In this episode of Triggered, we sit down with former Trump DOJ official and the Executive Director of Fight for Schools, Ian Pryor. As a parent of 5 young children, Ian has been at the epicenter of standing up against left-wing indoctrination at our schools. He lives in Loudoun County, Virginia, the bluest of the blue, where a lot of this insanity comes from. He's one of the most important America First voices in education and has been on the forefront of fighting to protect our children from radical leftist ideas and indoctrination. In this episode, we talk about how important it is to be a parent and a defender of our children, and how we need to fight to protect them from the craziness that the radical left is trying to implement in our schools and public schools. We also talk about why Donald Trump is the only America First candidate, and why he's the only guy who can fix the mess that we're currently in. Thank you for listening and supporting the show! -Evan Vellian and Jon Rocha Subscribe to our new podcast, "Triggered". Rate/subscribe in Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. If you're a supporter of the show, please consider pledging a five-star rating and review our podcast on iTunes. We'll be looking out for your comments and reviewing the show in the next episode. Thanks for supporting our content. We appreciate it! -Jon Raldorf's newest album "The Art of the Deal" outtro: "The Devil's Work" is out now! --Jon Riedorf, "The Man Who Couldn't Do It." -- "The Real Thing" by Jon Riedeled, "No One Talks About It?" -- "Mr. Riedelfied, "A Man Can Do It All?" "The Power of a Man Who Can Fix It All"? -- "No Man Can I Do It Better Than That?" -- , "The Only Guy Can I Say It." -- "I'll Say It" -- "It's Not Good, I'll Tell You, I'm Gonna Say It, Too Good, No One Can Say It," & "I'm Not Good Enough, But I'll Hear It, So I'll Say So, I Can't Say It?" , "I Can't Wait, I Will Say It..." -- "Let Me Say It ...
00:00:53.000As a parent of five young children, Ian's literally one of the most important America First voices in education, has been at the epicenter of standing up against left-wing indoctrination at our schools.
00:01:07.000Whether that's the insanity that they're jamming down their throats with the woke ESG, DEI, you know, BLM nonsense or the overall lack of basic education, stuff like math and reading, you know, all that stuff that they're too focused on, the woke stuff where you can't do that, but to the other stuff that's actually much more serious, the cover-ups.
00:01:31.000of some of the sexual assaults that have happened because we're allowing biological men to share locker rooms with women or allowing biological men to compete against women's sports.
00:01:43.000Ian's one of the guys that's on the forefront of the fight against that nonsense.
00:01:49.000He lives in Loudoun County, Virginia, the bluest of the blue, where a lot of this insanity comes from, and you don't just have to sit back and take it, right?
00:01:59.000Being the leader of the charge may not be for everyone, but you can learn what you can do, where you can see the hidden agenda that's just been so subversive, where they're putting it in these school boards, how you can help other people run for those same boards.
00:02:14.000So that we can save our children, whether it's their minds or their innocence, from the craziness of the radical left today.
00:02:23.000So this is going to be an important one for anyone that is a parent, for anyone that plans on having children, for anyone that wants to preserve everything That the next generation is going to bring our country because that stuff, guys, is on the table.
00:02:39.000It is at risk and they're doing whatever they can to destroy it.
00:02:45.000But before we do that, I want to give you a rundown of some of the top headlines of the week.
00:02:50.000Donald Trump is getting endorsement after endorsement.
00:02:55.000This week, so many people from Florida itself came out.
00:02:59.000Fighters. Like, today, Michael Waltz announced his endorsement of Donald Trump.
00:03:06.000Earlier this week, Congressman Greg Stubbe and John Rutherford and Brian Amast also made it clear that they're all in for Donald Trump in 2024, that Trump is the only guy to be able to do it.
00:03:19.000And that's, guys, in addition to the America First fighters from Florida who've already endorsed Donald Trump, like Matt Gaetz.
00:03:28.000Anna Paulina Luna, Byron Donald, and Corey Mills.
00:03:32.000So that's going well, and we want it to go well because we need to do this soon.
00:03:36.000What we don't want is infighting that's going to go on for months and years, depleting all the resources, right?
00:03:44.000You know who I'm talking about, and you know the billionaire donors that are going to be supporting them.
00:03:48.000We need to make sure we have that money to take on the radical Biden administration.
00:03:55.000We need to be able to take on their...
00:03:58.000Dozens of billionaire donors, the Soroses of the world, who are going to keep their ballot harvesting operation.
00:04:05.000We need to make sure we're playing that game.
00:04:10.000They know what we know, that Donald Trump's the only America First candidate, and he's fully committed to standing up for the forgotten men and women of this country.
00:04:34.000And get this. Congressman Lance Gooden, who, by the way, you should check out his Twitter feed because it's one of the more lit congressional Twitter accounts out there from Texas, also announced his Trump endorsement right after he had a meeting with Ron DeSantis.
00:04:50.000He literally said I quote I met with Governor DeSantis and while he's done commendable work in Florida there's no doubt in my mind that President Trump is the only leader who can save America from the leftist onslaught we're currently facing.
00:05:05.000It seems like the only people who are really behind DeSantis at this point are the ones who haven't been around him all that much, because these lawmakers know that Donald Trump is the only one who can actually fix the mess, who isn't beholden to the people who have created these messes.
00:05:20.000And sadly, the economic warning signs, guys, are only getting worse.
00:05:26.000Think about this. Nearly 7 in 10 Americans now have a negative view of the economy in a new poll.
00:05:33.000A whopping 69% of Americans view the economy negatively, according to a poll from CNBC. That's the highest level...
00:05:43.000It's ever been in the poll's 17-year history, right?
00:05:48.000So that's including the disaster of 08?
00:06:04.000Big tech, no one's really talking about it.
00:06:06.000You can't, because they're the marketing arm of the Biden administration who has nothing going for it.
00:06:12.000So they'll just, they just won't talk about it.
00:06:15.000And that's not all, because probably not exactly the most conservative guy in the world, but CEO of Bank of America, Brian Moynihan, said this week that everything, everything points to a recession this year.
00:06:32.000Remember, guys, we have inflation out the wazoo.
00:06:38.000See Ukraine. We have interest rate hikes, growing fears around the housing market, layoffs at major companies like Amazon, Facebook, Goldman Sachs, and more.
00:07:00.000People are pulling their money out of banks, and when they're doing that, that stops the banks from being able to leverage that money in the economy.
00:07:06.000Either way, that's scary, and it spells a disaster.
00:07:34.000We can let drugs and fentanyl and human traffickers and sex traffickers come across our borders with reckless abandon.
00:07:40.000We can't finish that wall for three billion dollars, but we're in for 130 and the first Patriot missiles just got there this week.
00:07:48.000So you know there's a lot more than the 130 billion going to Ukraine.
00:07:51.000So make sure guys, as everything gets tighter, As it costs you more at the pump and in the grocery stores, and as your mortgages reset and you can't get new financing because the banks have restricted, remember that your hard-earned dollars are going to help Ukraine.
00:08:12.000Remember when Biden said he's going to be paying and making sure that we take care of their pensions.
00:12:40.000Let's face it, folks. I don't know that anyone has really gone to The View for, like, an intelligent take in probably the entire existence of the show.
00:12:49.000If you want to actually watch something fun, go back and search when Kimberly and I went on The View, when I did my Triggered book tour.
00:12:56.000It was sort of epic. It was their 5000th episode.
00:12:59.000They had me on there to talk about my book, and of course they didn't ask me any questions about my book, but...
00:13:03.000I came prepared, and the idiots at The View were not quite ready for it.
00:13:09.000So if you want some entertaining stuff to watch over the weekend, go check that out.
00:13:13.000But seriously, in America, in 2023, comparing Christians, like generally Christians, like probably what, 60% of the country?
00:13:23.000Who were, by the way, just gunned down by the trans radical lunatic in Nashville last weekend, right?
00:13:33.000Notice, they're not going to say anything about what's going on in America with that radical agenda.
00:13:38.000They won't even call them the terrorists that they are.
00:13:41.000They won't call them the most privileged class in the country.
00:13:45.000Because if you're trans, you can just do whatever you want.
00:13:48.000There's a different set of rules for everyone else.
00:13:51.000If you're trans, what difference does it make?
00:13:53.000Oh, you have total privilege, total authority to do whatever you want, and no one can say anything.
00:14:00.000But these same clowns at The View didn't say anything about the trans radicals who seem to be doing a lot of killing these days, but they can compare Christians.
00:14:13.000To the Taliban. Taliban, who actually threw, like, gay people off of buildings and has a zero tolerance for any of the stuff that the left is so into.
00:14:25.000Hard to believe. It's hard to believe.
00:14:27.000But again, it's why no one should get their news from The View.
00:14:32.000It's why basically people like myself have fun dunking on every take that they have because it's so freaking stupid.
00:14:40.000Again, you want to see how stupid they are, just go back and watch the episode I did when I went on The View.
00:14:46.000Because we actually want to get in the mix.
00:14:48.000We actually are capable of having that dialogue and debating those ideas.
00:16:43.000I am shocked that the DOJ and the government officials investigating the corrupt, crackhead, whoremongering son Of the Commander-in-Chief of the United States, I'm shocked to hear that he's getting special treatment.
00:17:05.000I mean, when you look at all the smoke, when you look at all the things he's done, and you say, imagine it was Donald Trump Jr.
00:17:13.000I'd have been in jail already, and yet...
00:17:16.000Nothing's happening. So an IRS whistleblower wrote a letter to Congress saying that he wants to come forward to reveal a cover-up in the tax evasion probe into Hunter Biden.
00:17:28.000According to his attorney, the unnamed whistleblower is a career IRS criminal supervisory special agent who has been overseeing the ongoing and sensitive investigation of a high-profile controversial subject since early 2020.
00:17:46.000The whistleblower reportedly wants to expose preferential treatment and false testimony to Congress by his senior political appointee.
00:17:56.000Now that one's interesting. Having done about 50 hours of congressional A testimony where they were looking to throw me into jail for anything, where they could ask you the same question 17,000 times, hoping that maybe you'd change your mind or say something a little bit different, that they get you for perjury.
00:18:16.000This one's going to be interesting, because we've been talking how we don't have equal justice under our laws, and this will probably be yet another...
00:18:26.000Proof of that. This will be the only whistleblower that Democrats don't love.
00:18:31.000Remember, they love their whistleblowers.
00:18:35.000When it's against conservatives, when it's against Trump, I have a feeling this whistleblower won't be given that same treatment.
00:19:23.000He lives in Loudoun County, Virginia, the heart of the lunatic left and the fight against our children and the radicalization of our kids in schools, and he helped lead that fight against the leftists.
00:19:36.000He's the author of Parents of the World Unite, How to Save Our Schools from the Left's Radical Agenda.
00:19:44.000He's also the executive director of Fight for Schools and is just someone who's on the forefront of that issue and combating the leftists and their indoctrination and the attempt to take over of our children.
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00:22:23.000Woke Inc., Loudoun County, Virginia, right outside of D.C. That's where I'd say the cause of the vast majority of America's political problems stem from, as well as sort of the driving force of woke BS. He's written a book, Parents of the World Unite, as a leader in the forefront and the fight to save our schools from the left's radical agenda.
00:22:51.000And he also is the Executive Director of Fight for Schools.
00:22:55.000So, Ian, tell us, what the hell is going on?
00:23:37.000The politicians were like, no, no, no, no.
00:23:39.000We're going to keep schools closed here.
00:23:40.000Even though, you know, in other parts of the country they were able to safely reopen.
00:23:43.000And so you had these two sort of unifying movements that came together.
00:23:48.000Throw in, you know, an election in 2021 in Virginia where the spotlight is on Virginia.
00:23:54.000And really in Northern Virginia things just exploded and we really peeled back the curtain on what was going on in our schools.
00:24:01.000I guess it's no different than sort of everything else that we've sort of discovered, right?
00:24:05.000Like, I've been talking about the Ukraine war, and of course we've been waging a war in Ukraine, unbeknownst to the American public.
00:24:10.000Like, this is the stuff that they wanted to do, and it sort of took, like all the other issues, it's almost like it took Donald Trump and, like, Trump derangement syndrome to actually say the quiet parts out loud.
00:24:21.000So I imagine the school issue, like everything else that we're discovering about our country that we didn't believe could ever happen in our country, Was probably going on for quite some time.
00:24:32.000It just took that cataclysmic event to actually have it all come out.
00:24:37.000Yeah, it did. And you talk about Trump derangement syndrome.
00:24:39.000Well, you know, once Biden gets elected, the far left activists need a new derangement syndrome, right?
00:24:44.000And they just start looking at their neighbors.
00:24:46.000And saying, well, this person, you know, isn't in favor of, you know, biological boys using bathrooms.
00:24:52.000So we're going to obsess over this person because they're effective or they speak at school board meetings and they just demonize everybody.
00:24:58.000Like the left will, it doesn't matter if you're president of the United States, if you're a congressman or you're, you know, somebody down the street, right?
00:25:03.000They're going to try and demonize you if you do not believe what they believe, raise your kids the way they want you to, say the things that they want you to.
00:25:11.000And, you know, that's really what exploded, I think, in Virginia.
00:25:14.000But now we're seeing it all across the country.
00:25:16.000And I guess that's sort of, I mean, the good and the bad of every situation, right?
00:25:20.000The shutting down schools theoretically for our children's education was a total disaster, right?
00:25:27.000I mean, like, you know, not that they were doing good at math or reading or basic stuff that you'd learn in schools anyway because they're being indoctrinated, but it actually, the good of it was...
00:25:37.000That by the left continuing to do the lockdowns and listening to the, you know, teachers unions and just running with their narrative, it actually gave us time and parents time to actually figure this out.
00:25:49.000So what they thought they were doing themselves a big favor probably was...
00:25:53.000You know, a kill shot to the insanity of their agenda and actually, you know, bringing that to the light of the people.
00:26:00.000Yeah, and we saw that really in Loudoun County where when schools were closed, you had this group of parents that were really pushing to reopen schools and they organized.
00:26:08.000I mean, they really were sort of the prototype of what we really developed in 2021.
00:26:13.000And so by the time we get into, you know, local cancel culture issues, critical race theory, you know, sexual assault cover-ups, We already had the germ of an organization in place, and it was really easy to kind of bring everybody together.
00:26:29.000We were trying to remove school board meetings, which required getting signatures.
00:26:33.000We got like 25,000 signatures over the course of six months, and I think changed the course of history in Virginia as a result.
00:26:40.000Well, I've said that. I mean, for people, a big tenant of the show, how do we fight back?
00:26:44.000How do we get involved? The thing I've said for months now, and probably years, but certainly months since we started this show, is get on your school board.
00:26:56.000But if you have kids, get on your school board.
00:26:59.000Because it was always fascinating to watch how many...
00:27:03.000Of these school board people, like, don't even have children.
00:27:06.000Right. Like, they have no interest in having children, but they do want to control your children.
00:27:10.000And they want to have the ultimate say.
00:27:12.000And that continues to happen as they carve out parents and their rights and people who showed up to those meetings were labeled by our DOJ and FBI as domestic terrorists.
00:27:22.000Well, and you really, right now, you have kind of three people that run for school boards, right?
00:27:26.000You've got your dyed-in-the-wool activists.
00:27:28.000They want to go in there and change policy.
00:27:31.000They want to make sure that kids go to school and tell their advisor that they want to be a girl now and parents don't know.
00:27:38.000Then you've got the political climbers, right, on the left.
00:27:41.000They're like, this is my way to the next position.
00:27:44.000I'm going to go to the state senate or house of delegates and make a political career out of it.
00:27:49.000Then you have people that are going there to do the right thing.
00:27:51.000The problem with that third group is that they're not necessarily tough enough to deal with those other two that beat them down to the point where they become ineffective.
00:28:00.000So you need that third group, but you need people that are saying, I'm going to go there and I'm going to break some things.
00:28:05.000Yeah, I mean, because there's a social consequence to taking on these things.
00:28:10.000Even though, I mean, I feel like at any other point in history, three years ago, we think we're being punked right now.
00:28:17.000We'll talk about the Washington State bill in a second, but every day there's something else that is like, no way.
00:28:26.000I know actually one of the sponsors of this show, Patriot Mobile, they funded a school board race down outside of Dallas and won and took control of this leftist insane board.
00:28:39.000And put people in there who just believed and shared the values of the rest of the constituency of that neighborhood.
00:28:45.000And I mean, you know, I think it was CNBC and, like, the big news agencies, like, went after...
00:28:51.000They're promoting racism and misogyny and, you know, whatever the ists, you know, you're always something.
00:28:56.000It doesn't have to do anything with the topic, but, like, it was a punishable offense to actually elect people to a school board that share the value of the parents of that school district and...
00:29:09.000They went after even the corporate sponsors who helped make that happen.
00:29:13.000Again, they're a sponsor of the show, so they have some guts and they're willing to be in that fight, but that's how bad it's gotten.
00:29:19.000So for the average guy who can't withstand that, it's not easy, but we need fighters in there more than anywhere.
00:29:25.000Yeah, and you see from the left that they don't want to debate ideas, right?
00:29:58.000One of my kids, you know, at a school, you know, very high end, very expensive private school in New York.
00:30:04.000One of these things that, you know, the New York parents, you know, killed to get their kids into those schools.
00:30:09.000She was younger, but we had some friends through politics, a few conservatives in New York, and the mom was talking to the kids one day and finds out they had a one-hour trans-curriculum.
00:30:22.000And this is like... This is like 1516, right?
00:30:25.000Like this is prior to even that, so it's been going on longer than we believe, but there is an entire trans curriculum for like an hour a day at this school, and it was the only class that had no homework, right?
00:30:37.000They weren't going to let the kids take it home.
00:30:40.000So the mother, sort of an actually tough sort of badass woman, she goes around and speaks to all the other parents, and they're outraged, and they're all upset.
00:30:51.000Speaks to the headmaster. Oh, well, we're sorry that you're, you know, racist, and you wouldn't, and you're the only person that's complained that all the other parents, you know, that are aware of it are 100% for that.
00:31:05.000You're trying to beat this woman down, and she goes, well, that's bullshit, because I've spoken to all the other parents, and they all agree, and you're lying to my face right now.
00:31:13.000And, like, pulled the kids from the school and like that.
00:31:15.000But, like, It wasn't just like, okay, we got caught.
00:31:19.000It was that we're going to make you feel bad about getting caught.
00:31:21.000Even though we lied to you, even though we're manipulating the truth, even though we're sort of throwing the blame on other people, they're trying to create that consequence.
00:31:51.000You know how many copies of Rise and Fall of the Third Reich?
00:31:53.000Which, if you want to understand how the Holocaust happened, You've got to read that book, right?
00:31:57.000Zero copies. They only had three copies of Roots.
00:32:00.000Now, a couple of people pushed back and they said, well, those are long books.
00:32:02.000I'm like, well, you can get Stephen King's It, you can get The Stand, you can get all these fiction books in those libraries, but you don't actually, you're going out there saying parents don't want to teach about the Holocaust, but you don't have seminal works in there about that.
00:32:14.000No, they want to teach this trans ideology.
00:32:43.000It didn't, and, you know, and they do that.
00:32:45.000Social, Google search. You know, they're manipulating what you see.
00:32:50.000And so I don't actually think it represents the real will of the people.
00:32:53.000Though if you keep yourself in those bubbles of social or, you know, Washington, D.C., you'd think that this is all the rage with, you know, everyone who's independent or democratic across the country.
00:33:05.000We've lost the idea that there could still be moderate Democrat voters out there, but there are no more moderate Democrat politicians, as evidenced by what we saw happening in Washington state this week.
00:33:19.000And I mean, I think one of the lessons in Virginia was you had moderate Democrat voters go out and vote for a Republican for the first time.
00:33:25.000I mean, I can't tell you how many times we were out at the polls, you know, getting signatures for our petitions.
00:33:30.000You had people come out, you know, I never voted for a Republican before, but I am this time.
00:33:34.000I mean, we even had people say, well, I voted for McAuliffe.
00:33:37.000We're like, all right, you do what you're going to do.
00:33:39.000But, you know, there are people out there that look at these things and, you know, they don't like the idea of biological males in girls' sports.
00:33:48.000They don't like it. Listen, I have five kids.
00:33:50.000I know how that happens now, so I got a different hobby.
00:33:53.000But like, you know, it's a lot of work, man.
00:33:56.000One of my daughters is a really good athlete, and like, the amount of time and energy it takes to nurture that, and to bring them to every practice, and every game, and travel, and this, and that.
00:34:05.000You know, the average mother that's doing that across the country, every weekend for their kid to give them a chance, and then, like, someone's just like, I'm a girl, you know, sort of a journeyman male athlete, like, I'm not gonna get a scholarship, but if I'm trans, you're the ultimate form of privilege in America today.
00:34:21.000Totally. And so you could become, you could be a journeyman, very average, less than average, male athlete, Become a female.
00:34:47.000They're either... So weak, stupid, or they're just so worried about the social consequence of coming out against this thing, even though they had no problem being vocal for the last 30 years.
00:35:02.000I think that the pushback on this issue is unlike anything else that the average person is willing to do, right?
00:35:09.000I mean, they may think this, but they don't want to get canceled, right?
00:35:12.000I mean, they're not necessarily in the...
00:35:14.000You know, the industry where, all right, they go out and they're on Twitter, they go on the news, they're, you know, like us, right?
00:35:20.000They don't want to lose their business because, you know, next thing you know, their business is being flooded on Yelp with transphobe, transphobe, transphobe, right?
00:35:28.000And they say, they talk about, oh, we need to protect trans rights.
00:35:31.000No, no, no. What you're asking for is to protect trans super rights because they have super rights.
00:35:35.000There's no pretense of, like, they want to be equal.
00:35:40.000Like, I can't name a right that I have that a trans person, certainly an adult, because again, once you get into children's issues, like, who's more impressionable than a young child?
00:35:51.000And that they're trying to carve parents out of that process is a whole nother story, but, like...
00:35:55.000I can't name a right that I have that they don't have.
00:35:59.000But, you know, if they're trans, I mean, they put that on a, you know, corporate America job application.
00:36:04.000It's like, you know, that like replaces being a 4.0 student or numerous other things.
00:36:11.000It almost gets rid of like the need for accomplishment because it's like, well, we need to check, you know, we can do that.
00:36:15.000Oh, trans minority. It's like, oh, it's like the holy grail of diversity.
00:36:19.000Now, once they hire it, if they totally underperform, you can never fire them because you'll get sued.
00:36:23.000But it doesn't seem to affect anything.
00:36:25.000Yeah, and if you think about kind of an analogy with the Americans with Disability Act, right?
00:36:40.000We're building. We've done it all over the, you know, and then you have the people that take advantage of that, and they go around, try to find some flaw.
00:36:46.000Like, they don't really have a problem. They're never actually using the thing, but...
00:36:49.000They're literally professional litigants.
00:36:51.000They go and try to find some way you may have violated the code for the handicap ramp to be able to sue you for a nuisance fee, basically.
00:36:58.000Right. And so they're doing that, I imagine, in this movement as well.
00:37:01.000Yeah, but this movement is even more problematic because the rights or the super rights that they're getting actually impact not other people's convenience, but their rights too, right?
00:37:10.000So if a biological girl feels uncomfortable using a bathroom with a biological boy, they tell the biological girl, Well, you can go use the single-use restroom, or you can go see the unified mental health team, and they'll get your mind right.
00:37:22.000I mean, that's discrimination. That is discrimination against the girl.
00:37:25.000That's sex discrimination. Well, yeah, I spoke to Riley Gaines, who was the swimmer who literally tied Leah Thomas, and yet they gave, meaning exact score, to the 100th.
00:37:34.000Tied Leah Thomas, the Penn swimmer, my alma mater, I'm a little bit embarrassed, but who, you know, became the trans sensation, journeyman, male swimmer, won the female national championship, literally tied Riley Gaines, and the actual woman who spent her whole life trying to dominate her sport and did, they're like, well, we're giving it to Leah Thomas.
00:37:54.000I'm like, well, it's a tie. Like, why does Lea Thomas, why is it arbitrarily you just decide you're just gonna give it to the dude who last season was swimming as a male?
00:38:05.000And yet, there's nothing, and if she says anything, she's, again, transphobic, she's, you know, I don't even understand anymore.
00:38:12.000Well, and the hypocrisy, I mean, look, if you're a male and you want to identify as a female, you'd think, well, I'm a female now.
00:38:18.000I'm going to go prove that I can compete in men's sports, right?
00:38:21.000So go compete in men's sports and show everybody that, well, females can compete in men's sports too, okay?
00:38:26.000It defies reality, but, you know, the fact that all we're looking at is males going and competing in girls' sports, right?
00:38:34.000It's not like, it's like, hey, it works both ways.
00:38:36.000You know what I mean? Or they'll find one example where some dude tripped, and the trans person wins, and it's like, oh look, they dominated.
00:38:46.000And that's why I don't understand that it feels like, to me, in watching it, the people that are supporting these things, the people that are, you know, yeah, Dylan Mulvaney should have a Nike bra on, and that's wonderful.
00:38:58.000They're all female. Why are females seemingly leading the charge To eliminate the relevance and, you know, of females.
00:39:08.000Like, there's not great female athletes that they could choose from.
00:39:13.000And then you watch, you know, you watch the videos dancing around like a clown.
00:39:16.000It's like every negative female stereotype that, again, the feminists have spent the last 50 years trying to disband, that person's exemplifying on a video making a fool of themselves and, like, that's the face of Nike.
00:40:00.000As I watch this play out, I think the juxtaposition of Dylan Mulvaney and a product that is so associated with males, you put those two things together, now you have a Tinder box.
00:40:14.000Well, you don't have that when Dylan Mulvaney's out there with the extra boxes of Tampax, right?
00:40:19.000It doesn't become a thing. I'll get crap for saying this because these are brutal.
00:40:26.000But like... There's literally zero reason for Dylan Mulvaney to have...
00:40:37.000It's a South Park episode. I'm looking around and being like, dude, please tell me, like, just tell me that I'm just the star of The Truman Show.
00:40:42.000You know what I mean? Like, I don't know.
00:40:44.000Like, they've been filming me for years, and everyone is just an actor in my life, and I'm just unaware.
00:40:50.000Because it feels like it has to be that way.
00:40:56.000Just from a standpoint of sanity and rational, whether it's sports bras for someone without breasts or tampons for someone who doesn't menstruate, I don't understand.
00:41:13.000Maybe they just don't care because they have so much power that you don't have to understand.
00:41:17.000They control Big Tech, they control Search, they control the purse strings, they control pop culture.
00:41:24.000I guess Nike's big enough because they got the power of the woke NBA stars and all these people that maybe they don't go after them the same way.
00:41:35.000It's insane. I mean, they did something with one of the top female sprinters who was like a 10-time gold medalist type of thing, and it was like, wow, she got pregnant.
00:42:00.000The U.S. women's soccer player, Megan Rapone or whatever.
00:42:04.000Yeah, Raphineau or whatever. She comes out in favor of males and girls sports.
00:42:08.000It's like, all right, so you climb up the ladder and you become the best at your spot in female sports.
00:42:14.000And then you pull up the ladder for everybody else coming forward.
00:42:17.000It feels like some of the argument against sort of the billionaire oligarch class, which is like, Hey, they're really pro-America.
00:42:23.000Until they get power, and then it's like, well, I can save an extra half a cent on my widget from China by doing it this way, so we're no longer America first.
00:42:29.000I mean, that's exactly the Megan Rapinoe argument, right?
00:42:37.000I can just go full woke, and I get the credit for that, and they're capitalizing on it, ultimately.
00:42:42.000Yeah. And, you know, I mentioned South Park earlier because I do think that watching them is five years in the future, right?
00:42:50.000You're like, all right, what are we looking at five years in the future?
00:42:51.000Now, it's going on. There was an episode, I don't know, 15 years ago where, I don't know, Stan or Kyle's dad, you know, he wants to become a dolphin.
00:43:36.000Decide. The reality is, when people start, you can talk about, you know, this was clearly, and it was labeled as such by our own medical institutions, who are pretty damn woke, and they changed it a couple years ago, but this was always designated as sort of mental illness, and then, you know, now it's, you know, now it's just civil rights, but how soon till everyone starts gaming that system?
00:43:55.000Meaning, you know, hey, I'd like to go to Harvard, or I want to get a scholarship.
00:43:59.000It's like, well, you ain't going to do it as a male, so...
00:44:03.000It's like the new easy button of the radical left.
00:44:06.000Well, I mean, you know, part of a theory is, I mean, is Dylan Mulvaney just gaming the system?
00:44:10.000It would be great for a conservative to do that.
00:44:13.000If Dylan Mulvaney came out and be like, I was just fucking with you guys.
00:44:15.000Like, this is bullshit. Like, I mean...
00:44:18.000It's rather extreme. I don't know that I'd go that far, but in the world of TikTok and YouTube and stuff like that, people will go through...
00:44:24.000It's like jackass on steroids times about a billion.
00:44:28.000If that happened, I'd be like, okay, that was...
00:44:33.000Exactly. I don't think that's going to happen, unfortunately.
00:44:37.000But if it did, that would be amazing because I think that could be a kill shot to the insanity of what's going on.
00:44:43.000Not only was it always a joke, we got you all to go in.
00:44:46.000The guy made millions of dollars representing brands that wouldn't even think about giving an actual woman with no athletic accomplishment or the same roles.
00:45:30.000Like, everyone's going to be gaming the system.
00:45:32.000It's going to turn the whole thing into a joke.
00:45:34.000Well, I mean, before all this started, before I got involved in all this school stuff, I didn't know that, okay, so if you're a boy and you identify as a girl, but you still actually are attracted to girls, and you haven't had the surgery, like, most people, I think, that aren't paying attention to this, don't realize that.
00:45:49.000This is not, okay, this person had surgery, and everything that, you know, is about a girl, they're that.
00:45:55.000No, it's, I just identify as, maybe some days I don't.
00:46:27.000And, you know, again, I'm maybe libertarian on the issue, but, like, I don't care what you do, like, when you're an adult, and you, like, if you want to...
00:46:33.000But, like, don't jam that shit down my throat.
00:46:35.000I don't want to... Like, I'm not violating your civil rights by...
00:46:39.000Not acknowledging your ever-changing and always sort of moving goalposts further towards the abyss in terms of just reasonableness.
00:46:50.000And yet, that seems to be what they expect.
00:46:53.000I mean, you know, if we're saying that somebody is a frequent heroin user and they want to identify as that, and that's what they are, so leave me alone.
00:47:02.000And you're like, well, I can't help you?
00:47:03.000Like, we can't help you not kill yourself?
00:47:05.000Yeah. We must accommodate every aspect of your deranged quest for death.
00:47:19.000That's a great question, but I think we're seeing some of the possibilities right now.
00:47:23.000When states like Washington start putting in bills saying, we're going to take your kid away from you if you don't transition your child if they want to, you're going to get people...
00:47:34.000That, you know, they may not have thought about this issue before.
00:47:36.000They may be on the left on a lot of things saying, well, wait, wait.
00:47:39.000When it comes to my house, when these policies come to my home, now I'm going to start paying attention.
00:47:44.000And they're going to start awakening more and more and more people the further they push this.
00:47:49.000Yeah. Well, okay, so this is like Washington state bills, like SB, like, 9955 or 5599 or whatever it was.
00:47:56.000I know, I think I spoke about it on, you know, Monday in my intro to Stephen Miller.
00:48:04.000I mean, Washington State passed a bill allowing the state to take children away from their parents if they don't just go along with the child's transitioning.
00:48:15.000Now, I don't know anyone more impressionable than a young child.
00:48:18.000I think we can look at the history of American advertising, whether it's cigarettes or otherwise, and see how they hooked kids on stuff and how easy that was to do.
00:48:26.000But Washington State, and 100% of the Democrats supported it.
00:48:30.000Zero of the Republicans, just so we understand where the parties are.
00:48:35.000Even in Washington State, and even for some of those Republicans who are going to be in more moderate districts, we're like, yeah, no, we're not doing that.
00:48:41.000This kid couldn't buy a pack of cigarettes legally.
00:48:45.000Couldn't have vote. But the state is going to remove them and give them sanctuary from the parents who are just like, I'm just not going to sign off on that.
00:48:54.000Like, if I don't want my kid to go to a field trip, I don't sign off at that state's going to start saying, hey, well, no, no, no, they're going to a special one.
00:48:59.000We're going to make sure. I've never seen anything like it.
00:49:21.000And then on the other hand, with the schools, they say, well, you can't tell the parents if the kid comes and says, you know, I want to transition.
00:49:27.000So you're denying information to the parents about your child's medical condition, their mental health condition.
00:49:34.000Right? You gotta get a permission slip to give them Tylenol.
00:49:37.000But if you're gonna start them down this road to, you know, ultimately puberty blockers, testosterone, surgery, you don't have to tell them for that.
00:49:44.000But make sure you get that permission slip for Tylenol.
00:49:46.000It's insane. I didn't realize sort of the have your cake and eat it too argument.
00:50:27.000And, like, I think the only thing you can do is actually get out of those states because they're going to, I mean, there will soon be, I'm sure, criminal consequences to parents not doing this.
00:50:39.000I mean, if taking your kids away isn't enough, what other decisions can kids make of this gravity that permanently affect them that you could effectively carve out the parents or make sure that they don't have any say or just take them totally?
00:50:50.000Does it exist? California recently passed a bill that makes it essentially a sanctuary state for these surgeries and these treatments so that kids can go there.
00:51:01.000It's an attractive nuisance for kids to go to California.
00:51:03.000In Virginia, we had a legislator by the name of Elizabeth Guzman who's now looking to move up to the Senate.
00:51:09.000In 2020, she introduced a bill that would criminalize parents.
00:51:12.000So if you didn't give your child these kind of medical treatments, then you could be prosecuted.
00:51:18.000Now, it didn't go anywhere, but that's where they're going to go next.
00:51:22.000And quite frankly, a lot of the schools that say, you know, we're not going to tell parents, they really, I mean, in theory, they could be calling Child Protective Services right now because their whole motivation is, well, we need to protect the children from the parents that won't give their kids this important medical care, which, you know... Yeah, so they're saying it's essentially abuse denial.
00:51:41.000Exactly. And that's going on right now.
00:51:43.000I mean, no one's calling CPS, but in theory they could with these policies because that's the rationale behind these policies is that it's abuse not to allow your child to, you know, make lifetime decisions at the age of 10.
00:51:56.000So, you know, and I'm with him on this one, 100%.
00:51:59.000Elon Musk basically said, you know, you gotta throw these people in jail who are pushing for this stuff and who would allow it to happen.
00:52:09.000Meaning, you know, you push a five-year-old or a seven-year-old or a ten-year-old into, you know, gender-affirming care, whatever the hell they call it.
00:52:18.000You know, they always have to, they're very good at marketing to make it sound like it's, you know, nice and wonderful, but they're pushing, you know, minors into sex change operations.
00:52:25.000Is there any consequence to those doctors if that kid wakes up at 18 and is like, what the hell did you do to me?
00:52:31.000I mean, you see some of the videos and, you know, I saw a couple over the weekend just watching this stuff.
00:52:36.000It's, you know, the recidivism rate is like 93%, like people who do it and regret it later.
00:52:42.000I mean, that's crazy, but you see some of the videos of these people and they're like, you know, 34-year-old, you know, adult male with no facial hair, no nothing, because they were put into the, and they're just like, I'll never have kids.
00:52:53.000I regretted it, but I listened to my rainbow-haired teacher freak show.
00:52:59.000Is there any accountability to the people that were in that sort of chain of power or command that these kids could eventually go back and sue?
00:53:10.000You know, if it was me, I'd be going after their medical licenses.
00:53:13.000Like, hey man, you took advantage of a minor.
00:53:56.000You see some people, but it's the forward end of the bell curve.
00:54:00.000This is a real thing happening all over the place right now.
00:54:04.000I speak to kids and my kids' friends and their friends from other schools.
00:54:09.000The furries thing is real, and we're going to go and accommodate someone who thinks they're a Fuckin' animal right now in a classroom and we gotta put a litter box in there to make sure, rather than like, no, no, no, let's accommodate the vast majority, not make everyone else accommodate the sort of whims of someone else who, again, a couple years ago would have been diagnosed as, you know, insane.
00:54:32.000Well, I think on the consequences issue, I mean, you're going to have states that are going to vote to make this illegal before 18, right?
00:54:59.000And hopefully, I mean, again, it depends on the judiciary.
00:55:01.000You're going to get some woke judge that denies it.
00:55:04.000But that's why getting good judges that adhere to the rule of law is so important.
00:55:08.000Because this is probably, I mean, if I'm a plaintiff's lawyer in 10, 20 years, Oh yeah.
00:55:13.000I mean, you're looking at class action lawsuits.
00:55:15.000I mean, these people are going to find themselves, you know, unfortunately it's not going to necessarily happen all at once right now, but I think down the road, this is going to be major litigation.
00:55:24.000This is going to be like tobacco litigation type stuff.
00:55:28.000I mean, I think they should be in jail.
00:55:30.000But if that's not going to happen, there should at least be, you know, they should lose their medical license.
00:55:35.000There should be financial consequences.
00:55:36.000They should be paid, you know, their insurance premiums should go through the roof.
00:55:39.000Because, I mean, I think, I don't know how to consider it, like, not malpractice at this point.
00:55:44.000But, you know, talk about, you know, in sort of getting into the legal work, talk about the details of what's written into these policies and how sort of subversive it is.
00:55:54.000Because, I mean, there's so much sort of sneaky stuff.
00:55:57.000And, again, when you have the full weight of media and big tech sort of boosting you and, you know, the height, the bad, and sort of, you know, push the fake good out there.
00:56:06.000You know, talk about some of those things and how those policies are written, just so people understand just how sort of Seated these things are in there.
00:56:13.000Yeah, and you know really the best example is is what happened in Loudoun County.
00:56:17.000I mean that is You know really how everything went down.
00:56:21.000So you had a sexual assault in a bathroom in May of 2021 as a gender-fluid boy in a girl's room at the time They were starting to debate this policy, this policy 80-40, which means you've got to call the kids by their preferred pronouns if you're a teacher or a student.
00:56:36.000You get to use whichever bathroom of the sex that you identify with.
00:56:41.000And then the other one, which wasn't in the policy itself, a regulation, parents don't get to know.
00:56:46.000Well, what happens, the policy comes up for debate.
00:56:49.000One teacher goes and speaks up against the pronoun piece.
00:56:52.000He gets suspended for speaking at a school board meeting.
00:56:55.000Now, he goes to court. He wins the case.
00:56:57.000He wins on appeal. But it shows, well, they're really trying to get this policy passed.
00:57:02.000Then what happened? Then you have a superintendent, when they're talking about this policy at a school board meeting, have there been sexual assaults in our bathrooms?
00:57:09.000I'm not aware of any records of sexual assaults.
00:57:11.000Well, that was a lie. That was a lie done so that they could pass this policy.
00:57:16.000So they lied about this sexual assault.
00:57:18.000They didn't do a Title IX investigation.
00:57:20.000They moved the kid quietly to another school where, guess what?
00:58:45.000Because again, if they're hiding it that way, they're going to such great lengths to make sure that it happens, but to make sure that you don't know that it's happening.
00:58:53.000There's got to be a way to figure it out.
00:58:54.000Yeah, so you really have to look and ask, is your school partaking in the school-to-scalpel pipeline?
00:58:59.000And it's very nefarious how it all works.
00:59:31.000If they've got a bathroom policy, that's number one.
00:59:33.000If they have this pronoun policy, you've got to refer to kids by their pronouns.
00:59:36.000If they have the sports policy, you get to participate in any sport you want based on the The sex you identify with.
00:59:44.000And then the parental preclusion policies.
00:59:46.000If you have those books in the library that they're pushing on kids, and then you have these policies, what's gonna happen?
00:59:52.000When your kid gets to be 11, 12, 13, and they look around and they're getting into puberty, adolescence, Maybe dealing with some issues and they say, oh, I get to be part of this cool social crew that seems to really have the run of show here.
01:00:06.000I mean, we get to do whatever we want.
01:00:49.000It's not like FOIA. These are the kind of things that you need to do.
01:00:53.000And you need to talk to other parents and teachers.
01:00:55.000Everyone says, well, they don't like teachers.
01:00:57.000Actually, teachers are some of the best sources that we have.
01:01:00.000They don't want to come out and publicly say these things.
01:01:03.000They'll be fine. Yeah, the left goes crazy when we use the term groomers.
01:01:24.000But when you actually look at some of what they're doing, what other conclusion is there?
01:01:28.000Right? They've created that outlet for a kid who's confused.
01:01:31.000I probably don't know a teenager who hasn't been a little, you know, screwed up or going through something.
01:01:36.000I mean, you just have to be, by nature, the level of hormones that are going through your body naturally, let alone once you start jacking them up with all the other, you know, bullshit they're throwing into them.
01:01:44.000But, I mean, that seems to be what it is, right?
01:01:46.000I mean, you take a confused child, this is what you are.
01:01:49.000It's got to be this. This is the solution for every troubled child, it feels like, that's out there.
01:01:56.000And when did schools take that responsibility, right?
01:01:59.000So, you know, Terry McAuliffe famously said, oh, I don't think parents should be telling schools what to teach.
01:02:04.000Well, yeah, look, I'm not going to go micromanage how you teach calculus at all.
01:02:08.000I'm going to assume you know how to do that.
01:02:10.000I want you teaching them calculus or trigonometry or 19th century British literature.
01:02:15.000All you. But what I don't want you teaching is things that are traditionally...
01:02:19.000Topics that I want to talk to my kids about, if I want to talk to them at all, right?
01:02:22.000I mean, some of these things, how are we even having these conversations?
01:02:25.000But it's flipped, so that schools spend more time talking about, you know, transgender issues, or you're an oppressor, and then the academics are slipping, so that parents now have to take the time at home, whether it's through tutoring, whether it's through one-on-one work, to catch them up academically because they're not getting as much of that at school anymore.
01:02:46.000So, I mean, so you wrote the book, you know, on how to fight sort of the leftism in schools.
01:02:51.000A, tell people where they can find it, because I think it's important.
01:02:53.000You know, and how does, how has this evolved, this issue, where you see sort of the newest thing is now the trans thing?
01:03:01.000Like, a couple years ago it was critical race theory, and that sort of faded out once people realized what it actually was.
01:03:06.000You know, sort of essentially state-sponsored racism, only one-directionally.
01:03:10.000You know, talk about that a little bit, because the thing never seems to change.
01:03:14.000What's the next thing? Yeah, so Parents of the World Unite, you can get it on Amazon, you get it at Barnes& Noble, Target, Books A Million, any retailer.
01:03:21.000But that's actually probably the overarching theme of the book is that you need to be flexible in how you're dealing with things.
01:03:28.000I mean, at first, you know, a lot of our movement was started with this cancel culture issue, right, where you had all these school board members and administrators and activists create this list of parents they wanted to target.
01:03:38.000And, you know, we didn't take too kindly to that, so we decided, well, we're going to remove those school board members.
01:03:43.000Then it became, oh, you know, critical race theory, right?
01:03:46.000The school's saying, we don't teach critical race theory.
01:03:49.000Oh, here's an email from your last superintendent that said, yes, you actually do use critical race theory.
01:03:54.000And then, you know, they start to lose on that, or we win on that, and we move on to the next thing, which is now you're attacking teachers for exercising their First Amendment rights.
01:04:03.000Speaking out about these trans issues.
01:04:05.000We never actually talked about the trans issues, but then it became about the trans issues, and now that's what they're pushing.
01:04:12.000The overarching issue is that schools are implementing a political agenda.
01:04:18.000They're trying to get, whether it's future voters or whatever their motivation is, you can't necessarily lock onto one issue and fight it.
01:04:26.000You need to go almost where they go and just attack hard.
01:04:31.000And, you know, they're bureaucracies, right?
01:04:33.000So they're cumbersome. And, you know, they're not used to dealing with sort of almost like guerrilla-style attacks from parents who are out on the news, out on the radio, writing op-eds, doing FOIAs, communicating with each other, showing up at school board meetings.
01:04:46.000And they really don't have any way to fight it other than saying, you're a racist, you're a transphobe, you're a right supremacist, you're alt-right, like, you know, whatever.
01:04:54.000They're going to throw those terms around. At this point, the problem with that is that, like, When people get called a racist, it's like, eh, it's Tuesday.
01:05:01.000You know what I mean? And that's a shame because I do believe there's actual real racism left in the world.
01:05:06.000It's just not the cause of and solution for all of life's problems, right?
01:05:09.000It's like an incredibly tiny minority of bad people, and yet, you know, according to them, it's everything, right?
01:05:16.000I mean, literally every problem in the world could be solved by, you know, or caused by white supremacy and or climate change.
01:05:23.000And it's just the two things they have.
01:05:26.000Yeah, and that's, you know, what we saw early on is they changed the definitions, right?
01:05:30.000It's like, racist means you believe that somebody, based on the color of their skin, is inferior, right?
01:05:37.000And if you're not that person, well, then guess what?
01:05:39.000You're not racist. But if you don't like the policy or you don't like a teacher training that says, if you're Christian, you're an oppressor.
01:05:45.000If you're not Christian, you're oppressed.
01:05:47.000If you are a light-skinned member of a minority, you're an oppressor over the dark-skinned member of the same minority.
01:05:54.000Like, And you don't like that, then you're racist.
01:05:57.000You're like, no, look, I just have an issue with how you're teaching that.
01:06:00.000Can we have that discussion? No, no, no, we're going to shut you down.
01:06:02.000We're not going to debate you. We're afraid to debate you, but we're going to say we're not going to debate you because you're a racist.
01:06:14.000So how involved is, you know, obviously a lot of these things are state issues, which is what makes it great for parents because they can actually get involved in their states and the school board stuff, like, you can actually impart pretty big changes in your districts, but how much and how involved is sort of the Democrat slash Joe Biden administration, their school board, you know, the education department nationally, you know, involved in this process?
01:06:39.000Well, I mean, I think Exhibit A would be the National School Board Association memo and how they all cook that up to say, oh, domestic terrorism!
01:06:47.000Let's investigate parents for, you know, violence that isn't really happening, which is, if it were, right, you know, that's appalling, but that's a local issue.
01:06:56.000A local issue for your county sheriff or your police department.
01:06:59.000Yeah, not the DOJ. Right. Or the FBI. And it wasn't really happening anyway, but they just, you know.
01:07:04.000We're going to use the domestic terrorism portion of the Patriot Act to Unlock federal jurisdiction here.
01:07:10.000And why did they do it? Well, we later found out and the House Oversight found out that it was a help Terry McAuliffe.
01:07:17.000But when you're looking at the Education Department and the problem with the Education Department is when you build a center of power, where do you think people are going to go to influence to the Department of Education?
01:07:26.000And when they have to follow rules, when school districts have to follow rules to unlock federal money, I'm like, oh, okay, yeah, sure, whatever you want.
01:07:33.000Yeah, we'll do it. So that's how they implement a lot of these changes through the Department of Education.
01:07:38.000It's all, you know, it's a quid pro quo.
01:07:41.000You want the money? You've got to do what we say.
01:07:43.000All right, well, I mean, you were a top spokesman at the DOJ. You've seen, you know how it works.
01:07:49.000What sort of, like, long-lasting damage is sort of the weaponization of those departments?
01:07:55.000I mean, the Department of Justice literally going after...
01:08:00.000Concerned mothers. Just being like, hey, I don't want you jamming this woke crap down our kids' throats.
01:08:04.000I mean, for that person to be labeled a domestic terrorist, but not like, you know, it was the car that drove through the Christmas parade in Wisconsin.
01:08:11.000Not a black supremacist, because you can't say that, because if that's a minority, they can't possibly be racist.
01:08:17.000But, I mean, there has to be long-lasting damage to weaponizing these systems this way
01:08:23.000because, like, you know, I don't know that I could have any faith in anything that they
01:08:27.000tell me being even remotely accurate at this point, and I imagine others are starting to
01:08:45.000So when you decrease faith in institutions, then, you know, you start to see the downfall
01:08:53.000And I mean, it goes throughout history, right?
01:08:55.000Where when you start to see these institutions really just favor one side, I mean, we're supposed to be a nation of laws, not a nation of men and women, right?
01:09:04.000Right now, we're not a nation of laws.
01:09:06.000We're a nation of, well, who's on my political side or not?
01:09:09.000We're just going to ignore what the law says, and we're going to pick and choose what we do politically because we want to help Terry McAuliffe win the governorship or help Joe Biden.
01:09:19.000That has consequences long-term, which could be an existential threat to the foundation of our country.
01:09:26.000Yeah, I mean, we saw that with the 51 people who signed off on the Hunter Biden Russian disinformation laptop.
01:09:35.000I've heard a couple people say, well, we didn't have anything, but we just wanted to help Joe Biden win.
01:09:39.000It's like, wait, why do they still have classified credentials?
01:09:43.000Why do they still have that kind of access?
01:09:45.000I mean, they're literally lying to the American people for political purposes, and yet that seems to be happening day in and day out.
01:09:51.000Yeah, and you look at the media, and you go back 50, 60 years, the same media that's breaking the Pentagon Papers, that's exposing government abuse, right?
01:10:01.000now it's like that now we're good we're going to get you can't talk like
01:10:05.000we'll we we may be waging a war with the world's largest nuclear superpower in
01:10:09.000the in the ukraine and we have troops on the ground there That's discovered. The real issue is that it leaked.
01:10:17.000Not that we're doing it. What happened to these institutions?
01:10:23.000You can say what you want about Jack Teixeira, but I remember when Alexander Vindemann was a hero.
01:10:29.000For leaking that. And the difference is, like, Jack Teixeira may have, and again, I'm not for leaking documents that could put our troops in danger or, like, you know, critical personnel if we have undercover operatives in there, but, like, I'm also not in favor of, like, lying to the American public funding an unsanctioned war.
01:10:46.000Like, he could have diverted World War III as opposed to, like, Alexander Vindemann, who seemed like was almost doing the opposite and pushing us towards it.
01:10:55.000Well, I mean, the media used to be what, like the fourth estate, right?
01:10:57.000Where it was an extra check and balance on the other three branches, on the three branches of government, right?
01:11:06.000We're an agent for, depending on who's in there, we're going to be an agent for you to really push out or to report things the way that are helpful to you.
01:11:14.000I mean, that is not traditionally how our media has operated, you know, and look, there's a lot that goes into that, right?
01:11:20.000Social media, 24-hour, you know, news networks, the internet, things have changed.
01:11:25.000Oh, yeah, no, it's very different. But it's so concerning that you cannot have a media that just is there to hold the government accountable.
01:12:01.000I mean, even before that, the rise of the administrative state has created sort of perverse incentives now for the media to where they're going to get their information from, right?
01:12:11.000Well, they don't want to burn their sources, especially if their sources are, you know, we know that they lean left.
01:12:17.000And if it's an administration that they That they favor now.
01:12:20.000They're going to report in a friendly way.
01:12:22.000And we're losing a lot of, I think, the good reporting that we had 50, 60 years ago that allowed us to really know what was going on in somewhat of an unbiased way.
01:12:33.000And now it's, I don't know, what are you going to get in?
01:12:47.000It's a real person, perhaps with real power, but they're just like, okay, this is what we're looking to do, and so here's the leak.
01:12:54.000I've seen that. My eyes have been open to it just because of what we went through for the last six years.
01:12:58.000I was working for Russian government, and I did 50 hours of testimony for treason in front of Congress, and it's like, wait, what?
01:13:06.000Well, there didn't have to be any truth.
01:13:08.000They just hope that if they get you in there for 50 hours of testimony, If you put a comma in the wrong spot, we got you for perjury.
01:13:15.000Not that you actually did anything wrong, but if we ask you just in questions for hours on end, maybe you make a mistake and say, oh, now you allow it to the government and you're in trouble.
01:13:24.000Yeah, and I mean, we saw it with the DOJ memo on parents, right?
01:13:28.000I mean, one of the key citations in the NSBA memo was, oh, this angry dad that gets arrested at a Loudoun County School Board meeting, right?
01:13:36.000And he was, you know, the face of Domestic terrorism.
01:13:39.000It's like, oh well, it turned out his daughter was sexually assaulted in a bathroom.
01:14:12.000And then he's up for the Supreme Court and Trump appoints him.
01:14:15.000Gang rapist. And, like, the media attack on him was, he was really heated in his response to someone accusing him of gang rapist.
01:14:22.000He must have done it. I'm like, wait, wait, wait.
01:14:25.000Like, is anyone not gonna ever be, like, heated if accused of something they clearly didn't do?
01:14:31.000And then it turns out, well, you know, the witness is lying, the other one can't remember anything, and magically it all sort of goes away.
01:14:37.000And, again, there's no consequence or accountability.
01:14:39.000Well, and, you know, the left goes from, like, zero to 100 right away, right?
01:14:44.000I mean, and I talked earlier about, well, they went from Trump derangement to just any derangement.
01:14:49.000And, you know, you hear it now, like, well, they want to ban books.
01:14:53.000Look, if you want a book for five-year-olds about how, you know, a doctor guessed their sex when they were born and he was wrong, you can totally sell that on Amazon.
01:15:03.000You can put it in your county library.
01:15:05.000But, like, look, if we got to pay for it and it's going to be in a school, I mean, Anarchist cookbook, right?
01:15:19.000Yeah, you don't see penthouse in school libraries either.
01:15:22.000I'm sure there's plenty of young teenage boys that would probably be thrilled to find one of those every once in a while.
01:15:27.000I'm not saying I condone it, but that's the reality.
01:15:29.000And yet, that's not there. But if you want to learn about mutilating your body, we'll make sure you have plenty of sources.
01:15:35.000And again, like you said earlier, there'll be 17 copies of that book to make sure that everyone has a chance to read it, but not actual literature.
01:15:59.000Maybe some people are trying to ban books.
01:16:00.000I don't know. But like the vast majority of parents that are going to school board meetings reading from these books, it's just to expose like, hey, community, do you think this is appropriate to pay for and put in your school library or your classroom library?
01:16:12.000That's it. Well, I know it's a somewhat related story, but I had a friend when I published my first book, Triggered, going after some of these things.
01:16:35.000Are they banning books? Like, I mean, that's clearly a leftist.
01:16:38.000I'm sure they have no problem with the trans books, but like, I don't know, it was a New York Times number one bestseller.
01:16:42.000I don't think it could be that inflammatory.
01:16:44.000You know, they can call me all the names they want, but like, that book they wouldn't even consider having in, you know, that wasn't a school library, that was just a public library, but they wouldn't even have that there.
01:16:54.000And yet, a school library can have stuff that's clearly, you know, has much more of an agenda associated with it.
01:17:00.000Yeah, I mean, look, there's a lot of different things they could do.
01:17:03.000Remember Blockbuster? You go in, and you get your movies, and you're like, well, you're not supposed to go there if you're under 18.
01:17:22.000I've talked to a lot of people that have gone through some issues with their kids and their schools haven't told them and they're really concerned.
01:17:29.000And it's always sort of, I'd say a lot of left of center parents that want to be kind.
01:19:44.000Meanwhile, you've got Levine at HHS saying, oh, well, the Biden administration is fully supportive, and we need to step up our program here.
01:19:53.000I mean, it's crazy when you see America going further to the left than Scandinavian countries in Europe.
01:20:00.000Yeah, I mean, like, literally, you know, the socialists, you know, we talk, oh, we're a democracy.
01:20:26.000I mean, we're actually, and I think Trump sort of brought this out, we were probably heading that way a long time ago, but we are much further than we ever would have imagined.
01:20:35.000And it's probably been that way much longer than we ever imagined.
01:20:40.000Whether they're winning and they're just sort of trying to put the final blows into America as we know it, Or not, I don't know.
01:20:46.000But it is crazy to see some of these places that are looked at as, you know, very left.
01:20:52.000And they're looking at us like we're lunatics.
01:20:54.000Well, yeah. And, you know, you brought up sort of what inspires some of these people to go along with these things, right?
01:21:01.000And I remember a conversation I had in summer of 2020 with a really good friend of mine who's on the total other side of the political spectrum.
01:21:08.000And she said, well, you know, I feel like this is the next civil rights movement.
01:21:12.000I'm like, hmm, I don't think it's going to be.
01:21:43.000I don't know. Jim Crow, you know, the people that were affected by that kind of stuff, you know, they weren't getting Nike sponsorship deals, you know, out the wazoo for being these things.
01:21:54.000It's a little different. And everything goes to that level, right?
01:22:11.000First of all, the school board member, she's white, and I don't understand.
01:22:16.000But you see that, right? You saw that with Kyle Rittenhouse.
01:22:18.000He's a racist. What, you shot three white dudes that came after him?
01:22:22.000I mean, and real people, you know, and Bill Ackman, I don't know if you remember, like, when he, you know, he was a big investor in New York, and he did this whole thing, he was, like, a super big lib, huge donor to the Democrat Party, and at the time, I had Kyle on the show a couple of weeks ago, you know, at the time, like, Bill Ackman came out and was like, wait a minute, like, I'm watching the trial, and it's like, how is it that I'm not aware...
01:22:40.000I've been told he was a white supremacist, but the people he shot were white.
01:22:43.000I assumed he was shooting people of color.
01:22:48.000Minor details. So he went on with this long Twitter thread.
01:22:50.000The New York Times called him while he was posting this stuff.
01:22:53.000He was like, did someone hack your account?
01:22:55.000He goes, what do you mean? Like, a serious guy, a billionaire investor, was just like, no, I objectively had no idea these things.
01:23:03.000I was making decisions I'm watching with my wife, and now I'm realizing just how manipulated I've been.
01:23:08.000And he goes on to basically say, it's interesting because I've been, you know, I'm involved in most of the major deals in New York and I'm watching the Wall Street Journal and the things they say about what's happening in the deal.
01:23:21.000And I read the article and I laugh at how clueless they are because I'm involved or I know the people involved.
01:25:01.000Like, it's just at zero. Calls the bank.
01:25:03.000I was like, oh, no, we just don't want to do business with you.
01:25:05.000We're sending you back your money. Like, well, do we do anything?
01:25:07.000No, it doesn't matter. Like, so it's not even about, like, the news now.
01:25:11.000It's like, you can't even show both sides of the story, let alone if you're creating it.
01:25:15.000I mean, creating it's the ultimate sin, right?
01:25:17.000Even if you're telling the truth, that doesn't matter.
01:25:19.000You know, when was Wuhan lab leak theory not...
01:25:22.000The most plausible. I'm like, hey, I'm no doctor, but obviously it came from Wuhan.
01:25:30.000Maybe the biggest chance I took in recent time, and sometimes you do something that pisses someone off, and that's fine.
01:25:38.000But when Jesse Smollett came out, I go, nope.
01:25:41.000I'm calling bullshit. And I got killed for about four days until everyone else realized that, yeah, it is kind of odd.
01:25:48.000Like, a millionaire actor is walking against Subway at 2 o'clock in the morning on the coldest night of the year.
01:25:53.000And, like, what are the odds that, like, white supremacists wearing MAGA hats would live for more than three or four seconds in downtown Chicago?
01:26:07.000The crocodile too. I was like, man, he may be a good actor, but he's not a good writer because there's no way that happened in the real world.
01:26:17.000Because if I was wrong, and even if I say, hey, if it actually happened, they should be punished in the full extent of the law, but like...
01:26:24.000It didn't matter. Well, the Wu-Han, I mean, that's perfect, right?
01:26:28.000Like, I don't know if you ever saw the Jon Stewart clip.
01:26:30.000And look, sometimes Jon Stewart's good, sometimes he's horrible.
01:26:33.000On that one, it was like, yeah, I mean, that's kind of what I thought.
01:26:37.000But it's like, no, it's the bats and it's the pangolins.
01:26:40.000And, you know, again, I got in an argument with a friend, and she's like, oh, no, there's a really good story in Scientific American about the bats and the caves.
01:26:49.000I'm like, yeah, also, it could have just leaked from a lab.
01:26:52.000Because there's a coronavirus lab there.
01:26:53.000Yeah, because the lab is four feet away from where they said the league originated.
01:26:56.000Like, I don't know. But again, that's the point.
01:26:59.000They go, well, I read it in a Scientific American, so I'm just parodying.
01:27:02.000I used to subscribe to The Atlantic until I realized.
01:27:44.000Well, we don't want to do remote learning either.
01:27:46.000Okay, fine. Well, we want to get paid, like, as though we're working full-time, but if I said, wait, wait, wait, you don't want to, but you don't actually want to work, you just want to get paid.
01:27:55.000And they're manipulating every aspect of the decision-making process.
01:27:59.000Any Democrat in power needs their money, so they're just going along blindly, and it seems to have nothing to do with science or education or anything other than the whims of the union.
01:28:08.000Well, I mean, I think you have to treat it like a monopoly, because it is a monopoly, right?
01:28:12.000I mean, it's a business, and they're in the business of running our nation's public schools.
01:28:17.000Now, they won't, you know, they won't say that.
01:28:19.000It's the school board that runs it, but it's the teachers' unions.
01:28:22.000And it used to be that, you know, your superintendent would get in these tough negotiations with teachers' unions on teacher pay, and then there'd be a strike.
01:28:29.000And now it's the teachers' unions basically own all their local school districts.
01:28:33.000Yeah. So you have to break up that monopoly.
01:28:37.000And look, I'm not saying that school choice is a panacea that's going to cure everything, but that is one big weapon in breaking up the monopoly.
01:28:43.000And it's why they fight it so hard, right?
01:28:44.000Because they know once it's there, it's not coming back.
01:28:47.000And I understand that, listen, not everyone has the option of homeschooling or, you know, going to a private school or going to a charter school or something, you know, but like...
01:28:59.000I think anything you can do to get your kids out of that system or watch what they're doing within those systems is absolutely critical to their education.
01:29:08.000Because otherwise you're going to get back a drone that's just, you know, functioning as, you know...
01:29:14.000Whatever it is that they decide is the thing at the time, and they come back out brainwashed, incapable of basic things, unprepared for life, and, you know, I don't know what you'd do with that, but it seems like that's the start of a declining civilization.
01:29:28.000Well, and you listen to, you know, the equity commissars, right?
01:29:31.000And their talking point is, no kid should be limited by his or her zip code.
01:29:37.000Right? No kidding. I don't think anyone disagrees with that.
01:29:40.000Yeah. So, I mean, go out there and figure out a way so that some single mom who's got her son or daughter in a failing school in their neighborhood has the option of saying, you know what?
01:29:52.000I'm going to send my son to a different school that's better.
01:29:55.000Correct. We can't do that. We can't do that.
01:29:57.000And yet, and that's the other thing, right?
01:29:59.000It's not like they started failing magically and they're going to fix it.
01:30:03.000They're doubling down On the failed policies.
01:30:06.000They're doubling down on the failed systems, right?
01:30:09.000You know, you look at the schools that are failing, and they're, you know, I think I read, I mean, you know more about it than me, obviously, but, you know, a bunch of these schools, like, where zero, zero kids in a graduating class were proficient at math or reading.
01:30:23.000I mean, zero. But school keeps getting funded, the teachers keep getting paid, there's always another scapegoat or excuse.
01:30:32.000Well... In Loudoun County, it just came out last week, so they're cutting special education funding, but they're going to spend $11 million on a new bathroom project.
01:30:44.000They're thinking, they're considering about getting rid of boys' and girls' rooms and just having one unisex bathroom.
01:30:50.000One, that's crazy for just the craziness of it.
01:30:53.000They're trying to erase biological sex.
01:31:44.000It's very negative. And they're doing that daily.
01:31:48.000There was a crazy one where they're eliminating programs also for the gifted.
01:31:54.000Meaning, like the kids that are crushing it.
01:31:56.000The kids that maybe by dumb luck, maybe through genetics, maybe through anything else, just were born intelligent or good at math or something.
01:32:07.000They're eliminating the programs for the gifted students because it makes...
01:32:17.000Like, and I don't know how that works, right?
01:32:18.000Because I would think if you're, psychologically, if you're an underperforming student and someone's in your classroom crushing it, that's probably a lot worse psychologically than them being in their own class doing more advanced stuff and you being more with people of your peers.
01:33:08.000It's we need to make sure that everybody has the equal opportunity to succeed.
01:33:12.000That doesn't mean that everybody will.
01:33:14.000Correct. But equity is we're just going to get everybody to the same place and take from here to give to there to make sure we get to that median.
01:33:48.000That could be the next person discovers the cure for cancer.
01:33:50.000And we're pulling that opportunity away from them and bringing them down to the lowest common denominator as opposed to encouraging the highest.
01:33:58.000You know, it's funny as I made this comparison.
01:34:00.000You know, all the woke people in the world, they all watch the Super Bowl, right?
01:34:03.000And they're all still watching the Super Bowl with their friends.
01:34:05.000I mean, that is the ultimate meritocracy.
01:34:07.000Now, what if we changed that and said, you know, we got the draft next weekend.
01:34:12.000The NFL as a whole organization can only draft 20 players from the SEC, and you need to draft 20 players from small schools.
01:34:21.000The product's going to suffer, and nobody would do that.
01:34:23.000They're like, what are you talking about? Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, that's what we're drafting.
01:34:28.000That's what they're doing, right? They're saying, we're not going to allow you to go after talented individuals or to help talented individuals achieve success because we feel bad for these other players down here.
01:34:42.000So you've got to pick them, too, so we level the playing field.
01:34:45.000And then the product is going to suffer.
01:34:46.000Well, but it seems like Biden's doing that with the proposed sort of Title IX bans where they're trying to literally ban...
01:34:55.000Preventing, I guess, biological men competing in women's sports, which seems sort of totally the opposite of what Title IX was originally designed to do.
01:35:05.000Yeah, and, you know, there was a decision here in the 11th Circuit, I think, in late December, comes out the other way and is very clear.
01:35:12.000Like, look, Title IX was passed in the 70s.
01:35:22.000The idea that we're just going to erase the very protections that Title IX creates for girls' sports, for girls' spaces, the world is upside down.
01:35:34.000The idea that a male can compete in a girls' sport, especially at young ages.
01:35:43.000A 10-year-old soccer player that's a male versus a 10-year-old soccer player that's a girl, not only is that anti-competitive, but it's also dangerous.
01:35:52.000Well, I think it was, what was it, like the men's like 15 and under like soccer team or like the Dallas.
01:36:00.000I mean, they beat the women's World Cup team.
01:36:02.000You know, they're fighting for equal pay.
01:36:03.000They lost to 15-year-old boys, like decisively.
01:36:07.000And it's like, but we're still going to pretend that it's the same.
01:36:13.000I mean, when I was a kid, I played hockey, and we had a female goaltender.
01:36:17.000And she was great. She was really good.
01:36:19.000But as it got older, then she moved over to the girls' team, because they started having girls' teams.
01:36:25.000And because of that, she ended up being an Olympic hockey player.
01:36:28.000She wasn't going to be an Olympic hockey player for the men's team.
01:36:30.000Now, at what point do you completely, instead of having one Leah Thomas, you've got three Leah Thomases on the team.
01:36:39.000Well, now all of a sudden, you've got three spots that aren't going to girls.
01:36:42.000So they're gonna be on JV. You saw, you know, the Connecticut, you know, sprinters, you know, like there was some girl that did not place at states, probably cost them scholarship, maybe, maybe if it didn't cost them the entire scholarship, scholarship money, or, you know, in their lives, and, but, but that's equality.
01:37:02.000Well, it goes back to kind of what you were talking about earlier, which, you know, 10 years ago, you know, we're all, all trained and told, like, you know, be accepting of everybody.
01:37:13.000You're like, okay, look, if somebody feels that way and they want to live their life that way, then okay, great.
01:37:18.000But now what they're saying is that's not good enough.
01:37:21.000Now they need to get those extra rights, right?
01:37:24.000That you need to accept the fact that you don't accept it maybe, you know, for common sense or religious reasons or whatever the case may be, but you need to not only accept that, but you need to accept that It is going to permeate every aspect of society.
01:37:38.000And you need to subsume your rights and your ideas and your thoughts on that because if you don't, we're going to shut you down.
01:37:45.000You don't have the right to speak about that.
01:37:46.000You'll be vilified if you don't conform to each of their whims.
01:37:50.000And that can change. And again, like I said, I've gotten criticized because, hey, if you're an adult, I don't want to pay for it.
01:37:56.000I don't want you jamming it down my throat.
01:37:58.000I'm not going to go along with your bullshit where I have to conform to everything that you say.
01:38:03.000I'm big government out of my life kind of thing.
01:38:05.000You start messing with my kids, I got a fucking serious problem.
01:38:08.000You start, you know, whether it's minors and the transition jury, whether it's males in women's sports, and, you know, I guess that's the thing.
01:38:16.000We're just at the point where because they're going so much further, because they expect that sort of super equality, I just don't know that you can play the game anymore because it doesn't seem, the slippery slope does seem like they're always trying to get more, and then once they get that, that's just the starting point for them trying to get more.
01:38:33.000Well, and you look at, you take that and you apply it to schools and young children, and if you're thinking, well, you're 25 years old, you're 30, you do your thing, fine.
01:38:44.000You may be able to say that, well, if you want your kid to be like that, yeah, but here's the problem.
01:38:49.000Once you start introducing that into schools, it becomes a thing.
01:38:52.000If it's, hey, look, if you want your son or daughter to be doing drugs at school and you're fine with that and hardcore drugs, it introduces it into the school and now you have to accommodate for that.
01:39:05.000I'm not comparing drugs to that, but it's the same type of idea where you cannot bring your point of view away.
01:39:14.000Into a school system that is supported by the whole constituency and then demand the whole constituency bow to whatever it is that you think needs to be done.
01:39:24.000Yeah. So before we wrap up, I think you had an interesting nickname, apparently, in Loudoun County.
01:39:31.000Again, the home of the radical left right outside of D.C. where a lot of this stuff is happening.
01:39:35.000But I love that you're there and willing to fight, Ian, because that's so important.
01:39:39.000But What's the nickname that you were dubbed?
01:39:42.000The nickname, so, you know, I dubbed them Chardonnay and Tifa, so they pushed back with their own.
01:39:48.000Because, look, I mean, people on these streams are so serious, you've got to have a sense of humor.
01:39:52.000And on this one, you know, they show a sense of humor.
01:40:15.000Check out, you know, we just got to help the people that are in this fight with us.
01:40:20.000You know, maybe there's a couple guys that are willing to be on the front lines as you are, Ian, but I think that makes it, the more of them, the more support, the more you're passing that message on, the easier as it makes it for other people to get involved and actually, you know, fight back because I think that's what we got to do right now.
01:40:34.000Yeah, strength in numbers. Parents of the world unite.
01:40:36.000Go out and get it. Amazon, that's the whole point, is parents have to get together and create their own power dynamic to go against a one-point-whatever-trillion-dollar education industry.
01:40:46.000At E&D Pryor on Twitter is my main place, and thanks for having me.
01:40:49.000It was fun. It's my pleasure. Guys, make sure to share this with other people as well so that they can see it.
01:41:07.000I mean, think about everything else that we're up against.
01:41:09.000So make sure to share this stuff so that people get it, that they can get involved, that they can perhaps be emboldened to fight back and to be unafraid.
01:41:17.000Really appreciate it. You guys are the best.
01:42:06.000If they're risking it supporting a show like this, saying the things that need to be said, go check them out and make sure you diversify.
01:42:16.000Make sure you protect yourself against the insanity, the stuff that we keep seeing play out like we did in 08, where banks are collapsing, lunatics are making decisions.
01:42:37.000It's no pressure, but just go learn to make sure that you can be hedged and protected against the insane world that we live in today.
01:42:44.000Thanks a lot, guys. Again, make sure you like and share this kind of content.
01:42:49.000Share it with your friends. God knows mainstream media and big tech, they're going to do whatever they can to make sure this sort of stuff and this kind of interview doesn't get out there.