The Charlie Kirk Show - May 10, 2022


Lori Lightfoot Raises a Big, Gay Army Over Roe v. Wade Decision


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A jam-packed episode featuring Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and New York Post columnist Carol Markowitz. We start with the left's call to arms against pro-life warriors. Who is behind this? Who is this shadowy group? Where do they come from? What is their track record? And much, much more.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:02.000 We have a jam-packed episode.
00:00:04.000 We start with the left's call to arms.
00:00:07.000 Mayor Lori Lightfoot causing a stir online, saying it's time for the left to take up arms against these pro-life warriors.
00:00:16.000 What is behind this?
00:00:17.000 Who is the shadowy group Ruth sent us?
00:00:20.000 Where do they come from?
00:00:21.000 What is their track record?
00:00:23.000 And much, much more.
00:00:24.000 We have an absolutely jam-packed episode along with the great Carol Markowitz from New York Post columnist, New York City refugee.
00:00:33.000 What does she have to say about education, our children?
00:00:36.000 Did the lockdowns work?
00:00:37.000 Of course, they didn't, but she has insights explaining just how badly they failed on multiple levels.
00:00:42.000 You're not going to want to miss it.
00:00:43.000 The great Carol Markowitz joins us.
00:00:45.000 Everybody, buckle up.
00:00:47.000 Here we go.
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00:01:33.000 We're going to lead the show today with Lori Lightfoot because it's just, it's just shocking what's going on regarding some of these hysterical left-wing reactions to the leaked SCOTUS opinion by Justice Alito.
00:01:50.000 Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, I'm reading from the post-millennial, issues call to arms over U.S. Supreme Court.
00:01:58.000 Lightfoot tweeted Monday night to my friends in the LGBTQ community.
00:02:03.000 The Supreme Court is coming for us next.
00:02:06.000 This moment has to be a call to arms.
00:02:10.000 She followed that up with: we will not surrender our rights without a fight, a fight to victory.
00:02:16.000 Now, what makes this particularly appalling is if you contrast Mayor Lightfoot's tweets with that of her tweets around January 6, 2021, during which she tweeted, I am in disbelief with what is unfolding in DC right now.
00:02:37.000 President Trump and his enablers incited this violence.
00:02:40.000 Shame on every elected official in Congress and elsewhere who fomented this anti-democratic insurrection by extremists.
00:02:47.000 This is not democracy.
00:02:49.000 This is a disgrace.
00:02:52.000 So what's good for the goose should be good for the gander here, Miss Lightfoot. 0.99
00:02:58.000 And by the way, for those wondering, yes, Lori Lightfoot is, she's gay. 0.93
00:03:05.000 That is part of her story.
00:03:08.000 So one side puts out a call to arms, and it's completely okay. 0.86
00:03:17.000 Another side, and by the way, we're going to pull some clips, some tape here in just a second, of some of the myriad examples of the left calling for an actual physical call to arms.
00:03:30.000 So they do it, and it's crickets.
00:03:32.000 It's crickets in the mainstream news media.
00:03:36.000 Meanwhile, we have receipt after receipt after receipt of them saying that when the right does it, it is somehow an insurrection.
00:03:47.000 So, Ms. Lightfoot, are you calling for an insurrection?
00:03:52.000 Are you calling for a call to arms, as you say?
00:03:54.000 I guess you are.
00:03:55.000 Take them at their word.
00:03:58.000 This is an appalling turn of events.
00:04:01.000 The Senate, to their somewhat credit, I will not give them full credit for this, but some credit is deserved.
00:04:09.000 They have approved additional security for the Supreme Court justices a little late.
00:04:16.000 But let's talk about this.
00:04:19.000 Clip 36: I'm going to play this montage of Democrats saying the word fight.
00:04:23.000 Now, before we play this, remember, this was their reason for attacking conservatives, for attacking President Trump, because he used the word fight.
00:04:39.000 Now, before January 6th, when people would use the word fight, it was just considered a political turn of phrase.
00:04:47.000 But then they said, no, not with President Trump.
00:04:51.000 President Trump was using the word fight because he was calling for violence at the Capitol.
00:04:58.000 But like I said, what's good for the goose should be good for the Gander.
00:05:01.000 Cut 36.
00:05:02.000 But we Democrats are fighting as hard as we can.
00:05:05.000 Democrats are fighting as hard as we can, credit it in any way, but we're fighting back.
00:05:10.000 And what we've got to do is fight in Congress, fight in the courts, fight in the streets, fight online, fight at the ballot box.
00:05:16.000 We each have an important role to play in fighting.
00:05:20.000 In this fight, like so many before it, it has been a fight.
00:05:24.000 The American people are going to have to fight.
00:05:27.000 That is the guiding purpose of House Democrats fighting.
00:05:32.000 All right, so fighting is part of their parlance.
00:05:36.000 All right, but what about the same standard that they applied to President Trump, Cut 35?
00:05:42.000 The implication of the president's tweets, the rally, and the speeches were clear.
00:05:47.000 President Trump used the word fight or fighting 20 times, including telling the crowd they needed to fight like hell.
00:05:54.000 Trump was telling them to fight, and he would keep telling them to fight throughout the rest of his speech.
00:06:00.000 So I don't know about you guys, but the left loves to play with words, and I find it to be reprehensible.
00:06:09.000 And if we don't call out their double standards, if we don't call out their hysteria, if we don't call their illogical nonsense in times like these, we will lose sense of the truth.
00:06:21.000 Now, if anybody's been paying attention to Mayor Lightfoot's Chicago, I think it's very clear to say the last thing we need in Chicago is a call to arms, whether it's from the LGBT community or not. 1.00
00:06:37.000 The city is rife with crime, rife with murder, rife with gun violence, but she's not alone.
00:06:45.000 I want you to remember this clip: Cut 46, and just realize that on the issue of abortion, the left becomes completely unhinged.
00:06:58.000 They become completely unhinged.
00:07:02.000 And it's not just Lori Lightfoot.
00:07:04.000 This is Cut 46.
00:07:05.000 Do you remember this clip when Senator Schumer himself, the leader of the Senate, said that he was going to bring a whirlwind upon Kavanaugh and Gorsuch?
00:07:16.000 Play Cut 46.
00:07:18.000 I want to tell you, Gorsuch.
00:07:20.000 I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price.
00:07:32.000 You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.
00:07:38.000 So, this is the left.
00:07:39.000 We say that a lot.
00:07:40.000 This is the left.
00:07:41.000 A call to arms, says Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
00:07:44.000 Chuck Schumer, you won't know what hit you, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
00:07:50.000 You know, it's interesting as an aside.
00:07:53.000 They have been saying that Gorsuch and Kavanaugh lied to them in their Senate confirmation hearings.
00:08:00.000 And yet, it looks like Chuck Schumer knew all too well how they would probably rule on Roe v. Wade and overturning it.
00:08:08.000 In this case, via Dobbs.
00:08:12.000 They're overturning it because it is bad law.
00:08:15.000 It is simply bad law.
00:08:17.000 It does not align with the Constitution.
00:08:20.000 We had Josh Hammer, the opinion editor at Newsweek, also a lawyer, explain why it's bad law.
00:08:28.000 They established a precedent of privacy that is nowhere in the Constitution.
00:08:37.000 But instead of allowing the Constitution to play out via the Supreme Court, the left is calling this an attack on democracy.
00:08:47.000 In reality, theirs is the attack on democracy.
00:08:51.000 Theirs is the attack on the rule of law. 0.72
00:08:53.000 Theirs is an attack on the institutions that undergird the United States of America. 0.93
00:09:01.000 Democracy would be this: engage in the messy battle to legislate for abortion.
00:09:10.000 If that's what you want, try and legislate it.
00:09:12.000 But you don't want that, do you?
00:09:14.000 You don't want that because it's messy, because it's difficult, because you may not get the result that you want.
00:09:21.000 So, how dare you, Lori Lightfoot? 1.00
00:09:23.000 How dare you, Chuck Schumer?
00:09:24.000 The whirlwind is coming, and you brought it upon us.
00:09:30.000 The fight for the unborn is raging in our country, and an unprecedented leak from the Supreme Court indicates that Roe v. Wade is on the brink of being overturned.
00:09:37.000 During this critical time, a new movie is about to be released.
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00:10:21.000 So, I want to bring up another one of these shadowy left-wing groups that are behind so much of this violence, so much of this, we call it protest, which is, as we mentioned yesterday on the show, completely illegal.
00:10:36.000 To be intimidating federal judges is completely illegal.
00:10:39.000 The evidence is clear.
00:10:42.000 The laws are very clear.
00:10:44.000 Yesterday, we talked about the group Rise Up for Abortion, which is really just a front for a shadowy revolutionary Communist Party group, a Maoist organization founded in the 60s by Bob Avakian.
00:10:58.000 Now, interestingly enough, some on the left don't like that group because they call it a cult, which seems very apropos. 0.90
00:11:10.000 Now, another group that's actually getting probably more attention because they were the ones that actually doxed the five out of the six conservative justices, Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, is a group called Ruth Sentus.
00:11:29.000 Ruth Sentus is asking activists to target Supreme Court justices who may overturn Roe v. Wade with demonstrations at their private homes.
00:11:39.000 Now, can we just state it as a A simple clean fact here that you should not protest at private homes.
00:11:51.000 You should not confront or get in their faces, as Maxine Waters says, when people are out in public with their families.
00:12:00.000 This is not appropriate.
00:12:01.000 If you don't like somebody, you vote them out of office.
00:12:04.000 If you don't like somebody, you can go on Twitter and say something mean and nasty to them.
00:12:09.000 That's fine.
00:12:10.000 And there might actually be free speech on Twitter moving forward with Elon Musk taking home.
00:12:16.000 You do not, and I repeat again: do not protest at private homes. 1.00
00:12:22.000 I think it's just important to say that it's idiotic, it's stupid. 0.99
00:12:25.000 If you're a conservative and you're considering protesting in front of, I don't know, Justice Kagan's house because you think and suspect that she or one of her clerks with a leaker, don't do it. 1.00
00:12:37.000 It looks bad.
00:12:37.000 Stop.
00:12:38.000 And it's just frankly immoral.
00:12:42.000 So Ruth sent us is, you know, obviously it's named after Ruth Bader Ginsburg, although I don't think Ruth Bader Ginsburg would appreciate the tip of the hat.
00:12:54.000 Stipends are being paid to artists who joined the march, and payments and compensation were also offered to protesters who came to Washington to disrupt the constitutional proceedings of the Senate to confirm Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.
00:13:07.000 So this group has been doing this for a while.
00:13:11.000 But this is what's always so interesting about these left-wing groups.
00:13:13.000 Now, the left loves to rail against dark money groups.
00:13:17.000 Dark money is when you can't see the name of the donor.
00:13:22.000 But they're probably the best at it.
00:13:25.000 So the group's leadership remains concealed on its website and they have redacted information related to its owner's purchase.
00:13:36.000 So Ruth Sentis is this very shadowy organization that is harassing and terrorizing the Supreme Court justices, the conservative Supreme Court justices. 1.00
00:13:46.000 As I said, it's appalling.
00:13:48.000 It's disgusting, but it is happening.
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00:14:52.000 I'm so excited to welcome our guest, Carol Markowitz, from formerly of New York, but a New York Post columnist, now a Florida resident, right, Carol?
00:15:02.000 Very proudly.
00:15:03.000 That's right.
00:15:04.000 Yeah, well, so welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:15:06.000 You have been a massive, massive advocate.
00:15:09.000 I would say just in a general sense for families, for family values, for children.
00:15:15.000 And, you know, first of all, just on the heels of Mother's Day, you know, happy Mother's Day to you.
00:15:22.000 You have been tremendous on this issue of students, of fighting for education the way it should be in class without a mask.
00:15:33.000 So I want to get into that in just a second.
00:15:36.000 But for those of you who don't know Carol or her background, Carol is about as New York as you can imagine.
00:15:42.000 Carol helped run.
00:15:44.000 I said this to her when I saw her recently.
00:15:46.000 I said, you basically ran PR in New York.
00:15:49.000 And she's like, how did you know that about me?
00:15:51.000 I was like, Carol, you're famous.
00:15:53.000 How did you?
00:15:54.000 Yeah, well, I have my sources.
00:15:56.000 So, but you are Miss New York.
00:15:58.000 And what we're seeing, I want to start with Roe.
00:16:02.000 Obviously, the leaked decision from Dobbs.
00:16:04.000 We're seeing massive protests across places like New York City and LA, but in New York specifically, we saw St. Patrick's Cathedral experience a protest.
00:16:13.000 Tell us what's going on.
00:16:14.000 What are you hearing from your friends that are still in the city?
00:16:16.000 It's just so unfortunate that these political protesters who, you know, please protest away, how they're really overstepping the line, going into these religious spaces, threatening religious leaders, threatening the justices, protesting outside the justices' homes.
00:16:32.000 I think all of this is so beyond the pale.
00:16:36.000 But like for me, I think one of the topics that I talk about a lot is forced conformity.
00:16:42.000 Like you must be one way.
00:16:44.000 And I was born in the Soviet Union.
00:16:46.000 I grew up with the idea that forced conformity is like the worst thing that you can live through, and that you should be careful of it.
00:16:53.000 You should watch out for it.
00:16:54.000 And I see it all the time now.
00:16:56.000 I think that we've gotten to where there's only one acceptable opinion and it has to be delivered in a very narrow way.
00:17:03.000 And when it's not, like, we get riots in our streets and you know, behavior like we're seeing right now.
00:17:10.000 Yeah, I mean, and New York's a very interesting place, I would say, religiously, in the sense that there is a sense of forced conformity.
00:17:18.000 There is a sense that this is a secular bastion and we'll tolerate your religion, you know, but keep it off to the side. 0.93
00:17:25.000 We don't want to get into the messy middle of our political or social lives.
00:17:30.000 And you saw this again in a column that you wrote for the New York Post about what happened to Governor DeSantis.
00:17:38.000 Your piece in the posts is titled, When New York City's Jewish Museum Bans DeSantis, it sends a clear message to all Jews.
00:17:47.000 And apparently, this was the Manhattan's Museum of Jewish Heritage canceled a planned JLC Jewish Leadership Conference event because Florida Governor DeSantis was an invited speaker.
00:18:01.000 Tell us what happened here.
00:18:03.000 What do we know?
00:18:04.000 And why is this even acceptable?
00:18:06.000 Yeah.
00:18:06.000 So this really great organization called Tikva was having an event and they were renting space at the museum.
00:18:13.000 And when they told them that Governor DeSantis of Florida was going to be one of the speakers, the museum canceled the event and wouldn't let them go forward with it.
00:18:22.000 And it's so gross to me that they would do that because especially because I think of Governor DeSantis as such a friend to Jews.
00:18:30.000 I think of Florida as a place that defends Jews, that does not allow violence against Jews to just go on unabated the way the way I think it did in New York for a long time.
00:18:41.000 It's a real problem for me that a museum of Jewish heritage is disqualifying somebody from speaking there on the basis of their political opinions.
00:18:51.000 And it doesn't escape my notice that I share a lot of those political opinions.
00:18:55.000 So they must not welcome me either.
00:18:57.000 And I heard from so many other Jewish conservatives and Jewish liberals who say, I don't like this.
00:19:03.000 I don't want this.
00:19:04.000 This is scary to me that your political opinions can have you barred from a Holocaust museum.
00:19:10.000 I mean, that's really where we are right now, where if you don't follow the exact line, you're not welcome at the Jewish, you know, Museum of Jewish Heritage, a Holocaust Museum.
00:19:20.000 It's just really crazy.
00:19:21.000 So they were stating that it was a contractual and logistical decision.
00:19:28.000 Does that make sense?
00:19:30.000 No.
00:19:30.000 I don't.
00:19:31.000 No, it doesn't.
00:19:32.000 And in fact, back to my PR background, I have massaged a statement or two in my day.
00:19:39.000 I understood what they were doing with their very particular language where they were like, oh no, Governor DeSantis is totally welcome to come buy a ticket and come see our exhibit.
00:19:50.000 Like that's not the concern here.
00:19:53.000 So yeah, look, they can say whatever they want.
00:19:56.000 I believe the TIFA fund.
00:19:58.000 I believe the article that was written by the two co-presidents of the organization in the Wall Street Journal, they had a lot of detail.
00:20:04.000 They had names.
00:20:06.000 Absolutely don't think that Elliot Abrams just made it up.
00:20:09.000 Um so and, and?
00:20:11.000 If it wasn't true?
00:20:12.000 If it wasn't true, then the museum could say, oh, please come speak, governor De Santis, like we are, you're welcome to come speak.
00:20:17.000 But they're not doing that.
00:20:18.000 They're saying, buy a ticket, come see our show.
00:20:20.000 Yeah, and I think you know it's it as somebody who has a pr background myself.
00:20:25.000 Uh, you know, I think this, this language, simply a contractual and logistical decision.
00:20:29.000 Uh I, it sounds like somebody consulted legal, right.
00:20:32.000 I mean, you know, if they said well yeah, actually we just don't like conservatives, then they were going to open a can of worms, you know.
00:20:38.000 Anyways, it's shocking what's happening.
00:20:40.000 It's shocking that this is okay.
00:20:41.000 It's shocking that this is okay in the what should be the greatest city yeah, on planet earth.
00:20:47.000 I know, I know you, you probably love it like a drunk uncle, I mean, it's exactly the perfect way to phrase it's.
00:20:54.000 I usually say like a, like an ex-boyfriend, but sure, like a drunk uncle, drunk uncle right, like charming, but just like unbelievably uh unbelievable, unbelievably inappropriate at many times.
00:21:05.000 So I mean, here's the thing, the uh, New York um, you left because what they were doing to children.
00:21:10.000 Now, I think we cannot separate what the left does uh, to children either pre-born children and they're very willing to discard them to protest in these insane ways to invade churches and I live in California.
00:21:25.000 They're invading churches in Los Angeles, Cathedrals in New York.
00:21:28.000 We cannot divorce that from how they treat them when they're in school.
00:21:32.000 You left New York because of what was happening with uh, remote learning.
00:21:36.000 I want to play a cut here that I think is just really poignant.
00:21:38.000 Cut 49, um, this is a little girl talking about how she just can't take take it anymore being separated from her, her friends 49.
00:21:46.000 What life are you living, Mascan?
00:21:49.000 Going in the store, not being able to touch anyone or anything?
00:21:56.000 Um, I can't be in school and I can't keep friends and I especially can't see family.
00:22:08.000 So it's hard.
00:22:10.000 Yeah, do you miss school?
00:22:12.000 Yes, I miss school very much.
00:22:16.000 How could we do this?
00:22:18.000 I mean, it's really hard to watch something like that.
00:22:21.000 I I have three kids.
00:22:22.000 I know what they went through and look, my kids are lucky.
00:22:26.000 I did whatever we could to get them um out of the situation, out of New York.
00:22:30.000 We lived in Florida last year, um for four and a half months, sort of as a test run, but also to just give them full-time school, which we didn't have in New York.
00:22:38.000 Um, so I look, all the kids that were just left with you know no education, with um being on their remote devices all day, and who knows how well that went for so many Kids, not being able to see each other's faces.
00:22:53.000 I mean, all of this is so obvious.
00:22:55.000 I mean, any parent will tell you that they know what kids need, and hiding them away from the world for two years is going to have a real impact on their future.
00:23:06.000 You know, I didn't used to write about kids all the time.
00:23:09.000 It was just when I saw this very sharp attack on children during COVID that it became sort of my topic because it was so obvious to me that we were destroying the lives of American children en masse.
00:23:22.000 And I couldn't look away and I couldn't stop writing about it.
00:23:26.000 And my editors of the post were great and let me hit the topic a lot.
00:23:30.000 But that's how I became somebody who is an advocate for children and a writer about children's issues.
00:23:36.000 It was because I saw the damage that was being done to girls like her. 0.98
00:23:41.000 Yeah, and I think your work is being noticed a lot.
00:23:45.000 I see you on Fox News.
00:23:46.000 I see you on other outlets a lot talking about this very issue.
00:23:50.000 You know, the New York Times came out with a newsletter.
00:23:53.000 It breaks down the ruinous school closures.
00:23:55.000 Remote learning was a failure.
00:23:57.000 It asked the question: were many of these problems avoidable?
00:24:00.000 The evidence suggests that they were.
00:24:02.000 I mean, this reminds me of people going to fancy colleges to get degrees that don't matter to study stuff that they can't get jobs in to impress people they don't like. 0.96
00:24:12.000 I mean, there's only people dumb enough to come to this conclusion two, three, two years into this are highly educated, ignorant New York Times columnists. 0.93
00:24:22.000 And that, you know, at least they're saying what we've all known since April of 2020, but it's just shocking how slow to the punch they are. 0.98
00:24:31.000 And this is what we see so much in media is that conservatives are calling it out.
00:24:37.000 We're waving our hands in the air saying, stop, stop.
00:24:40.000 This is destroying not only the economy, but our children, the next generation.
00:24:44.000 And it takes the media two years before it's like socially acceptable for them in their circles, the cocktail parties, to say what we all knew and what was so commonsensical, right?
00:24:52.000 Right, right.
00:24:53.000 I mean, yeah.
00:24:54.000 I have a friend, Mary Catherine Hamm, who calls it the now it can be told.
00:24:57.000 Like now it can be told, you know, two years after the fact that obviously not going to school might have some, you know, deeper impact on kids.
00:25:06.000 You know, we haven't even reached the conversation yet about what it's meant for toddlers to cover their faces.
00:25:12.000 Toddlers are today in May, in May 2022, still masking in New York City today.
00:25:19.000 What is that going to mean for these kids who learned how to speak through a mask, who learned how to convey emotions through a mask, who learned how to understand emotions through a mask?
00:25:28.000 All of this is going to have long-lasting damage.
00:25:31.000 I look forward to the New York Times article in two years about how messed up these kids are.
00:25:35.000 And then we could all believe that it's true.
00:25:37.000 Let's play CUP 51 talking about this exact thing, CUP 51.
00:25:42.000 Yeah.
00:25:42.000 So first of all, remote learning has been a disaster for America's kids.
00:25:45.000 And I think we have to acknowledge that.
00:25:46.000 And we have to do everything we can to minimize any further remote learning.
00:25:51.000 Even without those other upgrades, which I would like to see, it still is safe for kids and teachers to be back in school.
00:25:57.000 So I think at this point, there's really no good explanation for having remote schools.
00:26:02.000 So now it can be told, Carol.
00:26:05.000 This is what you're seeing.
00:26:07.000 Yeah.
00:26:07.000 And, you know, the explanation was very obvious.
00:26:09.000 Teachers' unions did not want in-person learning.
00:26:12.000 Any locality that was under their thumb listened to them.
00:26:18.000 Randy Weingarten personally wrote policy for the CDC that kept schools closed.
00:26:23.000 And this is why kids didn't get to go to school in person in so many areas, period.
00:26:28.000 You're absolutely right.
00:26:29.000 I think the collaboration between the teachers' unions and their presidents, like Randy Weingarten, and the administration, is something that we don't fully understand the extent of, just how deep it goes.
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00:28:34.000 Let's talk about Randy Weingarten for just a moment here because she's, you know, she's really been front and center so much of the time during COVID and lockdowns and everything that's happened to our kids.
00:28:45.000 Let's play CUD 18.
00:28:46.000 I'm going to have you react to what she says.
00:28:48.000 Cut 18.
00:28:49.000 Our kids are in crisis.
00:28:52.000 And we had a mental health crisis before COVID, but with, and Dr. Ng will talk about this far better than I do, but within, but for two years of disruption, two years of looking at the screens, two years of not having a normal kind of routine and rhythm, recovery is really tough.
00:29:20.000 The arsonist is like, oh my God, the house is on fire.
00:29:24.000 You know, it's just like listening to her is so infuriating.
00:29:28.000 Like, you did this, lady. 0.99
00:29:29.000 It was you.
00:29:30.000 It was specifically you because not all kids didn't go to school for two years.
00:29:34.000 It was only kids in districts that listened to Randy Weingarten that didn't get to go to school.
00:29:40.000 So it literally is at her feet, this whole problem.
00:29:44.000 And she's like, gosh, what happened?
00:29:45.000 Somebody did something really bad here.
00:29:47.000 Who was it?
00:29:49.000 It was her.
00:29:50.000 This is, you know, we call this Chicago-style union politics, right?
00:29:54.000 Where they go break the window and then their union guy gets to fix the window, right?
00:29:58.000 So they just happen to show up the next day with a contract.
00:30:01.000 You know, this, you're absolutely right.
00:30:02.000 And they're still demanding more money.
00:30:04.000 And I didn't know, Carol, that they were still masking toddlers in New York City.
00:30:08.000 That's offensive to me.
00:30:09.000 Yeah.
00:30:09.000 Can you imagine?
00:30:10.000 I think a lot of people just assume that nobody would be crazy enough to keep doing that.
00:30:14.000 But no, New York City is like, we're crazy enough to keep doing that.
00:30:18.000 New York City's like, we're going to just get rid of logic altogether.
00:30:21.000 Meanwhile, you've got stadiums full of people gathering to watch sporting events and basketball.
00:30:27.000 They're only safe because the two-year-old is masked.
00:30:31.000 Right, exactly.
00:30:32.000 And all the teachers got billions and billions of funding that we'll just never see again.
00:30:35.000 And by the way, we're just spending money out the wazoo right now.
00:30:39.000 We're going to send another 40 billion to Ukraine, but that's another story for another day.
00:30:43.000 But listen, I want to finish this segment with you, Carol, and talk about, okay, you left the city.
00:30:50.000 What is your message to people like me that still live in communist bastions like California and New York City?
00:30:58.000 If you are either someone who's open-minded, let's say you're kind of more of like the Joe Rogan, Bill Maher kind of, you know, middle people that are like, this is insane, everything that's happening.
00:31:08.000 What happened to common sense?
00:31:10.000 Or you're just a conservative.
00:31:11.000 What do you do if you're still in the city?
00:31:13.000 What do you do if you're in these liberal bastions?
00:31:15.000 So you have a couple of options.
00:31:17.000 And look, I fought for a long time.
00:31:21.000 I fought and I fought and I fought.
00:31:22.000 But then I saw that my six-year-old was falling behind.
00:31:26.000 And no matter how much I fought for him not to be masked in schools, he had been masked the whole time he had been ever in school.
00:31:33.000 I saw that he was just not doing well and I needed to get my kid out of the situation.
00:31:38.000 So I would say fight.
00:31:40.000 And if you have to leave, then you have to leave.
00:31:42.000 Childhood is short.
00:31:43.000 You can fight and continue to fight, but you have to get your kids to a better situation if you're in a bad one.
00:31:50.000 And if your kid's school is not teaching them appropriately, if they're learning, you know, if they're being, if CRT is being used, if they're learning gender ideology instead of math, if like, if all of this is happening at your school, you have to get your kid out.
00:32:06.000 And that's really where you have to kind of draw the line that, yeah, you should stay, you should fight as much as you can, but your kids only have one childhood.
00:32:16.000 I think that's really well said, Carol.
00:32:18.000 I think the message of this show, I think of everything that's going on today, whether it's from Roe to lockdowns, we're finding out that, you know, obviously we knew all along that it was an unmitigated disaster, this remote learning, is our children have to be first.
00:32:34.000 If we want to talk about the values that make, I would say, conservatives, it should be everybody.
00:32:39.000 It should be common sense.
00:32:41.000 The values that make us who we are have to be reflected in how we approach the next generation.
00:32:46.000 We have to strive to protect all life, unborn and born.
00:32:49.000 We have to strive to protect children.
00:32:51.000 We have to pass down our values to the next generation.
00:32:54.000 And that's what I'm hearing when you're talking about it.
00:32:56.000 It's like, if you're going to choose to live in these places that don't reflect your values, protect your children.
00:33:01.000 We're not saying put them in bubble wrap.
00:33:03.000 We're not saying put them in bubble wrap.
00:33:04.000 We're saying protect their learning, their futures.
00:33:07.000 Carol, thank you so much for coming.
00:33:08.000 Thank you so much for having me.
00:33:10.000 This is really great.
00:33:10.000 Thank you.
00:33:10.000 It's an honor every time.
00:33:12.000 We hope you'll come back soon.
00:33:13.000 And we'll see you at Young Women's Leadership Summit USA, Dallas.
00:33:17.000 Dallas.
00:33:19.000 Yes.
00:33:21.000 Yeah, maybe you could catch some cowboy stuff.
00:33:24.000 It's the offseason, but whatever.
00:33:25.000 Guys, thank you for joining us.
00:33:27.000 That was a fun episode to record.
00:33:30.000 Carol is a phenomenal, phenomenal person.
00:33:32.000 She's also going to be at Young Women's Leadership Summit.
00:33:35.000 She'll be joining us there June 2nd through the 4th, Turning Point USA's Young Women's Leadership Summit in Dallas, Texas.
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