The head of the L.A. Teachers Union admits that she doesn t care about kids learning academic subjects. She just wants them to be properly indoctrinated. Also, the CDC has expanded its reach beyond diseases and is now fighting the scourge of gun violence. What does that tell us? And can you now lose custody of your kids if you're not vaccinated? Plus, in our daily cancellation, a firefighter in Virginia is under investigation for making an allegedly racist symbol with his fingers. The story only gets dumber and dumber from there.
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00:02:47.760As a society, we have trusted this institution to mold entire generations of Americans.
00:02:54.320To determine what they believe, what they think, what values they hold.
00:02:58.940We've really handed our country over to it, over to this institution, the public school system, and said, here, you know, you make our country into whatever you want it to be.
00:03:10.140And we're suffering the consequences of that decision.
00:03:12.520But even now, many Americans like to imagine that they send their kids to public school only for academic enrichment and training, only to learn the facts about, you know, math and history and so on.
00:03:26.440But the system considers facts to be secondary to its primary goal, which is to instill values.
00:03:33.020It's not so much to tell kids about the world, but to control how the kids see the world and how they feel about what they see.
00:03:43.420The indoctrination, the point here is the indoctrination is not a byproduct.
00:04:35.240Like I said, shouting into a bullhorn.
00:04:37.500You don't have to listen even that closely.
00:04:38.780But this is what the second paragraph of that profile says.
00:04:41.000And right away, she lives up to her reputation.
00:04:54.680After settling into a swivel chair and slowly removing her zebra print face mask, the 47-year-old lightning rod for controversy calmly sets her hands on the table and begins issuing a series of incendiary statements that almost seem aerodynamically designed to grab headlines and infuriate critics.
00:05:11.440Like this one, quote, there is no such thing as learning loss, she responds when asked how about her insistence on keeping L.A. schools mostly locked down over the last year and a half and how that may have impacted the city's 600,000 kindergarten through 12th grade students.
00:05:38.020They know the difference between a riot and a protest.
00:05:40.460They know the words insurrection and coup.
00:05:44.600She even went so far as to suggest darkly that learning loss is a fake crisis marketed by shadowy purveyors of clinical and classroom assessments.
00:05:54.100Yeah, it's a learning loss is a conspiracy theory, she's saying.
00:05:57.680Now, she's right in one sense that there is no reason why kids should suffer learning loss just because public school has been shut down.
00:06:08.120So that teachers can have an 18-month paid vacation.
00:06:11.440Some parents picked up homeschooling during that time and discovered that their kids were learning more than they ever had before.
00:06:19.540Real learning begins when you take your kids out of the system.
00:06:23.740That's when the best learning, the real learning happens.
00:06:25.440But unfortunately, many parents didn't replace public school with homeschool.
00:06:29.520They instead plopped their kids down in front of computers for seven hours a day, hoping that their eight- and nine-year-olds would learn from Zoom classes.
00:06:38.140Just put their, you know, put your nine-year-old in a Zoom meeting all day and hope that he picks something up.
00:10:29.800We're just supposed to understand why it makes her uncomfortable.
00:10:32.260And, hey, if you're uncomfortable with the American flag, you don't like this country, well, join the club with all the other people that are in your boat.
00:10:41.240And maybe actually get on a boat and go somewhere else.
00:10:46.180In fact, I hear Kabul is nice this time of year.
00:10:49.260If you hate America so much that you're uncomfortable around the flag, this kind of sentiment would be inconceivable in almost any other country in the world, especially in the non-Western world, to have someone professing to be uncomfortable around their own nation's flag.
00:11:13.440But we not only have people who feel that way here, but they're teaching students.
00:12:25.720Now, think about the culture in that school and among the faculty that made Kristen Pitson think that, uh, it was, it was okay not only to do what she did, but to brag about it on the internet.
00:12:39.820Think about what's happening in that school.
00:12:41.520Think about what's happening in the faculty lounges.
00:12:43.340What kind of conversations are going on?
00:12:48.300And, and, of course, it, it, again, if she hadn't posted this to TikTok, and then if it hadn't been picked up on Twitter and gone viral, there'd be no consequences at all.
00:12:55.760And if it wasn't for the American flag, but the fact that she's draping her entire classroom in pride flags, that's not a problem at all.
00:13:04.200She wouldn't get in any trouble for that.
00:13:06.980Even though we're told we got to keep religion and school separate.
00:14:38.560Now, I got a word from our very good friends over at 40 Days for Life.
00:14:42.840An organization that does incredible work in the country and for the unborn.
00:14:46.740You know, it's really easy to get kind of nervous for a lot of people when the topic of abortion comes up in conversation with friends, families, family, co-workers.
00:14:56.120I realize, you know, for me, it's like I talk about these things every day as a job.
00:14:59.400But for a lot of people, that's not your job.
00:15:02.000You have a real job that you do out there.
00:15:04.180And that's why 40 Days for Life has just released the perfect book for those looking to arm themselves against a broad range of pro-choice talking points.
00:15:12.140It's titled What to Say When, the complete new guide to discussing abortion.
00:15:15.760This book is an easy read for individuals looking to defend life and convert hearts.
00:15:21.420A lot has changed since abortion was legalized in 1973.
00:15:24.600What to Say When equips readers with proven approaches to dismantling the pro-abortion agenda.
00:15:29.280And even if you do talk about these issues all the time, it still is a useful book.
00:22:46.780If you can control the words that people use, then you can control their minds.
00:22:54.980I think there was someone at Daily Wire who actually wrote a book about this, I think.
00:22:57.140Now, another question you might have is, why is the CDC getting involved in this?
00:23:03.460The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
00:23:06.200What in the world does this have to, putting aside how absurd it is, what does this have to do with disease control?
00:23:11.120Are people contracting diseases because we're referring to disabled people the wrong way?
00:23:18.280Well, no, the CDC is expanding the scope of their interests to include now, and this is part of that campaign, a focus on gun violence.
00:23:28.760So, this is supposed to be a big historic moment, we're told by CNN, but the director, Walensky, of the CDC sat down with CNN and talked about how now the CDC, again, they're expanding the scope of their mission, and that includes policing language, but also policing gun violence.
00:29:10.380We talked about it a couple weeks ago.
00:29:12.760I think it was in New York, a dispute over shoes at a shoe store.
00:29:16.020And someone gets shot in the middle of the street.
00:29:18.680The guy who works at the shoe store gets shot in the middle of the street over shoes.
00:29:21.020And we see this kind of stuff every single day in the city.
00:29:26.420And the CDC and, you know, the Democrat Party, CNN, the media, they want us to just ask the question, well, how do you get his hands on that gun?
00:29:35.940We need a law that would make sure that these people who are committing these crimes don't get their hands on guns to begin with.
00:31:02.800It appears that, like, people have these guns and they make choices.
00:31:07.420And so the real question that we could be asking is, why are they making these choices?
00:31:13.620And if we want to narrow it down more, we could ask, in the city where violent crime is endemic,
00:31:22.000why are there so many people making these kinds of choices?
00:31:26.660And when you start going down that rabbit hole, pretty soon you're going to get to fatherlessness,
00:31:32.620you're going to get to the family, you're going to get to all kinds of things that the media and the CDC and the Democrat Party doesn't want to talk about.
00:31:38.340All right, speaking of the family, here's a man.
00:33:29.780This, I believe, is a separate case, but here's a report from Fox 32 in Chicago, where, in fact, this kind of plan worked out exactly the way that this guy hopes.
00:33:41.440A Cook County judge here at the Daly Center has stripped a Chicago mom of her parenting rights because she's refused to get the COVID vaccine.
00:33:57.800Rebecca Furlitt has been divorced for seven years and shares custody of her 11-year-old son with her ex-husband, what had been a 50-50 split in parenting time.
00:34:08.000But on August 10th, in an unrelated child support hearing, Cook County Judge James Shapiro asked Furlitt whether she'd been vaccinated.
00:34:15.680When she told the judge no because she's had bad reactions to vaccines in the past, Judge Shapiro stripped Furlitt of all of her parenting time until she agrees to get vaccinated.
00:34:25.480I think that it's wrong, I think that it's dividing families, and I think that it's not in my son's best interest to be away from his mother.
00:34:33.080Furlitt is now asking the appellate court to stay the judge's order, her attorney saying the judge has overstepped his authority.
00:34:39.520You have to understand, the father did not even bring this issue before the court.
00:34:43.880So it's the judge on his own making this decision that you can't see your child until you're vaccinated.
00:34:50.060We just wanted the mother to pay support.
00:34:53.340The father's attorney, Jeffrey Leving, says while they were surprised by the order, he believes the judge is making the right call, given the seriousness of the pandemic.
00:35:01.740Now, the update here is that the judge has reversed the decision that he made there because of public pressure.
00:35:10.740Yet again, it's the right decision, just like with the teacher in the classroom, but it's only because of the public pressure.
00:35:17.180It's only because this case went viral.
00:35:18.740But the fact that it had to be reversed at all is very troubling.
00:35:28.240That this is where the trend is heading.
00:35:32.100And there are many people, advocates for the vaccine and masking, who are really clear about this.
00:35:38.200They think if you're not vaccinated, if you don't get your kids vaccinated, if you're not wearing a mask, if a kid isn't wearing a mask, then you're an unfit parent.
00:35:45.240You know, you're putting your child's life in danger.
00:35:49.480You're basically killing your own children.
00:35:52.480You're unfit and you shouldn't be allowed to have custody of your children.
00:35:57.820That kind of rhetoric is very prominent among the mob and in the media.
00:36:04.200And now it's seeping into the court system.
00:36:06.060And that's a troubling development, to say the least.
00:36:35.240This is Olivia Rodrigo knows the impact she has on fans of color, revealing in a new Q&A that she herself once believed only white girls could be recognized as true pop stars.
00:36:45.140When Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang asked the Brutal singer how her Filipino-American background factors into how she approaches her career, she said it's something incredible to think about.
00:36:57.140She said, I sometimes get DMs from little girls being like, I've never seen someone who looked like me in your position.
00:37:02.880And these are girls that apparently have, like, never turned on the TV, which is great, actually.
00:37:12.020And I'm literally going to cry, like, just thinking about it, Rodrigo said in a V Magazine feature.
00:37:18.160I feel like I grew up never seeing that.
00:37:20.680Also, it was always like, pop star, that's a white girl.
00:37:24.020These days, however, Rodrigo is grateful that the music biz no longer forces artists to be confined by certain genres, at least not to the extent that she witnessed growing up.
00:37:44.180When, at that point, and for much of the history of pop music, like, some of the biggest stars were non-white people.
00:37:52.520And that, again, has been the case since the advent of pop music.
00:37:59.120So, this is, you know, this is someone who has absolutely no knowledge of anything that happened prior to the moment that she was born.
00:38:11.140And apparently, even a lot of things that were happening when she was born and through her, you know, her own life, she's been unaware of.
00:38:18.680Which has led her to believe that she's somehow, in the year 2021, as an 18-year-old pop star, non-white pop star, she's somehow groundbreaking.
00:38:31.060I think, you know, I hate to keep beating on a dead horse here, but this goes back to the public school system in a lot of ways.
00:38:41.100Not that I really want them to, you know, be teaching the history of pop music.
00:38:44.460But it's just, this is another symptom of what we find among a lot of people, not just young people, but especially among young people today.
00:38:52.300They have absolutely no knowledge of anything that happened prior to their birth.
00:38:58.380And they don't think that any of that is relevant.
00:39:00.540As far as they're concerned, the world, as far as Olivia Rodrigo is concerned, the world came into existence along with her.
00:39:09.020She basically created the world by existing, which is, you know, in some ways a very encouraging way of seeing the world, because then you're constantly, since nothing happened before you, you're constantly setting new trends, breaking new ground, even if that ground has already been broken a thousand times before you existed.
00:39:29.860All right, finally, this is a very important piece of audio, and really everything's been leading up to this.
00:39:33.940I think this is the most important thing that we'll discuss and play today.
00:39:36.840And I'm sorry, sorry to get a little bit serious here, but something happened at a Henrico County School Board meeting a couple of days ago that I just think you need to hear.
00:42:08.060That is much more important and powerful than any other speech or anything that's happened at these school board meetings, including the one that I gave.
00:43:29.100How do you expect us to enjoy the benefits of the bicep cam when you don't show Matt on the screen?
00:43:35.580Andrew says by not having the podcast and video form today, Matt has bravely demonstrated what a world without white people would look like.
00:43:41.400This is performative wokeness at its best.
00:43:48.920Um, old school says Matt didn't want to go on camera today because his wife forgot to do laundry and all there was left was his skinny jeans and polka dot shirt.
00:44:00.540First of all, in the polka dot shirt, I will wear proudly as you know, but thank you for all of those very useful comments, which have made for, um, I think a pretty interesting segment of the show.
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00:45:39.820You know, if you still don't believe that there is a racism crisis in this country, then let me tell you a story that may change your mind.
00:45:50.640According to an urgent and exclusive report from Fox 5 in DC, a firefighter in Alexandria has been put on administrative leave because he made a, quote, controversial gesture while on camera during a recent news segment.
00:46:02.800And this firefighter, it appears, moved his fingers in a, in a way that may seem totally benign and incidental to the untrained observer.
00:46:13.180But the heroic investigative journalists over at Fox 5 know that quite often the most insidious forms of racism can be hiding in plain sight.
00:46:21.760So we'll play this report for you now.
00:46:23.640And it's, it's a little bit long, but it's, it's worth listening to every single moment of this.
00:46:29.460And keep in mind as you listen to it, this is very real.
00:46:38.720Well, only on Fox 5 in Alexandria, fire department members in hot water being investigated for possibly flashing a racist symbol on our air.
00:46:48.080Fox 5 Stephanie Ramirez is live in Alexandria at station four.
00:46:51.780And Stephanie, how did this end up happening?
00:46:53.820Well, Rob, this was during a live Fox 5 zip trip segment that we were doing last Friday.
00:47:00.220We do these in the community to highlight different communities all across our region.
00:47:03.860Well, during the last Friday event in Alexandria, a fire department member decided to flash what is the okay gesture as the camera was passing by.
00:47:12.940But we confirmed with fire department officials today that that member has since been placed on administrative leave with pay.
00:47:19.440Now, it happened so quickly, it's kind of hard to catch here.
00:47:21.840But it is the last Alexandria fire department member on the right who first makes fists and then does that okay gesture just before the camera cuts to our two anchors.
00:47:31.560A viewer email came into Fox 5 shortly after with a screen grab of this member.
00:47:35.780The emailer asking why there's a gang symbol on TV stating it needs to be addressed.
00:48:08.260I also asked, what if it turns out that this was done out of some kind of joke?
00:48:12.400A joke is only if someone is not offended by it.
00:48:17.860And it's always in the eyes of the beholder.
00:48:20.820And just because someone may have thought things were a joke, it does is not something that is up to our values within the department.
00:48:28.660So we have to first and foremost make every attempt to maintain the integrity and trust of the community.
00:48:35.200And joking is not something that is part of our mission.
00:48:39.060It's hard to know where to begin in sifting through this madness.
00:48:42.420The anchor reporting live from the scene of where a dude moved his fingers says that the okay gesture where you form a circle with your index finger and thumb is a gesture of hate.
00:48:53.300Well, more specifically, she says that it can be part of a punching game, or it's a sign used by scuba divers, or it could be a secret white power symbol.
00:49:06.460Son, you're either a scuba diver or a Nazi.
00:49:09.500And we ain't under the ocean right now, so that kind of narrows it down.
00:49:12.400A little bit of a full metal jacket thing going on, I guess.
00:49:15.500She does clarify, of course, that the ADL, the Anti-Defamation League, has declared that the okay sign is a hate symbol.
00:49:22.620What she doesn't explain, however, is why anyone should give a damn what the ADL thinks.
00:49:28.900There's a handful of far-left political groups, the ADL, Southern Poverty Law Center, a principal among them, that have appointed themselves sort of arbiters of what is hateful and what is not.
00:49:38.780And they get to decide which gestures and words and ideas and groups are valid and which are abhorrent and accursed.
00:49:44.400We're not supposed to ask why, or rather where, they derive this authority or why we should respect or care about their opinion on these matters.
00:49:53.100The media will simply say, well, the ADL says this is hateful.
00:50:03.860It's not unlike the groups that have declared themselves fact checkers.
00:50:07.500And now, because they have fact checker in their name, they're meant to be unquestionably trusted as the official adjudicators of truth.
00:50:18.760But the funny thing is that if you go to the ADL's official website and their database for hate symbols, it does list the okay gesture, and yet it admits that the whole white power connection is really a trolling campaign by 4chan.
00:50:33.840So here's what their website says. It says, a common hand gesture that a 4chan trolling campaign claimed in 2017 had been appropriated as a symbol meaning white power, used by many on the right, not just extremists, for the purpose of trolling liberals, the symbol eventually came to be used by actual white supremacists as well.
00:50:50.540Caution must be used in evaluating instances of this symbol's use.
00:50:53.980Okay, so the okay gesture could be a white power symbol, allegedly, or it could be a scuba diver sign, or it could be a game that you play where if somebody looks at the circle,
00:51:03.600then you get punched. That's when I was a kid, that's what it usually meant when someone did that.
00:51:10.040It meant that the punch was coming shortly after you saw it.
00:51:12.980Or it could be a 4chan troll, or it could just mean okay, or it could mean a dozen other things, or it could mean nothing at all.
00:51:21.480Not every movement a person makes with their fingers has some deep-seated reason behind it.
00:51:26.920In fact, most movements don't. Most are incidental.
00:51:30.100If you were to stare at a person's hands long enough and film it, looking for hidden meanings, you know, behind every twitch or gesture,
00:51:37.940you'll come away thinking that they made white power symbols, they flashed gang symbols, they flipped you off,
00:51:45.240they said the words train and dog and sign language, I mean, all kinds of random things.
00:51:51.000And the person will have communicated these messages to you without knowing that they communicated anything at all.
00:51:59.100Kind of like the truck driver for a gas company in California last year who was fired for making the same white power sign,
00:52:07.500when really it turned out he was just cracking his knuckles, which is a pretty, you know, you do this and you crack your knuckles.