Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we finally descended upon Loudoun County yesterday, my new home, to make our voices heard. Though the School Board threw every possible roadblock in the way, we ll talk about some of those today.
00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Wall Show, we finally descended upon Loudoun County yesterday, my new home, to make our voices heard,
00:00:05.620though the school board threw every possible roadblock in the way. We'll talk about some of those today.
00:00:09.200But the Loudoun County situation is part of a larger and more important conversation about who exactly should be determining what our kids are taught in schools, the state or the parents.
00:00:17.800We'll discuss that. Also, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is asked why he won't resign for his failures in Afghanistan.
00:00:24.480His answer is less than sufficient, I think. Greta Thunberg babbles incoherently and receives raucous applause.
00:00:31.260And a black teacher in California is not pleased with the special gift basket she was given for being black.
00:00:36.560And then Will Smith says that his open marriage with his wife is perfect and loving and beautiful.
00:00:41.840And somehow I doubt that. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
00:00:44.880Well, when I set out on my journey to my new home here in Virginia, you know the first thing I made sure to pack.
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00:02:09.820Well, it was a long time coming, not weeks, but really years in the making, as I have revealed to you in some vulnerable and emotionally honest moments on this show recently,
00:02:18.100that I have long desired to be a resident of the state of Virginia.
00:02:20.820I've always felt deep down that I really was Virginian, even back when I was living a lie, identifying with the state that was assigned to me at birth.
00:02:29.460But finally, yesterday, I was able to make the official transition and become a legal resident of Virginia when I signed a lease to rent a woman's basement for $1 a month.
00:02:38.580It was a little more than I wanted to spend, but I decided to splurge a little bit, and it was worth it because I'm now at peace with myself.
00:02:44.640I feel at home, in my body, and in my state.
00:02:48.280And even more importantly, yesterday, we had our rally at the Loudoun County School Board in protest of their radical indoctrination of the kids in the district.
00:02:55.560The turnout was incredible. The energy in the crowd made it feel even bigger than it already was.
00:03:00.600Unsurprisingly also, none of the opposition showed up.
00:03:04.080After sending me threatening messages for weeks, I showed you some of that, some of the things they were saying to me, some of the threats they were making.
00:03:10.480They all chose to stay home, cooking up their next batch of mean tweets and disgruntled emails, I guess.
00:03:16.600This is a common theme for people on that side.
00:03:21.340Maybe they'll confront you in real life if they can be confident that they'll have you entirely outnumbered.
00:03:25.980But outside of that, they prefer to stay hidden in the shadows and insulated.
00:03:30.860This is especially true of the Loudoun County School Board itself.
00:03:34.400I did end up speaking before the board, and we'll play that clip in a moment.
00:03:37.560But consider the hoops we had to jump through just to earn an audience with the royal majesties on the school board.
00:03:45.440As has been much publicized, they require proof of residence.
00:03:48.980No problem for me as a man who has been a Virginia resident since you were in diapers.
00:03:54.600I mean, if you're currently still an infant, then that would be true.
00:03:57.260We had to also present, you know, we had our proof of residence we had to present outside the building.
00:04:01.920Then they also demanded that we show our IDs as well.
00:04:04.140And then next, we had to empty our pockets and undergo a TSA-style security screening.
00:04:10.620Already the process to speak at a school board meeting, a public school school board meeting, is far more involved and far more secure than the process to vote.
00:04:18.840And the whole thing felt quite racist to me, frankly, because it certainly would be called racist if they required all of that outside of a voting booth.
00:04:25.560And we aren't done yet, because next we were ushered into the mostly empty building.
00:04:30.860And I also have to say, the building where the school board in Loudoun County does its business is enormous, like the size of the Pentagon.
00:04:37.660No spectators were allowed to sit inside the room with the school board.
00:04:41.840No one could be in the presence of their highnesses.
00:04:45.820No one in the public was permitted to attend the public meeting.
00:04:50.120Some media were allowed inside, but most were outside the building.
00:04:53.140And we were then told to stand, once we got inside, we were ushered along, we were told to stand in certain marked areas, six feet apart, single file, waiting for our name to be called.
00:05:01.800At which point, we would have exactly 60 seconds to give our comment.
00:05:05.960At 60 seconds, a buzzer sounds, and the mic is cut off.
00:05:09.280And for a final indignity, and the thing that I hated the most, you had to wear a mask.
00:05:17.020All of this, again, to speak at a school board.
00:05:20.280Of course, as we're standing in the hallway, waiting to be brought before the royal court, we could hear one peasant subject after another get up there, barely articulate a complete thought before being buzzed and kicked out of the room.
00:05:33.040The school board said, before my arrival, the school board said that I was an outside agitator, and they didn't want me there because they really wanted to hear from the parents of Loudoun County and other community members.
00:05:44.500Well, that's kind of funny, because if they really wanted to hear from the community, they have an odd way of showing it.
00:05:50.080They want to hear from the community for exactly 60 seconds apiece, to be specific.
00:05:54.380Which means, of course, that they don't want to hear at all, because unless you're a very polished speaker, and you do these things professionally, you will not be able to say anything of substance in one minute, put on the spot like that.
00:06:07.340The people who go to school boards, for the most part, are not professional speakers.
00:06:12.440That's what made the whole thing a farce.
00:06:14.540Though that isn't even the worst of it.
00:06:15.940Standing in line with the other community members, I was informed that in the past, the school board has set the time limit for public comment to 30 seconds.
00:06:25.900That's only enough time to basically tell the school board to kiss your ass.
00:06:29.460Which, the next time they set it to 30 seconds, that's exactly what every person in line should do.
00:06:33.860They should have 300 people signed up, and every single person just get up there and say, you know what, kiss my ass.
00:06:40.120Anyway, finally it was my turn, with 60 seconds on the clock, and a mask muzzling my face, and here's what I had to say.
00:06:45.620I would thank you all for allowing me to speak to you tonight, but you tried not to allow it, yet here I am.
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00:13:05.120Well, a little bit of personal news and sad family news, in fact, I have to tell you about, unfortunately.
00:13:13.740We did suffer a tragedy in our home because we finally got a dog.
00:13:20.560And I've told you, I've been trying to withstand this pressure campaign from my wife and my kids.
00:13:29.120And I, I, I stood up to it for as long as I could.