
00:19:32.000 And I actually didn't plan to talk about this thing here, this baby racism thing in the Arizona Department of Education.
00:19:40.000 The reason is that I am growing increasingly frustrated.
00:19:47.000 The only difference between Governor Ron DeSantis and the rest of these governors, including in Arizona, is courage.
00:19:54.000 That's it.
00:19:56.000 Ron DeSantis has fully opened his state.
00:19:59.000 And don't give me that Arizona has an elderly population.
00:20:02.000 Florida has the second most elderly population in the country.
00:20:06.000 The virus isn't acting differently in Scottsdale than it is in Sarasota.
00:20:12.000 It's the same virus.
00:20:14.000 The difference is courage.
00:20:16.000 Look, I've known Doug Ducey for a couple years.
00:20:19.000 I think he's a very pleasant person.
00:20:21.000 I do.
00:20:21.000 I'm not going to say anything about him personally, but he's at a crossroads here.
00:20:25.000 He can either be like Ron DeSantis, Abbott, and Christy Noam, or he can continue to go the way of Gretchen Whitmer, Gavin Newsome, and Andrew Cuomo.
00:20:34.000 So now you have critical race theory, high taxes, legalized weed, two Democrat senators.
00:20:39.000 You send your electors to Joe Biden, and people in Arizona, such as myself, I say, timeout.
00:20:44.000 What exactly is the difference between living in Arizona and Colorado?
00:20:49.000 I guess there's a little bit different of living in Arizona versus Sacramento, with the amount of influx of Californians, it's marginal.
00:20:58.000 But here's the opportunity, Governor Ducey.
00:21:02.000 The people of Arizona are with you.
00:21:05.000 Just look at the voter registration numbers.
00:21:06.000 Republicans are outpacing Democrats still.
00:21:08.000 This is a center-right state.
00:21:10.000 Stop governing like this is Vermont or Maryland.
00:21:17.000 The people will celebrate a reopening in Arizona.
00:21:21.000 The people will applaud a denunciation of critical race theory in our schools.
00:21:28.000 Do you know that Arizona, according to voter registration records, is more conservative than Florida?
00:21:35.000 The only difference is the person that occupies the governor's mansion and how they act.
00:21:40.000 That's the only difference.
00:21:42.000 And the thing that we have learned from DeSantis is that when you implement conservative policies and you articulate them, people can actually move in public opinion towards you.
00:21:54.000 But if you live in the fear of repudiation or condemnation from the Arizona Republic or the Arizona Central or the Washington Post or the LA Times, then you're never going to get anything done.
00:22:08.000 People say, why is Arizona slipping to be more Democrat?
00:22:12.000 Because they don't have any example of Republicans doing anything meaningful in this state.
00:22:18.000 That's why.
00:22:19.000 Why is Florida becoming more conservative?
00:22:22.000 Because they're rewarding what's working.
00:22:25.000 That's why.
00:22:27.000 In Arizona, they look around, they say, wait a second.
00:22:29.000 I voted for all these Republicans.
00:22:31.000 My business is closed.
00:22:32.000 My gym is closed.
00:22:33.000 My church is closed.
00:22:34.000 I have to wear a mask when I shower.
00:22:36.000 They raise my taxes.
00:22:38.000 Weed is now legalized.
00:22:41.000 What difference does it make?
00:22:43.000 And DeSantis and Noam prove that when you stand on conservative policies, you get more popular.
00:22:52.000 You stand for nothing.
00:22:53.000 You'll fall for anything.
00:22:54.000 So this is a very big opportunity for the state of Arizona.
00:22:57.000 Arizona is at a critical crossroads.
00:23:00.000 And Greg Abbott, by the way, was going the way of being weak.
00:23:03.000 And now he's adjusted and he's been phenomenal.
00:23:06.000 He's been great on tech.
00:23:07.000 He's been great on immigration.
00:23:08.000 He's been great on openings.
00:23:09.000 He's been great on masks.
00:23:10.000 I want to praise Greg Abbott on this program.
00:23:13.000 And I went after him at a different time.
00:23:15.000 He's been great.
00:23:17.000 But Arizona is now a battleground state.
00:23:20.000 Why is Arizona a battleground state?
00:23:23.000 Well, mainly because Republicans in this state have done a poor job articulating what the heck we stand for.
00:23:30.000 Arizona can either go the way of Nevada or Florida.
00:23:35.000 And by the way, George is in the same place. 0.86
00:23:37.000 Brian Kemp, who's an unbelievably weak, and I don't think he's actually a smart person. 0.79
00:23:42.000 I think Brian Kemp is not a smart person. 0.96
00:23:44.000 I really don't.
00:23:45.000 He might be a nice guy, but he's just not a smart person.
00:23:48.000 I actually think Governor Ducey is smart.
00:23:50.000 He's built a business.
00:23:51.000 He's done a nice job.
00:23:52.000 He's done with that.
00:23:53.000 But Brian Kemp is a lifelong technocrat.
00:23:56.000 Not a smart guy.
00:23:57.000 He might be a good person.
00:23:58.000 I've met him once.
00:23:59.000 He wasn't very nice.
00:24:02.000 But he's also probably one of America's worst governors.
00:24:05.000 I put him up there with J.B. Pritzker and all these others, the way he handled the election.
00:24:09.000 That's another thing.
00:24:10.000 Arizona has this, had one of the most questioned with, interfered with elections, and we get no answer for it.
00:24:17.000 So what I have grown to learn in politics is that leadership gets rewarded.
00:24:23.000 It gets rewarded from the Democrat side.
00:24:24.000 It gets rewarded from the Republican side.
00:24:26.000 People want a clear vision.
00:24:27.000 They want a mission statement.
00:24:29.000 Why you believe what you believe?
00:24:30.000 What are you willing to do for it?
00:24:31.000 And how is it going to benefit my life?
00:24:34.000 And when you don't have leadership, that's when you get stuff like this, which is the Arizona Department of Education has created an equity toolkit claiming that babies show the first signs of racism at three months.
00:24:43.000 I mean, this stuff is, this would be outrageous if it was introduced in Brooklyn, let alone in the great state of Arizona.
00:24:53.000 And so if you're listening to this in any one of these states, and specifically in Arizona, you better make your voice heard to your state legislators.
00:25:00.000 And this bill that they passed that says that the Academic Transparency Act, it is not even close to what we need.
00:25:09.000 Meanwhile, Prop 208 is still in effect, which has some of the highest income tax.
00:25:16.000 You got weed shops opening up all over the place.
00:25:19.000 Somehow, in a bizarre way, you have a mask mandate and open carry.
00:25:22.000 So basically, you're allowed to walk the streets of Scottsdale with an AR-15, but you have to wear a mask.
00:25:30.000 That's a freedom-loving state.
00:25:32.000 You can go get an abortion, but you can't go to your gym.
00:25:36.000 Gyms have partially reopened.
00:25:38.000 If Arizona does not get their act together, we're leaving.
00:25:42.000 It's that simple.
00:25:43.000 My loyalty was to the idea of this state, not to the actual roots or the dirt here.
00:25:49.000 The top income tax went from 4% to 8%.
00:25:52.000 Like that.
00:25:53.000 Why?
00:25:54.000 No leadership.
00:25:56.000 So for Governor Ducey and for all of the leaders of this state, it's a great opportunity.
00:26:03.000 You squander it, this becomes a suburb of California.
00:26:06.000 You lean in and do the right thing.
00:26:08.000 This will become Florida.
00:26:10.000 The decision is yours.
00:26:14.000 Everybody's mother says, go eat your vegetables.
00:26:16.000 And even as adults, we still have excuses why we don't eat them.
00:26:19.000 They taste awful.
00:26:20.000 It takes too much to prepare.
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00:27:28.000 The lockdowns will go down as one of the worst decisions in American history and world history.
00:27:34.000 The lockdown was never necessary.
00:27:36.000 To forcibly put people in their homes was an act of immature policy and politicians that did not trust their citizens and were afraid of bad headlines.
00:27:47.000 There was no epidemiological or scientific reason for mandated lockdowns.
00:27:51.000 As I have said many times, if you are over the age of 60 and you have certain pre-existing conditions, then use the liberty that you already have afforded to you to not leave your home and you will be taken care of. 0.98
00:28:02.000 Instead, the decision to lock down our country was reckless and foolish.
00:28:07.000 I understand maybe the first week or the second week when we were understanding what we were dealing with, but as soon as the princess cruise ship came through, as soon as we saw the virus, infection rates and death rates, the country should have fully opened.
00:28:18.000 Maybe mass events should have been scaled down a little bit temporarily, but we would never have hit the economic disaster we did.
00:28:26.000 We never would have had to create $4 to $5 trillion on top of our $4 trillion budget every single year.
00:28:33.000 And so much of this pain would have been avoidable.
00:28:35.000 Our focus always should have been on therapeutics, on prophylactics, things that have proven to work scientifically, taking the right amounts of vitamin D and zinc, going outside, getting exercise, hydrating yourself.
00:28:51.000 And then if you get the virus, pursuing innovations such as Regeneron, blood transfusions, and yes, even the thing you're not allowed to talk about, hydroxychloroquine, which worked for many people that I know in my life that had the virus and it worked very well.
00:29:13.000 This looks like an Axios piece just based on the font.
00:29:17.000 I think it is.
00:29:18.000 It's so funny.
00:29:19.000 I could tell it's Axios just looking at the font.
00:29:21.000 That's actually right.
00:29:22.000 Only they use this Helvetica font.
00:29:26.000 I always liked Helvetica when I ever did school projects.
00:29:29.000 It was my favorite to use.
00:29:32.000 Helvetica.
00:29:33.000 It's also a fun name.
00:29:34.000 It's fun to say.
00:29:35.000 It sounds like a type of French imported cheese.
00:29:39.000 Havarti, Helvetica.
00:29:42.000 Mental health claim lines for children increased in 2020, while overall medical claim lines decreased.
00:29:49.000 Percent change in all medical claim lines and mental health-specific claim lines between January and November 2019 versus 2020.
00:29:57.000 By the numbers, parents, schools, and pediatricians have been warning for months that kids are not okay.
00:30:04.000 And this analysis backs up the concern with numbers.
00:30:07.000 We have seen the most dramatic increase in mental health complaints in American history.
00:30:12.000 For what?
00:30:13.000 For a virus that was not going to kill children.
00:30:18.000 They had a higher likelihood of dying of suicide than of the Chinese coronavirus.
00:30:24.000 That was on Tucker's show the other day.
00:30:27.000 Teenagers' demand for mental health care skyrocketed last year amid the pandemic, even as their overall care for need for care declined.
00:30:35.000 Females were much likelier to require mental health than males.
00:30:40.000 This is completely avoidable.
00:30:42.000 And this is largely because of very, very weak governors in both parties that have decided to pursue an anti-science, anti-reason, anti-logic agenda.
00:30:57.000 And look at the damage it has done for our society.
00:30:59.000 We went through a self-inflicted campaign that made businesses disappear that will never get back.
00:31:08.000 Churches fold that will never restart.
00:31:12.000 Relationships shattered.
00:31:16.000 And even during the lockdowns, infection rates were increasing.
00:31:21.000 This was also avoidable.
00:31:23.000 And any governor, Republican or Democrat, that has not fully opened their state, no masks, mandate.
00:31:32.000 If you think masks work, then wear them.
00:31:35.000 You should have the liberty to make that decision.
00:31:37.000 I'm talking about a mask mandate.
00:31:40.000 Then you are now, at this point, with all the data available, contributing to a mental health crisis and one of the most immoral decisions of government in American history.
00:31:54.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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00:32:02.000 Thanks so much.
00:32:03.000 God bless.
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