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00:01:35.000Yesterday, we were in St. Charles, Illinois, right on the Fox River, standing in solidarity with the amazing Turning Point USA students that have been organizing walkouts that have been standing up against the mask tyranny and medical discrimination that has been happening in the high schools in suburban Chicago.
00:01:56.000There were parents, there were students, they were grandparents that were, let's just say, very enthusiastic and angry, and they should be, about the continued mask policies that are occurring in these high schools all across where I grew up.
00:02:15.000Number one is how ready to fight the people of Illinois are.
00:02:22.000I have not seen that type of energy in quite some time.
00:02:25.000It reminds me of pockets of California, of people that are just fighting so hard for their freedom and liberty, despite the oppressive and authoritarian measures to try to break their spirit and their morale.
00:02:37.000You know, we did the event a little bit different.
00:02:39.000We had several Turning Point USA students speak before I came on stage.
00:02:44.000I just sat there and listened to them, and I was blown away how articulate they were, how courageous they were.
00:02:49.000All high school students, by the way, high school students.
00:02:52.000That were talking about how they take a stand against the administration and their teachers.
00:02:58.000They are forced to go into their own room without a mask on because they don't want to wear a mask on.
00:03:04.000And they're happier and freer than ever.
00:03:07.000It was very surreal and emotional for me because I spoke at that Arcata theater in St. Charles before.
00:03:15.000And I actually did it when I was in high school.
00:03:17.000I spoke there at a local tea party meeting.
00:03:21.000And then to have 10 years later, almost exactly 10 years later, a new generation of kids who were eight years old when I started Turning Point USA, there at the theater, fighting for the very same values and principles that we were articulating 10 years ago.
00:03:39.000The first time I feel as if there's like this intergenerational kind of movement.
00:03:45.000And not by intergenerational, I don't, I've meant that older generations have supported us so generously.
00:03:52.000I mean now that there's a generation younger than me.
00:03:54.000That's something I've never experienced before.
00:03:57.000That there's a generation 10 years younger that is fighting hard and they're willing to do what is necessary.
00:04:24.000JB Pritzker and the government do not give us our rights.
00:04:27.000Our rights are given by one person and one person only, and that is Jesus Christ.
00:04:31.000Our wonderful country and our beautiful state is in such a fallen state because Americans chose to stay silent and not stand up.
00:04:39.000At my school last Tuesday, around 50 of us refused to wear a mask, and our school decided to segregate us into the auditorium, not letting us get our education until we put on a face muzzle.
00:04:52.000Since when was segregation ever the answer?
00:04:55.000At this point, they're just begging for the lawsuits.
00:04:58.000This was never about the health of our or safety of our children.
00:05:01.000This was about control, and it started at the local level.
00:05:13.000It's one of the reasons why we came to Chicago and wanted to support them.
00:05:21.000It was Leslie Mendoza, Turning Point USA chapter leader, Peter Christos, Turning Point USA chapter leader at Glenberg North, and Samuel Phillips, Turning Point USA chapter leader at Niles West High School.
00:05:31.000So Samuel Phillips comes up and speaks, and he tells a story about how when he organized a protest against masks at a school, immediately there were these fake accusations that part of his group were using the N-word and making monkey noises.
00:06:18.000My friend Murphy Maeve Holler and I decided that enough was enough, and we organized a walkout on Thursday.
00:06:25.000The walkout went great, and we were able to raise a lot of awareness around the school.
00:06:29.000But later that day, when I got home, I heard this terrible, terrible, terrible rumor that students, some people thought it was me, were saying the N-word and making monkey noises at other students.
00:06:41.000I was so blindsided by this accusation that I couldn't believe the lies that they were trying to make up.
00:06:46.000The reason why I know that this was a lie was when I went to the school and I asked them to punish these kids because this was a terrible thing, right?
00:06:54.000They couldn't name one student and they couldn't provide any evidence that this ever happened at all.
00:06:59.000But because of this accusation, the progressive group abolition coalition organized a press conference and a protest with the NAACP trying to slander our movement.
00:07:10.000Trying to slander their movement of turning point USA students and freedom lovers and people that want their constitutional rights.
00:07:17.000Immediately, they go and play the race card.
00:07:27.000I could go through and play tape after tape.
00:07:29.000We're going to play a little bit more as we go on, but I just want to reinforce something, which is these students don't have to be doing this.
00:07:39.000They could be doing sports, applying for colleges, which I would not recommend.
00:07:44.000They could be doing all sorts of different things, hanging out with friends.
00:07:47.000No, but they're spending their time, those three, and we have so many others.
00:07:57.000And what was so amazing is how inspired the parents were.
00:08:02.000We talk about the building of the parents' party.
00:08:05.000We talk about the movement, grassroots of parents taking ownership for their kids' education.
00:08:12.000But what's so great is we are now seeing this intersection of parents that are helping their students, but also students that are rising up themselves.
00:08:20.000And I asked some of these activists, I said, what do your parents think?
00:08:22.000They're like, oh, yeah, my parents don't really support me very much, but I'm going to do it anyway.
00:09:10.000They need to be because the stakes are higher.
00:09:13.000When I was in high school, we weren't talking about CRT masks, woke, and vaccine mandates, men can become pregnant or black-only dormitories.
00:09:20.000We were talking about higher or lower taxes.
00:09:53.000You rarely see this kind of focus and commitment.
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00:10:45.000Cut 86, a young man recounts how he was walking through his school hallway maskless.
00:10:51.000He was verbally and physically attacked by another student and ended up being sent to the office rather than the assailant because he was maskless.
00:11:00.000Now, of course, these schools couldn't care less, the suburban Chicago schools of Nile West, Niles West, or Glenbrook North.
00:11:06.000They couldn't care less about increase in suicides, self-harm, mental health issues, alcoholism, depression, anxiety.
00:11:16.000No, they're really worried about whether or not your child is obediently wearing a mask, which is really bad for IQ development, speech development, social immersion.
00:11:30.000But as I continued my way through the school mask, like any patriotic American would do who loves their rights, I was approached by an individual who swore at me, flipped me off, slapped myself in my phone.
00:11:44.000All of this happened because I was not complying and I was standing up for what's right.
00:11:50.000After these events, after just getting sworn at, assaulted, cut, scratched, and grabbed, the teachers protected him, cheered him on, and applauded him.
00:13:41.000East Germany was not of the National Socialist Workers' Party.
00:13:45.000But when you go into a restaurant to go pick up some coffee at a place where you grew up in, and they're asking you for your intimate medical records, yeah, you got a serious problem.
00:13:55.000I know a lot of you listening right now are like, this is an unknown thing.
00:13:58.000I mean, in Florida, Sarasota, it's maskless, walk into a restaurant, do whatever you want, free, open, happy, safe, nice.
00:14:05.000Chicago, there's just this meanness that has just kind of come over the people that work in these places.
00:14:14.000And I guess they have a sense of purpose.
00:14:17.000It does create, and this is a term we created.
00:14:19.000I hear it here and there in little pockets, micro-tyrants.
00:14:24.000In order for big tyranny to be implemented, it takes lots of little people to do the legwork.
00:14:32.000And so you have someone that works at Corner Bakery or whatever, and they become really important, like really important, almost overnight, instantaneously, checking for vaccination records.
00:14:45.000The only way it's going to stop is to go through it.
00:17:40.000This is only my second year of being actively involved with this amazing organization, and I could not be more proud to be a part of this team.
00:17:47.000I'm so incredibly honored to be here speaking alongside one of the great leaders that I've looked up to for years.
00:17:52.000Someone who has become one of the most amazing role models in my life and who I have learned so much from.
00:19:37.000That's a school board member swearing openly at a taxpayer because he won't wear a mask after all the wonderful vaccines came forward and the boosters came forward, and he's swearing at a taxpayer over that.
00:20:05.000Why are they getting more and more angry?
00:20:09.000The Postmillennial.com, quote, Oakland School launches Transition Closet to help students hide gender dysphoria from parents.
00:20:18.000A transition closet has come to Oakland's Fremont High School.
00:20:22.000The concept, which began in an Arkansas church, first launched at a Good Shepherd Lutheran church in Fayetteville, is designed to let trans-identified youth circumvent their parents and socially transition without their knowledge.
00:20:36.000Now, the fact that this started in a church is really bizarre.
00:20:40.000That's exactly what I was thinking, right?
00:20:43.000I just want to say this whole idea of a transition closet started in a Lutheran church.
00:20:48.000What do you think Martin Luther would think about that?
00:20:51.000The Transition Closet announced with glee the new chapter from Fremont High School, right?
00:20:57.000And quote, we are extremely excited to begin our journey in working with Fremont High School in Oakland, California, alongside our favorite teacher of TikTok, quote, just a queer teacher, as was first reported by a Twitter account Teacher Exposed.
00:21:12.000Quote, the goal of the transition closet is for students to wear clothes that their parents approve of, come to school, and then swap out into clothes that fit who they truly are.
00:21:30.000The goal of tyrants is to break the bond between the parent and the child.
00:21:37.000The only one of the 10 commandments that comes with a promise and involves your nation, the only one that comes with both a promise and involves your country, is honor your mother and father so that you may live long in the land of which you are in.
00:21:52.000It's the only 10 commandments that come with a promise if you follow it and it involves your nation.
00:21:58.000They want to cut off the transmission, the passing down of tradition, order, and values to children because then the queer teacher takes the place.
00:22:12.000And that's not a pejorative, by the way.
00:22:14.000If I said that 10 years ago, I'd be arrested by the ACLU or whatever.
00:22:17.000Now they call themselves queer teacher.
00:22:20.000They want to cut kids off from their parents.
00:22:23.000And so now at a public school where they got this from some Lutheran church in Arkansas, which I just can't get over, they are encouraging students to wear one thing to school, lie to their parents.
00:22:35.000Basically, they're encouraging deceit at minimum, outward lying at most, where they change their clothes to be somebody else, some other gender.
00:22:46.000Quote, I use the idea that this is like Superman changing in a phone booth, but that idea actually goes a lot further because Superman isn't Clark Kent.
00:22:56.000And when Clark Kent goes into the phone booth, he transforms into Superman because that's who he really is.
00:23:02.000The Facebook page for the transition closet spoke about the needs of the new transition closet.
00:23:08.000Quote, the near future holds transition closets and services throughout the school district for the students of the trans, non-binary, intersex, and additional LGBTQIA plus.
00:23:21.000We are currently in need of clothing donations to help kickstart the first school-based transition closet.
00:23:27.000And they gave more information where materials could donate.
00:23:29.000I guarantee you there'll be a lot of donations coming from this Bay Area for this thing.
00:23:33.000The transition closet, which features videos teaching girls how to bind their breasts so they appear more masculine, recently received a grant from the Arkansas.
00:23:43.000What the heck is going on in Arkansas?
00:24:22.000The only requirement we have is, quote, that you need to be in need of a binder and there's no way to afford or obtain one on your own.
00:24:30.000In discussing the plans for the installation of the transition closet at Fremont High School, they said they're establishing transition closets worldwide.
00:24:40.000Quote, my principal just approved our school district's first transition closet.
00:24:44.000We'll be working with the organization, the transition closet, to provide clothes for transgender, blah, Okay.
00:24:50.000It's unclear if Oakland's Fremont High School will also be facilitating getting binders to trans or non-binary identified female students at the school without their parents' knowledge or consent.
00:25:03.000Coming from Arkansas, ballplace, it's really weird.
00:25:07.000There's a new story from the Federalist: Meet the Sex Shop Founder Who Is Grooming Children Through Books in School Libraries by Spencer Lindquist.
00:25:20.000And it includes such obscene material.
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00:27:48.000All the times driving all across the country, it was a tradition.
00:27:53.000When I was first getting Turning Point USA started, I would rent cars.
00:27:59.000You know, I couldn't rent a car until I was like 22 or 23 or whatever.
00:28:02.000And I'd always be going to meetings and I'd try to schedule my meetings so I could be in the car during Rush.
00:28:10.000And so you'd Google like Los Angeles Rush affiliate, right?
00:28:15.000And I'd be driving from, I don't know, Santa Barbara or Oxnard to Orange County.
00:28:24.000And I'd be making calls in between, but right there on the radio is Rush.
00:28:29.000No matter where I was in the country, I could always get my Rush.
00:28:31.000And so then my great friend Tom Patrick, may he rest in peace, he was so special.
00:28:36.000He really got me onto Rush when Rush, I think, was at his best.
00:28:39.000Rush was at his absolute best, in my personal opinion.
00:28:42.000Not that he was ever bad, but just when I think he was just hitting home run after home run during 2016, 17, and 18.
00:28:50.000Those were the three years where Rush was most needed when it was the Amy, the not Amy Clinton, the Christine Balls A. Ford stuff, the Russia Gate stuff, and the Trump stuff in 16.
00:29:14.000I got to know him personally, and he was a friend.
00:29:20.000With the permission of his family, one day, I am going to release all my emails with Rush.
00:29:27.000And I think that would be a real special thing.
00:29:30.000I'm going to make sure I'm going to get Catherine's approval on that.
00:29:34.000But my emails with Rush, I think, are special.
00:29:38.000He would email me back in the middle of the show, the doctor of democracy.
00:29:42.000And he did it all with half of his brain tied behind his back just to make it fair.
00:29:53.000If we could have one 100th of the impact of Rush, I will have lived a full life.
00:30:00.000It's a small story here that I just think is delightful and delicious.
00:30:04.000And this is a story that Rush would spend a whole hour on, this type of a story, right?
00:30:09.000He loved kind of his eternal battle with the media.
00:30:12.000So there is this fake kind of social media campaign saying that Turning Point USA is a white nationalist hate group, which of course is false.
00:30:22.000And so we got reached out to by this individual, Caleb McCullough, a nice enough guy from PolitiFact that was like, hey, I'm in charge of this story, and we have the meter, or is it true, or is it untrue or is it half true or is it false of whether or not Turning Point USA is a white nationalist hate group?
00:30:44.000And great kind of compliment to our PR team and everyone behind that.
00:30:50.000And we played ball and we sent them the information that, no, not only are we not a white nationalist hate group, we're the opposite of that.
00:30:56.000We believe that stereotyping based on race is evil.
00:30:59.000And we sent them all the evidence of all that.
00:31:01.000And coming out today, PolitiFact, the claim that Turning Point USA is a white nationalist hate group is false.
00:31:09.000If your time is short, quote, Turning Point USA, a conservative activist group operating largely in college and high school campuses, is setting up chapters in Iowa high schools, raising concern among parents who oppose the group's right-wing approach to policy and its criticism of progressive programs dealing with racial matters.
00:31:26.000Some on Twitter have accused Turning Point USA of being a white nationalist hate group.
00:31:30.000However, according to PolitiFact, and they're never wrong, but they're right on this one.
00:31:37.000Of course, scholars who study white nationalism and even the group's critics say calling Turning Point USA a white nationalist group goes too far.