The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 597 - Dems Pretend They Didn't Just Spend Four Years Calling Trump An Illegitimate President

00:00:00.000 Today on The Matt Walsh Show, the media panics over Trump questioning the integrity of the

00:00:03.920 election, but the media itself has been questioning the integrity of his election for the past four

00:00:07.520 years. So what do we think about that? Also, we're going to examine the fraud claims that

00:00:12.400 are being made. Is there a good reason to suspect fraud? And if so, what should be done about it?

00:00:16.220 Plus, Democrats fight amongst themselves over whether socialism and leftist extremism is the

00:00:21.640 future of their party. And in our daily cancellation, we'll discuss the radical sex ed

00:00:25.760 mandate that was just approved by the voters of Washington state. All of that coming up. First,

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00:01:48.420 sort of thinking. I suspect that you won't agree with everything I have to say. That's okay.

00:01:54.620 It'd be weird if you agreed with me all the time. I barely agree with myself all the time.

00:01:59.080 But we're all in a position where we have to pick our way through the weeds, through the

00:02:04.100 misinformation, obfuscation, fake news, out of context news, all of that. As we discussed yesterday,

00:02:09.880 there's a crisis of trust in this country. Ultimately, one way or another, we get much of

00:02:15.380 our information about world events and political events and the election through the media. We

00:02:20.480 can't trust the media. We can't trust most politicians, government officials. So it makes

00:02:25.280 it very hard to know what's real and what isn't. It requires a lot of discernment on our part,

00:02:30.600 a lot of clear thinking, a lot of intellectual honesty. And that's how I'm trying to approach

00:02:36.900 this. And I think how we should all try to approach it. Now, President Trump gave a press

00:02:42.040 conference last night. The media went ballistic over it, calling it an attack on our democracy,

00:02:46.380 the worst thing Trump has ever done since the last worst thing he's ever done. Here's how that

00:02:52.060 press conference began. Listen.

00:02:54.160 Good evening. I'd like to provide the American people with an update on our efforts to protect

00:02:59.960 the integrity of our very important 2020 election. If you count the legal votes, I easily win.

00:03:07.960 If you count the illegal votes, they can try to steal the election from us. If you count the votes that

00:03:16.500 came in late, we're looking at them very strongly. But a lot of votes came in late.

00:03:21.300 As I said, the media reacted to that, the whole thing, the whole press conference with typical

00:03:26.520 dramatic flair. Here for just one example, this is Anderson Cooper, alleged news anchor,

00:03:33.540 offering his quite objective analysis of what Trump had to say.

00:03:38.240 We have never seen really other than, well, I don't think we've ever seen anything like this from

00:03:44.020 a president of the United States. And I think, as Jake said, it is, it's sad and it is truly pathetic.

00:03:49.880 And of course, it is dangerous. And of course, it will go to courts. But you'll notice the president

00:03:54.240 did not have any evidence presented at all. Nothing. No real, actual evidence of any kind

00:04:03.460 of fraud. He talked about people putting up papers in windows. He talked about things that

00:04:07.460 he'd seen on the internet. That is the president of the United States. That is the most powerful

00:04:13.420 person in the world. And we see him like an obese turtle on his back, flailing in the hot sun,

00:04:19.920 realizing his time is over. But he just hasn't accepted it. And he wants to take everybody down

00:04:25.820 with him, including this country. An obese turtle. I bet he was proud of that line. Hilarious stuff.

00:04:32.200 Nice job, Anderson. You know, I could say that you look like a cartoon seagull. If I, if I wanted to

00:04:37.600 stoop to your level, I would say that, but I don't want to stoop to your level. So I'm not going to say

00:04:41.560 that. And anyway, however you feel about Trump's rhetoric, his, his, his, uh, you know, in his

00:04:48.360 response, his fraud claims, all of that, even if you think it's reckless and dangerous and whatever

00:04:52.680 else, you absolutely have no standing at all to condemn Trump, much less get all high and mighty

00:04:59.000 about it. If you're a Democrat, because Democrats for four years accused Trump of being an illegitimate

00:05:03.480 president. They said it multiple times, many times over and over and over again, relentlessly.

00:05:07.040 They accused him of conspiring with Russia to steal our election. Was there any evidence of that? No,

00:05:12.560 none. The most they could do is tell us that Russia was trolling on Facebook and posting memes.

00:05:18.940 That's the most evidence we ever were given. And this was called rigging the election. They said

00:05:24.680 that Trump and Russia conspired to rig the election. They then went on to claim that Trump's Supreme

00:05:30.060 Court justices were illegitimate. They'd been saying that about Amy Coney Barrett. After all of that,

00:05:35.600 you are in simply no position to call Trump a turtle flailing at the sun, unless you want to call

00:05:41.980 yourself the same. Besides, anyway, the only turtle in politics is Mitch McConnell, and he's more of a

00:05:47.260 ninja turtle. The guy's a killer. He just doesn't lose, Mitch McConnell. By the way, Hillary Clinton

00:05:52.000 in particular has been on TV for the past four years calling Trump an illegitimate president.

00:05:56.080 Those words exactly. Here she is in 2019, three years after the election, still calling Trump an

00:06:02.180 illegitimate president. Listen. I believe he knows he's an illegitimate president. He knows. He knows

00:06:09.340 that there were a bunch of different reasons why the election turned out the way it did. And I take

00:06:16.600 responsibility for those parts of it that I should. But Jane, it was like applying for a job and getting

00:06:21.560 66 million letters of recommendation and losing to a corrupt human tornado. And so I know that he knows

00:06:31.700 that this wasn't on the level. I don't know that we'll ever know everything that happened,

00:06:36.020 but clearly we know a lot and are learning more every day. And history will probably sort it all

00:06:41.040 out. So of course he's obsessed with me. And OK, now Trump is going to say the same thing about Biden.

00:06:46.520 And we're going to have to listen to the people who cheered Hillary Clinton react with feigned shock

00:06:52.540 and horror when Trump says the same thing Hillary Clinton said. Speaking of which, here's something I'm

00:06:59.940 wondering. I wonder, throughout the past four years of leftists calling Trump illegitimate,

00:07:05.080 calling his Supreme Court picks illegitimate, advancing baseless claims of stolen elections

00:07:10.320 and election rigging and voter suppression, has any leftist at any point anywhere ever been flagged,

00:07:17.500 censored or suspended by Twitter, Facebook, any other big tech company? Has there been even one example

00:07:23.380 one among the millions of cases of this? Have any of them been punished by Twitter, Facebook,

00:07:29.800 any of the rest? No, of course not. Meanwhile, nearly everything Trump is currently tweeting is

00:07:34.720 censored by Twitter. It's completely absurd, dishonest, double standards. It's wrong, period,

00:07:41.060 obviously. But what about the claims of election fraud? Is there fraud? Are Trump's fraud claims

00:07:46.720 different from Hillary's because his are true? Well, I don't know. This goes back to the crisis of

00:07:52.260 trust. What I can say is that I don't believe every fraud claim I see on social media. You should

00:07:58.420 neither. I also don't think there's some coordinated overarching conspiracy capable of simply fabricating

00:08:04.660 millions of votes out of thin air. If there was, Trump wouldn't have won in 2016. And it wouldn't

00:08:11.020 be so close this year. The Democrats wouldn't have gotten decimated in the House. Also, coordinated

00:08:17.080 overarching conspiracies just aren't how things work in real life. It's also not how voter fraud works.

00:08:21.740 Voter fraud is real and it happens, but it's usually on a small scale and it's disjointed.

00:08:27.380 So to me, the issue isn't conspiracy. And it has little to do with poll workers and the videos

00:08:33.020 that are coming out, grainy videos. That's not the point. I don't think that should be our focus.

00:08:39.000 Here is the point, in my view. I could be wrong, but this is the way that I see it.

00:08:43.820 Mail-in ballots, an unprecedented number of mail-in ballots. Democrats changed the rules at the last

00:08:49.800 minute to get as many mail-in ballots as they could. This was done solely, only, 100% to get rid of

00:08:56.700 Trump. They knew the mail-in ballots would work in their favor. This was not about voter participation

00:09:02.660 for the sake of participation. It was about getting, for the Democrats, the right kind of voters to

00:09:07.540 participate. You saw how many people showed up for Trump on election day. Huge turnout. They knew it

00:09:12.860 would go that way. So they changed the rules in order to involve more of their own voters.

00:09:18.340 This was all done, quote, legally, as in the courts approved it. So you can't overturn the results on

00:09:23.520 that basis, but you can make sure that it doesn't happen again. And you can forbid mass mail-in voting

00:09:29.280 in the future. If we allow it to continue, I'll tell you, a Republican's never going to be president

00:09:33.820 ever again, period. Though that isn't the problem with mail-in voting. It's not that the problem is that

00:09:39.580 it doesn't elect Republicans. It's that it's highly susceptible to mistakes, errors, and outright

00:09:43.880 fraud. And we've seen all of that. It also makes it harder to know if the votes were cast within the

00:09:49.760 deadline. This is all by design. So the whole mail-in system is faulty and should be abolished

00:09:55.440 entirely, with the exception of the military who can still mail-in their ballots. Does that mean that

00:10:00.700 there's no basis to challenge anything or to go to court over this? No, not at all. As I said,

00:10:05.940 unprecedented amounts of mail-in ballots, razor-thin margins, one of the closest elections

00:10:10.360 ever in history. This is reason enough to do recounts, to do audits, even without any notion

00:10:16.600 of fraud. This is reason enough right here. This was a new system, a clunky system, not well-managed,

00:10:22.320 and we need to make sure it worked. Again, I would be saying this even if there were no claims on social

00:10:27.460 media of any fraud at all. But the fact is, we do have indications of potential fraud or irregularities

00:10:33.680 or whatever you want to call it. In Pennsylvania, they allowed ballots that were not postmarked or

00:10:39.620 clearly postmarked to be counted, even if they weren't received until three days after the election

00:10:43.680 had concluded. That's a huge problem. We need to make sure that all of those ballots were mailed

00:10:48.560 on time. If they weren't, they have to be tossed. Any ballot that can't be 100% confirmed as having been

00:10:54.120 sent on time must be tossed. If that means we toss thousands of ballots, so be it. Our election's

00:11:01.060 integrity is at stake. And in other states, too, there have been huge amounts of late ballots.

00:11:06.660 We need to make sure they were filed on time. We need to make sure that they were filed and filled

00:11:10.580 out legitimately. We need to make sure people weren't voting by mail and then in person and

00:11:15.160 that kind of thing. This is all perfectly valid grounds for litigation. Take it to court. And listen,

00:11:21.000 if there's no solid evidence of fraud, that'll come out in court. The Trump team, they can't go to

00:11:26.600 court with tweets and 12-second video clips. They have to produce the goods, right? Show the

00:11:31.620 receipts. If you think they have no goods to produce, well, then you shouldn't be worried about

00:11:35.800 the courts. All the more reason to advocate for getting the courts involved. So that's the only

00:11:44.120 way to do this. All of the legal ballots should be counted. We have to make sure they're legal.

00:11:50.940 Any ballots that were filed late have to be tossed out. We need to make sure everything was done

00:11:55.180 correctly. We have never had an election play out like this. That's not an exaggeration. When you

00:12:01.040 look at the number of people, the number of ballots, mass mail-in voting, taking days to

00:12:07.000 count them all, it has never worked like this before. This is a whole new thing. And if it went

00:12:13.940 like this and it was an absolute landslide in one direction or another, then I think we'd have

00:12:18.340 reason to say, well, we're not going to recount. It's pretty clear. But that's not what happened.

00:12:23.340 But razor thin, tight margins. And so you got to go back, do some recounts, do the audits,

00:12:28.980 litigate it, take it to the courts. If the Trump campaign has evidence of voter fraud,

00:12:34.460 let them present it in a court. If you are against them presenting their case in court,

00:12:41.720 then that only tells me you're scared of the case they might present. If you think it's utterly

00:12:47.680 baseless, then all right. Then you know what's going to happen? The Trump team will be embarrassed

00:12:52.520 in court. And if you don't like Trump, you should embrace that opportunity.

00:12:58.840 So that's the way this should go. Let's get now to our five headlines.

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00:15:37.180 I've been sort of playing fast and loose with the format this week because it's a weird week in many ways.

00:15:41.360 So this is one story. And it is the Democrat party trying to deal with and understand

00:15:48.520 why they didn't have the landslide they expected. A few Democrats, here's the update here. A few

00:15:55.800 Democrats have actually come out and given some valuable insight into this question. And they've

00:16:02.480 been predictably ripped to shreds because of it. Most notably, Claire McCaskill on MSNBC

00:16:08.040 talking about this subject. And here she gives, I think this is the smartest analysis that has ever

00:16:15.620 been offered by any Democrat on cable news, perhaps. And here it is right here. Listen.

00:16:22.080 It's hard to pinpoint. I think it began around cultural issues. The Republican party, I think,

00:16:28.200 very adroitly adopted cultural issues as part of their main theme. Whether you're talking guns or

00:16:36.380 issues surrounding the right to abortion in this country or things like gay marriage and the right

00:16:41.700 for transsexuals and other people who we as a party have tried to, quote unquote, look after and

00:16:48.840 make sure that they're treated fairly. As we, you know, circle those issues, we left some voters behind

00:16:55.720 and Republicans dove in with a vengeance and grabbed those voters. And you've seen this shift.

00:17:01.540 You saw it in the South. I've seen it in the rural areas of my state. So we've got to get back to the

00:17:07.000 meat and potatoes issues. We've got to get back to the issues where we are taking care of their families.

00:17:11.960 And we also need to quit acting like we're smarter than everybody else because we're not.

00:17:17.080 Similar thoughts were expressed by Representative Abigail Spanberger in a conference call with House

00:17:22.660 with the House Democratic Caucus, the contents of which were leaked on social media.

00:17:27.020 And here's what she said reportedly in the conference call. She said,

00:17:31.340 the number one concern that people brought to me was defunding the police. And I heard from

00:17:36.260 colleagues who said, oh, it's the language of the streets. We should respect that. We're in Congress.

00:17:40.840 We're professionals. We're supposed to talk about things in a way where we mean what we're talking

00:17:44.580 about. If we don't mean that we should defund police, we shouldn't say that. And we need to not

00:17:49.200 ever use the word socialist or socialism ever again, because while people think it doesn't matter,

00:17:53.280 it does matter. And we lost good members because of that. And if we are classifying Tuesday as a

00:17:58.260 success from a congressional standpoint, we will get effing torn apart in 2022. That's what she said.

00:18:04.260 Part of what she said. The squad, of course, has stepped up valiantly to stand against these bursts

00:18:12.900 of sanity, making it clear that no sanity will be allowed in the Democrat party at all. In fact,

00:18:17.780 Claire McCaskill has already come out and apologized for daring to be rational and reasonable. She's

00:18:23.800 already had to come out and apologize. I'm so sorry about that. I'm so sorry for being reasonable.

00:18:28.080 It'll never happen again, I promise you. It's only happened once in my life that it'll be a

00:18:31.860 one-time deal, I promise. It will never happen again. But these, so this message is not going to

00:18:38.260 be embraced, especially by the squad and that ilk. But this is, of course, exactly right.

00:18:44.460 And we've already talked about some of the reasons why it's right. But here's maybe the

00:18:51.580 primary thing that it comes down to. You have to appeal to families. If you want to be a valid

00:19:00.280 political party and you want to have success, especially down the ballot, you have to appeal

00:19:05.180 to families. Look at President Trump. His strongest demo in 2020, according to exit polling data so far,

00:19:14.460 was married women. And I don't think anyone was predicting that. He didn't do as well with

00:19:20.340 unmarried women, but he did well with married women. That was his strongest demo. Why is that?

00:19:25.060 Well, married women, they have, they are carrying, you know, the burdens and the concerns of their

00:19:30.080 families. And they're bringing those to the ballot box. And you have to speak to that. If you're not

00:19:34.140 speaking to families, you're done, you're toast. And defund the police. Now, uh, Spanberger, exactly

00:19:42.020 right. The defund the police may have been, may be the most suicidal political slogan that's ever

00:19:50.000 been adopted by a major political party. And the Democrat party did adopt it. They full on adopted it.

00:19:54.940 Most mainstream Democrats were going around saying it and the rest who didn't say it at least didn't

00:20:01.180 stand up. Most of them, um, uh, against it. Defund the police. No, no, no. I don't care what

00:20:08.740 race you are. It doesn't matter. No family wants the police defunded in their community.

00:20:14.500 That's not the priority of a family of, of, of someone who has kids and all the rest of this

00:20:21.640 that we get from the Democrat party. They're not, they're not focused on the things that

00:20:24.920 families care about. In fact, often it's quite the opposite. They're talking about tearing down

00:20:31.740 the family, undermining the nuclear family. They treat the family as a patriarchal, archaic

00:20:36.520 institution. As I've been talking about all week, that kind of stuff, very appealing to,

00:20:43.160 you know, people on college campuses, uh, very appealing to some media pundits,

00:20:49.300 very appealing to Antifa radicals marching in the street,

00:20:53.820 presenting the nuclear family as a, as a problem that we have to do something about

00:20:59.500 rather than supporting the nuclear family and encouraging more families.

00:21:02.880 So that that's very appealing to that. So it's not appealing to anyone else.

00:21:07.960 And the thing is the other people, you know, families, married women, they vote.

00:21:13.160 A lot of those radicals in the street, they don't vote.

00:21:18.580 That's, that's the other dirty little secret. A lot of these people that are marching in the

00:21:22.420 street, uh, I'm not even convinced that they really hate Trump as much as they pretend.

00:21:28.040 I just don't think they care about much of anything. Yeah, they are, they are leftist by

00:21:32.460 political persuasion, but at the end of the day, they're also nihilist and empty. And, uh, when you're

00:21:36.980 looting and rioting and burning stuff is doing it because it's something to do.

00:21:41.460 Destroying for the sake of it, empty, lost people.

00:21:46.400 You can have a message that appeals to empty, lost people, but it's not going to appeal to families.

00:21:53.320 If you're in a family, you're not empty and lost. At the very least, you have that meaning in your

00:21:56.880 life. You care about your family and your kids. And that's what you're worried about when you go to

00:22:00.700 the polls. So, uh, but this is, this is not a message that, uh, the Democrat party and leftists

00:22:06.780 will embrace. They're not going to, they certainly won't embrace it for me. They won't even embrace

00:22:10.280 it from their own. So, uh, and I guess that's all the better for Republicans, at least down the ballot.

00:22:15.780 All right, let's get to our daily cancellation. Now for our daily cancellation today, we're canceling

00:22:20.880 the entire state of Washington, a great many potential and excellent reasons could be given

00:22:27.400 for canceling Washington state. But the focus for me today is the first ever voter approved

00:22:33.140 sex ed mandate, which was just passed by referendum on election day. Uh, and there's a lot of other

00:22:38.940 things happening with the election, but we can't lose sight of this voters in Washington approved

00:22:41.960 a measure to mandate that schools in the state teach so-called comprehensive sex ed to all students

00:22:50.040 starting in kindergarten. Now for more on the original bill, which sparked this referendum,

00:22:55.220 uh, let me read some of the, some of life site news's coverage from a few months ago. This is what

00:23:00.060 they say pro-family advocates have sounded the alarm by highlighting the graphic lessons of sex

00:23:05.000 ed curricula that meet the bill standards. A sex ed curriculum by the pro-abortion pro-LGBT group

00:23:11.760 advocates for youth meets the bill standards and is already used in some Washington schools called

00:23:16.720 three R it heavily promotes gender theory, promiscuity, condoms, and contraception and abortion,

00:23:22.980 as well as what is listed at the beginning, uh, the article, the three, uh, the three R curriculum

00:23:27.900 also directs teachers to have 14 year old students role play negotiating for sex. Teachers are warned

00:23:34.640 that if two quote, cisgender heterosexual boys end up randomly being assigned to each other for this

00:23:40.080 exercise, quote, it is possible they will have a homophobic response. A three R lesson plan called

00:23:46.040 creating condom confidence has ninth graders practice putting condoms on bananas or penis models.

00:23:52.160 Their homework assignment is to quote, see what it's actually like to try to try to get them

00:23:59.180 yourselves. Students are told they have a right to access condoms at any age and that adults who make

00:24:05.000 comments about them purchasing condoms can be reminded, uh, can be reminded of that. Other messages

00:24:10.400 contained in the state approved material, she says include instructions on bondage and quote, uh, body fluid

00:24:16.940 play, how males can allegedly have babies and, uh, why they should be allowed on girls sports teams

00:24:23.060 and how to obtain abortions, cross sex hormones, and HPV vaccinations without parental involvement.

00:24:28.460 Now, okay. This is a state approved sex ed curriculum. Uh, defenders of the mandate will point out that

00:24:33.380 the mandate doesn't tell schools they have to adopt that curriculum. Fine. But that's like passing a bill

00:24:39.000 saying everyone has to eat a lump of crap for breakfast. And someone objects and says, I don't want to eat

00:24:44.720 dog crap for breakfast. And you respond, well, you don't have to eat dog crap. You can eat whatever

00:24:48.600 kind of crap you want. Crap is crap. Comprehensive sex education is comprehensive sex education.

00:24:55.240 It is all basically the same. It's all basically like what I just read to you.

00:24:59.640 The bill mandates comprehensive sex ed, and this is what comprehensive sex ed is. This is what it

00:25:05.120 contains. This is the point of it to brainwash kids into this way of thinking and acting to this

00:25:12.020 worldview, this attitude about sex. That means gender identity, transgenderism, the 53 genders,

00:25:18.740 whatever. Uh, all that's part of it too. It's automatically a part of it because again,

00:25:23.900 that's what comprehensive sex ed is. And that's what it means. So think about what the voters of

00:25:29.040 Washington have done here. They have gone to the polls and voted for the government to sexually

00:25:36.340 groom their own children. It's pretty mind boggling. If you think your child should be

00:25:43.100 told about all these things, then why don't you just tell them yourself? I mean, I don't think you

00:25:49.220 should, but, but asking the government to do it willingly passing this whole subject off to the state

00:25:56.080 is lunacy. The voters of Washington are asking the government to corrupt their children. They're

00:26:01.400 saying, please, uncle Sam, please. This is, this is not democracy's finest moment. I guess we could

00:26:07.800 say, nor a great argument for it, to be frank. Now, anytime this conversation about sex ed comes up,

00:26:13.840 I'm always asked, well, Matt, if you don't believe in comprehensive sex ed for kids, then what kind of

00:26:19.100 sex ed do you support? That's an easy answer because for me, the answer is none, nothing. I don't support

00:26:27.920 any form of sex ed in school at all. I'm not advocating abstinence education. No, I, I don't

00:26:34.500 want government schools teaching my kids about how to abstain from sex. I don't want them teaching

00:26:41.220 them anymore, teaching them how to abstain from sex anymore than I want them teaching my kids how to

00:26:45.320 have sex. I want them giving no tips, no advice, no moral lessons, no instruction of any kind on this

00:26:52.340 subject, except for on a purely scientific and biological basis. Teach them about human

00:26:57.660 reproduction. Yes. Fine. This is how babies are made. And that's it. When to have sex,

00:27:03.500 should you have sex, how to have sex, what types of sex to have. None of those topics should be

00:27:07.980 covered or approached by government employees talking to a room full of children. It's not

00:27:12.700 their business. It's not their place. It's not why schools exist. And in fact, talking about the,

00:27:18.700 the, you know, basic birds and bees, ABCs of, of, of sex, human reproduction, the biology. Yeah.

00:27:25.020 That's something that you don't need a sex ed curriculum for that, much less a quote unquote

00:27:29.700 comprehensive sex ed curriculum. And it doesn't need to start in kindergarten either. That's

00:27:37.640 something that you, you cover in science class, biology class. You have a biology lesson. It's

00:27:42.320 going to cover human reproduction. That's all you need to say. Now, the problem is that we're at the

00:27:47.100 point now where I don't trust the government to teach that either. 10 years ago, my argument was

00:27:52.820 they should just teach the basics of biological reproduction. Now, actually, I don't even trust

00:27:58.440 them with that because that means given how the schools are run and the ideology that reigns supreme

00:28:04.980 in schools, uh, that means they're going to be teaching the kids that men can reproduce.

00:28:10.500 Now I, I would like to see that lesson plan in the biology textbook. I'd like to see how they explain

00:28:15.620 that, but that's the view. That's the worldview they're approaching this from.

00:28:20.940 Um, so even that we're, we're getting to a point where even that can't be approached, but

00:28:26.380 I, I, in an ideal scenario, um, the schools would teach the actual biological facts of sex

00:28:34.840 when it, you know, whenever that comes up in the, in the curriculum, in biology class, in science class,

00:28:40.680 uh, and, uh, and then, and then that's it. And then, and then, you know, so it's, it's science.

00:28:45.720 And then you're also teaching math and history and English and writing, uh, and all of that.

00:28:50.720 We don't need to get into anyone's opinions, anyone's worldview about sex. When you, when you

00:28:56.440 attach the word comprehensive in front of it, um, what that means is we are getting,

00:29:03.060 you know, the teacher's worldview, their opinions about sex and sexuality,

00:29:11.040 or the worldview and the opinion of the people who came up with the curriculum and the materials.

00:29:19.520 In this case, Planned Parenthood in Washington state, they've been huge advocates of this,

00:29:24.800 of this referendum, of this bill, this mandate. They, they love it. So this is the Planned Parenthood,

00:29:32.720 far left extreme worldview attached to it. But as I said, I don't think, and this is why it annoys me

00:29:41.500 that the, the debate over sex ed for so long has been, uh, should it be liberal comprehensive sex ed,

00:29:48.400 or should it be abstinence education? No, I, I don't, I don't think the solution here is to,

00:29:54.420 um, give, have the kids sit in a classroom with 30 other kids, have a government employee,

00:30:00.820 talk to them about sex, but instead of approaching it from a leftist worldview,

00:30:04.260 approach it from a conservative Christian worldview. No, no, I don't want my kids sitting

00:30:09.620 there. You know, the, the, the argument or the, um, the reasons why children should abstain from sex.

00:30:20.920 Um, there are a lot of very good reasons for it. You know, the, the reasons why you should

00:30:25.660 wait for marriage to have sex. A lot of great reasons for that. I don't trust my kid's health

00:30:34.600 teacher. If I sent them to public school, which I don't, but I wouldn't trust my kid's health teacher

00:30:38.540 to handle that subject and make those arguments and present that case in a competent way. I just

00:30:44.300 don't trust them to do it far too delicate, far too important. And I don't think, and even if I did

00:30:51.640 trust the teacher, which I don't, I don't think sitting in a classroom with 30 other kids is the

00:30:57.800 right environment for that talk. So get that out of the schools, let parents handle it. Uh, it's,

00:31:06.900 that's something for the family, for the home. It's not for schools. And, but voters in, uh, in

00:31:13.300 Washington state, they want the school to do it. They're saying hands off. I'll just, I'll send my,

00:31:19.680 my five-year-old over to you guys and you do with him what you will turn him into whatever you want

00:31:24.680 to turn him into. I'm hands off. I mean, what am I, the parent? Because of that, they are canceled

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Ep. 597 - Dems Pretend They Didn't Just Spend Four Years Calling Trump An Illegitimate President

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