Sean Kroll has just filed a lawsuit against the ATF and we have the exclusive story on why he thinks they have no standing to ban guns in the first place. We also talk about The Tuttle Twins and the 12 Rules for Life Boot Camp and how you can get a copy for your kids.
00:05:37.560You know, unfortunately, this is just another instance in a long list of arbitrary bans by the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, to your point, many of which were at one point deemed acceptable to be purchased.
00:05:57.880Why is it being filed in Wisconsin, and what does it say?
00:06:02.120Yeah, so the reason for filing, in short, again, I believe this to be a massive overstep by the ATF, and I don't believe it to be a rightful or legal thing to be done.
00:06:18.180I find it unfortunate that now, as a civilian, no longer an active service member of the United States, I still feel compelled to have to stand up for the rights of the people of this country.
00:06:29.060And unfortunately, I'm doing so from a branch of government that has sworn to do the same.
00:06:35.640Part of the lawsuit that we have actively, amongst myself and two other veterans, is just going against the ATF for this ruling.
00:07:06.920One is a resident here of Wisconsin, Gabe Tauscher, and the third is a veteran in the state of Texas in Amarillo.
00:07:15.360Okay, so if anybody doesn't know the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, they are very, very good and have a really good track record at things like this.
00:07:28.760So this is kind of the, you know, the reason why I asked this, Sean, is Rosa Parks was not the first woman to refuse to give up her seat.
00:07:37.980She was just the best one to present to the world with the best chance of it sticking.
00:07:47.360So I'm assuming that there's others that are doing this, but you are also, you and your fellow Marines or compatriots are selected as one of the best cases out there.
00:08:11.480You know, we pride ourselves on, you know, not only our service, but, you know, our continued service to our country in all aspects now, you know, after all of our actual contracts with the Department of Defense have now ended.
00:08:26.740So, yeah, I would be inclined to agree.
00:08:42.800Yeah, so, again, you know, to keep it relatively short, we believe this ruling to be unconstitutional.
00:08:52.040We believe it to be against what the ATF is within their bounds of being able to do.
00:08:56.620You're effectively taking an estimated 10 to 40 million Americans that have purchased these braces, and you are making them felons overnight.
00:09:05.060And by doing so, you are restricting their ability to not only have their gun rights, but to even participate in the voting experience as an American.
00:09:13.360So, we stand to step in to hopefully stop or retract this change in definition so that we can, again, allow the people of this country to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
00:09:27.620How do you feel about the chances there in Wisconsin?
00:09:30.520So, I believe the suit is actually formally being filed in Amarillo, Texas.
00:09:39.520Again, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty is the one who is heading this up.
00:09:43.660But there is a high likelihood that in Amarillo that this is likely to gain traction, to get support.
00:09:50.300So, it is my understanding that that is the tactical choice there.
00:10:04.740So, you are looking to overturn the stabilizing, but you're also, if I'm not mistaken, trying to make sure that this overreach doesn't happen in other categories beyond the stabilizing brace.
00:10:25.140So, in general, obviously, we hope to set a precedent that, again, you can't unilaterally write law as the ATF.
00:10:35.840And by changing the definition, they are trying to go around that and to do it by other means.
00:10:41.540And so, what we are hoping to do is to, again, by stopping this piece of definition change, we hope to set a precedent to where this cannot happen for any other instance of any other type of item in the future.
00:10:55.420So, explain what that means, because, I mean, this law has come out, and it is absolutely nowhere in the mainstream press.
00:11:06.860They're avoiding this because they know if people understand what this means, they will be, you know, filing themselves.
00:11:17.280I mean, it would be, I think, it would be overwhelming the system with litigation because it does, just this one, put maybe up to 40 million Americans in prison.
00:11:29.580And it forces you to turn over something that the ATF themselves said was legal when you bought it.
00:11:38.600Now, they're changing with no grandfather law, and this could go all the way down to magazines.
00:11:46.980This could go to, you know, they are talking about banning all semi-automatic weapons, which would mean that really only the cowboy gun is allowed.
00:12:01.420Oh, and the Red Ryder BB gun, which will put an eye out.
00:12:08.660Can you kind of go into where this leads if it's not overturned?
00:12:14.220Yeah, so, you know, I think just recently within the last day or so, they're finding now that formally some of the triggers that are sold in the industry are now to be considered machine guns.
00:12:27.420You know, the trigger assembly itself exclusively is a machine gun.
00:12:31.140You know, you already have instances where a vertical grip that is perpendicular to the direction of the barrel is making something a felony to own versus if it's 15 degrees, it is then safe.
00:12:43.600You know, you have a lot of these distinctions that kind of exist in ambiguity to where you could very unwittingly do something that is illegal and become a felon unbeknownst to your choices.
00:12:54.680And so there is definitely an opportunity to expand this if it gets pushed through and it is successful to apply to quite literally any other aspect of the firearms history.
00:13:07.000And if we don't turn our gun in or if we don't alert them with a picture and serial numbers and everything else, if we don't say, hey, I'm this citizen A and I have this gun and I bought it here.
00:13:23.800Um, if, if, if this doesn't, isn't overturned, I'm automatically, if I own one of these guns, a felon and they can arrest me.
00:13:35.420But the problem is that this is exactly the way they did it in Germany.
00:14:15.180And, you know, it's, it's worth mentioning that the current amount of NSA submissions per year handled by the ATF, they are oftentimes unable, given the manpower that they have, the resource allocated to, to process all of those in a given year.
00:14:32.600I think the estimate is somewhere around 500,000 per year that are submitted.
00:14:38.940Okay, so wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:14:39.640Explain that for people who don't understand.
00:14:41.480For instance, if you have a legally owned automatic weapon, a machine gun, which is lawful, but they cost, because you can only buy them from the, you know, prior to what, 1980 or 1990.
00:14:55.440Uh, so they cost an absolute fortune, uh, and drug dealers aren't buying them, uh, you know, over the counter.
00:15:03.140So they cost a fortune and you have to go and apply for what is called a stamp and that vets you.
00:15:11.240But to get that stamp takes over a year.
00:15:14.160But in this case, they're saying you have to send all your information and apply for that stamp.
00:15:20.380But this goes into effect in 120 days.
00:15:24.160There's no way to process all of those stamps.
00:15:41.680So to apply for the free, uh, tax stamp is what the, one of the routes that you can do to be in compliance with this new, uh, change of definition.
00:15:52.480You can submit for your firearm to be what's referred to as an SBR, a short barreled rifle.
00:15:58.300Uh, the issue to your point, it oftentimes takes anywhere from nine to 18 months to get that process and to be given the authority to legally possess that item.
00:16:09.120Now, in any other instance, you would do so through a dealer who will hold onto the item until that acceptance is granted to you and then issue that and transfer it over to you.
00:16:20.480So in this circumstance that we are discussing this morning, you already have that in your possession.
00:16:26.220So when you exceed that 120 day mark and you're, you have still another anywhere up to 15 months to go before they could potentially approve this.
00:16:36.660You are, by your own admission, you are, by your own admission, from the fingerprints and the photos that you have submitted to the ATF in violation of what you can legally possess at that time.
00:16:47.720So you are, at that point, immediately a felon.
00:17:07.940It is my understanding that that was this morning.
00:17:11.700It was formally entered into the registry and therefore you would have 120 days as of this morning to be in compliance with this new change.
00:17:21.640Um, Sean, I hope to have you on again, um, real quick.
00:17:25.720Do you think this is going to, the court will rule on this pretty quickly and hear the case?
00:17:31.040I certainly hope so, uh, given the nature of these, they're usually long-winded arguments and battles.
00:17:39.980But with that said, we have hope that, uh, the choice of Amarillo to be the state that we are filing suit in will have an effect and this will proceed and, uh, get some traction here.
00:17:51.680Well, again, thank you, uh, again for, uh, filing this suit and, and coming on.
00:18:56.080Relief Factor is not only now in the, uh, the, the, the, um, business of relieving pain, but also helping you sleep.
00:19:04.820Now, I don't know about you, but I have a hard time just shutting down at night, and I don't take this every night, but I probably take it maybe two or three times a week.
00:25:40.020There's also another piece of good news that Americans now in the latest poll show that they are now saying inflation is not the biggest problem.
00:25:53.400Immigration is not the biggest problem.
00:25:55.440The state of the economy is not our biggest problem, that it is President Biden and Congress, the leadership of our country, that is the biggest problem.
00:26:09.840And hopefully, I mean, Stu, I'd like you to look into actually all the nitty gritty numbers.
00:26:14.280Maybe you can give us a look at this tomorrow on what this what the what people are actually saying, as they saying that, you know, is the left saying that it's President Biden and Congress.
00:26:24.920And that's why we need even more authoritarianism.
00:26:27.920Or are they realizing what Ronald Reagan said, the scariest words ever uttered is I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
00:26:38.620And one more piece of one more piece of good news.
00:29:25.980Conservative organizations are coming together to develop well-trained personnel and detailed policy agenda for the next presidential administration.
00:29:38.000Project 2025, organized by the Heritage Foundation, is bringing together 45 conservative groups to develop policy and personnel for the next administration.
00:29:47.840We have been how many times have we been asking for this?
00:29:50.360This is exactly what the left has done.
00:29:52.860They have pooled everybody together, and they come and they look at everything from every line in the Constitution, every line in all of the policies from the administration, because the administration is our government now.
00:30:09.820We don't have a balance of power anymore.
00:30:12.200The Senate and the House, everything is rubber-stamped with money.
00:30:17.400They don't control the purse strings, so they can't hold anything back and try to curtail anything.
00:30:23.420And as we're seeing with the ATF, if the administration decides to just impose a new law, they're doing it.
00:30:31.180So they spent four years during Trump looking at all of the levers that the administration has.
00:30:39.520I hope to God that the conservatives are going in and looking at all of those levers and finding out ways to turn all of it off, because government is way out of control.
00:30:53.440There's one other thing that I think is good news.
00:31:02.440It looks as though now, according to the Daily Mail out of London, that Hunter Biden did help secure millions of dollars in funding for a U.S. contractor in Ukraine specializing in deadly pathogen research.
00:34:21.260I know I want everybody's favorite crack addict to be involved in that.
00:34:25.740I know I want the world's most corrupt government, Ukraine.
00:34:30.740Absolutely, I trust them with all of the bioweapons and biolabs.
00:34:37.620I feel I can sleep at night with that.
00:34:40.260So what happened was he introduced Metabiota to allegedly some corrupt, you know, oligarchs in Russia with gas.
00:34:53.960And I don't mean I mean, you know, with with with gas at Burisma.
00:35:00.000And according to the emails, it was a, quote, science project involving high biosecurity level labs in Ukraine.
00:35:09.220So what what Hunter Biden did was he and his colleagues at Rosemont Seneca invested five hundred thousand dollars in Metabiota through their their technology partners.
00:35:24.380They raised seven million, several million dollars of funding for the company from people like Goldman Sachs.
00:35:31.000Now, I don't know about you, but I trust Goldman Sachs as well.
00:35:35.540And when Goldman Sachs is looking at a company to invest in, when somebody like Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, who completely disconnected from his dad, has nothing to do with any of his dad stuff, even though his dad was in charge of Ukraine at the same time.
00:35:53.220And when he walks in, I, as an investor, say, you know, this guy may have a problem with Russian hookers and and cocaine.
00:36:03.100But does he have access to any of his father's memory?
00:36:30.540Well, I mean, it seems to me that anyone who has enough experience with altering body chemistry as Hunter Biden would be an expert in this field.
00:42:47.860I'm going to tell you something in the next 20 minutes that hopefully will be a great example of why I have warned about the coming technology and how we need to brush up on our ethics
00:43:03.600and be very, very informed and be very, very informed and guide these things and decide what we're willing to do and accept and what we're not willing to do and accept.
00:43:14.600I'm going to share some technology with you that the World Economic Forum just had a conference on.
00:43:25.460During their massive conference, they had some breakout sections and one was on new technology and your brainwaves.
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00:48:46.760It's going to make you see the future and understand a wonderful future where we can use brainwaves to fight crime, be more productive, and find love.
00:48:58.800Even you can't believe how productive you've been.
00:49:01.800Your memo is finished, your inbox is under control, and you're feeling sharper than you have in a decade.
00:49:08.940Sensing your joy, your playlist shifts to your favorite song,
00:49:12.260sending chills up your spine as the music begins to play.
00:49:16.300You glance at the program running in the background on your computer screen and notice a now familiar sight that appears whenever you're overloaded with pleasure.
00:49:26.620Your theta brainwave activity decreasing in the temporal regions of your brain.
00:49:31.360You mentally move the cursor to the left and scroll through your brain data over the past few hours.
00:49:38.760You can see your stress levels rising as the deadline to finish your memo approached, causing a peak in your beta brainwave activity right before an alert popped up telling you to take a brain break.
00:49:51.320But what's that unusual change in your brain activity when you're asleep?
00:50:08.800Your mind starts to wander to the new colleague on your team, whom you know you shouldn't be daydreaming about, given the policy against intra-office romance.
00:50:18.300But you can't help fantasizing just a little.
00:50:21.860But then you start to worry that your boss will notice your amorous feelings when she checks your brain activity and shift your attention back to the present.
00:50:31.920You breathe a sigh of relief when the email she sends you later that day congratulates you on your brain metrics from the past quarter, which have earned you another performance bonus.
00:50:42.440You head home, jamming to the music, with your work-issued brain-sensing earbuds still in.
00:50:49.960When you arrive at work the next day, a somber cloud has fallen over the office.
00:50:55.880Along with emails, text messages, and GPS location data, the government has subpoenaed employees' brainwave data from the past year.
00:51:05.100They have compelling evidence that one of your co-workers has committed massive wire fraud.
00:51:11.860Now, they're looking for his co-conspirators.
00:51:15.280You discover they are looking for synchronized brain activity between your co-worker and the people he has been working with.
00:51:22.880While you know you're innocent of any crime, you've been secretly working with him on a new startup venture.
00:53:07.620The average person thinks thousands of thoughts each day.
00:53:10.420As a thought takes form, like a math calculation, you're happy, you're tired, you're hungry, you're elated.
00:53:17.120Neurons are firing in your brain, emitting tiny electrical discharges.
00:53:23.840As a particular thought takes form, hundreds of thousands of neurons fire in characteristic patterns that can be decoded with EEG, or electroencephalography, and AI-powered devices.
00:53:35.760In fact, what you're seeing here is my brain activity while I'm wearing a simple device like the one on the right.
00:53:41.780We're not talking about implanted devices of the future.
00:53:45.340Here, I'm talking about wearable devices that are like Fitbits for your brain.
00:53:51.140It used to be that there was very little we could tell from EEG activity.
00:53:55.780But already, using consumer wearable devices, these are headbands, hats that have sensors that can pick up your brainwave activity, earbuds, headphones, tiny tattoos that you can wear behind your ear.
00:54:10.620We can pick up emotional states like are you happy or sad or angry.
00:54:15.340We can pick up and decode faces that you're seeing in your mind.
00:54:20.680Simple shapes, numbers, your pin number to your bank account.
00:54:25.780It's not just your brain activity here that we can pick up.
00:54:31.280We can also pick up your brain activity in different places like as your neurons fire from your brain down your arm and send signals to your hand to tell you how to type, move.
00:54:41.720All of that can be decoded through electromyography, and that's what you're seeing here is a device now in the form of a simple wearable watch that can pick up that activity.
00:54:54.160And in one of the pivotal acquisitions of the field, Meta acquired this company, Control Labs, in 2019, because major tech companies are investing and helping to make these devices universally applicable as the way in which we interact with the rest of our technology.
00:55:11.720In fact, the coming future, we are we are there, gang, everything's to who you remember.
00:55:22.060You remember the crazy days back in the 90s when I would talk about this stuff and it was really, truly science fiction.
00:55:50.060And I've been I've been telling you since 2016, I started to get very, very specific that our jobs are going to be in danger.
00:56:03.740Our jobs are going to be in danger because things like A.I. will be able to take jobs away from people.
00:56:12.520This is why when I've ever spoken of universal basic income, I have not dismissed it out of hand as un-American universal basic income, as it's been debated, has is wrong.
00:56:33.340And I do not think it's an answer for anything.
00:56:36.100I think it will only cause more problems.
00:56:37.860However, what I have said is we have to discuss something because what's going to happen is these tech companies like Microsoft, Google and others, they will start to create things that take the jobs.
00:57:43.720These things are going to impact everything.
00:57:46.320For instance, Microsoft is now working on releasing, and I guess it's an app or a system, that you say, I want to develop a website, and you tell the AI, and it will develop it for you.
00:58:00.260Already, images can be produced using AI.
00:58:08.000You describe what you want to see, and it might, in 10 seconds, come up with 100 different images that could be photorealistic.
00:58:17.780And 80 of them might suck, and 80 of them might suck, 10 of them might be eh, but five of them might be really good.
00:58:27.940This is only going to get better and better and better and better.
00:59:04.400Now, if you think this is, you know, something on the horizon that's not going to happen, you're sadly mistaken, because it is already being put to use in factories.
00:59:17.940And I'll explain that to you coming up in 60 seconds.
01:00:48.220Okay, if you remember, and I don't know how many people do, there was a story out of China
01:01:07.380where factories are starting to force their workers to wear hats.
01:01:16.600And these hats have this wearable technology in it that this woman was just speaking about.
01:01:23.580Now, this story came out two, maybe three years ago, and it monitors the brainwaves, and they can see who's paying attention and who's not.
01:01:33.620It also can give them, like, a little electric shock if they happen to not be paying attention.
01:01:40.980And it's a little freaky because the corporations know everything about these people.
01:01:49.540And remember, the corporations are in a public-private partnership with the government.
01:01:55.200When she says to this group at Davos, are you ready for, you know, wearable technology to scan brainwaves?
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01:05:41.340And I have recommended it to so many people.
01:05:45.520I think it is truly, at this point, maybe one of the most important books that you can read to shake the dust off your brain and to make your brain a little more nimble and understand what we are truly.
01:06:08.060If we have an attack on the United States and I want to talk to you about this because it is all about technology.
01:06:16.980There was a book that was written years ago called One Second After.
01:06:25.620Now there's, and I just found this out the other day, a couple weeks ago, there was a follow-up one year after and five years after is being written right now.
01:06:35.380And it is also in development to be a, either a TV series or a miniseries.
01:06:41.020If this was done like they did the day after, when I was growing up in the eighties, this would stun the American people as much as that did, if not more, because the death toll is off the charts.
01:07:00.860One Second After revolves around an EMP, which shuts down everything.
01:07:08.560It fries all electronics, and it's not an easy fix.
01:07:54.020I'm just going to start reading one year after, and then five years after.
01:07:59.840I wanted to talk to you, however, not about EMP, because you are one of the leading experts in not just EMP, but also cyber attacks.
01:08:12.260And I'm very concerned that we are not paying any attention at all, not just as a government, but as people.
01:08:20.960We have no idea what a war with Russia would at least start as a massive cyber attack.
01:08:30.520Can you get into the details of how likely and what that would mean to the American people to have a major cyber attack on our electrical grid and our infrastructure?
01:08:45.680So, case one, just within the last couple of months, maybe you recall, in Washington State and also twice in North Carolina, somebody shot up a substation.
01:08:58.760All you need is a high-power rifle, shoot out the transformers, and about 100,000 people went without power.
01:09:06.400Doing a cyber attack on a national level or an international level, you could call it an asymmetrical first strike.
01:09:16.660In regular terms, that means if you can successfully initiate a cyber attack on the United States, you've essentially decapitated our command.
01:09:32.740And this is really akin, like in the 1940s, something that was not understood because World War I was the first time we used planes and they weren't the same at all.
01:09:45.600It was the opening salvo, and we've seen this in Afghanistan and Iraq, is planes flying in and dropping bombs to disrupt the infrastructure.
01:09:57.000You don't need to do that anymore, right?
01:10:39.200Just last month, I was meeting with the South Carolina Energy Consortium.
01:10:44.740These are all the executives for the whole power grid in South Carolina.
01:10:48.280They told me repeatedly this was their number one concern, that we will undergo a cyber attack and we're blinded.
01:10:58.300Because think about what isn't dependent on electricity.
01:11:04.520That's where we come up with that year.
01:11:07.30080 to 90 percent of Americans could very well die, you know, post major cyber attack or an EMP strike.
01:11:15.520So when you look at a I know an EMP just fries everything, a cyber attack, we're used to seeing, you know, that come back online right away.
01:12:04.640Now, take those huge transformers that you see occasionally on the highway, you know, these things as long as a trailer.
01:12:12.780To replace one of those from the time you place an order where the electrical company says we need a new one until you stick it in and put it online takes up to two years.
01:16:20.320Newt also says this is the number one concern.
01:16:22.760About three months before the end of the Trump administration, Trump mandated all our major different federal agencies, DOE, DOD, Homeland Security, were to set out a blueprint of what we have to do.
01:16:38.820They were to report to him about three months after they thought he would be reelected.
01:17:09.080The last thing is, on these power stations that you see sitting on the side of the road, and it's protected by chain link fences, we've already had some of them shot at.
01:17:24.020And it's my understanding that if nine go down, it could bring down the entire grid.
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01:20:24.620I hope your tree is going up right now because the White House is planning to end the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency on, right around the corner, May 11th.
01:22:03.100Actually, we're having so many technical difficulties today.
01:22:05.740It's been a bizarre experience trying to do the show today.
01:22:09.600And people, you know, it's easy to laugh at people in Texas and say,
01:22:17.100hey, you guys aren't you guys the tough guys, the guys that are supposed to be able to get through everything, you know, the independent types.
01:22:23.240And then, you know, an inch of ice hits the ground and we all shudder like we're the most Northeastern liberals you'll ever imagine.
01:27:24.420I mean, you know, it's not that long ago that Donald Trump was criticizing Governor Kemp in Georgia for opening up too quickly, opening up too broadly.
01:29:38.420So the Obama administration bans the funding of this, federal funding, back in, I think it was 2014, saying, wait a minute, this might be a little too risky.
01:30:09.940And then you have that winding through as the very end of the Obama administration, there was the inkling they were going to lift this ban.
01:30:19.740It was actually lifted during the Trump administration.
01:30:23.360And, you know, fast forward a couple of years, all of a sudden we got COVID.
01:30:26.140Now, we don't know for sure where this came from.
01:30:28.040We don't know for sure that it was a result of gain-of-function research.
01:30:31.580But there's a lot, a lot of circumstantial evidence that would point in that direction, especially as it ties to these labs in Wuhan.
01:30:41.580So we go through this whole process, and we still have gain-of-function research being done around the world.
01:30:50.540This is not something that has been banned.
01:30:51.980It wasn't, you'd think a rational reaction to this was like, okay, we don't even know for sure that gain-of-function research was the culprit here.
01:31:00.280But there's obviously a pretty straight path to this being the culprit.
01:31:05.280Let's just all say we take a breather on this, take a little break.
01:31:09.300Like, well, some of the funding has dried up for it, but it's still going on in private institutions.
01:31:14.480And certainly it's going on in places like China and Russia.
01:31:18.320And so, and you're never going to be able to ban it there.
01:53:17.360We're going to put people in there without expertise.
01:53:19.580And we're not really going to push back against what happens in these schools at all, despite the fact that it's our responsibility to deal with them.
01:53:27.480So, now, Ron DeSantis is saying, hey, wait a minute, you know what we should do?
01:53:54.780And he got over 20,000 likes on this tweet thread talking about education policy in Florida.
01:54:01.320And, you know, he says, Florida teachers are being held, told to remove all books from their classroom libraries or face felony prosecution.
01:54:11.660The new policy is based on the premise that teachers are using books to groom students or indoctrinate them with leftist ideologies.
01:54:18.880And he posts a clip of the statutory changes and highlights a few words.
01:54:24.800He underlines classroom libraries, commits a felony of the third degree, and we are seeking volunteers to assist with vetting and compiling a website.
01:54:36.680What he doesn't, of course, underline is the fact that what he's saying is all material in school and classroom libraries must be included, that are included on the reading list, must be, quote, free of pornography and material prohibited under this particular statute.
01:54:56.300Now, free of pornography, I mean, I'm not an Olympic-level hurdler, but I feel like freeing your classroom library of pornography is a low hurdle to clear.
01:55:10.020This is something that we as a society should be able to accomplish.
01:55:13.560And, you know, if you're on the fence on something, I don't know, is this hardcore porn?
01:55:19.020Maybe keep it out of the classrooms, right?
01:55:21.200Like, maybe let mommy and daddy make that decision at home.
01:55:25.360Well, maybe that's not even the right decision, but it's certainly the low hurdle to clear is to keep it out of classrooms.
01:55:31.940He goes on to talk about these separate laws that he, I think, mistook to think were one law working together.
01:55:39.820It's hard to understand how his analysis kind of goes awry here.
01:55:42.700Um, but he says the don't say gay bill prohibits all instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in K3 classrooms and instruction in other grades that is not appropriate or developmentally appropriate.
01:55:55.760But the law applies to classroom instruction, not library books.
01:56:00.280The Stop Woke Act is also limited to classroom instruction.
01:56:04.000The teacher training approved by the federal, uh, excuse me, the Florida Department of Education does not inform librarians that don't say gay and Stop Woke do not apply to library books.
01:56:12.280And he goes on to say that it's not going, like, the big controversy on the left is that teachers can now not determine for their students what books should be in these libraries.
01:56:21.960Instead, it's not Ron DeSantis who makes the decision, but librarians will make the decision.
01:56:27.120So now the left is vilifying librarians, uh, instead, over teachers.
01:56:33.260Um, he goes on to try to explain it incorrectly, but I wanted to kind of walk you through what the Stop Woke Act, for example, does, because I don't think people even know this.
01:56:46.620You might say, oh, well, I know that Ron DeSantis is not trying to stop people from understanding black history or slavery because, you know, he's not the Nazi they try to make him out to be.
01:57:15.260I went to public school, unfortunately.
01:57:17.120You probably can tell that by listening to the program every day.
01:57:20.000But here's the, uh, here, what, here is what is banned on the Stop Woke Act.
01:57:23.900In fact, members of one race, color, sex, or national origin are morally superior to members of another race, color, sex, or national origin.
01:57:33.040You can't teach that because of the Stop Woke Act.
01:57:35.340You can't say white people are superior to black people.
01:57:38.140You also can't say black people are morally superior to white people.
01:57:49.200Next up, you have, uh, an individual by virtue of his or her race, color, sex, or national origin, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously.
01:58:00.980You can't say all white people are racist.
01:58:02.960You can't say all black people are racist.
01:58:27.800This is only controversial to the minds of people on Twitter and people in the media.
01:58:33.320What else is prevented by the Stop Woke Act?
01:58:35.200An individual's moral character or status is either privileged or oppressed by, and is necessarily determined by his race, colors, sex, or national origin.
01:58:43.940So you can't say, okay, well, because I happen to be white, I'm an oppressor.
01:58:47.940Because you happen to be black, you're oppressed.
01:58:49.940You can't teach that as doctrine or the other way around.
01:58:52.860You also can't teach members of one race, color, sex, or national origin cannot and should not attempt to treat others without respect to race, color, national origin, or sex.
01:59:01.700An individual, by virtue of his or her race, color, sex, or national origin, bears responsibility for or should be discriminated against or receive adverse treatment because of actions committed in the past by other members of the same race.
01:59:15.100So we can't say, hey, slave owners back in the 1700s mean that you, little Billy, in class get a detention.